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Zenas Hallett was born in 1820 in Adams Township, Washington County Ohio and died March 5,1891 in the same. Zenas Made his living as a Farmer. During the Civil War, when the loayalists of the state were called upon to protect The land and its people from the raider Morgan, Mr. Hallett was one of the first to leave his plow and go to assist. Returning afterward to his peaceful avocation, he continued in active labor until near the close of his life, in 1891. He married Maria Whetstone, who was born in 1819, in Guernsey County, and was a daughter of Daniel and Mary Whetstone. She died in 1890.
Zenas was a man of the church and well respected in his community. He was a member of the building committee of Mt.Ephraim Church. When the church was completed they lacked 600 dollars of having enough money pledged to pay for it. He was one of the five men who assumed one-fifth of the debt so the church could be dedicated free of debt.

At first, this church did not have a bell. About 1880, Mrs. Daniel Whetstone and Mrs. Zenas Hallett went over the community taking subscriptions to buy a bell. Between 80 and 90 dollars was raised and the bell was purchased. Mrs. Whetstone said, “When you hear the bell, think of us.”

Zenas married Maria Whwtstone of pensylvania in 1842. There children were: John C Hallett, Martha Hallett and Asa Davis Hallett. (who is the next descendant in my blood line.)