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The following information was supplied to the author in July, 2015. It has not been verified for accuracy:
The following information was supplied to the author in July, 2015. It has not been verified for accuracy:Father: William McKenzie b: ABT 1852 in Vinton County, OH
Mother: Katherine Donahoe b: 25 MAR 1859 in Vinton County, OH
Marriage 1 Herman Oiler b: 2 JUN 1878 in Vinton County, OH
Married: 20 JAN 1900 in Vinton County, OH
Children
Has No Children Sylvester M Oiler b: 7 JUL 1901 in Gallia County, OH
Has No Children Bessie May Oiler b: 15 DEC 1907 in Vinton County, OH
Has No Children Estella Anne Oiler b: 10 AUG 1913 in Vinton County, OH
Has No Children Katheryn Marie Oiler b: 5 NOV 1903 in Perry, OH
Has No Children Watson Oiler b: ABT 1911 | McKenzie, Emma (I40005)
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The following is a petition filed in 1838 by three of the sons of Samuel McKenzie (b. 1751) in which all of the children of Samuel are listed.
To the Honorable Theodorich Bland, Esquire Chancellor of Maryland and Judge of the land office
The petition of Samuel McKinsie, John McKinsie and Gabriel McKinsie of Allegany County, humbly showeth That there was surveyed and laid out pursuant to a resolution of the General Assembly (pssed?) at April Session, 1787, amongst the Lots to the Westward of Fort Cumberland now in Allegany the following distinguished by the number 3369, containing fifty acres And whereas the said lot was by the Commissioner appointed in ____ of an Act of November Session, 1791, Chapter 84, sold to Samuel McKinsie (your petitioner's father who fully paid the purchase money) for the Same. That Samuel McKinsie (your petitioner's father) has since departed this life intestate, leaving your petitioners and the following children and heirs at Law namely: Sarah McKinsie (who intermarried with Christopher Garlitz) Eleanor McKinsie, Polly McKinsie and Jane McKinsie (who intermarried with James Geatty). That said Samuel had three other children, namely Catherine McKinsie and Elizabeth McKinsie, both of whom died before their father, unmarried and without issue, and Moses McKinsie (who died before his father leaving the following children, namely, Lewis McKiney, Jeremiah McKinsie, Basil McKinsie, Hilleray McKinsie, Leo McKinsie and Isadore McKinsie. Your petitioners therefore pray, as no patent has ever issued on said Lot. Your Honor will direct a patent to issue to them for the Same, to hold for themselves and for those claiming as heirs of their late father, Samuel McKinsie, deceased and they will ever pray.
Samuel McKinsie
John McKinsie
Gabriel McKinsie
August 23, 1838 | McKenzie, Samuel (I00536)
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The following is copied from page 340 of History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio: "The early settlers had their times for enjoyment and jolity, among which were gatherings for log rollings, house raising, corn hucking, etc. At such times rhymes were made and sung, in which the names of most of the settlers were brought in something as follows:
"I see a bear,
Said Jacob hare
Shoot him down
Said George Brown
He's very poor
Said Ben McClure
Poor as carrion
Said Sam Irwin
Throw it to the dogs
Said Alex Scroggs, etc.
Laurence A. Weaver, Jr. is the compiler.
In the compiler's file 47, generation 6, will be found a photocopy of a very old hand-written document, which appears to be in very bad condition. The hand-writing seems old-fashioned and belabored. There are apparently two documents photocopied on the same paper, so that wording below follows the positioning, misspelling, etc. as closely as possible" Jacb Hare was born about 1730 in Germany. Died about 1820 in Ross County, O. and buried in Twin Township. His wife Christine Afau was born about 1734 in Germany. Lived in Huntington County, Pennsylvania on Hares valley. Died in Ross County, O. about 1823. Their children were Michel, Daniel, Jacob, Philip and Elizabeth Hare. Lewis Igo married Elizabeth Hare in Kentucky April 3rd, 1794.".
Burial:
South Salem Cemetery
South Salem
Ross County
Ohio, USA
We all appreciate sharing information we find, but I am not the source of all the information posted on the website. There are several researchers on John’s line in Christian Co whose names I supplied to Mike McKenzie.
1. There must be two Hares. Hare, Va. and Hare’s Valley. PA. It may have been so small it was never mapped.
Elizabeth, dau of Daniel and Martha
b. 6 May 1789( place is debatable, according to the memories of the contributors below.) Kentucky
d. 12 April 1879 Ross Co Oh
buried Plug Run
The following list contains the names of early settlers in various localities in the county. The figures following the names respectively indicate the earliest year in which those persons are known to have resided in the county. Many of them may have settled still earlier. Dublin and Tell Townships: James COYLE, John APPLEBY, James NEELY, James MORTON, Samuel MORTON, and John STITT, 1778; Samuel FINLEY; George HUDSON, 1786. Cromwell Township: James, Gavin, George, Robert, and Thomas CLUGGAGE, 1766; Thomas CROMWELL, 1785. Shirley Township: James CARMICHAEL, 1762; James, Robert, and Patrick GALBRAITH, 1771; James FOLEY, 1772; Charles BOYLE, 1773; William MORRIS, Jacob HARE and Gideon MILLER, 1762. Brady Township: Peter VAN DEVANDER, 1775; David EATON, 1775; Joseph PRIDMORE, 1781; Caleb ARMITAGE. Henderson Township: John FEE, 1775; John DORLAND; Joseph NEARON, 1781; Daniel EVANS, 1778; Benjamin DRAKE, 1785. Huntingdon
written by J Simpson AFRICA of Huntingdon, in Egle's 1876 "History of t
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania"; a. portion of Bedford County was taken off to
form ...
Ohio Family Group Sheet for Jacob HARE Family
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Submitted by: Donna Barnes Clark
Email address: wherearemyrelatives@earthlink.net
Husband: Jacob HARE
Birthdate: abt 1740
Birthplace: Germany
Death date: abt 1820
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Father:
Mother:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Wife: Christine EPHAU
Birthdate: abt 1746
Birthplace: Germany
Death date: abt 1823
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Father:
Mother:
CHILDREN
Child No. 1: Michael HARE
Sex: M
Birthdate: November 11, 1759
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: January 1837
Place of death: Highland County, Ohio
Marriage date: June 5, 1781
Marriage place: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Spouse's name: Isabella ROE
Child No. 2: Daniel HARE father of Elizabeth Hare McKenzie
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 5 1767
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: December 22, 1850
Place of death: Bourneville, Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date: abt 1788
Marriage place: Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Spouse's name: Martha ARMITAGE
Child No. 3: Mary HARE
Sex: F
Birthdate: May 15, 1787
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: June 16, 1845
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date:
Marriage place: Ross County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Thomas EDMISTON
Child No. 4: Jacob HARE`
Sex: M
Birthdate: August 21, 1768
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: April 8, 1862
Place of death: Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date: May 19, 1829
Marriage place: Ross County, Ohio
Spouse's name: Anne MELSON
Child No. 5: Elizabeth HARE
Sex:
Birthdate: 1770
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: December 7, 1803
Place of death: Twin Twp., Ross County, Ohio
Marriage date: April 3, 1794
Marriage place: Kentucky
Spouse's name: Lewis IGOU
Child No. 6: Philip HARE
Sex: M
Birthdate: abt 1774
Birthplace: Hares ValleY, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Death date: February 1848
Place of death: Hamilton County, Indiana
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouse's name: Mary HALL
Documentation:
Notes for Jacob Hare:
From page 48, HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON CO. PA,: Hare's real estate consist
of four adjoining tracts of land, situated on the south side of the
Juniata River, including the borough of Mapleton, and extending there
from up the river and up Hare's Valley. These tracts, containing over
400 acres, were confirmed to Frances Reed by patents issued June 1794.
On page 44, 100 acres and 5 acres on the Juniata R. were identified as
'The old Plowman Farm'.
Chapter XXII HISTORY OF JUNIATA VALLEY: "In a small isolated valley,
about a mile south of Jack’s Narrows, lived a notorious Tory named Jacob
HARE."
RESIDENCES(2):
Where did Jacob HARE emigrate from? Page 371, HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON CO.
PA.: This portion of Huntingdon County was settled almost wholly by
immigrants from Maryland, who came over Indian trails amd brought their
effects on theior backs.
"During the latter part of the year 1799, Jacob HARE came from Virginia
and settled in the northern part of Paint township, and he was one of t
very earliest, if not actually the first settler north of Amsterdam. He
was a man of great determination, almost amounting to obstinacy, and
well-fitted to encounter the hardships of pioneer life.
During the Revolution, he had been a strong Royalist, and bore the marks
of his sentiments in his ears which zealous patriots of Virginia had
cropped as a punishment for his determined Toryism. It is related of him
that he hurrahed for King George on his death-bed many years after his
removal to Ohio. He purchased the land of MASSIE, and settled about a
mile and a half from Bethesda chapel. One day, while at work about his
house, Mr. Hare heard a great commotion in a ravine nearby, and taking
his gun and hunting knife, went to the spot where he found his dogs had
attacked a large bear and brought him to bay. Fearing to shoot lest he
injure the dogs, Mr. Hare attacked the bear with his knife. It reared
on its hind legs and succeeded in a hold about his body, embracing h
a manner more close than affectionate. While in this position, Mr. HARE
plunged his knife into the body of his huge enemy time after time until
its hold relaxed and it fell dead, leaving him none the worse except for
a few scratches."
REMARKS:
The above account, particularly the statement "bore the marks of his
sentiments in his ears which zealous patriots of Virginia had cropped as
a punishment for his determined Toryism." fairly clearly confirms that
this Jacob Hare and the one described on page 46 of the HISTORY OF
HUNTINGDON COUNTY, PA. are one and the same. The only discrepancy is he
statement "patriots of Virginia" since the HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY
describes that occurrence as happening in that local area.
LOCAL COLOR:
The following is copied from page 340 of HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND
COUNTIES, OHIO: "The early settlers had their times for enjoyment and
jollity, among which were gatherings for log rollings, house raising,
corn hucking, etc. At such times rhymes were made and sung, in which the
names of most of the settlers were brought in something as follows:
"I see a bear,
Said Jacob HARE
Shoot him down
Said George BROWN
He's very poor
Said Ben McCLURE
Poor as carrion
Said Sam Irwin
Throw it to the dogs
Said Alex SCROGGS" etc.
Laurence A. Weaver, Jr. is the complier.
In the compiler's file 47, generation 6 will be found a photocopy of a
very old hand-written document which appears to be in very bad conditio
The hand-writing seems old-fashioned and belabored. There are apparently
two documents photocopied on the same paper, so that wording below
follows the positioning, misspelling etc. as closely as possible:
"Jacob HARE was born about 1730 in Germany. Died about 1820 in Ross
County O. and buried in Twin Township. This wife Christine Afau was born
about 1734 in Germany. Lived in Huntington County, Pennsylvania on Hares
Valley. Died in Ross County O. about 1823. Their children were Michel,
Daniel, Jacob, Philip and Elizabeth HARE. Lewis Igo married Elizabeth
HARE in Kentucky Apr 3d 1794.
HISTORY OF JUNIATA VALLEY, Chapter XXII, pages 259
-->265,
go in to details of the exploits of Michael's father, Jacob HARE RIN183,
no where in the passage is any mention of Michael's participation.
