Thanks Walt, Bev, and Elaine for additional Tunis village location information. Yours truly, Dell

Hi Norman, That village of Tunis sure seems to be in the same neck of the woods as where my ancestor Tunis Quick Senior lived. I would sure like to know the village name's origin too! The name Tunis does have a Holland Dutch origin. In my family, an English ancestor (speculative) was Anthony Quick, whose first name became Thennis|Theunis in Dutch when he went to Holland. Descendants of his in Holland migrated to America (more definitely known), bringing Dutch customs. Theunis|Tunis seems to have been one of the most popular names in the Quick family for 200 years. Tunis was used by many other Holland Dutch families, also, though. My Tunis Quick Senior lived in Shenandoah County 1794-1815 (his land straddled the Shenandoah Co./Rockingham Co. boundary, but I do not yet have an exact location, which I plan to find). His sons were in the area various years. His son Tunis Junior (brother of my ancestor James) seems to have been around the area more than the other brothers. For example, there is record of marriage of Tunis Quick (I guess Junior; it would be a second marriage) in Rockingham County in 1811, and his name is in the sale documents of his father's estate. Even without an answer to the origin of the village Tunis's name, I am intrigued by the question, because it is exciting to wonder about. Thanks very much for bringing it up and providing the great location description! By the way do you know the origin of the name Runion Creek? That's close to your last name! Yours truly, Dell ---~~~~---~~~~---~~~~ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:27:37 -0400 From: "Norman Runyon" <norman@runyon.com> To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <003001c37039$001e0500$73d727cc@norman> Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Thanks Chocy for PPTLs + PS re Tunis Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Dell, If I am reading my DeLorme Street Atlas correctly, Tunis is just barely in Shenandoah County on the south side. It appears to be located along Runion Creek on the west side of Supin Lick Mountain. I doubt that it is much of a village but I have never been there. From Rockingham Co., you can get there by going northwest from Broadway, on highway 259 (following the North Fork of the Shenandoah River), through Cootes Store to the Chimney Rock Legion Post - which is where Runion Creek empties into the river.. Turn right (north) at the chimney rock and follow the road along Runion Creek until it forks at the south end of Supin Lick Mountain, then take the left (west) fork and follow that to Tunis. Just north of Tunis is an airfield called Sager Field. If you continue along that road, it looks like the 1st real town is Orkney Springs. It is possible that Tunis might be in Rockingham County. I believe that Tunis is a Holland Dutch surname and I am curious as to whom it was named after. Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: "DELLIEMER QUICK" <jddquick@msn.com> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 1:46 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] Thanks Chocy for PPTLs + PS re Tunis > Chocy, > > Thanks very much for the exciting information on my Quick family ancestors! Now I know some more of them were in Shenandoah County than I knew before! Your help is much appreciated. > > Yours truly, > Dell Quick > > P.S. to Norman Runyon: No, I do not know about the village of Tunis, or how it got its name. Where is it? > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html > > ______________________________

Chocy, In looking in my database, I see some other members of my family may have lived in Shenandoah Co. Do you have the alphabet part for VANCE, ENGLISH, WARTH? I see the 4 children of Samuel VANCE and Hannah WARTH were all baptized 19 June 1774 (all on the same day) in Shenandoah Co. Perhaps they lived there rather than in Frederick Co.? Thanks for all the great work you are doing for all of us! Joyce

