Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-30

and il was through nls mean9 ia
CIav obtained the first knowledge ne hHu
IF The celebrated letter of Beverly tucker
which disclosed the name of General JACK.
an es the the author of the charges sgalnsl
NJ Clav that were then current. A gen
tlaman who was present at MI Zane :
mansion where Mr.. Clay first saw ana
read the letter, said to the writer tna' a.,
though he had often heard MIR. Clay ID Tue
Senate and on the stump Wnsh
he Thought his eloquence unsurpassADle'
declared that for fifteen or twenty hln-
utes he spoke to the party of gentlemen
resent in a strain he never heard equalled
By mortal man. cho
Mr. zane was married TO Mary l.. Cnap-
line and left a large family. Eoenezer'
whose children Edwin 2. and Mrs. Lousn-
borough. one now living in California
PIatoff whose widow and children reside
At Pleasant Valley; Platoff, Noah and MIS-
Carr and Mrs. Euston of st. LOUIS SOPHIA
married Mr.. Johnston of Louisville; mary
married Mr.. Mclean and left son Jam Is
and daughter, Mrs. Ward of LoulsVlIie;
Caroline married w. W. Shriver ana no"
lives at Pleasant Valley with her daugnters'
Marian and Nina; her son Il. Il Snriver
lives on the Island; Elizabeth married MI
Pitts, a noted lawyer, and lives IN LOUIS
vile; Cornelia married w. l. McAIer'
Hampden Zane, the youngest son, resides
in Washington City. His daughter mar
ried the Hen. Mr.. Cockburn, OF Canada J,
a prominent and influential member OF tne
,o,-ar,r,anf Of that Province
DANIEL ZANE.
Daniel Zane. born in Wheeling, Virginia,
August Sd, 1892, was the youngest chlld
of Col. Ebenezar and Elizabeth Zane, Dis
wife. ,
When nineteen years of age he married
his cousin Cynthia, a daughter OF Jona-
than Zane. She was a lady of refinement,
taste and the most exalted piety, and died
as she had lived in the full hope OF
glorious immortality, on Sunday, June 5,
1912, thus exchanging the luxuriance of an
earthly June for the enduring beauty of d
heavenly. In early life Daniel Zane con-
nected himself with the NJ. f Church and
for one year he entertained in his house, At
his own expense, the first Methodist min
ister with his family, ever stationed In
Wheeling. He was under Providence the
main instrument in securing a house for
public worship for that denomination, and
through his efforts and with his means
more than those of any other individual,
the commodious and comfortable ediice-
which occupied the site of the present
church building-was erected.
He built the bridge which spans the
back river, connecting the Island and
Bridgeport. This, through the failure of
others, involved him financially to some
extent, from which, however, he subse-
luently recovered. He was also the pro-
orietor of the ferry which piled between
.he Island and the city proper, which was
retained by him until he sold his franchise
10 the Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Com
pany.
Like his wife, he died on the Sabbath
lay. On the eighth day of July, 1860,
ust as the evening shades Of that holy day
we're gathering around the world and the
echoes of the voices of Gods worshippipg
children were still lingering cd the sense
MS soul was waited on angels pinions to
he rest of that heavenly Canaan where the
owed ones who had preceded him were
waiting his coming
Mr.. Zane was twice married. By his
irst marriage he had ten children, all of
whom lived to reach manhood and woman
lood eTsegt one s1 dang9MtfeiSSt James W,
Edwin T., Clarke L., Daniel T., Indiana,
who married Anon McSwords, deceased;
Ann Elizabeth, who married h. w. Phil
Ups, deceased; Oells, who married G. L
Hannah, who died in infancy.
His second marriage was with Miss
Tomlinson, by whom he had one son, Ed
ward Everett. He did not long survive
his marriage, dying about year therest-
er.
CAPT. ABsALOM MARTIN
was a native of New Jersey, and graduated
At Nassau Hall, NOW Princeton College,
\. J.) He was captain in the Army Of
.he Revolution, serving in that position,
which was under the immediate command
Of Washington.
After the war he removed West, where
be married Catherine, the eldest daughter
IF Col. Ebenezer Zane. He died before
reaching middle life, leaving two children.
3 1enezsr Martin, the founder of the pres
ant town of Martins Ferry, and daugh-
Ter Patty, who died in early life.
JOHN CLARKE
was a native of Delaware. He came West
1t the time of the Whisky Insurrection in
Pennsylvania, and commanded company
IF light horse cavalry under General Dan
el Morgan, of Revolutionary fame, when
The Government suppressed that incipient
rebellion, He was present at the battle of
He married Rebacca Zane,
laughter of Col. Ebenezer Zane. After
residing few years in Wheeling he re-
moved to Belmont county, where be lived
until his death in 1855, at the age Of 80
years. He was one of the first settlers of
that portion Of Ohio.
He had large family-Geo. W, who
died in early manhood John F., who re-
sided in New York; Ebenezer 4 now liv-
ing in Zanesville, O.. Dorcas, who married
Job Stanbery: Sarah T., who married Rev.
S. B Brockunier; Elizabeth, married D
Hull; Maria, married Daniel Lamb; Helen
L., married Alex. Sullivan, of Zanesville;
Leander, removed to Louisville, where he
died; Julia and Rsbecca, now living in
Belmont county, Ohio.
CAPTAIN CRESAP.
Captain Michael Cresap, son of Colonel
Thomas Cressp, of Maryland, was bo.n
and lived in OldtOwn, not far from Cum
bsrland. When migration westward be-
gan he moved to Old Redstone, now
Pa, where he built cabin
and lived for several years. Then he set
out with a party to take up land below
Wheeling. He went as far as Little Kama
whs, where the city of Parkersburg now
stands, and the present site OF Cresap's
Grove, below Moundsville, was taken up
by him. Rumors soon reached Captain
Cresap's party through the traders that
the Indians were about to begin warfare
sgainst the whites, and they speedily re-
turned to Fort Henry at Wheeling. There
a letter from Captain Connolly, under
Lord Dunmore declaring that an Indian