lished their home, where itinerant Methodist preachers had
regular appointments. The names of Jacob Young, David
Young, William Young, James Quinn, James Gilruth, and
John P. Kent, and others who found a cordial welcome. Mr.
and Mrs. Rathburn were leading and influential citizens in
those early times. They had a family of sons-no daughters,
Mr. Daniel Rathburn, Sr., died in 1852, aged eighty-five years,
six months. Mrs. Rathburn died in 1868, aged ninety-eight
years, ten months, three days;
The children were Daniel C. Rathburn, who married Laura
Higley, had a farm in Rutland, was justice of the peace, and
taught school. They had a numerous family of sons and
daughters. He died September 25th, 1855, aged fifty-nine
years.
Elisha Rathburn was married to Polly Giles, September 23rd,
1819. He came with his father to Ohio and settled on a farm
near the village of Rutland. He was highly respected by the
community and favorably known as a preacher in the Baptist
or Christian denomination. His gifts and graces, zeal and
charity were shown in a remarkable degree through a long
and useful life.
Elisha Rathburn was born June 30th, 1789, and died August
8th 1869. Mrs. Rathburn was born April 13th, 1799, and died
February 7th, 1896, aged ninety-one years. They had a family
of one son, Joseph Newton, and five daughters, Clarissa,
Elizabeth, and Roana (Mrs. Seth Paine), and two daughters
who died in early womanhood.
Two sons of J. Newton Rathburn, Milton Rathburn and
Charles, are successful merchants, and prominent citizens of
Meigs County, Milton Rathburn being elected Senator from
this district, for state legislature, 1906. They were born and
brought up in Rutland township.
Timothy Rathburn, a son of Daniel Rathburn and his wife,
Desire Rathburn, married a Miss Daniel, of Gallia county, and
