EARNEST R. DOLL

I, Earnest Doll, was born 1909 to John Barclay Doll (1870-1948) and Carrie Vivian (Reinbold) Doll (1880-1964) at Champaign, Illinois.

[Photo A, p. 173] Carrie Vivian

[Photo B, p. 173] John B. Doll

Andrew Reinbold (1811-1898) was my maternal great grandfather. He came to this country from Germany in 1836. His wife died aboard ship and was buried at sea. In 1846 Andrew married Barbara Martin (1828-1917) at Portsmouth, Ohio. Barbara came to America in 1836 on the same boat with the Reinbold family. They were 72 days crossing the ocean. Barbara recalled, to her death, the incident of spending her 8th birthday on the sea. They settled in Jackson County, Indiana.

Joseph Gray (1828-1900) was my grandmother Reinbold's father. He served in the Civil War from Indiana. His horse threw him onto a picket fence breaking his back and making him an invalid for life.

George W. Reinbold (1847-1932), my maternal grandfather, was a wagon and carriage maker in Vallonia, Indiana. Almira (Gray) Reinbold (18581936) was his wife and my grandmother.

My paternal great great grandfather, Thomas Barclay was born 1756 in Ireland and emigrated to the United States between 1776-1783 as he was in the Revolutionary War. He served from New Castle County, Delaware, in Capt. Dunn's Co., Col. Patterson Reg. A 36.

The Dahls came from The Netherlands about 1664 and settled near Lanchester, Pennsylvania. Sometime later they moved to near Chillicothe, Ohio. The family name was spelled Dahl in the old country but changed to Doll in America.

My grandfather, Abraham Doll (1837-1923), served with the Ohio Volunteers, Co. B 63 Div. in the Civil War. He was in the assault on Lookout Mountain and wounded in the battle for Atlanta and sent home. Grandfather married Isabelle Barclay, in 1865, of Ross County, Ohio. My father John and his sister Maggie were born in Ross County. They moved to Illinois where a sister Jessie was born. Grandfather moved the family to South Dakota in 1882 and homesteaded till 1892. They lived in a sod shanty. I recall father telling of driving oxen and gathering buffalo chips for fuel.

John Doll, my father, married Isabelle Able in 1898. They had three children, two girls and a boy. John was suffering with rheumatism and moved to Arkansas and its warmer climate. Isabelle contracted malaria and died. He then moved back to Champaign, Illinois.

John had recovered from the rheumatism and was working at the carpenter trade when he met Carrie Vivian Reinbold, my mother. They were married in 1908. Four children were born to this union: Earnest (me) 1909 — George 1911 — Roscoe 1914 — Dorthy 1917. We moved to Michigan in 1917, near Alma, and were there three years. In 1920 we moved to Ohio so father could be closer to his sister, Maggie then living near Holgate. We moved on a farm in Richfield Twp. and attended the Sloan School. This was a one room school with one teacher for all eight grades. In 1923 we moved to Damascus Township, one mile east of McClure.

[Photo A, p. 174] V. Marceil and Earnest Doll

After finishing high school in 1929, I bought a tractor and farmed with Dad. There weren't too many tractors around then. I farmed through the depression till 1934. Prices dropped to nearly nothing. Hogs sold at 3ct lb., wheat at 35c a bushel, and corn for 17c per hundred pounds. After leaving the farm, I took up carpentry and worked for The Knowlton Brothers, a construction company, for 5 years. I then started my own business of builders supplies and later added plumbing and heating and a tin shop.

I married Veva Marceil Rechner in 1938. We had gone through school together so we were not strangers. Her mother had died and she came home to keep house for her father. He stayed with us the rest of his days. It was his tin shop I had added to my business.

Our daughter Judith was born in 1939. She graduated from Damascus Township School in 1957 and attended Davis Business School. Judith worked for the Community Bank in Napoleon. She married Paul Pelton and lives on a farm north of Delta, Ohio. They have two boys, John Paul and Michael Edward Pelton. Paul is a grain farmer.

[Photo B, p. 174] Judith and Paul Pelton

[Photo C, p. 174] Ned Edgar Doll

Our son, Ned Edgar Doll, was born in 1942. He was the Blade paper boy for 5 years in McClure. He graduated from Damascus Township School in 1960 and Davis Business School in 1961. Ned served four years in the United States Air Force, 21/2 years in Germany. Ned is now assistant treasurer with First Federal Saving & Loan Association of Toledo, Ohio.

[Photo D, p. 174] John Paul and Michael Edward Pelton

In World War II, to serve my country, I drove to Toledo and worked at the ship yards. I helped build the U.S.C.G. icebreaker Mackinaw. I worked on it from start to finish. I shall always remember the day we launched it. I still own my business, but I am semiretired and limit myself to the amount of work I will do. Marceil and I are living in the house we bought in 1938. We enjoy our spacious yard, garden and fruit trees. The Lord has blessed us with good health and a wonderful family and we are grateful.

Submitted by Earnest R. Doll