Joseph and Stephen Ulery — the carding mill and the creek

1875 atlas footnote; Howard (1907) I, pp. 284–285, 288; Chapman (1880), p. 677

Joseph and Stephen Ulery settled in 1834 on Sections 24 and 35 — the section immediately east of the townsite and one in the township's south. Stephen is the brother the record follows: he ran a carding machine on the mill creek above the Sheffield flouring mill (Chapman: "S. Ulery ran a carding-machine"), and the 1901 mill paper in Howard places his "little carding mill" "near where the creek crosses the Niles road north of Notre Dame" and gives the stream his name — the Ullery creek — against Howard's own text, which calls it Sheffield creek (the conflict stands whole in the pass note, C10). The family married into the settlement's core: Aaron Ulery, a farmer of Clay Township, married Jane Cripe, daughter of Peter Cripe of Section 26; a David Ulery held a 150-acre farm in Portage Township that later passed through the Stover name. Goodspeed's 1893 county memoirs add, at that volume's strength, a Joseph Ulery "one of the first settlers of Clay township," born about 1779 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, to Stephen Ulery and wife — the founding generation of the name in the township, carried here as the memoir volume gives it and not fused with the brothers of 1834, whose parentage no reached carrier states. The name stayed on the ground after the family record thins: a street in the modern town carries it (Ullery Street, on the Census Bureau's 2020 block map for the town), and the family's burial ground, the Ullery Cemetery on West Cleveland Road, stands at the town's northern side in the modern listings, sighted in the Tribune as early as 1928. Whether the town's grocer of 1915 — Fred Ullery, spelled with the double L — descends from this Clay family, from the German Township Ullerys, or from neither, no carrier reached says; the spelling the county books give the Clay settlers is Ulery, and the identification is not made in this build (see his own article below).