JOHN JOLLY

    John Jolly was a North Carolinian.  His family was of the Quaker persuasion, and he, imbued with the principles of that sect, left his native State from an abhorrence of the institution of slavery and sought a home in Ohio.  In 1818, with his wife, Hannah (Cook), and three children, he settled upon a tract of wild land he had purchased in the southern part of Survey 7,218, now the home of Charles Nicol.  Here he cleared the laud and tilled the soil, engaging also, to some extent, in shoe-making.  He was an earnest supporter of the Methodist Church.  His children by his first marriage were Elias, who removed to Kansas; Michel. who married Frederick Sager; Rachel; Joel; Mary who married Adam Brown; John; Jeremiah, of Kansas; and Lewis, of Iowa.  His second wife was Margaret Croy, who still lives with her daughter Eleanor, ,wife of A. J. Ferguson.  By this marriage there were six children -Betsy, who married David and is now deceased; Eli, Eleanor, Margaret and two who died young.  Mr. Jolly died July 31, 1860, at Unionville, aged seventy-eight years.