Source: Shinn, Josiah H., The History of the Shinn Family. The Genealogical and Historical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1903. Page 248. RUTH PROUD (6) - LUCRETIA SHINN (5), THOMAS (4), SAMUEL (3), THOMAS (2), JOHN (1). Ruth, fourth child of Abraham and Lucretia (Shinn) Proud, b. 4/21/1791; m. Joseph, son of Thomas and Lydia Rockhill of Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, 3/30/ 1817; he and his family moved to South Bend, Ind., in 1858; children all born at Medford, N. J. 1. Elizabeth Rockhill (7), b. 7/19/1818; ob. 8/20/1852; m. Thomas, son of Isaac and Rachel Lee, at Fostertown, N. J., in 1842; had children: 1. Emma Lee (8); ob. infans. 2. Anna Lee (8); m. Mr. Kyrkendall of Springdale, Ill., and had four children, whose habitat is unknown. 3. George Washington Lee (8), b. 3/19/1846; ob. 1/16/1874 at Denver, Colo. 4. Abigail Lee (8), b. 9/17/1848; m. (1), 9/6/1866, at Morgantown, Ind., Jesse Clarkson, son of George W. and Mary A. (Benson) Davis, who died in 1882 in Tennessee; had children, Lizzie, Annie, Maria, Delora, George Thomas, Sallie May, Walter Henry and Viola Jane Davis. The first three deceased. Married (2), 2/3/1885, at Crawfordsville, Ind., Henry Sea, son of Jesse and Julia (Robertson) Petro, and had other children, born near New Richmond, Ind.; twins, Everett and Earnest Sea; Susan Lenora Petro Sea, Earnest Sea, deceased. Of the first children, George S. Davis married, 6/16/1897, Alice Mary Baldwin, and had four children, Lewis Harley, Charles Elstan, Harvey Clifford and Francis Lee Davis. Viola Jane Davis married at Lafayette, Ind., 6/1/1889, Wolford Church, and had two children, Oka Louise and Delora Lee Church. Sallie May Davis married, 5/10/1900, at Waveland, Ind., Rev. John S. Crowder, a Methodist minister from Virginia, and to them a pair of twins was born at Darlington, Ind., John Robert and Mary Agnes Crowder. Walter Henry Davis married, 5/28/1902, at Lafayette, Ind., Grace Childs. 5. Sarah Gaskell Lee (8), b. 5/1/1850; m. (1), 1876, at Georgetown, Ind., Francis Anthony Rund of Germany, and had children, (1) Ora Allen Rund, ob. infans; (2) Flora May Rund, b. 6/24/1878, m., 3/8/1899, Charles Kesler McDonald, and had two children, Cecil Herbert and Ivae McDonald; (3) Burt Rosco Rund, b. 12/11/1880, m. 12/2/1902, Emma E. Long. Francis A. Rund died in 1896 and Sarah G. married (2), 11/14/1900, John Skephart. 6. Thomas Lee (8), b. 8/23/1851; m. at Ladoga, Ind., 8/28/1879, Nannie E. Epperson, and had children, William Carl, Eva Francis, Walter Earl, Harley Dickinson, Howard Epperson, Orval Thomas Lee, of whom the first two deceased. 2. Rachel Rockhill (7). 3. Abigail Rockhill (7). 4. Lydia Rockhill (7), b. 1/1/1825; m., 1862, Henry Powell of South Bend, Ind. 5. William Rockhill (7), b. 10/14/1828; m. Jane B. Richardson, and had children: 1. Rebecca Richardson Rockhill (8), b. 2/28/1856; m., 12/4/1890, Frederick, son of Jacob and Julia Ann Curtia, in St. Joseph County, Indiana. No children. 2. Ruth Anna Rockhill (8), b. 8/29/1857; m., 5/31/1881, at Attica, Ind. Oliver Burgess, son of Daniel and Catherine Keene, a traveling salesman; had children, Oliver and Earl Keene. 3. Mary Elizabeth Rockhill (8), b. 8/15/1859, at South Bend, Ind.; m., 6/26/1879, George Hodgkinson, son of Judge George H. Alward of South Bend, Ind.; he is now clerk of St. Joseph Circuit Court; had children, Robert Rockhill Alward, Chester Arthur Alward, William Henry Alward. -- Malcolm Schalick Sharp http://sharp.rootsweb.com/ --