On 6 January 2007 Caroline Huppi wrote: >Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 22:11:56 -0500 >From: "Caroline Huppi" <chuppi@cinci.rr.com> >Subject: [OHBUTLER] Nancy Legg McMaken >To: <ohbutler@rootsweb.com> >I am working on photographs for the Brookside Cemetery, previously called the >Union Township Cemetery in Union/ West Chester Township. >Page 12 & 99 in A History of Union Township Butler County Ohio by Virginia >Shewalter, has the earliest burial in this cemetery to be Nancy Legg McMaken >wife of John McMaken, died- Oct 9, 1820 27Y. The tombstone is very legible. >Also in Shewalter's work, Nancy is supposed to be the daughter of Charles (1763 ->1864) and Rachel Wilcoxon (1762 - 1847) Legg and this coincides with online >genealogies. Nancy is supposed to have married ?? McMaken. >Ms Shewalter's book identifies Nancy as Joseph McMaken 1755-1818 daughter >in law. but the McMaken online genealogies show either no Nancy as a wife of >John McMaken, son of this Joseph or a Nancy Lockwood daughter in law to a >John McMaken Since "Nancy McMaken" was 27 when she died and may have >been married 7 years, she is likely to have had at least 1 child. >Does any one have any idea if Shewalter's rendition of Nancy being the daughter >in law of Joseph McMaken 1755-1818 is right/wrong? Could Nancy have been the >daughter in law of John McMaken a possible brother to Joseph McMaken 1755->1818? >I'm not planning on doing real research on everyone in the cemetery but have >found interesting family connections within the cemetery using Shewalter's book >and online genealogies. This question has me very confused- but that is easy >when families named all their children the same names as their neices and >nephews. >Thank-you for any help. >Caroline Huppi Nancy Legg McMaken was the first wife of John McMaken, my 2nd Great Grandfather. They were married 2 May 1813 in Butler County. The Marriage Return from Butler County, Ohio Marriage Records, Vol. 1, page 52, shows her maiden name as Lockwood. The original returns for that year no longer exist and I have not been able to verify that Lockwood was indeed the name she was marrried under. This could have been an error on the part of the Reverend John Thompson, who performed the ceremony, or by the clerk who transcribed the original into the book. I have done extensive investigation locally and found no record of a marriage to a Lockwood, nor have other Legg researchers located any. She and John had one child, Jane, before her death. Jane married Zachariah Parrish Gard, son of Ezekial Gard and Elizabeth Gill. They are both buried near Nancy and her parents. John McMaken was the nephew of Joseph J. McMaken, who is mentioned prominently in both Virginia's book and "A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County, Ohio." John's second spouse was Lydia Catterlin and they moved to Miami County, Ohio in 1832. If anyone is interested in further information about any of these families, please contact me privately off-list. John's father was Joseph McMaken's brother and they both came to Union Twp. to become among the township's first settlers. Bob McMaken