Benjamin Lockwood married Anna BELL of Chartiers, Washington Co. PA on April 11, 1820. They had fourteen children. Ben Lockwood settled near Dilles Bottom, OH, where he was a farmer and an industrialist engaged in merchandising and boat building. During his lifetime, he owned a coal mine, grain mill, boat landing, vast orchards, and estates employing hundreds of men in his various endeavors. "He lived like a king", but so liberal of heart was he that he gave to each of his many employees a home, equipped with implements, livestock, and the necessities of life." He supported the Union cause during the American Civil War.
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In 1827 Benjamin LOCKWOOD was appointed postmaster at Dille's Bottom, which office he held for forty years. Caldwell's HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, OHIO,
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The first steamboat came down the river past Dilles Bottom, Ohio about 1812, terrorizing the inhabitants along the river banks. Ben became interested in steamboats as a way to transport his products. Within a few years, the Lockwood boat landing at Dilles Bottom was doing a thriving business. In the 1940's Benjamin Lockwood's Steamer, the "CONSIGNEE" was making regular river trips between Wheeling WV and St. Joseph, MO. The River traffic became brisk during the 1849 "Gold Rush". On March 19, 1849 the CONSIGNEE collided with the CAROLINE, and three were drowned. Two months later The Chiro, Illinois DELTA reported on May 22, 1849, that the CONSIGNEE was there yesterday with 240 emigrants bound from Pittsburgh to St. Joseph, Missouri, bound for California, callilng themselves Pittsburgh and California Enterprise Co. For a first hand account by a member of this adventuresome party see: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/Diaries/id/7678/show/621
The steamboat CONSIGNEE was "lost by stranding" at Cape Girardeau, MO, Jan 10, 1852.
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In 1834, the City of Wheeling subscribed $500,000 towards building a railroad line from Wheeling to Pittsburgh. That same year, Benjamin LOCKWOOD built a mill on Pipe Creek, about a mile from the Ohio River at Dilles Bottom, Ohio, The frame building was 40 by 50, three and a half stories high with four runs of buhrs and a capacity of 50 barrels daily." McKelvey, CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO (1903), pp.298-301; Caldwell's HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, OHIO, p.391.
"The Lockwood Mill Dam was built on the rocks above the falls by drilling deep into the lime stone bed and then huge timbers were put in to hold the frame work of the structure, the heavy timbers supporting the heavy sheeting and raising the water level some twelve feet, making it possible to operate an overshot water wheel. This gave power to the largest mill in the Central States, and the largest saw mill at the same time, the saw mill using an undershot water wheel." Gallaher, Thomas Maywood, "SOME THINGS I REMEMBER", as recorded by his niece, Anna Gallaher Oyster, (privately published, Youngstown, Ohio 1960).
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"Steam was introduced at the Benjamin LOCKWOOD mill at Dillies Bottom in 1845. They then opened the No. 8 seam of coal. The first mine was opened across the creek opposite the mill. Later they opened another some distance west, near the bend in the creek, below the falls. A third opening was made within the engine room at the mill. Each of these openings exploded, the last explosion killing two men, in the year 1859. Some fifty years later Mr. William BERRY re-opened this same mine. It again exploded killing three men. U. W. WALLACE, in the year 1872, opened a mine a short distance below the Lockwood openings. This opening exploded, injuring Lou BLAIR seriously. --- "At and near the mouth of Pipe Creek, much coal was taken from the bed of the river from the No. 8 seam, in those days called the 'Pittsburgh vein'. "When the river was low, the workmen built pontoons, placed these over the seam, then pumped or rather bailed the water out, thus exposing the coal which was wedged out, and loaded on boats. This plan of securing coal was among the very beginning of the coal mining industry in this part of Ohio. These pontoons had to be weighted down, the bottom caulked, and when that block of coal was out, the pontoon floated to another area and the work repeated. Besides the local market for this coal, the greater part of it was shipped to Wheeling, West Virginia and other river markets." --- "The LOCKWOODs, while doing business on the river, and making money, met with many financial losses too. Some of their loses were very heavy, the greatest one being the loss of their fine steamer, 'The Perue'. This fine boat was partly built here (in Dille's Bottom), but was later completed at Marietta. It was built at a cost of $25,000, and placed on the Ohio River to operate between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. In the winter of 1852, on one of her trips going up the river, she was met with heavy ice before reaching Wheeling, and was dropped back to Moundsville, W.Va. where she later broke from her moorings, and was carried down the river. The crew stayed with her, and succeeded in landing her three miles below Moundsville just below Baker's Run. More ice came down the river, and the boat was broken up, and was a total loss." --- "In the same year that the boat was demolished by ice, namely, 1852, there occurred in the spring of that year, the highest flood waters that had been recorded up until that time. The torrents carried away the barn that belonged to the Lockwood Tavern. It was the largest barn built in that section of the country at that time. It measured 80 x 60 feet, with a high roof, making it a monster building. So strong was this barn, that it was carried by the flood waters to Possum Creek, and there it hung on the head of the island, until the LOCKWOODs took the building down and brought it back and replaced it on its original foundation. It stood there until 1866, when William and Thomas GALLAHER contracted to move it to near where the Johnson Coal tipple stood, and there it was made into a store building for the Pipe Creek Coal Company." Gallaher, Thomas Maywood, "SOME THINGS I REMEMBER", as recorded by his niece, Anna Gallaher Oyster, (privately published, Youngstown, Ohio 1960).
