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501	Elizabeth is not proved to be Elizabeth Booker, but Mary Elizabeth Sanders; 2332 Wisteria Street; Baton Rouge, LA 70806 offered a strong argument, based on much research, that she was Elizabeth Booker, sister of Roger Booker and sister of George Menefie's first wife. The Menefie-Booker-etc. connections shown are based on her conclusions, in a letter of 7/25/1997 to Mailande Schrum, who sent me a copy......DNB	BOOKER, Elizabeth (I3124)
502	Elmore, John P. Oller, Mary Ann Union Date 08/11/1844 Vol/Page 1/ 168 (Oller)	Family: ELMORE, John P. / OLLER, Mary Ann (F440)
503	Estate debts--1834--John Allen to Harkman and Able on Oct. 21, 1834 PaidLeonard Oller $4.50. 1845 - Second Marriage of Leonard Oller Patent Description IL1360__.072 Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 4691 Misc. Document Nr. : Patentee Name: Oller, Leonard Warrantee Name: Authority: April 24, 1820: Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566) Signature Present: Y Signature Date: 8/1/38 Metes/Bounds: N Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N Land Office: Kaskaskia Comments: Legal Land Descriptions Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian AcresCounties 1 SESW 25/ 15-S 2-W N 3rd Principal Meridian 40 Alexander 1840 Census Cario Twp, Alexander Co, IL pg. 108 Male Female FreeColored Ollar Leonard 1- -1- - - - - - - - -/ - - - 1- - - - - - - - -/ - - - -- - - - - - - 1850 Census Alexander Co, IL pg. 357A Dwelling #417 Leonard Oller 31M Laborer b. IL Cannot read or write Catherine 31F b. ? Cannot read orwrite George 13M b. IL Alfred 7M b. IL Eliza 5F b. IL Franklin 3M b. IL (Oller)	OLLER, Leonard Thomas (I8470)
504	Estate Records, Montgomery Co, Ar	Allen, Mary Polly (I8469)
505	estate: Bon Accord	Peebles, Capt. David (I3832)
506	excerpt by Laun Smith-- "Mary Jordan's life covered an extremely productive and developmental period for the young republic of the United States. She was a young girl when the members of the Constitutional Convention met at Philadelphia in 1787, and she lived through the two formative administrations of George Washington, the father of our county. The year she was married the first time, 1803, saw Thomas Jefferson use the implied powers of the presidency to purchase the Louisianna Territory and just about double the territorial span of the United States. And, it was just before the end of the War of 1812 to 1815 that her first husband left home never to return again. Her first husband, David Beams, was a harness maker. Mary was in her twentieth year when she married him, an advanced age for brides in those days. She and David were wed in Cumberland County, and apparently they joined her family in the trek westward -- moving directly to an area thirteen miles west of the Jordan grist mill. Between April 23, 1803 and March 13, 1810, Mary had six children by Beams, and by the time their last child was born a young Quaker apprentice names James M. Taylor was living with them. By 1814 James was eighteen years of age, having been born on June 30, 1796. In 1814 David Beams left his family in the care of young Taylor and headed..." I DON'T HAVE THE REST OF THE BOOK AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GET IT.	JORDAN, Mary M. (I2256)
507	Excerpt from "Memorials of the Huguenots", pg 82, by Rev. A. Stapleton, A.M., M.S., published 1901 "In 1738 arrived Jean Jourdan, whose father fled from France to the Palatinate of the Revocation. He established himself at Mt. Pleasant, in Hunterdon County in New Jersey, but his family eventually located in Pennsylvania. Among the sons of the emigrant was Frederick, born in 1744, and whose son John, born 1770, located in Philadelphia. John Jordan Jr (1808-1890),a son of the latter, was an eminent Moravian philanthropist who, among other noble deeds, so munificently supported and endowed the Pennsylvania Historical Society." There is some handwritten notes in the margins of this book which state--- See Rupp's Collection of 30000 Names pg 123 " Penna German Pioneers, Vol 1, pages 226-228-230. Will of Frederick Jordan was probated in 1784 (can't read this part) Mark. Jean (John) Jourdan, a Huguenot refugee from the German Palatinate in 1712 came to Hunterdon Co. NJ in 1738.	JORDAN, Frederick (I2291)
508	Executed in 1788 Revolutionary War, White Plains & BaconRidge1776, Matross 1778	FAIRALL, John (I1179)
509	farmer in Whitehall, NY	MANVILLE, James (I7658)
510	father had his gun & sword supposedly died young?	BISHOP, Harmon (I4069)
511	Fay Kitchens: May be son of Edmund L. Bishop -- some relationship from probate records, but unknown. I will tentatively enter him as an unknown, unproved son of Wm Glover Bishop, with this note of caution that it is not proved to encourage research.......DNB	BISHOP, Unknown Unproved Son (Nathan?) (I5427)
