Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet]

1. Steven Scott Howard was born on 2 Jul 1966 in Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, California; died on 17 May 2004 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, U.S.A.; was buried on 22 May 2004 in Wasatch Lawn Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah USA.
2. Living

Other Events:

• Hebrew Name: Enoch Tsvi
• Yiddish Name: Henoch Hirsch, Hirschel
• YDNA Haplo: Q1b1a
• Resided: 1953, 642 Alta Vista St, Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, California
• Resided: 1958, 1690 E Altadena Dr, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Harry married Mary Lois Peck on 11 Jan 1942 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Mary (daughter of Roy Maynard Peck and Margaret Maria Senter) was born on 15 Jan 1920 in Clinton, Vermillion County, Indiana; died on 4 Sep 2014 in Lehi, Utah County, Utah, USA; was buried on 11 Sep 2014 in West Jordan City Cemetery, West Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• mtDNA Haplo: H1a3a

Notes:

Mary was briefly married to Ralph Woodward and Frank Chapman.

Dave Howard
Nov 2008

Notes:

On his Russian Internal Passport and Army Discharge papers they indicated his height was judged by sight to be 2 arshine 3.

There are 16 vershoks in one arshine and that one vershok is about 4.445 cm or 1.75 inches.
2 arshines plus 3 vershoks comes to 61-1/4 inches or 5 feet 1-1/4 inches.

On his naturalization papers his height is indicated to be 5 feet 4 inches.


1897 All Russian Census indicated that he was living with his family at house number 10 on Dvoryanskaya Street, Rezekne. The house was wooden and covered by wood and there was only one dwelling in the house.

The census indicated that he was 17 years old, born and registered in Rezekne, literate, learned in Jewish people school, at father, trade assistant in the shop of iron.

September 9, 1927, Nathan, Abe's twin brother, obtained a birth certificate indicating that they were born on March 2, 1880, sons of Rezekne citizen, Genech Girsh Leizerov Gurvitch and his wife Basheva. Two sons were born, Aba-Rafael and Nota.

Birth:
The official birth record gives his birthdate as March 2, 1880

Abe married Rose Segal in 1918 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Rose (daughter of Shmuel-Itskhok Sagalovich and Shoshe Levin) was born on 13 Nov 1893 in Rakov, Minsk, Belarus; died on 3 May 1945 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA; was buried on 7 May 1945 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

He was a coal miner, a union leader and later in life a carpinter and general contractor. According to his daughter Mary Lois Peck he invented some gizmo which helped the coal miners tremendously. She says he was creative, and very good at math.



Per death certificate signed by Red J. Evans, MD, dated 3 Sep 1963, he died at age 66 at the Vermillion Co Hospital on 29 Aug 1963. Cause of death - Coronary Occlusion. He was taken to Frist's Funeral Home in Clinton, IN and buried on 30 Aug 1963 at the Riverside cemetery in Clinton, IN. His death is recorded in book No. 4 Page 9 Certi. No. 41.



In a note to some of her cousins, Susan Richter-Beckley, wrote on 13 May 2007:
Bonny, you may remember his two-toned green Pontiac panel truck. That was his vehicle for all his travels in those years. The inside of it smelled like Geritol and dog food. He kept hunting dogs in Clinton. When his health began to fail, he went back to Clinton and stayed.

I knew what Geritol smelled like because he used to drink it in the house, too. It was gross.
He'd come visit us and stay for about 3 weeks each time. My mother used to say she couldn't get anything done while he was there, but she never shooed him out of the kitchen, where he would sit all day talking and talking and talking. And drinking coffee and rolling cigarettes and smoking And talking. That's how I got to know him some, because while he was talking, I was listening. I wish I could remember more of what he said, but it's been a long time.

(Note from Dave Howard: For those of you who are too young to remember, Geritol was a much-advertised elixir for older people. Its combination of vitamins and other healthy items restored youthful vim and vigor.)

In a note to some of her cousins on 14 May 2007, Susan Sladden wrote:

I was only 7 years old when Roy died but all these things that Susan has said here seems accurate to me. The way I understood things was that once my mother [Joan Wilma Peck] married my father and they moved with my mother's son, Tom, to Georgia, Roy left Lois. My mother never moved out of her parent's home until then, (except when she lived with her half sister, Miki/Mildred, until Lois and Roy followed to FL). So she was 25 when she married my dad and they moved away for him to go to seminary college in Decatur, GA. Tom was nearly 6 years old by then and had of course, lived with my mom and her parents. After they left, there was no one left in the house but Lois and Roy and I don't think they were ever too crazy about each other.

