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Peter NIDA  ‎(I266)‎
Given Names: Peter
Surname: NIDA
Suffix: Sr.

Gender: MaleMale
      

Birth: 1777 29 27 -- Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA
Death: June 1849 ‎(Age 72)‎ -- Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA


Personal Facts and Details
Birth 1777 29 27 Berkeley County, West Virginia, USA

Marriage Elizabeth SHUCK - ‎[View Family ‎(F103)‎‎]
9 June 1796 ‎(Age 19)‎ Botetourt County, Virginia, USA


Shared Note: - by Reverend Samuel Gray.
Will 12 October 1843 ‎(Age 66)‎

Hide Details Note: Peter's will made no mention of his wife although she was alive at that time that he wrote it. His son Lewis was named executor and is given the farm. Elizabeth died at the same time as Peter--both likely of the cholera epidemic--in the summer of 1849.

The will also mentions is daughters Nancy Drummond, Polly Clark and Betsey Clark.

Biographical Notes

Hide Details Note: February 10, 1807, "David Neday and Mary his wife" "for and in consideration of their natural love and affection they bear to their son Peter and also for the further consideration of $2.00 " give to Peter 118 acres of land in the valley of Sinking Creek, 70 acres of which was patented by Absalom Looney, July 19, 1787. In October 13, 1807 "Peter Neday and his wife Elizabeth" for $466. sold to John Leffle 118 acres in the Valley of Sinking Creek.

Peter Nida owned property in Giles County, Virginia ‎(probably in that part which later became a part of Craig County)‎. He sold his property in that county November 3, 1828, and moved to Gallia County, Ohio. He probably went by way of the Greenbrier Valley and Kanawha Valley, which was one of the much frequented routes to Ohio from Virginia.

By 1830 there were seven male Nidas in Gallia County, Ohio: David, Jacob, John, Peter Sr., Peter Jr., William and Henry. Of those Henry, William and John would go west to Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.

January 4, 1831 Peter purchased a quarter section of land in Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio. This was in what is known as the "Lincoln Ridge" settlement. "Peter Cave Creek" in that township was named after him. His house was on the hill just north of the foot of "Salem Hill" ‎(or Drummond Hill as it is sometimes called, being the hill on which the old Salem Church was once located.)‎. The old road leading to his house connects with the county road at the foot of Salem Hill. It is said that the house was of logs and two stories in height. His barn, also of logs, was said to have been exceptionally large, permitting a team and wagon to drive through it.

Biographical Notes Gallia County, Ohio, USA


Hide Details Note: 1830 Census lists the following:
Nida David Walnut p. 30
Jacob " ‎[later lived in Lawrence Co.]‎
John " ‎[later went to Iowa c. 1860--Corydon]‎
Peter " ‎[father]‎
Peter, Jr. " ‎[That would be Peter S. Nida, s/o Peter]‎
William " ‎[Later went west w. John & Henry]‎

1840 Census: NIDA Lewis Walnut p 80
Peter " "
Peter " '"

NIDA, Peter ‎(Walnut)‎ 2 in household one male ‎(50-60)‎ & one female ‎(20-30)‎

Historical Notes

Note: "Peter's Cave" Rd. ‎[in Gallia County]‎ is named for Peter Nida. It is located in the middle of beautiful downtown Mudsoc. You won't find it on the map but if you take SR 141 out of Gallipolis and turn onto SR 775, it's about 10 miles out.
Name Note

Note: In Jack E. Nida's History p. 45, he says "In signing documents his name was variously spelled Nida, Niday and Nidy. Earlier instruments use Nida while later ones use the Niday and Nidy. Most of his descendants now living there use Niday.
Newspaper Article


Hide Details Source: Gallia Times

Citation Details:  1 April 1925


Hide Details Note: Guyan Township 65 Years Ago

Old Resident Recalls Many Historical Points of Interest In Southern SubDivision

Special to The Times,
Having now passed my 80th milestone, I wish to mention to your readers some of the early history of Mercerville and Guyan township. The first Mercerville school house stood where Ross Halley now lives, and was built of hewed logs. The windows were made by cutting out a log full length of the house. The seats were hewed pucheons with round pegs stuck in them for legs, and the floors were made of the same material as the seats. All the log houses were about the same.

Among the early teachers we remember the late S.V. Clark and Jehu Rose and of their pupils living I know only C.E. Fry, T.J. Montgomery, W.R. Unroe and myself. Among the pioneers of the Mercerville community were Halleys, Montgomerys, Frys and Caldwells.

The farming was done chiefly along the creeks and on the Perigen fork of Guyan were two improvements, one the home of Peter Niday, a splendid citizen, who gave four gallant soldiers to the Civil War, the other the home of London Briggs, the only colored family that ever lived in Guyan township, at present the home of a Mr. Houck.

A great deal of the land belonged to Douglas Putnam of Marietta, and was owned by the Putnam heirs until after the Civil War. The northwestern part of the township was owned by the Martts, and was very productive and heavily timbered, as was all of the township, and was covered with a thick growth of underbrush of dogwood, leatherwood, sumac, etc. Making a home was not easy in those early days.

Further down the creek was a large tract of land owned by the later Henry Swindler, a bachelor who made his home with his brother John, near where Cherrington Chapel now stands, and consisted of some 1500 acres besides other but smaller farms over the township.

Further down Guyan we come to John's Creek at the mouth of which Uncle Billy Sheets owned a large tract which he divided between his sons and daughters, this accounting for the large number of the Sheets name in that community. We think Uncle Billy, as he was known, to everybody owned the first buggy in the township. We remember also his telling us of killing a bear on the Charley Hineman farm, where Gallipolis' Mayor, A.J. Stormont, was born.

At the mouth of Rock Fork settled another family of the Sheets name who had a large tract of land settled by old Uncle Johnny, distantly related to the others, and a large number of his descendants are still in the neighborhood.....

Death June 1849 ‎(Age 72)‎ Walnut Township, Gallia County, Ohio, USA

Cause of death: Asiatic Cholera

Note: According to two grandsons of Peter, both alive in 1932, both Peter and his wife Elizabeth died during the cholera epidemic which took many lives in Walnut Township during 1849. It is said that both died unattended as all of the family were sick and the neighbors were afraid to come near the house. Both were buried in the Drummond Graveyard, near the old Salem Church. Peter's grave is unmarked.
Burial Drummond Cemetery, Gallia County, Ohio, USA

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Parents Family  (F104)
Johann David VON NIDA
1748 - 1825
Mary ‎(unknown)‎
1750 - 1809
Adam NIDA
1765 -
Joseph NIDA
1765 -
John NIDAY
1765 - 1839
Abram NIDA
1767 - 1847
George VON NIDA
1770 - 1847
Jacob NIDA
1775 - 1850
Peter NIDA
1777 - 1849
Katharine Katy NIDA
1778 - 1805
David Daniel VON NIDA
1780 -
Phillip VON NIDA
1784 - 1819

Immediate Family  (F103)
Elizabeth SHUCK
1779 - 1849
Mary Polly NIDA
1797 - 1831
David NIDA
1797 -
John NIDAY
1798 - 1867
Peter Shuck NIDAY
1800 - 1889
Elizabeth Betsy NIDA
1802 - 1849
Jacob NIDA
1803 - 1840
Susanna Mary NIDA
1805 -
William NIDA
1807 - 1866
Katherine NIDAY
1811 -
Henry NIDA
1812 - 1861
Lewis NIDA
1816 - 1888
Nancy NIDA
1820 - 1849