512	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: Living / Cleveland, Roberta Candy (F262)
513	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: Living / , Johanna (F264)
514	Francis Elmore & Mary Ida Elliott requested a marriage application from the Erath County Clerk in July 1892 and a license was issued, but the portion of the license that was to be filled out by the clergyman and returned back to the courthouse was never completed and returned. Therefore, it is unknown whether Francis and Mary actually got married. Their paper work was not completed properly, so the Erath County Court does not consider them as married. It is possible that they decided to get married in a different county, but I have not been able to find a record of such.........FS3	Family: ELMORE, Francis Belvery / ELLIOTT, Mary Ida (F422)
515	From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.	Johnson, Susanna (I8309)
516	From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.	Stoddard, Mary (I8315)
517	From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.	PRESBREY, William (I8323)
518	From Ancestry family tree of Paula Pitts grammy281@sbcglobal.net Type: Book Author: John Adams Comstock Periodical: History and Genealogy of the Comstock family in America. Publication: Commonwealth Press, 1949. Served in the Civil War with Co., E, 2nd Minn. Cavalry. 1910 United States Federal Census > Nebraska > Morrill > Bayard Pct > District 192 Comstock, FRancis A Head M W 63 m1x 34 yrs NY RI MA Farmer Comstock, Edith E wife F W 53 m1x 34 yrs 3 ch 3 living NY NY NY Comstock, George, son M W 25 single Minnesota Webster, Marcus P Boarder M W 79 widower NY NY NY --living next door-- Leytham, Thomas Head M W27 m1x 0 yrs Iowa, Germany, Ohio Farm Laborer Leytham, N. Fern Wife F W 18 m1x 0 years 1 ch 1 living Leytham, Edith, dau F W 1/12 single b Nebraska	COMSTOCK, Francis Adelbert (I42)
519	From Ancestry.com family tree of Christina Lowry John was five years old when he came to America, and seven when he moved to Florence. When he was sixteen, he moved with his family to their farm in Iowa. After he married Hannah, they settled in Portsmouth, where he operated a brickyard for ten years. In 1882, he bought 100 acres in Boomer township, where he farmed until 1887. After his daughter started at Neola High School, he moved into Neolo and started another brickyard. All the bricks used in the new Catholic Church were made by John, which he made from clay from Mosquito Creek. In 1893, he moved back to the farm in Boomer Township. In 1901, he bought Grandma Mackland's place, and the family lived there until 1909. He then moved to Nebraska and encouraged all his children to move with him. After John fell in love with pictures of orange trees in Alabama, Glen, Joe, and Ralph accompanied him to Theodore, but Alice and Tom stayed in Nebraska. He later moved to the Ozarks, which was a middle point between all of his children. He was a Priest in the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. He was buried in Independence, Missouri, but he was reburied in the Grange Cem., in Boomer, IA, after Hannah's death in 1932.	LEYTHAM, John (I41)
520	From Anne Baker: Marriages and Deaths in St. Mary's Co. 1634-1900. "Mary Brent- depostion dtd 3 Aug 1717 of Susan Evans, 65, that 20 years come Oct. deponet, as midwife to Mary Brent, sister of Margaret Brent and wife of John Nuthall Jr. del'd male child known as Nuthall Brent, that Mary Brent and Margaret Brent, wife of George Plowden, late of St. Mary's Co., were sisters to George Brent of Stafford Co., Va."	Nuthall, John (I287)
521	from Paul Tobler: M. before Sept. 1663, William Calvert. Daughter of Captain William Stone. A perusal of her father's will (See part I), gives the impression that Elizabeth, seemingly his eldest child, and the recipient of special bequests, was the issue of a first marriage. The will of Verlinda, widow of William Stone, dated Charles county, MD., 3d day of March, 1674/5; proved 13th day of July, 1675 makes but three bequests; 1st, Benony Thomas heirs to whom she leaves 400 acres of land; 2nd, a daughter Doyen (Doyne), personalty; and 3d, son John whom she makes her Executor, and beneficiary of the residue of her estate both real and personal, at twenty-one years of age. Omitting mention of all but two of William Stone's children suggests that she may not have been the mother of the other children. Linda Reno quotes from "Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives" by Norma Tucker "William Stone left Accomac Co, VA in 1633 to become high sheriff of Northumberland Co, VA. In 1648, Lord Baltimore commissioned him to become Gov of MD, the first Protestant Gov of that state. When he moved from VA to MD, he took with him about 500 non-conformists