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Belmont County, Ohio, Mead Township Census, 12 Oct 1850, Household 284-285 lists:
Benjamin LOCKWOOD 53 years farmer Va.
Ann 46 Va.
Jacob A. 26 Ohio
Franklin 25 Ohio
Mary A. 22 Ohio
Alfred 21 Ohio
Eliza J. 18 Ohio
Angeline 15 Ohio
Ephraim C 13 Ohio
Elizabeth R. 11 Ohio
Sylvinus 9 Ohio
William J. 8 Ohio
Emily 3 Ohio
Allen JONES 20
Mary JONES 16
Ludinda TALBATT 50
Lucille BARE 21
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Mead Twp., Belmont County, Ohio Census, 6 Aug 1860, lists
in household 273-250:
Benjamin LOCKWOOD 63 Virginia Farmer
Ann LOCKWOOD 56 Penn.
Franklin LOCKWOOD 33 Ohio
Sylvanus LOCKWOOD 19 Ohio
William LOCKWOOD 12 Ohio
Angeline LOCKWOOD 21 Ohio
Emily LOCKWOOD 14 Ohio
William JONES 21 Ohio

Note: An interesting tale about this "Bloody Bill Jones" can be found in Gallaher, Thomas Maywood, "SOME THINGS I REMEMBER", as recorded by his niece, Anna Gallaher Oyster, (privately published, Youngstown, Ohio 1960), pp.12-14. [ASIN: B0007FTJN2] This book is out of print; but one copy is in the personal library collection of W. L. DeCoursey.
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The Lockwood and Burly Coal Bank was opened about 1865. This firm operated until 1879, when it changed hands and became The Pipe Creek Coal and Iron Company.
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Thomas Maywood GALLAHER (1854-1942) and his father, William Gallaher were employees of Benjamin LOCKWOOD. In his memoirs, he recalled the following:
"Benjamin LOCKWOOD handled more money than any other man of the pioneer days, he being at the head of all the LOCKWOOD interests. While doing a great river business, he was never seen to board a boat of any kind, doing all of his traveling on horseback. All of is long business life, his riding horse was always ready at the hitching post at 6 o'clock in the morning as regular as morning came. Mr. LOCKWOOD rode over the greater part of Belmont County, Ohio and Marshall County, West Virginia, carrying thousands of dollars along with him. A belt was used to carry gold and silver, while great amounts of state notes were carried in his hat. He always wore a high silk or 'stove pipe' hat.
"Mr. LOCKWOOD was just robbed once. Two men stepped out from the shadows of the Fowler mill, and took hold of the bridle of his horse, and then lifting him from the saddle, relieved him of a small amount of money with him at the time. Mr. LOCKWOOD said that he knew both of the men, and that they were not bad fellows, and he did not expose them.
*Mr. LOCKWOOD liked all of us boys, and we all liked him, and he often told us about his boyhood days. He would tell us of being chased by the wolves, saying that one day when a boy, he was sent to the shoe cobblers up Pipe Creek, and had to wait a long time for the work to be finished. While he was waiting it became dark. On the way home he heard the yelping of wolves and as he passed Tyrle Run a pack of wolves dashed after him. It was only for the fleetness of his fine little horse that he lived to tell the story." (This incident, was also recorded in Howe's HISTORY OF OHIO.)
