John Black Lydick
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Sep 1834 - Bethany, Brooke, VA (Later WV) 54
Christening:
Death: 5 Feb 1914 - Quaker City, Guernsey, OH 54
Burial: 7 Feb 1914 - Quaker City, Guernsey, OH 237
Cause of Death:
Events
• He appeared on the census in 1840 in , Marshall, VA (Later WV). 506 Listed with Samuel Leydick (male 5-10).
• He owned land on 7 May 1855 in Samuel Lydick Run, Marshall, VA (Later WV). 968 Named in deed as heir of Samuel Lydick. Land originally bought by Samuel Lydick from Robert C. Woods on 8 Apr 1845.
• Military: Civil War - Union Army, 29 Jul 1862, WV. 237 2nd Lieutenant in Company C, West Virginia Volunteers
Parents
Father: Samuel Lydick (1798-1850) 54
Mother: Catherine Fair/Fehr (1805- ) 54
Spouses and Children
1. *Unknown
Children:
1. Henry Luster Lydick
2. Mary J. Luster ( - 2 Nov 1893) 237
Marriage: 13 Apr 1854 237
Children:
1. Henry Luster Lydick
3. Mary C. Boyd
Notes
Burial Notes:
He is buried at Green Lawn Cemetery.General:
John Black Lydick (most of the information in this biography comes from John B.'s Civil War Pension file)
John B. was the seventh child of Samuel and Catherine Fair Lydick, born September 20, 1834 near Bethany, Brooke County, Virginia (now West Virginia).1 By the time he was six years old the family had moved to Glen Easton, Marshall County, Virginia (now West Virginia) where his father (Samuel) had a blacksmith shop, and that is where he lived until 1856. His father died in 1850 when he was sixteen, and his mother shortly after. He "boarded" with his brother William for about two years after William's marriage (which was in 1852) and worked for William on his farm. From his pension file we know that his sister nursed him through an "attack of measles". She said that was "about 1854 and about two years before he was married".
He married Mary J. Luster on April 13, 1854 and they made a home for a few years in Glen Easton where he rented a blacksmith shop from his brother Jesse. He worked alone in the shop as a blacksmith and wagon maker until he bought a saw mill at Rosby's Rock, about 1858. They lived in the village of Rosby's Rock "about fifty yards from the general store". He and his brother Josiah ran the saw mill together for a few years and then he bought Josiah's interest in the mill after they had some financial problems (which created bad feelings between the two men). John B. ran the sawmill until the time of his enlistment. While he was living in Glen Easton, John B. also had a gristmill business which he ran for a while and then sold to John M. Harris.
He was commissioned as a recruiting officer for the Union Army and held that position until his enlistment on July 29, 1862 as a Second Lieutenant in Company C, West Virginia Infantry Volunteers. He resigned from the army on December 25, 1862 following a service-related injury. For more information about his military service, please go to "Lydicks in Military Service" at this website.
"After he returned from the army he was not able to do anything for nearly a year. Then he bought a gristmill at Cameron (Marshall County) and I remember being there one day, a Saturday, when there was a good deal of wheat to be handled and saw him take hold of a sack and lift it without thinking of what he was doing and he sank right down and was under the care of the late Dr. Stidger for two or three weeks afterward," so stated his brother Jesse Lydick, describing how John B. was affected by his hernia injury.
Sometime after the war, John B. moved his family to Quaker City, Ohio. It might have been around 1868, because a Guernsey County resident stated for the Pension examiner that he knew John B. Lydick since 1868. In February, 1879 he was living in Quaker City, Guernsey County, Ohio where he was a building contractor as well as mayor of the village. Still residing there in January, 1886. On December 2, 1887 he was in Uniontown, Bourbon County, Kansas and was still there on January 20, 1888, although it is not clear if he was residing there or just visiting.
On November 2, 1893 his wife Mary J. (Luster) Lydick died in Wilmot, Cowley County, Kansas. By 1896 he was living again in Quaker City, Ohio and married his second wife Mary C. Boyd Hoover, the widow of John F. Hoover, on December 28, 1896. A few details about Mary C. Boyd: she married John Hoover on August 12, 1890, and he died about February 9, 1892. She was still alive on November 3, 1928.
John Black Lydick died February 5, 1914. His death certificate, a copy included in his pension file, indicated that he died of pneumonia, his occupation was merchant, and that he was buried February 7, 1914 at Green Lawn, Quaker City, Ohio. The death certificate was completed by John B.'s son Dent, who (incorrectly) showed John B. Lydick's parents as: father, Jacob Lydick born Pennsylvania; and mother, Catharine Hannah, birthplace unknown. 237