Velva...Have you found that Sherrick was also spelled Serk/Sirk/Sorg? I am researching Mathias Serk [of Rockingham Co., VA/Loudoun Co., VA/Adams Co., PA] who passed through Fairfield Co. before settling in Richland Co. Where did your Sherrick families originate? Marg Bond

I am doing research of William McKinley of Amanda Twp, and includes, Griffith, Crist, Kiger, Glick, Weidner, Courtright, Markwood and some other wives and husbands. Chas McKinley

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_918505920_boundary Content-ID: <0_918505920@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_918505920_boundary Content-ID: <0_918505920@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: SusanNoel@aol.com Return-path: <SusanNoel@aol.com> To: OHFAIRF-L@rootsweb.com Subject: MURRY, McCLEARY Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:03:08 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Searching for MURRY and MCCLEARY early 1800's. MURRY came from MD(?) and MCCLEARY came from VA (?) Loyd MURRY m Elizabeth MCCLEARY. Their son, David Ezra MURRY m Leah FENSTERMAKER; they lived in Bloom Twp. Thanks, Susan Murry Noel --part0_918505920_boundary--

Searhing these names in Fairfield and Pickaway Counties, Ohio SHERRICK connecting to STALTER, MYERS, RHOADS/ROADS/RHODES, MOSIER to SHERRICK, KING, MOYER, FREY/FRY STEMEN > MOYER, SWICK, LIPPINCOTT, SPANGLER, MARTZ/MURTZ LIPPINCOTT> WARNER, BLAND, GEETING I think this is really neat having this roll call! Velva

Anyone know this couple? Mary GRIMES (m. Dec 11, 1836) Hiram BRAKE Ref: Fairfield Co. OH Marriage Book "G", pg 22. Emmett Mason Masontree@aol.com

Carol, Another comment, a long one, on why our forefathers moved to Ohio from Maryland. This subject has been of great interest to me as well. Much of Maryland, especially around the Frederick area, was, before the Revolutionary War, owned by Proprietors. They were men who were owed favors by the Crown and who were given grants of land by the King; they "developed" them, somewhat like modern subdivision developers, except that they rented them instead of selling in many cases. Many of our ancestors came to Maryland and rented their land from these Proprietors. Some bought because they could afford to do so. But others were new in this country, having spent all they had just getting here, and renting was their only way to get land. These Proprietors were not particularly bad guys, not slum landlords or anything! and some were patriots when the time came. They were just entrepreneurs. The tenants of these "Manors" cleared the land, built houses and barns, made all the improvements. And if you have visited the area, you know they also had to clear the rocks! What a lot of exposed rocks! Backbreaking work. They also had lots of kids to help with the work. They invested their lives in these rented lands, hoping, usually ,to purchase when the time was right. But the War came. After the Revoutionary War, two things had happened, and then two more. 1. The tenants, as well as the outright owners who had bought their land, had been there long enough to raise way too many children to share their land with. So new land was greatly in demand. And there were two directions to go, west into Ohio and South into West Virginia and then Kentucky. Western PA took some of the overflow, but it was having a lot of westward flow of its own, and the land was so mountainous there. 2. The land belonging to the Proprietors was granted by the King. The King had been thrown out. So the new governments, in need of land with which to pay their soldiers of the Continental Army , confiscated all Crown lands. Guess what happened with the tenants of these Manors? They were dispossessed. This took place in about 1789, and it probably created a major jam-up of families living with family, homelessness, and attempts to settle on inferior land, etc. Even before Ohio became a state in 1805, the western "dam" was leaking and then, with statehood, the dam burst. One of my ancestors, Peter Hedges, and a neighbor and close family friend, the widow Susannah Springer (widow of a Revolutionary War soldier who died in that war) both owned their land on the east side of the Monocacy River north of Frederick, MD. But, deed or no deed, they lost land in the postwar shuffle as well. Mistakes were made and injustices were surely done. It was a very unsettled time in the new nation. Some of their sons came on to Ohio, settling in the new state and in the greater Fairfield/Hocking County area. Also, it seems pretty obvious to me, from study of the various branches of my family (HEDGES, LANTZ, MORGAN, CREIGLOW, BIGHAM, DERN, CREAGER HENDRICKSON, DELONG, MCLAUGHLIN, LOVE, GUYTON, BOWLAND, RUFFNER, BIBLER, SMUTZ, so far) that family followed kin who went before. For instance, we know that all (or most) of the Hedges who lived in MD were related. When it came time to spead outward and acquire more land, some of the offspring went west to Ohio and others went down across the Potomac into Western Virginia. From there they moved into the new lands in Kentucky. But eastern Kentucky and West Virginia were mountainous, a hard living. Some of the new settlers stayed. But others heard from their kin who went to Fairfield County about how rich the land was there, (people wrote a lot of letters in those days if they could read and write) and they went north to Ohio to join them. Thus in the original Fairfield County area, there are several branches of the Hedges line, related, but not closely. My Hedges ancestor, Caleb Hedges Jr. came as a teenager, along with his twice widowed and twice remarried mother, Mary DERN HEDGES RICE WOLF and her new husband and his Rice and Wolf half brothers and sisters to Ohio about 1805. Two other factors came into play: 1. Ohio became a state. Development was gong on here. Entreprneurs speculated on land to sell to settlers.People were encouraged and actually recruited to move here. And remember that Ohio was due west of MD. (And PA) with a lovely river system to travel on, and an increasingly well established set of trails. Fairfield County and Lancaster were right on the Zane Trace, and Lancaster was one of the tree towns the Zanes established. Most attractive. 2. The Indian question was settled. Before the subduing of Indian hostiles in the area, it really wasn't very safe in central Ohio. The Shawnees of central Ohio were reputedly a fierce and proud people. Many settlers died at their hands and many were captured. But when Tecumseh died in 1812, that threat eased and even more settlers moved west. (It seems sad that this great chief could be viewed as an obstacle but of course he was. It was, after all, conquest. Us against them, and we wanted land.) I hope this helps you to understand the pressures the people of that time underwent. It has always seemed to me that it would have taken great bravery or great necessity to make such a move as so many of our ancestors made, into raw and unbroken land. That old and very romanticized novel about Lancaster, "Forest Rose" (Emerson Bennett, 1959) probably wasn't so far off. And the Conrad Richter series, "The Trees," (1940) "The Fields" (1946) and "The Town" (1950) will give a good, if fictionalized picture of how hard it was. Lynn McLaughlin Scheu Louisville, KY > Has anyone researched why so many came from Maryland to Ohio in >the early part of the 19th century? Mine were too young to have been >veterans of the Revolutionary War - any other ideas? >Carol A. Steele >Sandusky, Erie Co, OH >

