Andrew Hale

		b. December 5, 1811 

m. Jane Cozad Mather 

d. 1864 

Figure 1.7: Andrew Hale

Figure 1.8: Jane Mather Hale

Andrew Hale, of Bath, Ohio, son of Jonathan Hale and Mercy Sanderson Piper, was a brother to Sophronia Hale Hammond. Andrew Hale lived with his family in ``Old Brick'', home of his father and continued farming with him on the homestead until he married and later built a wing onto Old Brick for his family as it grew. It was he rather than his father who carried most of the burden of farming the homestead after the death of Jonathan's wife Mercy J. Piper Hammond in 1829.

Figure 1.9: Pamelia L. (Millie) Hale Oviatt

Jane Cozad Mather was a daughter of Sarah Cozad by her first husband. Sarah, a widow, married Jonathan Hale after the death of his first wife. Sarah Cozad Hale was known as a teacher and able widow by people in Bath, Ohio though she lived in Euclid, which has long since become a part of Cleveland, Ohio. She was an educated, able person who had children of her own by her former marriage. The blended family was sufficiently harmonious for one son, Andrew, to choose Sarah's daughter Jane Cozad Mather as his wife and the oldest son William Hale married Sarah's orphaned niece and adopted daughter, Harriet Carlton, who had come to live with Sarah Cozad Hale in her new home and to help with the house and family.

Both younger marriages were successful and so was Jonathan's second marriage, as Sarah Hale joined into family and community activities and bore three more Hale children to make a total of ten for Jonathan. Andrew and Jane Mather Hale had six children.

Figure 1.10: Clarissa (Clara) Hale Ashman

It was Andrew Hale who purchased land from other members of the family from time to time to reassemble the rather large holding of his father Jonathan. In effect, Andrew held the Old Homestead together for another generation.

Figure 1.11: Sophronia J. Hale Ritchie

Pamelia L. (Millie) Hale, a daughter of Andrew and Jane Hale, corresponded with Charles N. Hammond while he was a soldier in Tennessee and some of his letters to ``Millie'' are included in Chapter 3. Pamelia married W. Charles Oviatt, adopted son of Pamelia Hale and William C. Oviatt. Eveline Bosworth Cook wrote about her on page .

Photos before 1871 were a relatively costly item, and these pictures, from the Hammond Photo Album[2] reveal Andrew and Jane's family as not only ``good looking'' but rather prosperous.

Clarissa (Clara) Hale was the third of Jane and Andrew Hale's girls. She later married L. H. Ashman and they had two daughters, Kate M. and Fannie M. Ashman.

Sophronia (Fronie) J. Hale was the daughter of Andrew and Jane Hale who married the dashing young entreprenuer Samuel J. Ritchie, who turned into a millionaire in the 1870-1890 period, and built a lovely mansion in Akron for his wife and daughter, Clara Bell Ritchie. Sophronia J. Ritchie and her daughter were the ones who at Clara Bell's death gave a million dollars plus the Jonathan Hale Farm to the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1956 to be a teaching museum in remembrance of the work of early Connecticut pioneers in this region.