Samuel BARTHOLOMEW

Father: Joseph BARTHOLOMEW
Mother: Lena DESEY

Family 1: Susannah ATKINS
  1. Diantha BARTHOLOMEW
  2. Aaron BARTHOLOMEW
  3. Diana BARTHOLOMEW 
                                                                   _____________
                                            ______________________|_____________
                       _Johan BARTHOLOMEW _|
                      |                    |                       _____________
                      |                    |______________________|_____________
 _Joseph BARTHOLOMEW _|
|                     |                                            _Jacob ENDT _
|                     |                     _Johan Theobald ENDT _|_____________
|                     |_Dorothy ENDT ______|
|                                          |                       _____________
|                                          |_Sibbilla STRATTON ___|_____________
|
|--Samuel BARTHOLOMEW 
|
|                                                                  _____________
|                                           ______________________|_____________
|                      ____________________|
|                     |                    |                       _____________
|                     |                    |______________________|_____________
|_Lena DESEY _________|
                      |                                            _____________
                      |                     ______________________|_____________
                      |____________________|
                                           |                       _____________
                                           |______________________|_____________
INDEX

Notes

*Murdered by his wife. Served in Capt. Jacob Bartholomew's (#9) company in the War of 1812. Bartholomew family once well represented in county GENEVA -- The Bartholomew name may not be as prominent as "Harper" in the northwest corner o f Ashtabula County, but many members of the family called this part of the new frontier "home " in the early 1800s. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bartholomew Harper, who lived to be 84, was the wife of Harpersfield Townsh ip founder Col. Alexander Harper. Alexander died just months after arriving in the Western Re serve wilderness. Rather than return to the comfort and familiarity of their native New York , his widow stayed the winter. Elizabeth, her sons and other members of the party almost star ved to death that winter. Surviving peril was a trait the Bartholomew family had learned in Europe. Elizabeth Harper' s maternal great grandparents were French Huguenots, Protestants who came under severe persec ution in France during the reign of Louis XIV. They were rounded up for execution, but thei r daughter, Elizabeth's grandmother, escaped when her parents shipped her to Germany in a woo den box. She immigrated to New Jersey with others from Palatine, Germany. Elizabeth's parent's, John and Dorothy, had settled in Germantown, Pa., in 1730, then moved t o Bethlehem, N.J., and finally the valley of the Charlotte River in New York. She had three b rothers -- Theobald (Tewalt), Joseph and Isaac -- and a sister, Hannah. Benjamin married Abigail Patchin, whose ancestors had come from England in 1634. He was a far mer in Harpersfield, N.Y., until his death in 1797 at the age of 44. Abigail and her childre n _ Isaac, John, Peter, Mary and Parthenia _ came to Harpersfield Township in 1805 with Theob ald and Joseph Bartholomew. Abigail died at Harpersfield Jan. 10, 1839. Theobald, described as a small man of great courage, had fought in the French and Indian War . He and his family were taken prisoner by Joseph Brant and a band of Indians in 1778. Theoba ld, his wife and two babies were released on parole and tramped 28 miles through the snow a t night to warn other settlers of an imminent Indian attack. When he moved to Geneva Township in 1805, Theobald became the first settler in that region. H is house was on the South Ridge Road near the west bank of Cowles Creek. He died in 1827. Peter, Theobald's nephew, was born April 23, 1793, in Schoharie County, N.Y. He married Cathe rine Brakeman in 1822. They had one son, Mark, and four daughters. Little is known about Peter except that he was a farmer, served in the War of 1812 and was ac tive in the Congregational Church. He died in Harpersfield Oct. 14, 1845. His brother, John , was a soldier, justice of the peace and commander of his militia company (War of 1812). Ano ther brother, Isaac, also served as a soldier during the War of 1812. Their brother Benjami n did not stay in Harpersfield Township. He and his wife left Ohio in the mid-1800s and migra ted to Minnesota. He died there in 1868. One of the most gruesome stories to come out of the early days of the Western Reserve involve d the murder of a Bartholomew. Samuel Bartholomew was Peter's uncle and a soldier in the Wa r of 1812. His wife Susanna (Atkins) murdered him as he was eating his breakfast in their Har persfield home March 24, 1822. Susanna approached her husband with an axe, split his head open and beat it with the axe. Th e jury of inquest returned a verdict of willful and premeditated murder. But the trial ha d a much different ending -- Susanna was acquitted on the grounds of insanity, testimony to t he skillful work of her attorneys, R. Harper and S. Wheeler.



Documented Family Genealogy Introduction Family Photos Site Search
  Members Only Shandy Hall Family Reunion



This site maintained by Rick Harper
Images copyright 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
All rights reserved
Created by Sparrowhawk 1.0 (4/17/1996) on Thu Mar 6 21:10:03 2008