Searching in Fairfield Co.: Carey/Cary, Beard, Allen, Stevenson, Algire/Allgire, French and Coleman Mary Lou Clegg ************************************************** Allen County Public Library Acquisition\Can-Gen PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270 219-421-1294 http://www.acpl.lib.in.us **************************************************

I am researching..... Names in Fairfield Co. OH - Jacob CRITES, FELLER(S), POWELL, RABENOLD - Bloom Twnship Namrs is Hancock Co., OH - CRITES, FELLER(S), POWELL, SHOEMAKER - Liberty Twnship Alice Mechler AliMech@AOL.COM

KAGY-BIBLER from Shenandoah/Rockingham Cos., Virginia BAKER-RUGH from Westmoreland Co., PA perhaps also KIESTER from Westmoreland Co., PA Debbie

Searching: STEIGER, VAN PELT, BATTENFIELD, DAWSON, SHEPARD, STONEBREAKER, SOLIDAY (Hope I'm doing this right.) Doug Steiger Rochester Hills,MI

My primary surnames: MASON, GRIMES [MD>OH migration to Violet Twp.] My surnames of wives BISH, BUTLER, GLANVILLE, HEDGES, GREEN, TALBOTT?, TAYLOR, WOLFE? Emmett Mason Masontree@aol.com

Does anyone know of anyone of this name being in Fairfield of Perry Counties early? I'm missing one and it just occurred to me that this is where they may have gone. Debbie

Researching the following names: LYTLE/LITLE, PHERSON, STALLONS/STERLING,COCKEREL, BOTTS, BURTON, SPOON Nancy Conrad

I am trying to find information on Margaret Wright. She was b April, 1838 in Ohio. In the census she states that her father was born in PA, and her mother was born in New York. The married Osias H. Black (1838-1863in Civil War) in Perry Co. 20 May 1860. She had two children by him: Chauncey Evertt Black (1860-1931) and Florence Abelia Black who died in 1870 and is buried at Black's Chapel in Perry County. She married 2nd Elias Clover 25 Dec 1864 at Burne Station in Fairfield Co. Ohio. They moved to Lancaster in Fairfield County and had 9 children: Harvey Ellis, Hannah V., John V., Clorinda M., Minerva L., Commodore Perry, Albert W., Emma L., and Worthy S., who were living in Lancaster in the 1900's. She divorces Elias Clover 23 Sept, 1882, and resumed her married name of Margaret Black, and collected a widows pension from Osias' service in the Civil War until her death in 1905. I can't find her on the 1850 census of Perry or Fairfield Counties. The only other information I have comes from a deed selling land to Joseph Wright. It lists the following people as selling land in Perry County to Joseph Wright: William C. Wright--Lewis Co., Missouri Susan A. Wright--Lewis Co., Missouri William Mulligan--Franklin Co., Ohio Susan Milligan--Franklin Co., Ohio William Innis--Franklin Co., Ohio Sarah E. Innis--Franklin Co., Ohio John Milligan--Franklin Co., Ohio Hannah Milligan--Franklin Co., Ohio Mary E. Sain--Perry Co Henry Sain (his mark)--Perry Co. Harriet Wright (her mark)--Perry Co. Matilda Tracy (Ivacy?)(his mark)Perry Co. John Tracy (Ivacy?)(his mark)Perry Co Nancy Greysinger (her mark)--Perry Co Robert B. Wright--Perry Co John W. Elder--Perry Co. Sarah Elder--Perry Co. Thomas L. Housholder--Perry Co. Mary Housholder--Perry Co. Evanna Wright (her mark)--Perry Co. Margaret Clover --Fairfield Co. Elias Clover (his mark)--Fairfield Co. Anna J. Dollison--Perry Co. William Greysinger--Perry Co. This deed was made the 14 day of June 1875. I'm at a dead end. Any help would be appreciated! Susie

