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Just a little history on the above group: Clayton Tope was our rural mail carrier for years. He was married to
Hildred, who was a wonderful musician. They lived out of town for years and in their later years, moved to town.
Normal Malone was a joy to be around, always making you laugh. He ran the feed store in town for years. Roy
Rainsberger lived on "Ginger Hill" above the ME Church with his wife Murl. They were a great couple and are
pictured again on page 16 of the web page. John Jones and Bertha lived on E. Main Street, across from the Christ
Community Church. Bernett and his wife Ethel lived on North Smith St. Marshall McCarty lived down the street on the
other side. Harry Keifer operated the feed store at one time and also ran the grocery on the corner of N.Ohio and
Main. Paul Long lives on N. Smith St. across from where Bernett lived and is the son-in-law of Clarence King, who is
next. They are seen on page 38 - he and his wife, Rose. Bob Hoobler and Lucille lived on Main Street and Dwight
Magee lived nextdoor to them for a number of years. Jack Jones and his wife lived on N. Smith Street, across from
Paul Long, but down a lot. He operated a fine restaurant for years on Main Street. I remember the lines on Sunday.
Gar Huffman and his wife Kate lived on E. Main St., up from the CC Church. Wayne Roof and his wife Ruth lived on
N. Arch Street (In fact we bought our first house from them.) and then moved to S.Smith Street. He was also a rural
mail carrier and was the Postmaster in town for several years.
Gene Anderson and his wife Shirley live on Antigua Road still. Lester Borland moved to Florida. Don Borland is
unknown to me but lived in the area most of his life and Doc Brooks moved from town to Zanesville with his wife Reva
and son, Jimmy. I believe the unknown gentleman was a district officer.

FREDERICK L. ROOF. That a man has attained to
venerable age is a matter of little more than biographical
significance, but if those years which give him this status have
borne their achievement, then the life record of that man can not
fall to offer both incentive and inspiration. Frederick L. Roof,
who is now living in retirement in the village of Dellroy, Carroll
County, has passed the eightieth milestone on the journey of
life, and in the evening shadows that lengthen from the golden
west there is to be discerned in his career the transfiguring glow
of large and worthy service as one of the world's workers and
the gentle radiance indicative of nobility of character and loyal
stewardship. He is one of the venerable native sons still residing
within the borders of Carroll County and is in every sense
entitled to recognition in this history.
Mr. Roof was born on the old family homestead farm, in Monroe
Township, Carroll County, November 28, 1841, and is a son of
Frederick and Sarah (Albaugh) Roof, to whom was given a due
share of pioneer distinction in this favored section of the
Buckeye State when Frederick Roof entered Government land in
Jefferson County in 1812. The memory of Mr. Roof compasses
much of the period of development and progress in Carroll
County, and his boyhood and youth were marked by effective
service in connection with the reclamation and other activities of
the home farm, the while he attended during the winter terms the
pioneer schools of the locality. His sturdy young manhood
brought to him the graver duties and responsibilities born of
patriotism, and in 1862 he enlisted at Carrollton, for service as a
soldier in the Civil war. He became a member of Company F,
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
thereafter experienced the full tension of the great conflict
through which the integrity of the nation was preserved, his
service having continued until the virtual close of the war, in
1865, in which year he was mustered out and received
honorable discharge. After the tragic death of President Lincoln
Mr. Roof was one of those honored by appointment to service as
bodyguards at the bier of the martyred president, in which
connection his service continued twenty-four hours, in alternate
watches of four hours' duration. He took part in the second
battle of the Wilderness and many skirmishes and other minor
engagements, and finally he suffered a severe attack of typhoid
fever, as a result of which he was placed in a hospital at Harper's
Ferry and was at one time reported dead. He recovered,
however, in due course of time and after his return to his native
county he married Miss Sarah Ann Tressel, daughter of Daniel
and Abbie (Alfred) Tressel. The marriage was solemnized in the
year 1867, and concerning the children resultant therefrom it
may be stated that the eldest is Daniel Ira, who married Miss Bird
Eick, of Tuscarawas County, their home being now at Canton,
that county, and their one child, Gladys, being a young woman
of eighteen years at the time of this writing, in the winter of
1920-21. Emmet C., the second son, is individually mentioned in
an appending review. Ada Florence is the wife of Alva Hoobler,
of Rose Township, Carroll County, and their daughter Zana is
the wife of Jeremiah Baxter of Dellroy, and they have two
children. Earl and Wayne. Llody Clark Hoobler, their son, is
again residing in Carroll County, after having served loyally as
an American soldier in connection with the great World war, he
being an active member of the American legion. Daisy May is
the wife of Walter Beatty, of East Liverpool, Ohio, and they have
four children: Frederick David, Donald, Dorothy and Elizabeth.
William Howard, the fourth son, resides at Dellroy. Maude Pearl
died in childhood on the 1st of January, 1885. Grover Cleveland
is actively associated with farm industry in Center Township,
Carroll County. Alfred Loy and Lewis Franklin, youngest of the
sons, are specifically mentioned in sketches that follow this
article.
Frederick L. Roof, to whom this review is dedicated, gave
virtually his entire active career to the basic industries of
agriculture and stock-growing, in connection with which he
gained substantial success and high standing. After the close of
the Civil War he resumed his association with the activities of the
old home farm, which comprised at that time 160 acres. This
property came into his possession and with the passing years he
added gradually to the area of his landed estate in Carroll
County until it comprised 280 acres. This finely improved
property still continues in his possession, and offers lasting
evidence of his ability and progressiveness as a farmer and
business man. He has so ordered his course in all of the
relations of life as to merit and receive the unqualified esteem of
his fellow men, and has been a loyal and public-spirited citizen.
He has never deviated from the line of strict allegiance to the
cause of the democratic party, and while not imbued at any time
with desire for office, his civic loyalty was shown in his effective
service as trustee of Monroe Township. He and his wife are
earnest communicants of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, in Rose
Township. He remained on the old home farm until 1916 and
since that year has lived retired in a pleasant home in the Village
of Dellroy.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The Lewis
Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, Pages 976 977.

