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HUSBAND Holden FERRIMAN
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BORN: PLACE:
CHR.: 26 May 1816 PLACE: St. Luke's
Chap.,Heywood,Lancashire,Eng
DIED: 2 Sep 1877 PLACE: Medina,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Mt. Pleasant Cem,Medina Co.,OH
MARR: 24 Feb 1839 PLACE: Middleton
Parish,Middleton,Lancashire,Eng
FATHER: Thomas FERRIMAN
MOTHER: Margaret GRAHAM
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WIFE Nancy BURGESS
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BORN: Abt 1820 PLACE: ,,Lancashire,England
CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 3 Sep 1877 PLACE: Medina,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Mt. Pleasant Cem,Medina Co.,OH
FATHER: William BURGESS
MOTHER:
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CHILDREN
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1. NAME: Robert FERRIMAN
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M CHR.: 18 Apr 1839 PLACE: St. Luke's
Chap.,Heywood,Lancashire,Eng
DIED: 17 Aug 1864 PLACE: Military Hosp.,Chattanooga,TN
BUR.: PLACE: Chatt. Nat. Cem.,Chattanooga,TN
SPOUSE: Amanda HIESTAND
MARR: 16 Dec 1863 PLACE: ,,Summit County,Ohio
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2. NAME: Harriet FERRIMAN
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F CHR.: 15 Aug 1841 PLACE: St. Luke's
Chap.,Heywood,Lancashire,Eng
DIED: 2 Jan 1879 PLACE: Brunswick Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Mt. Pleasant Cem,Brunswick Twp.,OH
SPOUSE: Joseph FETTERMAN
MARR: 10 Sep 1867 PLACE: ,,Medina County,Ohio
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3. NAME: Thomas C FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 9 Apr 1845 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
M CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 13 May 1919 PLACE: Medina,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Spring Grove Cem,Medina Co.,OH
SPOUSE: Angeline MEACHAM
MARR: 17 Dec 1868 PLACE: ,Strongsville,Cuyahoga Co.,Ohio
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4. NAME: Margaret FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 24 Jul 1847 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
F CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 20 Apr 1911 PLACE: Medina Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Bagdad Cem.,Medina Co.,OH
SPOUSE: Cassiodorus BLAKESLEE
MARR: 2 Nov 1864 PLACE: ,,Medina County,Ohio
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5. NAME: Rosannah FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 21 Jun 1849 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
F CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 31 Aug 1933 PLACE: Brunswick Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Westview Cem.,Brunswick Twp.,OH
SPOUSE: Frank RIDIKER
MARR: 19 Feb 1872 PLACE: ,,Medina Co.,OH
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6. NAME: Alfred FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 2 Sep 1851 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
M CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 21 Jun 1922 PLACE: Wellington,Lorain Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Penfield Cem.,Lorain Co.,OH
SPOUSE: Mary A. HUNT
MARR: 16 Nov 1874 PLACE: ,,Cuyahoga Co.,Ohio
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7. NAME: infant FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 2 Sep 1851 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
M CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: PLACE: infant
BUR.: PLACE:
SPOUSE:
MARR: PLACE:
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8. NAME: Emma FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 2 Jan 1854 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
F CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 27 Feb 1923 PLACE: Medina Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: 1 Mar 1923 PLACE: Granger Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
SPOUSE: Charles Carroll WILBUR
MARR: 22 Feb 1886 PLACE: ,Medina Twp.,Medina Co,Ohio
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9. NAME: William FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 26 May 1856 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
M CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 2 Nov 1937 PLACE: Brunswick Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Westview Cem.,Medina Co.,OH
SPOUSE: Nellie Betsey KNOX
MARR: 21 Feb 1884 PLACE: ,,Medina County,Ohio
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10. NAME: Alice May FERRIMAN
---- BORN: 5 Aug 1858 PLACE: Sharon Twp.,Medina Co.,OH
F CHR.: PLACE:
DIED: 24 Jan 1932 PLACE: Medina,Medina Co.,OH
BUR.: PLACE: Spring Grove Cem,Medina Co.,OH
SPOUSE: Harry A CARPENTER
MARR: 4 Jul 1882 PLACE: ,,Medina County,Ohio
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HUSBAND - Holden FERRIMAN Holden probably worked in the cotton mills
as a boy. He did not learn to read or write. He came to Ohio sometime
between 1841 and l844. His wife and two children came after him. He
first settled in Sharon Twp., Medina County and became a farmer. He
later moved to Brunswick Twp. Medina County. He died in 1877 of Typhoid
fever.
