This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B83819370DD883555E5B98A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A posting some of you might find interesting --------------B83819370DD883555E5B98A0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <taf@epix.net> Received: from lima.epix.net (lima.epix.net [199.224.64.56]) by norm.shentel.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05846 for <vforeman@shentel.net>; Sun, 14 May 2000 09:22:46 -0400 Received: from [216.37.226.37] (twnd-226ppp37.epix.net [216.37.226.37]) by lima.epix.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/1999100101/PL) with ESMTP id JAA17930; Sun, 14 May 2000 09:22:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: taf@in.epix.net Message-Id: <v03110700b542cc400641@[205.238.242.233]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:25:24 -0400 To: Tom Foreman <tom.foreman@usa.net>, Sharon Hughbanks <hughbanks@iquest.net>, <vforeman@shentel.net> From: "Tom A. Foreman" <taf@epix.net> Subject: 4th WV/VA/OH FOREMAN Family Reunion Notice, Etc. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by norm.shentel.net id JAA05846 Hi Everyone, On Friday 5/12/00 I received a notice from Walden ROUSH in Point Pleasant, WV about a "Fourth Annual Foreman Reunion" on Saturday, 10 Jun 2000 at the West Virginia Farm Museum close to Point Pleasant, WV and Gallipolis, OH. I am sorry to find my wife and I alrady have other plans for that weekend and will not be able to attend. In my opinion it was an outstanding reunion notice with a colored photo of presumably last years attendees (but no caption of who was shown in the photo). Are any of you folks in the photo? There was also a very-helpful colored map on the backside of the notice. I have tried this "one size fits all" multiple addressee type of message approach in the past, some have been well received as a way to do the maximum amount of dissemination in the shortest period of time, while other efforts via this route have not been too well received. I believe time is getting critically short to try to pull this off to have a message or two back-and-forth before 10 June 2000, plus Helene & I are planning to be out of the loop for 10 days over Memorial Day weekend. Please bear with me as I try once again. I do think there may be some information that is of interest to some of you. If on the other hand there is no interest, or all of this is "old hat" type of information, simply "trash" this message. In the way of introductions, I have taken the liberty to chronologically list each of you in the order we first got in contact with one another over the last several years. As far as I know Walden Roush does not have E-mail access, so I will send him a copy of this message via US mail. However, I have not gone back over all of my old correspondence and notes with each of you in order to try to refresh my memory to the n-th degree. Walden ROUSH (Pt. Pleasant, WV) - Several years ago I chatted with Walden via phone regarding my g grandmother Sarah Ann ROUS(C)H from Reading, Berks Co., PA. In subsequent letters and phone conversations back and forth with Walden said he had FOREMAN Family ancestors from WV and wondered it he and I might possibly be FOREMAN Family cousins. I did not know then, and still do not know if that might be the case. "the other Tom FOREMAN" - Tom and Walden are FOREMAN Family cousins with known common ancestors in the WV & OH areas near Point Pleasant. WV. Tom, I trust you are not offended by my referring to you as "the other Tom" as I have a son Tom K., everyone knows of ABC's newscaster Tom, etc. When you respond maybe you can suggest a better handle for future messages. You can call me Tom A. or Tom/PA, or whatever. Michael M. FOREMAN - (Winchester, VA) I have not taken the time to re-check Michael's Internet posting at - http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/f/o/r/Michael-M-Foreman/index.html or Cindy Jensen's posting at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jens007&id= I9140 in any great detail to see how Michael might, or might not, be related to Walden and "the other Tom". I seem to remember that Michael's listing included a David and a David, Jr, who reportedly had descended from the Long Island, NY FOREMAN Family immigrants, who had came from England in the late 1600's Sharon HUGHBANKS - (of Noblesville, IN) Contacted me recently and on 5/3/00 sent me copies of (2) FOREMAN Family reference publications. Sharon says she descends from a James Foreman (German ancestry) also from Hampshire Co. in the very early 1800's. The first reference publication, title unknown as title page was missing, was written by a Mildred Foreman Gage, back in February, 1986. At that time Mildred lived in Asheville, NC. This particular copy of the publication was located in the Dallas, TX Public Library and had been placed there in Nov 1987. On page 9 there was a pedigree chart which includes the early FOREMAN Families of David FOREMAN (ca 1755-1811) & Elizabeth HORINE (1763-1955) and his son David FOREMAN (1791-1856) & Margaret GALLOWAY (1785-1835). From there Mildred descended through Nicholas - Otis - Logan - Mildred. This David reportedly was of German ancestry. On Illustration V there was a copy of a German script signature for David's marriage certificate as "David FÜHRMAN" Here is an Internet posting I saw some time ago which apparently is about this very same family. ---------- Re: Forman/Foreman Ancestors Posted by: Corkey Waite <corkeywaite@aol.com> Date: November 03, 1998 at 15:05:17 In Reply to: Forman/Foreman Ancestors by Bea Tritch of 175 I believe