"About 1866, one of Benjamin LOCKWOOD's produce boat, piloted by William GALLAHER and Jake BERRY, "broke into two pieces, while running the chute pass over the falls, the falls pilot having lost control. The cargo was principally flour. They succeeded in landing the broken boat, which was in two pieces, and luckily, the West Virginia State Prison was close at hand, so the convicts were rushed to the scene of the disaster to help unload the cargo of flour, which was gotten out of the water by the use of spike poles." Gallaher, Thomas Maywood, SOME THINGS I REMEMBER, as recorded by his niece, Anna Gallaher Oyster, (privately published, Youngstown, Ohio 1960).
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In 1868 a steam engine exploded at the Lockwood Milling Company at Dilles Bottom, Ohio, "killing two men, Thomas KING and Isaac McCABE. Thereafter steam was discarded and the mill was again operated by water power."
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Mead Twp. (P.O. Bellaire), Belmont County, Ohio 16 June 1870 Census lists:
LOCKWOOD, Benjamin age 72 born W.Va., Farmer
LOCKWOOD, Anna Bell 68 Penna
LOCKWOOD, Emily 23 Ohio
STEWART, Mary 28 Ohio, Domestic Svnt.
STEWART, Nettie 4 Ohio
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The following is from Caldwell's HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, OHIO, pp.164,172-174,390-394,417;

"A celebration of the 80th birthday of Benjamin LOCKWOOD occurred on the 13th of April, 1877. A very pleasant family reunion was held at the residence of Benjamin LOCKWOOD, at Dille's Bottom on the occasion of the celebration of his 80th birth day. A large number of relatives and friends were present, among whom were two younger brothers, Col. J.H. LOCKWOOD of Moundsville, and J.M. LOCKWOOD of Dille's Bottom; two married daughters and their husbands, M.M. FOWLER, of Moundville, and William W. FERREL; eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren; Mrs. Jacob LOCKWOOD, a daughter-in-law, of Belpre, Ohio; W.H. SEYMOUR and wife, of Chicago; Sarah ANSCHUTZ, wife of a deceased brother; Mrs SWEENEY of Washington, Pennsylvania; and Mrs McCORMICK of Allegheny, sisters of Mrs (Anna BELL) LOCKWOOD; and Col. John THOMPSON of Moundsville. The day was spent pleasantly in recounting family history, and in reviewing and strengthening old family ties; in listening to some excellent music; in giving and receiving gifts, and partaking of a sumptuous dinner. After the good things had been properly discussed, Mr. W. H. SEYMOUR read the following acrostic:

IN HONOR OF BENJAMIN LOCKWOOD's 80th BIRTHDAY
Wheeling Creek, Va. 7-13-1797 -- "Lockwood's Falls, Ohio" 4-2-1881.
By Ida Lockwood (WOODBURY) SEYMOUR, New York City.

Beneath the weight of eighty that o'er thy head hath rolled,
Endeared to us who know thy heart is pure as virgin gold.
No longer in the springtime of boyhood's lightsomeness,
Joyous as singing winds that woo the Powers with soft caress,
Afloat upon Times ocean These days too sweet to last,
Mourning alone oftimes recalls the blythe and blissful past.
It lingers ever wistfully around that happy time,
Noting the years which in their train bring manhood's glorious prime.
Linger, sweet memories, while you may for Time must softly roll
Onward, e'er journeying onward until we reach the goal.
Cheerful ever, energetic, proud, honest, true and brave,
Knowledge hath made thy gentle heart "Secure amid the waves."
We honor Thee, old Patriarch, a good race Thou hast run
O'er nature's time allotted as the period of Life's span.
Our voices greet thee lovingly on this--thy natal day,
Dear to us all, long may it be ere thou art called away."
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1880 - Belmont County, Ohio, Mead Twp. Census, Family #132-146.
Benjamin LOCKWOOD 83 Virginia New York Penna.
Annie LOCKWOOD 78 Penna. New Jer. New Jersey
W. W. FERREL 40 W.Va. W.Va. W.Va.
Emily FERREL 33 Ohio Virg. Penna.
