Fulton-Morgan County OHIO Biographies.....Gilman Cheadle March 10 1807 - December 17 1891
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Mark Lozer lozer@fulton-net.com July 27, 2005, 10:39 pm

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Biography /obituary submitted to the Fulton Co Pioneer Society in 1892 after 
h1s death in 1891

GILMAN CHEADLE, died in Fulton Co. Ohio December 17th 1891 in his 85 year. He 
was born in Morgan County, Ohio March 10, 1807. His parents came from Vermont a 
few years prior to his birth and were of English decent. 
He was left an orphan at an early age, dependent on his own exertions. This 
rough struggle with adverse circumstances, left its impression on his 
character. While developing the aggressive persistent combative elements to 
struggle successfully with the world, the more noble and finer sentiments of 
the mind and heart suffered irreparable loss. Never the less his life was 
brightened by many deeds of benevolence, and needing hands stretched out were 
not passed by unheeded. He married at the age of 21 years after which he 
engaged in running a flat boat on the Muskingum and Ohio rivers. Where in a few 
years by active industry and close application to business, combined with 
economy, he had saved several hundred dollars, with which, with his young wife 
and children, he started in the fall of 1834 for the North West country. Winter 
coming on he stopped in Marion Ohio till spring, when he again pushed on to the 
Maumee. 
He put up long enough in Perrysburg to go to Wapaukonetta to the U.S. Land 
office, where he entered 440 acres of land, which he had never seen, and in 
what is now Fulton County.
Here, his life work commenced in earnest. Enduring hardships of which we know 
very little, but with which all pioneers endured uncomplainingly, bourn up by 
the hope of finally seeing their work crowned with success. 
Here he cleared up a large farm in that dense forest known as the “Six Mile 
Woods,” mainly by the strength of his own good right arm. He made a comfortable 
home for wife and little ones. 
The orchard which he planted have furnished fruit for children, grandchildren 
and great grandchildren, and the maple groves still remains that have furnished 
sweet for all. 
Here perhaps his happiest days were past, watching the development of his 
children and the improvement of the country. In after years he added to his 
already large farm so that he was enabled to give to each his six remaining 
children, ( three having died in infancy, and one in early manhood) 80 acres of 
land. 
In the winter of 1871 he removed to Wauseon which became his permanent home and 
the remainder of his property he invested in real estate in that place. He was 
rather unfortunate in his last few business transactions but left ample means 
to satisfy every legal claim and a competency for his aged widow. 
In 1828 he married Susannah RockeyFeller who patiently labored by his side, for 
over sixty years, enduring privations, encouraging him with her sympathy and 
rejoicing in his successes. 
She is now tenderly cared for by her daughter Mrs. R.S. Sharpe on what was part 
of their original farm.


Additional Comments:
Biography /obituary submitted to the Fulton County Pioneer Society in 1892 
after his death in 1891. The Society met twice a year for a full day and paid 
tribute to the county's early pioneers.  

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