My Trails into the Past

I found the newspaper item where Jacob Bishop requested the partitioning of a piece of property in Huntington Township, Ross County, Ohio, and listed all of the children and heirs of Henry Bishop and Catherine Schreyer. [1]   You can find that post here . Then on 31 May 1838, another item was found in the Scioto Gazette . [2] It was a notice of the public sale at the Courthouse in Chillicothe of the same tract of land from the previous notice.  Here is the transcription. Ross Common Pleas. Scioto (Chillicothe Ohio) Gazette , 31 May 1838, p 3 Jacob Bishop,                    }        vs.                                }  Petition for Partition . David Bishop and others   } By virtue of an order made in the above cause at the April Term...

It's been a while since I posted. I am currently working on my husband's Bishop line. I found this notice in the Scioto Gazette , a newspaper published from 1835 to 1854 in Chillicothe, Ohio, which is in Ross County. [1] Family names that were searched in this newspaper were GORRELL, SHOTTS, and BISHOP. What brought my attention to this article was Mary Shotts’ name along with her husband, Daniel Shotts. These are my husband’s paternal 2nd great-grandparents. Mary’s maiden name was Bishop. Notice. “Notice,” Scioto Gazette, 18 Jan 1838, p3, GenealogyBank.com ( http://www.genealogybank.com  : 17 Nov 2014). JACOB BISHOP, of Ross county, Ohio, hereby gives notice To David Bishop, who resides in Indiana, Amos Bishop, Mary Shotts, late Mary Bishop, and her husband, Daniel Shotts, Eliza Toops, late Eliza Bishop, and her husband Tho- mas Toops, and Catharine Bishop, all of whom reside in Ross county, Ohio; Daniel Bishop who resides in Ross county, Ro- bert Bis...