There is a Johnson Cemetery 4 miles NW of Williamsport, WV with one broken but readable stone -- Isaac Johnson 7/8/1773 - 9/11/1850. ---------- > From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Antoni Sadowski's Johnson in-laws of Patterson Creek,WV > Date: Thursday, August 03, 2000 6:39 PM > > Thomas Brown's dau Mary d 1814,m James Sandusky. Isaac Johnson was > his uncle. Many of these Johnson's are his 1st cousins. > From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > To: SANDUSKY-L@rootsweb.com > S > Great data,Ed. There is a remote tie between the Bonham's,and Jacob > Sadowski's > Vause in-laws,and my own Fox's. > George Bonham was at Plymouth,Mass,1670's. Son Nicholas Bonham moved to > Piscataway,NJ west of Staten Island,1680's-there were Darling's there. > Hezekiah Bonham convinced Piscataway Baptist Rev Edmund Dunham,that 7th > Day > was correct. > Next generation of Bonham's were in Kingwood,Hunterdon Co,NJ> NW Loudoun > Co,N E Va 1760. > 1764 Uriah and Anchor Fox Bonham sold their LOoudoun Co,Va lands to > Gabrial > and Absalom Fox's brothers. > 1778,Gabrial and Absalom Fox moved to near Romney,with my own Absalom and > Christian > Bonham Fox,and > Amariah Bonham moving on to Wash Co,sw Pa 1780. But,Gabrial Fox stayed > around > Romney,where his siblings, and the siblings of Capt Wm Vause,of Ephriam > and Theodesia > Hewling Vause,intermarried. Capt Wm Vause was bro-in-law of Jacob,of > Andrew,of Antoni, > Sadowski. Capt Wm Vause had 1000 acres in s Brown Co,Oh adjoing the Evans > that > Jacob and Ephriam,the infidel,Sadowski,married. S LebanonWarren Co,Oh > got,1797,some of the > FOX-Bonham -SUTTON colony. > Isaac Johnson's line would have retreated from Patterson Creek part of > the French and > Indian War. > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:30:44 EDT EdPink@aol.com writes: > > Hello everybody > > As you see in the following article, I have many holes to fill > > and would > > appreciate answers and family group sheets of new lines to Sadowski > > and > > Johnson. Will you please help. > > > > Edward Pinkowski > > 10212 SW 59th St. > > Cooper City, Florida 33328-6531 > > > > > > LOST FAMILY OF WEST VIRGINIA > > > > by Edward Pinkowski > > > > If you didn’t know, John Johnson was the grandson of Anthony > > Sadowski, > > the famous Polish pioneer, and spawned so many children that they > > filled nine > > branches on the family tree. In more than thirty-five years of > > tracking the > > Sadowski family, I have not seen very little on John Johnson’s > > children, > > spouses, and connecting lines. > > In John Johnson’s life, however, he undoubtedly collected many > > Sadowski > > heirlooms. For more than 70 years he lived in the same place on > > Patterson’s > > Creek, on a tract of land practically four-fifths of a mile square, > > and three > > generations of his line were either born or raised on the 400-acre > > farm his > > father, Isaac Johnson, carved out of the wilderness in the 1740s. > > When his > > father died in 1752, John Johnson got two thirds of the 400-acre > > plantation > > and his mother, Anthony Sadowski’s daughter, one third, but it was > > not > > official until 1768 when the same was patented to him by Lord > > Fairfax’s land > > office. > > It’s easy to picture the land grant on Patterson’s Creek. The > > starting > > point was two white oak trees on Theodore Davis’s line, which David > > Vance > > used in his 1768 survey, and then N.35 degrees, E. 253 poles(253x16 > > 1/2 ft.) > > to a white oak and a red oak on the side of a mountain, then N. 50 > > degrees W > > 253 poles to two pines on a hill, then S. 35 degrees W. 253 poles to > > a pine, > > and finally S. 50 degrees 253 poles to the beginning. As you see, > > you have > > an odd square with lines that show the bounds of 400 acres. > > Somehow, in the log cabin and other improvements Isaac Johnson > > made on > > this tract on Patterson’s Creek, John Johnson saw his father die in > > 1752, > > his grandmother, Mary Palmer, Anthony Sadowski’s first wife, who > > came to the > > Virginia frontier before 1752 from the present village of > > Douglassville, > > Pennsylvania, and lived with her daughter, Sophia, until her death > > in 1758, > > and his stepfather, William Darling, an Irish pioneer whom his > > mother > > married, the birth and growth of their three children, or his half > > siblings, > > and, longer than any other period of his life, his own family. The > > name of > > his wife got lost in the shuffle. > > When John Johnson died intestate in 1821, because no widow > > survived, the > > land he owned in Virginia, which abolished primogenture in 1786, was > > equally > > divided among his nine children. The land records of Hardy County, > > where he > > died, provide the names of seven daughters and two sons, seven > > spouses, and > > eleven heirs. In separate deeds, each sibling conveyed to the > > eldest son, > > Isaac Johnson, heir at law, an eighth of the land for $200. This is, > > then, an > > untapped goldmine of Sadowski genealogy. The census records and > > courthouses > > of Coshocton, Licking, Hanover, and Muskingum counties in Ohio, > > Mercer County > > in Kentucky, Clark County in Illinois, and Hampshire County in > > Virginia until > > 1862, would provide more details, how long these branches and > > connecting > > lines of John Johnson were around, ages of the children, and other > > changes in > > their lives. > > On October 21, 1827, six years after John Johnson’s death, the > > first > > sibling to convey an eighth of the farm on Patterson’s Creek to > > Isaac Johnson > > was Anna Johnson, who was born in 1769 and married John Strother, > > four years > > younger. After their son, John Johnson Strother, was born on January > > 4, 1800, > > in Hampshire County, adjoining Hardy County, the family moved to > > Licking > > County, in east central Ohio, where John Strother died in 1821 and > > his wife > > in 1851. Anna was also the first name of one of Anthony Sadowski’s > > daughters, > > from whom President Gerald R. Ford is descended, and the pattern was > > similar > > in other siblings. For example, Mary Johnson, who married William > > Vandiver, > > bears the same first name as Anthony Sadowski’s wife; Justina > > Johnson, who > > married James Ogilvie, was probably the namesake of Justina > > Sadowski, Anthony > > Sadowski’s daughter; Sophia Johnson, who married Zachariah Bonham, > > was named > > after John Johnson’s mother; Jacob Johnson carried the same first > > name as a > > son of Anthony Sadowski who, like Justina, died before Sophia > > Sadowski > > married Isaac Johnson, John Johnson’s parents. The court records of > > Hardy > > County were not checked to determine if any orders were issued to > > convey land > > from Anna Strother and other siblings to their oldest brother. > > The second grantee was actually not living on September 30, > > 1830, when > > the executor of Elizabeth Ryan’s estate sold the eighth of her > > father’s farm > > to the eldest brother. She died in Mercer County, Kentucky. The > > first name > > of the spouse is not known. > > When the third transaction was made on October 16, 1832, Sarah > > Johnson > > was dead, and John Minton of Licking County, Ohio, to whom she was > > married, > > sold her eighth of the farm to Isaac Johnson. > > The story of Lydia Johnson, who inherited an eighth of her > > father’s lands > > and sold it to her eldest brother on December 9, 1832, has many > > angles. She > > was the only daughter who wasn’t married at the time of her father’s > > death., > > and her predicament in 1821 was practically the same as her > > grandmother’s in > > 1786 when William Darling died. Comparing the two women, what they > > did > > after the death of loved ones, presents an unusual view of life on > > Patterson’s > > Creek in the early years of the republic. Obviously, although > > William > > Vandiver, to whom Mary Johnson, John Johnson’s daughter, was > > married, rented > > the farm for $95 a year, Lydia Johnson remained with her sister, or > > closeby, > > just as Sophia Darling evidently did with John Johnson in 1786. One > > third of > > the 400-acre farm was Sophia Darling’s dowry since 1752, and Lydia > > Johnson > > owned one eighth of it from 1821 to 1832. > > Certainly Anthony Sadowski’s daughter was better off than Lydia > > Johnson, > > who, like her grandmother, had to shift for herself. Although we > > don’t have > > any knowledge of Sophia Darling’s living quarters, we know to a > > certain > > extent what Lydia Johnson did to get along in a frontier society. > > She went to > > the Hardy County courthouse at Moorefield on March 30,1821, when the > > sale of > > John Johnson’s moveable goods was held, and purchased 25 objects, > > many of > > them probably family heirlooms, for which she paid $92.52. For > > starters, the > > bed she bought for $32 was probably her own. > > The evidence that she remained on the farm, at least until her > > marriage, > > was that she bought one of her father’s cows for $9.50, a hay stack > > for $7., > > and a milking pail, then called a piggin, for $1.25.   > > As no home was without one in the early days, Lydia Johnson > > bought two > > spinning wheels, each for fifty cents, that were probably in the > > family for > > generations. Her grandmother inherited a small spinning wheel from > > Mary > > Palmer in 1758. In her cabin, living quarters, or whatever it was > > called, > > she had a fireplace and bought two of her father’s trammels to hold > > pots at > > different levels over a fire. In addition, she bought two > > buckets, a tea kettle, a flat iron and horn, an oven and lid, a stew > > kettle, > > a coffee mill, shoe brush, salt cellar, pepper castor, pickle > > leaves and > > waiter, two salad dishes, a pitcher, sheep shears, mirror, bread > > basket, > > carpet, spoons, knives and forks. > > Another sign that Anthony Sadowski’s daughter did not neglect > > the > > education of her son in the hinterland was the number of books that > > were on > > his shelves. Like his mother, who was taught to read and write by > > Anthony > > Sadowski, John Johnson learned to read books. No one knows how many > > of them > > came from his mother. He had a large collection of books at the time > > of his > > death. > > The books that Lydia Johnson purchased were probably the > > family’s > > favorites -- Thomas Coke’s four-volume commentary on the New > > Testament and > > Wood’s dictionary of the Bible. Her father and grandmother lived at > > a time > > when Coke, a Methodist missionary who was born in Wales, over an > > apothecary > > shop, held camp meetings wherever he could assemble people. In the > > last two > > decades of the 18th century, Virginia had a severe shortage of > > Anglican > > clergy because most of them, steadfastly loyal to England during the > > American > > Revolution, returned to the mother country. In 1784, John Wesley, > > founder of > > Methodism, sent Coke, a 37-year-old assistant, to carry on his work > > in the > > new world. The first year Coke traveled 800 miles, crossing rivers > > and > > mountains, and held camp meetings in Virginia and Maryland, to which > > either > > or both John Johnson and his mother could have gone, and he made > > repeated > > visits to the United States. When John Johnson bought the religious > > books, or > > who owned them before him, is not known. The Coke books were first > > imported > > from England and later republished in the United States. Obviously, > > Lydia > > Johnson, who bought the books that were in her father’s library for > > twelve > > dollars, kept Coke’s books on her shelves,and when she married James > > Dye and > > moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, where her father’s half-brother, > > Robert > > Darling, was one of the first settlers, she carried the books with > > her. > > With four down and four siblings to go, Isaac Johnson purchased > > three > > more parts of his father’s farm in 1835. The first of these from the > > heirs of > > William and Mary Vandiver was laden with memories. When John Johnson > > died, > > his daugher, Mary, and her husband, William Vandiver, rented his > > farm for $95 > > a year and raised their six children there as John Johnson raised > > nine > > children there before them. William Vandiver purchased a great deal > > of John > > Johnson’s moveable goods, many of which were in the family for two > > generations, and by January 30, 1835, when Mary Vandiver’s eighth > > was sold, > > neither of them was alive. At the time, Isaac Johnson and Mary > > Vandiver’s > > children were living in Hampshire County. In addition to Sophia > > Vandiver, > > who was married to Samuel Hendren, Matilda Vandiver, who was > > married to > > James Riggs, and John Vandiver, who was married to Nancy(last name > > unknown), > > William, Elizabeth, Sarah Ann Vandiver were still not married. > > On September 30, 1835, Justina Johnson, written Christina in few > > places > > by mistake, named after Justina Sadowski, who died six years before > > Anthony > > Sadowski in Pennsylvania, and her husband, James Ogilvie, of > > Coshocton > > County, Ohio, sold her part of the farm on Patterson’s Creek to > > Isaac > > Johnson. > > On the same day, the heirs of Sophia Johnson, who was married to > > Zachariah Bonham and who died in Muskingum County, Ohio, sold her > > share of > > the ancestral farm. The heirs included Amos Bonham, Robert Bonham, > > Johnson > > and Nancy Bonham, husband and wife, of Hancock County, Ohio, > > Hezebiah Bonham > > and Nancy Bonham, husband and wife, Jacob Bonham, Elizabeth Bonham, > > James > > and Elizabeth Green, husband and wife, all of Muskingum County, > > Ohio. > > Not until Jacob Johnson of Clark County, Illinois, sold his > > share on > > February 27, 1837, did Isaac Johnson have the 400-acre farm all to > > himself. > > The two grandsons of Sophia Darling who were born and raised on > > Patterson’s > > Creek raises an interesting question and brings her back into focus. > > After > > the death of her second husband in the lowlands across the South > > Branch of > > the Potomac River from Moorefield, Sophia Darling looked again to > > her dowry > > and the fields and pastures of the farm on Patterson’s Creek. One > > third of it > > was endowed to her in 1752 by the laws of Virginia and after her > > death it > > was returned to John Johnson without any legal action. In the 1787 > > census of > > Virginia, however, Sophia Darling was assessed for one white male > > between 16 > > and 21 years of age, eight horses or mules, and 19 head of cattle. > > No one > > knows who the person was, but her grandsons, either Isaac or Jacob > > Johnson, > > would probably fit the description. Because she was on endowed > > land, where > > she lived was not taxed or listed. > > The legal description of the 400-acre farm is practically the > > same from > > 1768, when it was surveyed for John Johnson, to April 18, 1843, six > > years > > after the last eighth was turned over to him, when Isaac Johnson > > sold the > > family homestead to William J. Armstrong. Unlike his siblings, most > > of whom > > moved to Ohio when they were married, Isaac Johnson remained in > > Hampshire > > County, where Ann was the name of his wife in 1843 and Nancy in > > 1845. The > > last sighting of him was in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1858. > > No story of John Johnson would be complete without the question > > of his > > age. Certainly he was born on a farm lying along the Schuylkill > > River, fifty > > miles north of Philadelphia, where Isaac Johnson and Sophia Sadowski > > were > > married, prior to their migration to Virginia in the late 1740s. If > > he could > > not be legally recognized as a heir-at-law until he was 21 years > > old, the > > year the tract on Patterson’s Creek was entered in his name would > > make 1747 > > the year of his birth. Lord Fairfax’s land records, however, list > > the same > > name, John Johnson, who was granted 268 acres of land on both sides > > of > > Little Cacaphon Creek in Hampshire County in 1762. Unless there was > > another > > person of the same name, John Johnson was, then, born in 1741 > > rather than > > 1747. What is so puzzling about John Johnson is that, despite his > > books and > > nine children, nothing is known about his real age. Hopefully, in > > the > > future, someone will find a reliable record of his age. As more and > > more > > descendants of Anthony Sadowski dig for their roots, name by name, > > more work > > will be done on John Johnson and his progeny. > > >                                                                           >       > > >                                                                           >       > >        > > > > > > ==== SANDUSKY Mailing List ==== > > Search old list messages at this link to the <a > > href="http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl">Rootsweb > > Mail List Archives</a> > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ______________________________

