Sixth Generation

537. John Rutherford Pease was born on 1 February 1804 in Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY. He died on 2 February 1860 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH.⁴ Upon John Pease's death, Oscar Ball of Fremont was appointed guardian of his minor children, April 1, 1869. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. He was a hardware merchant. He emigrated to Ohio in 1835 and settled in Fremont, OH. He became a tinsmith in Fremont. He was a Democrat and he liked to gamble.
"When John R. Pease first came to Ohio, he spent four weeks with us at Delaware; his Mother was a beloved sister of my Husband's. His father died when he was an infant; he was fond of chequers. I advised him to learn chess and taught him the names of the men and their moves; he could beat me as soon as he knew the moves..."
Sophia Birchard Hayes in Fanny A. Hayes Platt's Scrapbook.

"He peddled books in Vermont when quite young; settled in Burlington, VT. Emigrated to Lower Sandusky (Fremont) Ohio and carried on a mixed business: tin ware, beeswax, etc..."
Elinor Mead Howells "Hayes Genealogy"

John Rutherford Pease and Althea Underhill were married in 1843/4 in OH. Althea Underhill was born in 1823 in Thompson, Seneca Co., OH. She died on 25 November 1844 in Lower Sandusky (later Fremont) , Sandusky Co., OH.

John Rutherford Pease and Althea Underhill had the following children:

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Althea Pease was born on 25 November 1844 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. She died on 4 July 1845 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH.

John Rutherford Pease and Mary Elizabeth Mead were married on 18 October 1848 in North Adams, Berkshire Co., MA. Mary Elizabeth Mead was born on 21 November 1827 in Albany, Albany Co., NY. She appeared in the census in 1860 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. Mary E. Pease, 32 years, $25,000 real property, $500 Personal property;
John R. Pease, 11; Edwin E. Pease, 9; Helen Pease, 7; Frances (Fanny) Pease, 4; Hiram L. Pease, 5/12ths.- all born Ohio; Elizabeth Billar, 21 years, servant, born Hesse Darmstadt; Jason Peck, 21 years, servant, b. Ohio. She died of pneumonia on 17 January 1873 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH.

John Rutherford Pease and Mary Elizabeth Mead had the following children:

+774	i.	John Rutherford Pease.
+775	ii.	Edwin Elliot "Ed" Pease.
+776	iii.	Helen "Nellie" Pease.
777	iv.	Frances "Fanny" Pease was born on 26 August 1856 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. She died on 1 January 1940 in Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. She lived in 812 Ewing St., Fremont, OH in 1940. Fanny was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH. "Dear Fanny Pease's birthday - 70! I took her over to Rainbow Gardens for 6 o'clock dinner. We walked back, slowly, and enjoyed it all" Lucy E. Keeler, Diary, Aug. 26, 1926 vol. 14, pg. 12 From Fremont News-Messenger Obituary, Jan. 2,1940- "She studied at Cincinnati, at the Boston Conservatory and in New Jersey, as well as at the summer school of Music at Chautauqua, NY. For more than 50 years, who had a studio and taught piano in Fremont" She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fremont and many organizations.
+778	v.	Hiram Larchar Pease.