----- Original Message ----- From: Patricia Hook <pahook@hereintown.net> To: <WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] WARD MCCOLLOUGH INSKEEP ZANE CHEW ELDRIDGE > Hi, > > Read your post of WARD family. Do you happen to have a RACHEL WARD > married probably early 1800's to BENJAMIN PARKER?? My gg-grandfather > GEORGE BYARD PARKER b. 1814 s/o Benjamin Parker & Rachel (Ward) Parker. > I am trying to see if my Western MD --PARKER family could be an extension > of the Hampshire/Mineral Co. PARKERS. > In Allegany Co. MD--- Benjamin was s/o ROBERT PARKER d. 1817--Will here in > Allegany Co. MD. > > Thanks for any help... > Patricia Hook > > ---------- > > From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] WARD MCCOLLOUGH INSKEEP ZANE CHEW ELDRIDGE > > Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:20 PM > > > > > > > > Elizabeth Ward > > > > Born in 1710, or 1720 > > > > Parents > > > > George Ward > > Hannah ? > > > > Marriages and children > > > > Married, Ireland, to Samuel McCullough 1705-1748, with > > John 1725-1775 > > George 1728 + > > Mary 1730 + > > Elizabeth 1732-1824 > > Isabel ca 1735 + > > Thomas 1735 + > > Hannah 1737-1791 > > > > Notes > > > > Samuel married Elizabeth Ward in Ireland and the family > > emigrated to New Jersey with his parents in 1724. > > > > Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New > > Jersey > > Marriage Licenses. > > The Marriage Ceremony > > Males. I > > Divorces By the Court of Chancery. > > page 211 > > Inskeep, Abraham, Gloucester, and Sarah Ward, Gloucester 1740 Dec. > > 10 > > English, John, Jr., Gloucester, and Anne Inskeep, Burlington 1749 > > Sept. 30 > > iInskeep, Sarah, Gloucester, and John McColloch, Gloucester 1749 > > May 24 > > Inskeep, James, Gloucester, and Mary Pattison, Evesham 1747 Sept. > > 22 > > Crowford, Henry, Gloucester, and Elizabeth McColloch 1754 April 6 > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > 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. > >

For years, I've used perkypj@netscape.net for my main email address when posting to newsgroups and mail lists. Unfortunately, Netscape has changed its mind about letting you keep the same email address forever and ever. They are requiring people to select new user names, which will eventually include new email addresses too, if it appears the name is registered more than once. Because I signed up for two different Netscape programs, the perkypj name shows it is being used twice, so now "both of me" have to select a new user name. I got p***** o** at Netscape, because I'll have to change the email address on all my web pages, mail lists, etc. etc. (Gee, aren't I in a great mood? Grin) So....anyone who has corresponded with me at the perkypj@netscape.net address should now write me at fam2000@excite.com address. Actually, this is turning out ok, since my web pages on Free Pages - Roots Web are named family2000. Thanks for listening to my grumble....grin...I'll get over it. Paula fam2000@excite.com

Hi, Read your post of WARD family. Do you happen to have a RACHEL WARD married probably early 1800's to BENJAMIN PARKER?? My gg-grandfather GEORGE BYARD PARKER b. 1814 s/o Benjamin Parker & Rachel (Ward) Parker. I am trying to see if my Western MD --PARKER family could be an extension of the Hampshire/Mineral Co. PARKERS. In Allegany Co. MD--- Benjamin was s/o ROBERT PARKER d. 1817--Will here in Allegany Co. MD. Thanks for any help... Patricia Hook ---------- > From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WVHAMPSH-L] WARD MCCOLLOUGH INSKEEP ZANE CHEW ELDRIDGE > Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:20 PM > > > > Elizabeth Ward > > Born in 1710, or 1720 > > Parents > > George Ward > Hannah ? > > Marriages and children > > Married, Ireland, to Samuel McCullough 1705-1748, with > John 1725-1775 > George 1728 + > Mary 1730 + > Elizabeth 1732-1824 > Isabel ca 1735 + > Thomas 1735 + > Hannah 1737-1791 > > Notes > > Samuel married Elizabeth Ward in Ireland and the family > emigrated to New Jersey with his parents in 1724. > > Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New > Jersey > Marriage Licenses. > The Marriage Ceremony > Males. I > Divorces By the Court of Chancery. > page 211 > Inskeep, Abraham, Gloucester, and Sarah Ward, Gloucester 1740 Dec. > 10 > English, John, Jr., Gloucester, and Anne Inskeep, Burlington 1749 > Sept. 30 > iInskeep, Sarah, Gloucester, and John McColloch, Gloucester 1749 > May 24 > Inskeep, James, Gloucester, and Mary Pattison, Evesham 1747 Sept. > 22 > Crowford, Henry, Gloucester, and Elizabeth McColloch 1754 April 6 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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.

