Thanks, Don, for trying to increase the activity on this List. Hopefully your nudging us all to post our ties to LawCo will result in lots of responses, and who knows, maybe some of us will find a new cousin or two in 2009. I'm going to start composing my emails and will try to get all my LawCo ancestors posted to the List over the next week or so. Regards, Nancy Edwards - Georgia - On Jan 7, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Lawcoloreman@aol.com wrote: > As we start a new year, I would like to see a lot more of you as active > participants in this list. Most of the posts in the last several > months have > been the queries and comments gate-wayed to the list from the message > board. > The whole idea of these lists is that we can post any queries and/or > info we > have to be able to connect with others researching the same families. > I will start the ball rolling be posting the following info about my > family. > I am Donald R Clark, Ohlawren list admin. I am a Lawrence Co. native, > although like most of eastern Lawrence Co., I was born in Huntington, > WV. That's > where the hospitals are. I attended and graduated from Chesapeake > Schools. > I grew up 5 miles north of Proctorville on Ohio 775, and live about > 2.5 miles > from there on a farm my dad and grandfather bought when I was 7. My > wife > and I will celebrate our 40th anniversary in July and have 2 grown > children. I > have one sister, who was born 2 weeks before I was 15. > > My dad was William McDonald Clark, youngest son of Delbert and Ada > (Delawder) Clark. He died in 1986. Delbert and Ada were both from > Aid Township, and > in 1890, after their marriage, they bought a farm and moved to the > northern > edge of Union Twp, on Indian Guyan Creek. > > Mom will be 89 in May, but the dementia side of Parkinson's is taking > its > toll. She was the first child of Leroy "Roy" F. and Chloe (Morris) > Ellcessor. > Papaw Ellcessor drove a school bus for Fairland schools for many > years. >> From about 1954 til their deaths, they lived on Little Paddy Creek >> (now County > Rd 70). > > Delbert Clark was the eldest son of Levi and Emily "Jane" (Rose) > Clark. > Levi was the youngest son of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Lambert) Clark. > Cornelius > died in 1860, and Levi stayed home to run the farm and take care of > his > mother and sisters while the next three olders sons served in the > Civil War. > After their marriage, Levi bought out his siblings interest in the > family home, > and they lived there until their deaths. Jane Rose was a daughter of > Lewis > and Margaret (Lambert) Rose, of Mason Twp. Janes' grandfather was > Thomas > Lambert, a brother to Elizabeth Lambert. Thomas and Elizabeth were > children of > Jonathan and Margaret (McFarland) Lambert, who were married in > Harrison Co, VA > (now WV), in 1797. Cornelius Clarks parents were Samuel and Mary > (Darby) > Clark. Samuel and the children were in Upper Twp before 1810. Mary > died > either shortly before of shortly after they reached Ohio. > > Ada Delawder was the child of Henry R and Arminta (Burns) Delawder. > Henry > was a son of John and Nancy (Davis) Delawder of Aid Twp. John was a > son of > Lawrence Delawder (Jr.) > Arminta was the eldest child of David and Elizabeth (Smith) Burns, who > were > married in Cabell Co. VA in 1851, in Jackson Co, OH in 1860, in > Lawrence Co in > 1870, and back in Lincoln Co, WV in 1900. ELIZABETH SMITH IS MY > GREATEST > BRICKWALL. There are two possible Elizabeth Smiths in Cabell Co in > 1850, but > neither one is living with her parents. > > "Roy" Ellcessor was a son of John F and Ella (McComas) Ellcessor, who > lived > in Mason Twp for most of their lives. John F died in Columbus at 94 > years. > I can remember visiting him only a year or two before his death, when > he was > living on his own in a garage apartment behind a daughters house in > Proctorville. John F was a son of Rufus B and Martha "Jane" (Sampson) > Ellcessor, who > both were born, lived, and died in Mason Twp. Rufus dad and > grandparents > were German immigrants who came through Mississippi Customs in > January 1820. > Jane Sampson as a daughter of John and Caroline (Fowler) Sampson. I > am a > member of First Families of Gallia Co with Caroline, b. 1820, and her > parents, > Elijah and Jane Fowler, who were residents of Guyan Twp, Gallia Co, > before 1820. > John Sampson was a son of Valentine and Nancy (Higgins) Sampson, who > were > married in Lawrence Co in Jan. 1821. Ella McComas was the daughter of > James M > and Sarah Jane (Lewis) McComas. > > Chloe Morris was a daughter of William C and Catherine "Cassie" > (Rhanor) > Morris, of Windsor Twp. William C was the son of William L and > Louisa (Dunfee) > Morris. William L was the son of Elisha Morris (who died in Monroe > Co, OH in > the early 1840's. His mothers second marriage was to J Capper. > Their > combined family was in Windsor Twp in 1850 > The Morris, Rhanor, Dunfee, and many related families moved to > Lawrence Co > from the Belmont/Monroe/Noble Co area of eastern Ohio in the late > 1840's and > 1850's. Most of these families settled along Greasy Ridge (County Rd > 2), at > or near where Ohio Rt 217 crossed it. > > I would like to hear from anyone related to any of these families. > For more > specific info on any family, please contact me directly at > _Lawcoloreman@aol.com_ (mailto:Lawcoloreman@aol.com) > > I hope more of you will post some family history that might find you > some > currently unknown cousins. > > Lets dig up some new roots. > > Don Clark, Ohlawren list admin > Corresponding Secretary and Newsletter Editor, > Lawrence Co. Gene. 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