Timothy Corbett Family

The first record of the Corbett family is when the parents of Timothy Corbett and their nine children sailed from County Cort, Ireland, to America in 1859. They were a Catholic family and had six boys and three girls.

Timothy was born at sea just before their arrival in America. After landing, the family rested in New York, then came to Toledo where part of the family stayed. Timothy later went to Grelton, Ohio, where he worked at the Dewey Stave Company factory. He was a fine tailor and made many suits of clothes for men in the Grelton vicinity. His mother was a fine seamstress.

At Grelton, Timothy married Lucretia Long, daughter of Daniel Long, a Civil War veteran, and Honor Pratt Long from near Maumee, Ohio. Timothy and Lucretia had children, Jerry, Bessie, Kathryn, Anna, Joe, Nettie and Elizabeth. Later, Lucretia Long Corbett married David Ball and had four daughters, Jane, Eva, Golda and Stella Ball.

Timothy lived in different towns, then went back to Grelton, became ill there, and died at the home of his daughter, Nettie, in January, 1925, in Grelton, at the age of sixty-six years.

Jerry Corbett died at an early age. Bessie, a nun, whose name was changed to Sister Mildred, was at "The Good Shepherd" in Detroit, Michigan, and died there. Kathryn married Charles Black, of Columbus, Ohio. They had no issue. Anna married William Spoo of Anderson, Indiana, and had William, Lawrence, James, Anna, and Marie. Joe married Loretta Simpson in 1918 and they had Loretta, Lewis, Henrietta, Bertha and Kathryn. Nettie married Hart Joy in 1920 and had no children. Elizabeth married Ralph Allen, son of Henry and Mary Allen, in 1912. Their children are William who married Susan Gerhart in 1932 and had Dorothy, Robert, Joan, Nancy and Pheoba, who reside in all parts of the states, and Marie who married Charles Pierce- field, Sr., in 1936. The Piercefield children are James who married Gwendolyn Wulff and had Pamela and

Timothy and reside in Oak Harbor, Ohio; Charles, Jr., who married Norma Kretz and lives in Napoleon, Ohio, and has children, Crystal, Charley, Dawn, Angela, and Tony. All live at home except Crystal who is a court recorder in Bowling Green-, Ohio; Rosalie who married Rev. Barry Sherwood and had Cindy, Richard, Michael and Michal who died at birth. They live in Idaho where Rev. Sherwood is minister of the Baptist Church in Sandpoint; and Richard who served in the Army spending two years in Germany. Richard was in an accident in 1963 that crippled him for seven years, but he is now able to work and lives at home.

Other children of Ralph and Elizabeth Allen are Frank who married Kathryn Middleton, and has no issue; Edward who died in June, 1944, in the invasion of Normandy, and was married to Evelyn Piercefield and had a child, Carol Lott; Annabelle Allen who married August Lulfs and had Ronald, and twins, Margaret Marie and Mary Ann. All live in Malinta, Ohio; Norma Allen married John Wallace and has Loretta, Johnie, Barbara, Norma Jean, and LeRoy and lives at Swanton, Ohio; Virginia married Nelson Gerhart and had a daughter, Susan who lives in Toledo, Ohio; and Jerry who married Keyoko Miyahera in 1964 in Okinawa, Japan, and has children, Frankie and Kathryn, born in Japan, and Michael born in the United States. Jerry spent twenty-seven years in the Marines and lives in 29 Palms, California.

Following Ralph Allen's death on August 3, 1934, Elizabeth married Cyrus Clymer. Mr. Clymer died on February 3, 1969. Elizabeth then moved back to Grelton where she lives in her old home. Elizabeth was born in Grelton on January 23, 1898.

The Corbett family is proud of their Irish ancestry and the ancestors that taught us that to have achievement, we must work for it.

Submitted by: Marie Piercefield and Family