Going back south again now, the Lollar Home Place, just across from the end of the long lane leading to the Veach house. The first acres of the Lollar Farm were purchased by Samuel French.

Samuel French came to Ohio in 1801 from New Jersey, first building a "stone house" in Washington Township. But in the 1830s he bought several pieces of property on The Ridge, one of which became the nucleus of The Lollar Farm near the south end of The Ridge and the other immediately adjoining the school house to the north. He was married three times. A child of his marriage with Nancy Brandenburg was Eliza French Lollar Tingle; and of his marriage with Nancy Sibbitt, was Samuel French, Jr.
His daughter, Eliza, was married in 1853 to David Lollar II, whose father and mother David and Phoebe Dunham Lollar had in 1800 bought a hundred acres on what is now Catalpa Ridge on Cook Road. The younger David and Eliza had a baby son, Robert Bruce Lollar, and were established on a farm they rented off of south Rt. 42, when, in September 5th and 12th , 1856 issues of the Western Star there appeared an ad, in large letters, followed by exclamation points, "Going West, Public Sale!!" And they did go west to Washington County, in southeast Iowa. They bought 100 acres of "wild land" and an undeveloped town lot. Then, in November, of 1857, they returned to Lebanon and David died on January 2, 1858, at the age of 31. It is not known why they went to Iowa, although it is conjectured it might have had to do with the Mormon cross-country migration which was going on then. Iowa was as far as the railroad went at that time and Mormon push-cart treks began from that point. Or it perhaps had to do with issues of slavery so predominant before the Civil War.

After David died, Eliza was given the place at the south end of The Ridge and lived there with little Robert Bruce. In 1865, Eliza was married again, this time to William Tingle. William Tingle was the grandson of Jedediah Tingle, one of the earliest founders of the town of Lebanon who built a house in 1817, a beautiful red brick house which is still standing on what is now Rt. 123 west of Lebanon.

Jedediah's son, Samuel Parker Tingle (William's father) was an itinerant preacher whose rounds took him north to Allen County, where he settled, and William Tingle lived his early years. At one time William was sheriff of Allen County, married twice, and had children. When he came back to Lebanon, the children stayed in Allen County. When William died he specifically bequeathed to Eliza all of the land he accumulated surrounding the original piece Eliza got from her father . Some of William's children in Allen County challenged the will but the courts denied their claim. However, Eliza willingly bestowed $1,000 on each of the children and grandchildren.

Since Robert Bruce was so young when his father, the 2nd David Lollar died, guardians were appointed, one of them being Allison Scott, whom we have met before.
In 1876, Bruce married Kittie Jameson. Three years earlier he had purchased 34 acres, containing a house, just to the north of the Home Place, and presumably he and Kittie lived there until William Tingle died and he went back to help his mother with the Home Place.

Bruce and Kittie's son, Harry David Lollar, as a young man went to business school in Dayton and worked in New Jersey and Indianapolis, and other places, until his father Bruce died in 1911 and he came home to help his mother, Kittie, with the big farm.

In 1914 Harry married Ruby Miller, who had grown up on the Miller homestead on what is now called Miller Road north of Lebanon. In 1923 they built a house on the 34 acres that Bruce had purchased and moved out of the Home Place. They had two children, Robert Miller and Katherine Lucille, who in the 60s and 70s sold most of the Lollar farm to Henkle Scheuler but kept the last 15 acres including the Home Place to sell to Robert and Rosalie McClung, who still own it and are taking beautiful care of it. By that time part of those acres had been incorporated into the town of Lebanon so they could build their Industrial Park farther down. Robert Lollar spent most of his life at the University of Cincinnati and when he died in 1997 was professor emeritus there. Katherine married an artist and they built a home on Siesta Key, Sarasota, Florida in 1948.
She has now come back to Warren county to live at Otterbein.

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