Jonah Shreve
Jonah Shreve was born in Holmes County, Ohio, in 1832, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (McConkey) Shreve; former born in Pennsylvania in 1806, and latter a daughter of Thomas McConkey, who was a native of Ireland. The Shreve family were originally from Wales. Samuel Shreve was an early settler of Holmes County, where he bought eighty acres of partially cleared land, which he farmed, also working at his trade, blacksmithing; he died in the prime of life; his widow died in 1876, aged sixty-two years. They had a family of eight children: Hananh, John, Jonah, Thomas, L.D., Nancy Jane, Mary E., and Lydia M.
Jonah was but twelve years of age when his father died, and there being five children younger than himself he was obliged to assist in his own maintenance, and went to live with strangers, working on farms until manhood. The family removed to this county, and here the children were reared. On reaching manhood our subject bought the homesteead of the rest of the heirs, and to this he afterward added forty acres, having now a valuable, well improved farm. Mr. Shreve was married in 1863 to Susan, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Lightcap, and they have had five children: Elmer, Arla D., Mary Amanda, Clement L. and Elizabeth J.; all now deceased except Elizabeth J., Elmer having died in July, 1865. Mrs. and Mrs. Shreve are members of the Disciples Church, of which he has been a deacon sixteen years; in politics he is a Democrat.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889