Coverlets (Coverlid) are woven bedcovers, used as the topmost covering on a bed.
The first Europeans settled in the Northwest Territory in 1788. Migrants came from New York and New England. Ohio was admitted to the Union as the 17th state on March 1, 1803.
Susannah married Samuel Ryman on April 14, 1842 in Clark County. Samuel was born on January 12, 1819 in Virginia.
Susannah and Samuel's children included:
Elizabeth Ryman Ryan (1842, married Henry Ryan),
John Andrew Ryman (1845, married Mary Thackery),
William Ryman (1848, married Alice Lorton),
George Washington Ryman (1850),
Samuel H. Ryman (1854, died age 18), and Harrison Ryman (1861, married Alice Ann Baker daughter of Silas Baker).
The family appeared in the 1850 census in Tremont Station, German Township, Clark County, Ohio. The household consisted of Samuel age 30 who was a laborer, Susanna also age 30, Elizabeth age 8, Andrew age 6, William age 3 and George W. who was three months. All of their children were born in Ohio.
The family was still in German Township in 1880. Samuel was 60 and a farmer and Susan was 59 and a weaver. The only child remaining at home was Harison age 19.
Samuel died in 1889. Susannah died on October 28, 1903 and is buried with her husband in Lawrenceville Cemetery in Clark County.
Clark County, Ohio was formed March 1, 1817, from Champaign, Madison and Greene Counties. The first settlement was in 1796. The inhabitants of German Township were German Lutherans who came from Virginia.