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1304 Surname: Pulse ------------------------- I hagve a Lydia Pulse born Nov.1, 1809 in Jefferson Co. VA and died Feb. 24, 1888 in Highland Co. Ohio. Her parents were David Pulse born in Lancaster PA and Sarah Fry born in Jefferson Co. VA. David was the son of John Michael Boltz and Veronica Fernssler.

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1303 Surname: ------------------------- Dear Cousin: It is great to find another researcher on our Ely family from Hampshire County WV. Sarah is not Benjamin's mother. She was the widow of William Scott and mother of Mary Scott who married Benjamin Ely. I found this in a deed record (not in my hand at this time]. I believe that Benjamin's mother must have died after they arrived in America. I descend from John J. Ely whose daughter married Robert Cook Briggs. I would like to see your version of the See family even though I have a listing. You always gain new material. I have tried to find Isaac I Ely in Scotland and will continue to try to find him. And yes I have copies of material from the Ralls Co book you mention as well as two other history books from Ralls County MO. My mother was born there and moved to Arkansas when she was a teen. Thanks for responding to my query. MNT

Patti: As best as I can recall the Hampshire Poor FARM ( I don't know about just a house) was located on what is now the Harmison farm about 1 mile downstream from the Sector Bridge. I can remember my father and uncles renting boats and hireing guides there for float trips through the Trough in the 5 years or so before WWII. Bob Bess ----- Original Message ----- From: Patti McDonald <mcd@access.mountain.net> To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 6:17 PM Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] Hampshire County Poorhouse > Hi, > I'm asking a question for a researcher who wishes to see the Hampshire Co > Poorhouse. > I know the Poorhouse is on River Road, but could someone tell me how far up > it is? > Thanks, > Patti >

