My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM B. PETTIJOHN (deceased). The subject of this memoir was born in Brown County in 1807, and was a son of James and Elizabeth (Johnson) Pettijohn, who were natives of the Old Dominion and emigrated to Brown County among the early settlers. William B. Pettijohn was a private in the war of 1812, and died June 27, 1859; Mrs. Pettijohn died in April, 1868. Granville O., next to the youngest child of William B. Pettijohn, was born April 24, 1841. There were seven in the family, of whom five are living, viz., Johnson; Sarah M., wife of Rev. G. S. McLaughlin; Norman; Granville O., and Frances P., wife of J. L. Kennedy. Granville was reared on a farm. August 24, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Fiftieth Regimeut Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He fought in the following battles: Perryville, Kenesaw Mountain, Burnt Hickory and in all the engagements on the famous Atlanta campaign up to Columbia, where he took sick, and, in consequence of which, was discharged July, 1865. He was married in October, 1873, to Sarah S. McNeeley, by whom he had four children, viz., Wilber B., Ora M. and Orpheus, and Bessie, deceased. Mr. Pettijohn owns fifty-four acres of the old homestead, and is engaged in farming. He and wife are connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, he adheres to Republican principles.