Obituary Sunday: Thomas Nelson Barkdull

From "RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH AT NORWALK, OHIO. OCTOBER 23. 1901. 10 A. M." as published in The Firelands Pioneer (Norwalk, Ohio: The Laning Company, 1902).  Chapter entitled "Obituaries" --

Barkdull, Rev. Thomas, was the youngest son of Joseph and Mary Barkdull and was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, June 24, 1813.  In 1834 he attended school in the Norwalk Seminary, and in the same year was licensed to exhort, and was admitted to the Ohio Conference (Methodist) the next year and began preaching at Elyria, Ohio. In 1836 he was married to Miss Caroline Hendry, of Elyria. In 1837 he moved to Clarksfield and lived a year or so, then had the following appointments : Sandusky, Mt. Vernon, Ashland, Wooster, Canal Dover, Norwalk and Milan (1845), Maumee, Tiffin, Wooster, Plymouth, Shelby, Elyria, Cleveland. He died in Mt. Vernon in 1869.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Diane Mary Barkdull Surpluss (1811-1869)

Oxford Cemetery, New Windsor, Henry County, Illinois, USA

Inscription:

Mary D.

Wife of R. Surpluss

Died Sept. 18, 1869

Aged 58 ys. 1 mo. 7 ds.

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Surname Saturday: Barkdull

I was seriously shocked to look at my blog and see that I have posted nothing on my Barkdull ancestors.

Ohio The Crossroad of Our Nation: Records & Pioneer Families
(Volume IV No. III: July-September 1963) Published by Esther Weygandt Powell 

JOSEPH BARKDULL (BERGDOLL) OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO
Contributed by Mrs. Jack Hyman, Stockton, CA 

Joseph Barkdull Born: 1764 (?) Md. probably Hagerstown; lived Somerset Co., Pa. c. 1784; deeds recorded in Columbiana Co., Ohio 1809-1824; Williams Co., Ohio 1824. Died: 27 Sept. 1828 (?) New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio.
Mary M. (Freeman?) Died: 1836 Columbiana Co., Ohio 

Children of Joseph and Mary M. Barkdull

• 1. John Freeman b. 1784 Somerset Co., Pa.; d. 1 Oct. 1865 Henry Co., Ill.; Married 1st. Nancy Slater 12 Oct. 1810,  Columbiana Co., Ohio. Married 2nd Sarah Dicks 12 Nov. 1816, Columbiana Co., Ohio.
• 2. Joseph b. 13 Dec. 1787; d. 31 July 1859; married Anna Douglas 25 Jan. 1814, Wayne Co., Ohio.
• 3. Elizabeth married S.S. Crawford
• 4. Peter d. 6 May 1834; married Sarah Lasure 12 Feb. 1818, Wayne Co., Ohio.
• 5. Michael b. 3 Sept. 1798, Somerset Co., Pa.; d. 25 July 1839 Quincy, Ill.; married Prudence Tremayne 6 May 1824.
• 6. Samuel d. 27 Sept. 1828; married Mary Sharp 14 Mar. 1820, Columbiana Co., Ohio.
• 7. David d. 11 Jan. 1861; married Permina Ingledine 20 July 1826.
• 8. Phillip married 7 May 1826 Rachel Mitchell, Columbiana Co., Ohio.
• 9. Jacob died 6 Nov. 1828.
• 10. Thomas b. 24 June 1813; d. 4 Jan. 1869 Shelby, Ohio; married Caroline Hendry.

1. John Freeman Barkdull and Nancy Slater had: 

• a. William b. c 1814, Columbiana Co.; d. April 1840, Knox Co., Ohio.
• b. Diana Mary married Robert Surpluss.

    John Freeman Barkdull and Sarah Dicks had: 

• a. Robert K. b. 18 June 1817 Columbiana Co., Ohio; d. 1 Dec.1870 Delaware, Ohio; married 7 Oct. 1830 Prudence Beal, Union Co., Ohio.
• b. Jane married Josiah Elliott, 2 July 1846, Union Co., Ohio.
• c. Silas Freeman b. 12 Feb. 1827, Richland Co., Ohio; d. 3 Feb. 1898, Crawford Co., Pa.; married Anna Pool, 18 July 1847, Union Co., Ohio.
• d. Sarah Mahal b. 26 Dec. 1830, Union Co., Ohio; d. 1 June 1911, Kidder Co., N.D.; married Andrew Jackson Ennis, 31 Aug. 1856, Marshall Co., Iowa.

Joseph Bardull's children were an interesting lot --John was a Lt. in War of 1812; Joseph an early sheriff of Wayne Co., Ohio; Michael converted by Joseph Smith personally and this line thick in Salt Lake City area; Phillip was a converted Quaker and an early settler in Howard County, Indiana; Thomas was a presiding elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio; even daughter Elizabeth distinguished herself somewhat by having 13 children. 

Howard Barkdull of Cleveland, past president of American Bar Association, was of John's line.

Joseph Barkdull was my 5xg-grandfather.  The lineage: Joseph -> Lt. John Freeman Barkdull -> Diana Mary (Barkdull) Surpluss (1811-1869) -> John Nelson Surpluss (1839-1901) -> James Alexander Surpluss (1867-1948) -> Thelma (Surpluss) Gibson (1903-1991) -> Brenda (Gibson) Walker Cline Cox (1938-1989) -> me.

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