Hi, I've just added the April 28, 1911 News Tribune articles to the Mineral County US GenWeb Page. This paper is quite touching, as it relates the explosion of the No 20 Mine in Elk Garden, and the 23 men who died there. You can view these articles at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/keynews.htm :) Patti McDonald Burlington WV mcd@access.mountain.net Co-Coordinator Mineral County USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/mineral.htm Subscribe to Mineral County Mailing List WVMINERA-L-request@rootsweb.com Surnames I am researching: HARTMAN, WOLFE, MILLER, FLEEK, WHITEMAN, PUFFENBARGER, FITZPATRICK, COOKUS, CORBUS, DYE, WALSH

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1302 Surname: Ely, See, Shaver ------------------------- Mary Nell, had I responded to your msg last night, I couldn't have said anything except "thank you." However, today I came across some research done by a Mildred Edgarton of Washington, D.C., with whom I had regular contact in the 1980s; I moved and perhaps she did, and we have lost touch. However, she had sent me a family group sheet, forgotten, which I found today; I'll copy the parts which might be of interest to you: Primary source: p. 685 of PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD_HISTORY OF MARION, RALLS & PIKE COUNTY, MO. Husband's name: (first, and then crossed out lightly) Joshua Ely, and written above it, Benjamin. His father, Isaac, d. 1792; his mother, Sarah. Benj.'s date of birth, 1750 in Scotland. Place of death, VA. Wife's name, Miss Scott, b. 1754. Her father, probably Wm. Scott, d. 1767. The first son's name is William, b. 1774. The third child is Isaac, b. 1775 in VA, and the 5th son is Benjamin,b. 1782, probably following the pattern of naming children for parents. My ancestor, Sarah, married to Conrad or Coonrod See, was the 4th child, b 1779 and d. after 1858 in Ralls Co. There are 9 children in all, with fairly detailed information on most of them, including names of most spouses. If you would like more, please ask and I'll try to send as an attachment somehow or other. I'm definitely not a computer wizard yet. I had searched Hampshire Co. several years ago in the Allen County Library in Ft. Wayne, but recently was the first try on the net. I'll keep looking for other things Millie might have sent me, in the meantime. Good luck. Are we distant cousins?

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1300 Surname: Ely, See, Shaver ------------------------- Thank you for your response. I found in my own records today a sizable volume of research from a Mildred Edgarton with whom I had frequent contact on the surnames listed in the late 1980s. We lost contact, but she sent an Ely family group sheet which included, of course, my Coonrod See. It is his line from his father, George, and grandfather that I am searching. Some of the West Virginia Counties where I had found some of these names once had been Virginia, but I am appreciative of any correction needed. Thanks! JB

