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1850 Census: Salem Twp, Champaign Co, OH, farmer, property worth $2,000.
1860 Census: Salem Twp, Champaign Co, OH, farmer, value of real estate $8,950. personal property $835.
1870 Census: Salem two, Champaign Co, OH, farmer, value of real estate $11,160. personal property $1,028.
1880 Census: Salem Twp, Champaign Co, OH, farmer.
1910 census: Urbana, Champaign Co, OH, farmer
Father born Pennsylvania, mother born Virginia.
Among the successful farmers and highly respected citizens of Salem township, Champaign county, of a generation ago, whose names are worthy of perpetuation on the pages of local history, was David Fulwider, who, like many other pioneer settlers of the county, hailed originally from the Old Dominion.
He was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, August 5, 1803, and his death occurred on March 3, 1886. He was a son of Henry and Ann (Klein) Fulwider, natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they finally moved to Virginia where they were married, and there devoted their lives to farming. The father was also an extensive stock raiser for those early times. The only member of the family who ever came to Champaign county, Ohio, was David of this memoir.
He came here when a young man and settled in Urbana, where he was married on April 29, 1830. In 1833 he moved to Salem township, buying one hundred acres of land, where his son, George, and two daughters, Nancy Ann and Mary E., are now living.
He cleared and developed the place from the wilderness, later adding eighty acres to his original tract, and here he established a comfortable home, in which he reared his entire family. His wife, known as elizabeth P. mayse prior to her marriage, was born January 4, 1812, and her death occurred on August 21, 1900. She was a daughter of William and Nancy (Burgiss) Mayse.
To David Fulwider and wife ten children were born, namely; Henry, William M., George, John R., David A., Nancy Ann, Mary E., Vashti, Dr. Robert M. and James.
The mother of these children was an infant when her parents brought her to Champaign county, in 1812, the family making the long journey on horseback, being thus among the early pioneers of this section of Ohio. The Mayses first settled in the Kings creek valley, whre they spent two years, then sold out and bought a farm on the Ludlow line, remaining there until 1817, when they moved to town, where Mr. Mayse followed his trade of tanner and also conducted a butcher shop, continuing in these pursuits until his death. His family consisted of ten children, Elizabeth P., who married the subject of this sketch, being the eldest child.
George, Nancy Ann and Mary E. Fulwider, who are now living on the old home place, where they were born, are the oldest natives in Salem township. They were born in a log cabin and they haved lived on the same farm all their lives, keeping the place well improved and well cultivated.
During the Civil war, George enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Henry Patterson, serving four and one-half months.
The home farm now contains two hundred and forty-four acres, all under cultivation except twenty-five acres. George, Nancy Ann and Mary E. are now growing old, but they are well preserved and active, although not now actively engaged in agricultural pursuits, merely looking after the place in a general way. Everbody knows them and esteems them highly, for they have lived quiet, honorable and helpful lives, doing what they could for the betterment of their locality in any way. None of the three have ever married. In religious belief, Mary E. is a Methodist and Nancy Ann is a Lutheran.
(Copied from the History of Champaign County, OH, Vol. 2).
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