From: Chuck Gibson <cathal@flash.net> To: NJGLOUCE-L@rootsweb.com Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:27:00 -0600 Subject: [NJGLOUCE] Ward from Ireland to NJ Message-ID: <38E3D4B4.5A889E01@flash.net> Received: from mx5.boston.juno.com (mx5.boston.juno.com [205.231.100.55]) by m12.boston.juno.com with SMTP id AAA6QHXKBAQ8BMWA for <hermfagley@juno.com> (sender <NJGLOUCE-L-request@rootsweb.com>); Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:28:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from mx3.jersey.juno.com (mx3.jersey.juno.com [209.67.33.53]) by mx5.boston.juno.com with SMTP id AAA6QHXKBAH243UJ for <hermfagley@juno.com> (sender <NJGLOUCE-L-request@rootsweb.com>); Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:28:49 -0500 (EST) Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [209.85.6.27]) by mx3.jersey.juno.com with SMTP id AAA6QHXKAAVX52NA (sender <NJGLOUCE-L-request@rootsweb.com>); Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:28:48 -0500 (EST) R Don't know if this will help much. Elizabeth Ward Born in 1710, or 1720 Parents George Ward Hannah ? Marriages and children Married, Ireland, to Samuel McCullough 1705-1748, with John 1725-1775 George 1728 + Mary 1730 + Elizabeth 1732-1824 Isabel ca 1735 + Thomas 1735 + Hannah 1737-1791 Notes Samuel married Elizabeth Ward in Ireland and the family emigrated to New Jersey with his parents in 1724. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Marriage Licenses. The Marriage Ceremony Males. I Divorces By the Court of Chancery. page 211 Inskeep, Abraham, Gloucester, and Sarah Ward, Gloucester 1740 Dec. 10 English, John, Jr., Gloucester, and Anne Inskeep, Burlington 1749 Sept. 30 iInskeep, Sarah, Gloucester, and John McColloch, Gloucester 1749 May 24 Inskeep, James, Gloucester, and Mary Pattison, Evesham 1747 Sept. 22 Crowford, Henry, Gloucester, and Elizabeth McColloch 1754 April 6 ________________________________________________________________ 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.

