Individual Details

Jeffery Wilcox Buchanan ( fifth child of George Oswell Buchanan ) was born April 15,1798 near Fonda, Montgomery Co., New York. When about 18 years old he came to Marietta, Ohio and worked on a floating grist mill on the Muskingum River at Devols Dam near Marietta, Ohio. While there he formed the acquaintance of Rachel Prouty of that place. They were married Feb 7, 1819. He located near that place in Union Township until in 1825 when he moved to near Jamestown, Athens Co., Ohio, on Federal Creek. He worked at the stone mason trade until he accumulated enough money to buy a farm which he sold in 1848 and received in gold. He then moved to Waterford, Ohio in 1848 and kept a general store for three years. Then he bought land three miles southwest of there which he sold in 1857 and bought the old homestead where he spent the remainder of his days. It was a piece of unimproved land of one-hundred acres two miles south of Waterford, Ohio, where his parents were buried. They had nine children, Cyrenius, Walter McIntyre, Czarina, Lucinda, Elizabeth, Cyntha Diantha, George Washington, Louisa Ann, Charles.

(from The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 57 page 161 under Mrs. Mary Lorana Wolcott Howes. DAR ID Number: 56465 )

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 110
page 117
[p.117] Mrs. Mindwell Buchanan Lord.
DAR ID Number: 109381
Born in Lowell, Ohio.
Wife of William H. Lord.
Descendant of Peter Howe and of Steven Ransom, as follows:
1. Cyrenius Buchanan (1819-77) m. 1847 Lydia Lord Ransom (1823-75). (Lydia Ransom who married Cyrenius Buchanan was the daughter or granddaughter of a Lord)
2. Jeffery Buchanan (1798-1876) m. 1819 Rachel Prouty (1802-72); Theophilus Ransom (1751-1823) m. 3rd 1822 Sarah Wright Shepherd (1789-1878).
3. Square Prouty (1777-1854) m. 1801 Diantha Howe (1781-1862); Steven Ransom m. 1750 Lydia Lord (1729-65).
4. Peter Howe m. 1780 Orinda Fuller (1762-1835).
Peter Howe (1756-1842) enlisted, 1777, as a soldier in Capt. Ebenezer Allen's company, Colonel Herrick's regiment of Rangers. He was at the battles of Bennington, Mt. Defiance, Diamond Island, and Stillwater. He was born in Marlboro, Mass.; died in Ohio.
Also No. 56465.
Steven Ransom (1722-96) was a minute man at the Lexington Alarm and was wounded in service. He was born and died in Lynn, Conn.

Birth	15 Apr 1798	near, Fonda, Montgomery, New York, United States
Marriage	7 Feb 1819	Devol's Dam near Marrietta, Union Township, Washington, Ohio, United States - Rachel Prouty
Census	1820	Union Township, Washington, Ohio, United States
Census (family)	21 Aug 1850	Watertown Township, Washington, Ohio, United States - Rachel Prouty
Census (family)	25 Jun 1860	Watertown, Washington, Ohio, United States - Rachel Prouty
Census (family)	3 Jun 1870	Watertown, Washington, Ohio, United States - Rachel Prouty
Death	12 Jul 1876	Watertown, Washington, Ohio, United States
Burial	15 Jul 1876	Wolf Creek Chapel Cemetery, Waterford Township, Washington, Ohio, United States

Spouse	Rachel Prouty (1802 - 1872)
Child	Cyrenius Buchanan (1819 - 1877)
Child	Walter McIntyre Buchanan (1821 - 1908)
Child	Czarina "Cyrina, Zenna" Buchanan (1824 - )
Child	Lucinda Buchanan (1826 - 1856)
Child	Elizabeth Artliza Buchanan (1829 - )
Child	Cynthia Diantha Buchanan ( - )
Child	George Washington Buchanan (1834 - )
Child	Louisa Ann Buchanan (1836 - )
Child	Charles Buchanan (1841 - 1908)

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