from the Norfolk Co, VA area. He was the nephew of Thomas Stone, merchant and haberdasher of London, England. When William Stone came to America he brought with him his brothers John, Matthew, Andrew, and Robert to Accomac Co, VA--none of whom left children." It was during these troubles that the battle of the Severn was fought, in the year 1655. The occasion of the battle was this: When the parlimentary commissioners had reduced the colony to obedience, they retained the then governor, Stone, he promising to conform, in his administration, to the new order of things. When, however, Lord Baltimore rebuked him for betraying the trust committed to him, and stimulated him to reassurne authority in his name, Stone was moved to attempt it, and, gathering a force in that part of the colony that had always been loyal to Lord Baltimore, St. Mary's County, he led them up along the bay to the Severn, where a few years before a settlement of Puritans from Virginia had been made. The force was divided, some passing by land and some by water, the vessels keeping near enough to the shore to assist the land forces, when needful, in crossing the creeks and rivers. These Puritans, in the present troubles, had of course resisted the authority of the proprietary, because they were in sympathy with the parliamentary cause, and because for religion's sake they objected to being under the jurisdiction of Lord Baltimore, who was of the faith which they abhorred. They also objected to the powers and title which he held, as being absolute lord, to whom the oath of allegiance and obedience was to be taken. from:History of Early Maryland, by Rev. Theodore C. Gambrall, A. M., D.D. Published by Thomas Whittaker, New York, 1893 http://members.tripod.com/~jweaver300/md/hemd.htm#2 "When Stone reached the Severn, whatever may have been his expectations, he found himself face to face with a force, partly military and partly naval, which soon, in the encounter which ensued, put his whole army to rout and took him and many others prisoners. Under what plea, it is not said, but in spite of the promise of quarter, when the surrender was made, some of the soldiers were put to death by court-martial, and Stone himself was only saved by the appeal of the Puritan soldiers themselves and some of the women of the place. The battle was fought about where Annapolis now stands. These Puritans had sought refuge in Maryland, having been compelled by Governor Berkeley to leave Virginia on account of their religion. They had, also, been induced by Governor Stone to choose Maryland as their place of refuge, under the promise of indulgence for their religious views and methods. It is not clear why, when they had the opportunity, they should have indulged such malignant feelings toward him."	Stone, Gov. William * (I207)
522	From Salisbury Family: Family lore has it that the Wittens came from Prussia on the Elbe River to England in the 4th century. The first recorded Wittens in England has them residing in Yorkshire in 856. OR The Wittens of Witton English surnames are, as a rule, derived from one of four sources: a place name (e.g. Joan LONDON), a proper name (Clarence THOMAS), an occupation (Bobby CARPENTAR) or a nickname (Bobby SHORT.) I consulted P.H. Reaney's Dictionary of British Surnames (one of my favorite resources) and found nothing close to Witten-- but Reaney makes a point of emphasizing that the one sort of surname he does NOT cover is the place name. As usual, the answer (I hope) to the origin of the family name Witten came up in some papers I had which I had forgotten-- photocopies of a chapter titled "The Homes of Family Names," author and book title unnoted. It covered tax and conveyance rolls of Norwich 1285-1350 which showed families from other parts of England present in Norwich-- and one family was designated "Witton" for (no doubt) their home village of Witton, in medieval NORFOLK [according to this chapter.] This does not mean that this specific family was ours-- only that it is likely that at some point our ancestors, too, left Witton to live elsewhere, and were identified in their new home by their place of origin. Or, if not Norfolk, they could have come from Yorkshire. The Blue Guide for England describes the present-day village of Witton-le-Wear (on the river Wear) as being "attractive," and adds "Its striking but altered castle of 1410 stands S of the river; the grounds are a public park with a camping and caravan site." Is this the Witton our ancestors left? Also, were these two places-- Norfolk Witton and Yorkshire Witten-le-Wear-- the sites of a "witenagemote," an Anglo-Saxon council which met from time to time to advise the King? A participant in one of these councils was called a "witan" from the Old English for a sage or an adviser. Come to think of it-- perhaps Witten is not a place name, but a nickname for someone wise in the village who would give sound advice (or a real buttinski: "That guy thinks he's a regular witan!") Who knows. Well, I started out to shed some light but I find I am dazzled with more possibilities than I started with. Any ideas? Billye Higdon http://www.charweb.org/gen/whitten/witton.html	WITTEN, Thomas (I111)
