Deborah Andrews ¹⁰

   General Notes:

Her middle initial was J. She is Interned at the Chillicothe IOOF Cemetery.
A source on the internet says she was born in 1806.
Have also seen her last name as Knight.

   Events:

1. Alt. Birth; Abt 1806.

   Marriage Information:

Deborah married Lewis Blackman, son of Moses Blackman and Hannah Wentworth, on an unknown date. (Lewis Blackman was born in 1809 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ¹³, died on 14 Oct 1897 in Richman Township, Wayne County, Iowa and was buried in Humeston Cemetery, Humeston, Wayne County, Iowa.)

   Marriage Notes:

In the 1860 Elk Township Vinton County Ohio census, it shows Lewis with a daughter Harriett, about 10 years old. Also had two other people living with them, a Harriett Barker, age 21 as a servant, and a Eliza Malory age 2, both from Ohio. Census was taken 6Jun1860, the month before Elizabeth was born. Elizabeth Jane was born to Harriet Barker (daughter of Joseph Barker and Harriet Blackman), the story was that Harriet Barker was not yet married to Richard Isaac and she had Elizabeth Jane out of wedloct, a big sin back then. Richard Isaac had gone to California and when he returned he said he would marry Harriet Barker if she would give up Elizabeth Jane and let Lewis and Deborah raise her. After Deborah died, Lewis married Elizabeth Wicker, widow of Homer Gibbs, and they both raised Elizabeth Jane, Elizabeth Wickers' 5 children, and also had 3 of their own. Elizabeth Jane married George Gibbs, son of Elizabeth Wicker and her first husband.
The United Brethren Church was organized in 1843, with the following members: George Speed and wife, Nathan Robinette and wife, David Markwood and wife, Issac Westcoat and wife, Charles Dowd and wife, A Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill, John Bullard and wife, William Swaim and wife, Lewis Blackman and wife, William Matthews, Joseph Kayler, Sabina and Tena Fry. (from "A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Regon Of Ohio", volume II, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916, p.572)