Samuel Cranmer's Methodist and cemetary was on US Rt 50 on the Clermont Co-Brown Co,Ohio line,and near the East Fork of the Little Miami River. 1810 is about the beginning of settlement there, but 1803 was the beginning of Atlantic Co people 15 miles sw . Doughty's and Leeds were much more common in the colony. The Dole's had Doughty blood. Absecion folks. Cranmer's church was replace by Rev Edmund Birdsal's church a couple miles sw. Spague,Mathis,Lake were here in Oh On Sat, 27 May 2000 13:48:34 +0000 Lance Beeson <lancebeeson@home.com> writes: > Dear Hermon: > > Don't know if you have ever corresponded with her or not, but would > like to > introduce you to Beth Cranmer from New Jersey. I have told her > that you > probably have a few Cranmer tidbits; I have already forwarded old > emails > about the Cranmer graveyard etc. > > Best wishes, > Lance Beeson > > She wrote to my cousin James Johnson and I the following regarding > our Joel > and Joseph Curless who married the Cranmer sisters (and I had > mentioned > about the families who came to Ohio then on to Fulton and Pike cty > Illinois): > > "I've been sorting through your e-mails. James I have in my 800+ > page > Cranmer > book Samuel Cranmer b. before 1777, son of Richard and Sarah Perkins > Cranmer > marrying Rachel Doughty. Their children were Benjamin D. - who > married > Calista Granger and Samuel. Richard is the son of Thomas Cranmer > and Mary > Ridgeway. Thomas is the son of William and Rachel Cranmer (my > direct line > as > well) Wm is the son of Wm Cranmer and Elizabeth Carwithy. > > The 3 of us are connected to William Cranmer from his son William. > Most > Cranmer's I have met are through William's son John. Many of John's > line > changed the spelling to Cramer - so always check under both > spellings. > > Lance the mentioning of so many IL families from NJ, its amazing to > me. I > grew up on the east coast and the names of our families are so big > in this > area, that it never occurred to me many would venture westward. > Lots of > John > Cranmer and his descendants settled in Bradford County Pa, but I > naively > never thought no one moved too much west past there. My father's > immediate > > family lived on Long Beach Island (where my father was born), the > island > off > of Manahawkin. My grandmother is a Sprague, my g grandmother Sabra > Mathis > from Great John Mathis, one of the original families of Little Egg > Harbor. > We are all connected to the Leeks, Letts, Gaskills, Mathis, Jones, > Traux/Truex, Conklin, Hazelton it just goes on and on. Anyone > listed in > this > Cranmer book related by blood to one of the many surnames is a > direct > descendant of William Cranmer and Elizabeth Carwithy so guys I guess > we are > > sharing DNA all over the place. > > Please send my your gedcoms, and will copy what I can of the Cranmer > book > and > send it to you along with the author's sources. It is published by > the > Gloucester County Historical Society and is in both the DAR library > and I > believe the LDS library as well. It is considered the gospel on > southern > NJ > families. I will read up on your Corliss line (I work for the New > Jersey > State Library, and we have an excellent genealogy dept, and the > state > archives is next door) and mail you both what I have." > > > ________________________________________________________________ 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.