Harrisonville, in Scipio township, where he and his wife spent
their remaining days. Robert Simpson, Jr., succeeded his
father in the possession of the homestead. The daughters of
Robert Simpson, Sr., were: Maria, Mrs. Elisha Hubbell Benedict;
they moved to Kansas in 1856, and Mrs. Benedict died
there. Emily Simpson, the wife of Lucius Bingham, of Rut-
land, Ohio; Sarah Ann Simpson was married to Jeremiah
Carpenter, of Columbia township and became the mother of
a distinguished family; she died in 1887, aged eighty years
and four months.
Amos Carpenter, Sr., came from Virginia at an early period
and settled in Rutland township. About 1818 he sold his farm
there and bought a valuable tract of land in Columbia town-
ship. Mrs. Carpenter's name was McLaughlin. They spent
their last days on this farm, leaving a fine estate to their chil-
dren.
John Newell and family came from Massachusetts in 1816
to Fairfield county, Ohio. He had bought land in Bedford
township, Meigs county, four miles from the nearest house,
and did not move his family to his land until 1819, after he
had cleared it and many families had settled in the neighbor-
hood. Mr. Newell was a tanner and shoemaker.
Mr. Newell died suddenly October 14th, 1839. Mrs. Newell
died in 1871. They had a large family of sons and daughters.
Sally was married to Silas Burnap and was the mother of
Silas Asa Burnap, captain of an Ohio battery in the Civil War.
Harriet became the wife of Milton Walker, moved to Illinois;
both died. Dolly Newell married Benjamin Knight, of Ches-
ter, who was a justice of the peace for twenty years; he died
February 16th, 1872. Rebecca Newell married Quartus Bridgeman,
of Syracuse, who died in the forties, leaving a family of
six children-four sons and two daughters.
