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18. Ann Mariah Dunham (Married Harvey Leach (17) on 11 February 1841.

Born: 8 October 1815 of Walter Dunham (35) and Elizabeth ? (36)

Died: 11 September 1893; she is buried with her husband, Harvey at Bloomfield Cemetery, Morrow County, Ohio.

[Her siblings included:

Almeda Dunham (Married Dudley) Born: ? Died: ?;

Hattie (Harriett?) Dunham (Married Culver) Born: ? Died: ?;

Susan L. Dunham Born: 1819. Died: 8 September 1837, aged 18 years and 8 months, buried Bloomfield Cemetery, Morrow County, Ohio;

George Dunham (Married Nancy Messinger on 17 October 1849.. she is buried at Stark Cemetery) Born: ? probably in Delaware County. Died: ?

Chancey C. Dunham (spelled Chancy on tombstone) (Married Mary A. ca 1841 (she is buried at Stark Cemetery) and Ellen Conger on 21 June 1854 in Delaware County ) Born: 4 June 1822. Died: 29 July 1858, buried in Stark Cemetery in Olive Green, Ohio (inherited Father’s farm which descended to his step-children.);

Samuel Huxford Dunham (Married Hulda Divan on 18 November 1849) Born: ca 1828 probably in Delaware County. Died: February 1863 of typhoid; buried at Vicksburg MS National Cemetery. (Source of blue information: Susan Williams e-mail address: slw02@sprynet.com)]

 

Miscellaneous: Ann was born in Ohio, but the exact location is unknown. Her father, Walter, migrated from Massachussets to Ohio in 1807 with his four brothers. It is likely that her father met and married her mother after arriving in Ohio because Ann was born about 8 years after Walter's arrival to Ohio. Ann had 6 siblings. Their birth order is unknown.

Ann's would have been living with her mother and father when her father was listed in the following Federal Census Indexes: 1820 for Delaware County, Ohio, Kingston Township, p. 114, ID # OH320373434; 1830 for Knox County, Ohio, Bloomfield Township, p. 283, ID # OH56081488; 1840 for Knox County, Ohio, Bloomfield Township, p. 218, ID # OHS4a785727.

Sometime prior to 1849, Ann's father bought land in Porter Township, in Delaware County, Ohio. Ann was likely living there when she met the man she would marry, a neighbor whose father's farm adjoined her father's farm. In 1841, at 25 years of age she married Harvey Leach, 26. They had two children Watson, born in 1844, and Dorothy Almedia, born in 1846.

1849 Map of Porter Township, Delaware County, Ohio (Click to enlarge.)

 

Ann's husband, Harvey, eventually bought 50 acres of land as shown on the 1866 map below. Ten acres of that land was purchased from her father and the rest was probably purchased from the estate of his father, Amos, who died in 1855.

(Click on the map to enlarge it)

 

A map, dated 1875, shows that Harvey continued to own the same 50 acres; his son, Watson owned 50 acres adjacent to, and East, of Harvey's.

1875 map (Click to enlarge).

 

By overlaying the 1875 map on a modern map (1998) of Delaware and Morrow Counties, Harvey's property can be located. Susan Leach Snyder and her husband located the probable location of Harvey's land on 20 August 2006. Directions to this location from Columbus, Ohio are as follows: Drive North from Columbus on I-71 to Rt. 36. Turn right toward Sunbury. In Sunbury, turn left at the first traffic light (Rt. 61.) Turn right at SR 656. Proceed to Peerless Rd. (It is on the Delaware County/Morrow County line.) Turn right on Peerless. At Trimmer, turn right. By going down the hill, you will cross the creek, thought to be "Long Run". The land on the left side of the road, beginning at Beechtree is probably Harvey's land.

 

 

 

Below: The 10 acres that Harvey purchased from his father-in-law is thought to be just South of Beechtree on the East side of Trimmer. (See the 1849 map.)

 

 

 

Left: Harvey's additional 40 acres, once owned by his father, Amos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following information is quoted from History of Delaware County and Ohio by O. L. Baskin & Company, Historical Publishers, 1880, p. 582. “Mr. Harvey Leach settled in Porter Township in 1834, and married a daughter of Mr. Dunham, who lived on the State road, near the county line between Morrow County and Delaware. Mr. Leach is still living, and occupies a farm adjoining the land that belongs to the estate of Mr. Dunham, his father-in-law.”

Harvey and Ann had two children: Watson (9) and Dorothy Almedia. Ann died one month before her 78th birthday. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Dorothy, who died in 1852 at 6 years of age.

 

 

Left: The tombstone of Ann and her husband, Harvey. This photograph was taken on June 14, 2001. GPS : North 40°, 22.715; West 82°, 43.399'.