Tom, My ancestor was named Isaac WILLIAMS and he was apparently born and raised in Shenandoah Co., VA. He seems to have moved to Athens Co., OH in 1835 with a near relative, John WILLIAMS who was about 2 years older than Isaac. John and Isaac married into the same established Athens Co. family in 1836 and 1837 respectively. John would have been about 29 at the time of his marriage and Isaac about 28. (To the folks on the list: I'm sorry for the multiple replies to several who responded to my message. I returned home to find several replies scattered throughout many messages from other lists I'm on and it has taken me awhile to go through them; I've answered as I came to them.) Kym Williams Pitman -----Original Message----- From: Tom Pierce [mailto:tvpierce@infionline.net] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 1:30 PM To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN Kym, If you don't mind my asking, who were your ancestors that went to Athens? The movement that way started, I think, with the battle of Point Pleasant which had a lot of Shenandoah men in it. Then, one of the Steenbergens went out later and may have attracted some of their neighbors. Tom David & Kym Pitman wrote: >Tom, > >Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for describing what conditions were like >prior to the westward movement for those of us who have never seen the area >except in pictures. I had often wondered what motivated my ancestors to >move from the Shenandoah to Athens Co., OH. The portrait you paint gives >clues for further research. > >Kym > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Pierce [mailto:tvpierce@infionline.net] >Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:33 AM >To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN > > >Phyllis, >I think there are several good reasons for the earlier movements. > > >==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe. > > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html

Norman, Thanks for the suggestion. It is a valid one. I had considered that reason as well, but I have been unable to place my ancestor in any family and so I have no idea how many siblings he had. I do believe he moved to Ohio with a near relative, either a brother or a cousin, but that is all I have to go on. At the ripe old age of 53 the brother (or cousin) enlisted to fight for the north in the war [lied about his age] and his wartime obit gave an eloquent speech about preserving the Union. His papers from NARA gave no new useful information. The fact that these two young men could have been against slavery back in 1835 could account for the decision to leave VA. Trying to tear down that brick wall and will take any hammer in hand to do it, no matter how small! -----Original Message----- From: Norman Runyon [mailto:norman@runyon.com] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 1:37 PM To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN Kym, There is another reason for westward migration: Room to live and farm. Many families were so large that, after a few generations, there simply was not enough room for all of the new families to find adequate farmland. That problem was solved by moving west where there was plenty of opportunity to find enough land to support the family. Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Kym Pitman" <dpitman@fuse.net> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN > Tom, > > Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for describing what conditions were like > prior to the westward movement for those of us who have never seen the area > except in pictures. I had often wondered what motivated my ancestors to > move from the Shenandoah to Athens Co., OH. The portrait you paint gives > clues for further research. > > Kym ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html

Yes, that fine bottom land just above Mt. Jackson. They were quite a family - sort of like what folks mean when they say "larger than life". Tom H. Eugene McInturff wrote: >Tom.......The name STEENBERGEN got my attention 'cause my notes >say that NANCY FOUT, daughter of >JOHN FOUT & MARY McINTURFF had accompanied the J. B. STEENBERGEN >family when they moved from >Virginia to Indiana. Nancy was a companion to the Steenbergens' >daughter BETSY. Supposedly >the Steenbergens' had large holdings of land in the Shenandoah >Valley, part of which is now >known as MEEMS BOTTOMS, near Mt. Jackson.......Eugene > > >==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe. > > > >

Tom.......The name STEENBERGEN got my attention 'cause my notes say that NANCY FOUT, daughter of JOHN FOUT & MARY McINTURFF had accompanied the J. B. STEENBERGEN family when they moved from Virginia to Indiana. Nancy was a companion to the Steenbergens' daughter BETSY. Supposedly the Steenbergens' had large holdings of land in the Shenandoah Valley, part of which is now known as MEEMS BOTTOMS, near Mt. Jackson.......Eugene

Kym, There is another reason for westward migration: Room to live and farm. Many families were so large that, after a few generations, there simply was not enough room for all of the new families to find adequate farmland. That problem was solved by moving west where there was plenty of opportunity to find enough land to support the family. Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Kym Pitman" <dpitman@fuse.net> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 11:26 AM Subject: RE: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN > Tom, > > Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for describing what conditions were like > prior to the westward movement for those of us who have never seen the area > except in pictures. I had often wondered what motivated my ancestors to > move from the Shenandoah to Athens Co., OH. The portrait you paint gives > clues for further research. > > Kym

