Huron County, Ohio, Queries Posted For

Huron County, Ohio

Queries Posted For December 2010 thru May 2011





Surnames: JEFFERSON, JOHNSON
Researcher: Bill Dalton
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Sunday, December 19, 2010

Having been on this list 10 years ago, and getting good results, I turn to you again. Seymore JOHNSON, the son of the first white couple to marry in Wakeman, married an Augusta M. JEFFERSON, Jan. 5, 1849. Another source puts it at Jul. 3, 1850. Seymore died Aug. 4, 1893, I presume in or near Wakeman. Can anyone point me to where he and Augusta are buried? I am primarily interested in any information that I can come up with on Augusta. Birth, death, burial, who her parents were..... Augusta was born in Vermont about 1829. I have found several JEFFERSON families, all from Vermont, in Erie County, Berlin township but can't make any connection.


Surnames: FISH, FULLERTON, KINGSLEY, VAN SCOY
Researcher: Frances Van Scoy
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, January 1, 2011

In the files of the Van Scoy-Knapp reunion is a letter from Cora FULLERTON dated 9 August 1916. The return address on the envelope is preprinted and reads Fullerton & Fish Milliners Norwalk, Ohio. Can anyone tell me anything about this business? Genealogical content- Cora May FISH, daughter of John KINSLEY and Ida FISH, was born 25 May 1873 in North Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio. Her death record gives her name as Cora May FULLERTON and lists her parents. Reunion records say she married Sibley FULLERTON, and they had a son Richard born in 1899. Cora (FISH) FULLERTON's connection to the Van Scoy-Knapp reunion is that her mother Ida FISH was the daughter of John FISH and Lydia Ann VAN SCOY who lived in Ridgefield Township, Huron County.


Surnames: FISH, FULLERTON, KINGSLEY, VAN SCOY
Researcher: Frances Van Scoy
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Jessie Deith Look Up Results-- Found this small bit that might apply to your milliners --"Elizabeth apprenticed herself at age 12 or 13 in Norwalk, Ohio to a milliner (women's hat maker) for no pay. After a short time, less than a year, she left her family in Norwalk and moved to Columbus, Ohio. The two ladies who ran the millinery shop in Norwalk got her a job in a shop in Columbus and a place to stay in a Quaker boarding house." This came from a Bremser/Bromser Family History familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/o/r/Dale.../UHP-0629.html - Cached


Surnames: BREMSER, DOWNERD, FISH, FULLERTON, KINGSLEY, VAN SCOY
Researcher: Frances Van Scoy
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, January 6, 2011

Thank You! Since Elizabeth BREMSER was born in 1888 and apprenticed herself at age 12 or 13, this must have happened around 1900 or 1901. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/o/r/Dale-Norwood/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0629.html The envelope I have from the Fullerton & Fish millinery business was postmarked August 9, 1916, in Norwalk, Ohio, so it's possible this is the same business. The letter was written by Cora May (KINGSLEY) FULLERTON, born in 1873 in North Monroeville, daughter of John KINGSLEY and Ida (FISH) KINGSLEY and granddaughter of John FISH and Lydia Ann (VAN SCOY) FISH. Cora had a first cousin Ida (FISH) DOWNERD (1865-1942) who lived in Columbus, Ohio, so that might have been the connection that helped Elizabeth BREMSER obtain a job in Columbus.


Surnames: DRURY, DURY, KNAPP, VAN SCOY
Researcher: Frances Van Scoy
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, January 6, 2011

