Samuel T. Wiley's 1882 Preston County Morgan's: David, Edmund, Elijah, Enoch, Hannah, Hugh, John, Marshall,, Patrick, Robert, William, William J. William M. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:52 AM Subject: [WV Preston County] Re: Hannah Cox, James Morgan > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Morgan cox > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/705.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > No not yet. I do think I have ruled out a couple of Morgan families but have not yet found the correct one. > > Thank you so much for looking into this. > > Edwina A. Morgan > > > ==== WVPRESTO Mailing List ==== > USGS Mapping Information query form > http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morgan cox Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/705.1.1 Message Board Post: No not yet. I do think I have ruled out a couple of Morgan families but have not yet found the correct one. Thank you so much for looking into this. Edwina A. Morgan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1172.1 Message Board Post: Or do you know of any Preston Co. (Near Muddy Creek) Smiths that may have been related to Margaret born in 1798. In the 1850 census it says she was born in VA but in the 1860 its says PA so who knows?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: THOMAS-CASTEEL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1075.1.1.1.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: To whomever might read this: I am a granddaughter of one of the many THOMAS lines that came from Maryland and settled in Preston County in the Howesville area. I don't have my genealogy with me cause I am on my lunch break. But I will check and let you know. My father's mother was Evelyn A. THOMAS-CLARK. She was the daughter of Molly Mae CASTEEL and David H. THOMAS (my great-grandparents). Below is some of their information. Take care. Melinda C. Black in PA http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1814839&id=I85793829 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ID: I85793829 Name: Molly Mae CASTEEL Given Name: Molly Mae Surname: CASTEEL Sex: F Father: Thomas CASTEEL b: Abt 1845 in Hazelton, VA Mother: Susan UNKNOWN b: 20 Mar 1848 Marriage 1 David H. THOMAS Children Evelyn A. THOMAS b: 15 May 1909 and d. 11 Nov. 1998

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morgan, James and brother William Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/705.1 Message Board Post: Edwina Did you ever get an answer to your October 2001 posting regarding the parents of James Morgan?? My husband is a descendant of James' brother, William (he would be 4th, or 5th, great grandson --- I don't have records in front of me). Susan Morgan

Hi list My mother-in-law is still living and NEVER throws ANYTHING away. I do know she took her moms, Ruth Fortney Wiles, d/o Vernor Peter Pell and Minnie Olive Wolfe Fortney, photo album when Ruth passed on. I will see if there are any photos of the Fortney's that she knows of in the album. If so, I can scan and send them to all of you. Give me a few weeks to get back to Kingwood. Bev

WOW!!!!!!!!!! Isn't this just amazing. I have been researching my husbands line and his grandmother was Ruth Fortney, daughter of Vernor Peter Pell Fortney and Minnie Olive Wolfe. I have his name as Vernor and not Vernon. Which is correct??? His g g grandparents were Barton and Emily Squires and g g g was Daniel and Leah Menear. My husband also has Shahan and Shannon, and Wiles in his main lines. All are from the Tunnelton #4 area and Rowlesburg. I am a new subscriber to this list and I am thrilled to get this information. Bev

Lisa...I have Kimmell but not in Preston County and though I have some info I have not researched the name....My Great Grandfather married Margaret Ellen Kimmell...dau of Amos and Nancy "Hummel" Kimmel in Bureau County Illinois...I do not have the exact date handy but it was late 1860's....My great Grandfather was William Rightmire...the Grandson of James Rightmire who married Elizabeth Daugherty in Monongalia County in 1802. The Preston County West Virginia connection is through this couple and especially Elizabeth Daugherty Rightmire who inherited land on the Cheat River in the early 1800's..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Masters" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:17 PM Subject: [WV Preston County] Kimmell's from Preston County > Any Kimmell related family researchers here? > > > Lisa Masters > > > ==== WVPRESTO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send the command "unsubscribe" to > [email protected] (if in mail mode) or > [email protected] (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >

Bev, I'll toss out the same question to you as I did with Clarke. Do you know of any photographs of Barton Fortney or Emily Squires? To answer your question, my records show your husband's greatgrandfather as Vernor Peter Pell Fortney. By the way, there is an international Fortineux Family Reunion in Canada in August. The Fortneys of Preston Co., WV are descended from Jonas Fortineux. I will send you an invitation to the Jonas Fortineux website. Thanks, Phil Goff ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:59 PM Subject: [WV Preston County] PELL and FORTNEY > WOW!!!!!!!!!! > > Isn't this just amazing. I have been researching my husbands line and > his > grandmother was Ruth Fortney, daughter of Vernor Peter Pell Fortney and > Minnie Olive Wolfe. I have his name as Vernor and not Vernon. Which is > correct??? His g g grandparents were Barton and Emily Squires and g g g > was Daniel > and Leah Menear. My husband also has Shahan and Shannon, and Wiles in > his main > lines. All are from the Tunnelton #4 area and Rowlesburg. > I am a new subscriber to this list and I am thrilled to get this > information. > Bev

Any Kimmell related family researchers here? Lisa Masters

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: I forgot, I think I have a photo of Ezra and Mary in their later years. Clarke

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I don't have a photo of Barton. I only have a photo of his cabin. I've attached on of two photos I have of Mary Samantha. In the other one she is in her upper years with her daughter. I have no photos older then the one I've attached of any Fortney. I have more photos of the next geneation and younger of Fortneys, ans Shahans plus some Sigley, Trickett, etc. I can't get excited about DNA testing. There is positive documentation that Draper & Vernon were fathered by a Pell, and a test won't prove it was Albert. The letter is probably about a close as I'm going to get for documentation on an out-of-wedlock situation. I checked, and Karen has the original letter and was the one who had the 8x10 photos taken. She won't let it out of her hands, but just sent me a 600dpi JPEG scan of the original and I'm working on it in Photoshop now. My wife is working on a transcription. I apoligize for the large size of the picture attached, but for genealogy, I would want a photo with enough pixels to have printed. Clarke

