Ohio Biographies



John H. Brickle


The late John H. Brickle, who died at his home in Caesarscreek township on October 26, 1904, and whose widow is still living there, was a native son of Greene county and had spent all his life here. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Jamestown on September 14, 1845, son of Jacob and Mary (Phillips) Brickle, who upon their retirement from the farm moved to Jamestown, where they spent their last days. Jacob Brickle and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their children were reared in that faith. There were nine of these children, four of whom are still living, namely: Daniel Brickle, of Jamestown; Catherine, wife of Thomas Moon, of Jamestown; Frank Brickle, who is living on a farm east of that village, and Emma, who is now a resident of the city of Dayton. The others of the children of Jacob Brickle and wife, besides John H., were Amanda, Margaret, Louis and Harvey.

John H. Brickle was reared on the home farm, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and early became a practical farmer, a vocation he followed all his life. After his marriage in the summer of 1870 he for three years made his home on a farm on the eastern edge of the county and then moved to Cedarville, but a year later bought a farm in New Jasper township and on that place made his home for seven years, or until 1881, in which year he sold the place and bought the farm on which his widow is now living, in Caesarscreek township, and there established his home and spent the rest of his life. Mr. Brickle first bought there a tract of one hundred and fifty-nine acres, but as he prospered in his undertakings he enlarged his holdings and at the time of his death was the owner of two hundred and thirty-five acres. In addition to his general farming Mr. Brickle had given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. By political affiliation he was a Democrat and by religious persuasion was a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville, with which he had become connected when sixteen years of age. Mr. Brickle was in the sixtieth year of his age at the time of his death in the fall of 1904.

In August, 1870, John H. Brickle was united in marriage to Catherine F. Clemens, who was born in New Jasper township, this county, daughter of George and Susanna (Fichthorn) Clemens, both of whom also were born in this county, the parents of the former having come here from Pennsylvania and those of the latter, from Virginia, both the Clemenses and the Fichthorns being old-established families in Greene county. George Clemens became a substantial farmer and his last days were spent at Jamestown, where he died at the age of eighty years and six months. He was twice married, his first wife having died at the age of forty-seven years, after which he married Harriet Sterritt, of Cedarville. By his first union he was the father of eight children, of whom Mrs. Brickle was the second in order of birth, the others being the following: Jesse Cyrus, who at the age of nineteen years enlisted his services in behalf of the Union during the Civil War, went to the front and died of typhoid fever in an army hospital in Maryland; Mary Elizabeth, wife of Jeremiah Tolman. of New Jasper township; Melvina Ann, widow of John J. Brown, of Jamestown; Amanda, who died at the age of twenty-four years, unmarried; Emma Jane, now also deceased, who was the wife of William Gordon; John Orville Clemens, of Dayton, this state, and William Merritt, deceased.

To John H. and Catherine V. (Clemens) Brickle were born four children, namely: Minnie, who is at home with her mother; Mary S., wife of Frank Street, of New Jasper township; Orville, who is farming in Caesarscreek township and who married Effie Hiles and has one son, Howard; and Cyrus Clemens Brickle, farming the old home place, who married Elsie Hiles and has one child, a daughter, Wanda. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Brickle has continued to make her home on the home farm, rural mail route No. 9 out of Xenia, where she is very comfortably situated.

 

 

From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918

 


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