However, the last paragraph of page 264 says in part: .....but, after
peace was declared and the treaty between the United States and Great
Britain ratified, HARE returned, and claimed the benefit of that part of
the treaty which restored their possessions to all of his Majesty's
subjects that had not taken up arms against the colonists. As there was
no direct evidence that he had killed LOUDENS-LAGER, Congress was
compelled to purchase back and restore his property to him."
Compiler's comment: "If the above is correct it has a direct bearing on the Deed -
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book H-1, pages 158-159 - 6 March
1801 - 'Deed - Jacob HARE & Daniel HARE By their atty Hezekiah RICKETTS
to Joseph RICKETTS'. This Deed which gives the residence of both
Jacob and Daniel as Adams County, North West Territory contradicts
page 265 of the Juniata Valley history which states that Jacob return a
lived the reminder of his life in Hare's Valley."
Notes for Daniel Hare:
PIONEER RECORD AND REMINISCENCES OF THE EARLY SETTLERS
AND SETTLEMENT OF ROSS COUNTY, OHIO - pages 56-57 - By Mrs.
MCKENZIE-1091, mother-in-law of Mr. William Igo-156.
"Her father, Daniel HARE-187, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, -----SO SHE MAY HAVE BEEN BORN IN KTY??
and from there to Ohio, in 1796. Her husband's grandfather was a drum-
major in the Revolutionary War, and served seven years. Her husband, Mr.
MCKENZIE, was in the war of 1812, as the captain of a company for some
time, when the companies were consolidated, which relieved him. died
aged about eighty years. He was for many years a leader in the M.E.
Church. Mrs. MCKENZIE says her father came to Ohio without bringing his
family, for the purpose of hunting and laying up a supply of meat for t
next summer. He first chopped down a large tree, and cut it off some
twelve or fifteen feet long; this her split in two and dug them out in
the shape of troughs; the one half he filled with buffalo, bear, deer,
and wild turkey, and salted them down; then placing the troughs togethe
one on top of the other, he covered it with a lot of brush so as to
deceive the Indians, telling them that when he came out in the spring,
and the brush had become dry, he intended to burn that log up. In the
spring when Mr. HARE and his family arrived, they found their meat all
right. At one time Mr. HARE went to watch a deer lick, and after fixing
up a blind and being seated sometime, he heard something approaching him
through the brush in his rear, and upon turning around, near him, was a
large panther crouching, and in the act of springing upon him; he fired
his rifle at the panther, when it made one terrible cream and took off
through the thick woods one way and Mr. HARE the other, fully satisfied
to leave for the present.
Mrs. MCKENZIE is now aged about seventy-nine years; she and her mother
were the first two white women who settled on Paint creek. Her playmates
were the young squaws, and she says 'many a romp I had with them, and as
fearless of danger as though they had been white children 'When we first
settled on Paint creek, father had to go to Limestone for our meal and
salt; some times we would use the hominy block in lieu of going to the
mill for meal.' At one time when her father was away from home, some
Indians came to their cabin and asked her mother for salt, they being
very fond of that article. The old lady refused to give them any. One
Indian became enraged, and said: 'My gun shoot by and But the old lady
did not give them salt, and they left seemingly much enraged. She, after
they left, feared they would return before her husband and do some
mischief. But they did not; and when he returned, she told him how the
Indians had treated her in his absence, whereupon he went to the Indian
camp and informed their chief that one of his men had been at his cabin
and insulted his wife. The chief called up the guilty Indian, and
snatching the hatchet from Mr. MCKENZIE'S belt, he beat the Indian over
the head with it at a terrible rate. The Indian cried piteously during
the castigation, and when the chief returned Mr. MCKENZIE'S hatchet, he
told him that that Indian would not trouble his family any more, and he
did not. Mrs. MCKENZIE says her father was a great hunter in his time
and killed many bears, turkeys, panthers, buffalo, etc. The buffalo used
to mix with their farm cattle and were quite tame. Her father first
settled near the big falls of Paint creek, on MASSIE'S land, and while
living there she has heard the screams of the panther and wolf in the
night quite near their cabin. The first school teacher was David REED;
the first preachers were William and Edward CARNES; the first
schoolhouse was built on lands now owned by Howard NEWMAN."
More About Jacob Hare:
Age at time of death: 92Y 7M 18das8
Burial: South Salem Cemetery, Ross County, Ohio9
More About Anne Melson:
Age at time of death: Abt. July 20, 1803, 57Y 2M 21das
Burial: South Salem Cemetery, Ross County, Ohio10
More About Elizabeth Hare:
Burial: Hare Cemetery, Metcalfe Farm, Ross County, Ohio
Notes for Lewis Igou:
From page 292, HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO -
"One of the first settlers was Lewis IGO. He was a native of Maryland,
born near Baltimore in the year 1767. In the fall of 1797 he came from
Kentucky to the Scioto valley, purchased a tract of land of General
MCARTHUR, on Lower Twin, and built a cabin on the farm now owned by his
son William. The following spring he brought out his family and was
accompanied by his brother-in-law, Philip HARE."
Complier Laurence A. Weaver, Jr.
In the compiler's file 47, generation 6 will be found the original
letter dated November 5, 1982 from Miss Josephine METCALFE:
"Dear Mr. WEAVER
We are enclosing some Xeroxed copies of the IGOU and HARE lines that
might help you. They were researched by a cousin in Las Vegas who hand-
carried them to the Mormon Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City and
saw them put on microfilm and then into the Granite Mountain Vault.
Elizabeth HARE was the first wife of Lewis IGOU. She is buried on one of
the knolls on the back of our farm. There are 3 or four other stones
with no readable markings. They had 5 children. Nancy MARSH was the
second wife - 3 children.
I am the sixth generation on the farm and the old log cabin, second
built in Twin Township 1800-1801 is still standing. Please feel free to
ask any questions. I might know the answers.
Sincerely
Josephine METCALFE"
In the letter was a rough sketch of the tombstone:
DEC 7
ELIZA
BETH
80 - 1803.
More About Lewis Igou and Elizabeth Hare:
Marriage: April 03, 1794, Kentucky
Information provided by Laurence A. Weaver, Jr.
Noblesville, Hamilton Co. IN.
In 1829, the family moved to Hamilton County, Indiana, where Philip
bought land on Stony Creek, a little southeast of Noblesville, on which
was a grist mill formerly owned by Albert G. BETTS. The mill was
operated by the HARE family and the land around it was farmed by them.
The mill was sold in 1840 to William STOOPS. Various transfers of land
and lots in Noblesville are on record at the County Court House.
Several members of the HARE family migrated to Iowa -- Daniel and wife,
Eleanor with daughter, Sarah, to Cedar County in 1837. Daniel died there
in 1852. A daughter, Elizabeth and husband, Jacob MAHIN (MAHAN) and
daughter. Amanda, went to Muscatine County. Another daughter, Mahala
and husband, John RIDGEWAY went to Cedar County in 1839 or 1840. John
McKenzie (HARE?) and wife, Margaret, went to Cedar County also in 1846.
He died there in 1854. Margaret and her family returned to Noblesville.
There are no known records of the birth of the 12 children. The source
of this information was collected through public records - - census
reports, various Ohio and Indiana history accounts of early settlers,
final distribution and settlement of Philip HARE's estate."
E-Mail, "Electronic," Laurence A. Weaver, Jr., at sfvoeb7@icubed.net.
Complied by Ross County Genealogical Society, Tombstone Inscriptions Tw
Township, Ross County Ohio.
Family Search, GD6L-OD.
1840 United States Census Paint Twp., Ross co., Ohio, pg 357C.
Faye Christmas Tucker, Doddridge and Teter Some Ancestors and
Descendants, (1986, Dallas, Texas - Copy of book is in possession of
Donna Barnes Clark), pg 34.
Ross County Marriages 1798-1849.
South Salem Cemetery, pg. 18.
South Salem Cemetery Buckskin Twp., Ross County, Ohio, "Electronic
2. I never thought Grove City was in Jasper Co. Must be from some other researcher.
3) John
b. 1815
p.b. Bourneville, Ross Co OH
m. Leah Guilford b. 1818 Hillsboro, Highland Co., OH
d. 29 Dec. 1891
buried Grove City ILL
Lived Christian Co Ill 1850 census, p 158
Issue:
1. John A. b. 1840 lived Atlanta and McLean Co,IL
2. Mariah b. 1847 OH
3. Zachariah Wharton
b. 3 March 1849 log cabin, Mt Auburn Twp Christian Co ILL
m. Alice L. Shore 20 June 1876 Christian Co Ill
4. James m. Louisa Ewing
dau Leah m. M. L. Williams, dau Marion Alice
3. info on son James is from the DAR application of Marion Alice Williams, James’ granddaughter
From: Dick MacKenzie
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 8:48 AM
To: Bobbie mckenzie ; Don Kagle ; Michael McKenzie
Subject: John McKenzie of Joshua line from Ross Co.
All: While I was fooling around with Christian Co., IL, thought I’d try to work up a bit more extensively the 3 sons of John McKenzie (1786-1866) who transplanted from Ross Co., OH to Christian Co., IL during the 1840’s to 1850’s, since both the web site and Don’s tree don’t have tons of info on descendants.
Here’s what I discovered, in the attachment included. Interestingly, it appears John came to Christian Co. first, in the mid 1840’s, Eli came next in mid-1850, and William came last in the mid-1850’s. I base these dates on the places of birth of the children in the cases of John and William, and, in Eli’s case, the fact that he appears twice in the 1850 Census, in Ross Co., OH with brother William and his first wife as a 21 year old, and also in Christian Co., IL with brother John and his first wife and family as a 22 year old. I suspect he relocated after his September birthday, and the IL Census was after that.
I also became curious about the place of birth of their mother, since all the trees (including ours) shows Elizabeth Hare being born in Hares Valley, Huntingdon Co., PA, yet none of the sons show that, John shows KY, William OH and Eli VA. So, I went looking for Hares Valley, and it’s actually Hare Valley, and it’s in Northampton Co., VA, not anywhere in PA, so Eli was the only one correct (unless there were multiple wives and the sons had different mothers.) In any event, we need to correct our trees. Two other things I noticed in our existing information that don’t jibe with my findings: John 1815 and Leah Guilford have a son James shown in the web site. I did not find such a person. Also John’s place of death is shown as Grove City, Jasper Co., IL. Not sure where that came from, as Grove City is in Christian Co., so that needs correcting.
I didn’t think Bobbie would mind if I played around a bit with Joshua’s line, and I know Mike and Don are looking for more stuff to add to their respective works.
Waiting for (more) snow – winter ought to really be interesting at this rate.
Regards, | Hare, Jacob (I38876)
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The following is copied from page 340 of History of Ross and Highland Counties, Ohio: "The early settlers had their times for enjoyment and jolity, among which were gatherings for log rollings, house raising, corn hucking, etc. At such times rhymes were made and sung, in which the names of most of the settlers were brought in something as follows:
"I see a bear,
Said Jacob hare
Shoot him down
Said George Brown
He's very poor
Said Ben McClure
Poor as carrion
Said Sam Irwin
Throw it to the dogs
Said Alex Scroggs, etc.
Laurence A. Weaver, Jr. is the compiler.
