Nye, Jr. The daughters: Sarah became the wife of Lewis
Maguet, of Gallipolis. Margarhetta was married to Stephen
Titus and lived in Meigs county. Mary Nye was married
twice; first husband, Nicholas Titus, and after his death the
second husband was James Brown.
Alvira Nye and Almira were twin sisters. Alvira was Mrs.
Thomas Fessler and lived on the Nye farm, where Mr. Fessler
died. Almira Nye was married to Mr. Gates, of Gallia county.
Melzar Nye, Jr., moved to Mississippi. Prominent members
of the community while in Meigs county, All are gone.
Lewis Nye entered land in 1809. Nial Nye, Sr., lived at the
mouth of Kerr's run, before Meigs county was organized.
He had a family of sons and daughters. The sons: Lewis,
Rodolcue, Milton, Buckingham, Edward and Henry. He had
a store, and a postoffice called Nyesville, of which Mr. Nye
was the postmaster; a boat landing for receiving and shipping
goods to Chester and other places; a sawmill that was in op-
eration many years. Lewis Nye and Aaron Murdoch were
successors of Haven & Stackpole in the steam flouring mill;
later Lewis Nye moved west. Milton Nye went to a Western
State. Rodolcue lived and died in Meigs county. Edward
Nye died. His two sons are prosperous business men in
Pomeroy.
Murrain.-One of the greatest difficulties with which the
early settlers had to contend was a disease affecting cattle,
and causing much loss, was known as murrain. There were
two kinds; one called dry murrain was the most prevalent,
in which the manifolds became fevery and dry, and stopped
all natural passages. The animal would linger a few days in
great distress and die.
The other form was called bloody murrain and consisted of
internal hemorrhages that generally proved fatal.
Many remedies were tried with little success. The mur-
rain gradually disappeared after 1820.
