Enoch McCall
Enoch McCall was born December 11, 1826, on the farm in Greene Township, Adams County, where he now resides. He is a son of Duncan and Mary (Smith) McCall, who were the parents of twelve children, four boys and eight girls: Lydia, married Mr. Woodworth; Elizabeth, married Mr. Gregory; Charlotte, died in childhood; Samuel, died young; Rebecca, married Mr.McCormick; Abijah, Enoch, our subject; Harriet, married Mr. Trickier; Melvina, died young; Abner, killed at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi; Melinda, married Mr. Hayslip; Francis, married Mr. Wikoff.
The father, Duncan McCall, was born August 8, 1791, at Jacob's Creek, Westmoreland County. Pennsylvania, the son of Solomon McCall, who had run away from his Scotland home in boyhood, and who. after serving for five years the philanthropist who paid the stowaway's fare to America, settled in Pennsylvania, married there, and two of his sons, Duncan and John, were born there. The others were born in the neighborhood on the line between Adams and Scioto Counties, where he had moved late in the eighteenth century. The other children of the senior Solomon McCall were David, William, Moses, Solomon, Millie (Williams), Mary (Anderson), Sallie, and Martha (Tucker), in all, ten. Solomon McCall. Senior, and his boys, with other pioneers, were engaged, during the first twenty years after settling here, in clearing the bottoms of the great forests which covered them from above where Buena Vista now is, to below Sandy Springs. Solomon McCall had early purchased the farm on which our subject resides, which he sold to his son, Duncan, in 1817, and it was sold to Enoch McCall by his father in 1871. The McCalls built the first stone houses in their neighborhood, two of which are still occupied, one east of Buena Vista, Scioto County, and the other at Commercial, in Adams County. Solomon McCall, Senior, died in the latter.
Mary Smith McCall, mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in New Jersey on September 9, 1795. She and Duncan McCall were married October 7, 1817, at Sandy Springs. Enoch McCall learned cerpentering and worked at that trade until he entered the service of his country in the Civil War. He was mustered into service September 18, 1862, as a Private in Company F, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; made Corporal, August 1, 1863, and Sergeant, June 26, 1865, of his regiment, and was in twenty-four engagements including the battles of Atlanta, Nashville, and Franklin, but was never wounded or captured. He was mustered out at Nashville on July 1, 1865. Mr. McCall returned to Adams County, took up farming and shortly thereafter, purchased his father's farm and on April 16, 1874, was married to Martha A. Pownall, daughter of Joseph C. Pownall and Mary McColm Pownall, of Manchester, Ohio. Their children are Mark P., bom March 7, 1875; Mary S., born June 30, 1877; Leeds, born January 1. 1882, and Earnest, born May 23, 1884.
Mr, McCall is a Republican politically, but has never held any office. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His memory goes back to the days when wild animals were common in the woods about his early home, but he says even more vivid is his recollection of the hard work incident to clearing the land of the heavy timbers. It is worthy of mention here that in the orchard on his farm are apple trees which were set out by his father in 1817. and which are thrifty and bearing fruit every year. The trunk of one. a bell-flower, measures three feet in diameter at height of a man's head above the ground. There are remains on the farm of the work of the mound builders, and many implements fashioned from flint stone are found there.
From "History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time" - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900