In the compiler's file 47, generation 6, will be found a photocopy of a very old hand-written document, which appears to be in very bad condition. The hand-writing seems old-fashioned and belabored. There are apparently two documents photocopied on the same paper, so that wording below follows the positioning, misspelling, etc. as closely as possible" Jacb Hare was born about 1730 in Germany. Died about 1820 in Ross County, O. and buried in Twin Township. His wife Christine Afau was born about 1734 in Germany. Lived in Huntington County, Pennsylvania on Hares valley. Died in Ross County, O. about 1823. Their children were Michel, Daniel, Jacob, Philip and Elizabeth Hare. Lewis Igo married Elizabeth Hare in Kentucky April 3rd, 1794.". | Hare, Daniel (I38874)
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The following is courtesy of Find-a-Grave:
James Brooks was born in the state of Indiana December 25, 1836 and died at the United States Soldiers' home at Leavenworth Kansas, Feb.3, 1922, at the ripe old age of 85 years. He emigrated to Kansas in 1857 arriving at Clinton, Douglas County in January. From this place he enlisted in the 6th KS. Calvary, and was mustered in as 1st Lt. of M Co., July 30, 1863. He served under Gen. Blunt in the Army of the Frontier, being mustered out at Duval's Bluff, Ark. July 18, 1865. Returning to his home at Clinton he soon entered the service of his township, serving successively as constable, assessor trustee, and Justice of the Peace, and later as Register of Deeds of the county. Comrade Brooks term of public service in Douglas County extended over a period of nearly forty years, with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his fellow citizens. In addition to his wife who has been his companion for sixty two years, he is survived by 5 sons and 1 daughter. James E. Brooks of Kansas City, Fred Brooks of K.C., Robert S. Brooks, Lawrence, Lewis A. Brooks of Lawrence, Carl Brooks of Lawrence, and Mrs. Peter H. Weeks of Lawrence.
The following is an email from Christy Brooks dated 12/21/2014. She can be reached at: kcmbrooks@verizon.net.
Hi Mike. After going through several federal and state (Kansas) census reports, as well as findagrave.com entries, it seems that James H. and Mahala had 13 children. Some of them we can tell died in childhood, while others I was unable to confirm when they died.
Here they are in order of birth:
Abraham Lincoln (1862-1920)
Thomas (1863-1879)
James E. (1864- ) *still alive in 1885 census, 20 y.o.
Julia (1866-1929)
Lilly (1868-1899)
Charles A (1869- ) *only appears in 1870 census
John W. (1872- ) *still alive in 1900 census, 27 y.o.
Fred (1874- ) *still alive in 1915 census, 40 y.o.
Robert Sanky (1878-1960)
Lewis Absalom (1879-1926)
George M (1881- ) *still alive in 1910 census, 29 y.o.
Claude (1884- ) * only appears in 1885 census
Carl (1885-1965)
So it turns out my husband isn't a descendant of their youngest child after all, but one of the many middle children. Thanks for all of the work you put into your site. Happy holidays!
Christie | Brooks, James (I37240)
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The following is from the research of Shirley Massey, which was provided to the author on January 15, 1914:
He married (1) Marie Unknown after 1921. He married (2) Laura V. Unknown about 1899. She was born about 1860 in Maryland. She died between 1919-1921.
Burial in St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Howard Co., MD.
Notes for Caswell Thomas MacKinzie:
Widowed as of 1920 census, two female boarders in his home who were seamstresses at the shirt
factory in Ellicott City. One was a 21 yr old named Mary E. Renn or Raun -- could be his 2nd wife.
Child of Caswell Thomas MacKinzie and Marie Unknown is:
i. Marie L. MacKinzie, B: Bet. 1921-1942.
Notes for Marie L. MacKinzie:
Born between deed of 30 Jan 1921and deed of 8 Apr 1946. 1921 deed states facts as to
her father's two older children, Royal Franklin MacKinzie and Charles Stanley MacKinzie,
both having died by the date of that deed, their shares of the subject property having
vested in their father and the widow of Charles Stanley MacKenzie. That deed also recites the
death of Laura V. MacKenzie, 1st wife of Caswell T. having died between 1919 and the date of
the 1921 deed. 1946 deed refers to Marie L., unmarried, being the only child of Caswell
Thomas MacKenzie, survived by his widow Marie MacKenzie.
Children of Caswell Thomas MacKinzie and Laura V. Unknown are:
i. Charles Stanley MacKinzie, B: 03 Sep 1892, D: Bef. 1921[23].
Notes for Charles Stanley MacKinzie:
Died intestate and without issue before 1922. See deed dated 30 Jan. 1921, recorded
among the Land Records of Howard County MD at Liber HBN 112, folio 439, etc.
ii. Royal Franklin MacKinzie, B: Dec 1889, D: Bef. 1921.
Notes for Royal Franklin MacKinzie:
Died unmarried and intestate before 1922. See deed dated 30 Jan. 1921, recorded among
the Land Records of Howard County MD at Liber HBN 112, folio 435, etc.
14. Elihu Mullican Tittsworth-6(CATHARINE "Kate" H.-5, David-4, Aaron-3, Daniel-2, John- | MacKenzie, Caswell Thomas (I04603)
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The following is from the research of Shirley Massey, which was sent to the author on January 15, 2014:
Notes for ELISHA CONGER TITTSWORTH:
ELISHA CONCORD TITTSWORTH (08/28/1839 - 05/30/1910)
Excerpts from Civil War Pension Records obtained from the National Archives, Washington, D. C.
From the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department. dated November 16, 1896:
Elisha C. Tittsworth, a farmer from Jefferson County, Tennessee:
(Personal description: 5 ft. 11-1/4 in. Tall, hazel eyes, dark hair, fair complexion)
at the age of 2l on June 16, 1858, enlisted at St. Louis, Missouri, and was assigned
to Capt. Nathaniel Lyon's Company B, 2nd U. S. Infantry and joined the company September 1, 1858
from Newport Banks, Kentucky; appointed Corporal October 9, 1859; promoted to Sergeant July 1, 1861
Muster Roll May & June 1862 reports him "Present, slightly wounded June 27, 1862."
Company was in action at Gaines Mills, VA that date
Muster roll November & December 1862 reports him: "Deserted from Camp near
Warrenton, VA, November 11, 1862, a Sergeant."
Not reported sick on any muster roll other than quoted. He is a deserter at large.
Pension of $8 per month was dropped February 25, 1897, presumably as a result of this report.
From the Record and Pension Office, War Department, dated August 24, 1893:
July 7, 1863, enrolled in Captain John Sommer's Company C, 2nd Regiment, Maryland
Cavalry. Medical record of November 7, 1863, show him as a member of Company E
January 31, 1864, mustered out with company.
From enrollment to mustering out he held the ranks of private and corporal.
From Elisha's Declaration for an Original Invalid Pension dated January 2. 1890:
(Personal description: age 50, 6 ft. Tall, dark complexion, dark hair, dark eyes.
February 15, 1864, enrolled as a private in Luther W. Roberson' s (commander) Company A,
3rd Regiment of Maryland Volunteer Infantry.
About July 30, 1864, captured in front of Petersburg and held prisoner in Danville Prison,
Danvile, VA. His fatigue jacket and hat were taken and he spent the winter in prison without them,
contracting rheumatism and heart disease as a result. (Confirmed by affidavit of Randolph Gansewig
of 103 W. Camden Street, Baltimore who was a private in Co. A, 3rd Md. Vol. Inf and was captured
and imprisoned at Danville with Elisha.)
About the last of April 1865 treated by the Camp Surgeon for rheumatism and heart disease
at Camp Tennelytown near Washington City, D.C.
About July 1, 1865, treated for the same disease by the same surgeon in Camp at Bladensburg and Hyattsville Station on B & 0 R.R.
July 31, 1865, honorably discharged at DeLaney House, D.C.
From Bureau of Pensions. Department of the Interior reports:
$15 per month pension dropped June 30, 1910. (Elisha died May 30, 1910)
$12 per month pension awarded Catharine H. Tittsworth, widow, on June 24, 1910.
Miscellaneous:
Elisha, at the age of 26, married Catharine H. McKinzie, age 21, on November 14, 1865.
Married by Rev. Dr. I. J. Martin, Minister of the Gospel, residing at Ellicotts Mills.
Elisha served in the same company and regiment and was a tent-mate with Stephen
Hillsinger (moved to Ellicott City from New York in 1863). Stephen Hillsinger married Sarah E.
McKinzie who was Catharine's sister. Sarah and her husband Stephen attended Elisha and
Catharine's wedding.
Catharine died of uterine cancer on August 10, 1911. She had had surgery at University of
Maryland Hospital. Surgery was performed by Dr. Frank Martin. She evidently required nursing care
from the first of May 1911 until her death. Nursed by Mrs. C. R. (Rose) Tittsworth and Miss Bessie
Hunt. She was attended by Dr. Wm. B. Gambriul. Among the expenses of her final illness and death
were $84.38 for the undertaker, Stephen Hillsinger & Son, and $16.00 to C. W. Tucker for cemetery
expenses. She was buried at St. John's Cemetery, Howard County.
Records at the Andersonville GA Confederate Prison historical site indicate that Elisha Tittsworth was
a prisoner there. It was the practice to transfer prisoners from the smaller VA prison sites to the larger
camp at Andersonville although it was severely overcrowded.
Burial in St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Howard Co., MD. | Tittsworth, Elisha Conger (I04668)
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The following obituary is taken from The Meyersdale Republican, Published: June 30, 1949
CHARLES EDWARD DURST
Charles Edward Durst, 74, died at his home in New Germany, Md., Sunday afternoon at 1:30, of paralysis. He was born at New Germany May 9, 1875. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dora McKenzie Durst, and the following children: Raymond and Lawrence Durst, Grantsville; Everett Durst, Frostburg; Mrs. Joseph Britt, Frostburg, and Mrs. Scott Wilhelm, Lonaconing, and by 17 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 in the Reformed Church at New Germany, the Rev. Ira S. Monn officiating. Interment in the church cemetery. Meyersdale Republican, June 30, 1949 | Durst, Charles Edward (I03115)
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The following was contained in an email from Lisa McKenzie to the author in January, 2020:
"Catherine" Warner person ID I16217
wife of John McKenzie
Her name is Elizabeth Warner, as shown in the various deeds that are attached to her husband.
Also, see her father John Warner's will that is attached. I highlighted where his daughter Elizabeth McKenzie is mentioned in the will.
Also see DAR records for
Member: Laura Strohecker Conaty Nat'l #: 90191 Ancestor #: A121167 and
Member: Harriett Strobecker Mascall Nat'l #: 60262 Ancestor #: A121167
You will see that Harriett Strohecker's grandmother was Margaret McKenzie, daughter of Elizabeth Warner and John McKenzie. She is 5yo on the attached 1860 census where her family is on the same page above Mary Ann Glass McKenzie and her sons John Edward and Peter Joseph.
This 1850 census shows John and Elizabeth (Warner) McKenzie on the same page with Mary Ann Glass McKenzie (widow of John/Elizabeth's son Leo) and her sons John Edward and Peter Joseph and her mother Ruth Gorman.
Last one for today!
