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Rootsweb.com RSS Feed for WVHAMPSH http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/WVHAMPSH Rootsweb.com RSS feed for WVHAMPSH en-us Copyright 2005 by MyFamily.inc 2008-11-24T23:08:21-06:00 helpdesk@rootsweb.com helpdesk@rootsweb.com Rootsweb.com 2005-05-01T00:00:00-06:00 1 hourly Re: [WVHAMPSH] Allegheny Passage, Hampshire County book... http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-11/1227593301 Interesting information. Is there any information about the High (Hoch) family name in the Allegheny passage? Greg High -----Original Message----- From: wvhampsh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:wvhampsh-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of macbd1 Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 12:45 PM To: WVHAMPSH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WVHAMPSH] Allegheny Passage, Hampshire County book... Re: _Allegheny Passage_ by Emmert F. Bittinger >From this link: http://www.tarvinfamily.org/cacapon.php click on the red book cover to find: http://www.tarvinfamily.org/AlleghenyPassage.pdf which is the chapter of this book concerning early families of the Cacapon general area of Hampshire County. Hope this helps someone. Neil McDonald ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVHAMPSH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message "Mary High" <high5@zoominternet.net> 2008-11-24T23:08:21-06:00 [WVHAMPSH] Allegheny Passage, Hampshire County book... http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-11/1227465873 Re: _Allegheny Passage_ by Emmert F. Bittinger >From this link: http://www.tarvinfamily.org/cacapon.php click on the red book cover to find: http://www.tarvinfamily.org/AlleghenyPassage.pdf which is the chapter of this book concerning early families of the Cacapon general area of Hampshire County. Hope this helps someone. Neil McDonald "macbd1" <macbd1@hughes.net> 2008-11-23T11:44:33-06:00 [WVHAMPSH] Johnson/Kent http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-11/1225929545 Hi, Can any one who is working on these families tell me what the relationship was between Okey Johnson's wife, Margaret, and Jesse Kent? Were they brother and sister? Who were their parents? Who was Okey Johnson? Where were the Kents from? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Renee L. Dauven Renee Dauven <promine@web-ster.com> 2008-11-05T16:59:05-06:00 [WVHAMPSH] Iron wrkers cemetery, Bloomery http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-11/1225638519 Neil , Thanks you so much for the several sources with information on the Iron Workers Cemetery. I will follow up on that with a letter to Margaret McPhaul, the author of the book on that subject. There is no e-mail address so will do it the old-fashioned way! You have done a great job of research. If anyone else has anything to add on this subject I would appreciate it greatly! I do not know if this settlement is where my ancestor worked in 1852 but he was an unskilled laborer in a small community of laborers in n.e. Hampshire and Bloomery seems to be the best bet. Gratefully, Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: wvhampsh-request@rootsweb.com To: wvhampsh@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 1:02 AM Subject: WVHAMPSH Digest, Vol 3, Issue 43 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Iron workers cemetery +Bloomery Iron Furnace (macbd1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:05:45 -0500 From: "macbd1" <macbd1@hughes.net> Subject: Re: [WVHAMPSH] Iron workers cemetery +Bloomery Iron Furnace To: <wvhampsh@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <005301c93c4c$84f83590$0200a8c0@primary> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I found this in my 'Drafts' folder today, thought I had sent it: This cemetery doesn't seem to have been read: http://www.historichampshire.org/cems/ A possible contact for info: http://www.genealogical.com/products/The%20Bowley-Boley%20Family%20and%20Their%20Descendants/FH132.html Some Bloomery Furnace info: http://thecrossingspoa.com/bloomery.htm The above newspaper article says the furnace was near the center of present Bloomery and the map at the following link only shows one cemetery there, but which is likely Bloomery Presbyterian Church Cemetery that 'is' recorded