This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DEWEES/HATCHER/GOOD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WCC.2ACE/378.410.511.515.522.923.1426.1476 Message Board Post: Charles: I read your query in Ancestry.com about a connection with the Jackson County Dewees. Yes you are connected. I am a Dewees/Deweese Family Archives Researcher and concentrate on the branch that settled in Jackson County, West Virginia. I have tons and tons of family data, so the information I pass on to you will be abridged somewhat, but a a good idea as to your lineage. First, I must tell you all this data is documented in the Historical Library in Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. Jack Vaughn of Oxford, Ohio is the head archivist and my close friend. Basically this means the information is proven with documentation. The first Dewees we have recorded is an Ardriaen de Wees of Amsterdam, Holland, born ca. 1595. Dewees is Dutch, and the name anglicized means "the orphan" probably in reference to the first Dewees who was orphaned during the Spanish Inquisition, but that is supposition. Adriaen has been proven through marriage records, wills, burial records, and other data. He was an art broker and book dealer in Amsterdam, who brokered some of Rembrandts paintings. Here is where I will give you only the direct line (we do have the siblings and there families too). He had a son Hendricks Dewees who had a son Gerret Hendricks Dewees (b. ca. 1640- d. 1701) who was the first Dewees in America and mostlikely the progenitor of the vast majority of Dewees' here today. Gerret and his wife Syjtia Lewes had a son Lewis Dewees (also known as Lieuwes Lambert Dewees) b. 1670 - d. 1743 who married Mary Wheeler and moved from Germantown, Pa. to Kent County, Delaware. They had at least 6 children, one being Samuel Dewees (our line) 1719-1753. Samuel married Mary Williams around 1741 in Kent County, DE. They had at least 5 children, and the sons of this marriage fought in the Revolutionary War. Our John Dewees (our line) was a private in Captain Daliner's Company of the Delaware Line. John and his brother Joshua left Delaware and settled in the Virginia/Pennsylvania area, John in Fayette County and Joshua in Monongahela County. John was the progenitor of the Jackson County Dewees'. He was born 1749 and died April 1814 (will proven). He married Mary Updegrove in 1774 in Kent County, DE and moved to Fayette County. Mary was born 1753 and died November 5, 1818. They had at least 8 children we have followed. (1) Joshua Dewees (8-23-1775 to 12-10-1860) moved to Mason County with his family. (2) John Dewees (1777-after 1850) moved to Butler County, Ohio with his family. (3) Mary Dewees (1779-before 1811) (4) Sarah Dewees (1781-?) moved to Ohio (5) female Dewees (ca. 1783- died young) (6) Samuel Dewees (our descendant - more later)****** (7) William Dewees (1789 to 7-16-1859) moved to Jackson County, VA - married Ruth Battin the sister of Samuel's wife, Edith Battin. (8) Isaac Updegrove Dewees (1791-1837) who married catherine Carr, died young and is the subject of his son's autobiography., Recollections of a Lifetime. This book has a lot of nice data but the family structure was proven wrong. Now, to our Samuel Dewees. Samuel (1785- after 1860) married Edith Battin (1787- before 4-4-1851) on July 18, 1809 in Jefferson County, Ohio. He moved to Jackson County, Va. and raised a family that included: **following I have most of these to present day***** (1) Mary "Polly" Dewees (I have dates and family) she married Moses Parsons. (2) male Dewees (1812-?) (3) Rachel Charlotte Dewees (1814-ca. 1860) married Elijah Rollins Casto (I have children and dates) (4) Joshua Dewees (1815- ?) (5) Isaac Updegrove Dewees (6-1820 to 1-2-1904) married a Mary M. McClain (family moved to Athens County, Ohio) (6) Edith Dewees (1822-?) married Christopher Hershman - I have her children, etc., (7) Susanna Dewees (10-20-1823 to 9-10-1859) married George Riley Casto (8) Alfred E.S. Dewees (3-17-1825 to 3-25-1900) married to Elizabeth Casto and Sarah Jenkins. He was a veteran of Co. K, 11th WV Infantry and died in Athens County, Ohio (9) Benjamin Casto Dewees (7-14-1827 to 6-4-1907) ******This is my ancestor******* married 5 times - Veteran of Company K, 11th West Virginia Infantry, died in Wirt County. (10) John Wesley A. Dewees (4-21-1830 to 12-18-1908) married 2 times. Died in Athens County, Ohio (11) Robert Henderson Dewees ******your ancestor***** born July 1832 and died ?. He married twice. First to Levina Belle Hatcher on 1-18-1860. She was the daughter of Uriah Hillary Hatcher and Matilda Edens. Levina died shortly after and Robert married America Fuqua Hatcher (1848 to 4-5-1908), Levina's sister on 5-7-1862. [More below Samuel and Ediths family - children.] (12) Henry Spencer Dewees (8-18-1834 to 5-20-1913) who married Mary E. Barnhart on 4-6-1863. Henry was a veteran of Company K, 11th WV Infantry with brothers Alfred, Benjamin, nephew Moses Parsons Jr., and cousins William Jabel Dewees and Joshua Kessel Dewees (sons of William and Rachel Battin Dewees). Henry died in Meigs County, Ohio. (13) Sellinda Dewees (ca. 1836) I am still trying to verify she was Samuel and Edith's daughter, but believe this to be true. Now to your Robert Henderson Dewees and America Fuqua Hatcher: **children: (1) Matilda Ann Dewees (1867-?) married Clarence Sayre on July 8, 1890. (2) William Robert Dewees (1-21-1869 to 1-8-1943) married 5-27-1894 to Catherine Virginia Good. [children Rolla Eldow Dewees, Hobart Dewees, Jean Dewees, and Eugene Clair Dewees] Rolla married Pearl Elizabeth Carnutte - children Charles Ray, Mary Ruth, and George Norris Dewees. Charles married Beulah Miller - children Charles Ray (9-8-1951), Carolyn Sue (3-28-1954) and Jonathon Dewees (2-28-1957). I have your wife as Cathy and at least 2 children Abby and Joseph. (3) Minerva Ellen Dewees (1871-?) married Benjamin F. Stewart (son Leslie) (4) Jennie F. Dewees (9-20-1872 to ?) (5) Jessie L. Dewees (1877 to ?) married a Malissa and had at least 2 children, Gladis & Ivy. (6) John Wesley Dewees (June 1879 to ?) married a Mary E. Smith on 2-12-1899. More data on Hobart and Eugene Dewees (sons of William R. Dewees); and, I know that Mary Dewees married a Charles Cooper; George Norris Dewees married a Madeline Miller and had children (a) George William Dewees, (b)Rebecca Sue Dewees, (c) Martha Ann Dewees, (d) Mary Elizabeth Dewees, and (e) Sarah Louise Dewees. (a) George William Dewees married Linda Lamb and had 3 known children Christopher Steven Dewees (married Stacy Smith), Timothy Allen Dewees (married Stephanie Slater), and David Edward Dewees. (b) Rebecca married Eric Hall and had Roberta Heather Hall (married Jamie Stephens), and Greta Faith Hall. (c) Martha Ann married JohnR. Nance and had Robert Lee Nance and Matthew Douglas Nance (deceased). Married Carl Swain and had Kimberly Dawn Swain. (d) Mary Elizabeth married Michael Kinnard and had Meagan Rebekah Kinnard. Married Dana Lucas and had John David, Cory Allen, and Seth Abram Lucas. (e) Sarah Louise had Steven Lee Dewees. The Dewees brothers who fought in the Civil War (Company K, 11th West Virginia Infantry) were all wounded at least once, saw Lee surrender at Appomattox, and lost their nephew Moses Parsons Jr. who fell from a steamer on the Ohio River and drowned during his Regiments move to the New River Campaign, April 24, 1864. Your Robert was in the Jackson County Home Guards during the War. My site is listed below. Feel free to write and add any data you may have. I hope this helps. John