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1839 Voters

Republican Examiner, July 1879

A Half Century

The Examiner gave the names of all the inhabitants of Jersey County who were voters at the first election held after the organization of the county in 1839 and who are yet alive and living here, embracing 89 names and below will be found the names of all persons residing in this (then Greene county) in 1839 and who are still living within the borders of Jersey County.

Mrs. M A Cummings
Miss Marjane McDow
Jacob Lurton
Mrs. Hester Vaughn
Mrs. William Marshaw
Joseph Marshaw
Hon. Robt. T. Brock
Wiley B. Slaten
Nathaniel Hamilton
John W. Slaten
Frances Colean
William McDow
Josiah Cummings
Dennis Brown
John L. White
Glover Short
Mrs. Dr. J.B. Veitch
Jacob Reddish
Mrs. Edward Trabue
Washington Stafford
S.B. JohniseeJames Downey
Mrs. John H. Onetto
Francis Osborn
James R. Slaten
Mrs. Hannah P. Lane
Mrs. Joseph Marshaw
Samuel Erwin
Charles W. Carroll
William Keller
James Faulkner
Mrs. John McDow
Isaac Sinclair
Noah P. Johnisee
Robert Latham
Thomas Ruyle
George Martin
Samuel Davis
L. McCollister
Mrs. Mary A. Seago
Albert D. Erwin
James T. Hoskins
Lewis Gilworth
William Marshaw
Isaac N. Piggott, Jr.
Miss Martha McDow
Rev. Aaron Dodson
Mrs. Mary Bettis
George W. Slaten
Mrs. William Keller
Mrs. B. Slaten
George Cope
Mrs. William McDow
Mrs. Polly Sherman
Charles McDaniel
Jonathal E. Cooper
Mrs. E. Frederburgh
John C. Dannel
Hon. J.N. English, Sr.
Mrs. Josiah White
Zadoc Reddish
William D. F. Slaten
Joseph Rutherford, Sr.
William Stringer
Jarrett T. Grimes
Mrs. J. Rutherford
John H. Reddish
Gershom C. Patterson
Mrs. Maria McDow
William Ontos
James B. Pinckard
John P. Swann
Mrs. Robert Gardner
Ben F. Slaten
William McDow
Mrs. Geo. H. Jackson
Joseph Cope
Mrs. James Rusk
Mrs. Jasper M. Terry
William Faulkner
John Davis
Zachariah Ennis
John C. Carrico
Mrs. Jacob Lurton
Henry Ontos
Mrs. M.A. McKinney
James J. Rowden
James Moore
John R. Black
Isaac McCollister
Mrs. Robert Brock
Joseph Beeman
Mrs. Julia Spaulding
Mrs. Chas. McDow

Contributed by Marty Crull and his volunteers.

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