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fortney, Pell, Myers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have been intrigued by the discussion about the possible (and very likely) relationship between the Fortney and the Pell surnames. First, in the 1870 census, the Pell family was in Rowlesburg, Preston Co., WV, probably neighbors of my g.g grandparents, the Daniel and Eva Myers family. Secondly, and more important, is that this is a case "just begging" for DNA studies to be used to support the suggestion that the father of Draper and Vernon Fortney was Albert W. Pell. For this DNA test, you'll need a male line descendant of Mary Fortner (with the surname of Fortner) and a Pell-named male who descends from either Albert W. Pell, or one of his three brothers that I see on the 1870 census, George, Francis or Thomas (not sure if "Thomas" is the correct interpretation of the rather difficult-to-read census image). I am an administrator of two surname DNA studies (Freed and McCabe) and if you want more information on this type of study, please contact me off-list at [email protected] Jim Freed, Delaware, Ohio.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fortney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Do you happen to have any old Fortney photos? In particular, I am seeking a photo of Barton Fortney and Emily Squires, parents of Mary Samantha Fortney. By the way, I think I have a photo of Mary and of some of her Burgoyne descendants. Thanks, Phil

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176.1.1 Message Board Post: My wife is the Fortney descendent. Her name is Rita Lee (Shahan) Ross. Her mother was Freda Paticia Fortney (Wife of Donald Reed Shahan), daughter of Draper Fortney. I believe her sister, Karen Shahan, has the original letter. I have been searching for info on the unknown Pell for about a year and had resigned myself that this question was going to be impossible to solve. Several weeks ago my wife handed me a large envelope and asked if I had scanned these. I opened the envelope and there were two 8x10 B/W photos of the letter. I was soon overjoyed and mad at the same time. Neither my wife or her sister had mentioned the photos to me...I don't think they realized their significance. I'm still trying to get the original from my wife's sister to see if I can improved the scan, and if not, a least do a good transcription. Realizing that this might be the only "smoking gun" document for a possible father of Draper & Vernon. I just had to post it for others ASAP. Clarke

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fortney Pell Burgoyne Squires Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176.1 Message Board Post: Clarke, I am a descendant of Barton Fortney and Emily Squires, parents of Mary Samantha Fortney, through Mary's brother David Harrison Fortney. Perhaps 25 years ago or more, my parents and I visited a grandson of Mary Samantha Fortney. He related a story about Mary and her pregnancy and we also discussed the Pell connection. In addition, I corresponded with and visited Elsie (Fortney) Phillips, daughter of Draper Fortney. I still have her letters, but will have to search for them. In my opinion, you have presented a convincing argument. I'm intrigued that you have this letter some 130 years later. How are you related to Mary Samantha Fortney? As you have this artifact, do you have any old photos? I have searched for many years for a photograph of Barton Fortney, who lived until 1896, but without luck. I am going to send you an invitation to a website for descendants of Jonas Fortineux. Thanks, Phil Goff

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fortney, Pell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1176 Message Board Post: Census data clearley shows that the out-of-wedlock father of Draper & Vernon Fortney had the "Pell" surname. I have a copy (My sister-in-law has the original) of a love letter dated 12 Apr 1874 from A.W. Pell to Molly (Mary Samantha) Fortney. IMHO, I believe that A.W. Pell is Albert W. Pell. Albert was a career soldier in the U.S. Army. He was living with his parents in Preston County in the 1870 census. In the 1880 census he was a soldier in Montana and in 1900 he was a soldier in the Philippine Islands. In 1910 or 20 he is a retired soldier in San Diego, CA. On the 1930 census he is in some sort of institution (appears to be hospital) in Washington, D.C.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1175.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you again. Thats all I need. I cannot begin to tell you how much this helps. Clarke

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Price, Clyman/Climan, Dallas, Poland/Poling, Butler, Lewis, England, Flanagan, Hedrick, Woolever, Wolford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1104.2 Message Board Post: Crystal, I don't know if its the same James A. Price, but my records have a James A. Price who married Jemima England. This James A. had a brother by the name of William Price, who married Anna Wright Poling in Randolph County (later Barbour) about 1819.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IEC.2ACE/1175.1.1.1 Message Board Post: An Early History of the Shahan Family 1678-1920 by Elizabeth Shahan, c1993, page G-27 gives the parents of Sarah Jane Eliason as Jeremiah/Amelia Killen Eliason. I do not know her source. A History of Preston County Part I, by Oren F. Morton, 1914, page 426 names the wife of Jeremiah Elliason as Ann Killen. This family came to Preston Co from Delaware and they are the only Eliasons in the 1840 and 1850 censuses of Preston Co having a family. Jeremiah Eliason (c1800-1857) and his wife Nancy A (c1806-1850) are buried in the Blackwood Cemetery. (Nancy is a nickname for Ann.) Although there is not a female in Sarah Jane's age group in Jeremiah's household in 1840, she may have been living with another family at that time or her age group may have been incorrectly marked as 5-10. As with other death records of that period, Sarah Jane's does not give the names of her parents. In the absence or incompleteness of official records, sometimes circumstantial evidence is all that is available. Hope this helps, Roy Lockhart