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in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania photograph by
Gerry Parchman
during his visit in the summer of 2003. Cornerstone Genealogical Society is honored veterans on Veteran's Day 2003 with Memory Medallions. I'll post my draft for information to be included below so others can help me. |
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Charles ODENBAUGH (1760 -1813)
son of
Jonas Odenbaugh
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Paragraphs below were composed by Gerry Parchman.
Charles Odenbaugh was born about 1760, probably in Baltimore County, Maryland, the son of “an English lady” and Jonas Odenbaugh a recent immigrant from Germany in about 1755, and reportedly of noble birth. Charles' father is also referred to as who is sometimes Jonas Stohler Von Adenbach in a memoir written in 1888.
Charles inherited considerable property when his father died when he was a young boy. Charles first married Martha Dean in 1785 at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, and they are reported to have had a son who became a physician in Ohio. After Martha’s death, Charles married Catherine Fry, the daughter of Christian Frey and Eva Margreth Eberhardtin of Frederick County Maryland in 1794, and their first son, Jacob, was born there in about 1794. They then moved to Loudon County Virginia, where their second son, Samuel, was born about 1795. Their next residence was Winchester, Virginia, where daughter Mary Odenbaugh Hughes (1796) and son Thomas Jefferson (1801) were born, before they settled in Franklin Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in about 1802. Their children born in Greene County were George Washington (1804), Christian (1807), Elizabeth Odenbaugh Kent (1810), and Daniel (1812). Charles was joined in his moves to Winchester, Virginia, and Greene County by his father-in-law’s family, and they were both listed as joiners in Greene County tax lists.
In 1812, Charles joined Captain Daniel McFarland’s Company in the 22nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Regulars, U.S. Infantry, commanded by Col McFeely to serve in the War of 1812. He was reported to have died “on the lakes” in 1813. His widow, Catherine received a pension between 1815 and 1820 to support the minor children. She later married James Bradford in Greene County and had 2 more children, including David Bradford, who became a businessman in Greene County.
Not much is known of Charles’ two older sons, but Jacob left descendants in Paris, Illinois, and Samuel left descendants in Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri.
Mary Odenbaugh married Thomas Hughes, who was an early settler and prominent gunsmith and businessman in Wheeling, West Virginia. Among their nine children, Thomas, Jr. was a prominent businessmen and city councilman. Alfred was a prominent physician who moved to Richmond, Virginia where he treated Robert E. Lee’s wife. Eliza Hughes was the first woman known to go to medical school in America and become a physician. Thomas’ uncle built the Thomas Hughes House in Jefferson, Pennsylvania in 1814.
Thomas Jefferson Odenbaugh married Susannah Craig, and they raised nine children in Middletown Township in Washington County, where he was a merchant, postmaster, and Justice of Peace, and also served on the committee to build the new Methodist Episcopal Church. One of his sons, Henry Clay Odenbaugh was killed during the Civil War; his other children moved to Urbana, Ohio.
George Washington Odenbaugh married Prudence (surname unknown) and raised eight children in Franklin Township in Greene County where George was a farmer, but owned a lot in Waynesburg. After his children were grown, most of the family moved to Miami County, Kansas.
Christian married Mary Ann Kent Eisiminger but they both died in 1861, leaving six orphaned children behind.
Elizabeth Odenbaugh married William Kent and they raised 11 children on their farm in Brave in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Daniel Odenbaugh married Julia Ann Beyer and they raised eight children in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he was a gunsmith.
Although not much else is known about the life of Charles Odenbaugh, his great grandson, Thomas Hughes, left memoirs in which he said that his grandmother, Mary Odenbaugh Hughes, had reflected that “her father had told her that his father was a German gentleman and his mother was an English lady; that they were both from Germany, and that his grandfather was a German nobleman. …her father was a man with great pride. That she remembered on one occasion an incident that particularly indicated his character, an account of which incident I have in my possession. That in early life her sympathy was awakened for her father's feelings. The contrast of his ancestral family with his little family here and the destiny that circumstances might work out for them in that sparsely settled country, affected and depressed a great mind that might otherwise have been led to a great usefulness.”
Information submitted by descendents Georgeann Malowney and Gerry Parchman.
Sources include:
Records of Men enlisted in the U.S. Army Prior to the Peace Establishment May 17, 1815, pp. 232, 233. (microfilm, roll 9)
My Family Memoirs by Thomas Hughes published 1888.
The Tenmile County and Its Pioneer Families. A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley by Howard L. Leckey
Maryland Marriages 1778-1800 & Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin Vol. 6, No. 3, August 1965, Page 53, for Christian Frey and Eva Margreth Eberhardtin marriage on 3/27/1774.
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Maybe add more detail about descendents in Greene County? or the 3rd generation and who they married in the hopes that someone who sees the medallion is related? and this is their first knowledge of this history?
