Thanks for the info. Sue

In a message dated 2/25/2000 6:24:57 PM Mountain Standard Time, notnancy@worldnet.att.net writes: << Men who served and their widows were entitled to a pension from what I understand, but they had to apply and have proof of service. (My ancestor gave a written statement in court for his proof of service). Not everyone who served applied for pensions. I also think the pension act might not of went into effect until about 1830's, but don't quote me on that. >> There were different levels of pensions...depending on the request. Death, of course, was the first one. Then in later years, regular army guys.... Last in the 1830s, nearly everyone, ie militia members who served only occasionally, were allowed to apply. However, by that time, many were dead.

Hi, I hope this is not an inappropriate question for this site. I have noticed may mentions of Henkle's at this site and this question concerns one of them. I sent, months ago, [Oct 1999] to the National Archives for pension and military information on one of my great-grandfathers, John Justus Henkel. I have never received a reply. Does anyone know, if the National Archives, let you know if they cannot find the information you are seeking? I know for certain he was in that war as referenced in history books, DAR records, etc. Did all who served have veterans records at that time? Was only a widow intitled to the pension benefits? Thanks for any assistance Sue

Hello everyone..I have the book on Henrich Adam Harmon if you need anything...It says the father of this Isaac that is in Pendleton co..maybe be Christopher Harmon....Isaac came into Pendleton from Loudan co., Va and so did a George Harmon..they were supposedly no relation..Several of Isaac's children married into George's family..so Kim if you get a chance look up a Christopher Harmon in Loudan co and see if he is in any census or marriages or whatever of early 1700's. I will be checking in tomorrow night..Henrich Adam had a son Mathias but none of them fit this one..I do have some material on the descendents of this Isaac..if you need Una...I do think the LDS site is incorrect...I checked it last night..We need a friend of mine who was working on the Harmons..I lost all my emails but hopefully can find her..Nancy Allegewi2@aol.com wrote: > Nedra and others who tried to help. > > I saw my information on the LDS site. I have been confused ever since, but > I'll try to make myself clear. This is what I startesd with and have in my > files. > Matthias HARMAN B. 1737, (Rockingham. Cnty) D. 1812 Pendleton. M. Elizabeth > ? B. 1741. > Children: Isaac B. 1763 .Rockingham D. 1819 Pendleton M. Christina > HINKLE 1777 Shendoah County, VA Christina B. 7 Aug 1763 Hampshire - D. 1846 > Pendleton. > The above came from family search/ IGI and/or rootsweb world connect. > > In attempting to trace Matthias farther back I ran into real confusion. Now, > in trying to explain this to you, I find that I probably just plain made a > mistake.. I now don't think that Matthias was the father of the above Isaac > HARMAN who married Christina HINKLE. Could't you just shake me for all this > confusion? <grin> > To make things simple for me, can you tell me who the father of Isaac > HARMAN, who married. Christina HINKLE is . . . if he is known. > Sorry to be such a bother. > > Una > > PS If you want to check the Matthias Harman that started all of this go to > <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/default.asp">FamilySearch Internet > Genealogy Service</A> and search Heinrich Adam Harman - spouse Louisa. > Matthias is the 7th child.

In a message dated 2/25/2000 5:11:14 PM Mountain Standard Time, thevankirks@hotmail.com writes: << George Thompson and Mary Wimer, who were married on April 29, 1819 in Pendleton County, (West) Virginia. George Wimer was a bondsman, but I believe he was Mary's brother, and not her father. Does anyone out there know who Mary Wimer's parents were??? >> My database doesn't have specifically what you're looking for, but these are my Mary Wimer's. Maybe there's a connection. Mary Wimer, dau of George Wimer and Susannah Zickafoose, m. 1--David Slagel and m. 2--Jacob Crothers. Mary Wimer b 1787 daug Philip Wimer and Sarah Simmons, m. George Simmons Mary Wimer m. George Swarm in 1870. Hope it helps anyone, Diane

This might answer some questions about the Ntl Archives... http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/

I will see what I can find.