Thomas Brown's dau Mary d 1814,m James Sandusky. Isaac Johnson was his uncle. Many of these Johnson's are his 1st cousins. From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> To: SANDUSKY-L@rootsweb.com S Great data,Ed. There is a remote tie between the Bonham's,and Jacob Sadowski's Vause in-laws,and my own Fox's. George Bonham was at Plymouth,Mass,1670's. Son Nicholas Bonham moved to Piscataway,NJ west of Staten Island,1680's-there were Darling's there. Hezekiah Bonham convinced Piscataway Baptist Rev Edmund Dunham,that 7th Day was correct. Next generation of Bonham's were in Kingwood,Hunterdon Co,NJ> NW Loudoun Co,N E Va 1760. 1764 Uriah and Anchor Fox Bonham sold their LOoudoun Co,Va lands to Gabrial and Absalom Fox's brothers. 1778,Gabrial and Absalom Fox moved to near Romney,with my own Absalom and Christian Bonham Fox,and Amariah Bonham moving on to Wash Co,sw Pa 1780. But,Gabrial Fox stayed around Romney,where his siblings, and the siblings of Capt Wm Vause,of Ephriam and Theodesia Hewling Vause,intermarried. Capt Wm Vause was bro-in-law of Jacob,of Andrew,of Antoni, Sadowski. Capt Wm Vause had 1000 acres in s Brown Co,Oh adjoing the Evans that Jacob and Ephriam,the infidel,Sadowski,married. S LebanonWarren Co,Oh got,1797,some of the FOX-Bonham -SUTTON colony. Isaac Johnson's line would have retreated from Patterson Creek part of the French and Indian War. On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:30:44 EDT EdPink@aol.com writes: > Hello everybody > As you see in the following article, I have many holes to fill > and would > appreciate answers and family group sheets of new lines to Sadowski > and > Johnson. Will you please help. > > Edward Pinkowski > 10212 SW 59th St. > Cooper City, Florida 33328-6531 > > > LOST FAMILY OF WEST VIRGINIA > > by Edward Pinkowski > > If you didn’t know, John Johnson was the grandson of Anthony > Sadowski, > the famous Polish pioneer, and spawned so many children that they > filled nine > branches on the family tree. In more than thirty-five years of > tracking the > Sadowski family, I have not seen very little on John Johnson’s > children, > spouses, and connecting lines. > In John Johnson’s life, however, he undoubtedly collected many > Sadowski > heirlooms. For more than 70 years he lived in the same place on > Patterson’s > Creek, on a tract of land practically four-fifths of a mile square, > and three > generations of his line were either born or raised on the 400-acre > farm his > father, Isaac Johnson, carved out of the wilderness in the 1740s. > When his > father died in 1752, John Johnson got two thirds of the 400-acre > plantation > and his mother, Anthony Sadowski’s daughter, one third, but it was > not > official until 1768 when the same was patented to him by Lord > Fairfax’s land > office. > It’s easy to picture the land grant on Patterson’s Creek. The > starting > point was two white oak trees on Theodore Davis’s line, which David > Vance > used in his 1768 survey, and then N.35 degrees, E. 253 poles(253x16 > 1/2 ft.) > to a white oak and a red oak on the side of a mountain, then N. 50 > degrees W > 253 poles to two pines on a hill, then S. 35 degrees W. 253 poles to > a pine, > and finally S. 50 degrees 253 poles to the beginning. As you see, > you have > an odd square with lines that show the bounds of 400 acres. > Somehow, in the log cabin and other improvements Isaac Johnson > made on > this tract on Patterson’s Creek, John Johnson saw his father die in > 1752, > his grandmother, Mary Palmer, Anthony Sadowski’s first wife, who > came to the > Virginia frontier before 1752 from the present village of > Douglassville, > Pennsylvania, and lived with her daughter, Sophia, until her death > in 1758, > and his stepfather, William Darling, an Irish pioneer whom his > mother > married, the birth and growth of their three children, or his half > siblings, > and, longer than any other period of his life, his own family. The > name of > his wife got lost in the shuffle. > When John Johnson died intestate in 1821, because no widow > survived, the > land he owned in Virginia, which abolished primogenture in 1786, was > equally > divided among his nine children. The land records of Hardy County, > where he > died, provide the names of seven daughters and two sons, seven > spouses, and > eleven heirs. In separate deeds, each sibling conveyed to the > eldest son, > Isaac Johnson, heir at law, an eighth of the land for $200. This is, > then, an > untapped goldmine of Sadowski genealogy. The census records and > courthouses > of Coshocton, Licking, Hanover, and Muskingum counties in Ohio, > Mercer County > in Kentucky, Clark County in Illinois, and Hampshire County in > Virginia until > 1862, would provide more details, how long these branches and > connecting > lines of John Johnson were around, ages of the children, and other > changes in > their lives. > On October 21, 1827, six years after John Johnson’s death, the > first > sibling to convey an eighth of the farm on Patterson’s Creek to > Isaac Johnson > was Anna Johnson, who was born in 1769 and married John Strother, > four years > younger. After their son, John Johnson Strother, was born on January > 4, 1800, > in Hampshire County, adjoining Hardy County, the family moved to > Licking > County, in east central Ohio, where John Strother died in 1821 and > his wife > in 1851. Anna was also the first name of one of Anthony Sadowski’s > daughters, > from whom President Gerald R. Ford is descended, and the pattern was > similar > in other siblings. For example, Mary Johnson, who married William > Vandiver, > bears the same first name as Anthony Sadowski’s wife; Justina > Johnson, who > married James Ogilvie, was probably the namesake of Justina > Sadowski, Anthony > Sadowski’s daughter; Sophia Johnson, who married Zachariah Bonham, > was named > after John Johnson’s mother; Jacob Johnson carried the same first > name as a > son of Anthony Sadowski who, like Justina, died before Sophia > Sadowski > married Isaac Johnson, John Johnson’s parents. The court records of > Hardy > County were not checked to determine if any orders were issued to > convey land > from Anna Strother and other siblings to their oldest brother. > The second grantee was actually not living on September 30, > 1830, when > the executor of Elizabeth Ryan’s estate sold the eighth of her > father’s farm > to the eldest brother. She died in Mercer County, Kentucky. The > first name > of the spouse is not known. > When the third transaction was made on October 16, 1832, Sarah > Johnson > was dead, and John Minton of Licking County, Ohio, to whom she was > married, > sold her eighth of the farm to Isaac Johnson. > The story of Lydia Johnson, who inherited an eighth of her > father’s lands > and sold it to her eldest brother on December 9, 1832, has many > angles. She > was the only daughter who wasn’t married at the time of her father’s > death., > and her predicament in 1821 was practically the same as her > grandmother’s in > 1786 when William Darling died. Comparing the two women, what they > did > after the death of loved ones, presents an unusual view of life on > Patterson’s > Creek in the early years of the republic. Obviously, although > William > Vandiver, to whom Mary Johnson, John Johnson’s daughter, was > married, rented > the farm for $95 a year, Lydia Johnson remained with her sister, or > closeby, > just as Sophia Darling evidently did with John Johnson in 1786. One > third of > the 400-acre farm was Sophia Darling’s dowry since 1752, and Lydia > Johnson > owned one eighth of it from 1821 to 1832. > Certainly Anthony Sadowski’s daughter was better off than Lydia > Johnson, > who, like her grandmother, had to shift for herself. Although we > don’t have > any knowledge of Sophia Darling’s living quarters, we know to a > certain > extent what Lydia Johnson did to get along in a frontier society. > She went to > the Hardy County courthouse at Moorefield on March 30,1821, when the > sale of > John Johnson’s moveable goods was held, and purchased 25 objects, > many of > them probably family heirlooms, for which she paid $92.52. For > starters, the > bed she bought for $32 was probably her own. > The evidence that she remained on the farm, at least until her > marriage, > was that she bought one of her father’s cows for $9.50, a hay stack > for $7., > and a milking pail, then called a piggin, for $1.25.   > As no home was without one in the early days, Lydia Johnson > bought two > spinning wheels, each for fifty cents, that were probably in the > family for > generations. Her grandmother inherited a small spinning wheel from > Mary > Palmer in 1758. In her cabin, living quarters, or whatever it was > called, > she had a fireplace and bought two of her father’s trammels to hold > pots at > different levels over a fire. In addition, she bought two > buckets, a tea kettle, a flat iron and horn, an oven and lid, a stew > kettle, > a coffee mill, shoe brush, salt cellar, pepper castor, pickle > leaves and > waiter, two salad dishes, a pitcher, sheep shears, mirror, bread > basket, > carpet, spoons, knives and forks. > Another sign that Anthony Sadowski’s daughter did not neglect > the > education of her son in the hinterland was the number of books that > were on > his shelves. Like his mother, who was taught to read and write by > Anthony > Sadowski, John Johnson learned to read books. No one knows how many > of them > came from his mother. He had a large collection of books at the time > of his > death. > The books that Lydia Johnson purchased were probably the > family’s > favorites -- Thomas Coke’s four-volume commentary on the New > Testament and > Wood’s dictionary of the Bible. Her father and grandmother lived at > a time > when Coke, a Methodist missionary who was born in Wales, over an > apothecary > shop, held camp meetings wherever he could assemble people. In the > last two > decades of the 18th century, Virginia had a severe shortage of > Anglican > clergy because most of them, steadfastly loyal to England during the > American > Revolution, returned to the mother country. In 1784, John Wesley, > founder of > Methodism, sent Coke, a 37-year-old assistant, to carry on his work > in the > new world. The first year Coke traveled 800 miles, crossing rivers > and > mountains, and held camp meetings in Virginia and Maryland, to which > either > or both John Johnson and his mother could have gone, and he made > repeated > visits to the United States. When John Johnson bought the religious > books, or > who owned them before him, is not known. The Coke books were first > imported > from England and later republished in the United States. Obviously, > Lydia > Johnson, who bought the books that were in her father’s library for > twelve > dollars, kept Coke’s books on her shelves,and when she married James > Dye and > moved to Coshocton County, Ohio, where her father’s half-brother, > Robert > Darling, was one of the first settlers, she carried the books with > her. > With four down and four siblings to go, Isaac Johnson purchased > three > more parts of his father’s farm in 1835. The first of these from the > heirs of > William and Mary Vandiver was laden with memories. When John Johnson > died, > his daugher, Mary, and her husband, William Vandiver, rented his > farm for $95 > a year and raised their six children there as John Johnson raised > nine > children there before them. William Vandiver purchased a great deal > of John > Johnson’s moveable goods, many of which were in the family for two > generations, and by January 30, 1835, when Mary Vandiver’s eighth > was sold, > neither of them was alive. At the time, Isaac Johnson and Mary > Vandiver’s > children were living in Hampshire County. In addition to Sophia > Vandiver, > who was married to Samuel Hendren, Matilda Vandiver, who was > married to > James Riggs, and John Vandiver, who was married to Nancy(last name > unknown), > William, Elizabeth, Sarah Ann Vandiver were still not married. > On September 30, 1835, Justina Johnson, written Christina in few > places > by mistake, named after Justina Sadowski, who died six years before > Anthony > Sadowski in Pennsylvania, and her husband, James Ogilvie, of > Coshocton > County, Ohio, sold her part of the farm on Patterson’s Creek to > Isaac > Johnson. > On the same day, the heirs of Sophia Johnson, who was married to > Zachariah Bonham and who died in Muskingum County, Ohio, sold her > share of > the ancestral farm. The heirs included Amos Bonham, Robert Bonham, > Johnson > and Nancy Bonham, husband and wife, of Hancock County, Ohio, > Hezebiah Bonham > and Nancy Bonham, husband and wife, Jacob Bonham, Elizabeth Bonham, > James > and Elizabeth Green, husband and wife, all of Muskingum County, > Ohio. > Not until Jacob Johnson of Clark County, Illinois, sold his > share on > February 27, 1837, did Isaac Johnson have the 400-acre farm all to > himself. > The two grandsons of Sophia Darling who were born and raised on > Patterson’s > Creek raises an interesting question and brings her back into focus. > After > the death of her second husband in the lowlands across the South > Branch of > the Potomac River from Moorefield, Sophia Darling looked again to > her dowry > and the fields and pastures of the farm on Patterson’s Creek. One > third of it > was endowed to her in 1752 by the laws of Virginia and after her > death it > was returned to John Johnson without any legal action. In the 1787 > census of > Virginia, however, Sophia Darling was assessed for one white male > between 16 > and 21 years of age, eight horses or mules, and 19 head of cattle. > No one > knows who the person was, but her grandsons, either Isaac or Jacob > Johnson, > would probably fit the description. Because she was on endowed > land, where > she lived was not taxed or listed. > The legal description of the 400-acre farm is practically the > same from > 1768, when it was surveyed for John Johnson, to April 18, 1843, six > years > after the last eighth was turned over to him, when Isaac Johnson > sold the > family homestead to William J. Armstrong. Unlike his siblings, most > of whom > moved to Ohio when they were married, Isaac Johnson remained in > Hampshire > County, where Ann was the name of his wife in 1843 and Nancy in > 1845. The > last sighting of him was in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1858. > No story of John Johnson would be complete without the question > of his > age. Certainly he was born on a farm lying along the Schuylkill > River, fifty > miles north of Philadelphia, where Isaac Johnson and Sophia Sadowski > were > married, prior to their migration to Virginia in the late 1740s. If > he could > not be legally recognized as a heir-at-law until he was 21 years > old, the > year the tract on Patterson’s Creek was entered in his name would > make 1747 > the year of his birth. Lord Fairfax’s land records, however, list > the same > name, John Johnson, who was granted 268 acres of land on both sides > of > Little Cacaphon Creek in Hampshire County in 1762. Unless there was > another > person of the same name, John Johnson was, then, born in 1741 > rather than > 1747. What is so puzzling about John Johnson is that, despite his > books and > nine children, nothing is known about his real age. Hopefully, in > the > future, someone will find a reliable record of his age. As more and > more > descendants of Anthony Sadowski dig for their roots, name by name, > more work > will be done on John Johnson and his progeny. >                                                                                 >                                                                                 >        > > > ==== SANDUSKY Mailing List ==== > Search old list messages at this link to the <a > href="http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl">Rootsweb > Mail List Archives</a> > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1299 Surname: Baker ------------------------- Searching for parents/family of Rebecca Baker, b24 Jan 1797. First wife of Philip Fahs of Hampshire Co.