I'm seeking information on James DURY who spent the last years of his life, at least 1832-1849, in Greenwich Township, Huron County, Ohio, particularly on his possible first wife and any children from that marriage. He married in 1832 in Huron County, Ohio, Sally Ann VAN SCOY, daughter of Abraham and Mary (KNAPP) VAN SCOY. (A published collection of abstracts of Huron County list them as James DAY and Sally Ann CANSCOY; FamilySearch.org lists them as James DEY and Sally Ann VAN SEVY.) Based on names of neighbors in census records (esp. 1860), I suspect that "Jas. DAY" at 25 in the northeast corner of Section 3 of Greenwich Township in the 1845 plat book is James DURY. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohhuron/platgrnwich3.htm His death in January 1849 is reported in the Norwalk Reflector newspaper and says he "left behind him a wife and five children." All five children are listed with his widow in the 1850 census of Greenwich Township. The published cemetery records of Huron County (p. 175) show adjacent to Abraham and Mary F. VANSCOY a monument for James DORY, died 26 January 1848, 48 y 6m 3d which suggests a date of birth of about 1799. The death record (as abstracted in FamilySearch) for Sarah H. DURY says she died in Greenwich 25 May 1890 at age 78. (Her name is given various ways in the census records: 1850 Sally DRURY, 1860 Sarah DRURY, 1870 Sarah A. DURY, 1880 S. A. DURY.) The 1840 census of Greenwich Township shows James DURY as head of household; males 1 age 5-9, 1 age 10-14, 1 age 30-39; females 1 under age 5, 2 age 5-9, 1 age 10-14, 1 age 20-29. So that suggests a boy age 10-14 and a girl age 10-14, too old to be children of his marriage to Sally VAN SCOY. Does anyone on the list know anything about the life of James DURY before his 1832 marriage to Sally Ann VAN SCOY?


Surnames: CARPENTER
Researcher: Jessie Deith
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Saturday, January 22, 2011

According to "the Firelands Pioneer Index" something was published on Rev. Orson L. CARPENTER and family (1891 -135, 136). If it is still in existence, what would be the cost of my getting a copy?


Surnames: DORY, DRURY, DURY, KNAPP, VAN SCOY
Researcher: Frances Van Scoy
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Are there records of the burials in the Nineveh Cemetery in southeastern Greenwich Township, Huron County, Ohio? I'm looking for the burial place of Sally/Sarah Ann (VAN SCOY) DURY. Her husband James DURY (1832-1849) is buried in the Nineveh Cemetery near her parents Abraham and Mary (KNAPP) VAN SCOY. (His name is listed as James DORY in the Huron County cemetery book, p. 175, which is understandable since the stone is badly worn and hard to read. I have a copy of the cemetery book and refer to it frequently.) The obvious assumption to make is that she is buried beside her husband whom she outlived by about 40 years. She was born in 1812 in New York and married in Huron County, Ohio, in 1932. They had five children, born between 1833 and 1844 in Huron County. In each census 1850-1880 she is in Greenwich Township: 1850 Sally, 1960 Sarah, 1870 Sarah A., 1880 S. A. DURY/DRURY. According to her death record she died 25 May 1890 in Greenwich (Township). It's worth exploring whether she was buried next to one of her 5 children. However, Mary Ann (DURY) SHELDON died in 1893 in Hillsdale County, Michigan, and is buried there. John David DURY died in 1902 in Branch County, Michigan. Lydia Jane (DURY) (BUTLER) Sheldon died in 1924 in Fitchville Township, Huron County, and is buried in the Fitchville Cemetery. James Leander DURY died in 1914 in Ripley Township, Huron County; I haven't found an entry for him in the Huron County cemetery book. Ceylon Sherman DURY was living at the 1930 census in Benton County, Arkansas.


Surnames: JONES, MILLER
Researcher: Clive Harlow
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Monday, February 28, 2011

Does anyone reading this have a connection to John MILLER, born 1825 in Stoke St. Gregory, Somerset, and Sarah MILLER, nee JONES who emigrated from England to Fairfield, Huron, Ohio around 1851; he was a brother of my wife's great grandfather, Richard MILLER born 1820 in Stoke St. Gregory, Somerset. On the 1880 census John is listed as a farmer living in Fairfield, Huron, Ohio, with their children, Henry,23 Perry,16 Caroline,14 and Delia,11. It would be great to have contact with any of their living relatives.


