JACOB CLADY

Jacob Clady II of Flatrock Township, Henry County has rounded out his period of three score and ten years in a comfortable employment of his energies as a farmer, and has a pleasing and grateful retrospect over many years of well directed effort influential associations with his community and the material reward and personal esteem which are the best tokens of a well spent career. He has been a resident of Henry County for over thirty-five years.

Mr. Clady was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 11, 1842, a son of Jacob I and Mary M. (Scheth) Clady. His mother was a native of Pennsylvania, a daughter of Peter Scheth, a native of the same state. Jacob Clady I was born in Alsace, France, about the year 1805. When still a boy he came with an uncle to the United States, and his first regular employment was on the canal which was then being built in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He gave such a good account of himself there that he was appointed a foreman. During his residence in Tuscarawas County he married and three of their children were born there, Emanuel, William, and Jacob II. In the fall of 1842, when Jacob Clady II was only a few weeks old, his parents removed to Crawford County, Ohio. Jacob, Sr. there bought a tract of eighty acres of wild land. The first home of the family was a log cabin. He lived there employed in clearing up and cultivating his land, being assisted in this by his older sons, and had the satisfaction of those comforts and conveniences which reward a life of constant toil. He died in the substantial frame house which he had built about 1881. His wife, though somewhat younger in years than himself, died about nine years before her husband. They were members of the Lutheran Church and he was a Democrat. In their family were ten sons and two daughters all but two of whom grew up and married, and five sons are still living and have families of their own.

It was on the old homestead in Crawford County, Ohio, that Jacob Clady II spent his youth and early manhood. The public schools afforded him a literary groundwork, and there was no lack of opportunity to learn farming in every practical detail. In

Crawford County on February 16, 1871, Mr. Clady married Miss Susan A. Zolar. She was born in Chatfield Township of Crawford County, January 1, 1851, and grew up in that district and remained with her parents until her marriage. Her parents were Frederick and Mary (Freed) Zolar. Her father a native of Germany, came in young manhood with his parents to Chatfield Township of Crawford County, was married there, his wife being a native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and also going with her parents to Crawford County. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Zolar lived on a farm, clearing it up from the condition of wilderness, and Mrs. Clady's father died there at the age of eighty-seven and her mother when not yet sixty years of age. They were Lutheran and he was a Democrat.

After his marriage Mr. Clady continued to live and farm in Crawford County until 1879. In the meantime six children were born, one of whom died in infancy, and in 1879 bringing his wife and five children he located on forty acres in Section 28 of Flatrock Township in Henry County. This forty acres had practically no improvements, and it was with the task of clearing and building a log house that Mr. Clady concerned himself for a number of years. With increasing prosperity he added another forty acres in the same section. This he also improved, and since then has bought fifty acres in Section 29. These 130 acres comprise a very fine and valuable farm. It has some woodland, but the rest of it is devoted to the regular rotation of the staple crops best adapted to the soil and climate. Its improvements stand as evidence of Mr. Clady's management and supervision. He has a good eight-roon house on his home place and his farm of fifty acres in Section 29 also has a complete set of buildings.

Mrs. Clady was a member of the Lutheran Church and had given much of her time outside of the rearing and training of her children at home to church interests. Mr. Clady was a Democrat, and while his life has been an extremely busy one he has found time to serve the interests of his community as township trustee for three years and as township supervisor. He and his good wife deserve much credit for the upbringing of a large family of children. Jacob Fred III, the oldest, was a farmer in Flatrock Township and by his marriage to Leora Shoemaker has a daughter named Vera. They have eighty acres that borders Rt. 281 and Road 17 in Flatrock Township. Vera married Julius Provost of Holgate and they have one daughter, Regina Joyce. Jacob Fred III died in March, 1952, and Leora in February, 1962. The Provosts live in the Village of Florida, Flatrock Township.

Ida is the wife of John Engel. He was a merchant in Standley, and they had three sons and three daughters. Both Ida and John are deceased.

Henry, who was employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway at Deshler, married Evvie Eis and had a son and a daughter, Mary E. who died in 1877 at the age of two weeks.

Savilla died at the age of six years in 1884.

Tilla was the wife of William Engel and they lived in Flatrock Township. They had one son and two daughters.

Charles was a farmer in HenryCounty and by his marriage to Susie Renaker, was father of two daughters.

Clara E. died in childhood. Susan was the wife of Albert Skiver. He was a farmer in Flatrock Township.

Irena was the wife of Winfield Huffman of Florida Village, and they were the parents of two daughters. Irena and Winfield are both deceased. They had purchased the original fifty acres now owned by Oras.

Cleveland Clady lives on his farm in Henry County. He married Maggie Bower and they had three sons and one daughter. Maggie is deceased.

Elsie O. married Henry Memmer. They had three sons and one daughter. They lived on the original eighty acres. Elsie is deceased.

Alma, the youngest child, married Martin Eis and lived in Stand ley, Ohio. They had one daughter. Martin managed the Standley Elevator for many years. Both Martin and Alma are deceased.

Submitted by Vera Provost