at the cemetery web site first above. http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=17&X=907&Y=5453&W=3&qs=%7cSlanesville%7cWV%7c Open map to largest size and adjust the 'zoom' 2nd from highest, click the directional arrows to maneuver. (This 'present' location of Bloomery is almost 3 miles up Bloomery Run Road from the Forks of Cacapon. The 250th Anniversary history of Hampshire County calls it Enoch's Mill Run.) But other history accountings say Bloomery Iron Furnace is located near Forks of Capon where the North River joins the Cacapon River....less than a mile from the Cacapon....up a tributary, Bloomery Run (creek), where trolley cars could be loaded with pig iron and transported via rail to the Cacapon River, loaded onto flatboats, thence rafted northward to the Potomac and beyond: http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=17&X=904&Y=5456&W=3&qs=%7cSlanesville%7cWV%7c No old cemeteries are shown on the map near the furnace, where such an 'Iron Workers Cemetery' should have been located in my estimation. This makes me wonder if Iron Workers Cemetery is 'lost' as these USGS maps often show even small family cemetery plots -- as shown around the Forks of Cacapon area which is to the west, while the village of Bloomery is found by clicking the 'Southeast' arrow. Hopefully a more knowledeable local historian will respond, the precise location of the furnace, village of Bloomery and the cemetery is still confusing to me....one book speaks of how the village of Bloomery is/was "distributed" or spread out along the road. Other maps indicate the 'main' part of Bloomery is/was where the church cemetery is shown. Maybe Ms. McPhaul at the second from top link can help? Interesting but probably not very helpful, sorry. Neil McDonald From: "Ann Heinz" <agatha1@flash.net> To: <wvhampsh@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: [WVHAMPSH] Iron workers cemetery > Does anyone know if the iron workers cemetery at Bloomery has been read? I cannot find list of burials there. Where is this located near Bloomery? > thanks, > Ann ------------------------------ To contact the WVHAMPSH list administrator, send an email to WVHAMPSH-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the WVHAMPSH mailing list, send an email to WVHAMPSH@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WVHAMPSH-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of WVHAMPSH Digest, Vol 3, Issue 43 *************************************** "Ann Heinz" <agatha1@flash.net> 2008-11-02T08:08:39-06:00 Re: [WVHAMPSH] Iron workers cemetery +Bloomery Iron Furnace http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-11/1225562745 I found this in my 'Drafts' folder today, thought I had sent it: This cemetery doesn't seem to have been read: http://www.historichampshire.org/cems/ A possible contact for info: http://www.genealogical.com/products/The%20Bowley-Boley%20Family%20and%20Their%20Descendants/FH132.html Some Bloomery Furnace info: http://thecrossingspoa.com/bloomery.htm The above newspaper article says the furnace was near the center of present Bloomery and the map at the following link only shows one cemetery there, but which is likely Bloomery Presbyterian Church Cemetery that 'is' recorded at the cemetery web site first above. http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=17&X=907&Y=5453&W=3&qs=%7cSlanesville%7cWV%7c Open map to largest size and adjust the 'zoom' 2nd from highest, click the directional arrows to maneuver. (This 'present' location of Bloomery is almost 3 miles up Bloomery Run Road from the Forks of Cacapon. The 250th Anniversary history of Hampshire County calls it Enoch's Mill Run.) But other history accountings say Bloomery Iron Furnace is located near Forks of Capon where the North River joins the Cacapon River....less than a mile from the Cacapon....up a tributary, Bloomery Run (creek), where trolley cars could be loaded with pig iron and transported via rail to the Cacapon River, loaded onto flatboats, thence rafted northward to the Potomac and beyond: http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=17&X=904&Y=5456&W=3&qs=%7cSlanesville%7cWV%7c No old cemeteries are shown on the map near the furnace, where such an 'Iron Workers Cemetery' should have been located in my estimation. This makes me wonder if Iron Workers Cemetery is 'lost' as