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Descendants of Edgar McNett




Generation No. 1


1. EDGAR6 MCNETT (EZRA5 MCNITT, ADAM ( MCKNIGHT)4, DAVID (MCNUTT)3, BARNARD (MCNUTT)2, ALEXANDER B (MCNAUGHTEN)1) was born 01 Jun 1833 in Chautauqua County, New York, and died 02 Mar 1920 in Orange Twp., Delaware County, Ohio. He married ROSELLA SEARLES 07 Apr 1860 in Delaware County, Ohio1, daughter of IRA SEARLES and PHOEBE SEBRING. She was born 01 Jan 1841 in Harlem Twp., Delaware County, Ohio, and died 03 Dec 1921 in Orange Twp., Delaware County, Ohio.

Notes for E
DGAR MCNETT:
In the census of 1850, Edgar age 17 was living in Chautauqua County, New York in the home of Alexander Merchant (Martha, Alexander's wife was the sister of Edgar's mother Huldah) ; near his uncles David, James and Adam Jr., aunt Abigail Hitchcock, and John Ellis family. Edward Ellis age 71 from Mass. lived in the home of John Ellis.

By 1859 Edgar McNett is back in Ohio where he bought 94 acres near Center Village in December . He bought an additional 20 acres adjacent in December 1862. These were all sold in 1864.
The 1860 census shows Edgar had real estate valued at $3500. and personal property $800. He was living with William and Ruth Price in Harlem Twp. (Ruth was Rosella's aunt on the Sebring side).                                                             Edgar had a small general store on Rich Street in Centerville which he lost in bankruptcy in 1870. His debts and liabilities were $2596.88. The property, located on lot #17 in Centerville, appraised at $500, was sold at public auction November 4, 1870. William Barr is listed as debtor with Edgar on some notes. ( Barr was his partner in the business). Sometime after 1874 they left Harlem Twp. (John was born in Harlem Twp. in 1874). We find Edgar and Rosella in Jefferson Twp., Franklin Co., Ohio in the 1880 census (somewhere between Blacklick and Havens Corners). Ella was the only member of the family not living in Franklin County ( She was noted as being "away keeping house"). She was in the home of Ann Maxwell in Etna Twp., Licking County.
           
Listed in the personal property at the time of the bankruptcy were 14 stands of bees & 16 bee hives valued at $172. His occupation listed in the 1880 Census was Apiarian (Beekeeper)                                                            According to family tradition, sometime after 1884 the family moved to the Lewis Center area where he farmed, had a large strawberry patch and kept bees to help provide a lively-hood for his growing family. They lived on the North Road, near the junction of Berlin and Orange Townships.

The 1900 census has them listed in Orange Twp. along with sons John and William and daughter, Nellie. Their occupations listed as farmers. Their property, adjacent to that of Apollos Justice. His daughter, Leva married John McNett.

In 1910 they were still in Orange Twp. Edgar and Rosella with daughters Eva and Nellie, both daughters died a year later of typhoid fever. The sisters died one week apart, Nellie on her birthday.

In the census of 1920 Edgar and Rosella were living alone in Orange Township.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Delaware County Deed Book Vol. 26, page 425-26.............August 5, 1845 Diadatus Keeler (guardian of Edgar McNitt) sold 35 aces of land Edgar received as part of the estate of Ezra McNitt, to Rhoda Keley for $300. This was in Section 4, Township 3, Range 17. Deed Witnessed by Daniel Hunt & Joshua Hammons. Daniel Hunt J.P.

Delaware County Deed Book Vol. 44, page 303.......September 3, 1859 Edgar McNitt purchased for the sum of $3290. from James & Nancy Cockrell, 94 acres of land in Harlem Township, being part of lots nine & ten in section two, township three, range sixteen USM Lands .

Deed Book Vol. 47, page 6-7........December 12, 1861 Edgar McNitt purchased from C.B. Paul for the sum of $500. twenty acres of land , being the north west part of lot two, section two, township three. range sixteen.

Deed Book Vol. 51, pages 60-61.......June 5, 1864 Edgar sold to Silas Adams for the sum of $5100. two tracts of land. One containing 94 acres and "being the same premises conveyed to said Edgar McNitt by James Cockrell & wife Sept. 3, 1859." The other tract "containing 20 acres of land , being the same tract conveyed to Edgar McNitt by C.B. Paul and wife December 12, 1861" Witnesses to deed are J.Q. Adams & Lorenzo Adams.

Deed Book Vol. 51, page 216.....September 23, 1864 Edgar purchased from William Brown & wife Lot No. 51 & Lot No. 54 in the town of Centerville, Harlem Township for $550.