Lisa | Warner, Elizabeth (I16217)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
ALICE MAY GRINSTEAD was born 9/8/1904 in Riverside, Virginia. I was told that she was one sharp little gal and many of the family have told me the following story; " On the way home from church about a week before Alice died the family was riding by the local cemetery in their horse and buggy and the not quite three year old Alice, told her mother Minnie, that the graveyard would be her home next week. Alice died 5/5/1907, shortly after that Sunday prediction and was buried in the cemetery she said was soon to
be her home | Grinstead, Alice May (I01068)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
ARTHER McDONALD GRINSTEAD "Don" was born 10/6/1907 in Riverside, Virginia. He married Helen Peacock 9/14/1929 in North Carolina. They had three children: Kenneth Charles (died), Arther McDonald Jr. ( Mack ) and Betty Carol. I stayed with Don's family some while in the Marion area in 1947/8. Every Friday night Don would bring home hot dogs, buns and pop so even when I wasn't staying there I would often show up at his place on Friday afternoons. Don was a car salesman in Marion. I never got to know his family very well. He and his family always held prayer meetings on Wednesday nights with a lot of praying and gospel singing. It was also a good place to meet girls so I normally tried to show up for that activity. Don died 10/13/1949 at the age of 42. I think he is buried in the Marion area. | Grinstead, Arthur McDonald (Don) (I01070)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
CHARMIE LEE GRINSTEAD was born 4/6/1906 in Riverside, Virginia. She married James " Carl " Neitch 3/27/1924 in Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee. They had four children: Mary Anne Katherine who died at the age of 48 in 1974, Helen Lee " Honey ", James Harold who died in 1998 and David Carl. I stayed with Charmie for a while also. She was a very nice person and one of the best cooks in the family. Charmie liked jokes and funny stories and liked to play jokes on others. When I took Dad to Marion in October of 1962, Charmie had most of the family over for dinner and she arranged to have just enough room on the table for the plates and serving dishes. She then brought one more in from the kitchen and started it going around the table so that I would be the last one to get it. When I got my helping from it and started to put it down I found no place to put it and no one else would take it. I held it for a couple minutes unaware that I was being teased then sat it on the floor. Everyone started laughing then. I guess they were all in on the joke. Honey was another of my close friends while I was living in the Marion area. We used to swim in the river where Dad swam as a boy. Charmie died 6/10/1983 and was buried in Marion. | Grinstead, Charmie Lee (I01069)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
EDITH KATHERINE GRINSTEAD was born 12/3/1914 in Riverside, Virginia and died there 8/20/1917. I heard very little about Edith except that she was a victim of the " two girl curse "where when two girls were born in sequence to this family one would die young or have a serious problem. First Alice May, then Edith. | Grinstead, Edith Katherine (I01074)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
HATTIE VIRGINIA GRINSTEAD was born 8/25/1912. She married Fred Pipes 9/3/1930 in Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee. They had three children: Buddy Rogers who later received his Ph.D. in the Ministry, Betty Sue and Harold Lee. Hattie was a great cook and Nita got some of her great cooking talent and recipes from being around Hattie. They still live on the same large farm outside of Baltimore in Sykesville, Maryland that they had when I was there in 1947/8. They built a new house to live in but the old white 14 room farm house they had in the 1940's is still there and rented out. Hattie like Pauline had her root cellar for storing canned goods, etc. The cellar also served as a place to hide when tornadoes were near. The life of a dairy farmer and his family does not provide them with much free time. When I stayed there off and on in 1947/8 we did a lot of haying plus milking a lot of cows and cleaning out the barn, etc, etc and that is when I decided that a farmers life was not for me. Hattie would cook a full meal for lunch for all the crew during the haying on their own 160 acres plus another 100 acres they rented. Being from the north I was surprised when the colored people had to eat in the kitchen while we ate in the dining room. The haying crew was rather large and kept Hattie at the kitchen stove for many hours during the haying season. Hattie really likes jokes and enjoys telling them. Fred and her have bowled once a week for many, many years until Fred's stroke last year. I think she enjoyed going to the bowling alley for the jokes and stories as much as she did the bowling. Hattie has had a number of " little " strokes over the past few years. Hattie is one real sweet person and one of the two of Dad's sibling still alive. We like to visit her and Fred | Grinstead, Hattie Virginia (I01073)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
MARY ANN GRINSTEAD was born 9/22/1901 in Riverside, Virginia. She married Clarence Ray Sturgill 6/27/1925 in Bristol Virginia-Tennessee. They had five children: Twyleene Holmes, Clarence Ray Jr. ( C.R. ), Charles Edward (Whitey), Glenna Mae and Billy Mitchel. Billy died just short of his 5th birthday. I stayed with Mary and family when I took the bus to Marion, Virginia in the spring of 1947. Mary was one lovely person. She had to be as she put up with me for about five of the eighteen months I lived in the Marion, Virginia area. Mary's son Whitey and I were pretty close friends. We did a lot of coon hunting, moonshine drinking and girl chasing during those eighteen months. Mary normally just said " well" in her southern drawl when you told her something. She told Nita that she loved to hear her talk with her accent. ha! of course we thought Mary had the accent. When I got a wart on my finger while staying at Marys she gave me a dishcloth to take out in the back yard and bury to get rid of the wart. It didn't work. Mary's children are all very nice people and I got to know them well. Mary died 3/16/1977 and was buried in Marion | Grinstead, Mary Ann (I01061)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
PAULINE BEATTIE GRINSTEAD was was born 1/5/1909 in Riverside, Virginia. She married Jessie " Lundy " Sturgill ( no relation to Mary's husband Clarence Sturgill )3/3/1928 in Marion, Virginia. They had three children: James Thomas who died as an infant, Mildred Tarter and Isom Meek. Pauline and Lundy were like pioneers. They practically lived off their land. They grew tobacco and sold it at the auctions in North Carolina. They kept milk and beef cows, pigs and chickens as well as had a large garden. Pauline canned their winter supply of veggies, fruit and meat. A small orchard was next to the house with lots of fruit and nut trees in it. Lundy would butcher his stock, smoke and cure his hams and bacon. Of course they had a root cellar where Pauline would send me to get certain things for the meals. At those times I would remember Dad's stories about the copperhead and cottonmouth snakes! Pauline would churn her own butter unless I was there then I would do it for her . She also made her own sourkraut and sour beans which I loved and Nita couldn't stand. When I stayed with them they had an outdoor toilet ( outhouse ) away from the house and a well with a hand pump not far from the kitchen door. We used to wash up and brush our teeth in all kinds of weather out by the pump. Maybe you can tell by now that Pauline was my favorite aunt to be with. Nita and I and the kids visited her as often as we could and we corresponded often. Pauline had colon cancer when she was about 50 years of age and the doctors took out her colon. She wore a bag on her side the rest of her life. About twenty-five years. Lundy built his barn out of lumber from the chestnut trees that were damaged by worms in the 1930's. After he retired he tore the barn down and made furniture out of the barn's wormy chestnut boards and they sold real good. We have a coffee table and two end tables that he made from the barn boards. Mildred and her second husband G. Jay Long, moved in with Pauline after Lundy died in 1977 took over the place and life wasn't the same for Pauline. Pauline died 5/1/1984 at 4:00 pm and was buried in Marion. She was a real southern peach of a woman. | Grinstead, Pauline Beattie (I01071)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
PORTER WRIGHT GRINSTEAD was born 6/25/1916 in Riverside, Virginia. He married Ernestine Johnson " Ern " 9/26/1942 in Elkton, Maryland. They had two girls: Dorothy Lee and Cathy Jean. Porter spent a long time fighting his way across Germany while in the army during World War ll. Porter is the other one of Dad's siblings still alive. He and Ern live in Colora, Maryland. Porter likes to kid people and do things that make them laugh. When Porter was a little younger he and Ern used to drive to Marion to visit the family. While there, he always made it a point to tease Pauline. When they would drive up to Pauline's Porter would wait till she came out to the front porch then he would go from bush to bush sniffing and lifting his leg to each of the ten or so bushes. Pauline would yell at Porter to quit that but he never did. Of course it was all in fun and pretense and they would laugh about it afterwards. Sometimes people who knew Pauline would drive by and slow down to watch Porter. Nita and I still visit Porter and Ern when ever we can. They are nice people. | Grinstead, Porter Wright (I01075)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT GRINSTEAD " Ted " was born 3/25/1910 in Riverside, Virginia. He married Hassie Anderson 7/2/1932 in Adwolfe, Virginia. They had three children: Shirley Joyce, Bonnie Sue and William Dale. Ted like Don was a car salesman in Marion. Never got to know Ted and family very well, but did take a few trips over the mountain to North Carolina with Ted when he went there to pick up a car he was going to sell in Marion at a profit he hoped. He needed a second driver and that was me. Never stayed with his family as Ted's wife Hassie was not as receptive to me as Dad's sisters and other in-laws were. ha! Ted died 1/7/1980 and was buried in Marion. | Grinstead, Theodore Roosevelt (Ted) (I01072)
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The following was written by John David Grinstead (1929-2019) in a letter to the author/site administrator in 1999.
WILLIAM NEWTON 'BILL' GRINSTEAD was born 12/28/1899 in Riverside, Virginia. He was, to my knowledge, the only one of the family to graduate from college. Bill married Lee Esther Knight 8/11/1919 in Roanoke, Virginia. They had five children: Jack Odel, William Charles, James ?, Anna Ruth and David Porter. Bill stopped off in Bellingham in May of 1962 to visit Dad (Ed. Note: Ellis Baker) and family while on a business trip to Los Angeles. He and Dad then saw each other for the first time in 36 years. Bill was president of a gas company in Ohio. A couple of things Nita, my wife, remembers about Bill are the fact that he paid more in taxes that year than her and my income for the year and he got a little curt when I volunteered to pay the tip at a restaurant. He said if I wanted to take care of the bill too, go ahead. By the way, I did not! Bill died 8/2/1952, just three months after he visited dad. A brain hemorrhage I believe. I am sure Bill knew that death was near when he when he came to Bellingham. Bill was buried in Ohio. Charmie may know which town as she used to correspond with Anna Ruth. | Grinstead, William Newton (Bill) (I01054)
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The Fountain Family Tree. | Source (S011680)
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The funeral of David McGee, 61, husband of Mrs. Ida McGee, nee Crowe, formerly of Lonaconing, who died in Baltimore, was held at 3:30 o'clock, Saturday afternoon from his late home, 2118 Alken Street, that city, with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery. The obsequies were conducted by Rev. William Lynn, pastor of Grace M. E. Church, Hampden, Md., a former resident of Lonaconing. During his illness, Mr. McGee was attended by Dr. M. Gibson Porter, also a former Lonaconing resident. Mr. McGee with his family had been residents of Baltimore for eight years. The pall bearers were Frank Seligo, Berman Jones, Ira Jones, Donald Donahoon, Byron Williams and Howard McCarthy. Those who attended the funeral from out-of-town were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crowe, Westernport; Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth Crowe, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hume, Lonaconing; Mr. and Mrs. George F. Engle and two children Jacquelyn and Lois, Frostburg. Mr. McGee is survived by his widow; two sons, Andrew S. and James R. McGee, at home; two daughters, Mrs. George F. Engle, Frostburg, and Miss Charlotte McGee, at home; two brothers, William McGee, Fayette City, Pa., and Henry McGee, Morgantown, W. Va., and one sister, Mrs. William Kirpatrick, Portland, Oregon.
