Ezekiel Cleaver Jr (1757 - 1832)

Born 25 Mar 1757 in Upper Dublin, Montgomery, PA

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Richards) Cleaver — married 4 Jul 1787 in Crooked Run, Culpeper, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Sep 1832 at age 75 in Waynesville, Warren, OH

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Biography

Ezekiel Cleaver, Jr. was born to Ezekiel Cleaver, Sr. and Mary Lewis Cleaver on March 25, 1757 in Upper Dublin, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. On July 4, 1787 he married Abigail Richards, daughter of Rowland and Lydia Richards, at Crooked Run Friends Meetinghouse in Frederick County, Virginia.^[1][2]

Beer's History of Warren County, Ohio records that in 1800 Ezekiel Cleaver brought his family from Virginia to Red Stone (now Brownsville), Pennsylvania. There he left them while he proceeded to Waynesville in Warren County, Ohio to construct a large stone house at the east corner of Miami and Third Streets, after which he returned to Red Stone in the Spring of 1801 (p. 568) or 1802 (p. 585) with, among others, his father-in-law, the Quaker minister Rowland Richards.^[3] In 1803 he purchased 135 acres of land on the east side of the Little Miami River from Nathaniel Massie for $405.75. ^[4]

A Quaker, he was a founding member of Miami Monthly Meeting, the first meeting north of the Ohio River and west of Hockhocking in eastern Ohio, on Oct. 13, 1803. The meeting initially met in his log cabin until a meeting house could be erected at the site where the red brick meetinghouse now stands on top of Quaker Hill in Waynesville. In 1812 he rode horseback from Waynesville to Baltimore with his daughter Abigail (then about 16) to attend Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends.^[5]. The Ezekiel Cleaver papers (1729-1895) are preserved in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, [1].

Ezekiel and Abigail had six children, Mary (1789), Ezekiel III (1792), Abigail (1794), Peter (1796), Lydia (1801), and Nathan (1804). Ezekiel died in Waynesville on 23 September, 1832 and is buried in the old Friends burying ground adjacent to the red meeting house.

Name

Ezekiel /Cleaver/ Jr^[6]

Ezekiel /CLEAVER/^[7]

Ezekiel 2 /Cleaver/^[8]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Ezekiel /Cleaver/ Jr.

Birth

25 MAR 1757

Upper Dublin, Montgomery, PA^[9][10]

25 MAR 1757

Abington Mm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA^[11]

25 MAR 1757

Abington Mm, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA^[12]

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 25 MAR 1757

Death

23 SEP 1832

Waynesville, Warren, OH^[13]

22 SEP 1832

Waynesville, Warren, Ohio, USA^[14]

22 SEP 1832

Waynesville, Warren, Ohio, USA^[15]

Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 23 SEP 1832Array

Burial

Quaker Cemetery, Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio^[16]

Marriage

FAM

@I586@

@I590@

@I591@

to Father: Natural

to Mother: Natural

04 JUL 1787

Crooked Run Mm/Frederick, Virginia, USA^[17]

Ezekiel and Abigail Cleaver had 7 children;

1. Mary b. June 19, 1789;
2. Abigail b. May 12, 1792;
3. Ezekiel b. July 1, 1794;
4. Peter b. 1796;
5. David b. May 11, 1799;
6. Lydia b. Oct 29, 1801 and
7. Nathan b. Dec 30, 1804. ^[18]

Sources

• Find A Grave memorial page for Ezekiel Cleaver (25 Mar 1757–23 Sep 1832), Find A Grave: Memorial #16768944, citing Friends Burial Ground, Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, USA.

• Source: S2 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R1
• Repository: R1 Name: www.ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

1. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. VI (Virginia), Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994, p. 593
2. ↑ Joint committee of Hopewell Friends. Hopewell Friends History 1734-1934: Frederick County, Virginia: Records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings Reporting to Hopewell. Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1936
3. ↑ W.H. Beers & Co., 1882, The History of Warren County, Ohio, p. 568 and p. 585
4. ↑ W.H. Beers & Co., 1882, The History of Warren County, Ohio, p. 583
5. ↑ W.H. Beers & Co., 1882, The History of Warren County, Ohio, p. 581
6. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lydia Cleaver
7. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel CLEAVER
8. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel 1 Cleaver
9. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lydia Cleaver
10. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel CLEAVER
11. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel CLEAVER
12. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel 1 Cleaver
13. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Lydia Cleaver
14. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel CLEAVER
15. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel 1 Cleaver
16. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel 1 Cleaver
17. ↑ Source: #S2 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Ezekiel CLEAVER
18. ↑ This information is from a family bible given to Ezekiel, the third child of Ezekiel and Abigail.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Allen McGrew for creating WikiTree profile Cleaver-386 through the import of McGrew_2010-01-09_2013-03-22.ged on Mar 22, 2013.

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