Eliza Grant was the wife of William Wright, of Kentucky.
Cyrus Grant married Charlotte Hebard, of Athens county.
He was known as Col. Grant, for many years identified with
the business interests of Pomeroy. Samuel Grant, Sr., and all
of his family are dead.
Mr. William Hobart came from Spencer, Tioga county,
N.Y., in 1818, to Leading creek. Mrs. Hobart, nee' Hugg,
with two children, were with him. They had five children
born in Meigs county. The older children were Isaac Hobart
and Phebe, married to Mr. Hanlin, of Middleport, O. Esther
Hobart became the wife of William Grant and reared a family
of marked intellectual force. California, a daughter, was for
years a noted teacher in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,
and passed away in 1906, deeply mourned. Electa Grant spent
some years teaching in the "New Church" Academy in Phila-
delphia. Julia was the wife of James Boggess, a prominent
citizen of Meigs, and has been County Treasurer. William
Grant, Jr., was a farmer in Great Bend, Kansas, a successful
man. Lucy Grant, the youngest child, is a teacher of kinder-
garten schools.
There were two children of Samuel Grant and wife born
after they came to Ohio, viz.: William Grant, who married
Esther Hobart, and lived in Middleport. He and brother,
John Grant, were enterprising and successful millers for many
years in Middleport. They operated the roller process for
making flour, about the first of any mill in Meigs county. Mr.
William Grant was one of a company who went overland to
California in 1849.
Samuel Grant, Jr., was an invalid, and died unmarried.
Belinda, the daughter, died when quite young.
Mr. Samuel Grant, Sr., operated mills in different parts of
Meigs county. At the Higley Mills on Leading Creek soon
after his arrival; later, he took charge of the Stedman mill on
Shade river, and built, or rebuilt, the mill at Chester. He