The Cumberland Evening Times, July 19, 1933 | McGee, David (I46556)
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The funeral of John Blake, age 80, who died Wednesday afternoon at the home of his son, Jos. Blake, Mt. Savage, will be held from St. Patrick’s Church, Mt. Savage, Saturday morning at 10 o’clock with burial in the church cemetery. Mr. Blake was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and came to this country in 1869, making his home near Meyersdale, Pa. where he resided until 12 years ago. He married Miss Harriett McKenzie and they lived at their home near Meyersdale until the time of her death. Since that time Mr. Blake has made his home with his son, Joseph, Mt. Savage. William H. Blake, Cumberland, is his other son. Cumberland Evening Times, Friday, April 14, 1922.
1880 Census Place:Elk Lick, Somerset, Pennsylvania
Source:FHL Film 1255195 National Archives Film T9-1195 Page 28
RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
John BLAKESelfMMW37IRE
Occ:FarmerFa: IREMo: IRE
Harriet L. BLAKEWifeFMW39PA
Occ:Keeping HouseFa: MDMo: PA
Patrick J. BLAKESonMSW4PA
Fa: IREMo: PA
John Blake Home in 1900: Elk Lick, Somerset, Pennsylvania Age: 57 Estimated birth year: 1843 Birthplace: Ireland Race: White
Relationship to head-of-house: Head Occupation: View Image
Image source: Year: 1900; Census Place: Elk Lick, Somerset, Pennsylvania; Roll: T623 1486; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 177.
BLAKE, JOHN HEAD 57 NOV 1843 IRE IRE IRE COAL MINER
BLAKE, HARRIET WIFE 59 JULY 1840 PA MD PA
BLAKE, WILLIAM SON 17 JUNE 1883 PA IRE PA COAL MINER
1910 Miracode
John Blake
Age: 66 State: PA
Color: W Enumeration District: 0135
Birth Place: Ireland Visit: 0160
County: Somerset
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Wife Harriet 69, Pennsylvania
1920 Census Allegany Co. Md.
Joseph Blake 44 born in PA owner and manager of a store
Margaret 43 born in MD
Agnes 20
Edward 19
Clara 17
Raymond 16
Mary 14
Bernadette 9
Aloisious 4
Dorothy 1 2/12
(All children born in MD)
John Blake grandfather 76 born in Ireland
ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY
MT Savage
JOHN BLAKE born 1843 Donegal Ireland; died April 12, 1922 80th yr
HARRIET MCKENZIE, HIS WIFE, Jul 9, 1840-Nov. 30, 1910 - 71st yr.
Daughter of Joseph and Margaret McKenzie | Blake, John (I02025)
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The funeral of Mr. Patrick McKenzie, whose death at his home in Finzel occurred Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, took place Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock with interment in the cemetery near Finzel. The deceased is survived by his wife and several grown children, all remaining at that locality. He was well known here by many of the older people. The Evening Times, Cumberland, August 14, 1907 He was buried on 13 Aug 1907 in McKenzie Cemetery, Greenville Township, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. | McKenzie, Patrick Henry (I01294)
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The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Porter, aged 52 years, wife of Isaac Porter, who died Thursday afternoon of pneumonia, will be conducted from the home, 333 Virginia avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Porter is survived by her husband and the following children: Mrs. Guy Reed, Mrs. Russell Humbertson, Mrs. Lee Twigg, Arthur L., Andrew L., and Elmer D. Porter and Miss Elsie Porter, and two brothers, John and Josiah Nelson, and one sister, Mrs. Katherine Phillips. Mr. Peanker, of the International Bible Students, Baltimore, will conduct the service.
The Cumberland Evening Times, October 22, 1921 | Nelson, Ellen (I13405)
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The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Ann Garlitz, whose death was noted last week, took place from the M. E. Church South, last Friday. The interment was in Philos cemetery. Mrs. Garlitz's death was due to typhoid fever which terminated her life Nov. 10, 1897 after a brief illness, aged 24 years, six months, and 20 days. Mrs. Garlitz was a daughter of Mr. Frank Sakeman, deceased and formerly resided in Westernport. She was married to Mr. Eugene Garlitz March 11, 1888. She leaves a husband and two children, Ida eight, and Floyd four years of age. Her remains were accompanied from her home in Braddock, Pa., by her husband, children and sister, Mrs Lou Fazenbaker, of Westernport, who was with her during her illness. Mr. Garlitz was a devout member of the M.E. church at Braddock, Pa. Mr, Garlitz left for home Tuesday leaving his two children with their aunt, Mrs. Hiram Duckworth. The Piedmont Herald, November 19, 1897 from her Find a Grave Memorial #105681954
She was buried on 12 Nov 1897 in Philos Cemetery, Westernport, Allegany Co., Maryland. | Sakeman, Margaret (I53939)
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The funeral of Mrs. Mary E. Earhart, 34, of Genoa, RD 5, Massillon, who died Wednesday night in Aultman hospital at Canton after an illness of six weeks, will be held Saturday at 1:30 p. m. at the Formet & Clevenger funeral home in Canton. The Rev. Earl Hammond and the Rev. Arthur Harsh will officiate. Interment will be made in Northlawn cemetery. Her husband, Robert H. Earhart; three sons, Walden, Randall and Jon Lee, at home; her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Barkley of Genoa; and a brother, Walden Kroll of Genoa, survive. Mrs. Earhart was a member of Trinity Methodist church at Genoa and was a charter member of the Dramatic Arts club. The body is at the funeral home where friends may call this afternoon and evening. The Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, December 5, 1947 | Kroll, Mary E. (I52899)
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The funeral of T. Price McKenzie was held from the home of M. C. McKenzie on Tuesday morning. The pallbearers were: Mr. Kuhn, Price Poling, Samuel Brewer, Jacob Cutter and Edgar Dick. Interment was made in Queen's Point Cemetery.
The Cumberland Evening Times, March 18, 1931
Allegany County Courthouse Marriage License:
1889, August 3, McKenzie, Thornton Price, 37, P.O. Frostburg, Bachelor, Farmer; Laura Alice Neff, 33, P.O. Mt. Savage, Maid. 6 August 1889, Borden Shaft, Luke R. Markwood, Pastor, M.E. Church.
Burial:
Queens Meadow Point Cemetery
Keyser
Mineral County
West Virginia, USA
Plot: Section C
Created by: Doug Oltmanns
Record added: Jul 25, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 94190104 | McKenzie, Thornton Price Sr. (I01451)
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The funeral service for Mrs. Laura Peoples McKenzie, who died at her home on Stonewall Street last saturady morning, were held Sunday afternoon at the residence at 2:00 P.M. with the Rev. E.F. Adams, her pastor, officiating. He was assisted in the sevrice by the Rev. E.W. Crump and the Rev. S.L. Noel. Burial was at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
Mrs. McKenzie was born in Huntingdon on July 20 1835, and when she was 21 years old was married to Dr. John David McKenzie, a member of the family for whom this town is named. Dr. and Mrs. McKenzie made Bradford their home until 25 years ago when he retired from active practice and moved to McKenzie to live. Dr. McKenzie died soon after moving back to McKenzie.
She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Luther Perry, Bradford, and five grand-children, Miss Louise Scates, Mrs. Curtis Watkins, Charles Scates and Jack Scates, all of memphis, and Mrs. James A. Dudley of Clarksdale, Mississippi. | Peeples, Laura (I05352)
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The funeral services of Earl McKenzie, aged 33 years, who died of pneumonia Sunday at his home on Walnut Street, Westernport, were held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, Rev. W.C. O’Brian, of the Bloomington Methodist Episcopal Church officiated. Interment was in the Philos Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, his mother, Mrs. C.W. McKenzie, two brothers, Guy and Ralph, and three sisters, Mrs. Walter Klawson and Mrs. R.H. Wolford, Westernport, and Mrs. A.O. Fortney, Davis, W.Va. He was a member of the Piedmont Council, No. 18, Jr.O.H.A.M. and Potomac Castle, No. 17, Knights of the Golden eagle. Both lodges participated in the funeral services. Cumberland Evening Times, Thursday, Oct. 24, 1918
Earl McKenzie, aged 33 years, died at his home on Walnut Street, yesterday afternoon at 1 o’clock, of pneumonia. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Jane Martin, and one daughter, Hazel; his mother, Mrs. C.W. McKenzie; two brothers, Guy and Ralph, and three sisters, Mrs. A.O. Fortney, David, W.Va.; Mrs. Walter Dawson and Mrs. R.V. Wolford, Westernport. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be in the Philos Cemetery. He as a member of the Piedmont Council, No. 19, Jr. O.U.A.M., and Potomac castle, No. 17, Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. McKenzie was employed in the finishing department of the paper mill. Cumberland Evening Times, Monday, October 21, 1918
Birth: Oct. 21, 1885
Westernport
Allegany County
Maryland, USA
Death: Oct. 20, 1918
Allegany County
Maryland, USA
Family links:
Parents:
Charles Winfield Mckenzie (1863 - 1918)
Margaret Fleek McKenzie (1866 - 1933)
Spouse:
Jane (Martin) McKenzie Clark (1888 - 1932)*
Children:
Hazel Virginia McKenzie Wilson (1908 - 1998)*
Cathern Mary McKenzie (1913 - 1914)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Philos Cemetery
Westernport
Allegany County
Maryland, USA
Plot: Lot 88, Friendship Addition
Created by: hmoore
Record added: May 27, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 37588053 | McKenzie, Earl Hayes (I12367)
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The Garlitz and Hetz History by Madeline Maust records Ellen Robeson as the daughter of William Robeson and Ellen Margaret (Preston) Robeson who was born in 1798 and sometime after the birth of Ellen was widowed. She then married Lightfoot Durst, a widower, in 1835 or 36. Maust writes, "With their combined families, they had eleven children. Lightfoot only lived until 1840 and then Ellen Margaret made her home with Morgan Robeson, her son. She was still living during the Civil War, but died then or soon after, and was buried in the old cemetery, just south of St. Ann's at Avilton, MD. She was thirty years younger than her second husband Lightfoot Durst. Enoch and Herman Robeson families are descendants of her son J. William Robeson, Jr. While Lightfoot was still living he had a mill called "Little Thunders" which was built in 1830. He is buried in the old cemetery on the hill above Salisbury, PA."
A posting on a genealogy site offered the following query: "I found an orphan's court record for Ellen Robeson as a ward of an O'Brian, also in a separate item a Morgan Robeson as a ward of the same O'Brian. Later Ellen evidently married Israel Garlitz as he takes over and manages her property. In one such record Ellen is said to be the heir of a William Robeson/Robboson, etc. Is there a connection to the O'Brian family and the Robeson?" No answers were offered.
In a further note, it was decided that Mr. Maust had confused the Preston and Winters names and that what I have as record is correct. January 24, 2011
She died on 10 Feb 1905 at the age of 78 in Avilton, Garrett Co., Maryland.
