A Little piece of Paradise… College Hill, Ohio - SELFCRAFT

Andrew Cox 9 was born in Hampshire County, Virginia in 1761, and enlisted September 1776, in Col.Enoch’s regiment. They marched to Ft. Jackson, 50 miles above Pittsburg on the Monongahela River tofight Indians. Cox was a scout and in 1777-1778 traveled the country between forts on the Cheat andMonongahela Rivers as a ranger and Indian spy. He moved to Kentucky 1790, and came to HamiltonCounty in 1799. He first settled on a farm in Clifton, where he lived many years. His wife’s name wasRebecca, but her last name is unknown. He died when he was 91 and was buried in Wesleyan Cemetery.The wife (Mary Elizabeth Cox) of the centenarian, Solomon Eversol, was a daughter and lived to age 97.Edward DeSerisy, of College Hill and Armand DeSerisy are grandsons. Armand was the first mayor ofCumminsville (1865-69) and Deputy U.S. Internal Revenue Collector. Andrew’s daughter, Margaret,married Edward DeSerisy.Tunis Cox/Cock was the son of Major William G. Cox/Cock, a War of 1812 veteran and a stone mason.When Tunis was nine (1787) his parents came from New Jersey to settle at North Bend, Ohio, latermoving to New Burlington. Tunis was the proprietor of the Eleven Mile House also named Farmers’ Reston Hamilton Avenue near New Burlington. Tunis married Nancy Sparks.William Cox came to Colerain Township from New Jersey in 1809 and had become a major in the Warof 1812. By trade he was a stone mason. His children were Martha and Tunis, who owned much ofCollege Hill before the Carys.John Crary 10 was born in Connecticut and joined the Army as volunteer in Vermont. He came toHamilton County in 1809, and bought a small farm on Winton Road which now forms part of SpringGrove Cemetery. He died on his farm at age 91 years. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Finneyburying ground, Winton Road. Silas Crary, later an resident of the Old Man’s Home, 86 years, was theonly surviving son. Rev. B. F. Crary, D.D., editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate, San Francisco wasa grandson and Adam Gray, well known insurance agent in Cincinnati is a great-grandson. John Crary’’sson, Lyman Crary Sr. married Hannah Mills, and they had 7 children, one of which was Abigail Craryborn 2 July 1823. She married July 2, 1848 Moses Nutt Grey (1819-7 Dec. 1915). Moses lived in CollegeHill and Gray Road is named after him.Solomon Eversull purchased 40 acres from Andrew and Rebecca Cox in 1832 for $50. He lived acrossfrom the toll gate on Hamilton Avenue in a frame house for many years. His farm stood where KirbyRoad school now stands. His wife, Mary Elizabeth Cox, died (1878) from burns received when herclothes caught fire from an open fireplace. His obituary was in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,Nov. 9, 1883. “Solomon Eversull dies at an age of one hundred and one years and eighteen days.Solomon Eversull, the only centenarian in Hamilton County, died at his home on the Hamilton pike ,.. hesimply died of old age. He was born in the State of Virginia...on the 15th day of November, 1783. In 1801his parents immigrated to Ohio, and his father (Christian Eversull), being taken sick, died at Parkersburg,W. Va. Young Eversull and his mother (Eva Gephardt) came on to Newmarket, Ohio, where they livedfor four years, and then came to Columbia, where he learned the trade of boat-building. He was one of thebuilders of the Papagon, the first steamboat which ran the waters of the Ohio River. He leaves threechildren; John Eversull, of Mount Airy, who is seventy three years of age; Mrs. Warmer Eversull ofMount Washington; and Miss Rebecca Eversull, who has kindly cared for her aged father for manyyears... Newmarket is in Highland Co., near Hillsboro.”His son, John Cox Eversull, married Eunice Brown, daughter of Mahlon and Harriet Brown. HarryStarr III says: “John was a farmer, a civil engineer and surveyor of Hamilton County for 50 years, and9 Year Book of Ohio Society SAR 1895, containing General Samuel F. Cary's Record of Revolutionary Soldiers, Rare book room,Cincinnati Public library10 Yearbook of the Ohio Society, SAR, 1895, op. cit.46