For some time now I have been trying to locate a John Hines and Mary (Roderick) Hines in Hampshire County, with little success other than the census. I recently discovered that their first born daughter, Rebecca, was born "in the vicinity of Means Gap, on the South Branch of the Potomac in 1796", and thought this additional clue might help to locate them. I know that they lived in Hampshire County until 1825, when the family removed to Coshocton County, Ohio. As usual, any additional help or information would be appreciated. Murray Hines Mesa, Arizona

Is the surname Sheetz ever spelled Sheets? In my Mom's scrapbook she left there is several articles about Sheets who were in Clark County, Ohio. There is an article about David Sheets with all his children listed when he was married 67 years. He lived 81 years in Clark County, Ohio, moved to Clark Co. with his father at the age of 12 from Burks County, PA. I haven't connected them to my line but would like to pass the info on to anyone that is connected to this family. Thelma

Thanks for the info on Sheetz. I added it to my genealogy database. Bill ----------------------------------------------------- Bill Pyles, Titusville, FL --New e-mail address: WPyles@cfl.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adina Dyer" <adyer@nfe.com> To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 3:02 AM Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] John S. Sheetz Bio > Bill and other Sheetz researchers - > > Here is a biography I found in a history of Benton County, Indiana, > regarding John S. Sheetz, son of Frederick Sheetz and Nancy Emerson. I > question the accuracy of the information in the first paragraph which > says that Frederick Sheetz was born in Germany. From information from > others and my own research, it doesn't seem very likely that Frederick > was born in Germany. His grandfather was a Johann Friderich SCHÜTZ, who > later was known as Frederick, and it is thought that he immigrated from > Germany in 1732. > > I have a photo of John S. Sheetz on the Tippecanoe Co. INGenWeb site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~intippec/JSSheetz.html > ================================================= > History of Benton County, Indiana > By Barce and Jones > > Chapter 18 > The Sheetz Family > > Frederick Sheetz, while a boy in Germany, had received a good common > school training, wrote an unusually good hand and both his Spelling and > English were far ahead of his day and time. About 1827 he received from > the government of Frankfort, in Hampshire County, and being a > progressive man, he established the first school in that part of the > country, a flour mill, known as the Sheetz Mill, that was burned by the > Union forces during the Civil War, a tannery and a store. He served > several terms as Sheriff of Hampshire County and was at one time a > member of the Virginia Legislature. An excellent photograph of this > fine old gentleman is now in the possession of Harry Sheetz of Fowler, > his great-grandson. > In the year 1836 the land fever in the Wabash Country was at its > height. A speculation in real estate was rife. The first division of > the Wabash and Erie Canal had been completed on the Fourth of July, and > the first canal boat, the Indiana, had passed through Huntington. The > vast army of Irish laborers was digging toward Wabash and Peru. Over > the old National Road from Cumberland, Maryland, a steady stream of > "movers" with their covered wagons, droves of cattle, hogs and sheep, > poured into Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. For months at a time there was > no moment of the daytime that a family was not in sight. At night the > road appeared like a picket line of an army. > Over the National Highway passed many who, like the sons of > Frederick Sheetz, believed that the Northwest was the land of > opportunity. True to their German blood and instincts, they held the > institution of human slavery as wrong. They looked upon the great > Ordinance of 1787, prohibiting involuntary servitude and providing for a > system of free schools and that the means of free education should > forever be encouraged, as a character of liberty and security. On > December 31, 1835, Robert King Sheetz, the eldest son, entered the N. E. > of the S.W. section 1-24-7 and either the same year or the next his two > brothers, Frederick Jr. and John S. came to Indiana. The story of > Robert King Sheetz seems to have been brief, for it is recorded in the > family history that his wife Matilda Tantlinger Sheetz died in the > Wabash country and was brought back, in a covered wagon, to Hampshire > County, Virginia. He afterwards married again and lived in Virginia. > Frederick Jr. married had married Elizabeth Taylor and John S. married > Isabelle Parker, an aunt of Capt. James F. Parker of Oxford. They > remained in the west. Frederick settled in Tippecanoe County and was > the father of Warren B. Sheetz of Co. D 10th Indiana Infantry, and > Harriet Sheetz, who married William S. Van Natta of Fowler. His > grandson, David Sheetz, is now a respected farmer in Pine Township, a > short distance above the old Robert Hawkins place. He became at once > one of the most influential men in his community and later took an > active part and prominent part in the establishment of the new county of > Benton. James Edward Sheetz, son of Frederick the elder, remained in > Hampshire County and was at one time the Postmaster at Romney, > Virginia. His son Frederick Warren (Warner) was educated at Virginia > Military Institute and later joined the Confederate Army. Thus the > family was divided into a northern and a southern wing. > Continuing our sketch of John S., afterwards known as Judge Sheetz, > it is recorded that when it was decided to ask the Legislature of the > State for the erection a new county, Judge Sheetz, owing to his ability > and intelligence, was entrusted with the circulation of the petition > that was afterwards presented to Gov. David Wallace by Henry Robertson, > and which resulted in the act of 1840, creating Benton County. At the > May term 1843 of the Commissioners Court, he was appointed as the first > county agent entrusted with the sale of lots and lands dedicated by > Henry L. Ellsworth and David Watkinson for the establishment of a new > seat of Justice. He afterward let the contract for, and took an active > part in the building of the frame courthouse in the dense thickets and > timber of White Oak Grove. On August 11, 1846, he was duly elected as > an Associate Justice of Benton County Circuit Court for a term of seven > years, from July 1, 1847, serving honorably and efficiently, and > resigning his office on March 17, 1851. While he acted in this > capacity, the Presiding Judge of the First Circuit Court, of which > Benton was a part, was the Hon. Isaac Naylor of Crawfordsville. The > other Associate Justice, serving with Judge Sheetz, was Basil Justus of > Oxford. > Like his father, Frederick Sheetz, Judge Sheetz manifest a deep > interest in all affairs looking to the education and enlightenment of > the young, and like his father, he aided in the building of the first > school house in his community. This was a log school house erected in > 1845 on the pioneer farm of Esquire William R. Johnson, southeast of the > old village of Aydelotte, and in which Hartley T. Howard, later Clerk of > Benton County Court, was the first teacher. Judge Sheetz was a man of > the most humanitarian principles, deeply interested in all matters > affecting the advancement of the public weal and a gentleman of the > utmost honor and integrity. To the last he was deeply interested in > livestock farming. > The children of Judge Sheetz and Isabelle, his wife, were John > Robert Sheetz, father of Bert Sheetz, of Gilboa; Mrs. Frances M. > Eastburn, of West Lafayette; and Newton Sheetz, at one time Recorder of > Benton County; Nancy, wife of William Hawkins; Margaret, wife of John > Hawkins; James Sheetz; Hannah, a maiden lady; and Frederick Sheetz, a > veteran of the 10th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War, and father of > Harry Sheetz of Fowler. > Late in life, Judge Sheetz went to the town of Chauncey, now West > Lafayette, where a public street bears his name.** He died on the fifth > day of December 1877, aged 69 years, 11 months, 24 days, and is buried > beside his wife in Greenbush or Linwood Cemetery. The Lafayette Daily > Journal of December 6, 1877, contains the following: > "Judge Sheetz, as he was familiarly known, died at his residence in > Chauncey, yesterday morning at 6 o'clock, after a short and painful > illness. Mr. Sheetz was well advanced in years, and until a few months > past had remarkably good health. His wife died on the same day of the > week five months ago. Since her disease his health has been rapidly > failing. He was a man of sterling integrity and a very benevolent > dispostion." > > **Sheetz Street is located in Purdue University, West Lafayette, > Indiana. > > Adina Dyer > West Lafayette, IN > > >