I had that book on loan a month once. Very good.Did not remember seeing SODOWAKI. In my Prodigy years, I party-line ease dropped on a couple genealogists debating who was correct. Said 1 man"I am correct because I used the same public library as Gary Boyd Roberts!". Having a BROWN cousin[?] visitor coming,so I'm digging in my paper file for 1st time in months. And suffering from the dust. Hermonius Alkire m a Patton. I think a dau of John Patton,who had a mill on the S FORK of the S Branch sse of Moorefield. Perhaps Patton's mill became Jacob Reed's. My John Brown ,of Hampstead, nw Baltimore Co-Gist area- sold,in 1797,land to a union church "Brown's Chapel" to John Algire,Richard Brown, George Epaugh,and Wm Chenoweth,trustee's JOHN BROWN made his will,aged,in 1807 From it,we learn his children's names. John,Richard,Edward,Nicholas,Henry George,Ruth m Algire; Mary m EDWARD LOGSDON,Jr of Madison co ky; Ann m Richard Richards and Lucy m - Paton. Son Edward named sons Thomas and ARTHUR,JOHN AND GEORGE On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:32:51 -0500 Bob Orr <boborr@abelink.com> writes: > Marilyn - That is great! Now I am related to George Washington, > Richard Nixon > and also to Gerald Ford. > > There is a fellow called Edward Pinowsky ?? who sent some of the > Ford data > previously. I am glad none of my ancestors ever lived in AR. Thanks! > > Hendcoa@aol.com wrote: > > > Hi Bob and Hermon. I keep forgetting to tell you that I have the > book > > ANCESTORS OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, by Gary Boyd Roberts, 1995. > President > > Gerald Ford (whose original name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) has > Anthony > > Sandusky and Mary Bird as his ancestors, through their daughter > Anna who > > married Increase Miller. Anna and Increase Miller's daughter > Keziah married > > Jesse Miller. Keziah was born in Bedford, NY March 13, 1744 and > died > > probably in Tioga ca. 1816. > > > > Just thought you'd get a kick out of that if you didn't already > know it. > > This book is just so great. Many of our presidents were related > to one > > another way back in England and many of them are from royal lines. > > > > Marilyn > > > ________________________________________________________________ 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.

What do you know about Noble Grimes Sr? Jr m a Willitt [widow or dau?] in Mason Co,Ky about 1804? A Noble Grimes m 1780 Old Swedes,s Philadelphia a MORROW. Have you tried the NJ mid-shore for Willitts? Tuckertown=Clantown NJ area. Maybe Little Egg Harbor Quakers. Many of the NJ shore were from Long Island,Rhode Isaland, and CONN. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:46:43 -0700 Kathy Hines <khines1@uswest.net> writes: > Posted on: Hampshire County, WV Query Forum > Board URL: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/Hampshire?read=1141 > > Surname: Willett, Ingle > ------------------------- > > I am interested in connecting up with any WILLETT researchers for > the Hampshire/Berkeley > Co. area. > > Found in the Mason Co., KY court records: > > Book H - 7 > 12 Mar 1804 > Richard Willett of Mason Co and Nancy his wife > AND > Matthias Ingle of Hamshire, Va > Tr: Sale of land in Hamshire co Va on Potomak river, with all the > houses, buildings, barns, stables, woods, waters, etc. > Clerk: Marshall Key for release of dowry rights of Nancy Willett > > According to family stories Richard Willett was a cousin to his wife > Nancy > Willett. Nancy's brother, George, also married his cousin, Rachel > Willett. > Nancy and George were the children of Charles Willett and Martha > Elliot > Wallingford. At this time, I do not know the parents of Richard or > Rachel > Willett. > ________________________________________________________________ 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.

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

Patricia, My Parkers were from Hampshire County. My line is: George PARKER m. Ann., George d. 1758 in Hampshire Co., mentioned wife Ann and son Benjamin in his will which was proved Dec. 13, 1758. This is pretty much all I have on them. .....Benjamin PARKER b: 1723 d: 22 December 1807 in Hampshire Co., VA .....+Margaret THORNTON .........James PARKER b: 25 July 1759 in Middletown, MD d: 15 April 1832 in Hampshire Co., VA ....... +Rebecca WOLF b: 20 July 1761 m: 18 January 1782 in Hampshire Co., VA ..............Isabella Adams PARKER b: 3 June 1804 in Hampshire Co., VA, d. July 1877 .............+John S. SHEETZ (son of Frederick Sheetz and Nancy Emerson of Hampshire County) John and Isabella came to Indiana and settled first in Benton Co., then later in life in Tippecanoe Co. Both are buried in Greenbush Cemetery in Lafayette, Indiana. Adina Dyer West Lafayette, Indiana

-----Original Message----- From: justin <stump@hereintown.net> To: johuntsb@ix.netcom.com <johuntsb@ix.netcom.com> Date: Saturday, February 26, 2000 11:17 AM Subject: WVHELPLIST Dear Joanne, I am interested in: John Cage BAILEY Frances Elizabeth CUSTER BAILEY The dates that you list are too early for me as they dont show up until their marriage in 1868 in Jefferson Co. If their are any cemetery listings, I would be grateful. Thank you, Deanne Bailey Stump

