The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-31
TOOTH BIRTHDAY OF
MRS. BARBARA OFT is
CELEBRATED MONDAY

LEWlSBURG. Ohio. July 29.-Mem-
cries of farms cleared out Of dense
forests, and located miles from the
nearest town. which was reached by
corduroy roads, of moving" across
nalf the state of Indiana, accomplish
ed by means of three covered wagons,
one OF which was drawn by a team of
oxen, enlivened the reunion OF the
relatives and descendants of Mrs. Bar
para OFT on the occasion of her Tooth
olftnday celebration, Monday
FIVE generations were present, the
sreat-great grandchildren who repre-
Sented the fifth generation enjoying a
monopoly of the attention, however. A
census taken during the reunion show
ed the existence of IS grandchildren,
70 great grandchildren and two great
great grandchildren, although not all
were present.
Inc reunion was held at the home
OF Mrs. Matilda Gangwer, two miles
northwest Of Lewisburg, Mrs Otis
daughter, with whom she has been
making her home for the last few
years. Members of the family began
to gather early in the forenoon, and a
large representation enjoyed the pic
mic dinner that was spread on tables
beneath the trees.
Pioneers In ohio.
Both the Link family to which Mrs.
OFT belonged, and her husbands fam
fyl, the Otis, were among the earliest
pioneers of western Ohio, and their
children in turn carried out the family
tradition by moving still farther into
new country and clearing land in cen
trail Indiana
John and Barbara Link. Barbara
Otis parents, were married in Vir-
ginia, where they lived for two years
before moving into Ohio. OF this
journey, made through forest and I'M
settled country. Mrs. OFT has no re-
membrance, having been an infant at
that time.
The OFT family, from. whom John
OFT was descended, also were natives
of Virginia, in Rockbridge county,
moving to Ohio at about the same
time as the Links, and settling near
Euphemia, now known as old Lewis
burg Fear of Indian depredations
caused the Otis to return for a short
time to Warren county, where they
had stopped on their western journey,
but after another year they again
came to what is now Preble county.
In 1915 they were an integral part of
the community, and in that year John
OFT married Mary Magdalena Locke.
John and Mary OFT settled on a farm
on the dry fork of Twin Greek, west of
Lewisburg.
One of Eight Children.
Mrs Barbara OFT, the central fig
ure of Mondays festivities, was one
of eight children. Elizabeth, Marga-
ret, Catherine, Mary. Eve and Ann,
and two children of their mother by
an earlier marriage, Elijah and Lydia
Pease OF these Mary Lyons lived in
Greenville, Catherine Link in Lewis
burg where Ann Lyons also lived. Eve
Alexandria, wife of Jules Alexandria,
lived at Fort Wayne, Ind. Lydia
Pease Schlosser lived in Sonora, and
Elijah Pease, in Button, Ind. Mr..
Pease is the only one besides Barbara
OFT who is still living, and he was
expected to attend the celebration.
The two sons, John and Noah and
the daughter. Mrs. Mary Swank, daugh
ter of Mrs Schlosser, still live near
Sonora.
A number of Mrs. Barbara Otis chill
dren, with the younger descendants
also were present at the reunion. Mrs
OFT was the mother of five daughters
and two sons, Elijah OFT of Eaton
Daniel OFT. deceased; Mrs. Matilda
Gangwer, Lewisburg; Mrs. Sarah OFT
Kendallvil!e, Ind; Mrs. William Click
Eaton: Mrs Henry Chambers, Lewis
burg, and Mrs Mary Siler, Dayton.
Mrs. Otis Descendants
Of the daughters, two. Mrs. Sarah
OFT and Mrs. Henry Chambers, are
eat-grandmothers. Mrs. Sarah OF
had three daughters, Mary, Fife (noV
I Al-
children, Fife one, and Laura one, wht
is now married and the parent of on
OF the two grandchildren
of Mrs Barbara OFT.
The other great-grandchild is thu
child of Ruth, daughter of Horace
Chambers of Dayton, whose mother i
Mrs Henry Chambers. Besides Horace
Mrs Chambers is the mother of tire
daughters and four other sons: Johl
Chambers, Chicago, with two sons, Be
and Lewis; Will of the same city an
with one son, William; Howard of &C
lumbus and Ed Chambers of Yves
Manchester, with four sons, Virgi
Byron, Elmer and Harry. The daugl
tiers are Miss Carrie Chambers of Oh
cago, Mrs. Cora Thompson of German
town. Ohio. with two sons and on
daughter, and Mrs. Cecil Hoff of Lewis
burg.
Besides Ruth, Horace Chambers
the father of another daughter, Ann;
and two sons, William and James.
The Elijah OFT family of Eaton
next in size to that of the Chamber
family Elijah OFT has four sons, StaI
lay, who also one child, Roy with on
child, ard Denver and John. Tn
three daughters are Mrs. Beulah Johl
son, who has one child, Mrs. Maud