Notes:
Data source is the 1990 book, "Moomaw-Mumma-Mumaw-Mumaugh Genealogy" compiled by Robert Austin Moomaw (deceased). Data source is Lisa Snyder Tussing. E-mail SLOTussing@aol.com
Data source is Lisa Snyder Tussing. E-mail SLOTussing@aol.com
Samuel East
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Samuel East, one of German township's pioneer farmers
and leading citizens, township trustee and school director, was born in
Pickaway County, Ohio, December 2, 1830, and is a son of John and
Elizabeth (Hufferd) East.
Christopher East, the paternal grandfather, was a Hessian solder in
the British Army during the Revolutionary War, who later located in
Pickaway County, Ohio, followed agriculture and died there. His son,
John East, father of Samuel, was born near Harrisburg Pennsylvania,
December 12, 1794, and later moved to Pickaway County, Ohio, and died in
Allen County, September 20, 1862. On April 3, 1817, he married
Elizabeth Hufferd, who was born in 1799. Their children were two
daughters and three sons, namely: Mary, who married Jacob S. Baker;
Elizabeth, who married Samuel Clutter; Isaac, who married Barbara
Burkholder; Abraham, who married Jane McMillen; and Samuel, of this
sketch, who is the only survivor.
Samuel East was reared on a farm and has devoted his entire life to
agricultural pursuits. When prepared to take upon himself domestic
responsibilities, he chose for his wife Elizabeth Mumaw, the estimable
daughter of Frederick and Elenora (Loughe) Mumaw, old residents of Knox
County, Ohio. These children were born to them: Marion, born September
25, 1856, deceased September 23, 1857; Monroe M., born March 13, 1858,
who married Priscilla Alice Crider, daughter of Isaac Crider, November
1, 1877; Albert and Alfred (twins), born January 1, 1860 the former
deceased Fbruary 14, 1860, and the latter, who married Emma Kauffman,
October 29, 1881, still surviving; Melissa Ellen, born July 23, 1861,
who married Newton K. Ransbottom, November 29, 1877, and died May 27,
1879; Marietta, born October 16, 1862, who married Isaac D. Crider,
March 25, 1880; Irene,born March 23 1864, deceased Decmber 3, 1872;
Duley Iona, born November 15, 1865, who married S. T. Crites, September
13, 1887, and died November 19, 1896; and Sarah Princes, born October
26, 1869, who married Henry F. Desenberg, December 7, 1889, and died
March 21, 1900.
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Obituary
AGED RESIDENT DEAD.
Mrs. Elizabeth East, of German Township Passed Away.
At 9:15 o'clock last night, the death messenger called from earth one of
the oldest residents of the county, Mrs. Elizabeth East, wife of Samuel East,
of German Township, about four miles northwest of the city, passing away at
that hour, a victim of asthma, after 4 months' illness.
Deceased was born in Knox county, January 19, 1832, and had she lived but
about one month longer would have been 75 years old. Fifty-one years of this
life has been spent as the wife of the aged husband who mourns his loss.
To the decedent was born a large family of children, of which but three
remain on earth. They are Alfred East, who resides at the old homestead;
Monroe East, also a resident of German township and Mrs. I. C. Crider, of
this city. Arrangements for the funeral have not been make.