. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. Gary sisters. Hergrandfather, Stephen Jessup, was a weavers apprentice in England,but ran away from a hard master and came to the new world in theearly part of the eighteenth century. He lived a long time in a log^cabin on Long Island, and moved thence to Gumberland, Deerfieldtownship. New Jersey, where he accumulated property and made hiswill February 17, 1757—a curious old document, now in possession ofhis great-grandson, Gary B. Johnson. He had three sons, John,Isaac, and Daniel; and two daughters, Sarah and A
. History of Hamilton County, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches. Gary sisters. Hergrandfather, Stephen Jessup, was a weavers apprentice in England,but ran away from a hard master and came to the new world in theearly part of the eighteenth century. He lived a long time in a log^cabin on Long Island, and moved thence to Gumberland, Deerfieldtownship. New Jersey, where he accumulated property and made hiswill February 17, 1757—a curious old document, now in possession ofhis great-grandson, Gary B. Johnson. He had three sons, John,Isaac, and Daniel; and two daughters, Sarah and Abigail. John wasgrandfather of G. B. Johnson. Daniel was father of Daniel Jessup,jr., who became known as Indian Daniel, from the fact of his cap-ture by the Indians. Isaac went south, and from him was reputed X-obe descended General Jessup, of the United States army. Abigailcame to this county, where she married a Mr. Gallagher, and becamethe mother of the celebrated poet and magazinist, W. D. Gallagher,thus confirming the notion of the poetic strain in the blood by the talent of the Gary sisters, who were also, on their mothers side,of the Jessup stock. Gary and Rachel Johnson had children as follows; Drusilla, born February 14, 1S07; married Samuel Weston October25, 1828; died September 16, 1849. Jemima Hampton, born August 16, 1810; married Isaac Weston(brother of Samuel) in May, 1829; died July ir, 1831. Jane, born August 26, 1813; married George W. Rice September 26,1833; died March 19, 1849. John, born April 29, 1815; died July ist of the same year. Abner, born September 6, 1816; was married November 16, 1843, toMary G. Moran, of Livingston county, Missouri, where he died De-cember 8, 1846. Sarah A., born November 8, 1819; married Joseph E. Munger Octo-ber 27, 1841, and residing at Maquoketa, Iowa. Hampton, born March 21, 1824; married Harriet Freeman May 22,1850; died September 17, 1869. Augusta L., born November i, 1828; died August 4, 1831. Gary Benson,
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