523	from St. Clar Co., AL; divorced	Canterbury, Rhoda (I5477)
524	FROM THE MEMORY OF PINKNEY ANNIE HALLFORD RIGGS - THE PARENTS OF MARY F. LYON WERE ONE SCOTCH AND ONE IRISH, THEY WERE CATHOLICS WHICH THE FAMILY DIDN'T TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IT WASN'T A POPULAR RELIGION TO BE AT THAT TIME.	LYONS, John (I1444)
525	Fry William L. 44 M Farmer 1,000 Tn	FRY, William L. (I8468)
526	GAYLORD Family Association: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gaylord/index.htm	Gaylord, Dean Willlam (I850)
527	GEDCOM File: Jim Woodward Jr (Smith, Mckenzi)	OLLER, Marion (I1069)
528	GEDCOM File: Jim Woodward Jr (Smith, Mckenzi)	OLLER, Bailey W (I8471)
529	George was an oil rig builder and contractor. During this time period, some of his relations were the first oil well drillers in the United States. Later, George went to Louisiana and started an oil contracting firm that he and his sons ran for many years. Most of the Rumbaugh Family now live in Texas. George W. Rumbaugh, son of John, was born in Perry township, Armstrong county, and is a carpenter by trade. During the oil excitement in the sixties he built a large number of derricks in the oil fields of his native State and in West Virginia. In 1882 he moved to Grapeville, Pa., and in 1901 from there to Texas, and at the time of his death resided at Mooringsport, La., being engaged in contracting in the oil districts in that vicinity. He died there Dec. 1, 1913. He married Elizabeth Elder, daughter of James Elder, and eight children were born to them, as follows: John M.; Nancy J., who is deceased; William R.; Ida M., who is now deceased, was the wife of Daniel Jordan; Charles E.; Electa Lavina, who is the wife of William Baker; Rolandus C., and James E.	RUMBAUGH, George Washington (I749)
530	Had one daughter.	Merrill, John (I8045)
531	He migrated to Walker's Creek, Giles Co, VA in 1766 with his wife and her brother and their families from Cecil Co, MD. In 1767 he was the first settler in Tazewell Co and he constructed a block house called Witten's Fort to protect against the Cherokee and Shawnee Indians. He and Thomas J. Witten Jr enlisted in Capt. Daniel Smith's Co, VA in Oct 1774 and fought Indians at the Battle of Point Pleasant.	Witten, Thomas Jefferson Sr. (I107)
532	He served in the Revolutionary War in a militia company in Maryland. He then served in another militia company in Pennsylvania. 1771 apprenticed as a blacksmith under George Unseldt - November Court Records, Frederick County, Maryland. 1776 - August 28, member of Captain Charles Coulson's Militia Company of Washington County, Maryland. 1778 - March 2, Oath of Allegiance, Washington County, Maryland 1781 - Revolutionary Patriots of Frederick County, Maryland 1775-1783 by Henry Peden	OLLER, George (I1044)
533	Hillside Addition One - Row 32 - Plot 23	SMITH, Franklin Philo "Frank" (I504)
534	Hillside Addition One - Row 32 - Plot 24	SMITH, Mildred Rose (I813)
535	His brother, John, was made his guardian 20 August 1663.	BISHOP, William (I3838)
536	Household of William Killog Rebecca 20F Ky *Cannot read or write	OLLER, Rebecca (I8474)
537	Household of Christopher C Griffith Milly A. 19 Ky	OLLER, Millie Ann (I8472)
538	Household of Christopher C Griffith Milly A. 30 F IL *Cannot Read orWrite	OLLER, Millie Ann (I8472)
539	Household of James Oller 34 52 52 OLLER Hannah 48 F Ky X	Allen, Hannah Day (I8463)
540	Household of James Oller Hannah 40F Ky *Cannot Read or Write	Allen, Hannah Day (I8463)
541	Household of Jesse Peter Oller Polly 44F Ky *Cannot read or write	Allen, Mary Polly (I8469)
542	Household of Solomon Sitter Hannah 26F Ky	OLLER, Hannah (I1066)
543	Household of Thomas B Jones Millie A. 34 F W House Keeping IL	OLLER, Millie Ann (I8472)
544	Household of William Fry Rebecca 46 F Ky	ALLEN, Rebecca (I1063)
545	Household of William S Jones Millie A. Mother W F May 1833 67 #Children 9/2 IL IL IL Y Y Y	OLLER, Millie Ann (I8472)
546	http://www.he.net/~altonweb/history/civilwar/confed/index.html M232 roll 26	McCALL, James Clayton (I105)
547	https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/15346030/person/250681934/facts	Wilson, Paul Ross (I85)
548	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85567506/paul-r-wilson	Wilson, Paul Ross (I85)
549	https://www.gillettememorialchapel.com/obituaries/bradley-sayre	Source (S1)
550	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: Living / Living (F4)

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501

Elizabeth is not proved to be Elizabeth Booker, but Mary Elizabeth Sanders; 2332 Wisteria Street; Baton Rouge, LA 70806 offered a strong argument, based on much research, that she was Elizabeth Booker, sister of Roger Booker and sister of George Menefie's first wife. The Menefie-Booker-etc. connections shown are based on her conclusions, in a letter of 7/25/1997 to Mailande Schrum, who sent me a copy......DNB

BOOKER, Elizabeth (I3124)

502

Elmore, John P. Oller, Mary Ann Union Date 08/11/1844 Vol/Page 1/ 168
(Oller)

Family: ELMORE, John P. / OLLER, Mary Ann (F440)

503

Estate debts--1834--John Allen to Harkman and Able on Oct. 21, 1834 PaidLeonard Oller $4.50.

1845 - Second Marriage of Leonard Oller

Patent Description IL1360__.072
Cancelled: N Document Nr. : 4691 Misc. Document Nr. :
Patentee Name: Oller, Leonard
Warrantee Name:
Authority: April 24, 1820: Cash Entry Sale (3 Stat. 566)
Signature Present: Y
Signature Date: 8/1/38 Metes/Bounds: N
Survey Date: Subsurface Reserved: N
Land Office: Kaskaskia
Comments:

Legal Land Descriptions
Nr. Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Township Range Fract. Sect. Meridian AcresCounties
1 SESW 25/ 15-S 2-W N 3rd Principal Meridian 40 Alexander

1840 Census Cario Twp, Alexander Co, IL pg. 108
Male Female FreeColored
Ollar Leonard 1- -1- - - - - - - - -/ - - - 1- - - - - - - - -/ - - - -- - - - - - -

1850 Census Alexander Co, IL pg. 357A
Dwelling #417
Leonard Oller 31M Laborer b. IL *Cannot read or write
Catherine 31F b. ? *Cannot read orwrite
George 13M b. IL
Alfred 7M b. IL
Eliza 5F b. IL
Franklin 3M b. IL
(Oller)

OLLER, Leonard Thomas (I8470)

504

Estate Records, Montgomery Co, Ar

Allen, Mary Polly (I8469)

505

estate: Bon Accord

Peebles, Capt. David (I3832)

506

excerpt by Laun Smith--

"Mary Jordan's life covered an extremely productive and developmental period for the young republic of the United States. She was a young girl when the members of the Constitutional Convention met at Philadelphia in 1787, and she lived through the two formative administrations of George Washington, the father of our county. The year she was married the first time, 1803, saw Thomas Jefferson use the implied powers of the presidency to purchase the Louisianna Territory and just about double the territorial span of the United States. And, it was just before the end of the War of 1812 to 1815 that her first husband left home never to return again.

Her first husband, David Beams, was a harness maker. Mary was in her twentieth year when she married him, an advanced age for brides in those days. She and David were wed in Cumberland County, and apparently they joined her family in the trek westward -- moving directly to an area thirteen miles west of the Jordan grist mill. Between April 23, 1803 and March 13, 1810, Mary had six children by Beams, and by the time their last child was born a young Quaker apprentice names James M. Taylor was living with them. By 1814 James was eighteen years of age, having been born on June 30, 1796.

In 1814 David Beams left his family in the care of young Taylor and headed..."

I DON'T HAVE THE REST OF THE BOOK AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GET IT.

JORDAN, Mary M. (I2256)

507

Excerpt from "Memorials of the Huguenots", pg 82, by Rev. A. Stapleton, A.M., M.S., published 1901

"In 1738 arrived Jean Jourdan, whose father fled from France to the Palatinate of the Revocation. He established himself at Mt. Pleasant, in Hunterdon County in New Jersey, but his family eventually located in Pennsylvania. Among the sons of the emigrant was Frederick, born in 1744, and whose son John, born 1770, located in Philadelphia. John Jordan Jr (1808-1890),a son of the latter, was an eminent Moravian philanthropist who, among other noble deeds, so munificently supported and endowed the Pennsylvania Historical Society."