---------- > From: Patricia Hook <pahook@hereintown.net> > > Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 12:21 PM > > Hi everyone, > > Anyone researching the PARKER family of Hamsphire/Mineral Co.? I am > looking for possible extension of the Hamshire Co. Parkers to the Western > MD. (Allegany Co.) PARKER family. > > My ancestor was said to be---ROBERT PARKER d. 1817 spouse MARY ____? > children; Benjamin, William, Robert Jr., Nancy, Sarah, Mary "Polly" > Parker. > > Robert did have Will here in Allegany co. MD. in 1817, and lot 3350 > before 1792 near Mt. Savage on the PA Line. Also, I have found evidence > of AARON PARKER and SOLOMON PARKER with Land here in late 1700's. > > Would love to hear from anyone with interest in PARKER family of North > River Mills, Hampshire & Mineral Counties WV. Perhaps we could compare > notes and find a connection. > > Thanks for any help > > Patricia Hook in W. MD. >

All, Looking for any info on McDonald Family in Grant Co., WV, including: Elizabeth "Lizzie" McDonald (1870-1907) married to Victor T. Secrist (1879-1907)...they are my wife's Great Grandparents on her father's maternal side. Victor and Lizzie are buried in Maysville Cemetery (Old McDonald Cemetery) in Maysville, WV (Grant Co.). Did these McDonald's come from Ireland? If so when and who was the first immigrant in this McDonald line? Also, looking for info on: Thomas J. Secrist (1839-1893) father to Victor above and his wife, Frances Hawk (1852-1920)...is HAWK an Indian rooted name? Where did the Hawk's immigrate from? The Secrists? Finally, looking for anyone who knows about the Parks line in Grant County, extending from James Parks (Died 5 April 1891 at aged 78 yrs. and 29 Days) buried in Grant County's Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Petersburg, WV. He married Sarah Nipe (1817-1884). Descendants of these Parks married into my wife's Secrist line! Thank you so much for any help offered! P.S. I am a descendant of the Parkes of Hampshire County, WV (Capon Bridge and Jersey Mountain) who migrated from NJ to then VA in 1735--beginning with my 7th Great Grandparents, John Parke I (1674-1757) and Sarah Smith (1675-1759). John I's father, Dr. Roger Parke came to NJ in 1682 from England. My line migrated from VA/WV to NC, before proceeding into Madison, KY in 1796 (5th Great Grandfather, Ebenezer Parke, 1747-1839). Doug Park Fayetteville, NC (Graduate of WVU, Class of 1981)

Fort McIntosh was built earlier. 1st of a chain of support forts stretching toward Detroit. Same group of regulars,and many militia built Fort Lorens sp? at Bolivar,Ohio and some were beseiged there all winter. The year? 1778-79,I think. I'm wrong by no more than 1 year,if at all. 1795 was more like Fort Steuben,Oh. On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 08:29:22 -0500 cora esch <eschms@gpcom.net> writes: > Need the roster of the men who was with General McIntosh during the > Rev > war. It is said Captain Archibald Wiggins helped with the building > of > Fort McIntosh in 1795. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks Cora > ________________________________________________________________ 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.

Yes, there are quite a few WHITES, too many to check for you, sorry, but there is ROBINSON, T.R, Hillary, Joel , there is mention of Cresap as well. This in Volume II. These books are mainly about PUGH family, and descendants but has so many others, Capon Valley, North River Mills, etc. Good idea to check geneology section of public library to see if they have either volume, before committing to a purchase. Good Luck, Sandy

Hello List, Just a quick note to let you all know that on Monday, March 13th I mailed my records request and a Postal Money Order to Sharon Link, Hampshire County Clerk, and on Saturday, March 18th I had my photocopied records. I originally sent her a request about a month ago and about a week and a half ago she sent me a note telling me the total amount due for those records. I certainly cannot complain about the service. I was quite pleased with the quality of the copies as well. I hope that everyone else has such good service. Regards, Brad Duling duling@citynet.net

