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| Jonathan Cable married Elizabeth Crise About 1811 |
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| Jonathan was born June 15, 1782 in Pennsylvania. Jonathan Cable, a pioneer settler of Pike Township, came to Pike Township in 1811 and bought Government lands on which U.S. Quarry Tile Company is located. U.S. Quarry Tile Company is now U.S. Ceramics, which is a customer of Standard Plumbing and Heating Company, which is run by the descendents of Jonathan and Elizabeth. The early spelling of the Cable name places it in Germany. (Kable) The pioneer families also spoke German. Their family tradition classes them as "Pennsylvanian Dutch." While living in Somerset county PA, this family spelled the name Kable, as was the custom of other German families living in other parts of the state of PA. After settling in Ohio this family changed the spelling of the name to Cabell as found in the will of Jonathan Cabell, dated 1845. Soon after the death of Jonathan Cable in 1847 the name was always spelled Cable as was the English spelling of this family as found in England since the Norman Conquest. Since Jonathan Cable left no written family record of real history of his life, tradition must supply less concrete information. All markers in cemeteries in the vicinity of Sandyville, Ohio use this English spelling of the name with one exception, that of a child who died in his fifth year and whose marker among the earlier burials of this family has the name, Charlie E. Cabell carved on a white marble slab. This is probably that of a son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Cabell and not otherwise recorded. This marker has been broken and defaced making identification family relation impossible. The name seems to have been mutated from the name of "Von Kobell" as indicated by its different spellings. The 'Von' was omitted as a matter of convenience. the other mutations followed in an effort to substitute a suitable spelling to represent the umlaut 'o' as found in the original name. Early in 1803 he married Barbara Specht of Somerset county, PA, of whose parentage family tradition fails to note their names. many of the Specht Family settled in Carrol County, Ohio early in the history of the county. Jonathan Cable was a cabinet maker and carpenter as well as a farmer. From U.S. Census reports he lived in Shade Twp., Somerset Co, PA during the years of his first marriage, which seems to have been terminated by the death of his wife early in 1810 soon after the birth of Joseph her third child. His three young children were cared for by relatives, her parents or his brother Jacob until his second marriage in 1811. Early that year or late in 1810 he married Elizabeth Crise (Krise), daughter of Frederick Krise of this same vicinity. A little later members of the Krise family settled near Mineral City, Ohio a few miles from the home of Jonathan Cable. In the early Spring of 1811 Jonathan Cable migrated with his second wife and three children by his first marriage to Carlton, a small settlement near Yellow Creek, Jefferson County, Ohio, where his wife kept inn and tavern while her husband prepared a home in the wilds of Pike Township, Stark County, Ohio. During the Summer of 1811, Jonathan and a hired man built a log house and cleared five acres for the first sowing of wheat. After the wheat was sown Jonathan returned to Carlton to spend with George Young and early settler in this hilly part of Pike Township often called the 'Switzerland of Stark County, Ohio. Here on the North side of Sandy Creek he lived and died. At this time, Pike Township was considered a "Howling Wilderness". Here they began life in all it's frontier ruggedness. Here in their Western home they were not forgetful to entertain the stranger. The native American Indians found hospitable entertainment at the home of the settlers. He had bought a strip of land extending along the Southern border of Pike Township from Nimishillin Creek to Limestone Run and comprising nearly 300 acres of woods which he soon began to clear and to use the trees for building material and fuel. The original log home was located near the old spring. This site was located about 60 rods East of the North-South State highway and was reached by a lane sloping sharply down the hillside. The large overgrown maple trees surrounding the house were planted soon after the new house was built. An orchard of many fruit trees was located between the house and the highway. A hill crest was located West of the highway which divided the Eastern slope midway. In 1812 he moved his wife and three children and few items of personal property by horse and wagon to their new home. The trail from Yellow Creek to Fort Laurens across the hills of Jefferson and Tuscarawas counties was difficult and dangerous because of bridgeless streams and Indian treachery. He crossed Sandy Creek at Downing's Ford in Sandy Township just a few miles east of his chosen farm site. The family had just settled when Jonathan was drafted for the War of 1812 just as they moved into their new home. He was to report to Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth Cable went to work and earned $60 to hire a substitute. she saved the money keeping Tavern in Jefferson County. She went out with her husband and assisted him in rolling logs, piling and burning bush; she could split rails, build fences, cut wood, and work as a regular hand in the harvest field. The Cable maple sugar camp was located across Nimishillin Creek at the extreme east end of his land. The sap from these sugar trees was hauled across the creek by row boat. Upstream from the sugar camp the first grist mill was built and operated for this new community. In the early years of life in this pioneer country the settlers obtained supplies by row boat from a trading post near the present site of Urichsville, Tuscarawas County. An abundance of wild fruits and nuts as well as wild fowls, fishes and deer relieved their hardships in the struggle for food. The Maple Sugar camp and the wild bees of the forest trees supplemented their scarce supply of sugar until the sugar mills supplied their needs. The first combined church and school was established in a log house in Sandyville about 1820. Many of the larger buildings of this vicinity were made by the skilled hands of Jonathan Cable. His woodworking skill served his family through many years of pioneer life. The frame work of these buildings were hand-hewn and the shingles were split clapboards for the roof. Jonathan Cable and his family were incessant workers, which trait prospered the members of this God fearing family. During 30 years of toil and thrift Jonathan Cable had possessed much real estate in the vicinity of Sandyville and Bolivar, Ohio. In 1836 Jonathan Cable laid out an addition to the Village of Bolivar on Poplar Street which now is a beautiful section of that town. He provided homes for each of his children at the time of marriage. Continued on page two |
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