Jasper Vidito

"This is a biography for my ancestor JASPER VIDITO who is buried in Old Union Cemetery. There are still descendants living in Boone County today. My research is a carryover from my father Leonard F. Vidito who started the family research about 1936. My brother carried it on after Dad's death and I assisted him until his death in 1993. You may edit this to fit the needs of a biography on your website. Feel free to ask me any questions you might have. I have several old letters written by Jasper and a daughter."

~ Leonard D. Vidito

Jasper Vidito: Born September 12, 1783 at Winchester, Connecticut, son of John and Achsah (North) Vidito. He was of French Huguenot ancestry, his ancestor having lived in New Amsterdam (New York City) in 1650. He married Rebecca Williams January 1, 1806 at Bethlehem, Connecticut. Their first child Sally, was born in Winchester November 7, 1806. About 1808 Jasper and family and his parents moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio where they farmed. The rest of their children were Vernelia; February 24, 1809, Rapheal; December 24, 1810, Saphorina; October 5, 1812, Edward John; February 25, 1814, Harriott Eliza; April 7, 1816, Caroline and Emoline; May 6, 1818, Polly Rebecca; June 15, 1820, Edwin Jasper; April 23, 1822, Leonard Chancey; October 11, 1824 and Maria Theresia; February 3, 1826, all born in Ashtabula County, Ohio.

Jasper served with the Ohio Militia in 1812 and 1813. Jasper’s father died in Ashtabula County in 1818, and in 1827 Jasper sold out and with his 11 living children and his wife and mother they moved by wagon and oxen heading southwest and some of their wagons broke down in Hendricks County Indiana. Jasper’s mother died while at Danville, Indiana at the age of 80 in 1828. Jasper served as a Road Commissioner in Center Township, Hendricks County and then he moved to the Frankfort Indiana area where his wife died in 1834.

He owned a farm southwest of Lebanon, Indiana in Harrison Township. Jasper lived with his son Leonard in Harrison Twp. and married Sarah (Boyd) Powell, in 1847, widow of Isaac Powell. She died in 1858. Jasper died April 16, 1862 in Harrison Twp. and is buried in Old Union Cemetery.

Some other Boone County surnames associated with this family are: Carter, Hicks, Sicks, McLaughlin, Boone, Harper, Hayden, Hiland, Shirley, Turner, Huffman, Sherill, Watson, Cunningham, Woodard, Cox, Loflin, Reid, Dale, Long, Copeland , Powell, Gapin, Lawrence, Shannon, Hayden, Deweese, and Sloan.

Written and submitted by: Leonard D. Vidito
Source: Research by Leonard D. Vidito and family