Hi List, I was wondering if anyone is researching the HEED - CASSELL - SUGART (SHUGART, SUGERT) - CRIM - STOUT names in Fairfield Co. Please email me if you are. Thanks, Judi

I think my husband's family came to Perry County, Ohio in 1812 (from New Jersey) to avoid the War of 1812. Jacob Stine was 28 and his wife 23 when they came. On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 13:51:39 -0800 (PST) Karl Seitz <kseitz@earthlink.net> writes: >Carol A. Steele: > >> Some of my ancestors, Benedict STEEL (1813-1869) & William >HADDEN >>(@1790-@1850), came from Maryland to Muskingum Co., OH, and then to >>Hocking Co., OH, while one, Benedict A. LOWE (@1796-1862) came from >>Maryland to Guernsey Co., OH, and then to Fairfield Co., OH. >> Has anyone researched why so many came from Maryland to Ohio >in >>the early part of the 19th century? Mine were too young to have >been >>veterans of the Revolutionary War - any other ideas? > >Carol: > >The basic reason people left Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, >Virginia and >other places for Ohio in the early 19th century is that is when land >in >Ohio really began to open up for settlement. In addition, the >population >pressures were steadily growing in the older states. Farmers in >particular >wanted larger amounts of land than were available east of the >mountains and >they wanted at cheaper prices. > >-- >Karl Seitz >researching SEITZ and BEERY in Fairfield County. > > >

Charlie & All Some of my ancestors, Benedict STEEL (1813-1869) & William HADDEN (@1790-@1850), came from Maryland to Muskingum Co., OH, and then to Hocking Co., OH, while one, Benedict A. LOWE (@1796-1862) came from Maryland to Guernsey Co., OH, and then to Fairfield Co., OH. Has anyone researched why so many came from Maryland to Ohio in the early part of the 19th century? Mine were too young to have been veterans of the Revolutionary War - any other ideas? Carol A. Steele Sandusky, Erie Co, OH

Carol A. Steele: > Some of my ancestors, Benedict STEEL (1813-1869) & William HADDEN >(@1790-@1850), came from Maryland to Muskingum Co., OH, and then to >Hocking Co., OH, while one, Benedict A. LOWE (@1796-1862) came from >Maryland to Guernsey Co., OH, and then to Fairfield Co., OH. > Has anyone researched why so many came from Maryland to Ohio in >the early part of the 19th century? Mine were too young to have been >veterans of the Revolutionary War - any other ideas? Carol: The basic reason people left Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia and other places for Ohio in the early 19th century is that is when land in Ohio really began to open up for settlement. In addition, the population pressures were steadily growing in the older states. Farmers in particular wanted larger amounts of land than were available east of the mountains and they wanted at cheaper prices. -- Karl Seitz researching SEITZ and BEERY in Fairfield County.

Hi, I'm interested in the following children of Peter and Barbara Rugh, moved from Westmoreland Co., PA to Fairfield or Perry Co., OH in the early 1800s, especially in knowing what became of Christiam and John: 1. CHRISTIAN RUGH 2. JOHN RUGH 3. MARY "POLLY" RUGH b. 1802, d. 15 Jan 1830, Fairfield or Perry Co., OH, m. 21 Oct 1818 Fairfield Co., OH, ---+m. JOHN CHARLES BAKER Debbie

Researchers, I am looking for information on the Lewis Wright family. Here is what I have on Lewis Wright to date: 1. Born 25 August 1849 in Hocking County Ohio 2. First marriage to Mary Dew May 4, 1871 Hocking County Ohio 3. Second marriage to Ida Belle Bebout October 30, 1890 Hocking Co. Ohio 4. Died November 7, 1914 Marion twp. Hocking County Ohio 5. Buried Smith Chapel Cemetery, Hocking County Ohio 6. Parents - Franklin Wright and Ellenor ________ 7. Children: Orlif Osten, Val, Minnie, Guy, Estella, Jessie, Chester, and Roxie. Thank you for your interest. Chuck Charles Rutter ^ ^ crutter@voyager.net . . o (~) February 6, 1999 9:42 pm