Kym, If you don't mind my asking, who were your ancestors that went to Athens? The movement that way started, I think, with the battle of Point Pleasant which had a lot of Shenandoah men in it. Then, one of the Steenbergens went out later and may have attracted some of their neighbors. Tom David & Kym Pitman wrote: >Tom, > >Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for describing what conditions were like >prior to the westward movement for those of us who have never seen the area >except in pictures. I had often wondered what motivated my ancestors to >move from the Shenandoah to Athens Co., OH. The portrait you paint gives >clues for further research. > >Kym > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Pierce [mailto:tvpierce@infionline.net] >Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:33 AM >To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN > > >Phyllis, >I think there are several good reasons for the earlier movements. > > >==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe. > > > >

<<There is another reason for westward migration: Room to live and farm. Many families were so large that, after a few generations, there simply was not enough room for all of the new families to find adequate farmland.>> Precisely. I believe that was the number one reason for migration - the family farm not being big enough to accommodate all the adult children in an agricultural society. For example, my Roush family had 10 sons. If they had all remained in Shenandoah, they would have been largely limited to occupations as day laborers and field hands - work done by slaves in Virginia. Growing industry was able to provide jobs later on, but not in the period around 1800. TC

Tom, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for describing what conditions were like prior to the westward movement for those of us who have never seen the area except in pictures. I had often wondered what motivated my ancestors to move from the Shenandoah to Athens Co., OH. The portrait you paint gives clues for further research. Kym -----Original Message----- From: Tom Pierce [mailto:tvpierce@infionline.net] Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 8:33 AM To: VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN Phyllis, I think there are several good reasons for the earlier movements.

Hi Chocy, Thanks for the offer for lookups. . . Do you have anything for Benjamin and Sarah Andrews. I don't have birth dates but know their son James was born about 1824, so they may have been listed. They lived in Warren and Shenandoah Counties at various times. Thanks so very much for your time and generous spirit, Sally Andrews Gudas ----- Original Message ----- From: <Chocybrown@aol.com> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] PART #3: 1800-1818 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX LOOK UPS > PART 3 > Shenandoah County, Virginia > Department of Taxation > Personal Property Tax Lists > 1800-1818 > Library of Virginia > Microfilm Reel #316 > "Requested Look-ups" > BALLES/BAYLES/QUICK/WILLIAMS/WILSON/HUPP/HAWKINS/COLLINS/ARTERBURN/ > BROWN/SMITH/WIATT/WIETT/WYATT. > > 1800 (I have a few A's, P's and R's) > > 1801-A; Commissioner William Jennings' District (I have a few A's, P's, and > R's) > Nov 6; Arterburn, James; White above 16-1; Horse-1. > 1801-B; (Some R's only) > > 1802-A; 97th Reg.; (Some R's & S's) > 1802-B; (Some A's only) > > 1803-A; 97th Reg.; (I have only the title page, no names; there were two with > A-this one had 97th Reg. on it) > 1803-A; Commissioner, William Jennings within the District of the 97th > Regiment Shenandoah County. > (Only a few A's, all the R's, two S's.) > Apr 9; Arterburn, James; White above 16-1; Horse-1. > > 1804-A; 97th Reg. (1 P and all the R's) > 1804-B; (Some of the A's) > > 1805-A; Gorl's District (Only cover title page) > 1805-B; 97th Reg. Wm Jennings District (Some A-C-G-H-J-M-N-P-R-S and > Merchants) > May 23; Arterburn, James; White above 16-1; Horses-3. > May 23; Arterburn, James; White above 16-1. > May ?; Collings, George; White above 16-1; Horse-1. > Mar 12; Smith, Dudley; White above 16-1; Horses-2. > Merchants: Elias Clarke & Co., Abner Smith, John Hambaugh, William S. Marye, > John W. Bar------(?) > Philip Williams was the County Clerk. > > 1806-A; (Some R's and Merchants) > May 1; Joseph Hawkins Jun.; Benjamin Hawkins (22 total merchants names) > Recap-no date-returns from 1805 Licenses; Berry M. Hawkins; Joseph Hawkins. > 1806-B; 97th Reg.; William Jennings Jun. Commissioner for District 97th > Regiment Shenandoah County. > (I have some A's, R's and S's) > Apr 7; Arterburn, James; White above 16-1; Horses-3. > > 1807-A; Isaac Gore; (Some A's, R's and Merchants) > May 1; John W. Balis; Berry M. Hawkins. (21 names on this list of licenses) > 1807-B; 97th Reg., Commissioner William Jennings (Some A's, P's, R's, S's and > Merchants) > Mar 11; Smith, Joseph A.; White above 16-1; Black above 16-1; Horses-2. Check > placed next to entry. > Mar 16; Smith, Rowley; White above 16-1; Black above 16-8; Horses-6. > Mar 16; Smith, Abner; White above 16-1; Black above 16-1; Horse-1. > Mar 21; Smith, William W.; White above 16-1; Horses-3. > Mar 21; Smith, Elisha; White above 16-1; Horses-1. > Mar 21; Smith, John-P.C.; Whites above 16-2; Blacks above 16-4; Horses-6. > Mar 21; Smith, Thomas; White above 16-1 > Apr 13; Smith, Christian; White above 16-1; Horses-6. > Smith, Rowley; Date of Licenses July 20, 1806; Commencement of Licenses June > 6, 1806;Termination of Licenses April 30, 1807 (There are 7 merchants/firms > names on this list) > > PART #4 to follow. > > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a msg. to VASHENAN-L-request@rootsweb.com or VASHENAN-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word unsubscribe. >

