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Retracing Our Family Legacy
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John Leatherman, Sr.,"Johnney"
(1776 - 1867)
John Leatherman was the youngest son of Elder Daniel Leatherman. He was born, 1776, Frederick County, Maryland, and died at the ripe old age of 90 years, 8 months and 21 days. He was married to Catherine "Caty" Miller in Kosciusko County, Indiana. She died September 16, 1850, at the age of 73 years, 2 months, and 20 days. Both are buried in the Krumbaugh Cemetery.
When he was a young man he moved to Tuscarawas County and lived there for more than 30 years. During this time he was ordained to the ministry of the Dunkard Church. In 1837 he organized a congregation which worshipped in houses. Later he granted land for school and church purposes. This became the Turkey Creek Church. He was elder and was in company with Elder John Miller and Elder Daniel Creps. He served for years on committees and elders body at Annual Meeting. According to the Minutes of Annual Council, 1850, 1851, 1855, 1856 he served on the Stand Committee and gave his Elder's signature to various documents of Annual Meeting. thus, he was sharing the problems of Annual Meeting with his son-in-law, Henry Dorsey Davy. He attended his last conference in Maryland. This was during the time he was living with his son, Joseph, for immediately after his wife died, he made his home there. (Milford, Indiana). In the community where he lived he was known as "Old Johnny Leatherman", the German Baptist Minister. The family of Children were ten in number: Daniel, Sally, Catherine, Nancy, Elizabeth, Joseph, Issac, Polly, John and Hannah.
Source: Academic Term Paper written by Ralph Hodgden, 1956
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1860 Indiana Census shows Rev John Leatherman living with his son John Jr. & family
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Rev. John Leatherman,
likely the youngest of Elder Daniel Leatherman's sons,
since he was the last son mentioned in Elder Daniel's will, was
b near Myersville, Frederick Co., Md., 1776,
d Kosciusko Co., Ind., Feb.21, 1867,
at the age of 90 years, 8 months, 21 days (tombstone record);
m Frederick Co., Md., Nov. 20, 1798(mariage record)
Catherine "Caty" Miller
who d in Kosciusko Co., Ind., Sept. 16,1850,
at the age of 73 years, 2 months, 20 days(tombstone record);
both lie buried in Brumbaugh Cemetery near Gravelton, Kosciusko Co., O.,
where the family lived for 30 years and where he was ordained to the
ministry of the Dunkard Church.
Deeds on record show that on
Feb. 17, 1812, he bought a lot in New Philadelphia, O., which lot was sold at sheriff's sale to satisfy a damage claim against the county commissioners who owned the lot.
On Apr. 20, 1812, he bought a tract of land of 151 acres more or less for $453.00 from Samuel Lappin in the Township of One Leg, Tuscarawas Co., O. This farm had come to Samuel Lappin
Nov. 14, 1807, by patent granted by President Thomas Jefferson. John and Caty Leatherman sold the same farm on Apr. 7, 1836 for 2,300.00. (One Leg Township later formed a part of Carroll Co. and the name was changed to Orange.)
In the fall of 1836 John Leatherman and Andrew Sheely followed Jacob Brumbaugh, who had gone in the spring of 1836, to Jefferson Twp., Kosciusko Co., Ind., and settled on sections one and two, about four miles west of Milford.
In 1837 these early settlers organized the Dunkard congregation there and worshipped in the houses of the neighborhood. Later the Rev. John Leatherman granted to the township a plat of land for school and church purposes.
By 1854 worship was held in the schoolhouse on this plot. The congregation became known as the Turkey Creek Church. Rev. John Leatherman was later elected to the eldership of his church in which he was a lowly leader. He was elder in company with Elder John Miller and Elder Daniel Creps and was elected or appointed as a member of long service committee.
During his advanced age near the close of his life he attended church conferences in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, his last attendance being in Maryland which gave him the opportunity of once again seeing his people in his old home community.
After his wife Catharine died he made his home with his son Joseph who lived on a part of the farm near Milford, Ind. He was known as "Old Johnny Leatherman". Ger. Bapt. Minister, farmer. C: Daniel, Sally, Catharine, Nancy, Elizabeth, Joseph, Isaac, Polly, John, Hannah.
*Source: All Leatherman kin history : a brief history and genealogical record of Leatherman families and their descendants in the North American continent, with records of wills, transfers of real estate, and special activities in the lives of some of the subjects, with portraits and other illustratios
Nappanee, Ind.: E.V. Pub. House, 1940, pg. 298-299.
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