My own Edward Willson m Alex Bennet's dau 1724 witnessed 1744-45 George Ward Jr's will.Abram Inskeep mentioned Abraham Inskeep,witness of George Ward Sr's 1748 will Isreal Ward's 1734 mentons ZANE,eNOCHS,AND COX,and 1747 HENRY VAN METER AND JOHN BROWN. EDWARD WILLSONS g granddau Anne Wainwright Wilson m JOHN ILER. My Savil Willson witnessed 1752 Hannah Ward's will,and about then joined Hab Ward in tearing down the Woodbury Creek,NJ dam My Sarah Bennett Wilson was 1752,ADM'X of hannah ward. On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:09:47 EST CWH610@aol.com writes: > From: shirleyevans@netzero.net (Shirley Evans) > To: NJCAMDEN-L@rootsweb.com > > Does anyone know anything about any of the Ward's that were from Old > > Gloucester Co. of which Camden was part of. Trying to find out the > parents > of John Ward B: 1/28/1765 D: 8/29/1842. I have traced him back > that I > think he was my GGGGrandfather. Any help would be greatly > appreciated, or > any of the Wards. > > IN ADDITION to Shirley's request above would like to add that we are > > attempting to find out the parentage of Margaret Ward who married > John > Hillman in 1693. There is also information about a George Ward who > married > Hannah Wainwright in 1697. Margaret & George could be brother and > sister, > but hopefully not, since George Ward remarried Abigail Rowand in > 1746. > Abigail Rowand was the daughter of John Hillman and Margaret Ward. > She > married Alexander Rowand first about in 1720. If George and > Margaret were > brother and sister, then George's 2nd marriage to Abigail's 2nd > marriage > would have been to his niece. In Florence Hillman's new book on the > Hillman > family, she has come of the opinion that Margaret Ward was > originally a > Collins and therefore had the name of Ward by a first marriage. > Additionally > I have a Sarah Ward who married John Inskeep in 1724 in Phila. I > descend > from John Hillman, Abigail Hillman, Margaret Ward, Sarah Ward & > Alexander > Rowand listed above. > > Researching these ancestors in Camden & Gloucester Co.'s: > > Adams, Allen, Bates, Carr, Clement, Collins, Day, Ellis, Epley, > Firth, > Fowler, Gardner, Hancock, Harrison, Hillman, Horner, Huddleston, > Hunt, > Inskeep, Jorman, Matlack, Rowand, Rudderow, Shivers, Spicer, Stiles, > Ward, > Wilson & Wright. > > Also attempting to publish a book on the Rowand family. > > Wes Hayman >

Since Wolfords have been discussed recently--might this Wolford be relevant to anyone? (He lived 17 years in Hampshire Co., WV). Martha Grenzeback graymatters@ibm.net Found at: http://www.genealogyforum.com/gfnews/march00/theme3700.htm John Wolford of the Rev War. (Pension) Submitted by: GFSBeri@aol.com (Anything in parens is for clarity benefit, and word/punctuation is unaltered to preserve the 'flavor' of the document and times.) State of Virginia Randolph County On the 25th day of June 1833 personsonally appeared before the County Court of Randolph County aforesaid John Wolford a resident of the said county and state of Virginia (Later West Virginia) aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made by the act of Congress, papered June 4th, 1832. That in the Year 1777 in the month of May but does not recollect the day of themonth; he was drafted in Capt. John Pipenger's company of militia in the state of New Jersey in Col. Jacob West's Regiment for a guard at Sussex Court House in said state; the court being convened for the purpose of trying tories and deserters; he lived in Sussex County New Jersey when he was drafted. We met at Youst Millers tavern in the said County of Sussex and marched to the said Court House and continued in the service one month and was discharged he thinks; no received no writtendischarge but only discharged by verbal order of the Captain when discharged from this service; he returned to his home and remained there until about the middle of September of the same Year (1777) when again he was called out in the Militia under Capt. John Pipenger in Col. West's Regiment to defend Elizabeth Town in New Jersey from the British. We assembled at Col. West in Sussex County New Jersey and remained there for days, waiting for the other companies under Col. West to assemble; onthe fifth day we commenced our march and on the fifth day after we commenced our march arrived at Elizabeth Town remained there thirteen days. The British having returned to Statton Island it was determined unnecessary to continue all the troops. Capt Pipenger and all his company were discharged except 8 of his men; he remains at that place and was to serve under Capt. John Potty in Col. West's Regiment and remained in the service under Capt. Potty at Elizabeth Town to protect that place thirtyfive days making with the thirteen days he was under Capt. Pippenger in the last mentioned service forty eight days. He was discharged by Capt Potty he thinks, he did not get a written discharge from Capt Potty but the Company was discharged by the verbal orders of Capt. Potty. He returned to his home after this last mentioned service and continued there until in March 1778 where he was again drafted for one month in Capt John Winter's Company of New Jersey Militia in Col. West's Regiment as leiutenant under Captain John Winter; he joined Captain Winter's Company at Elizabeth Town and continued there to guard the Town until the month expired when he was dischared; he thinks that his discharge was a verbal one; after his discharge he again returned home and remained there until the summer of 1779 when he was again called out under Capt. John Pippenger in Col. West's Regiment of New Jersey Militia and was marched to Hacket's Town and in the wilderness North west of that place in search ofdeserters and tories and finding none we returned home and was discharged having been in the service according to his present recollection twenty days. He remained at home in Sussex County until about the middle of September in the Year 1779 when he was again drafted for one month in Capt. John Pippenger's Company in Col. West's Regiment of New Jersey Militia; we marched from Sussex County by way of and Maj Bushas crossing the Blue mountains and by way of Col Rosacirbts on the Delaware up theDelaware River to near the York line. We were stationed at one Major Westbrooks under him until the month expired for the purpose of defending the frontier from the Indians; when his month expired he was discharged in the manner stated before not receiving a written discharge; during this case mentioned service from the middle of September 1779 to the middle of October 1779 he acted and served as a sergeant; he again returned home and remained there until September 1780 when he was againdrafted for one month in Capt John Pippenger's Company in Col. West's Regiment of New Jersey Militia and was marched to Morris Town to guard that place and the stores, horses and so forth those collecting items to be sent to General Washington he thinks. General Washington's army at that time was at a place called Warwick; he continued at Morris Town until this month expired when he was again discharged by verbal order of the captain, making his entire service during the Revolutionary war according to his present recollection not less than four months as a sergeant and five months and six days as a private. To the 1st Interrogatory required to be answered by the regulation of the War Department, (Where and in what year were you born?) he states that he was born in Montgomery County Pennsylvannia in the Year 1754. To the 2nd (Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?) he answers that he has no record of his age. To the 3rd (Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you live now?) he states that he has already statedthat he lived in Sussex County NJ when he was called into the service, after the Revolutionary war he remained a few Years in New Jersey and then removed to Hampshire County Virginia and continued in that County about 17 Years then removed to his present residence in Randolph County Virginia. To the 4th (How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?) he answers that was he drafted as before stated. To the 5th(State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.) he refers to that he has already stated in his foregoing declaration. To the 6th (Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, who whom was it given, and what has become of it?) he refers to his narrative in his foregoing declaration. To the 7th (State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution) he states that his is known in the present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his Service as a soldier of the Revolution but that no clergyman resides in his neighborhood. He has no documentary evidence, further does he know of any person by whom he can prove his service. He duly relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the Treasury, and he declares that his name is not in the Pension roll of its agency in any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and Year aforesaid JOHN WOLFORD (signature) (Note afterwards by Solomon Wyatt and David Holden swearing to the belief and verasity of John.) John received $20.88 annually for his role in the war. Whether he was cheerfully "drafted" or was threatened (sometimes the Regular officers "drafted" all the men in a town and threatened to shoot them if they didn't march) it's not stated. Along with other letters in the Archives section, there were two women from Texas who wrote to the Pensions Department in 1927 seeking information on John's role. They were Lena Wolford Compton (Mrs. R. H. Compton) Box 14, San Angelo, Texas (letter 15 Feb 1927) and Mrs. L O. Nimitz, 326 West Cancho Ave. San Angelo, Texas (letter 20 Apr 1927) Mary Ella Holland Nimitz (Mrs. L.O. Nimitz) was a member of the Pcahontas Champter, and was Regent from 1928-1930. Her Nat # was 147762. Susan E. Nimitz Compton (Mrs. H. Wolford) was Regent from 1936-38. Lena Wolford Compton (Mrs. R.H. Compton) was Rengent from 1946-48. Her Nat. # was 236302.