At http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form you can so a search for Tunis, VA. To see it on a Topo map choose " View USGS Digital Raster..." To view it from the air choose "View USGS Digital Orthophoto..." Elaine

Phyllis, I think there are several good reasons for the earlier movements. For folks not lucky enough to own bottom land in Shenandoah, crop yield got pretty low after about 5 years or so. Some of the old PA Germans apparently knew enough to rotate and use manure, but others did not. I have read accounts of ten bushels per acre - that's barely living. Much of that land in Licking Co. is flat, well-watered, loamy to a depth of several feet (at least once upon a time), and fairly easy to clear. The relative cheapness of the Ohio land, whether by grant for military service or by outright purchase, made it easy for a man to sell his Virginia land and acquire 3 or 4 times as much Ohio land. Prior to, say 1850, slavery was a real problem for small farmers and industrial workers. Slave labor depressed wages and prices so that it became harder and harder for the folks on the lower econmic rungs to make a decent living. When you add the effective disenfranchisement of the non-slave owners, it "stuck in the craw" of many of those folks and they left. Many (as about half of the Mill Creek Church in 1806) simply couldn't tolerate slavery for moral reasons and left. But, once the movement started, it supported itself. Folks rarely went someplace new without having a "support system" there. So, if you wanted to go west, you went to where your cousin or the folks in the pew behind you had already gone so that they could help you through the first winter or maybe put you up for a couple months. And, you would be sure of finding a similar church and people you could trust for your children to marry. You can sort of see that for many of my relatives around the north end of Lee District who migrated to the Point Pleasant/Gallipolis area over the 1790-1830 period. They knew and married each other in Shenandoah Co; they knew and married each other on the Ohio. Tom PSpiker27@aol.com wrote: >Does anyone know the reason(s) for Shenandoah Countians migrating to Licking >Co OH. They was still going in the last quarter of 1800. > >Also, what about migration to Cass Co IN in the early 1860s? > >Has anyone found newspaper ads or imprints encouraging migration to these >areas? > >Phyllis Vannoy Spiker > > >==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== >Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html > > > >

