Hi listers. I am looking for any information on the Vance family from Ohio, and probably lived in Knox County, Ohio. My 2x great grandmother was Martha Ellen Vance (some accounts have her as Mary Ellen). She married Philip Fawcett on August 11, 1844 in Knox County, Ohio. They moved to Logan County, Illinois, where she died in 1864. If you have any information about the Vance family from Ohio in the early to mid 1800's, please contact me. Thank you, Valerie Knecht Hoff of Bellevue, WA
Valerie, My Vances in Jackson Co., OH were from what is now WV and went to OH in the 1830s where they had more children before moving on. Some of their older children may have married and stayed there. James Vance and Barbara Miller's son Thomas Jefferson Vance was born in Jackson, Jackson Co., OH in about 1841. By 1846 the family was Sangamon Co. IL where daughter Marcena married. Some of the children remain there, Thomas J. for one, until the mid-1860s before moving on to KS in the late 1860s. I don't know when or where the parents, James and Barbara Vance, moved but Barbara later shows up back in Jackson Co., OH married to a George Glassburn and James ends up in Labette Co., KS where some of his kids moved, dead and buried by 1872. They must have divorced or he disappeared and was declared dead when he wasn't. You said that your Vances were in Logan Co. which shares a border with Sangamon Co. >Hi listers. I am looking for any information on the Vance family from >Ohio, and probably lived in Knox County, Ohio. My 2x great grandmother was >Martha Ellen Vance (some accounts have her as Mary Ellen). She married Philip > Fawcett on August 11, 1844 in Knox County, Ohio. They moved to Logan > County, Illinois, where she died in 1864. > If you have any information about the Vance family from Ohio in the early to mid 1800's, please contact me. > Thank you, Valerie Knecht Hoff of Bellevue, WA > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >