James: Thank you for your info on Permelia Shuman, I can't explain the reason why but I am intensely interested in this woman's background, not only because of the Shuman connection but also her marriage to Jacob K Streight. The Streight family does seem to have a string of twins in this lineage believe the original spelling of the name was Strate. I'd appreciate all I can chew on about Permelia Shuman from anybody - just any little thing so I can compare notes. Thank you all so much for listening - I've received wonderful responses. Chris -----Original Message----- From: James Shuman <jshuman@telis.org> To: SHUMAN-L@rootsweb.com <SHUMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 1:06 AM Subject: Re: [SHUMAN] Permelia Shuman >>Henry Shuman and Sarah Temple Kendall, I believe had a daughter named >>Permelia Shuman, who married Jacob Streight. I believe someone told me >>that Permelia may have come into Henry Shuman's marriage to Sarah Temple >>Kendall before their marriage. I also believe someone told me there was >>another daughter who came into this marriage also. I did not write her >>name down anywhere - I was wondering if anyone knows the name of this >>other daughter. Also please list names of known children of the marriage >>between Henry Shuman and Sarah Temple Kendall. Appreciate it - Chris >>Bowen >> >> >Chris, > >There are several folks on this List who are descended from Permelia, and >some of them have already responded. I have put part of this on our web >site, already, so you can look there for Henry's line. > >At this point, no one has been able to explain Sarah Temple Kendall. It's >pretty certain that Henry Shuman married her and had several children by >her (all listed on the web page), but the facts surrounding Permelia and >her sister Ellen(Helen) remain as elusive as their mother's original >surname. The girls have never been identified by any other surname than >Shuman, and henry seems to have accepted them as daughters, but what little >we know indicates they were born in "east Virginia" which could hardly >include Monongalia Co! > >Also, there's doubt as to whether they were twins. Some records indicate >that, but others suggest that Permelia was as much as 6 years years older. >Further, no marriage license/contract/bond between Permelia and Jacob >Straight has been found. If they WERE married the same day as her sister >Ellen was married to William Kennedy, then several of their children were >born prior to their marriage! Their oldest child was born in 1812, and by >1819 they had four children. The web site shows her with seven children, >but I have since received word of three more, for a total of 10: Elizabeth, >Alpheus, and Mary Ellen. > >The known children of Henry Shuman and Sarah Temple Kendall are: > (James) William Shuman, b. ca 1802, m. Matilda Kendall, had 8 children > Levi Shuman, b. ca 1804, m. Sarah Kendall > Henry Shuman, b. ca 1809 > Melinda Shuman, b. ca 1811, m. Lemuell Riggs > Mary Shuman, b. ca 1814, m. Henry S. Hawkins > > >Now, all you descendants of Henry and/or Sarah Temple Kendall: > >Please share your descent lines with us. I have quite a bit on James >William and Matilda's family, a little bit on Permelia and Jacob, but >nothing on the others. I would appreciate it if you'd visit Henry's web >page at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~shuman/henry.html and see what's >already there, and then submit whatever else you have that can add to that. > >Thanks! > >JS > > > _______________________________________________ > James Shuman, Telecommunications Coordinator > The California Arts Project jshuman@telis.org > http://www.ucop.edu/tcap/ > _______________________________________________ > > > > > >==== SHUMAN Mailing List ==== > ----------------- > This is the SHUMAN Discussion List > You can check the Rootsweb Archives at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=SHUMAN > for past messages posted to this list > ----------------- >