Jo Ann, There is more evidence that Mary [Donner] Dick was the daughter of George Donner Sr. As you know, the 1787 Rowan County tax records listed Valentine Huff, George Donner Sr, and John Dick Sr, one after the other, as neighbors on Bear Creek in the Forks of the Yadkin. Also, as you know, Mary [Donner] Dick lived in the 1830s and 1840s next to her sisters on farms on Sugar Creek in what is now Thayer Village, Auburn Township, Sangamon County, Illinois. Dwayne Wrightsman ----- Original Message ----- From: <Jschm21735@aol.com> To: <brethren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:06 PM Subject: [BRE] Donner/Danner Family > Merle and all, I have added a link to my Donner records on World > Connect. > You will see most of my information has proof or at the least good > evidence. > Merle, I having been reading everything I can find on the Danner's in > Muhlenberg, Ky. and the more I read and compare to what I have researched > and > mainly what I have proven regarding my Donner family I am more and more > convinced > there may not be a direct connection between the two families. I note > that > Samuel Danner was born in 1784 and George Donner, Sr. was born in 1752 - > pretty big age gap for them to be brothers. George's birth date comes > from his > obit, published in the Sangamo Journal in Springfield, Sangamon County, > Illinois. By 1817 George Sr., had left Jessamine county, Ky. and is > paying tax in > Jefferson County, Indiana, along with him are sons, John, Tobias, and > Jacob. > Son George (Capt. of the Donner Party), daughters Elizabeth, Lydia and > Susannah are in Decatur County, Ind. I have found no George Danner/Donner > in > Muhlenberg. The only one who I have ever found in Muhlenberg is Ann > Mary who > md. John Dick, Jr. I have only one piece of evidence that Ann Mary is > their > daughter and that comes from a county history, which we all know are not > always reliable. Bottom line is perhaps she isn't the daughter of George > Sr., and > Mary Huff Donner after all. > Tobias does move on to Ripley county, Indiana where he marries Nancy > Bettis > in 1820, so the father and sons were in Jefferson, Decatur and Ripley > counties > in Indiana before they moved on to central Illinois. Elizabeth and her > husband William Walters are the only ones who stay in Indiana. Do you > know if > there were Brethren settlements in the early 1800's in those Indiana > counties? > I have a lot of evidence concerning the family in Rowan County, N. C. and > Jessamine County, Kentucky, but absolutely nothing prior to Rowan County > that I > can prove. I do believe, from the Records of the Moravians in N. C., that > George Sr.'s father was a Jacob, but which one I have no idea. I can also > prove from a will that George Sr., had a brother named Jacob. > Jo Ann Schmidt > > _RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Joe Ann Brant Family File_ > (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=joannbrandt&id=I1334)