There is some handwritten notes in the margins of this book which state---

See Rupp's Collection of 30000 Names pg 123
" Penna German Pioneers, Vol 1, pages 226-228-230.
Will of Frederick Jordan was probated in 1784 (can't read this part) Mark.
Jean (John) Jourdan, a Huguenot refugee from the German Palatinate in 1712 came to Hunterdon Co. NJ in 1738.

JORDAN, Frederick (I2291)

508

Executed in 1788
Revolutionary War, White Plains & BaconRidge1776, Matross 1778

FAIRALL, John (I1179)

509

farmer in Whitehall, NY

MANVILLE, James (I7658)

510

father had his gun & sword
supposedly died young?

BISHOP, Harmon (I4069)

511

Fay Kitchens: May be son of Edmund L. Bishop -- some relationship from probate records, but unknown.

I will tentatively enter him as an unknown, unproved son of Wm Glover Bishop, with this note of caution that it is not proved to encourage research.......DNB

BISHOP, Unknown Unproved Son (Nathan?) (I5427)

512

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Family: Living / Cleveland, Roberta Candy (F262)

513

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Family: Living / , Johanna (F264)

514

Francis Elmore & Mary Ida Elliott requested a marriage application from the Erath County Clerk in July 1892 and a license was issued, but the portion of the license that was to be filled out by the clergyman and returned back to the courthouse was never completed and returned.
Therefore, it is unknown whether Francis and Mary actually got married. Their paper work was not completed properly, so the Erath County Court does not consider them as married. It is possible that they decided to get married in a different county, but I have not been able to find a record of such.........FS3

Family: ELMORE, Francis Belvery / ELLIOTT, Mary Ida (F422)

515

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

Johnson, Susanna (I8309)

516

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

Stoddard, Mary (I8315)

517

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

PRESBREY, William (I8323)

518

From Ancestry family tree of Paula Pitts grammy281@sbcglobal.net Type: Book Author: John Adams Comstock Periodical: History and Genealogy of the Comstock family in America. Publication: Commonwealth Press, 1949.

Served in the Civil War with Co., E, 2nd Minn. Cavalry.

1910 United States Federal Census > Nebraska > Morrill > Bayard Pct > District 192 Comstock, FRancis A Head M W 63 m1x 34 yrs NY RI MA Farmer Comstock, Edith E wife F W 53 m1x 34 yrs 3 ch 3 living NY NY NY Comstock, George, son M W 25 single Minnesota Webster, Marcus P Boarder M W 79 widower NY NY NY --living next door-- Leytham, Thomas Head M W27 m1x 0 yrs Iowa, Germany, Ohio Farm Laborer Leytham, N. Fern Wife F W 18 m1x 0 years 1 ch 1 living Leytham, Edith, dau F W 1/12 single b Nebraska

COMSTOCK, Francis Adelbert (I42)

519

From Ancestry.com family tree of Christina Lowry
John was five years old when he came to America, and seven when he moved to Florence. When he was sixteen, he moved with his family to their farm in Iowa. After he married Hannah, they settled in Portsmouth, where he operated a brickyard for ten years. In 1882, he bought 100 acres in Boomer township, where he farmed until 1887.
After his daughter started at Neola High School, he moved into Neolo and started another brickyard. All the bricks used in the new Catholic Church were made by John, which he made from clay from Mosquito Creek. In 1893, he moved back to the farm in Boomer Township. In 1901, he bought Grandma Mackland's place, and the family lived there until 1909. He then moved to Nebraska and encouraged all his children to move with him. After John fell in love with pictures of orange trees in Alabama, Glen, Joe, and Ralph accompanied him to Theodore, but Alice and Tom stayed in Nebraska. He later moved to the Ozarks, which was a middle point between all of his children. He was a Priest in the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. He was buried in Independence, Missouri, but he was reburied in the Grange Cem., in Boomer, IA, after Hannah's death in 1932.

LEYTHAM, John (I41)

520

From Anne Baker:
Marriages and Deaths in St. Mary's Co.
1634-1900.
"Mary Brent- depostion dtd 3 Aug 1717 of Susan Evans, 65, that 20 years
come Oct. deponet, as midwife to Mary Brent, sister of Margaret Brent and
wife of John Nuthall Jr. del'd male child known as Nuthall Brent, that Mary
Brent and Margaret Brent, wife of George Plowden, late of St. Mary's Co.,
were sisters to George Brent of Stafford Co., Va."