LEWIS F. ROOF is a young man who is fortified with
the energy and practical experience which conserve
success in connection with productive farm enterprise,
and in this basic field of industry he is associated, under
partnership alliance, with his brother, Alfred L., of whom
individual mention is made on preceding pages. They
have active charge of the fine old homestead farm of
280 acres, in Monroe Township, Carroll County. On
this farm lewis Franklin Roof was born, the youngest of
the six sons and two daughters of Frederick L. and
Sarah (Tressel) Roof.
Mr. Roof was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm
and in the meanwhile continued to attend the Atwood
public school until he had attained to the age of
seventeen years. He has been continuously associated
with the activities of the old home farm from his boyhood
to the present time and here is a vital and progressive
exponent of modern methods and policies of agriculture
and live-stock enterprise. He is a staunch democrat,
and his personal popularity in the home community was
significantly shown when, in the fall of 1919, he was
elected trustee of his native township, for the regular
term of two years. He and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the village of Dellroy.
June 12, 1915, recorded the marriage of Mr. Roof to
Miss Myrtle W. McQueen, daughter of John H. and Cora
A. (Teeter) McQueen, of Dellroy, and the one child of
this union is Wayne Francis, who was born in the year
1916.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 978.

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ALFRED LOY ROOF is associated with his
youngest brother, Lewis F., in progressive farm
enterprise on one of the fine landed estates of Monroe
Township, Carroll County, where they utilize in their
operations a tract of 280 acres, besides which the
subject of this sketch individually owns eighty-nine
acres in the same township. The brothers are
numbered among the most enterprising and successful
farmers of the younger generation in their native
township and on other pages of this work individual
mention is made also of the younger brother.
Alfred Loy Roof was born on the old homestead farm,
in Monroe Township, October 20, 1888, and was the
fifth in order of birth of the six sons and two daughters
of Frederick L. and Sarah (Tressel) Roof. Alfred L.
received the advantages of the district schools and
attended the village schools of Dellroy for one term. At
the age of twenty-four years he initiated an
apprenticeship to the trade of telegraphist, at Bayard,
Columbiana, County, and after perfecting himself in the
art he continued to be employed two years as an
operator in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Within this period he held positions at various places,
including alliance, Malvern, Waynesburg, Steubenville,
Brilliant, Martins Ferry and Yorkville. Thereafter he
passed one year as a tire builder for one of the great
rubber manufacturing companies in the City of Akron,
and he then returned to the old home farm, in the
operations of which he is now associated with his
youngest brother, under partnership relations. The
brothers exemplify utmost vigor and progressiveness
as agriculturists and stock growers and are contributing
materially to the prestige of their native county as a
center of farm industry. Mr. Roof is a staunch
democrat, is affiliated with the Grange at Atwood, and
he and his wife are zealous communicants of the
Lutheran Church in Rose Township, of which he is
serving as a trustee.
The year 1915 recorded the marriage of Mr. Roof to
Miss Floy Sharp, daughter of Samuel C. and Margaret
Elizabeth (Beamer) Sharp, of Sherrodsville, and they
have a fine little son, Chester Lloyd, who was born in
1917.
"History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio," The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1921, Volume II, page 978.