Well so far..I can't connect him to Henrich Adam but this book is older (1924) I am sure new info has been discovered since then, but this one says .. this Isaac came from Loudin Co., Va to Pendleton with a brother doen't name the brother....In this book he doesn't seem to be linked to Heinrich Adam..I do have info on his children if needed. Allegewi2@aol.com wrote: > Thanks, > > I appreciate your offer. > > Una

Nedra and others who tried to help. I saw my information on the LDS site. I have been confused ever since, but I'll try to make myself clear. This is what I startesd with and have in my files. Matthias HARMAN B. 1737, (Rockingham. Cnty) D. 1812 Pendleton. M. Elizabeth ? B. 1741. Children: Isaac B. 1763 .Rockingham D. 1819 Pendleton M. Christina HINKLE 1777 Shendoah County, VA Christina B. 7 Aug 1763 Hampshire - D. 1846 Pendleton. The above came from family search/ IGI and/or rootsweb world connect. In attempting to trace Matthias farther back I ran into real confusion. Now, in trying to explain this to you, I find that I probably just plain made a mistake.. I now don't think that Matthias was the father of the above Isaac HARMAN who married Christina HINKLE. Could't you just shake me for all this confusion? <grin> To make things simple for me, can you tell me who the father of Isaac HARMAN, who married. Christina HINKLE is . . . if he is known. Sorry to be such a bother. Una PS If you want to check the Matthias Harman that started all of this go to <A HREF="http://www.familysearch.org/default.asp">FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service</A> and search Heinrich Adam Harman - spouse Louisa. Matthias is the 7th child.

Hi guys! I had to reply to this, I am from Loudoun County, VA. Is there something that I could look up the next time I go to our local genealogy library?? Can you give me dates or something? I apologize, but I wasn't paying too much attention until now. I don't know when I will get to the library again, but I can keep this and look. Kim

At 02:08 PM 2/24/2000 -0500, you wrote: >I have an Isaac HARMAN/HARMON b, 1763 in Rockingham (Pndl) County. He is the >s/o Mathias HARMAN and Elizabeth? Can anyone tell me if the father of Mathias >was Henrich Adam HARMAN? Una, Please tell us more about your Isaac Harmon and your sources for kinship of Mathias and Isaac. The Isaac who married Christina Hinkle, daughter of Jacob, was probably not the son of Mathias so I am curious about the identity of this Isaac. Also, in what area of present-day Pendleton did they reside? Neither Rockingham nor Pendleton existed in 1763. Where do you find Henrich Adam Harman? Thanks for the info, Nedra Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist brillnd@pacifier.com Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, wvpendle-l@rootsweb.com CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board.

Hello, will be glad to check my book!..nancy-WV(Fayette Co) Allegewi2@aol.com wrote: > I have an Isaac HARMAN/HARMON b, 1763 in Rockingham (Pndl) County. He is the > s/o Mathias HARMAN and Elizabeth? Can anyone tell me if the father of Mathias > was Henrich Adam HARMAN? > > Una

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Thanks, I appreciate your offer. Una

