ZACHARY WATHEY.  The Wathey family is one of the oldest and best known in Augusta Township.  John Wathey, father of our subject, was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1786, and was one of a party who left their native land in the year 1818 to seek a home in the New World.  After a voyage of seven weeks they landed at Baltimore, Md.; there they purchased horses and wagons, and drove to and settled in what is now known as Augusta Township, Carroll County (this township at that time being a part of Columbiana County), Ohio.  Here they built for themselves homes, which, although log cabins of the primitive style, were yet to them the dearest spots on earth.  Ann Richardson, who became his wife, was also a native of England, coming to this country in 1819, in which year they were married, began the struggle of life and underwent hardships of which the present generation know but little.  To this union five children were born – three boys and two girls.  In October, 1828, sorrow entered the little circle, and death took the faithful wife and good mother from their midst.  In 1829 Mr. Wathey was married to Edith Walton, of the same township, to which union two children were born:  Henry and Mary Ann.  John Wathey died in June, 1877.  Mrs. Wathey, after rearing and caring for the children by Mr. Wathey’s first marriage, as her own, finally died at her daughter’s home in Petrolia, Penn., in 1890.

Zachary Wathey, whose name heads this biographical sketch, is a son of John, the pioneer, and was born July 18, 1822, on the farm alluded to above, and was reared in Augusta Township.  As the advantages for obtaining an education at that time were limited, he did not receive the book education that the present generation boast of; but by years of experience and dealing with practical people, he obtained what is most valuable – a practical business education.  October 22, 1858, at the age of twenty-six, Mr. Wathey married Miss Mary Permar, who was reared in same township, and whose parents were of French descent.  Soon after marriage they settled in Washington Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, where Mr. Wathey, with Josiah C. Shaw, engaged in the carding and milling business, and after living about eight years in Washington Township they returned to Augusta Township, and settled on their present beautiful farm in the year 1853.  Three children have been the result of this union, two of whom are dead.  Anna, the survivor, is married to W. L. Handley, of Carrollton.  Mr. Wathey has a good farm, well supplied in every particular, and takes much pride in raising good stock.  In politics he is a Republican, and at the last county election, November 4, 1890, was elected county commissioner.  There are but few men who have more friends in Carroll County than Mr. Wathey.