Individual Details

Elisha Alderman Jr, born in 1783 in New York. A letter written to M. P. Alderman, Gloucester, MA in 1889 said Elisha, Jr. was raised at Painted Post, Steuben Co. NY (Spear, 69). In the fall of 1803 he married Maria Vandermark, the daughter of another settler of Caneada in the Genesee Valley of NY, which they had left Steuben Co. for that spring. They had 10 children.

The Alderman family were among the earliest pioneers of this [Homer] township. In the spring of 1808 Elisha Alderman and Job Phillips came from Olean, N. Y., and made a location on Sharp's Fork of Federal Creek, being favorably impressed with the natural advantages of the country, and deeming it a favorable location for the establishment of homes they returned to New York, and in 1810 emigrated to what is now Morgan County, with a little colony of seventeen people. Upon a lumber raft upon which was loaded, their household effects and families, they floated down the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh, and from thence via the Ohio to Marietta where they traded the lumber for six hundred and forty acres of land in what is now Homer township. The country bordering on the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers was at the time of which we write a dense wilderness with here and there the cabin of some adventurous frontiersman, and perhaps no better idea can be given of the courage and indomitable energy of this little band of pioneers than the fact that they left their homes and with their worldly possessions and their families upon a raft of lumber, undertook a voyage of nearly five hundred miles upon unknown waters, and into a country almost uninhabited, and perhaps their only incentive was the probable benefit that might in after time accrue to their descendants. The names of the colonists were Elisha Alderman and wife, Elisha Jr. and wife, Job Phillips and wife, John Stewart and wife, James Ward Smith and wife, Rachel, Elijah, Hosea, Lucy, Elihu and Annar, all of whom were sons, daughters and sons-in-kw of Elisha senior. All were identified with the early history of the township. Elisha, who was the progenitor of the Alderman family in Morgati county, lived to an advanced age and died in the township. Elisha Jr. reared a large family and was quite promptly identified with the early affairs of that section. He removed to Iowa about 1850, where he died. (Robertson 498-499)

(Homer twp of Athens then, now Morgan Co., OH)

1809: Elisha Jr and I think it was Elijah paid for land in now Morgan Co.

1810: Tax List Athens Co, OH
Elijah Alderman
Elisha Alderman
Elisha Alderman Jr.

1816: Tax List Athens Co, OH
Elisha Alderman
Elijah Alderman

"Elisha Jr. reared a large family and was quite promptly identified with the early affairs of that section (Homer Twp.) He removed to Iowa about 1850, where he died." Robertson History of Morgan Co. OH. 1886.
1822 Oct 16: Benjamin VandeMark of Caneadea in Allegany Co, NY paid $100 to Elisha Alderman Jr of Homer, Athens Co, OH for a sixth part of piece of land in Caneadea, Allegany, NY, Lot #10 on eastern bank of Genesee River, 98 acres. Signed by Elisha Alderman Jr and Mariah Alderman (her mark) and witnessed by ZIBA HUFF.(Allegany Co.Deeds)

OLD SETTLERS OF THE COUNTY-SETTLED PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1858.
Alderman, T. E.
Alderman, Elisha Alderman,
Hez. Alderman,
Wm. Alderman,
I. C Alderman
(Allen, 357)

Birth	13 Sep 1783	Monroe, New York, United States
Marriage	17 Oct 1803	Allegany, New York, United States - Mariah Elizabeth Vandermark
Tax List	1810	Athens, Ohio, United States
Census	1820	Homer Township, Athens, Ohio, United States
Census (family)	1830	Homer Township, Athens, Ohio, United States - Mariah Elizabeth Vandermark
Census (family)	1840	Homer Township, Athens, Ohio, United States - Mariah Elizabeth Vandermark
Census (family)	21 Oct 1850	Village, Van Buren Co., Iowa, - Mariah Elizabeth Vandermark
Marriage	31 Aug 1854	Polk, Iowa, United States - Elizabeth Wilson
Census	1856	Indian Creek Township, Story, Iowa, United States
Census	25 Jul 1860	Indian Creek Township, Story, Iowa, United States
Death	8 Oct 1868	Iowa Center, Story, Iowa, United States
Burial		Woodland Cemetery, Iowa Center, Story, Iowa, United States

Spouse	Mariah Elizabeth Vandermark (1787 - 1854)
Child	Jane Maria Alderman (1804 - 1888)
Child	Anna Alderman (1806 - )
Child	William Alderman (1808 - 1813)
Child	Benjamin Alderman (1810 - 1813)
Child	James Redford Alderman (1812 - 1872)
Child	Simeon Alderman (1814 - 1814)
Child	William Vandermark Alderman (1815 - 1880)
Child	Hezekiah Brink Alderman (1817 - 1871)
Child	Julia Ann Alderman (1819 - 1889)
Child	Elisha Wesley Alderman (1820 - 1893)
Child	Thankful Alderman (1823 - 1845)
Child	Hosea Sheldon Alderman (1825 - 1845)
Child	Esther Diantha Alderman (1828 - 1889)
Child	Isaac Newton Alderman (1831 - 1910)

Spouse

Elizabeth Wilson (1800 - )

Father	Elisha Alderman (1744 - 1832)
Mother	Thankful Huff (1753 - 1829)
Sibling	Mary Alderman (1777 - 1858)
Sibling	Thankful Alderman (1778 - 1790)
Sibling	Ann Alderman (1780 - )
Sibling	Esther Alderman (1782 - 1830)
Sibling	Rachel Alderman (1785 - 1790)
Sibling	Elijah C. Alderman (1788 - 1861)
Sibling	Hosea Alderman (1791 - 1843)
Sibling	Elihu Huff Alderman (1792 - 1850)
Sibling	Lucy Alderman (1796 - 1824)
Sibling	Anna (Hannah) Alderman (1801 - 1879)

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