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From: "Mary D. Taffet" <>
Subject: Re: [LUTHERAN-ROOTS-L] Re: Gingrich/Kingry/etc.
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:35:04 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <00c901c04415$efb08960$a78bfea9@home>


Pamela,

I am in possession of a letter written in 1840 by persons living in the
Shenandoah Valley of Virginia which mentions a family by that name. It
isn't Daniel, but rather Reuben who is mentioned in this letter. The
letter has been transcribed and placed online at:

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/gibbons_letter_1840_03_22.htm

Even though it doesn't mention the same individuals, I would like to point
this letter out to you because of the difficulty I had in reading that
surname. You will note that where this name appears, I had the following
as possibilities for what had been written:

"it is sead that Lou Price is to be mared to Mr [hingry ?? or
lingry ?? or Pingry ?? or Phingry ??] he livd with Steven Conrad"

Given the difficulty I had in making out what name was written, you may
want to consider alternative spellings for records that have been
transcribed. I should add in this letter that I finally figured out they
were referring to Reuben Kingree (or Kingry which is what was actually
written).

By the way, the Conrad family also came from Pennsylvania to the
Shenandoah Valley area, as did the Miller's and many others. Maybe they
attended some of the same churches back in Pennsylvania.

-- Mary Taffet
List Administrator for LUTHERAN-ROOTS



On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Pamela Moats wrote:

> Dear Lutheran Researchers:
>
> I hope there are some of you out there that can help me out.
>
> My ancestor, Daniel Gingrich/Kingry married Rosina _______ c. 1759 in
> Lancaster County, PA.
>
> I have researched every avenue I can find from the Internet, the LCHS,
> libraries, LDS, etc.
>
> I know that some of Daniel's siblings and cousins were married in the
> Lutheran church, yet so far, I have been able to find nothing at all on him.
> He and Rosina, and their 5-yr old son, Solomon moved to Shen. Co., VA in
> 1766.
>
> One last thing (I'm on my knees pleading)... When Daniel and Rosina
> Gingrich settled in VA, their name was anglicized to KINGREE, which all of
> their descendants use to this day. In essence, with Rosina being the
> Matriarch of our family, I would hate to leave her without a maiden name!
> (Right now, I have her name as ROSINA MY WIFE KINGREE. I don't know if my
> descendants will go for that if they read it in our geneology generations
> from now.)
>
> Can anyone help out here??
>
> Thanks so much.
>
> Pamela Kingree Moats
>
>
>

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