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1298 Surname: Yenger, Coon ------------------------- I am descended from Jane Yenger of Hampshire Co., WV. She moved to Peoria, Illinois in the 1850s or thereabouts where she married George Coon. Any information on her ancestry or family would be appreciated. Roger Coone.

Maybe you are talking of my grandmother,Ruie Ely Brown's people. Her Benjamin Ely shows 1781 at the privateer port of Port Republic,Galloway Twnsp, old Gloucester Co,NJ. [NW Atlantic City]. His Samuel m there in 1804 Rachel Leeds,and,1805,had son,Benjamin,and 1806,with colony,to 30 miles east of Cincinnati,with a colony. Benjamin ran the Bantam,Oh store,and had John F.M.Ely, who died in this house in 1907,and who sired Ruie,or Ruhama. Tradition said Benjamin had a son who went to Va-I had been guessing Lee Co,VERY SW Va. On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:06:40 -0700 Mary Nell Turner <turnermn@arkansas.net> writes: > Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum > Board URL: > http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1297 > > Surname: > ------------------------- > > Your query about the Ely family in Hampshire County West Virginia > was answered > by Ron Leake who has all my information and more. Sarah Ely did > marry Conrad > See according to my information. I really do not know anything about > the > See family. I am at a brick wall on the immigrant Isaac Ely who > reportedly > came to America about 1750 with one child Benjamin. I wish I knew > more. > Good luck in your search. MNT >

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1297 Surname: ------------------------- Your query about the Ely family in Hampshire County West Virginia was answered by Ron Leake who has all my information and more. Sarah Ely did marry Conrad See according to my information. I really do not know anything about the See family. I am at a brick wall on the immigrant Isaac Ely who reportedly came to America about 1750 with one child Benjamin. I wish I knew more. Good luck in your search. MNT

Hi, I'm asking a question for a researcher who wishes to see the Hampshire Co Poorhouse. I know the Poorhouse is on River Road, but could someone tell me how far up it is? Thanks, Patti

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1296 Surname: Ely, Shaver, See ------------------------- I have a Ely family from Hampshire Co WV that married into the See family. Sarah Ely married @ KY. Coonrad See. The See family is believed to have came from VA or PA., not WV. This family and all my Ely families moved to Ralls Co. MO.. There were also other See and Shaver families settled in that area. Coonrad was s/o John Martin See and Elizabeth Hassler.

Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1295 Surname: Shrout, Bradford ------------------------- Gary Tucker is doing research in this area his eMail is get@ftn-assoc.com Larry Phalin phalintl@aol.com

Hi, I just added the April 21, 1911 articles from the News Tribune to the Mineral County USGenWeb Page. You can view them at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/keynews.htm :) Patti McDonald Burlington WV mcd@access.mountain.net Co-Coordinator Mineral County USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/mineral.htm Subscribe to Mineral County Mailing List WVMINERA-L-request@rootsweb.com Surnames I am researching: HARTMAN, WOLFE, MILLER, FLEEK, WHITEMAN, PUFFENBARGER, FITZPATRICK, COOKUS, CORBUS, DYE, WALSH

Wilmer, This is good to know--thank you! Elaine "Wilmer L. Kerns" wrote: > ...Hampshire County birth records kept from 1853 forward are maintained in the > Library of Virginia. These birth records (1853-1865) were destroyed in the > courthouse in Romney, but a duplicate set was sent to Richmond when the birth > reports were completed. The records are on microfilm and may be secured > through interlibrary loan.