these USGS maps often show even small family cemetery plots -- as shown around the Forks of Cacapon area which is to the west, while the village of Bloomery is found by clicking the 'Southeast' arrow. Hopefully a more knowledeable local historian will respond, the precise location of the furnace, village of Bloomery and the cemetery is still confusing to me....one book speaks of how the village of Bloomery is/was "distributed" or spread out along the road. Other maps indicate the 'main' part of Bloomery is/was where the church cemetery is shown. Maybe Ms. McPhaul at the second from top link can help? Interesting but probably not very helpful, sorry. Neil McDonald From: "Ann Heinz" <agatha1@flash.net> To: <wvhampsh@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 2:22 PM Subject: [WVHAMPSH] Iron workers cemetery > Does anyone know if the iron workers cemetery at Bloomery has been read? I cannot find list of burials there. Where is this located near Bloomery? > thanks, > Ann "macbd1" <macbd1@hughes.net> 2008-11-01T12:05:45-06:00 [WVHAMPSH] Thomas Perrin in the 1782 and 1784 census http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-10/1225421863 I chanced upon a record in Sage and Jones which may concern my ancestor Thomas Perrin, who ultimately lived in Allegany County, Maryland, along Town Creek. The record is in the census section (page 95), and states that his presence was recorded by David Mitchell in 1782, and John Wilson in 1784. The book states that by knowing the name of the census taker it should be possible to identify where the person was living. Does anyone out there know where Thomas would be living on the basis of the above information? Richard Perrin Day Richard Day <rpday@mac.com> 2008-10-30T20:57:43-06:00 [WVHAMPSH] Iron workers cemetery http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-10/1224444128 Does anyone know if the iron workers cemetery at Bloomery has been read? I cannot find list of burials there. Where is this located near Bloomery? thanks, Ann "Ann Heinz" <agatha1@flash.net> 2008-10-19T13:22:08-06:00 [WVHAMPSH] Goodspeed's History of No. West Virginia http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-10/1224169329 A REMINISCENT HISTORY OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. 1895. Not sure why this is called Northern West Va. Most of it covers the entire state. Maybe the bios are just for the northern part. Here is some of the information on this book. Our website has the Table of Contents and Index for the book listed. Use this information to see if the book is of value to you, then you can go to you local library or lending library for the book. If all else fails, we have the CD http://www.dmkheritage.com/store/ CHAPTER I West Virginia Early Settlements Location Fertility Stock Raising Elevation Climate Rainfall Geology Scenery Water Power Timber Coal Iron Salt Oil and Gas Miscellaneous Minerals Mineral Waters Railroads State Capitols Pioneer Schools Free School System The Literary Fund Territorial Schools Public Schools Under the FirstConstitution Public Schools Under the SecondConstitution Organization and Administration of the Free School System Revenues for the Support of the Free School System Graded and High Schools INDEX TO COUNTY SKETCHES. CHAPTER II. Preston County Berkeley County Jefferson County Boone County Greenbrier County Wyoming County Lewis County Wetzel County Clay County Wood County Hancock County Lincoln County Logan County Cabell County Pocahontas County Fayette County Monroe County Brooke County Tyler County Pleasants County Ohio County Pendleton County Jackson County Marshall County Mineral County Ritchie County Doddridge County Barbour County Tucker County Upshur County Hampshire County Hardy County Morgan County Randolph County Gilmer County Braxton County Grant County Kanawha County Raleigh County Putnam County Mercer County Marion County Taylor County Monongalia County Wirt County Webster County Index and rest of the Table of Contents at: http://www.dmkheritage.com/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=81 ------------------------------- Doris Christian <dmkchristian@austin.rr.com> 2008-10-16T09:02:09-06:00 Re: [WVHAMPSH] Robert and John Craigen http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-10/1223598329 Thanks to both Messrs. McCawley and Funkhouser for your response. The text in full that started my inquiry is: Hubert Parry. Memoirs of Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Association, 1904. 