I though the list might find this story of interest because it tells so much firsthand of what life was like in early times in WVA. This was written at the time Eliza Henkle North had her 100th birthday celebration in Knox County, Illinois, in 1905. This particular account was written by one of her grandchildren but I don't know which one. ____________________________________________________________________ One hundred years ago Grandma North was born in a small log house on Reed's Creek in West Virginia. One hundred years! And still her mind is as bright and her memory as perfect as though she were fifty. Everyone who visits her is sure of a welcome and sure to leave feeling better for seeing her and talking to her. We have just spent a pleasant evening with her and she has related a numbr of events that we feel sure would interest many readers...and we decided to write them, although aware how much is in the telling. Her first recollecyion is when she was a child of but two years of age. The family of three children lived in a one room log house on the South Branch of the Potomac River. She remembered a hired girl sitting in front of the large fireplace in a rocking chair with her feet stretched to the fire and singing in a dolorouos voice" "Here sits an owl with its head all white: It thinks it's a long and lonesome night." The other verses were a repetition much to Grandma's disgust. Her father next built a frame house near the old one. She remembers living with a woman whose husband was a Tory. He was hiding in the woods to keep from being draftef by the Americans. He made frequent visits to his wife and one day overstayed and was captured by two soldiers. She forgets what was done to him but rememners just how the soldiers were dressed and how they looked when they left the room. When older she says singing school was her greatest delight. She told us of the many jolly gatherings, wool pickings, flax scutchings and swingings, butter boilings, and other social gatherings she attended; and then never any worry of what she was to wear for they had two dresses then, one for every day and one for Sundays. Many wore moccasins but as her father was one of the wealthier class she always had a pair of shoes. When twelve years old she and her brother fed 30 head of cattle through a cold winter when her father was sick. They fed them salted straw at night and in the morning cut a browse of linn wood for them. Her father owned five farms, one of them a mountain farm called "Pretty Ridge". When ten years of age she and her father rode out to this farm on horseback. On the way home near the "Shades of Death", a place where the mountains and trees excluded all the rays of the sun they discovered a bear treed by the dogs. Her father left her to watch the bear while he went one and one half miles home for his gun. She sat there on her horse knowing no fear and when there was a movement from the bear she would clap her hands and start the dogs to barking. In her younger days she tells how she was caught in a trap set for an otter, and was saved from injury by the big boots she slipped on because her shoes were too thin to wear on the expedition, her companion pulling her out and leaving the boots. She also tried to build a fire from a powder horn, but escaped injury. She knew much of sorrow, having seen four of her little ones die in one month from diptheria. She still mourns the loss of a deer that their dogs chased past her house one day. She shot it and wounded it but it got far enough down the river for two men to get it, skin it and take it home and eat it. She remembers the comet before the War of 1812, describing it as being the shape of a large frying pan and tells of the "Dark Day" and "Bloody Sky" before the Civil War, and the showers of meteors in 1835. She said meteors fell like snow only they stopped just short of the earth. In the Civil War there were two armies camped at different times in front of her home. The Confederate men first, under Johnston, two companies of infantry and two of cavalry to guard the bridge on the Potomac. Next Fremont's men, 27,000 of them went north over the bridge. The bridge was then burned by the Confederates. The Union men then put up a pontoon bridge and went south, marching past the house for three days and three nights. ____________________________________________________________________ Eliza Henkle was married to Thomas Jefferson North in 1823. In 1836 her husband bought a mill site at Upper Tract in Pendleton County on the west side of the South Branch of the Potomac River and built a mill to grind wheat and corn, a saw mill and a machine for carding wool. Here they made their home and raised their family.

I have an Isaac HARMAN/HARMON b, 1763 in Rockingham (Pndl) County. He is the s/o Mathias HARMAN and Elizabeth? Can anyone tell me if the father of Mathias was Henrich Adam HARMAN? Una

Hello WV CCs, I sent the following a few weeks ago. So far there has been no offers from anyone interested in taking the Jefferson County pages. I am trying once again on this list before I start looking in other areas for a possible volunteer. Is anyone interested (or know of someone that might be interested) in taking over the Jefferson County WVGenWeb pages? Shirley has been doing Jefferson County as well as Boone County and would like to pass the Jefferson County pages on to someone else. Les Shockey ------ Les Shockey email address = lshockey@citynet.net or wvgenweb@citynet.net RootsWeb Listowner for the SHOCKEY family discussion group. SHOCKEY-L@rootsweb.com Visit the Jackson County, WVGenWeb Page, part of USGenWeb Project at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvjackso/JACK.HTM Visit the (West Virginia) WVGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvgenweb/ Member and Supporter of RootsWeb. Are you helping support RootsWeb? ==== WVGEN Mailing List ==== WVGEN-L is the email list for necessary communications for maintaining the WVGenWeb state page and all related county pages. All WVGenWeb CCs should remain subscribed to this list.

At 09:51 AM 2/19/2000 -0800, you wrote: >I contacted a WV researcher a couple of weeks ago, after finding her ad >in the Heritage Quest Magazine (Nov/Dec 99). What a find! Her rates Just a disclaimer that neither the Pendleton list nor rootsweb.com is endorsing this or any other researcher. Professional researchers who are certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists and those Accredited by the L.D.S. Church have passed rigorous testing and examination of their knowledge and abilities. These genealogists sign a Code of Ethics, as do the members of the Association of Professional Genealogists (a society open to every one of every ability). All three offer arbitration committees should you ever feel you did not receive what you paid a professional to obtain. There are many excellent genealogical researchers who are neither Certified nor Accredited. However, you have no protection or recourse if the one you pay is incompetent. Nedra Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist brillnd@pacifier.com Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, wvpendle-l@rootsweb.com CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board.

