Ithamer J. POTTS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Lewis R. Potts

Notes:

Information from Mariana L Zuelsdorf -
Source: History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio by J.A. Caldwell, page 420
I.J. Potts, eldest son of Lewis R. Potts, was born on the farm on which he now resides in York Township, Belmont County, on the 19th of February, 1825. His father was the first miller at Captina Mills, built by Judge Dillon, in 1822. About the year 1832, his father removed to West Wheeling, where our subject obtained a common school education. He worked with his father in West Wheeling mills until 1841, which he returned to Captina and hired with Michael Dorsey as a miller. In 1849 he formed a partnership with Michael and L.R. Dorsey, which continued ten years, when L.R. retired. The firm of Dorsey and Potts then continued until 1872, when Mr. Potts purchased Dorsey's interest, and the business has since been carried on in the name of I.J. Potts & Sons. On the 17th of October, 1849, Mr. Potts was married to Mary J. Bryson, of Captina. They are the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter. For about thirty years, Mr. Potts has made the milling and mercantile business a success. In the fall of 1875, he was elected commissioner of Belmont County, and served until 1878, when he was re-elected and is filling the office at present. He is recognized as a prudent, able and popular official.

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In the year 1865, I J Potts, Esq., and Isaac Jones found below a projecting ledge of rocks up Cove run, about a half a mile from its mouth, and near where the battle of Captina was fought, a stone about two feet square, bearing these initials carved legibly upon it - - "L W 1790."

Ithamer married Mary Jane BRYSON on 07 Oct 1849 in Belmont County, Ohio. Mary (daughter of John BRYSON and Susanna GATES) was born on 26 Aug 1826 in Belmont Co., Ohio; died on 21 May 1911; was buried in Mt. Rose Cemetery, Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward Bruce POTTS was born about 1850 in Ohio.
2. Idanora POTTS was born about 1857 in Ohio; died in 1863; was buried in Dover Cemetery, Powhatan Point, Belmont County, Ohio.
3. Eugene R. POTTS was born on 16 Feb 1852 in Captina, Belmont County, Ohio; died in 1942; was buried on 02 Jun 1942 in Powhatan Point Cemetery, Powhatan Point, Belmont County, Ohio.
4. Louis Bryson POTTS was born in 1855 in Ohio.