>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/ _______________________________________________