Sorry for delay --- I've been on vacation. GREAT NEWS!!!! I wanted to let everyone know about the status of Senate Bill # 90 - Senate Bill 90 - Permitting access to certain persons to cemeteries or grave sites on private land - PASSED BOTH HOUSES - 3/10/00 (found on the legislature web site) According to the Governor's secretary, the bill is now pending the governor's signature & he has 10 days following the passage of the bill (until the 17th) to sign it. (confirmation by telephone) Thank you to all who have submitted email's concerning this bill. Your email was printed & passed on to the appropriate people &, if it weren't for concerned folks as yourself, this would not have been possible. Joy Stalnaker

>From Cumberland Alleganian, Thursday, August 13, 1903 PRINTER FOR 65 YEARS - Interesting History of a West Virginian The visit of Mr. T.F. COMBS, of Hamilton, Tucker County, WVa, to Morgantown recalls a little interesting history in regard to one of the most interesting, remarkable compositors that ever set type on a newspaper in this state, says the Morgantown New Dominion. This interesting character was Mr. John J. COMBS, the father of T.F. COMBS. He was a compositor on the old South Branch Intelligencer from the time it was founded in 1830, till it was sold by the widow of the original proprietor, Mrs. Sallie HARPER, about 1895, except during the four years of the war between the states, during which he conducted a paper of his own, the Argus, at Romney, WVa. Mr. COMBS resumed his place on the Intelligencer after the war, and set type at the same window in the building where he had worked before. He worked at the case by this window for 60 years, and is said to have run the primitive Washington hand press on which the Intelligencer was printed till his shoes had worn a hole in the floor where he stood in operating it. He set type without wearing glasses when he was 83 years old. At the age of 14 years he was apprenticed to the trade. He made it his life work. This remarkable printer had the honor of working on the second oldest paper in the state, the South Branch Intelligencer. The Virginia Free Press, the "Old Family Journal" being its only senior. He was the father of J.A. COMBS, editor of the Piedmont Independent, who so marvelously recovered from terrible injuries received in a railroad accident. The last named Mr. COMBS edits and manages his paper with both limbs more than half gone and one arm cut off. His father died at Romney about two years ago. Mr. T.F. COMBS, now visiting here at the home of Mr. Ways, has worked at the case and also as a reporter. He was for a time conected with one of the dailies at Cumberland, Maryland. For a few years past he has not been engaged in newspaper work. Matt Matt_Combs@juno.com http://members.xoom.com/GenHosting/index.html

Sandy, Any PARKERS in that Book??? I am looking for more info of FORT T. PARKER at North River Mills. And all those other Parkers--George, James, John, Robert, Benjamin who were in Hampshire Co. in 1700's. Trying to find if my Western MD. PARKER family was extension of the VA/WV group. Thanks for any help Patricia Hook in W. MD. ---------- > From: San2744@aol.com > To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH-L] Cresap > Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 11:30 PM > > Laura, you can check for Hite's in Maude Pugh's book, "Capon Valley Pioneers > and decendents. There are 2 vol. hard to come by vol 2, but found it at > heritage books, good luck, > Sandy

Matt, Any chance you know if some of your COMBS relatives moved to the Arkansas area? Queet