Posted by Gordon Carleton on July 18, 19103 at 22:00:30:
Wyandot Co,OH History 1884
Eden Twp.
URIAH L. BACHTELL, son of Joseph and Anna M. (Moore) Bachtell, was born in Stark County, Ohio, August 3, 1837. His parents were natives of Frederick County, Md.; married November 5, 1829, and removed to this county in 1845, purchasing 100 acres, on which they reared a family of eight children- Susan, Samuel, Henry, Uriah L., Mary L., Sarah E., Adah and Emmet E. Henry is deceased, died August 2, 1836. The mother died February 9, 1872, aged sixty-one years; the father July 30, 1883, aged seventy-eight years. Our subject enlisted in Company 1, One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, September, 1864, and served nine months in the late war, being discharged at Nashville, Tenn., June 17, 1865. He returned home in the fall of the same year, and purchased eighty acres of land, on which he still resides. He was married November 16, 1865, to Rachel Bowlby, a native of Wayne County, Ohio, daughter of Emanuel and Sarah (Stall) Bowlby, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in this county in 1852. Their family consisted of twelve children-Samantha, Rachel, Doctor W., Rester A., Lydia, Wellington, Nelson, Marshall, Alice M., William S. and James, all living but Marshall and an infant son. Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Bachtell are the parents of three children-Cyrus F., Thomas and Huldy. The first is deceased, his death occurring September 7, 1874. Mr. Bachtell has always been a farmer, and now owns 100 acres, valued at $80 per acre. In politics, he is a Republican.