BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.

Page 698.

HIRAM McGAUGHEY, well known as one of the prosperous farmers of Smith township,
was born March 14, 1817, and is a son of William and Ann (Boyd) McGaughey. His
father was born in Maryland, October 21, 1774, and was married in his native
state, coming from there 1810 to Ohio. He was a resident of St. Clairsville for
a short time, and then purchased a farm in Smith township, where he resided
until his death, in August, 1834. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving
throughout that struggle. By his wife, who died two years before his decease,
he had four sons and eight daughters. Hiram, one of these children of the
pioneer home, was reared amid the scenes of early settlement, with such
schooling as was possible, and he has ever since followed the vocation of
farming, which he then learned. He was married April 24, 1845, to Elizabeth
Watt, a daughter of Thomas and Jane Watt, natives of Hartford county, Md.,
who settled near Jacobsburgh, Belmont county, in 1816. To this union six chil-
dren were born, of whom two daughters survive. Thomas Watt died in July, 1827,
and his wife, August 29, 1889, at the age of ninety-five years. Mr. and Mrs.
McGaughey are members of the Presbyterian church near Centerville, of which
he has been a deacon for a number of years, and is at present trustee.