The Orders Family History - Part 2

(The following is reprinted from “Reflections II”, a collection of local stories available at the Grove City Welcome Center and Museum. All information below is based on a sketch in the centennial biographical history of Columbus and Franklin County, except for the dates of military service for Jonas (I) and Jonas (II), which are from the Military History of Ohio. Any opinions made in the article are from the author.)Allen Orders, the third son and fourth child of Jonas and Sarah, was born on October 22, 1814. He received his schooling locally and was working by his mid-teens. Shortly before his twenty-first birthday, he married Mary Gallion, a native of Virginia. He and Mary lived a year with her parents; then, they rented a farm until 1838 when they bought a one hundred acre tract on the southside of what is now Orders Road (now Fryer Park). Living at first in a log home built by Allen, they constructed a new home in 1844 that stood until the early 1980s. Allen and Mary had seven children (two sons and five daughters). Allen was an active farmer and was interested in the latest Innovations. He was a member of the Whig party in his early years, but became a Republican shortly after that party's Inception in 1854. Active in local politics, Allen held several Township offices and was often identified with projects helping his local community. When Allen died on his farm in the summer of 1901, he had reached nearly 87 and was the oldest resident of Jackson Township. He had outlived his wife by twenty years and five of his children. Only George W. Orders and Clarinda Orders Borror survived him.Jonas (II) Orders was born to Allen and Mary on the day after Christmas of 1840. He acquired his education locally and helped with the running of his father's farm. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Jonas enlisted in the 113th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment on October 12, 1862. By January of 1863, Jonas's regiment saw its first combat at the Battle of Mills Springs in Kentucky. On September 19 and 20, 1863, the 113th saw heavy action at the Battle of Chickamauga. Jonas was wounded by shell fragments, (which smashed his pocket watch, but that watch probably saved his life). He had recovered sufficiently to take part in the Battle of Missionary Ridge two months later. In the spring and summer of 1864, Jonas took part in the Atlanta Campaign, participating in engagements at Resaca, Altoona, Dallas and Jonesboro. From the fall of Atlanta on September to until December 24, 1864, Jonas and the rest of the 113th marched to the sea, from Atlanta to Savannah. In April 1865, Jonas was involved in some of the last actions of the war at Raleigh and Bentonville, North Carolina, and was present on April 17, 1865 when the last major Confederate Army, the forces of General J.E. Johnston surrendered. He participated in The Grand Review of the victorious Union troops in Washington, D.C. and was discharged with the rank of Corporal on July 16, 1865. After the war, Jonas was a very active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and was a member of the G.A.R. Post 597. Jonas’ brother also volunteered in the war as a member of the 182nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (enlisted September 7, 1864) and was in the Battle of Nashville. He was discharged on July 7, 1865.Jonas, and his brother George W. Orders, returned home to a grand family welcome, but that happiness was shattered just two years later when his young wife Millie (Borror) died. He married a second time on June 15, 1873 to Sarah Knagi (or Knagistrand, the Germanborn daughter of Frederick Knagi of Marysville, Ohio). Jonas and Sarah had eight children (two sons and six daughters) before Sarah's death on July 22, 1890, only five months after the birth of their last daughter. Jonas died on February 21, 1899, at least partially caused by the effects of his war service. The children of Jonas and Sarah were raised by Grace D. Orders, the children's legal guardian and eldest sister. After raising these children and putting one of them, her brother Clark E. through his medical schooling (Ohio Northern and the University of Louisville), Grace married Alfred Jackson of Madison County in 1906. Their first son, Edward Raymond, was born at the Old Homestead in 1908, the last child of Orders descent to be born there. When Grace and her family moved to begin a new life in Madison County, the history of Orders Family of Orders Road came to an end. Today no descendants of Jonas's sons live in the area, but many members of his family through his daughters still live in Grove City and southwestern Franklin County.