Mark and Sarah Romohr Hahn, my g-grandparents, are buried in this cemetery, as are Clifford and Roberta Hahn, their son and daughter-in-law, in a different lot. Mark’s headstone has been moved slightly. Uncle Clifford liked to play baseball. He was a red-hat conductor on trains out of Cincinnati.
Charles and Wilhelmina Kipp Hahn came from Germany in 1826, I think, to perhaps near Georgetown, but Mom and I never found their farm.
(Somehow, I remember that either Romohr or Hahn met an Irish woman on the way from Germany and married her.)
Doster, Thomas Doster, immigrant, likely came to America in 1715, a year when no ship records were kept in Baltimore. He lived in West Jersey and perhaps eastern Pa, before joining Jost Hite’s group of 16 German families to go south and, with his wife, and baby son, Thomas II, become the first families to move into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1731, just a few months earlier than other Quakers moved just east of them and started Hopewell Quaker Meeting. There is no record of Thomas buying land, but in his 1845 will, probated in now Winchester, Va, he gave 200 acres each to three sons. Likely, Thomas did not negotiate his land with Lord Fairfax when Fairfax came to near Winchester in 1735. When I hired a professional genealogist, she concluded Thomas’ land was now likely the city dump in NE Winchester. Although the Hopewell Quaker records were burned with the meetinghouse in 1756, Thomas II likely married Quaker Jane Crumley, and, in 1770, they became the parents of John Doster I, who came to Ohio in 1810.
Three generations of Dosters; John I, John II, and James Taylor, my g-grandfather, are buried in Walnut Creek Quaker Cemetery in southern Fayette County, Ohio, across road from now Greenfield Country Club. John I and John II came here from northern Virginia in 1810.
James Taylor Doster died when his son, Edward Barclay Doster, born in 1862, was only four. Edward then lived around with his mother’s relatives. On Labor Day, in September, 1984, I took Dad to view Doster sites in the Greenfield-New Martinsburg area. We found one or two Doster graves in Walnut Creek that are not mentioned in the Doster Genealogy.?? We also found Jane Eyre’s grave (James Taylor’s wife and my g-grandmother) in Greenfield cemetery with her daughter, Alice, and her husband. Jane’s mother was a Quaker named Reese. I want to check on that name in Highland County. I think Rees came from northern Virginia, also. Dad said his father told him that he lived some with his Eyre uncle, perhaps a county commissioner, in northern Highland County. Ed told Dad that, as a boy, he sometimes caught minnows in the morning in a small stream on one side of the farm; then, in the evening, he fished in a stream on the other side of the farm.
Dad said his father took him fishing only two times, even though Dad was born and lived for ten years along Caesar Creek, now under Lake Caesar. Dad took me fishing only two times; once when the family vacationed on an Island in Lake Superior, and before that, in a pond near Kingman. That day, a storm came up and lightning struck a tree which hit our fishing poles hanging out of our car as we drove home.
I now have James Taylor’s double barrel gun, likely made about 1850. I also have a wooden sugar box. These are about the only Doster things any of us have. Ed never owned any land.
About 1890, Ed Doster came to just west of Harveysburg, to milk cows for Amos Cook, his cousin’s husband. Cook and his Doster wife were in the first (1875) Wilmington College graduating class of four persons. Amos was also a recorded minister at Quaker Grove Meeting in Harveysburg.
Cooks neighbors to the east were William and Lizzie Macy Collett. William was a younger brother of Ann Collett, my g-grandmother. Their parents were Jonathan and Sarah McKay Collett, my g-g grandparents. These Colletts had an unmarried Hickoryville school teacher niece named Mary McCune. Somehow, this Doster met this McCune. They married. Somehow they got a cow and horse or two and rented the Romine Farm, maybe a half mile upstream from Colletts on Caesar Creek, where they had all four of their kids, including Dad who was born in 1899.
Once, at a Collett-McKay Picnic, Dad said his red-haired McKay cousins used to visit them at the Romine Farm. He said they always looked in the log cabin woodhouse at the Mckay stretcher. “What’s a McKay Stretcher?” I asked. “It’s a table with four legs, plus hinges and two more legs, where they placed dead persons,” Dad said. He went on, “There’s one under JR church.” Later, I looked under the church, but found nothing.
(On a late November Sunday AM, son Dan, maybe age 12, and I took slide pictures of many of my family’s houses, including the Romine House, where Dad was born and the Will Collett House, where Ed and Mary Doster moved their young family in 1909, when Will Collett died, and Lizzie, his widow, rented it to Dosters, before Dosters moved in 1910 to the Mrs. Harris farm they rented for 40 years on now Doster Road, where I grew up. Oh, Barbara and I now sleep in the Will and Lizzie Collett bed, which Dad and Mom used. I don’t know why Dad got the bed. Maybe it was because Dad’s name was also William.)
William and Esther Underwood Doster, my parents, were married on June 18, 1930, on the front porch of the Brimstone Road Underwood brick house, where Mom and her father, Daniel, were born.
Howard
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