Lockwood

Lockwood. . , The Lockwood farm is now East Harbor State Park. Edward and Lydia Lockwood are buried in marked and maintained graves here within the park. The grave site is maintained by the State of Ohio. Grave markers bear the following inscriptions: , Edward Jared Lockwood , Born August 17, 1813, Albany, New York , Died November 14, 1897, Port Clinton, Ohio , "Because I have lived so shall I die also". , Son of Col. Samuel Mills Lockwood who came to the Peninsula region from Albany, New York, settling along the shores of Sandusky Bay and founding Plasterbed, Ohio (now Gypsum). Col. S. M. Lockwood discovered gypsum rock and began the industry which survives to this day. He was Ohio State Senator from then Erie County in the 1830's. , Lydia Ramsdell Lockwood , Born January 3, 1819, Danbury, Ohio , Died March 21, 1890, Danbury, Ohio , "She hath done what she could". , Granddaughter of Joseph Ramsdell who came to this site from Oswego, New York, in 1811, the second family to settle on The Peninsula of The Firelands. He and his family occupied lands bounded on the south and east by East Harbor, on the west by West Harbor and on the north by Lake Erie, including Middle Harbor and known from the earliest times as the "Point 'Tween the Harbors.” The harbors are the delta of the Portage River, later diverted into the lake at Port Clinton. At the onset of the War of 18 12, the Ramsdells removed to Bloomingville, Ohio, for fear of the Indians. Valentine Ramsdell was killed by Indians at the First Battle Site on the Peninsula on September 29, 1812. Lydia Ramsdell returned to marry Edward Jared Lockwood on February 17, 1839, and they established farming, primarily peach orchards. When on March 27, 1859, Laura Lockwood, daughter of EJ and Lydia, married William Kelly, the land became known as the Kelly farm. William was the grandson of the builder of the Marblehead Lighthouse and great-grandson of the light's first keeper, Benajah Wolcott. The farm continued in the Lockwood/ Kelly families when Lydia Kelly, daughter of William and Laura, married Orville Presley Moon. Three generations of Moons lived on the property until lost in the Great Depression. The State of Ohio acquired the Lockwood farm nearly intact for your enjoyment and recreation.