2 vols. Vol I: p. 274-5 from the Contemporary Bio of Hubert Paxton Wiggins (1904) of Indiana Co. Mr. Wiggins is descended, on his mother's side, from theCRAIGENs of Scotland, one of whom, Robert CRAIGEN, fought in the battle of Culloden, March 16, 1746, and the ancestral line is as follows: Adelaide M. CRAIGEN, born in Hampshire county, W. Va.,Dec. 23, 1843, married Coulter WIGGINS, Aug. 15, 1868; Jacob I. CRAIGEN, born in Hardy county, W. Va., May 10, 1807, was a slave holder at the opening of the Civil War, but espoused the federal side, experienced many thrilling adventures, and now resides on the old farm at the age of ninety-seven; Eliza Sein PARSONS, born at Washington, D.C. in 1811, married Jacob CRAIGEN, April 3, 1833, and died Oct. 13, 1872; John CRAIGEN, born in Winchester county, Va., and died at the age of fifty-seven years; Mary LEE, native of Hardy county, W. Va., married John CRAIGEN and died in her eightieth year; Robert CRAIGEN, born in Scotland, emigrated to Maryland and finally located in Winchester county, Va.; Susanna PERRIN, native of Maryland, married Robert CRAIGEN; George LEE and Keziah BORGART, parents of Mary LEE, resided in Hardy county, W. Va.; Joseph PARSONS, father of Eliza Sein PARSONS, born at Rye Beach, Mass., moved to Washington, D.C., and was a trader and merchant; Elizabeth Betsy MONROE, a native ofWashington, D.C., and the wife of Joseph PARSONS. I found this posted on the Pennsylvania GenWeb, and the misspelling of Lee instead of See is also found in the original text. As many of you have learned, such commentaries contain information of uncertain validity. Both of you have pointed out that Lee should be See, which is also the way the name is spelled in ancestry.com's rendering of the census. Hopefully that is the only mistake in that paragraph. Richard Perrin Day Richard Day <rpday@mac.com> 2008-10-09T18:25:29-06:00 Re: [WVHAMPSH] Robert and John Craigen http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVHAMPSH/2008-10/1223597436 Richard, great to see your post. I have a John CRAIGEN 1769-1827 m 4 Nov 1792 to Mary Ann SEE [not LEE!!??]. My only source is: WILL: Hardy Co, WV Will Abstract 9-279 per Donnell Ballard, 411 Louella Ave, Wayne, PA 19087 pho 610.293.1560. I have no data on John and have no other CRAIGENs. And no ch entered for them. Hope to see fam sheet for them and clarify the LEE/SEE question. I descend from the large SEE fam of earliest Hardy/Hampshire Co, WV and have their tree back to 1710 Germany. Best, Hal McCawley 4178 Pindar Way, Oceanside, CA 92056 760.941.4716 <HalMac@Cox.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Day" <rpday@mac.com> To: <wvhampsh@rootsweb.com> Cc: <WVBERKEL@rootsweb.com>; <WVHARDY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:45 PM Subject: [WVHAMPSH] Robert and John Craigen >I am trying to learn more about the Craigen family. This includes > > 1.Robert Craigen, grantee of land in Hampshire County in 1773, and > Frederick County Virginia in 1765. He also purchased a lot in > Winchester in 1753. > > 2. son John Craigen apparently born 1769 in Winchester, married Mary > Lee of Hardy County, dying 1827. He had been a Sheriff of Hardy County. > > 3. his son Jacob I. Craigen, born Hardy County 1807, married in > Allegany Co. Maryland to Eliza Sein Parsons in 1833. > > My interest comes from a biography of a descendant, Hubert Paxton > Wiggins of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, who states (in 1904) that > Robert married Susannah Perrin of Maryland. A cursory look at > internet data shows that John Craigen in his will mentions a daughter > named Susan Perrin as well. > > While every fact I can easily find on the internet confirms this 1904 > biography, I am searching for someone who has studied this family > better, and can allow me to firmly place Susannah Perrin as the second > daughter of John Perrin, 1711-1769, of Frederick County, Maryland. > > Thanks in advance for your assistance. > > Richard Perrin Day > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVHAMPSH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.0/1717 - Release Date: 10/9/2008 4:56 PM "Hal McCawley" <halmac@cox.net> 2008-10-09T18:10:36-06:00