Julia C. Case
Julia C. Case, widow of Gad Case, who was born in Canton, Hartford Co., Conn., May 5, 1796, son of Silas and Mary Case. The boyhood of Gad Case was passed on a farm and his educational advantages were limited to the common schools. At the age of seventeen he learned the edge-tool and blacksmith trade, which he followed until 1836, In 1833 he moved to New York, and in 1838 to Ohio. In this year, also, he married Mrs. Tirzah Gibbons, widow of Alpheus Gibbons. She was born April 18, 1796, at Granville, Mass.; came to Ohio and located in Rootstown Township, this county, about the year 1821. She went to Colorado May 5, 1873, and died on the 8th of the same month, while visiting friends there, after a long and useful Christian life, aged seventy-seven years. Mr. Case then married, December 31, 1874, Julia C. Porter, born in Hinsdale, Mass., April 11, 1829, daughter of James and Lourinda Porter (deceased). Mr. Case was Deacon of the Congregational Church for more than twenty years, and served the people in many township offices of trust. He died June 20, 1883, leaving his widow in comfortable circumstances.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885