Medina County Gazette, 28 Sep 1877, p.1
"Seldom has this community been more deeply moved than in the deaths
and conjoint burial of two worthy and esteemed citizens of Brunswick,
Ohio. Mr. Holden Ferriman, which occured on the 2d inst. and his wife,
Nancy, on the day following, both of typhoid fever, he being 61 years of
age, and she 57. He came from England 37 years ago to seek a home here,
leaving a wife, who came alone to join him, after two years separation.
Starting with nothing, together both toiled, until they gained for
themselves a comfortable home, having made the last payment a short time
before their deaths.
Their worth will appear in the fact that they had reared a family of
nine children, one of whom died in the army, and the rest living, all of
age, and mostly settled in life, are of good principles and habits.
Thus it appears they were kept together in their greatest abilities,
in parental authority and love, through a time most needed, till at
length they alike sickened, and from expressed choice, closed their life
work together, and at a time when they could best be spared.
Following the two hearses which bore the remains of those once quiet
and industrious people, from a desolated home to Mt. Pleasant chapel,
where the funeral was held, and to the double grave, were one hundred
and five carriages. So large was the attendance that a hundred citizens
were unable to gain entrance to the exercises, which were conducted by
Rev. O.W. White, of Weymouth, whose discourse was founded upon the
text:"And in their death, they were not divided," IISamuel I:23.
Years ago, Ray Ferriman copied an inscription from Holden and
Nancy's tombstone, which is now illegible:
"Now death bereaved us
of those we loved dear;
Our parents so faithful and kind.
And little we thought that
their end was so near --
That so soon they would
leave us behind."
Holden and Nancy are in the 1841 census in Beacom Fold, Werneth,
Chester Co. Holden is listed as a cotton weaver. The census was taken
in July and their 2nd child, Harriet, was born in August.
CHILD 1 - Robert FERRIMAN Robert, the eldest child of Holden and
Nancy, was born is Lancashire, England. He was christened in Heywood
Chapel as was his father. After Holden had emigrated to Medina County,
he sent for Nancy and their two children, Robert and Harriet, who made
the voyage from England to join him.
When he grew older, Robert began to learn the carpentry trade from
his Uncle Collin, who had come to Sharon Twp. in 1849. When Robert was
on a carpentry job for Abraham Heistand, he met Abraham's daughter,
Amanda. Robert and Amanda were married in Summit County on 16 Dec 1863.
Robert joined the Fifth Independent Company, Ohio Volunteer
Sharpshooters during the Civil War. He enlisted 29 October 1862 at
Cleveland, Ohio and was serving near the Chattahoochie Run River in
Georgia when he became ill. He was sent to the the Army hospital in
Chattanooga, Tenn and died on 17 Aug 1864, of pneumonia.
He is buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetary - section F, Grave
1940. He is also listed on his parents' tombstone in Brunswick.
Doc. Birth record - P.R.O. London, marriage record - Summit Co.
Probate,Pension record for Amanda. National Archives,
CHILD 2 - Harriet FERRIMAN Harriet went by the nickname, Hattie. She
died in 1879.
CHILD 3 - Thomas C FERRIMAN Thomas attended Sharon school until he
was l6. He went to Richfield as a harness-maker's apprentice. A few
months later, he enlisted in Battery A,1st Ohio Light Artillery to serve
in the Civil War. He moved to Medina in 1883. He was a grain buyer for
10 years for the B.H. Wood Co. He then went into the clothing business
in the clothing store of Nichols and Ferriman in Medina.
Doc. 1st marriage record in Cuyahoga Co., 2nd marriage in Medina
County Probate. Civil War records-Veterans Admin.,cemetary record,Medina
Sentinel
("Brunswick Reunion")
History of the Western Reserve
Thomas Ferriman, of the firm of Nichols, Ferriman and Company,
leading dealers in clothing and gentleman's furnishing goods of Medina,
and otherwise interested in important business enterprises of the
locality, is one of the most enterprising and liberal citizens of the
county. He is a native of Sharon township, Medina county, born April 9,
1845, and represents a long established and most honorable family widely
known in that section of the state. Holden Ferriman, his father, was
born in England, and, coming to the United States as a young man,
settled on a well-timbered farm in Sharon township. The elder Mr.
Ferriman cleared and improved this tract of land and for a number of
years operated a sawmill on connection with it. In 1862 he moved to
Brunswick township, also in this county, continued on his farm there for
a number of years, and late in life moved to the village of Medina,
where he died in 1877.
