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| ADAMS (PDF ONLY) | Robert Adams, born 1679 in Goochland Co., Virginia had married Mourning Lewis in 1712. | |||||||||||
| Descendants of Mark Antony & Isabella Hart. Although a disputed tale, family folklore says Mark had runaway from school in Italy on a merchant vessel which had been captured by pirates; and that Mark had been taken as prisoner to Algiers. After managing to escape on a British vessel, he came to the America Colonies and settled in Bedford County, VA where he had a grist mill. | ||||||||||||
| I never knew of Catherine, or the Arbaughs, or that Rebecca Cook even had a sister; but that all changed when I came across an obituary of Catherine's among the letters, notes and clippings brought back from St. Louis where Catherine's nephew Thomas Anderson Moore lived. | ||||||||||||
| Once owners of the historic Middle Plantation upon which some of the city of Williamsburg and the College of William & Mary now stands, the Ballards of Virginia became Quakers, and like most of the Tidewater Friends, the younger sons moved westward and patented land in the territories as they opened and continued to move into the frontiers. | ||||||||||||
| CANDLER | Descendants of Daniel & Hannah Candler, son William who was born in Ireland in 1736 married Elizabeth Anthony at South River MM; and daughter Eleanor Candler married William Ballard. | |||||||||||
| The Clark family originates from Christopher Clark who was born about 1681. His parentage has not yet been proven. Many have speculated, without convincing evidence, that he descended from Sir John Clark de Forde, Knight, of Kent County, England and that William - the descendant of John Clark, along with his uncle emigrated to Virginia. | ||||||||||||
COOK (PDF ONLY) |
Martin Cook, born in Pennsylvania in about 1788, was first married to Elizabeth Firebaugh. His daughters married Moore, Arbaugh, and Smithely. They resided in Harrison Co., Ohio. | |||||||||||
| CRITES (PDF ONLY) | Jacob Crites of Washington Co., PA was the son of Jacob Crites of Swiss-German ancestry. He served as a private in Samuel Cunningham's Company, 2nd Battalion, Northampton Co, PA Militia in 1782 during the Revolutionary War. Along with his two sons, Andrew and Jacob, he purchased land in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio where he settled in 1810, working the land and becoming a distinguished pioneer of that county. After his death in about 1820-1820, his heirs donated the land for a church and cemetery. | |||||||||||
| FIREBAUGH (PDF ONLY) | The maternal grandfather of Rebecca, Catherine and Elizabeth Cook, was Philip Firebaugh, who was said to have been the son of Heinrich and Catharine Marie Feuerbach (German spelling of the name which means Fire Stream) who had arrived from Germany on the "Friendship" on the third of November 1744 coming to Philadelphia from the village of Breunigweiler, about thirty-five miles southwest of Frankfurt. | |||||||||||
| HOUGH | Descendants of Jacob Hough & Eliza (Cravens), whose daughter Margaret A. Hough who was born in 1846, married Samuel Mossman, son of George and Hannah (Brown). | |||||||||||
| LARATTA | My great-grandfather, Armando Laratta, came to the United States from Papanice in Southern Italy as a young boy and worked in a leather factory. He returned to Italy where he married Eleanora (Rossomanno), and with their five year-old son emigrated to the U.S. where they settled in St. Louis, Missouri. His older sister Antonia's family still resides in Crotone. | |||||||||||
| MARSH | The Marsh and Hull families were machine builders and had interests in Madison, Indiana at an early date, and several branches of both families moved to that point where they built steamboats for the river trade. Hiram and Nathaniel Shaw both married daughters of Richard Marsh and Catherine (Milward). | |||||||||||
| Ancestors and descendants of Samuel C. Meredith who was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania in 1807 and married Margaret Ballard (1810-1884) the daughter of Christopher Anthony Ballard and Eleanor Mossman. | ||||||||||||
| Eli Moore, who was born about 1783, settled finally in what was then known as Beaver Dam, Pennsylvania and married there a Deborah Updegraph or Updegraff who had been born about 1787. Not much has been learned about them except that Eli died 5 Sep 1828 in Beaver Dam, PA. | ||||||||||||
| MOORMAN | This line contains information on the descendants of Charles Moorman and Elizabeth (Reynolds) of colonial Virginia. Son Thomas married into the Clark family; and sons Achilles and Charles married into the Adams family. Not yet posted. | |||||||||||
| The ancestry of Eleanor Mossman who married Christopher Anthony Ballard has been taken back to George Mossman of Berwick, England. He became a Freeman by serving seven years apprenticeship to a Freeman - the Enrollment Book listing him 12 Feb 1752 as the son of John of Scremerston (a couple miles from Berwick), in county Durham, yeoman who was apprenticed to Henry Tanner burgess and butcher. | ||||||||||||
| Robert Pilcher was said to have been born about 1708 and emigrated from Wales to Maryland in the early eighteenth century, which following an interlude of royal rule, had emerged as a center of resistance to British policy in the period preceding the outbreak of the American Revolution. | ||||||||||||
| ROSSOMANNO | Pietro Rossomanno of Calabria, came from a family of twelve boys orphaned out to different environments by poverty. Four of the twelve brothers remained together: Pietro, Gerardo, Vittorio, and Giosúe. Of these, Pietro was the father of my great grandmother, Eleanora who married Armando Laratta. | |||||||||||
| RUSSOMANNO | Antonio Rossomanno or Russomanno of Calabria, was the brother of my great-grandmother, Eleanora. Though intending to emigrate to the U.S., the ports were closed and the family ended up in Argentina, some never to see their family again. | |||||||||||
| Hiram Shaw, was one of six brothers who came to Lexington sometime between 1785 and 1800 from North Adams, Massachusetts, was a hat maker who married Margaret Pilcher. | ||||||||||||
| SKINNER | Robert J. Skinner was born in Virginia and married Mary (Hollis). They lived in Dayton, Ohio where he was publisher of The Ohio Watchman. He died in 1849 at the age of 57 and was laid to rest at Woodland Cemetery. | |||||||||||
| Abraham Slayback was born 1841 in Butler Co., Ohio, and died February 13, 1896 in Burlington, Boone Co., Kentucky. He married Mary Elizabeth Deer, and was an old soldier, having served in the "bloody fifty-fifth." | ||||||||||||
| SLAYBACK | Solomon Slayback who married (1) Pheobe Day and (2) Elly House and later lived in Madison County, Illinois. His daughter Julia Caroline Slayback was the wife of Isaac Cook Moore. | |||||||||||
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