Annie W. FERREL 6 Ohio W.Va. Ohio
Carrie FERREL 3 Ohio W.Va. Ohio
William FERREL 2 Ohio W.Va. Ohio
Martha GILMORE 25 Ohio Ohio Ohio
George HIGGINS 14 W.Va. Va. Va.
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Benjamin LOCKWOOD (1797-1881) died on Pipe Creek, Belmont County, Ohio on 2 April 1881. His will, dated 13 May 1879 and filed 26 April 1881, gives a life estate to his wife, Anna B. LOCKWOOD, in the homestead "situated on Pipe Creek in Mead Township, Belmont County, --- it being a part of Sec.18, Twp.4, R3, beginning for the same in the center of Pipe Creek at W.V. WALLACE's line, thence up said creek with the meandering of the same (the mill dam and right backwater for the use of the mills is excepted) to P.A. CRAIG's line above the Presbyterian Church, thence along said CRAIG's line to KIRKLAND's line, thence with KIRKLAND's line to Susan CRAIG's line; thence with said CRAIG's line to Martin CRAIG's line; thence with said M. CRAIG's line to said W.V. WALLACES line; with said WALLACE's line to the place of beginning; ---". He ordered his executors to pay for a monument on the graves of his son Franklin LOCKWOOD and daughters Eliza Jane and Angelina WOODBURY. He bequeathed to his grandsons Benjamin A. LOCKWOOD, $1,000; Lee LOCKWOOD, $500; and to granddaughter Anna LOCKWOOD, $500; all residing in Iowa, heirs at law of David B. LOCKWOOD. He released, son Jacob E. LOCKWOOD from indebtedness in the amount of $8,526. He left $100 to grandson, E. Clinton LOCKWOOD; $500 each to granddaughters Ida B. WOODBERRY and Jeanetta M. WOODBERRY; "ten dollars to be paid in 10 years" to son Ephraim Clinton LOCKWOOD "whose residence is unknown"; $1000 to daughter Elizabeth R. FOWLER; to grandson Benjamin FOWLER, 6 acres of land in Sec.11, Twp.4, R.3 adjoining the residence of W.W. FERREL; $100 to grandson Harry M. FOWLER; $500 to son Sylvanis L. LOCKWOOD, "who is now in the insane hospital at Columbus, Ohio"; $2000 to daughter Emma E. FERREL; furniture and bedding to Emma E. FERREL's two daughters; $100 to be paid to Emma E. FERRELL for use of grandson, William L. FERRELL. The remainder of the estate was to be divided between granddaughters Anna LOCKWOOD and Ida LOCKWOOD, daughters of Jacob E. LOCKWOOD, and to Ell Firday FOWLER, Arthesena FOWLER, Nannie P.S. FOWLER, Eugenia B. FOWLER, and Jessie FOWLER. John IRWIN and -?- McMASTER were named executors. Witnesses were Tho. C. GALLAHER, V.V. WALLACE, and John IRWIN.

A 1975 letter from Margaret KIRKLAND of Columbus, Ohio reads partially as follows: "I was very much interested in Benjamin LOCKWOOD's will. It mentioned my grandfather's property. If you will look at the map (1888 plat map) of Mead Twp., Belmont County, you will note four KIRKLANDS names on it. Samuel KIRKLAND was my paternal grandfather. Henry P. KIRKLAND and William B. KIRKLAND were my uncles. Lucretia KIRKLAND was my Great Uncle Martin KIRKLAND's wife. My grandfather bought his land in seven tracts with his first purchase being in 1850. From the description in the will, the location of Benjamin LOCKWOOD's property would by W. J. BERRY's property on the 1888 Plat Map." See Mead's ATLAS of BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO (1888). p.59.

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FOR A HISTORY OF THE LOCKWOOD FAMILY BIBLE AND A TRANSCRIPT OF THE ENTRIES THERIN SEE THE FAG MEMORIAL FOR BENJAMIN LOCKWOOD'S WIFE, ANNA (BELL) LOCKWOOD, Find A Grave Memorial# 50685294
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See also:
McKelvey, CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO (1903), p.301;
Caldwell's HISTORY OF BELMONT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, OHIO, pp.164,172-174,390-394,417.
Gallaher, Thomas Maywood, "SOME THINGS I REMEMBER", as recorded by his niece, Anna Gallaher Oyster, (privately published, Youngstown, Ohio 1960).
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