Frostburg, February 14 - The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Garlitz, whose death took place Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. B. McKenzie, near Avilton, Md., a few miles west of this place, after a lingering illness of several days, from old age and general debility, took place Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the residence of Mrs. McKenzie, interment being made at that place, the Methodist minister officiating. The deceased was the widow of the late Israel Garlitz and was well known and highly respected by everybody who knew her. Mrs. Garlitz was formerly a Miss Robeson and was born near this place in 1828, residing in this vicinity for seventy-seven years. She is survived by several children who reside about here. The deceased lost her husband several years ago. Mrs. Garlitz was a remarkable woman for her age, being very active, and was an interesting and entertaining talker for one so advanced in age. The Evening Times, Cumberland, February 14, 1905
She was buried on 12 Feb 1905 in St. Ann's Catholic Cemetery, Avilton, Garrett Co., Maryland. | Robeson, Ellen M. (I01833)
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The granddaughter of several Frostburg residents died early Monday of injuries sustained in a pedestrian accident near Richmond, Va. Cher Michelle DeVore, 19, of Richmond, died at 6:05 a.m. Monday at the Medical College of Virginia where she was admitted Sunday night. The accident occurred at 5:45 p.m. Sunday on Route 250, nearly a mile west of Route 632 in Goochland County. Miss DeVore, a pedestrian, was struck by the 1979 Dodge Polara driven by George A. Plummer Jr. Virginia State Police at Richmond explained Miss DeVore was walking eastbound on Route 250 in the westbound lane and was talking to the driver of a 1983 Saab which was moving slowly in the eastbound lane. Plummer was also eastbound and passing the Saab when Miss DeVore stepped into the side of the Dodge and was struck, police said. Trooper G.L. Williams investigated. Miss DeVore was born on Sept. 15, 1966 and was the daughter of Gary A. and Carol I. DeVore, both of Richmond. Also surviving are her maternal grandparents, Ernest and Helen Bingaman, Frostburg; and her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William DeVore, Frostburg. Memorial services will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Richmond. Interment will be private. Cumberland Evening Times, Tuesday, October 15, 1985 | DeVore, Cher Michelle (I55768)
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The Holy Name Society will meet at the Silcox Funeral Residence Monday at 8:15 p. m. to recite the Rosary for William Lawrence McKenzie, 437 Henderson Avenue, who died yesterday. The body is at the Silcox Funeral Residence and will remain there until 10 a. m. Tuesday, at which time a requiem mass will be celebrated in St. Patrick's Church. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Francis and William Mantheiy, Paul, Thomas and Francis Mullan and Robert McKenzie will be pallbearers. The Cumberland Evening Times, March 25, 1956.
William Lawrence McKenzie was born on 20 May 1900 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland. He died on 24 Mar 1956 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland. Death Certificate courtesy of Don McKenzie.
Is buried in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Old Town, Maryland. | McKenzie, William Lawrence (I10847)
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The home of Mr. Cilas (sic) Crowe, on Savage Mountain, about five miles, from Lonaconing, was the scene of a very mysterious shooting, which has baffled the efforts of a coroner's Jury, with Justice Brown of Garrett county at the head, in efforts to determine in what manner and by whom, Bessie, the 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Crowe was killed on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock while in the home of her father. Early Monday morning Mr. Crowe left his home on business, and when he returned at 3:15 at the summons of some neighbors, he found the lifeless body of his daughter lying on the floor and grasping a shot gun in her arms. There were no known eye witnesses to the affair and therefore Justice Brown has no clue upon which to conduct his investigations. The jury impaneled by Justice Brown examined an older brother and a younger sister of the dead girl, who state that they were both playing in the yard, when they heard the shot and rushed in the house to find the body of their sister lying on the floor with the gun in her arms. This story was immediately discredited by the members of the Jury, because there were no powder marks or burns on her body, that would have been inflicted had the shot been fired from close range or by the girl herself. The girl's left ear and the side of her head were blown off by the shot. At a late hour, no solution of the shooting had been made. The brother and sister are held as witnesses by Justice Brown. The Evening Times, Cumberland, June 11, 1913
The inquiry into the death of Miss Bessie Crowe, 16 years of age, who was shot in some mysterious manner about a week ago at the home ol her father, Mr. Silas Crowe, five miles from Lonaconing, on Savage Mountain, has been dropped by the Garrett county authorities. The brother and sister of the dead girl who were held as witnesses to the shooting, have been released. The Evening Times, Cumberland, June 20, 1913
Around Avilton there was much ado over the arrest of Lawrence Crowe charged with the murder of his sister, Bessie, aged 16, early in the summer. A coroner's jury had decided that the shooting was accidental and the brother was not then charged, but it is said he talked afterward and is now in Oakland Jail in consequence. The Evening Times, Cumberland, October 17, 1913 | Crowe, Bessie (I51756)
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The Honorable Paul J. Stakem, 77, of Cumberland, passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at the Western Maryland Regional Medical Center. Born in Cumberland he was the son of Paul G. and Kathleen (McKenzie) Stakem. Paul was a graduate of LaSalle High School, class of 1957. He was a graduate of St. Vincent College with honors, and the University of Maryland Law School where he was in his first law school class. Paul was given the distinction of being admitted into the Order of the Coif Honor Society. He was accepted into the Maryland State Bar Association in 1964. Following law school, Judge Stakem was employed in the Allegany County States Attorney's Office. He later became the first public defender for Allegany County. He was appointed to the bench for the District Court of Maryland in 1981, and retired from that position in 2004. He continued to serve as a retired judge until December of 2016. Judge Stakem also served as the administrative judge for the District Court of Maryland in Allegany and Garrett counties. Judge Stakem was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Our Lady of the Mountains Parish. He served on the Parish council at St. Patrick's, and he was an usher, lector, and eucharistic minister at the church. Judge Stakem was a member of the Knights of Columbus Cumberland Council 586, he was past grand knight for the council, district deputy for the State of Maryland, and faithful navigator for the 4th degree. Judge Stakem was the chief councilor of the Columbian Squires Youth Group for the Knights of Columbus, a member of the Wamba Caravan 89 International Order of Alahambra, was past grand commander for the caravan, and deputy regional director for the State of Maryland. The judge was an active volunteer for the Alahambra Catholic Invitational Tournament. He was a member of the Cumberland and Frostburg Elks clubs. Judge Stakem is survived by his wife of 49 years, Mary Clare (McNamee) Stakem; son, Timothy P. Stakem and wife, Tracey, Orange, Va.; grandsons, Brenden P. Stakem and Aidan C. Stakem; brothers, William F. Stakem and wife, Susan, Cumberland, and Michael P. Stakem and wife, Diane, Cumberland; sister-in-law, Alice Delaney, Wheeling, W.Va.; as well as several nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at the Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., 108 Virginia Avenue, Friday, Sept.1, 2017, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. The Christian wake service will be conducted at the funeral home at 3:40 p.m. Another wake service, conducted by the Knights of Columbus, will be held on Friday at 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Following the wake service, the Alahambra will conduct their crescent service. The Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Cumberland. Burial will be in SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery. Pallbearers will be, Tom McConnell, The Honorable J. Frederick Sharer, Mike Delaney, Joseph Carter Jr., David Warnick, William Blake, Walter "Buddy" Files, and Craig Beauliu. In lieu of flowers, the family would like their friends and family members to honor Judge Stakem's memory by making memorial contributions to Bishop Walsh School, 700 Bishop Walsh Rd., Cumberland, MD 21502; the Allegany County Animal Shelter, 716 Furnace St., Cumberland, MD 21502; or the Schwab Cancer Center at the Western Maryland Health System, 12500 Willowbrook Rd., Cumberland, MD 21502. Published on August 30, 2017, Cumberland Times-News | Stakem, Paul J. (I42806)
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The information about William Locke can be found in a book called DICTIONARY OF NORTH CAROLINA BIOGRAPHY. It states that William Locke (son of Francis Locke-1722-96) married Elizabeth Marshall and moved to KY. The information is on page 81 in an article about Francis Locke. The will of William mentions wife Elizabeth and only one child Polly. I believe this Polly may actually be a Mary (born 1796 in Mercer Co., KY) She later moved to Rowan Co. Her school fees were paid by a Robert and Goodwin Torrance. I have a marriage date for a Robert Torrance and a Goodwin Marshall in Rowan Co. in 1796. Perhaps Goodwin is a sister to "Polly's" mother. Would be interested in any information on this part of the Locke family. | Locke, William (I22616)
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The information concerning her birth and her marriage came from the handwritten notes of Col. G.T. MacKenzie who began his MacKenzie genealogical research in 1929.
N. Grace MCKENZIE (Daniel Richard-1) was born about 1886 in Cresaptown, Allegany Co., Maryland. She died on 5 Mar 1974 at the age of 88 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware.
MRS. FRENCH VANMETER - Mrs. N. Grace Vanmeter, 88, Wilmington, Del., and formerly of Cresaptown, died Tuesday at the Day Break Lodge Nursing Home in Wilmington. A native of Cresaptown, she was a daughter of the late Daniel Richard and Mary (Hileman) McKenzie. Her husband, J. French VanMeter, who was a former judge of the Allegany County Orphans Court, preceded her in death. Mrs. Van Meter was member of the Cresaptown United Methodist Church. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. L. Ruth Case, Gaithersburg; one brother, Guthrie McKenzie, Cresaptown; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The body will be returned here for graveside services at 2 p.m. at Hillcrest Burial Park. The Cumberland Evening Times, March 7, 1974 | McKenzie, Nolla Grace (I12791)
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The information concerning the marriage of Maria McKenzie to Ira Burton comes from the research of Gloria V. gatewood, Huntington, Maryland. According to her research, Ira and Maria were married on 15 Feb 1849 by Rev. John Gilpin Stewart of the United Brethren Church in Allegany County, Maryland. Both Ira and Maria had children from their previous marriages. | McKenzie, Maria (I00101)
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The information contained in this line was received by the author from Richard "Dick" Mac Kenzie in March, 2018. | McKenzie, Rebecca Ann (I39509)
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The information supplied to the author concerning Racheal P. Wade and her husband, Benjamin Alfred Carpenter was forwarded by Lance Melton, a descendant, in April 2018. More information can be found on the Melton Family Tree on Ancestry.com. | Wade, Rachael P. (I00641)
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The information supplied to the author concerning Racheal P. Wade and her husband, Benjamin Alfred Carpenter was forwarded by Lance Melton, a descendant, in April 2018. More information can be found on the Melton Family Tree on Ancestry.com. | Carpenter, Benjamin Alfred (I43724)
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The last war in which the United States was involved before the turn of the century, the Spanish-American War, established the nation as a world power. This database is a roster of North Carolina volunteers who fought in this war. Each record provides the | Source (S009578)
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The marriage license was issued in Allegany County, Maryland on May 3, 1823. Research of Ray Leidinger. According to the research of J. Albert Smith, they were married in the Catholic Church in Frostburg, Maryland. | Family: James Moses McKenzie / Margaret Agnes Porter (F00379)
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The marriage license, which appeared in the Cumberland Evening Times on May 17, 1967, lists Mary Margaret as a Garlitz, not a Lancaster. | Lancaster, Mary Margaret (I43237)
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The McKenzie Banner
June 13, 1979
Captain John McKenzie -later Colonel
John McKenzie was a Revolutionary War soldier born in Albemarle County, Virginia
September 17, 1757. He was residing in Halifax County, Virginia in 1776 when he volunteered
for army service. In his six-page declaration made in Carroll County Court (Tennessee) in
1831-32 in applying for a pension, he gave many details of his service in the southern
campaigns of the war in Virginia and the Carolinas. This declaration is in the National
Archives in Washington and a copy is in the library of the Carroll County Historical Society
in McKenzie Tennessee. His declaration mentions many actions and battles in which he took
part in the Carolinas and also states that he was acquainted with some of the well-known off
icers of the American army, including General Nathaniel Greene to whom he serviced as Aide
in the battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina, in March 1781. John McKenzie stated
that he was given a commission as Captain by General Sumter in 1778 or 1779 and was known in
the army as "The Big Virginia Captain." The pension records show that in 1777 or 1778 he
was Captain in Colonel Thomas Sumter's South Carolina Regiment and was also Contractor for
Salisbury District under General Davidson. He was Captain of Light Dragoons in Colonel
William Hill's South Carolina Regiment and Captain in Colonel Maledy's North Carolina
Regiment and was in the battles of Rocky Mount, Hanging Rock, Camden (South Carolina),
Rugley's Mills, Ironworks, Torrence's Tavern, Guilford courthouse, New Market, Boattie's
Ford, and Orangeburg, and was discharged in 1782. In his declaration John McKenzie stated
that from 1791 to 1795 he was engaged in building forts for the defense of the country
against the raids of the Creek Indians and in 1792 was in command of the fort at Rock
Landing, Georgia. He was surely a hardy and courageous man and by his own description a
"big" man. There is a record that when some blacks were captured by Indians, John went to
the Indian's camp, confronted the chief, and demanded that the men be handed over to him,
but they had already been transported away.
