Erasmus B. Toland
Erasmus B. Toland was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, September 29,1808. He is a son of Andrew and Rachel (Montgomery) Toland. When he had attained the age of thirteen years, or in 1821, he moved with his parents to Morgan County, Virginia, where, on the 9th of April, 1829, he married Miss Sarah A., daughter of John Johnson, of Morgan County, where she was born January 25, 1809. Mr. and Mrs. Toland came to Ohio in October, 1829, and located in Miami County, where they remained about four years, or until October, 1833, when they came to this county, purchased eighty acres of land in the south half of section 20, Dinsmore Township, on which he resided about forty-nine years, and has been a citizen of Dinsmore Township since 1833. His companion died May 13, 1840, leaving him with five small children, three of whom grew to years of maturity, viz., Ann M., John W., and Nancy C. John W. died at Memphis, Tennessee, while serving in the late war. Nancy C. died in May, 1878. Ann M. is now living in Sidney. On the 10th of December, 1840, Mr. Toland married Nancy Sheets, of Miami County, where she was born September 23, 1819, by whom he reared seven children, Robert M., Alfred E., Susannah, George B., James N., Charles C. and Martha, all of whom are yet living. Alfred E. and Robert M. served in the war of 1861. Mrs. Toland departed this life April 28, 1856. On the 11th of October, 1857, Mr. Toland married for his third wife Mary Hams, then of Dinsmore Township, daughter of Thomas and Mercy Hams. Miss Hams was born in Washington County, Pa., December 11, 1811. She came to Shelby County with her parents in 1835, and located in Dinsmore Township.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883