Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio . use, into which they moved, andthey raised such summer crops as the)could until fall when they completed theirjourney. Mr. Potter bought a farm in Steu-ben county, Ind.,and for several jears hisson Henry assisted him in farm work dur-ing the summer months, and taught coun-try schools in the winter time. In 1857Mrs. Potter died, and our subject soonafter returned to Ohio to work as a farmhand for Daniel Dawley, whose daughter,Zeruiah Ann, he married September 15,1857. Not long after his marriage bought a
Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio . use, into which they moved, andthey raised such summer crops as the)could until fall when they completed theirjourney. Mr. Potter bought a farm in Steu-ben county, Ind.,and for several jears hisson Henry assisted him in farm work dur-ing the summer months, and taught coun-try schools in the winter time. In 1857Mrs. Potter died, and our subject soonafter returned to Ohio to work as a farmhand for Daniel Dawley, whose daughter,Zeruiah Ann, he married September 15,1857. Not long after his marriage bought a farm of eight acres ofheavily-timbered land adjoining that ofMr. Dawley on the west, and began mak-ing improvements on it. During thewinter seasons he taught school at thePowers schoolhouse, about two mileswest. Wishing to secure the ready serv-ices of a farm hand, he gave permissionto Daniel McNutt to build a log cabin atthe rear end of his farm. This cabin wasdestroyed bj fire in the absence of thefamily; but out of its ashes Mr. Potterpicked up some lumps of clay which had. w HH O < 5 W
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