Louis Bryson POTTS

Louis married Mary WELSH on 12 Sep 1877 in Belmont County, Ohio. Mary was born about 1851 in Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Lewis R. Potts

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Information from Mariana L Zuelsdorf -
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio by J.A. Caldwell, page 420
I.J. Potts, eldest son of Lewis R. Potts, was born on the farm on which he now resides in York Township, Belmont County, on the 19th of February, 1825. His father was the first miller at Captina Mills, built by Judge Dillon, in 1822. About the year 1832, his father removed to West Wheeling, where our subject obtained a common school education. He worked with his father in West Wheeling mills until 1841, which he returned to Captina and hired with Michael Dorsey as a miller. In 1849 he formed a partnership with Michael and L.R. Dorsey, which continued ten years, when L.R. retired. The firm of Dorsey and Potts then continued until 1872, when Mr. Potts purchased Dorsey's interest, and the business has since been carried on in the name of I.J. Potts & Sons. On the 17th of October, 1849, Mr. Potts was married to Mary J. Bryson, of Captina. They are the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter. For about thirty years, Mr. Potts has made the milling and mercantile business a success. In the fall of 1875, he was elected commissioner of Belmont County, and served until 1878, when he was re-elected and is filling the office at present. He is recognized as a prudent, able and popular official.

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In the year 1865, I J Potts, Esq., and Isaac Jones found below a projecting ledge of rocks up Cove run, about a half a mile from its mouth, and near where the battle of Captina was fought, a stone about two feet square, bearing these initials carved legibly upon it - - "L W 1790."

Ithamer married Mary Jane BRYSON on 07 Oct 1849 in Belmont County, Ohio. Mary (daughter of John BRYSON and Susanna GATES) was born on 26 Aug 1826 in Belmont Co., Ohio; died on 21 May 1911; was buried in Mt. Rose Cemetery, Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Susanna GATES on 18 Feb 1810 in Belmont County, Ohio. Susanna (daughter of Georg GOETZ and Maria Sybilla STEHELI) was born about 1790 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; died in 1865 in Belmont Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living in York, Belmont County, Ohio

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Birth date is unconfirmed.

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• Also Known As: George Gates

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Information from mariana L Zuelsdorf:
History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. J.A. Caldwell. Historical Publishing Co., 1880 Page 417
"York was one of the original civil townships and erected November 25, 1801, as follows: The third to begin on the Ohio river at the southeast corner of the township of Pultney.......thence up the river to the place of beginning, to be called and known by the township of York. This township has been the scene of severa Indian depredations, prominent among which was the battle of Captina....this battle occured in 1794, on section 8, at the mouth of Cove Run.
.........George Gates (setled) Septembe 28, 1804......Abel Brown (settled )December 21, 1805

From: "Belmont Co., Ohio before 1830." Irene M. Ochsenbein and Catharine F. Fedorchak. 1977. Page 53
"George Gates is buried in the Boger Cemetery, York Township, Belmont Co., near the junction of State Road 7 and S.R. 148. He emigrated from Germany to eastern PA., then to Washington Co., PAS., in 1790, then to Washington and Belmont Cos. in Ohio, near the boundary with present day Monroe Co. His will is on file in Belmont Co. and the following children are named: 1. Mary; 2, Susan; 3. Daniel;4. Valentine; 5. Henry; 6. George; 7 Solomon; 8. Sevilla; and 9. John."

"Monroe County, Ohio: A History. by Theresa A. Maienknecht and Stanley B. Maienknecht. Chapter XXX Switzerland township. Page 408
"Early in the month of April 1819 a colony of ten Swiss families embarked in a flat boat......After leaving Wheeling they were informed that at Captina there was a great quantity of vacant land, and that there they would find two men (Henry Sweppy and George Goetz) who could speak German, and were urged to stop there. On the 15th day of September they landed there and were kindly received and cordially welcomed by the old settlers of the Valley of Captina, viz: the Greens, Lemleys, Moores, Browns, Goetz, Sweppy, Ruble, Smith, and others."
"Along the river all was a forest, except an improvement opposite Fish Creek, then owned by George Goetz. On Big Run, Jos Blare, Hendershot Lemley and the Smiths had made some improvement. In Belmont County, on Captina and Cat's Run, was settled by the Greens, Browns and Goetz, before mentioned."

Georg married Maria Sybilla STEHELI on 11 Jun 1782 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Maria (daughter of Johann Melchior STEHELI and Maria Sybilla ?) was born in 1761 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died on 09 Dec 1850 in York Township,Belmont County, Ohio; was buried in Boger Cemetery, York Township, Belmont Co., Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1850, Living with daughter, Susannah Gates Brisen, in York, Belmont County, Ohio