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The Incomplete Genealogy of
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Ephriam Alpha Case.
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| Pictured here with his last wife. Sarah Alvira Winch. | |
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My fellow Case relatives: At the Case reunion at Lake City in 1965, I was selected to write the Case Genealogy. Since then I have devoted my spare time each fall and winter trying to collect information for this project. I can find no record of any kind or obtain any information about the forbearers of Ephriam Alpha Case. (my grandfather) so this genealogy starts with him. Very early Family Bibles are not available and other family records were seldom kept. Ephriam Alpha Case's Family Bible was destroyed by fire and the courthouse at Jefferson, Ohio burned. I have visited courthouses and cemeteries in order to obtain any information I could find or get there. I have had the help of the Turner Family Bible, which is incomplete as to dates and places, and to several records kept by come of the Case descendents by the information is meager and incomplete. I also received some information from several old residents at Pierpont, Ohio who were youngsters when their families were neighbors of the Cases or learned about them from their parents. Ephriam Alpha Case visited the six families (including our own who lives at Miles Grove now called lake City) three times at the turn of this century. Once he brought James with him, and at another time Ira. I do remember some of what he told me about himself and families and I am using this information. During this time period, my brother Ben and I visited Frank Turner, Joseph Turner's only child, several times and once visited my grandfather Case and stayed overnight in his log cabin. The Turners and especially Joe, who raised my mother till she was 16, after her mother died; told me much about the Case families. I also found some information on various cards and pictures and in letters which my mother Lydia Case kept. I have used all of this information, but for the most part I have depended on you to give an accurate and complete record of yourself, your family and your kin. I am very happy that most of you complied to my questionnaires and regret that a very few refused to give me any information about themselves and families, also a few that claim they did not know the answers to my questions. And some of the older members about who no information was obtained. I have tried to bring this Genealogy up to date as to January 1, 1971 but I am sure there have been births, marriages, and deaths which have not been reported. so this Case Genealogy is very incomplete. Undoubtedly there are some errors too, but I have tried to compile this as accurately as possible from the information at hand. Ephriam Alpha Case was born in 1823 near Albany, New York. When he was a growing boy, he parents and family moved to New Jersey and he went to work as a logger on the Susquehanna River. During a log jam he injured his right leg and limped the rest of his life. After several seasons, he journeyed to Pierpont, Ohio and built a log cabin on what was probably "homestead land". About the same time, a family by the name of Turner moved into the area and settled on the land nearby. There were three daughters in the family - Edema, Diane and Delilah and two sons - Jonathan and Joseph Turner. Ephriam Alpha Case eventually marries the three daughters in succession and after Delilah's death he marries Sarah Elvira Winch. Married four times, he was the father of twenty-three children,. all of whom were born in the log cabin. I appreciate the efforts you put forth and thank each one of you for your co-operation in this project. It has been a long tedious job, but one of much pleasure and best of all, it has been a fine Case Family education for me in compiling the Case Genealogy. I am very pleased to have served you in this small way and trust that it will be of some benefit to many of you. Now I am turning this Genealogy over to Thelma Wilson and hope some younger person will "take over" and complete the work where I "left off". Kindness regards and best wishes to everyone one of you. Wendell P. Ball (12-1) |
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My Fellow Case Relatives; At the Case Reunion at Lake City in 1978, I was given this handwritten information of the Case Genealogy by Thelma Wilson (13-5) and was requested to see if I could do any more with it. The time spent was spent in great pleasure as I found some great relatives I never knew I had. I have tried to bring it a little more up to date but it is far from being complete. I thank all the people that I have written to for the information I have received. I do hope that one4 day this will be in print for all to see. I also hope the people that see it and read it will thank Wendell P. Ball (12-1) for all the hard work he went through to complete all this Genealogy. Best to all of you and your families. Anna Mae Fuller (Case) (13-2-2) |
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