Following this with interest. My John B. Miller came from LOUDOUN co VA. In addition one of my relatives married a HUPP Robinson said to be no relation but named for a Dr. Hupp who came from VA. Not high on my research list but intriguing when you mention Hupps. Margaret Calvin from ohio. >My family went to Newark, Licking Co., OH. I am not sure of the date, >although Mary HUPP m Joseph ENGLISH in 1819 in Newark, so they were >certainly there by then. I show one of Mary's brothers as being born in >Kanawha VA in 1812, but I don't know right offhand where I got that? Joseph >was said to be a soldier in the War of 1812, but somehow the Nat'l Archives >has lost his records. They have a card that says where to find it, but it >has not been there for many years. > >Now that is the HUPP family that went to Newark. I don't know if the WILSON >family went, too. I know families went in groups, and the ENGLISH family had >been in New Market in VA. My great grandmother was named Virginia because >the family remembered that area with so much happiness. She was Sarah >Virginia (or Virginia Sarah, not sure which name came first!) ENGLISH b >1841, Licking Co., OH. > >Joseph ENGLISH was the son of Job ENGLISH and Jane VANCE. They also went to >Newark and are buried there. Samuel HUPP and Margaret WILSON went to Newark >also and died there. Her father had died bef her marriage so I don't know if >any other of her family went. That is something I could research. Frederick >Co. is another place I show in my records that my family lived. > >It would be interesting to know why they all left at that time. > >Joyce > >> Joyce, >> Where did your Wilson family move to in Licking County, Ohio? My >third >> great grandparents were both born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley in >> 1790. They sold out in 1837 moving with all their children to Licking >County, Ohio >> where Stephen and Mary "Polly" Ritter/Rutter helped found the village of >St. >> Louisville. Stephen owned the whole northside of St. Louisville where he >> farmed as well as running a stageline from Mt. Vernon to Zaneville. This >included a >> tavern and inn. >> We were elated to find a sign upon entering St. Louisville on the >#13 >> (north of Newark and on both sides of the village) stating St. Louisville >> Founded by Stephen Ritter and John Bell in 1839 when we first visited this >last >> February. >> I found many of the names in these tax and land records of >Shenandoah >> and Frederick Co., VA in the cemeteries in and around St. Louisville. >> Anyhow, I hope that the information I sent helps to paint a better >> picture of your family. >> Happy Hunting, >> Chocy > > > >==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== >Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html

From World Place Finder: Tunis, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States Walt At 11:27 PM 31/08/2003, Norman Runyon wrote: >Hi Dell, > If I am reading my DeLorme Street Atlas correctly, Tunis is just barely >in Shenandoah County on the south side. It appears to be located along >Runion Creek on the west side of Supin Lick Mountain. I doubt that it is >much of a village but I have never been there. From Rockingham Co., you can >get there by going northwest from Broadway, on highway 259 (following the >North Fork of the Shenandoah River), through Cootes Store to the Chimney >Rock Legion Post - which is where Runion Creek empties into the river.. Turn >right (north) at the chimney rock and follow the road along Runion Creek >until it forks at the south end of Supin Lick Mountain, then take the left >(west) fork and follow that to Tunis. Just north of Tunis is an airfield >called Sager Field. If you continue along that road, it looks like the 1st >real town is Orkney Springs. It is possible that Tunis might be in >Rockingham County. > I believe that Tunis is a Holland Dutch surname and I am curious as to >whom it was named after. >Norman > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "DELLIEMER QUICK" <jddquick@msn.com> >To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 1:46 PM >Subject: [VASHENAN] Thanks Chocy for PPTLs + PS re Tunis > > > > Chocy, > > > > Thanks very much for the exciting information on my Quick family >ancestors! Now I know some more of them were in Shenandoah County than I >knew before! Your help is much appreciated. > > > > Yours truly, > > Dell Quick > > > > P.S. to Norman Runyon: No, I do not know about the village of Tunis, or >how it got its name. Where is it? > > > > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > > Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html > > > > > > >==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== >Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html