Deed Book Vol. 52, pages 598-9....March 27, 1865 Edgar McNitt & wife sold Lot No. 51 to John McClorg for $460.

Deed Book Vol. 52, page 283-4....April 4, 1865 Edgar purchased for $700., " Lots 16 & 17 in the town of Centerville, Harlem Township as described in the Recorder's office on the plat of the town recorded in Record of Plats Vol. 1, page 83."

Deed Book Vol. 61, pages 534-5....February 25, 1869 Edgar McNitt sold Lot 54 to Arza Elmer Cooper for $50.

Deed Book Vol. 69, page 480 ........March 4, 1876..........Remaining property in Centerville belonging to Edgar McNitt sold to Austin D. Mann for the sum of $650.
                                                      Delaware Journal Herald, 3/2/1920........"Edgar McNett of Lewis Center passed away at his home early Tuesday morning. He leaves behind, his wife, several children, and many relatives and friends. No arrangements as yet have been made for the funeral."                                                             Delaware Journal Herald, 3/9/1920.............."The funeral of Edgar McNett was held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence near Lewis Center. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Phipps of the Lewis Center M.E. Church. "Just as I am Without One Pleas,'Safe in the Arms of Jesus', and 'Home of the Soul' were sung very beautifully by Mrs. Rolla Willis. Burial was made at the Cheshire cemetery. The pallbearers were William Gooding, Frank Smith, George Perkins, and Ned Jocelyn. The funeral was in charge of the Morrison undertaking establishment."


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Delaware Journal Herald 12/4/1921................"Mrs. Rosella McNett, aged 80 years died at her home between Cheshire and Galena at 1 o'clock Saturday morning as the result of complications of disease. Funeral services will be held at the Cheshire M.E. Church at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. Burial will be made in the Cheshire cemetery."

See notes in Obadiah Searles' and Edgar McNett's file for further information regarding Rosella.     



More About E
DGAR MCNETT:
Burial: 04 Mar 1920, Cheshire Cemetery
Cause of Death: Heart Trouble and senility2
Census: 1870, Merchant
Death Certificate: 02 Mar 1920, OHS #212682
Funeral Home: 02 Mar 1920, C.W. Morrison & Son
Informant: 02 Mar 1920, Mrs. Rose McNett
Marriage Bond: 07 Apr 1860, Lewis Center, Ohio
Occupation: 1860, Farmer

Notes for R
OSELLA SEARLES:
See notes in Obadiah Searles' and Edgar McNett's file for further information regarding Rosella.                                                                                                Delaware Journal Herald 12/4/1921................"Mrs. Rosella McNett, aged 80 years died at her home between Cheshire and Galena at 1 o'clock Saturday morning as the result of complications of disease. Funeral services will be held at the Cheshire M.E. Church at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. Burial will be made in the Cheshire cemetery."

More About R
OSELLA SEARLES:
Burial: 06 Dec 1921, Cheshire Cemetery
Cause of Death: Cerebral Hemorhage2
Death Certificate: 03 Dec 1921, OHS #677042
Funeral: 06 Dec 1921, Lewis Center Methodist Church
Funeral Home: 06 Dec 1920, C.W. Morrison & Son
Informant: 03 Dec 1921, Emma E. Wilson, Westerville

Marriage Notes for E
DGAR MCNETT and ROSELLA SEARLES:
G.H. Purdy, J.P.
Recorded June 30, 1860 J. Ramsey P.J.

     
Children of E
DGAR MCNETT and ROSELLA SEARLES are:
  i.   FRANK ELLIS7 MCNETT, b. 09 May 1861, Harlem Twp., Delaware County, Ohio; d. 18 May 1862, Harlem Twp., Delaware County, Ohio.
2. ii.   ELLA MAY MCNETT, b. 25 Sep 1862, Harlem Twp., Delaware County, Ohio; d. 13 Jan 1940, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.
3. iii.   EMMA ETHYL MCNETT, b. 16 Jun 1864, Harlem Twp., Delaware County, Ohio; d. 23 Aug 1945, Franklin County, Ohio.
  iv.   EVA D. MCNETT, b. 19 Aug 1866, Center Village, Delaware County Ohio; d. 27 Oct 1911, Lewis Center, Orange Twp., Delaware, Ohio.
  Notes for EVA D. MCNETT:
Eva died of typhoid fever........one week before her sister Nellie Eva and Minnie are listed in the 1900 census as living in the home of William Ackley, a rooming house in Columbus. They were working as seamstresses.

