[ver] 4 [sty] ~otis.sty [files] [prn] PCL / HP LaserJet [lang] 1 [desc] one page history of STEPHEN OTIS 688163923 7 651267538 [fopts] 0 1 0 0 [lnopts] 2 Body Text [docopts] 5 2 [frm] 1 131584 1544 1450 10328 2158 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 2158 8784 1 144 144 1 1594 144 0 2 0 232 93 24084 1 1688 10184 0 [txt] @Title@<-#><-#><-#>STEPHEN OTIS > [frm] 1 131584 6463 5866 10615 14298 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 14298 4152 1 144 144 1 6010 144 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 6607 10471 0 [txt] > [frm] 2 131584 6976 1457 10743 8348 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 8348 3767 1 144 144 1 1601 144 0 2 0 32 0 24168 1 7120 10599 0 [txt] > [frm] 2 131584 1455 4881 5863 11173 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 11173 4408 1 144 144 1 5025 144 0 2 0 64 103 27704 1 1599 5719 0 [txt] > [frm] 3 131584 1968 1372 9758 2442 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 2442 7790 1 144 144 1 1516 144 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 2112 9614 0 [txt] @Title@sarah dyar > [frm] 3 131584 6591 2741 10614 11687 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 11687 4023 1 144 144 1 2885 144 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 6735 10470 0 [txt] > [frm] 4 131584 1450 1483 5455 7449 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 7449 4005 1 144 144 1 1627 144 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1594 5311 0 [txt] > [frm] 4 131584 5436 8220 9415 13442 1 1 1 1 0 16777215 0 [frmlay] 13442 3979 1 144 144 1 8364 144 0 2 0 116 105 27176 1 5580 9271 0 [txt] > [lay] Standard 513 [rght] 15840 12240 1 1440 1440 1 1440 1440 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 1440 6000 4 1 720 1 1440 1 2880 1 4320 6240 10800 0 [hrght] [lyfrm] 1 11200 0 0 12240 1440 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 [frmlay] 1440 12240 1 1440 72 1 360 1440 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1440 10800 0 [txt] > [frght] [lyfrm] 1 13248 0 14400 12240 15840 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 [frmlay] 15840 12240 1 1440 360 1 14472 1440 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1440 10800 0 [txt] <:P10,31,> > [elay] [l1] 0 [pg] 4 4 406 10 0 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0 30 512 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 225 9 0 16384 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 0 1025 49152 0 0 65535 65535 Standard 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 65535 0 0 0 0 0 0 [edoc] @Normal Text@<:R1,12,1,720,1,1440,1,2160,1,2880,1,3600,1,4320,1,5040,1,5760,1,6480,1,7200,1,7920,1,8640> Stephen Otis was born June 10, 1784 in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, the eldest child of Barnabas and Mehitable Turner Otis. The family moved from Connecticut to Vermont in the 90s and in 1800, Stephen set out from East Poultney to settle in the Ohio Company's Purchase in Marietta, Ohio. Marietta was little more than an outpost at this time, and its inhabitants still lived in fear of Indian attacks. At the age of 21 he married his first wife, Mary Cloudy. They had the following children: Olive, Caroline McCollister, Stephen, Julia, Harriet, Mary, George, and Clarissa. Only George failed to reach adulthood. Their eighth and last child was born September 8, 1824. Stephen married his second wife Sarah Dyer on February 17, 1825 and had eight more children, the youngest of whom, Harrison Gray Otis, was my great- grandfather. @Normal Text@ Sarah and Stephen had the following children: Charles (born 1826) William Henry (1827-d.y.) Francis (1828-d.y.) Leroy (1829) Emily (1831) Oliver (1833) Sarah (1835) and Harrison Gray (1837). After Stephen's death on June 19, 1868, Sarah moved to Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska to be with her children, Charles, LeRoy and Sarah (Lawrence), where she died November 24, 1879. @Normal Text@ In his unpublished autobiography "Milestones" Harrison Gray Otis describes his birthplace as a hewed log house "on the hill" in Adams Township, Washington County, Ohio. He recalls @Normal Text@that in politics his father was a Liberty-party man, supporting James G. Birney in 1844, and recounts that in 1848 the house was a station on the "Underground Railroad, eight or ten miles from the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. Runaway slaves were helped on their way to Canada. He describes his parents as "staunch, stalwart, intelligent, God-fearing people of the Methodist faith, and neither rich nor poor." @Normal Text@ The house was to burn down in 1850, melting 28 cents that HGO recalled was the first money he ever lost. @Normal Text@ Stephen died on June 19, 1868 at the age of 84 years. It is not known where he is buried. He was survived by four children from his second marriage: Charles, Leroy, Sarah Otis Lawrence and Harrison Gray Otis. @Normal Text@ @Tomb Stone@charles otis 1826 - 1897 @Tomb Stone@"cousin charlie" @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Tomb Stone@ @Normal Text@leroy s. otis 1829 - 1908<:p<* >> Sarah Dyer was the daughter of John Dyar and Sarah Potter Dyar. She was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia in the Loyalist settlement that had grown rapidly there after the Revolution. John Dyar had been born in Boston, November 19, 1769; his wife had been born in Annapolis August 4, 1776, her family being wealthy merchants who had moved to Nova Scotia before the Revolution. They were married June 12, 1793. He accumulated some money, but during the Napoleonic Wars his ships were lost and he returned to Boston, very poor and with a large family of seven children. He was helped by his brother, Jeremiah, and in 1816 emigrated to Ohio. The journey was made in teams and took thirty days. The family settled in Muskingum township where three more children were born. Six members of the family are known to be buried in the Rainbow Cemetery in Muskingum. @Normal Text@ Sarah Dyar, born on September 1, 1798 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada. was 26 years old when she took on the eight motherless children of Stephen Otis, the youngest of whom was only 5 months of age. They were married on February 17, 1825. She would have eight more children and live to the age of 81 years, dying at her daughter Sarah Otis Lawrence's home in Tecumseh, Johnson County, Nebraska on November 24, 1879. @Normal Text@ @Normal Text@ Sarah Babcock and I visited Tecumseh and the local cemetery in May of 1980 and discovered the grave of Sarah Dyar Otis surrounded by peony bushes. She is buried with her daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Judge James Lawrence. @Normal Text@