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I was just typing out a copy of some info that my mother had gave me and decided to look at the message board and found your message and here is what i have.....
History of the Vian Family
This historical sketch is of a prominent family, some of whom have early pioneers in the several different regions in which they have lived, and have always been known for their uprightness, ability, progressiveness, and good will to all men.
The founder of this family in this country was John Vian who came to America as a soldier in the army of King George the Third, during the Revolutionary war, and was taken prisoner and after the war he decided to make America his home and refused to return when the remnent of the British army returned to their Island home. He settled in Maryland and married Catherine Root, a native of Germany.
To them four children were born namely : Hannah, who became the wife of Mr. O'Brian; Polly, who married Mr. Howell. Both of these were wealthy slave holders of Maryland. Katy became the wife of a noble in Ireland; and William a short time after whose birth the father died.
The mother, a secound time accepting for her husband, Jacob Swales, who with the children moved to Knox County, Ohio in 1816, where they lived until their death and where the children grew to manhood and womenhood.
William Vian, the youngest child, son of John Vian was born in Frederick County, Maryland, September 1, 1796 and there passed his boyhood days and all the age of the early twentees came with his mother and step-father to Knox County, Ohio and entered 60 acres of government land, which he cleared and converted into a fine farm.
In 1822 William married Jane A. Perkins. Her father was of English paentage and in the American Army in The Revolutionary War. After his marriage to Miss Perkins, William took his young wife to his farm which he, with fortitude and much labor had made for himself in Knox County, Ohio. There they lived until their death, the father dying in 1879 and the mother two years later.
William was a prominent and influential citizen and a Democrat in politics, and one of those very rare men who will not hold office even when it is offered to them.
The children of William Vian and his wife --- Fourteen in number --- are recorded as follows : Mary, who became the wife of William Downs; John, who was killed while serving his country in The Civil War, near Nashville, Tennessee; Hannah, who became the wife of John Hoover of Knox County Ohio; Enos, a farmer of DeKalb County, Indiana; William, who moved to Wisconsin; Jeremiah, whose history will be later referred to; Rebecca, who became the wife of Theodore Acls of Michigan; Sarah Jane, James, deceased; Ira, who moved to Kansas; Abner, who died in infancy; Amanda Ellen; Elijah, who moved to Oklahoma; and Benjamin Franklin, who remained on the old homestead and there reared a large family, and many of his decendants are still living in the Mt. Vernon vicinity.
Jeremiah Vian, the fourt son, was born in Knox County, Ohio on April 18, 1829 and there passed his boyhood days and received a good education in the neighboring school. He learned both the carpenters and the blacksmiths trades and taught school for two years near his home, and two terms in Mercer County, Ohio after his removal here.
On March 5, 1851 he married Clarisa Grub, who was born in Knox County, on March 15, 1832. Her parents were of Dutch decent and Dunkards in religion and were early settlers of Knox County, Ohio.
One year after their marriage, Jeremiah, with his wife, moved to Mercer Couty, Ohio on a farm which his father had entered for him. He set resolutely to clear his land, but misfortune came to him after two weeks. He was injured and was obliged to go on cruthes for a year. Although thus discouraged, he did not give up, but finally succeeded in clearing his farm and building a home, but not until after many hardships and trials.
In 1861, he taught school near his home, and in this home the following children were born, namely : Christianna, who became the wife of Earnest A. Tickle; John S. who moved first to Oklahoma, and afterward to Alberta, Canada were he died June 10, 1945; Mary Jane, who became the wife of Charles George Sells; Louise Ellen, who was married to John Wise and afterward to Simon P. Bridle; William Ezra,who died at the age of three years; Sarah Ellen, who also died at the age of three years; William Curtis, who died on Thirteenth birthday. The good wife died on ------ and was buried in Dutch Creek Cemetary, seven miles West of Rockford, Ohio ( Her grave is located in the third row from the road and about the middle of the row.) On February 19, 1866 Jeremiah Vian was married again, this time to Mary Alexander.
Jeremiah was converted under the ministration of Rev. Michael Johnson, on February 22, 1861 in Mercer County, Ohio and joined the church of the United Brethren in Christ, on that date, and was baptized in the St. Marys River in Van Wert County on October 15, 1861. He remained a faithful and a active member of the church, and October 15, 1871 he was licensed to exhort. On January 13, 1875 he was licensed to preach and received the annuel conference license on August 29, 1877. He was ordained Elder on September 11, 1881 at the Centenary Church in 1889, he adherd faithfully to the contitution of 1841, ( Old Constitution, or Radicals) and the confession of faith of 1845. In the Autumn of 1889 he was appointed to the Greenville Circuit. He was one of the examiners of the Annual Conference and held all the different offices of the church, and performed the marriage ceremonies for a great number of couples. During all of the modern machinery for farming and readily adopted new ideas for the improvement of crops and livestock. In every respect he was a progressive man and foremost among pititioners for roads, bridges, etc. He helped to build a number of bridges and every church in the Township, regardless of denomination. He took particular interest of the times. He was very chartiable and besides raising his own family he raised twelve orphaned children, one from the age of six weeks until the age eighteen years. Several of them were converted in his own home. Politicly he affiliated with the Prohibition Party. He once held the office of Constible, and later was candidate for County Treasurer on the ticket of his party and received the largest number of votes ever received of any candidate of that party in Mercer County. He never sued anyone and never turned a stranger or beggar from his door. He was pre-eminently a good man; loved, respected, and trusted by all. In all causes that will help the coming of his Masters Kingdom, he was interested. He was a great Bible reader and had read the Bible 21 times. He died on April 1, 1899 and his funeral was held at the Zion United Brethern Church, Mercer County, Ohio with the sanctuary completely filled. He was buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetary, Van Wert, Ohio; State Road 33 at the age of 69 years 11 months and 13 days. His tombstone still remains, a perpetual reminder of a life well lived, not for himself alone, but for all with whom he came in contact.
Gods promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that their seed would be as the stars of heaven and as the sand of the sea, has also been applied to the soldier boy John Vian whom King George III sent to America to fight the Colonists, in as much as his decendents are now scattered over the United States and Canada, comprising an innumerable multitude, as the stars of Heaven and the sands of the seas, for number.
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