Nuthall, John (I287)

521

from Paul Tobler:
M. before Sept. 1663, William Calvert. Daughter of Captain William Stone. A perusal of her father's will (See part I), gives the impression that Elizabeth, seemingly his eldest child, and the recipient of special bequests, was the issue of a first marriage. The will of Verlinda, widow of William Stone, dated Charles county, MD., 3d day of March, 1674/5; proved 13th day of July, 1675 makes but three bequests; 1st, Benony Thomas heirs to whom she leaves 400 acres of land; 2nd, a daughter Doyen (Doyne), personalty; and 3d, son John whom she makes her Executor, and beneficiary of the residue of her estate both real and personal, at twenty-one years of age. Omitting mention of all but two of William Stone's children suggests that she may not have been the mother of the other children.

Linda Reno quotes from "Colonial Virginians and Their Maryland Relatives" by Norma Tucker "William Stone left Accomac Co, VA in 1633 to become high sheriff of Northumberland Co, VA. In 1648, Lord Baltimore commissioned him to become Gov of MD, the first Protestant Gov of that state. When he moved from VA to MD, he took with him about 500 non-conformists from the Norfolk Co, VA area. He was the nephew of Thomas Stone, merchant and haberdasher of London, England. When William Stone came to America he brought with him his brothers John, Matthew, Andrew, and Robert to Accomac Co, VA--none of whom left children."

It was during these troubles that the battle of the Severn was fought, in the year 1655. The occasion of the battle was this: When the parlimentary commissioners had reduced the colony to obedience, they retained the then governor, Stone, he promising to conform, in his administration, to the new order of things. When, however, Lord Baltimore rebuked him for betraying the trust committed to him, and stimulated him to reassurne authority in his name, Stone was moved to attempt it, and, gathering a force in that part of the colony that had always been loyal to Lord Baltimore, St. Mary's County, he led them up along the bay to the Severn, where a few years before a settlement of Puritans from Virginia had been made. The force was divided, some passing by land and some by water, the vessels keeping near enough to the shore to assist the land forces, when needful, in crossing the creeks and rivers. These Puritans, in the present troubles, had of course resisted the authority of the proprietary, because they were in sympathy with the parliamentary cause, and because for religion's sake they objected to being under the jurisdiction of Lord Baltimore, who was of the faith which they abhorred. They also objected to the powers and title which he held, as being absolute lord, to whom the oath of allegiance and obedience was to be taken.

from:History of Early Maryland, by Rev. Theodore C. Gambrall, A. M., D.D.
Published by Thomas Whittaker, New York, 1893
http://members.tripod.com/~jweaver300/md/hemd.htm#2
"When Stone reached the Severn, whatever may have been his expectations, he found himself face to face with a force, partly military and partly naval, which soon, in the encounter which ensued, put his whole army to rout and took him and many others prisoners. Under what plea, it is not said, but in spite of the promise of quarter, when the surrender was made, some of the soldiers were put to death by court-martial, and Stone himself was only saved by the appeal of the Puritan soldiers themselves and some of the women of the place. The battle was fought about where Annapolis now stands. These Puritans had sought refuge in Maryland, having been compelled by Governor Berkeley to leave Virginia on account of their religion. They had, also, been induced by Governor Stone to choose Maryland as their place of refuge, under the promise of indulgence for their religious views and methods. It is not clear why, when they had the opportunity, they should have indulged such malignant feelings toward him."

Stone, Gov. William * (I207)

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From Salisbury Family: Family lore has it that the Wittens came from Prussia on the Elbe River to England in the 4th century. The first recorded Wittens in England has them residing in Yorkshire in 856. OR
The Wittens of Witton

English surnames are, as a rule, derived from one of four sources: a place name (e.g. Joan LONDON), a proper name (Clarence THOMAS), an occupation (Bobby CARPENTAR) or a nickname (Bobby SHORT.) I consulted P.H. Reaney's Dictionary of British Surnames (one of my favorite resources) and found nothing close to Witten-- but Reaney makes a point of emphasizing that the one sort of surname he does NOT cover is the place name.

As usual, the answer (I hope) to the origin of the family name Witten came up in some papers I had which I had forgotten-- photocopies of a chapter titled "The Homes of Family Names," author and book title unnoted. It covered tax and conveyance rolls of Norwich 1285-1350 which showed families from other parts of England present in Norwich-- and one family was designated "Witton" for (no doubt) their home village of Witton, in medieval NORFOLK [according to this chapter.] This does not mean that this specific family was ours-- only that it is likely that at some point our ancestors, too, left Witton to live elsewhere, and were identified in their new home by their place of origin.