It's definitely in Rockingham - on Rt 610. Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: Re: [VASHENAN] Thanks Chocy for PPTLs + PS re Tunis Date: 8/31/2003 11:28:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:norman@runyon.com">norman@runyon.com</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com">VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com">VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) Hi Dell, If I am reading my DeLorme Street Atlas correctly, Tunis is just barely in Shenandoah County on the south side. It appears to be located along Runion Creek on the west side of Supin Lick Mountain. I doubt that it is much of a village but I have never been there. From Rockingham Co., you can get there by going northwest from Broadway, on highway 259 (following the North Fork of the Shenandoah River), through Cootes Store to the Chimney Rock Legion Post - which is where Runion Creek empties into the river.. Turn right (north) at the chimney rock and follow the road along Runion Creek until it forks at the south end of Supin Lick Mountain, then take the left (west) fork and follow that to Tunis. Just north of Tunis is an airfield called Sager Field. If you continue along that road, it looks like the 1st real town is Orkney Springs. It is possible that Tunis might be in Rockingham County. I believe that Tunis is a Holland Dutch surname and I am curious as to whom it was named after. Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: "DELLIEMER QUICK" <jddquick@msn.com> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 1:46 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] Thanks Chocy for PPTLs + PS re Tunis > Chocy, > > Thanks very much for the exciting information on my Quick family ancestors! Now I know some more of them were in Shenandoah County than I knew before! Your help is much appreciated. > > Yours truly, > Dell Quick > > P.S. to Norman Runyon: No, I do not know about the village of Tunis, or how it got its name. Where is it? > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html

Hi Dell, If I am reading my DeLorme Street Atlas correctly, Tunis is just barely in Shenandoah County on the south side. It appears to be located along Runion Creek on the west side of Supin Lick Mountain. I doubt that it is much of a village but I have never been there. From Rockingham Co., you can get there by going northwest from Broadway, on highway 259 (following the North Fork of the Shenandoah River), through Cootes Store to the Chimney Rock Legion Post - which is where Runion Creek empties into the river.. Turn right (north) at the chimney rock and follow the road along Runion Creek until it forks at the south end of Supin Lick Mountain, then take the left (west) fork and follow that to Tunis. Just north of Tunis is an airfield called Sager Field. If you continue along that road, it looks like the 1st real town is Orkney Springs. It is possible that Tunis might be in Rockingham County. I believe that Tunis is a Holland Dutch surname and I am curious as to whom it was named after. Norman ----- Original Message ----- From: "DELLIEMER QUICK" <jddquick@msn.com> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 1:46 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] Thanks Chocy for PPTLs + PS re Tunis > Chocy, > > Thanks very much for the exciting information on my Quick family ancestors! Now I know some more of them were in Shenandoah County than I knew before! Your help is much appreciated. > > Yours truly, > Dell Quick > > P.S. to Norman Runyon: No, I do not know about the village of Tunis, or how it got its name. Where is it? > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html > >

There are some HUPPs in my family. Don't know if you are aware of all of the spellings of this name in the records - HUPP, HOOP, & UPP

I have a couple Shenandoah County area residents who leave for Licking County, OH during the Civil War. The first, Daniel Henry Fravel, had this posted in a genealogy about him: 1. Daniel Henry Fravel (h/o Mary Rinker): "Mr. Fravel was reared at Lost River, W. Va., and later became a resident of Woodstock. When the Civil War broke out his sympathies being with the North his life was threatened, whereupon he left the state and settled at Newark, Licking Co., O., and kept a harness shop until 1871, when he moved to Pataskala but returned to Newark in 1881 and conducted an extensive harness manufactory. He was regarded as one of the prominent business men of the city." 2. Robert Douglas Rinker, nephew of the above Mary Rinker, also moved to Newark, Licking County, OH. He married Julia Kline. My notes for him were lost in a software conversion, but he left around the time of the Civil War as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: <PSpiker27@aol.com> To: <VASHENAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 8:39 PM Subject: [VASHENAN] Shenandoah to Licking Co OH & Cass Co IN > Does anyone know the reason(s) for Shenandoah Countians migrating to Licking > Co OH. They was still going in the last quarter of 1800. > > Also, what about migration to Cass Co IN in the early 1860s? > > Has anyone found newspaper ads or imprints encouraging migration to these > areas? > > Phyllis Vannoy Spiker > > > ==== VASHENAN Mailing List ==== > Shenandoah Co VAGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vashenan/vashenan.html >