A selected Orr line descended from early arrivals in Bowling Green Township, Licking County, Ohio. Joseph L. Orr was the eldest son of Robert and Elizabeth Jenkins Orr. Robert was the third eldest son of James and Mary Dale Orr of Orrsburg, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. James was probably born in Ulster, Northern Ireland about 1732. He married Mary Dale of Harford County, Maryland. In 1825 he died in Orrsburg and his wife followed in 1826. Robert was living in Bowling Green Township by 1804 and was the first of the Orrs to arrive from Pennsylvania. He and his wife had seven children before he hung himself in 1834. With the help of many members of Rootsweb we have recently added another connection from this Orr family to Bowsers of nearby Hopewell Township, Perry County. And this is my thank you. If the details bore you skip to the end of this outline. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Direct Descendants of Joseph L. Orr to Audrey V. Bowser 1 Joseph L. ORR Born: 1799 Died: 1868 Burial: Fairmount Presbyterian Church Cemetery. .. +Harriet TRACY Married: 1819 Burial: Probably Fairmount Presbyterian Cemetery. . ..... 2 Albert ORR ..... 2 Harvey ORR ..... 2 James ORR ..... 2 Sarah ORR ..... 2 William C. ORR Born: 1824 Died: 1893 ..... 2 George ORR Born: 1826 ..... 2 Isaac ORR Born: 1827 Died: 1869 ..... 2 Samuel McClelland ORR Born: February 8, 1834 in Bowling Green Township, Licking County. Died: September 22, 1904 in Hopewell Township, Ohio. Burial: Good Hope Lutheran - Shelley's. Many Brethren buried in this Lutheran cemetery. ......... +MARJORIE Born: 1835 Died: Bef. 1867 Married: Abt. 1853 ............ 3 Samantha ORR Born: 1854 ............ 3 William A. ORR Born: 1856 ............ 3 Geanna ORR Born: 1858 ......... +Sara J. SNIDER Born: 1848, probably in Hopewell Township, Ohio. No doubt related to Brethren ministers in the area. Died: 1914 in Hopewell Township, Ohio. Married: 1867. Burial: Good Hope Lutheran - Shelley's. Many Brethren buried in this Lutheran cemetery. ............ 3 George P ORR Born: 1868 ............ 3 Lilly B. ORR Born: 1873 ............ 3 Birdie Mattie ORR Born: 1876 Died: 1949 ................ +Murray BOWSER Born: 1873 Died: 1956 ................... 4 Dorothy BOWSER Born: April 3, 1912 ................... 4 Maude BOWSER ................... 4 Frank Harold BOWSER Born: 1899. Died: 1971 in Hopewell Township. Buried Highland Cemetery, Glenford. ....................... +Frankie Louise ROTH Born: 1900 Died: 1972 in Hopewell Township.Buried Highland Cemetery, Glenford. Married: December 20, 1920 ........................... 5 Audrey V. BOWSER ................... 4 Bessie BOWSER Born: 1907 ................... 4 Infant Son BOWSER Born: 1914 Died: 1914 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A few years ago we published a book in memory of my wife, Betty Jean Clark Laube's, maternal grandfather, Bert R. Orr of Bowling Green. With the help of her Orr relatives who were still alive, now all deceased, and especially with the help of other researchers like Helen McGaughy, we identified those Orrs who had arrived in Bowling Green Township before 1820, and many of their descendants, but by no means all of them. The Orrs that we found who had been born in Bowling Green before the middle of the 19th Century were descendants of two Orr brothers, Robert and James. The brothers were in Bowling Green Township by 1804 and 1816. We saw Orrs in nearby Perry County and two them were married into the Bowser family, but we could connect only one of them to the Orrs of Bowling Green. That one connection was the marriage of Perry B. Orr to Eva Myrtle Bowser in 1894. One of the brothers, James Orr, was his great-grandfather. But we could not find an Orr connection for Birdie M. Orr who had married Murray Bowser about 1897. Even when we wrote the Bowser book in honor of my wife's maternal grandmother, Anna Maude Bowser, of Hopewell Township, Perry County, Ohio, we still could not connect Birdie M. Orr Bowser to either of the two Orr brothers. Then we found a long lost cousin, Audrey V. Bowser ( I am going to omit her married name.) She knew her great-grandfather's name was Samuel Orr and that her grandmother's name, his daughter, was Birdie M. Orr. And we knew from Perry County cemetery records that Birdie was born in 1876. I asked for someone to look up in the 1880 Ohio census a Samuel Orr born about 1840 with a daughter Birdie M. born in 1876. There were several very prompt replies. Here is the most complete one: Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Samuel M. ORR Self M M W 46 OH Farmer Sarah J. ORR Wife F M W 31 OH George P. ORR Son M S W 12 OH Lilly B. ORR Dau F S W 7 OH Mattie B. ORR Dau F S W 4 OH Census Place: Linnville, Licking, Ohio. Source: FHL Film 1255040 National Archives Film T9-1040 Page 260D. 1880 Ohio Census. Many sent this information and I have thanked them privately. I hope this holds format - it came to me as an attachment in perfect tabular form. NOTE - Linnville, Bowling Green Township was where Samuel M. Orr's probable parents farmed. Which was very helpful. Also, the first farms of the two Orr brothers was within a stone's throw of the hamlet of Linnville. Armed with Samuel's middle initial and the actual year of his birth and his wife's name I was able to easily find him in a Lutheran cemetery in Hopewell Township, Perry County, Ohio. It is known that several near by Brethren churches buried there dead in this Lutheran cemetery. This cemetery record actually listed the wife's maiden name - Sarah J. Snyder. Samuel was said to have been a Brethren minister and that is no doubt accurate. His wife is probably descended from two Brethren ministers, Daniel and Jacob Snyder. They held meetings in their homes in Thorn and Hopewell Township in the first half of the 19th Century. Another helpful family historian surprised us by sending the 1860 census enumeration for this same Samuel, but with a different, younger, family. We assume the first wife died and Samuel remarried and began the family we see in his 1880 census. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perhaps a note for newcomers- You will notice that when I asked for help I posted a very specific, limited, question. In addition to the 1880 census - researchers made use of the 1860 enumeration, the LDS Ancestral Files, available on the net and through the many Family History Libraries(LDS). But use the Ancestral Files only to suggest where to look for your ancestors. Notice that the 1860 census would not have identified Samuel as the father of Mattie B. or Birdie M. Orr. I also used a publication available from the Perry County OGS chapter, Hopewell and Madison Township Cemeteries. Volume 2, 1989. Such publications by the various OGS chapters and other researchers are much appreciated. Thanks to those who take the time to do them. And most crucial of all - information from living ancestors. Unless our cousin told us about her great-grandfather Samuel Orr none of this would have happened. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hope I haven't bored you. Best regards to all of those on the lists - and especially many thanks to those of you who take the time to throw a little bread upon the River of Life. Hal