Posted on: Knox Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Knox/553 Surname: ROUSEY, CROUCH, O'HARE ------------------------- We have a letter from the granddaughter of William Henry and Maleatha CROUCH ROUSEY telling us that they had settled in Knox County Ohio when "Grandpa" took the notion to go West with a wagon train led by a man named O'HARE. Does anyone have information on a wagonmaster with this name. I believe it would have been in the 1840s. They did go West with the wagon train but came back to Wabash County Indiana and lived out their life there.

While I have not evidence of the wagon train, I have suspected a large movement of these same folks from Knox as well as Richland and Ashland Counties. My Miller (for my main family here) are from Knox. Michael and Catherine (Slice) Miller slowly established a farm in Dekalb County, Indiana. This was over a course of perhaps 10 years. Michael went back and forth returning to the family in Knox. I have found a wealth of names in the following census of 1850. A search of some of the names here on the LDS site will show addresses in the above counties for them. http://www.rootsweb.com/~indekalb/census/1850/ I look in Concord Township, but have found a few familiar names in others here as well. My Dragoo (Draggoo) are in other counties in Indiana, too. I am very interested in Slice, which is probably a corruption of Vanderslice or Vandersluyse, and is listed on that census as origin in Maryland. Michael Miller is out of PA, perhaps Bedford or Huntington Counties. Dan Fetters Surnames (Becky:) BURGESS, GRANSDEN, HAVENS, RAY, BISSETT, MCCUMBER /MACOMBER, POTTER, SMITH, TOMLIN, YOUNG (Dan:) CARGILL, DRAGOO, FETTER (s), FEATHER, FORTMAN, KATTERMAN, KEESECKER, KNIGHT, LAYMAN, MONROE, MILLER, ST. JOHN, SLICE-SLISE, SWITZER, VETTER, WILLIAMS NS>NB>MI PA, OH, MD>WV>IN>MI GERMANY, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, CANADA, AMERICA ________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Jane B. Lewis <wajalew@strato.net> To: <OHKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 8:26 PM Subject: [OHKNOX] Wagon Train > Posted on: Knox Co. Oh Queries > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Knox/553 > > Surname: ROUSEY, CROUCH, O'HARE > ------------------------- > > We have a letter from the granddaughter of William Henry and Maleatha CROUCH > ROUSEY telling us that they had settled in Knox County Ohio when "Grandpa" > took the notion to go West with a wagon train led by a man named O'HARE. > > Does anyone have information on a wagonmaster with this name. I believe > it would have been in the 1840s. > > They did go West with the wagon train but came back to Wabash County Indiana > and lived out their life there.