I am seeking any information about the
Severance (various spellings) who lived in
Crawford County in the 1820's. Timeframe is based upon the reading of a book about
Williams County, published in 1882.
In the book, "County of
Williams,
Ohio. Historical and Biographical", Page 807,
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor; Charles
Blanchard, Biographical Editor.
W. M. SEVRENCE is a native of the Empire State, and was born in
Jefferson County December 28, 1815. He was the eldest of the eight children of his parents, David and Esther (
Knapp) Sevrence, native respectively of
Vermont and
New York. His paents removed to
Huron County,
Ohio when W.M. was but four years of age, three years after to
Seneca County, and shortly after to
Crawford, where he grew to manhood. In 1835, his parents moved to
Fulton County, where W.M. remained employed on his father's farm until twenty-six years of age. In 1842, he located on eighty acres for himself, where he stayed until the spring of 1850, when he purchased and settled on 160 acres in
Mill Creek Township, which has since been the home of himself and family. Mr. Sevrence was married February 18, 1839, to Miss Elizabeth
Forman, of
Delaware County, NY and ten children have been born to this union, viz., John K., William H., Mrs
Delia C. Persons, Mrs. Annice A. Stahl, Mrs. Phebe E. Bachman, David W., Mrs. Jessie C. Bachman, now living, and George E., Luther E. and Mrs. Sarah E. Johnson, deceased.