4:
(Dr.) JESSE Cheuvront was born at Uniontown, Pa. on Nov. 18, 1829;
died Sept. 1, 1863, age 33 years. He was a physician and surgeon,
unusually successful in the treatment of dyphtheria that was once considered
a scourge. [He died on the way to Wilmington, OH., where he'd planned
to marry his cousin's daughter, Virginia Darbyshire, a granddaughter of
Ann Covert Darbyshire [a wealthy brick and tile producer in Wilmington].
He caught Erysipelas en route ["a contagious skin disease caused
by streptococci which causes vesticular and bulbous lesions"]. He
became sick upon arrival in Wilmington and died before he could be married.
He was buried in Wilmington, OH, where a small marble slab marks his grave.
[He
had been a soldier in the Federal Army of the Civil War, and W.L. Cheuvront
notes that Will H. Cheuvront had in his possession the "fine hacksaw" with
which Dr. Jesse amputated the leg of one Manley Morgan, who leg had been
crushed by a log.]
See the Civil War
Journal of Jesse Cheuvront here
See the Civil War service
info of Jesse Cheuvront here
5: MARY
ANN Cheuvront was born July 18, 1833 at the Cheuvront Farm near
where the village of Good Hope is now located. [According to W. L. Cheuvront,
Mary Ann was a bit of a spinster who stayed unmarried to care for her aging
mother and was supposed to go and live with her brother Joe's family upon
Rebecca's death. Joe, however, had recently married the very young
India Riffle, who did not want the 47 yr old Mary Ann hanging around, and
so reportedly India vowed to "get Mary married to that Dow" fellow, a man
who had for years been a hand on the Cheuvront Farm. Just ten days
after Rebecca's death on March 14, 1880 Mary Ann and Lorenza Dow Waugh
were married.]
[The two lived in
"the old Swisher place" at Aunt Ann Cottrill's for one year, and then moved
to the Ramage place on Raccoon run, and after that "the Nutter place in
Isaac Creek". They bought 30 acres not far from Big Isaac in Doddridge
Co., where they lived until Lorenza died in 1926.]
[Mary Ann Cheuvront
Waugh herself died at the home of her niece, on January 3, 1929.
She was 95 years of age, and she died within sight of her birthplace.]
6: BENJAMIN
F. Cheuvront was born on the Cheuvront Farm on July 16, 1841, and died
February 7, 1842, aged six months, as a result of the fire that consumed
the first house Caleb built. He is buried in the family graveyard
just southwest of the Raymond Cheuvront VanScoy residence. |
