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.