NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: David Elder (1887)

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From the The Ohio Biographies Project
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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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David Elder and wife (nee Elizabeth Neil) came to the present Elder farm
about 1840. His children were Mary A., Julia and Margaret, born in
Pennsylvania, and David, Vance N. and Eliza A., born in Ohio. Julia and
Mary are dead. Mr. Elder died in 1873 and his wife in 1881. They were
members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Elder held the offices of township
trustee, township clerk and justice of the peace.

Jason Tilden was born near Belfast, Me., in 1805. His parents settled in
Muskingum County, Ohio, in 1817. Jason was brought up in the family of John
Draper, an early settler and prosperous farmer in Brookfield. In 1830 he
married Jane Richey, a native of Virginia. Both he and his wife died in
1883. They had eleven children, five of whom are living.

The first mail route between McConnelsville and Cambridge was established
in 1827 or 1828. Jason Tilden was the first mail-carrier. A man named
Johnson was the contractor. There were then but five offices between
McConnelsville and Cambridge. One of them (at Wharton's) was in Brookfield
Township. The mail was carried once each week.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
Brookfield