Or, if not Norfolk, they could have come from Yorkshire. The Blue Guide for England describes the present-day village of Witton-le-Wear (on the river Wear) as being "attractive," and adds "Its striking but altered castle of 1410 stands S of the river; the grounds are a public park with a camping and caravan site." Is this the Witton our ancestors left?

Also, were these two places-- Norfolk Witton and Yorkshire Witten-le-Wear-- the sites of a "witenagemote," an Anglo-Saxon council which met from time to time to advise the King? A participant in one of these councils was called a "witan" from the Old English for a sage or an adviser. Come to think of it-- perhaps Witten is not a place name, but a nickname for someone wise in the village who would give sound advice (or a real buttinski: "That guy thinks he's a regular witan!") Who knows. Well, I started out to shed some light but I find I am dazzled with more possibilities than I started with.

Any ideas?

Billye Higdon

http://www.charweb.org/gen/whitten/witton.html

WITTEN, Thomas (I111)

523

from St. Clar Co., AL; divorced

Canterbury, Rhoda (I5477)

524

FROM THE MEMORY OF PINKNEY ANNIE HALLFORD RIGGS - THE PARENTS OF MARY F. LYON WERE ONE SCOTCH AND ONE IRISH, THEY WERE CATHOLICS WHICH THE FAMILY DIDN'T TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IT WASN'T A POPULAR RELIGION TO BE AT THAT TIME.

LYONS, John (I1444)

525

Fry William L. 44 M Farmer 1,000 Tn

FRY, William L. (I8468)

526

GAYLORD Family Association:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gaylord/index.htm

Gaylord, Dean Willlam (I850)

527

GEDCOM File: Jim Woodward Jr
(Smith, Mckenzi)

OLLER, Marion (I1069)

528

GEDCOM File: Jim Woodward Jr
(Smith, Mckenzi)

OLLER, Bailey W (I8471)

529

George was an oil rig builder and contractor. During this time period, some of his relations were the first oil well drillers in the United States. Later, George went to Louisiana and started an oil contracting firm that he and his sons ran for many years. Most of the Rumbaugh Family now live in Texas.

George W. Rumbaugh, son of John, was born in Perry township, Armstrong county, and is a carpenter by trade. During the oil excitement in the sixties he built a large number of derricks in the oil fields of his native State and in West Virginia. In 1882 he moved to Grapeville, Pa., and in 1901 from there to Texas, and at the time of his death resided at Mooringsport, La., being engaged in contracting in the oil districts in that vicinity. He died there Dec. 1, 1913. He married Elizabeth Elder, daughter of James Elder, and eight children were born to them, as follows: John M.; Nancy J., who is deceased; William R.; Ida M., who is now deceased, was the wife of Daniel Jordan; Charles E.; Electa Lavina, who is the wife of William Baker; Rolandus C., and James E.

RUMBAUGH, George Washington (I749)

530

Had one daughter.

Merrill, John (I8045)

531

He migrated to Walker's Creek, Giles Co, VA in 1766 with his wife and her brother and their families from Cecil Co, MD. In 1767 he was the first settler in Tazewell Co and he constructed a block house called Witten's Fort to protect against the Cherokee and Shawnee Indians. He and Thomas J. Witten Jr enlisted in Capt. Daniel Smith's Co, VA in Oct 1774 and fought Indians at the Battle of Point Pleasant.

Witten, Thomas Jefferson Sr. (I107)

532

He served in the Revolutionary War in a militia company in Maryland. He then served in another militia company in Pennsylvania.
1771 apprenticed as a blacksmith under George Unseldt - November Court Records, Frederick County, Maryland.
1776 - August 28, member of Captain Charles Coulson's Militia Company of Washington County, Maryland.
1778 - March 2, Oath of Allegiance, Washington County, Maryland
1781 - Revolutionary Patriots of Frederick County, Maryland 1775-1783 by Henry Peden

OLLER, George (I1044)

533

Hillside Addition One - Row 32 - Plot 23

SMITH, Franklin Philo "Frank" (I504)

534

Hillside Addition One - Row 32 - Plot 24

SMITH, Mildred Rose (I813)

535

His brother, John, was made his guardian 20 August 1663.

BISHOP, William (I3838)

536

Household of William Killog
Rebecca 20F Ky *Cannot read or write