Surnames: HOCH, HOEH
Researcher: Loretta Gerber
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

"Huron County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions" (Huron County Cemetery Book) Page 533, St Paul's Catholic Cemetery, burials without tombstones.. "HOCH, Catharina, d 10 Aug 1905, age 63y"; "HOCH, Michael, d 14 May 1905, age 48y". The surname should be HOEH, therefore in the index of the book the entries are indexed as HOCH, not HOEH as should be. This correction is verified from St Paul's Death Records.


Surnames: POWELL
Researcher: Melinda King
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, May 13, 2011

Looking for information about my ancestors Calvin POWELL (b. 1792 in Vermont) & his son Calvin Jr. (b. Abt 1815 in NY). They were in Huron county by 1824 and left for Illinois in 1837. Looking for anything connecting Calvin Jr. to his parents , Calvin & Clarissa. Also would be interested in any land records for the family. Any help would be very greatly appreciated.


Surnames: POWELL
Researcher: Melinda King
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, May 19, 2011

Mary Carabin Look Up Results-- Do you know what township your Calvin POWELL lived in? I found a short reference to a Calvin POWELL living in Peru Twp and another in Norwich Township in the History of Huron Co. I found some land deeds for a Calvin H. POWELL but his wife's name was Mary. I also found a Calvin bought property in 1837 and then a Cavlin H. purchase more property in 1847-48. Those were in Fitchville, Harland and New London Townships. So it would appear to me that the above people are not your relatives, unless the son had a wife, Mary. I really need a township to know I have the correct person.


Surnames: POWELL
Researcher: Melinda King
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, May 19, 2011

Gloria Ishida Look Up Results-- According to familysearch Calvin H. POWELL married Nancy W. SAUNDERS, November 26, 1846, by a Rev. Sylvester (a bit unclear) - record book image shown. Parents'names not shown. Evidently (again through image) they (?) had a child born in 1849 died in September 1850 at 10 months of dysentery. Hartland Township. In 1860 and 1870, Nancy is living with who seems to be her brother. Calvin is gone ?


Surnames: POWELL
Researcher: Melinda King
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Thursday, May 19, 2011

Tom Neel Look Up Results-- Calvin POWELL was a road supervisor in Fitchville Twp 1846 and 1847, reference trustee minutes noted on p. 95, "Carved out of the Wilderness," by Paula Griffin.


Surnames: POWELL, VANSCOY
Researcher: Melinda King
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, May 20, 2011

John McConnell Look Up Results-- You have gotten a lot of replies about your Calvin POWELL. I think there is a connection between our families. I found a CalvIn POWELL and a Calvin POWELL Jr. in the 1820 census for Ontario Co. NY. My John R. POWELL that lived in Hartland Twp also is in that census for Ontario co. Milo Twp. John R. married a Mary. See what you can do with this info. I am related through John R's daughter, Jane, who married Cornelius VANSCOY. They lived in New London twp.


Surnames: POWELL
Researcher: Melinda King
Email: [email protected]
Date posted: Friday, May 20, 2011

Wow, thanks so much for the responses to my query about my ancestors, Calvin and Clarissa POWELL and their son, Calvin Jr. I believe they may have lived in Norwalk township. They brought two children with them to Huron County - Calvin POWELL Jr., born about 1815 - Clarissa POWELL, born about 1819. According to census records, their next five children were born in Ohio. - Russell Bartholomew, born August 23, 1825, His descendant, Ray POWELL states that Russell was born in Florence, Huron County, OH *(which I just found out today may now be in Erie County.* - Ambrose, born about 1830, - Lucretia, born about 1831, - Joseph A. born June 1833, - and Giles B. born during April of 1835. Most on-line family trees state that the other children were born in Norwalk Township, but I haven't seen any documentation of this. They had moved on to Stark County, Illinois by 1837 when they purchased land there, and had a daughter in 1838. By 1853 most of the family had moved on to Oregon. Since Florence is apparently now in Erie County, does anyone know whether the records would be there, or in Huron County?



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