Delaware Gazette, ........."Eva McNett was born at Center Village, Ohio August 19, 1866. The greater part of her life was spent in that vicinity. She passed into life eternal October 27, 1911, leaving father, mother, three brothers and three sisters, one whom, Nellie,youngest died a week later. Funeral services were held at the Lewis Center Church conducted by Rev. Frank Easton of Athens. Burial at Cheshire Cemetery.

  More About EVA D. MCNETT:
Burial: 31 Oct 1911, Cheshire Cemetery
Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever2
Death Certificate: 27 Oct 1911, OHS #52897
Funeral: 31 Oct 1911, Lewis Center Methodist Church
Funeral Home: 27 Oct 1911, C.W. Morrison & Son
Informant: 27 Oct 1911, Emma E. Wilson, Westerville
Occupation: Seamstress

  v.   MINNIE BELL MCNETT, b. 06 Dec 1868, Center Village, Delaware County Ohio; d. 16 Jan 1944, Community Hospital, San Diego, California; m. JOSEPH V. CONRY, Abt. 1902; b. Abt. 1870, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1944, California.
  Notes for MINNIE BELL MCNETT:
Minnie is listed in the 1900 census as living in the home of William Ackley, a rooming house in Columbus, working as seamstress . 1910 Census.... 4454 West Congress Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. 1920 Census....3323 Collins Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. By 1930 Census Minnie and Joseph were at 3328 Thorn Street, San Diego, California. Her death certificate says she lived in California 16 years at time of death. At the time of her death, her address was 125 Palm Street, Lemon Grove,San Diego County.

  More About MINNIE BELL MCNETT:
Burial: 20 Jan 1944, Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego
Cause of Death: Chronic Myocarditis3
Death Certificate: 16 Jan 1944, 44-00626003614
Informant: 16 Jan 1944, Irene Hazeltine
Medical Information: Myocardial Degeneration
Occupation: Seamstress

  Notes for JOSEPH V. CONRY:
Living at 4454 West Congress Avenue in Cook County, Illinois; occupation, storekeeper; his parents born in Ireland according to 1910 Census. Still in Chicago in 1920, living at 3323 Collins Avenue; working for a "firm" in cost systems. in 1930 they were in San Diego, California, living at 3328 Thorn Street; his occupation, vault caretaker at a bank. Owned their home valued at $5000.

  More About JOSEPH V. CONRY:
Occupation: 1920, Cost Systems

4. vi.   EDWIN (EARL DALE) MCNETT, b. 18 Mar 1871, Center Village, Delaware County Ohio Ohio; d. 28 Jun 1954, Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington.
5. vii.   JOHN LEROY MCNETT, b. 18 Mar 1874, Center Village, Delaware County Ohio; d. 01 Jan 1948, Porter Twp., Delaware County, Ohio.
6. viii.   WILLIAM EDGAR MCNETT, b. 18 Apr 1876, Jefferson Twp., Franklin County, Ohio; d. 20 Aug 1957, Berlin Twp. , Delaware County, Ohio.
  ix.   ROLLAND MCNETT, b. 27 Aug 1878, Jefferson Twp., Franklin County, Ohio4; d. 28 Nov 1878, Jefferson Twp., Franklin County, Ohio5.
  More About ROLLAND MCNETT:
Cause of Death: "Summer Complaint"6

  x.   NELLIE MAUD MCNETT, b. 03 Nov 1884, Jefferson Twp., Franklin County, Ohio; d. 03 Nov 1911, Lewis Center, Orange Twp. Delaware, Ohio.
  Notes for NELLIE MAUD MCNETT:
Nellie is listed in attendance book of the Peachblow Sunday School in 1897 & 1898.

Nellie died of typhoid fever... on her birthday, one week after her sister Eva, at the age of 27. Nellie was a school teacher, teaching in a one room school house on Gregory Road in Berlin Township.                                                                                           Delaware Gazette, Nov. 7, 1911.........."The funeral of Miss Nellie McNett, the second of two sisters to die as a result of typhoid fever, was held Sunday at the Lewis Center M.E. Church, Rev. Mr. Smith of Africa conducting the service, Rev. Frank Easton of Athens assisting. The pall bearers were Bertha Justice, Ruth Leonard, Elsie Knight, Laura White, Leota and Estelle Conklin. The funeral of Miss McNett's sister, Eva, was held at the same hour a week previous."

  More About NELLIE MAUD MCNETT:
Burial: 05 Nov 1911, Cheshire Cemetery
Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever7
Death Certificate: 03 Nov 1911, OHS #58406
Funeral: 05 Nov 1911, Lewis Center Methodist Church
Funeral Home: 03 Nov 1911, C.W. Morrison
Informant: 03 Nov 1911, Emma E. Wilson, Westerville
Occupation: School Teacher




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