Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 7 February 2005

• Union Village and the Shakers of Warren County, Ohio
• Ransom S. Lockwood Obituary - The Lebanon Gazette 18 Jul 1889
• photo of gravestone at Woodhill Cemetery

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RANSOM S. LOCKWOOD, Justice of the Peace, Franklin; son of John and Phoebe (Seeley) Lockwood, was born in Union Village, Warren County, February 13, 1810. His father was a carpenter and millwright, and built the first frame house in Union Village, which still stands, opposite the church. His parents were of the Shaker belief; this sect at that time owned 5,000 acres of land in that vicinity, and were like a little empire; they had no schoolhouses, and would not allow their children to attend the district schools, so our subject never received a day's learning inside a schoolhouse; in fact, when he attained his 8th year, his education was ended; when 12 years old, he went to learn the tailor's trade, at which he worked winters till 1833, laying brick during the summers; he then went to Springfield on foot, with a companion by the name of Farr; here they engaged in making clay smoking pipes; they made about fifteen thousand, then gave it up, and he went to Minktown and worked at the tailor's trade with a Mr. Stephenson one year; he then went to Waynesville and worked at his trade till 1835, when he came to Franklin and engaged as journeyman tailor for Moses McPheeters' till the time of Mr. McPheeters' death, which occurred in 1837, when himself and Gabriel Scharf took the business, which they carried on nearly ten years. In 1846, he was elected Justice of the Peace, which office