After the war John McKenzie settled in the State of Georgia near the present town of
Sparta, where he became a member of the General Assembly, a member of the Commission on
Peace and Judge of County Court. He was commissioned a colonel in the militia and was there
after known as Colonel McKenzie. From a declaration made by his wife, Martha (Patsy) Bonner
McKenzie, we learn that she and John married in Washington County, Georgia December 20, 1792
She was 17 and he was 35. The census records show that she too was born in Virginia
(January 8, 1775, thus she was only one year old when John joined the army.) In 1816 or
1817 they moved from Maury County, Tennessee and in about 1828 they moved to Carroll County, Tennessee. In his declaration John McKenzie stated that while he was in the army he met Benjamin
Gilbert who was also a soldier. After the war Benjamin Gilbert married John's sister Emily
McKenzie in Virginia and the Gilberts settled in the same area in Georgia as the McKenzie's.
Later both families resettled in Carroll County, Tennessee, the Gilberts arriving first, in
the early 1820's.
Fifty years after the war, in 1832, John McKenzie then 75 years old, applied for a pension
and Benjamin Gilbert testified for him in Carroll County Court. The pension of Forty
Dollars a month was approved and appears to have been paid for the remaining 10 years of
John McKenzie's life until his death in 1842. Martha survived him and she applied for and
was granted a widow's pension. The pension records show that in 1843 three sons were
living: Jeremiah H. (born 1793); Alexander A (born 1799); and James M. who stated he was
"the youngest son."
A newspaper obituary in 1842 stated that John McKenzie's Masonic funeral was to be "preached
at Caledonia", but no mention was made of the place of burial. Later a marker was placed in
Mt. Olivet Cemetery in McKenzie, Tennessee. The town of McKenzie, formerly called Dundas,
is named for a member of John's family.
A reading of John McKenzie's long declaration will attest to his courage, uprightness, and
devotion to the cause he so strongly believed in. See also The American Revolution In The
South written by the American General Henry Lee, which describes many of the actions and
landmarks and tells of the same officers referred to by John McKenzie in his declaration.
See particularly the account of the battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina, in
chapter 27 and of Rocky Mount, hanging Rock, Camden, Rudgeley's Mills, and of Thomas Sumter
in Chapter l7.
As another interesting sidelight, the Encyclopedia Britannica states that at Hanging Rock in
August 1780 the boy Andrew Jackson, then 13 years old, participated in the battle. It is
interesting to speculate whether Captain McKenzie was acquainted with the 13-year-old future
president. Certainly no one present would have believed that in a second war with England
35 years later the lad, as a General, would be the hero of the Battle of New Orleans and go
on to the Presidency. A year after Hanging Rock the boy Jackson was captured and mistreated
by the British at nearby Waxaha, near his birth place in Virginia of John McKenzie. See
also the declarations and correspondence in the pension files, Washington D.C. of Benjamin
and Emily Gilbert, Robert Gilbert, Martha Bonner McKenzie, Jeremiah, Alexander, and James
McKenzie, and Samuel Winn; also the military records of South Carolina. This brief summary
only gives a few of the facts about this heroic Revolutionary War veteran who lived out his
last years in Carroll County.
The following is a transcription of Capt. John McKenzie's Declaration, which he submitted to the federal government in the 1830's to obtain a pension for his service during the Revolutionary War. He references in an interrogatory response that he was born 17 Sep 1757 and that he had an older brother, William, who also served in that war. Michael A. McKenzie, October 6, 2012
State of TennesseeDeclaration of John McKenzie
Carroll County
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, on this appeared in open court, Col. John McKenzie, a Resident of the County of Carroll, State of Tennessee, who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration.
This declarant states that in the year 1776, in the County of Halifax, State of Virginia, declarant and between fifteen & twenty other young men, the exact number not now recollected, agreed to volunteer and join the United States troops then employed in the service of the United States. Declarant states that by this company, he was elected their Captain and took up the line of march and went to Portsmouth at which place there was then stationed a number of regiments. This declarant and his young company was attached to the 5th Regiment then commanded by a (ed. note: word hard to read) and attached to the Company of Captain Talbot. This declarant does not now fully recollect the whole of the officers in command or there at that time but recollects that the 6th Regiment was commanded by Col Buckmen and the whole Brigade commanded by General Lewis (ed. note: name a bit unclear). As my Company was not large enough in number to be kept as a separate Company they were principly attached to the Company of Capt Talbot and the General appointed this Declarant (ed. note: word hard to read) commissary to the Company at some time hereinafter. The Army to which declarant was attached was ordered to march from Portsmouth and did so. They marched to Springfield from thence to the (ed. note: word hard to read) from thence to Point Comfort & from thence to Williamsburgh - at this later place declarant became sick after serving a period of twelve months from this point declarant returned home in the year 1777. As well as the declarant now recollects he went into the State of South Carolina and after being there some short time living and superintending the iron works of Hill and Hayne he was in that year again elected Captain of a volunteer Company in which capacity he served two years more. Their Company was commanded by Col. Thomas Sumpter whom this declarant voted for for that office. Colo. Sumpter gave this declarant a commission wrote and signed by Said Col. At this period General Lincoln commanded the Southern Services but during the service of this declarant in the command aforesaid Col Sumpter was elected or promoted to the command and title of General Sumpter and with him and under his command declarant (ed. note: word hard to read) Company of five or six Regiments marched to Rocky Mount where the British and Tories had a strong (ed. note: word hard to read) or fortified fort. This place was attacked by the then command of General Sumpter but without effect as the American troops were repulsed - in this attack Col Neal and many brave men lost their lives. After this repulse the Army crossed the Catawba for the purpose of recruiting. After three or four days rest the line of march was taken up for the purpose of forming at (ed. note: word hard to read) with General Gates and joining his Army. This was in the summer of seventeen hundred and eighty but before we reached him he and his troops were defeated at Camden by the British forces under the command of Lord Cornwallis. In two or three days we were met by the British under the command of Col Tarleton. An engagement took place which resulted in the defeat of the American troops. The American troops then recrossed the Catawba retreating & recruited some forces and returned to the south in marching whereto they had many engagements and skirmishes one at the Hanging Rock one at Ridgeley’s Mills. At the later place the American troops were successful and took many prisoners & in all which tour and service this declarant acted in the capacity of Captain. At these (ed. note: word hard to read) declarant fell in company and got acquainted with Col Wm Washington and other officers of the Continental Army. After this engagement declarant with his Company was ordered by General Sumpter to go and guard the iron works of Hill and Hayne at which place there was a large quantity of cannon shot and other articles necessary and intended for the American Army. While at this station declarant was attacked by a Regiment of the British and Tories commanded by Col Gordon and Capt Hook & who after all the resistance that could be made defeated declarant & his Company and destroyed the works. Declarant marched immediately and joined General Davidson in Mecklenburgh County in the State of North Carolina. Declarant acted under the command of General Davidson as Contractor for Salisbury District and with an express agreement that declarant was to act as Captain in any engagement which the forces under General Davidson might have with the enemy. In a short time after this appointment the forces under General Davidson’s command met the British forces under Lord Cornwallis at Beattysford on the Catawba River at which place an engagement took place which resulted in the defeat of the American Army and the loss of our Genl – who fell in the engagement. In this engagement declarant acted as Captain of a company. After the fall of General Davidson the command devolved upon General Pickins who retreated with the Army to Widow Torences. Seven miles from the battle ground they were pursued by Col Tarleton and overtaken when another engagement took place where we were again compelled to retreat and give way to superior discipline and force. Here we lost about one hundred of our men in killed wounded & prisoners. We then marched and joined the Army under General Nathaniel Green at Dan River. This was some time in the beginning of the year 1781. Declarant continued under the command of general Green from that time until the Battle of Guilford. At this battle the declarant acted as one of the aids of General Green in consequence of some indisposition of one [of] the General’s aids who was unable to act for him on that day. This battle was fought in the month of March 1781 as well as declarant now recollects. From this battle ground the Army under the command of General Green retreated for some miles and again drew up in order to give battle to the British who it was expected were in pursuit of us – but we soon had information that the British Army were in their retreat from the Battle ground. The Army of General Green not then being in a (ed. note: word hard to read) to pursue the British as we were then exhausted and out of military stores. Declarant at that time was known in the American Army by the name of the Big Virginia Captain. General Green then and as soon as it was ascertained that the British were retreating sent for declarant and gave him the command of five volunteer Militia Companys who volunteered their service with instruction to this declarant to keep the British forces under the command of Lord (ed. note: word hard to read) at Camden in check or to anoy their march until the whole American Army could be got in good order to over take them. The next few lines are unreadable. . . . at the state line his men refused to go any further and his pursuit ceased. At the time that this declarant parted from General Green, General Green and his forces with the exception of those sent with declarant were on their line of march after Lord Cornwallis & his troops. This declarant ascertained that the Militia under his command refused to cross their state line. He relinquished the command and immediately went to serve his old friend and acquaintance General Sumpter who at that time was confined in Charlotte by a wound which he had received in the shoulder some short time before General Sumpter gave declarant on his arrival a Captain’s commission in the State Troops of Light Dragoons of South Carolina. Declarant immediately lit out and in about ten days enlisted one hundred men for ten months and immediately joined the main Army under the command of General Sumpter. Then on the Bangar declarant attached his Company to the Regiment then commanded by Col Wm Hill. The Regiment to which this declarant was attached marched in company with the regiments commanded by Col Lea and Washington against the outposts at New Market and had an engagement at Camden and at Orangeburg and other places and took large quantities of stores and munitions of war which was deposited at Camden under the care of Capt Godfrey Adams. In some short time after this declarant was asked by General Sumpter to take command of the stores at Camden at which place declarant continued until the stores were (ed. note: word hard to read) off when declarant returned to camp. Again at this time on account of the number of men killed and many whose term of service had expired what was then called a consolidation took place amongst the officers of the Army. I had then in the Army in which I was in service a brother older than myself holding also the command of Captain then known in the Army by the name of Capt Wm McKenzie. Declarant saw that both himself and brother should not have commands as there were many valiant and brave men equally entitled. Impelled by this motive. Declarant allowed his older brother the command. But declarant at this time being (ed. note: word hard to read) to promote his country’s cause and having been long in the habit of commanding companies and detachments of men declarant then he could in that situation render most benefit he could in company with Captain Robert Tate and some other officers set out from the Army of General Sumpter and again joined the Army of General Green at Jacksonburg and joined a regiment commanded by Col (ed. note: word hard to read) in which declarant continued until the Army of General Green was disbanded or discharged in the year 1782 as well as this declarant now recollects. This declarant states that from the beginning of the year 1776 until the disbanding of the Army of the South to which he was attached in year1782 the whole of this period with the exception of one year and one half was by this declarant spent in the plains and tinted fields with his brothers in arms defending his country’s wrongs. Declarant states that for the space of five years he spent in the service of his country he never was lower ion command than a Captain and when he acted in higher it was only for temporary or urgent purposes. This declarant states that during the whole of his service he acted for his country as a volunteer in her service.