you are talking about David Foreman (b abt 1755 in Germany, d abt 1811 in Mercer KY) who married Elizabeth Horine (b abt 1763 in Germany; d April 11 1855 in IL.) April 18 1788 in Lincoln, KY. They had more than 9 children: George A (b 1789), David Nicholas (b 1790), Jacob (b 1793), Benjamin (b 1795), Samuel G. (b 1797), John (b 1798), Elizabeth (b 1803), Michael (b 1806), Absolem (b 1808). There were probably 4 other daughters. John's wife, Nellie's given name was Elinor, according to my source. David Foreman (Fuhrman) is buried in KY; Elizabeth Horine Forman is buried in Blue River Cemetery near Detroit, Pike County, Illinois. Elizabeth's father's name was Fredrick de la Horine (1715-1769) ------------ The second reference publication from Sharon was titled, "Ancestors and Descendants of David Foreman, Sharon Township, Noble County, Ohio" which were the "Records of Hezekiah M. Foreman, donated by Grace Foreman Sterling" dated 15 June 1988. On pages 10-12 there was a handwritten Family Group Sheet for David FOREMAN 1st (?-1795) & Christina Vogelsang (?-1821) including their children - John - Samuel - Christina - Anna - Abylonia - David 2nd - Jacob - Washington. David 1st, his wife, Christina, and quite a few of their children were buried in a Foreman Family Cemetery in Hampshire Co., VA/WV. This David was also of German ancestry, reportedly coming from the Hesse-Darmstadt area of Germany. Seeing the WV citation caused me to immediately think of Walden & "the other Tom". Sharon and I were also a bit excited about the similarity of some of the children's names in this David's family versus the children's names in "my" Jacob FUHRMAN & Anna Catharine TRUMBEIN's family, i.e. Jacob - Margaret - John Peter - Christina - John - Mary - Appalonia - Daniel - Hannah - David - Catharine. May be it was pure conincidence or perhaps they may have been cousins. Also a George VOGELSANG & his wife apparently were friends of "my" Jacob FUHRMAN & Anna Catharine TRUMBEIN in Frederick (now-Carroll) Co., MD in the late 1800's. Lived near one another and sponsored the other's children at baptisms. I will dig some of these details out of my files by the time I post the next message or two. Even more exciting (part of the second publication) for me was viewing pages from a FORMAN Bible with listings of David, Samuel, Abilonah, etc. and other pages from a Diary that included places such as Onondaga, Canandagua, in upstate NY, Shamokin and some of the townships in Northumberland Co., PA, Huntingdon in Huntingdon Co., PA, and Union Mills, Frederick (now-Carroll) Co. Back on 28 Apr 1997 I had posted a message to Michael which read in part as follows ---------- "---, this PM I was 90 miles south of Towanda searching for some of my DEEM Family ancestor information at the Northumberland Co. (PA) Historical Society, when lo and behold they showed me a map of old Northumberland (Town of) and close by was a "Furman Cemetery". They said they had a whole file on the FURMAN Family, and sure enough they did. > > There were two professional-looking bound publications in the file >written and published by > >Stuart J. Furman >15370 Gatehouse Terrace >Woodbridge, VA 22191 > > The titles were as follows > >"Fifteen Furman Generations and the Lineages of their Spouses" 1991 > >and > >"Some Descendants of William Furman (1751-1826) and his wife Rachel >Woolverton Furman(1754-1819) of Shamokin Township, Northumberland Co." >August 1987 > >There was also considerable correspondence in the file that had taken >place between Stuart and the following lady. In fact it just so happened >that this lady's daughter was volunteering today, and I told her that you >might possibly be getting in contact with her mother. > >Mrs. Charlotte Walter >702 North 5th Street >Sunbury, PA 17801 > > >Some tidbits from the correspondence in the files. > >This was the England, Long Island, New Jersey branch of the Furman Family >in America. > >One mentioned Benjamin Furman was the son of Samuel Furman & Mary Holcombe. > >Another Benjamin Furman was the son of Daniel & Eliza Furman (Daniel's >Will is in Northumberland Co. Will Book #2, Page 432) > >There was another Benjamin Foreman citation in the Warrants and Patents >Section at the courthouse for some property in 1821. > ------ End of Excerpt --------- I am in the process of trying to decipher the recordings in the Bible and Diary pages and will share that information with all of you who are interested. Unfortunately some of the pages are missing from the Diary, and Xerox copies of Xerox copies leave a lot to be desired in the way of copy quality of documents that are on the order of 200 years old. I also have to say, I see no German script anywhere in the handwritten citations in the Diary, although there were the double "s"es common in German handwriting. The spelling of FORMAN seems to indicate these folks might have been of English ancestry. Right now, my preliminary speculation based on what I have seen and read so far, would be that the Bible and Diary were from the English immgrant families and not the German ones. That can always change in a hurry with new input. Please understand, this message is in no way intended to be devisive or argumentative. My genealogy goals have not changed in trying to identify my FUHRMAN/FOREMAN Family ancestors "back to the boat". In this case there seems to be a "new glimmer of hope" that I might find some more clues regarding the siblings, and/or ancestors of my Jacob FUHRMAN/FOREMAN, whether it turns out to have been in Colonial America or back in Germany. Have a good day! Tom --------------B83819370DD883555E5B98A0--