Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - James Cavender

JAMES CAVENDER

    James Cavender was born in Hillsboro County, N. H., May 15, 1786, where he married Rachel Battler, who was born July 4, 1789 ; they were married November 27, 1811.  In 1846, they emigrated to Ohio and located on William Bales' farm, where they have resided to the present time.  He has been a farmer by occupation through all his active life.  Their children were as follows: Annis, married Joseph Simons, a native of New Hampshire, where they resided most of their lives, and died in their native State : Abraham Holmes, married Elvira Hopkins, of New Hampshire, and subsequently, in 1843, moved to Ohio and settled in Logan County; thence, about 1850, they removed to St. Paul, Minn., where they now reside; Jonathan Battler never married, and died in Kentucky, aged forty-two years ; Sarah married William Bales ; Charles never married, but died at twenty-five years of age in his native State. Mary married Paul Whittemore, and lived and died in their native State; E. Burnham married Harriet Laws, and reside in New Hampshire; Rachel married Williard Powers, she died in her native State; and David, the youngest, married Jane Carley, and now resides in Illinois.