Not long after, his widow followed him, dying as the mother of nine
children, all of whom reached mature years, as follows: Robert, who died
in battle during the Civil War; Hattie, who passed away in 1879, as the
wife of Joseph Fetterman; Thomas, of this sketch; Margaret, who married
C. Blakesley; Rosey, now Mrs. Frank Rettiker; Alfred, who has twice
married, first to Miss Mary Hunt; Emma, sho became the wife of Charles
Wilbur; William, who married Miss Nellie Knox; and Alice, who is the
wife of Harry Carpenter. All of the above are active and respected
members of the community; the record of Thomas
Ferriman being especially strong.
Mr. Ferriman of this sketch was educated in the
district school of Sharon township and at a select establishment near
his home, remaining on the home farm until his sixteenth year. He then
enlisted in Company A, Battery A, First Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery,
the chief battles in which he participated being those of Atlanta,
Franklin and Nashville. He served throughout the war under Generals
Thomas and Sherman, and upon his honorable discharge, in July,1865,went
to his home in Brunswick township, to which his parents had moved during
the progress of the conflict. There he was soon employed by B.H. Wood
and Company, who had large agricultural and business interests, chiefly
in Michigan and Ohio. Locally they were warehouse men and dealers in
wool, lumber and general merchandise. Severing his connection with this
firm, Mr. Ferriman returned to Medina and purchased an interest in the
clothing and gentlemen's furnishing business of Lewis and Nichols,
buying out the former partner. He remained with the firm throughout its
changes, and finally the present co-partnership of Nichols, Ferriman and
Company was formed, both Mr. Ferriman and his son, M.H. being members of
the firm. The senior Mr. Ferriman is also a director of the Ohio
Farmer's Insurance Company, with which he has been connected for a
number of years and which is recognized as one of the solid institutions
of the state. Further, he is a stockholder in the Granite and Marble
Company of Medina and has other interests of a business and industrial
character. His Masonic relations are with Medina Lodge and Medina
Chapter and belongs to H.G. Blake Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
In 1868 Mr. Ferriman married Miss A. Meacham, a native of Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, who died April 26, 1891, the mother of Arlen (Orlen) and
Myron H. By his second marriage to Miss Mary Kunitz, the following
children were born: Ruth B. and Thomas C. Ferriman, both attending
school.
"In the 1940's The Medina Sentinel also got in the act of printing
memory letters from across the land. Dr. George Hays wrote from Indiana
about his boyhood in Medina and recounted the square as it was in the
later 1880's. 'Nichols and Ferriman sold men's clothing from what is now
Main Street Cafe. Dr. Hays remembers when they got in a price-cutting
war with O.N. Leach. Leach got down to selling boys' short pants for 5
cents. The ultimate bargain came when O.N. gathered up his unsold
stock, wrapped them up and threw them from the roof of his building. A
large crowd waited below to catch what they could."
Other marriages: 16 Nov 1892 Mary KUNITZ
CHILD 5 - Rosannah FERRIMAN Doc. Birth - Ferriman family
Bible, death - Medina Co. Health, Medina Cem. book
CHILD 6 - Alfred FERRIMAN Alfred adopted his nephew, Ed
Fetterman when his sister, Harriet died. In the 1880 census he was
living in Royalton Twp., Cuyahoga Co. with 2 children - Edward and Ida
(Ada) age 6. They were twins. Edward changed his name to Ferriman.
Alfred later moved to Penfield Twp. in Lorain County. He was a farmer.
Doc. Ferriman family Bible -birth record. Marriage - Cuyahoga marraige
records Death record - Lorain Co. Health Dept.
Other marriages: 1 Nov 1903 Anna PEARCE Mrs.
CHILD 8 - Emma FERRIMAN Emma was born in Sharon Twp., Medina
County. She moved with her family to Brunswick Twp. in 1862. She
attended the district school until the death of her parents in 1877.
She then moved to Granger. After marrying Charles Wilbur they settled
in Weymouth where they farmed for 40 years. They had one son,
Earl Holden Wilbur.
CHILD 9 - William FERRIMAN William had a meat market in Medina when
first married. He later took over the Knox farm in Brunswick when his
father-in-law could no longer work it.
CHILD 10 - Alice May FERRIMAN Doc. Death rec.-Medina
Health Dept.,birth and marriage - Medina Coi. Probate. Median Cem. book,
obit in Medina Co. Gazette.Moved to Medina about 1922 to 335 N Court St.