Karen caught your note on your great grandmother did you think of looking in the slave census some times the masters would be listed then the slaves a very nice lady here in Texas put me wise to the slave census if you are researching Plantions. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [PAMERCER] My Surnames!!!! > Joan, > Wish I knew more about my Nickel line..... However, I have only been > able to get back to my Great Grandmother, Ella Nickels (Nichols) .... she was > Native American and her roots are deeper than I have been able to dig. Not > 100%, but she was definitely Native American. Even though, on one side of her > family were very well-to-do people. They owned a Plantation in Virginia and > family history states that when the carpetbaggers came through on their way South > (to steal land down South), one told her he'd be back to get her Plantation. > I'm guessing words flew, but he left. When he returned to "steal" her > Plantation, she shot him dead. Like so many other Plantations, it burned and the > Elders of the family found info. on it in Winchester, Va...... We have yet to > find the info. that they found. Elders are all gone now and we don't know any > more than we did 8 years ago. Another history lesson from the "now" Elders > was that the young children used to play in the attic of the Plantation > ...dressing up in the ball gowns and playing with the Confederate money. Ohhhh....to > have just one of those bills now...... > Ella was found working in Front Royal for a wealthy family. She had two > daughters, Mary Belle b. 1880 Sperryville and Josephine b. 1882. She later > married John Frye (Frey) and had 5 boys....John Sr., William "Bud", Elmer, > Charles and Edward. > But which Nickels family she came from is a real mystery in our family. > > Sorry I don't have much else to go on. We started too late to catch all the > info. from the Elders that could have told us so much. > Later > Karen > > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > Did your great - great grandfather serve in the Civil War? Add him to our Ancestral Heroes - soldiers from Mercer County who served during the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korea and the Vietnam War. http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer > >
Rebecca, Thanks for this information; I am sure that it will be helpful to someone. Did you know there is information about both victims and survivors of the Holocaust at Avotaynu, www.avotaynu.com? Have you checked Ancestry, www.ancestry.com? Perhaps someone else in your extended family has entered information. Do you know what Native American tribe your family was from? My great grandfather, John Wesley MARONEY, b. Aug. 15, 1867 in Wheeling, WV, was half Cherokee; they lived and were buried in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. I could not believe that the Mercer County Historical Society did not have a record of any of the TREATs. Alonzo Lewellyn TREAT, b. 4 May 1840 in Greenfield, Mercer Co., PA. His mother, Theresa Matilda GREEN was born 6 May 1818 in Middlesex, Mercer Co., PA; married Joseph Hubert TREAT of Canfield, Mahoning Co., OH; and 7 of their 13 children were born in PA. It is my understanding that you have to send your information to them by U.S. Mail; apparently they do not reply to e-mail. Send it to: Mercer County Historical Society 119 South Pitt Street Mercer, PA 16137 Contact Mr. James Sewall at 724/662-3490. http://www.mchspa.org Joy Van Houdt Treat-Latsch Genealogy http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/Treat-Latsch ----- Original Message ----- From: Rebecca Ahern To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [PAMERCER] My Surnames!!!! Karen caught your note on your great grandmother did you think of looking in the slave census some times the masters would be listed then the slaves a very nice lady here in Texas put me wise to the slave census if you are researching Plantions. ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== Any questions or problems regarding the PAMERCER-L list, e-mail Teri at [email protected] For more Mercer County info, visit our web site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer