Pat, You have hit on a wonderful book. If you ever want more information, reach one of the authors Bev Schumacher. I have worked with her on a relative and she was WONDERFUL! She has written many books and compilations of data for the Athens area. She can be reached at [email protected] Tell what a wonderful job she did on this book, we all enjoy compliments. Good Luck! Gayla Vincent > I was recently in the Toledo Ohio library and found a book I had not > seen before: > "Athens Co. Family History, 1987" > compiled by Beverly Schumacher and Mary L. Bowman with the Athens Co. > Historical Society & Museum. > > It is a series of family histories of those living now in Athens Co. > Evidently contributed by them. Luckily, one of the families was that of > Thomas Lewellen who I had berated for only mentioning his sons in his > will (and only three). I had hoped to tie my Susan Llewellyn who married > Joshua King - to Thomas. > > Lo and Behold - the book did it for me. At the same time, an e-mail > cousin gave me his wife's name. For any interested party: > > Thomas Lewellen (or variants thereof) I have a birth date of 1784, VA. > d. c. 1849, m. Mary Gough d. c. 1863, dau of Joshua and Charity > Lunsford Gough, 7-30-1804 Monongalia Co. Va., now WVa. > > They had: > John b. 3-16-1807, d. 1-25-1895 buried Minear Cem., Lee twp. m. > Mary McDonald, dau. Indianne, from Monongalia > Wm. b. 1808 d. c. 1878 m. Ruth McVey, dau. of Ziba McVey 10-10-1833 > Samuel b. 1812 m. 1) Mary Canny 2-9-1837 2)Mary Hully 5-2-1839 > Susan b. 1815, d. 3-19-1883 m. Joshua King 3-19-1836 > Charity b. 3-29-1818, d. 9-3-1897, m. Phillip Minnear, 7-13-1843 > both buried in Townhouse cem., Lee twp. > Alpheus b. 1820 m. Ellen (I also see it as Eleanor) Smithley 11-9-1843 > Abraham b. 1823 m. Samantha Gabrill 1-4-1849 > Lunsford b. 1825 m. Susanna Friedline 11-2-1845 > Nathan b. 1828 d. 1900, m. Elizabeth Day 3-27-1850 > George b. 1830 m. Dorcas Gabriel 12-23-1852 > > The Lewellen descendant mentions also Thorn, Dunn, Trout, Rowell - in > the John Lewellen (oldest son of Thos.) family. > > On the pages there is a Levering (Gaspers) family, John H. Lewis > (Voltingburg) and Edward Linscott (Anderson, Chauncey, Coe families). > > Sad to say - no King families are listed. Surely all the many many Kings > born of Joshua and his family one or two have to still be in Athens Co. > > Pat Snyder > > ==== OHATHENS Mailing List ====