For the past five years I have been searching for the parents of my Great-great Grandfather WILLIAM DEAKINS who married HESTER BAKER on 15 Mar 1846. In my records I found a LEATHA ANN DEAKINS who married WILLIAM SEVERNS ca. 1845. Leatha's parents were given as RICHARD and ANN DEAKINS of Brown Twp, Knox Co. I would be interested to find out if Leatha and William were brother and sister. This would mean I might have found a "missing link". William and Hester's daughter, SEVENA DEAKINS, was my Great-Grandmother who was also related to the BUTLERS of Knox Co. One of the Butlers , Joseph married an ABIGAIL SEVERNS. Sevena's father, William, died 26 Apr 1868 and is buried in the Severns family cemetery on Praler Mill Rd. I found it several years ago but it is in ruins. You would not know it is a cemetery unless you were standing on top of it. Most of the stones are down and grown over, and the trees have taken over the grounds. What a shame.
Have you already checked land records in the counties that you know your Deakins family has lived in? Many of the older land records give genealogical information - especially when land is inherited by children. Many times this is the only way I have been able to extend my pedigree, especially when the time period is before the 1850 census and the start of birth records. Denise Crawford ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 1:11 PM Subject: [OHKnox] SEVERNS marriage to DEAKINS > For the past five years I have been searching for the parents of my > Great-great Grandfather > WILLIAM DEAKINS who married HESTER BAKER on 15 Mar 1846. > In my records I found a LEATHA ANN DEAKINS who married WILLIAM SEVERNS > ca. > 1845. Leatha's parents were given as RICHARD and ANN DEAKINS of Brown > Twp, > Knox > Co. > I would be interested to find out if Leatha and William were brother and > sister. This would > mean I might have found a "missing link". > William and Hester's daughter, SEVENA DEAKINS, was my Great-Grandmother > who > was also related to the BUTLERS of Knox Co. One of the Butlers , Joseph > married an ABIGAIL > SEVERNS. Sevena's father, William, died 26 Apr 1868 and is buried in the > Severns family > cemetery on Praler Mill Rd. I found it several years ago but it is in > ruins. You would not know > it is a cemetery unless you were standing on top of it. Most of the > stones > are down and grown over, and the trees have taken over the grounds. What > a > shame. > >