>How Much Documentation Do I Need? > >About two years ago, following a spirited discussion of the growing >demands placed on genealogists to document, document, document, I >received the following message from Bob Sawyer, a fellow >Washington-area computer-genealogist. > >Richard, he began, I poked the future key (Ctrl-Alt-Del-F), and found >this letter: 27 Oct 2020 > > Dear Cousin Lucy, > At long last I have published my books (Volumes I and II) of ancestors >(make that ancestor), and your copies are coming under separate cover. >I hope you enjoy them. Over the years, the documentation standards >have required more and more footnotes, end notes, parenthetical >commentary, and appendices. While I have found three thousand ancestors, >printing costs limit me to including only one, Great Grampa Henry - see >page 37. > >The first 36 pages explain the books' sections and acknowledge those >contributing assistance (See cab driver who took me to the Library of >Congress, p. 20. You will enjoy his comments). Pages 38 to 876 tell you >where I found the information about G-G Henry, so that you can check and >draw your own conclusions about details of his birth, marriage, and >death. (I have over a hundred fascinating pages about his life, but, >alas, could not afford to include them.) You may find it interesting >that the Massachusetts State Archives >employee on duty at 2:31 p.m., 23 February 1990 (see pages 79, 101, and >124-140), was our cousin once removed. (She witnessed my microfilm >viewing that day, and you will find a copy of her credentials (p. 160), >with the description of the film reader's make, model, serial number, >and 5-year maintenance log. She signed the statement, verifying my use >of the film, and the fact that I wore my glasses - see page 290). > >Since old Henry's birth date was not on the tombstone, I calculated the >date from that miserable line: ...at the age of 87 years, 3 months, and >3 days. You will find the calculation explained in Appendix M, pages > 901 to 1467. Appendix X, in Volume II, includes summaries of >documentation standards and annotation formats from NGS, Barzun and >Graff, Lackey, Chicago Style Manual, Turabian, and the publishers of >Walt Disney comics. Most citations are duplicated in each of those >styles. > > Lucy, the more I think about it, with your day job at the plant, your >night-time cab driving, and the weekend Bingo sessions, you won't have >time to read two books. Here's the main text from page 37: > > Henry Harborhaven (may have been Henry Bratsmith) > b. 4 Jan 1834, in New York or New Orleans > m. 11 Jun 1867-73, somewhere in Nebraska > d. Beats me. See Volume I, p. 301 > >I won't send the books. Say hello to Jack and the kids. >Regards, >Cousin Bob > >Cousin Bob obviously had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he wrote >that delightful piece of satire. But it is easy to see why he wrote it >when you consider that a major portion of the thread dwelt on an article >in a genealogical journal questioning whether - with the ability of >computer software to easily alter scanned documents - a photocopy or >digitized image of a primary document could be considered adequate >documentation - or even be considered at all

