Hope I am not intruding, but wonder if I could inquire if there would be any mention in these books of the surname McMAHAN... it is my understanding that a John or James McMahan/McMahon was a Methodist circuit rider in Adams County or surrounding areas about 1780s to early 1800s. Thank you HERMON B FAGLEY wrote: > Dr WM E THOMPSON'S picutes exsist-he was grandson of Rev Wm Justice > Thompson. > The Methodist's had [still have?] a book publishing [sales] firm in > Cincinnati, and > many Methodist ministers wrote autobiographies,or had biographies read > about thenselves. > Plus there is the "Cylopedia of Methodism". I n my 10 year search for the > parents of my > local Methodist Rev George Brown,D 1814, I collected several . > Evans and Stivers's 1900 era "History of Adams Co,Oh " has bios of some > of the 5 > Methodist Circut -riders I link together. > Rev Wm Page was from Connellsville,Pa [after NJ]; Rev Zachariah Connell > Jr ;Rev Greenberry Ridgely Jones m Zachariah Connell; Sr's dau. Rev John > Meek m Jones' sister. .Rev WM J THOMPSON m Wm Page's widow. Rev John > Collins. My wife's Sam Ashton,lastly of NJ,lived at Connellsville,and > named a son,Zachariah.My Mom's uncle,Gus Brown m a Connell. > I tore out,nd mailed a Maine prof a picture of Dr Wm E Thompson, from my > Theirey and > Mitchell history. Prof was writing a book on the last,living Union > officers. > The people at Richard Graham's Station were also from the > Connellsville,Pa area. > Crawford,Grimes,Stephenson,Vance .Said fort was 1\2 mile south of > mid-Adams Co,Oh. 1790-91 winter + > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:52:34 -0600 "Mathew A. Page" <MAPAGE@prodigy.net> > writes: > >Hello Hermon > >Would you know if any pics of Wm E Thompson and his 3rd wife exist > >anywhere, > >also since he was a minister, do you know of any sources where pics > >of > >ministers from his time frame exits, particullary looking for Rev. > >William > >Page picture > > > >Also are his afadavits published anywhere or achived somewhere? > >Mathew Page > >mapage@prodigy.net > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > >To: <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 6:36 AM > >Subject: Notarized afadavits of REV WM E THOMPSON. > > > > > >> I have wondered why old REV WM E Thompson used the method of > >> notarized afadavits to pass on his memories to later generations, > >for > >> 25+ > >> years. > >> barich@fuse.net has told me Mattie Brannock preceded Audrey > >Richards > >> 'in the house just west of Dr Thompson's. And I just noticed a Mr > >> Brannock was the notary preparing the afadavits. I'll bet they were > >> rocking on Dr Thompson's porch. > >> ________________________________________________________________ > >> YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > >> Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > >> Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > >> http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > >> > >> > >> ==== OHCLERMO Mailing List ==== > >> We Love Clermont > >> > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== > Help Instructions at: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html > or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net > Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams > Adams Co., OH at USGenWeb: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/OHAdams/ > Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! > Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/