THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: John H. Cheney
           Born: JUN 1812
        Married: 1831
           Died: 21 OCT 1868 in Jackson Twp, Union County, Ohio
         Buried: in Buried at Cheney Cemetery, Essex Co. Ohio
         Father: Ebenezer Cheney
         Mother: Elizabeth H. Owen
        Spouses: 
      Residence: 1854 Union County, Ohio (1)
           Wife: Sarah Brannon
           Born: 1811 (2)
           Died: 1887
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses:
Children
01          (M): Thomas B. Cheney
           Born: 1836 (3)
           Died: 1900
        Spouses: Margaret Swartz; Mary Jane Falk Watkins

Additional Information

John H. Cheney:

Notes:
The first ground prepared for seed in Jackson Township was by John Cheney, who used a mattock. John sowed the land to beets. (From "The History of Union County, Ohio" published by W.H. Beers & CO.)

Footnotes

  1. Chancery Book 26, page 35, Keener-Owen Suit (October 16, 1854, Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio).
  2. David E. Cheney, Some of the Descendants of William Cheney of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1975).
  3. Ibid.

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