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Notes for: Ephraim H. Minear b abt 1840

Marriage Information:

Census Information: 1850 Unon, Ross, Ohio - Joseph Kerkindall 30 Margaret Kerkindal 26 , Cacesta a Kerkindall 1, Ephraim Minear 9, Milley Hibbs female 26, Emanuel Jester 30, laborer, 1860 Union Ross Ohio - Ephraim Minear 19 living with James and Ellenor Shasteen 1870 Ohio Ross Union Ephraim Minear 29 b OH , Rebecca 28 b OH, Malinda Minear 2, Eliza Gambol 56, probably MIL 1880 Ohio Ross Union - Stephen Minear 39 b OH, Rebecca 38, Malinda 12, Samuel 7, Eliza Gamble 63 b OH f/m PA 1900 Union Ross Ohio - Ephraim H 59, Ida M 41 children 1/1 m 14 yrs, dau Ellen B 8 1910 South Union, Ross, OH Ephram Minear 70 Ida Minear 51, Bell 18 1920 - Not found 1926 OH Deaths - Erie Co 26 Nov 1926 vol 5192 Cert 67420 Civil War Soldiers Ephraim Minear 80th Ohio Infantry Co K Musician Fil M552 roll 75 Tombstone book says Ephriam b 1840 Father Civil War - assume this means due to age that Ephriam b 1840 was in CW

Burial information: Other information: http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Ross/RossBio572.htm Ephraim H. Minear was born in Yellowbud, Ross county, Ohio, November 25, 1840. His parents were William and Margaret (Hobbs) Minear, the former of whom was born in Union township in 1815. He was a farmer by occupation and spent his whole life on the same place. Besides Ephraim Minear, the subject of this sketch, there were two other children, Elizabeth and Pelitha, both of whom died in infancy. The father died at the early age of twenty-five, his widow surviving until 1868. Their son Ephraim lived in Yellowbud for five years and then went to work in the country at a salary of some twelve or fifteen dollars a year. August. 11, 1862, he enlisted at Yellowbud in Company K, Eighty-ninth Ohio infantry, as a musician. After serving one year, he was discharged for disability and returned to his home in Ohio. He then learned the carpenter's trade, which was his means of livelihood for many years thereafter. On March 18, 1868, he was married to Ellen Gamble, of whose three children two died in infancy and Fletcher, the only survivor, lives in Chillicothe. The first wife died March 18, 1881, and Mr. Minear married Ida Madden September 26, 1885. Their only child is named Belle and lives at home-with her parents. In 1886, Mr. Minear removed to Andersonville, Ross county, of which place he was appointed postmaster in 1889. He held this place for two years and in 1898 was reappointed by President McKinley. In 1886, he was elected clerk of his township and has retained that position ever since. In politics he is a stanch Republican and he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since 1857.