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- History of Allen County, Ohio (Warner, Beers & Co. 188
Bath Township
Walter Edgecomb, farmer, P.O. Beaver Dam, was born in Trumbull County,
Ohio, August 6, 1819, son of Uriah and Betsey (Doud) Edgecomb, nativ
Connecticut, who settled in Bath Township, this county, in 1832, locating on
the farm now occupied by John Blaine, which they cleared and improved. They
had a family of thirteen children: Uriah (deceased), Marilla (wife of Josiah
DeLong), Ezra (deceased), Lansil (deceased), Clarinda (deceased), Rober
Walter, Lydia (deceased), Amy (deceased), Ann (wife of Elisha C. Pangle
Marquis, Sarah (wife of Lewis Bassitt) and an infant son (deceased). Uriah
Edgecomb afterward purchased the place now known as the Hiram Protsman farm,
where he resided up to 1857, when he removed to Richland Township, this
county, and died on the farm now owned by his son, Marquis, in 1861, at the
age of seventy-four years. Our subject was in his thirteenth year when his
parents settled in Bath Township. He received a limited education in the
district schools of his time, and when eighteen years of age started in life
for himself, working on a farm by the day and month until he was twenty-one.
He was married November 18, 1840, to Laura, daughter of Samuel and Elsie
(Lewis) Bassitt, who settled in Bath Township in 1836, and by this union there
were eleven children: Ann E. (wife of Reuben White), James (deceased), and
infant daughter (deceased), Lewis A. (killed at the Battle of Atlanta, Ga.,
July 21, 1864), Loretta (wife of Hiram Barber), Sarah E. (wife of S. Philips),
Samuel S. (deceased), and Lansil. After his marriage, our subject engaged in
farming on a rented farm. He has owned two farms besides the one he now
occupies, clearing and improving a part of both. In 1856 he located on his
present farm, all of which he has cleared and improved, and where he has
resided ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Edgecomb are members of the Disciples Church.
He filled the office of trustee for many years, and held several other minor
offices in the township. Our subject is one of the leading farmers of Bath. In
politics he is a Republican.
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