Gail, My best information on Catherine Wilson's is in a tract sent to me by Rhonda Wilson of Cairo, W.Va. While the author is not shown I believe it to be Burr Wilson of the Cairo-Parkersburg area, who I think is generally recognized as a leading Wilson family historian. ( A couple or three years ago I heard that he was very ill. I don't know if he is still living or not). The tract quotes from a document by Wirt B. Wilson, M. D., Charleston, W. Va. which was given to the tract author by an elderly lady in Morgantown, Mrs S. F. Talbot. The following appears to be attributed to Wirt B. Wilson but it's not absolutely clear on cursory examination. Sometimes the author also quotes Mrs. Talbot. [My separate records show Wirt Bunton Wilson, M. D. was the son of John W. Wilson and the grandson of Samuel Wilson of Upshur County and likely was b. in the 1870's]. At page four (467) of the subject tract; "William Wilson, a son of Col. John Wilson, was born in Armoch Co., Ireland in 1722 and died in 1810 in Doe Hill, then Pendleton County, now Highland Co., Va. He came to America with his father when...fifteen years old and lived in Augusta Co. until 1758 when he, along with his brother, Capt. Samuel Wilson moved to Doe Hill.....His wife's name was Mary and they were parents of 10 children whose names and dates of birth are as follows: ... [No. 5] Elizabeth, born Sept. 26, 1752. Other sources list only 5 children of of William and Mary Wilson. The tract author (Burr Wilson?) concludes that the 10 are correct. I hope this responsive to your query. I have the sibling's names, and information on William's father,brothers and sisters including Cap's Samuel Wilson, killed in the battle of Pt. Pleasant, if you are interested. Darrell Warner Kingwood, TX -----Original Message----- From: Aventura <aventura@Citcom.net> To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com <WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 2:46 PM Subject: Re: WILSON/1810 Census of Pendleton Co. Who are these guys? >I have Elizabeth Jane WILSON who was born in 1752 in Augusta County VA, with >supposed parents of William and Mary DEVERICKS WILSON. >Elizabeth married William Buell BLAGG abt 1772 ( place unknown) William and >Elizabeth Wilson BLAGG both died in Doe Hill. One child was John BLAGG who >was born in Highland, VA, 9 June 1778. >Would appreciate any comments on this family. Affirmations accepted as well >as conflicts. >Thanks >Gail Garwood > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Darrell Warner <dgwarner@kingwoodcable.com> >To: <WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 8:12 PM >Subject: Re: 1810 Census of Pendleton Co. Who are these guys? > > >> I hope this is partially responsive to your Q. There were a lot of >Wilsons, >> including several Samuel's and probably a William or two at Doe Hill in >what >> is now Highland County (then part of Pendleton). The "original" Wilson >> moved there before the Rev. War from elsewhere in Virginia and was >probably >> b. near Philadelphia. His father was b. in Ireland 1702. >> Darrell Warner >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SLH1753@aol.com <SLH1753@aol.com> >> To: WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com <WVPENDLE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2000 6:37 PM >> Subject: 1810 Census of Pendleton Co. Who are these guys? >> >> >> >Hello. >> >I'm working on tracing the migration of the Lazear Family from Maryland. >> > >> >I've gotten some data on a Joseph Lazear who is listed in the Sims Index >> as >> >buying land in Pendleton Co., VA in 1798. >> > >> >In 1807 Joseph and Christenia Leezer sold land to Jacob Snider. 90 acres >at >> >Stony Run. >> >Consideration of 50 Pounds. Recorded in Book 4 pages 401 & 402. >> > >> >I recently got the 1810 Pendleton Co Federal Census. JOseph was a 00101. >> The >> >colums on women are hard to decipher. There might be a 1 marked in the >> column >> >for women 45 and above. >> >I didn't have any great awakening after seeing the data, so I am asking >if >> >anyone RECOGNIZES ANY OF THESE FAMILIES? These are the top 20 families >> >listed on either side of Joseph Lazear: >> > >> >Geo How >> >Leahmiah Burkett? >> >Christian Rowland >> >Geo Snider >> >Alexander D/Peakens [Any Alex Dickens out there?] >> >John Brown >> >James Macom >> >Geo Harmon >> >Jos Macom >> >Wm Macom >> >John Keisling ? >> >Marg't Stephenson >> >John Weeks >> >Peter Warner >> >Christian Rohman >> >James Camonel ? >> >Joseph Leazer** >> >Tho Edmonds >> >John Leach >> >Wm Harris >> >Saml Wilson >> >Wm Wilson >> >Marg't Redmon >> >Eliz. Forth? (1st letter of last name unclear) >> >Tho Bothin >> >Amos Tharp >> >Sarah Johns >> >James Johns >> >Peter Edmons >> >Edward Moreston >> >Jeremiah Johns >> >Thomas Debricks >> >Thomas Debricks S >> >JOhn Hodges >> >Robt McCray >> >James Sims J >> >Henry Smith >> >Joseph Gamble >> >Michael Hoover ? >> > >> >I appreciate any suggestions on where these locals may have come from. >> > >> >Sharon Laizure Hofer >> >> ______________________________