Interrogatories Put by the Court to the Declarant
1st – Where were you born and in what year
Answer: I was born in the State of Virginia in Albemarle (hard to read) County in the year 1757 on the 17th day of September.
2nd – Have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answer: I have had a book in which my age was written for the purpose of proving the same but it was burnt by accident many years ago.
3rd – Where were you living when called into the Army or service. Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you live now.
Answer: In 1776 when the cause of my country required my service I lived in Halifax County in the State of Virginia from which place I volunteered. After the Army was discharged I settled in the State of Georgia and continued to live there until 1816 or 1817 at which time I removed to Maury County, Tennessee where I continued to live with my family until 1828 when I moved into the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee where I now live.
4th – How were you called into service. Were you drafted. Did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom.
Answer: I volunteered and at no period during the war did I wait either for a call or draft but attended and rendered my services then as now believing that my life could not be spent in a better course.
5th – State the names of the Regular officers who were with the troops when you served such Continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your servie.
Answer: I was acquainted with Generals Marion – Pickins, Col DeMalmady. I was well acquainted with General Green commander of the regular forces and was also well acquainted with General Sumpter. I was also well acquainted with Col Wm Washington commander of the (ed. note: word hard to read) and with all the foregoing officers I have at different times served during the Southern Campaign and as to the general circumstances of my service that is answered by my declaration. Except services rendered from 1790 to 1795 for upwards of three years of this time, I was employed in building forts defending the country against the incursions & (ed. note: word hard to read) of the Creek Indians at the United States Fort Rock Landing. (ed. note: word hard to read) a fort built by myself and the men then under my command. The Rock Landing Fort was then 1791 commanded by Col Gaither (?) in the year 1792. I was by Col Gaither put in command of the Rock Landing Fort against the Creek Indians in this service and building forts & and other service I (ed. note: word hard to read) from the year 1791 until 1795 making the (remainder is at bottom of page and unreadable).
6th – Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so what has become of it.
Answer: We had agreed to meet at New Market within State of South Carolina and at the time appointed I was the oldest officer belonging to the Regiment of Col Hill to which I was then attached (ed. note: not readable)
7th – Did you ever receive a commission and if so what has become of it.
Answer: I received two commissions one from General Sumpter for the command of Captain of a volunteer company in the year 1778 or 1779. This commission I lost. The other I received in the year 1781 and is herewith transmitted marked D. This is all the documentary evidence of service which I now have of my service in the Revolutionary War. But I herewith produce the depositions of four honourable and respectable men each of whom are personally known to this Court To wit the deposition of Col Edward Green taken before Samuel Ingram Esquire the chairman of this court on the 16th day of September 1831.
The deposition of Jasper Greer taken before W. W. Foreman Esquire of Carroll County on the 16th day of September 1832.
The deposition of James Fergus taken in open court September 13, 1832.
The deposition of Capt Benjamin Gilbert taken before Edward Given (?) one of the acting justices of the peace for this county bearing the date 12th of January 1832. The foregoing named gentlemen declarant and (ed. note: word hard to read) at different places during his tour in the Southern Army of the Revolution and as their standing and character is known to this Court and the (ed. note: word hard to read) generally it is hoped the Court will certify their opinion of the declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory.
Sworn to and subscribed in open court .
John McKenzie
We Robert Baker clergyman residing in the County of Carroll and State of Tennessee and Edward W. Gee and Edward Given living in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John McKenzie who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be of the age of seventy five years that he is generally respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been an officer of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to in open court the day and year here written.
Robert Baker
Edward W. Gee
Edward Given
Transcribed on March 19, 2011
Michael A. McKenzie
Marietta, Georgia
macmck@bellsouth.net
Posted on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site
www.mckenziesofearlymaryland.com
Subject: Benjamin Gilbert affidavit
War, Rev, Pension, JOHN MCKENZIE W1049
12th of January 1832
State Tennessee
County of Carroll
Personally came Capt. BENJAMIN GILBERT of Weakley County and State aforesaid & being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth and saith that he, this deponent, was at a general muster in Campbell County in the State of Virginia some time in the old Revolutionary War and then and there saw Col. JOHN MCKENZIE, whom I had no acquaintance with nor had ever seen him before. I understood he was a recruiting officer from the South and on the recruiting service and appeared very [illegible] on that subject and was dressed in a military uniform and wore a sword, I recollect, and bore the title of Capt. There he met with some gentlemen of his acquaintance that was from Portsmouth, or some place in that quarter where our Army lay, and they appeared to meet with great satisfaction and had formerly been in the Army together and report said that MCKENZIE been in the service of his
country most all the Revolutionary War. I heard my brother Capt. MICHAEL GILBERT say after the Battle at Guilford that he saw Capt. MCKENZIE in that Battle And that he had got badly [illegible] there in the battle and lost his Negro boy and portmanteau and all his clothes & horse worth thousand dollars, he said. Then I recollect when the war was over this deponent removed to the state of Georgia and resided in the same County where Col. MCKENZIE lived, who was a member to the General Assembly and acted in the Commission of the peace and as Col. of a regiment of militia, and then a judge of a County Court, and a man of worth and of good property, and of late, it is said, by his being security he has got nearly broke but, the great length of time and not ever expecting to be called on in a case where I am in no wise interested has obliterated from my recollection a number of circumstances that might be more pertinent to the case. And this Deponent further saith not.
Sworn to before me the day and date above.
BENJAMIN GILBERT EDMUND W. GEE, JP | McKenzie, John (I05411)
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The Millennium File is a database created by the Institute of Family Research to track the records of its clients and the results of its professional research. It contains more than 880,000 linked family records, with lineages from throughout the world, in | Source (S008389)
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The name listed on his son, Jasper Newton Grinstead's death certificate is “Henry Edwards Grinstead”. This differs from some of the published Grinstead sources, which lists his name as “Edward Walton Grinstead”. The actual name on his marriage certificate from Washington County, Virginia is Edward “Grinsted”, Marriage Register A-C, page 166, Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Washington County
Edward Walton Grinstead married Catharine Donovan 20 Feb 1810 in Washington Co., Virginia.[1]
CENSUS:
1820 Washington Co., Virginia
Edward Grinstead 200010 -- 20010; 1 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
2 <10 2
10-16
16-18
16-26
1 26-45 1
>45
1830 Washington Co., Virginia
Edward Grinsted 3002001 -- 111001; no slaves
male female
3 < 5 1
5-10 1
10-15 1
2 15-20
20-30
30-40 1
1 40-50
1840 Washington Co., Virginia
Edward Grinstead 01110001 -- 1100001; 2 in agriculture; 1 in manufactures and trades; no slaves
male female
< 5 1
1 5-10 1
1 10-15
1 15-20
20-30
30-40
40-50 1
1 50-60
1850 Washington Co., Virginia, 67th District; Aug 23
643/643
Edward Grinstead 63 MW Va Farmer
John Rouse 21 MW Va "
Joseph 20 MW Va "
Nancy 19 FW Va
Jane 17 FW Va
Catharine 60 FW Va
He is not in the Slave Schedule. The census suggests that the surname of Joseph through Catherine is Rouse. That is wrong. Nancy, Jane, and Catharine have the same surname, and it is Grinstead. It is not clear who Joseph is. John Rouse is probably the son of Henry Rouse of Smyth Co. In the 1850 census he is in the household of his father as 20, Va, miller, and thus appears twice in the census.
In 1860 Catharine Grinstead (68, NC) is living in Washington Co., Virginia in the household of Stephen Thomas, her son-in-law.
WHEN WAS EDWARD WALTON GRINSTEAD BORN?
The only documentary indicator of his age is the 1850 census, which says that he is 63. That suggests that he was born in 1787, but his brother William was born 13 Nov 1787. They might have been twins, or Edward Walton may have been somewhat younger than indicated in the 1850 census, having been born in 1788 or 1789. Or he may have been older, having been born in 1786.
Sources
Shumaker, Gorrell and Grinstead, John L.N. , "The WIlliam Grinstead Family in America", April 1974, pages 125, 127. Does not appear to be available in print. Mike McMinn has a copy of it and will scan the page on request.
WikiTree profile Grinstead-99 created through the import of VKee_2012-09-02.ged on Sep 3, 2012 by Greg Burch. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Greg and others.
Source: S19 Author: Ancestry.com Title: One World Tree (sm) Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT
Repository: R1 Name: www.ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
? Marty Hiatt & Craig R. Scott, "Washington County Marriages, Ministers' Returns 1776-1855," 1994 | Grinstead, Henry Edward (Walton) (I00226)
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The obituary, which appeared in the Cumberland Evening Times on September 9, 1961, does not mention a wife or children, but does list a large family of brothers and sisters. He had been admitted to the hospital the evening before his death. Marjorie is listed as the wife of Clifford Bevan, Jr. in her father's obituary, but I could find no other Clifford Bevan or Bevans mentioned in the news. | Layman, Marjorie D. (I52796)
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The obituary, which appeared in the Cumberland Evening Times on September 9, 1961, does not mention a wife or children, but does list a large family of brothers and sisters. He had been admitted to the hospital the evening before his death. Marjorie is listed as the wife of Clifford Bevan, Jr. in her father's obituary, but I could find no other Clifford Bevan or Bevans mentioned in the news. | Bevan, Clifford Jr. (I52810)
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The Paducah Sun- Paducah, Kentucky. | Source (S011719)
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The Pattons were originally landed gentry seated at Ferrochie, Fifeshire, Scotland. The progenitor of the Irish branch of the family, William Patton, M.A., was born in Scotland; had immigrated to Northern Ireland during the King James Plantation. He was in County Donegal by 1626, as Rector of the parishes of Ramoigh and Clonmary, Barony of Raphoe and later at Aughnish, Barony of Kilmacrenan. Reverend William Patton and his wife, Margaret, made their home at an estate called 'Groghan', and reared two sons, Henry and John.
Henry's son, also named Henry, married Sarah Lynn, daughter of David Lynn of Kilmacrenan and a descendant of the Lynns of Loch Lynn, in Scotland. Henry and Sarah lived in the Manor of Springfield, Parish of Clondevaddock, Barony of Kilmacrenan, County Donegal. They became the parents of James, Elizabeth, Andrew, and Richard.
(From a book entitled "James Patton AND THE APPALACHIAN COLONISTS" | Patton, Henry (I23929)
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