In the 4 years that we (my mom became immediately pregnant with me), were away from FL, I don't think that Lois ever visited us in GA, AL or VA. Roy did though. I think he best understood my mother and her problems and when she was in a good mental state, he greatly enjoyed her company. He was also very close always to Tom who at some point began taking him for weeks at a time during the summers to go hunting, etc. I remember his old station wagon also as he came to stay with us at least several times a year, primarily to care for my mom. Jimmy and Janet did this also.


Died:
Per death certificate signed by Red J. Evans, MD, dated 3 Sep 1963, he died at age 66 at the Vermillion Co Hospital on 29 Aug 1963. Cause of death - Coronary Occlusion. He was taken to Frist's Funeral Home in Clinton, IN and buried on 30 Aug 1963 at the Riverside cemetery in Clinton, IN. His death is recorded in book No. 4 Page 9 Certi. No. 41.

Roy married Margaret Maria Senter on 11 Jun 1914 in Paris, Illinois. Margaret (daughter of William Henry Senter and Mary Emaline Deal) was born on 23 Aug 1895 in Asherville, Clay County, Indiana, USA; died on 20 Jun 1926 in Clinton, Vermillion County, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Lived: 29 Apr 1910, Raccoon, Parke County, Indiana; U.S. Census Raccoon, Parke, IN 1910: Maggie M. Senter is living with her family.

Notes:

Per Aunt Lydia Bell, Margeret Miria Senter Peck born 23 May 1895, at Asherville, IN.

Birth:
Per Aunt Lydia Bell, Margeret Miria Senter Peck born 23 May 1895, at Asherville, IN.

Notes:

According to Aunt Bessie, her father was in the timber business, where they cut the trees and floated them down the river. She said he was in business with his father and his brothers and that they were well off.

She said her father's family was originally from Moscow. I had assumed this was Moscow, Russia. However, I have discovered that there is a district in Riga along the edge of the river named Moscow and it was an area occupied by Jewish people. They would gather up the timber that had been floated down the river.

Riga is not on the Baltic Sea but on the banks of the River Daugava and was a major export center for timber. Ships came from Briton so freqently there was a large Church of England cathedral in Riga for the crews. Ships also came from France to pick up wood.

The Daugava was a very important river that served as a gateway to Central Europe from the Baltic Sea. The Swedes at one time had a major presence in Easter Europe and controlled the Baltics. They viewed access to the Daugava as strategic.

Today the Daugava defines a portion of the border between the countries of Latvia and Lithuania. The second largest city in Latvia is Daugavpils which is a key inland port on this river. When this area was part of Russia the city was named Dvinsk and had a very substantial Jewish population.

Daugavpils is about half way between the very important city of Vilnius, Lithuania about 100 miles to the south. Vilnius was known as Vilna during the era of Polish and Russian dominance and was the capital of the Jewish sub-Polish state in the Lithuanian region. The city was governed by Jews.

Today Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania but has only a tiny Jewish population as a result of the very effective extermination of Jewish people in the Baltic region during World War II.

About 100 miles to the north of Daugavpils lies the city of Rezekne, the capital of the Latgale Region, also a city with a large Jewish population. Our family comes from Rezekne but they clearly had Horwitz relatives in Daugavpils and Riga to carry out their very important timber business.

Dave Howard
Aug 2007

He married again and Bessie did not get along with her new step-mother. Her family was living in Latvia.
Bessie did not know the name of the first wife. She had died many years before. Bessie was the daughter of the second wife who she said was Basheva Yaffa.
Bessie explained that the family paid for their relocation to America by working and saving. They also sold the family home and cows. They settled up with their step-mother and used what was left to go to Chicago.
Bob Schwartz has Bertha Louria as the wife of Henoch Hirsh. This is something we will have to work on.
The 1897 census stated that he was literate that he had been educated in the parish school and that the was etiher a flax merchant or timber merchant. Aleksandrs said it was difficult to read the text and there is only a sight difference between the way the two words are spelled. He though flax merchant might be a better translation. However, wood merchant would be consistent with what Aunt Bessie said his business was.

They were residing in a single family dwelling at house 10 on Dvoryanskaya Street in Rezekne, Latvia. The house was wooden and covered with wood.

He was apparently a hard working, wealthy, soft spoken (never used strong language)man. He was in business with his father and brothers. Their family was known for their financial success in the lumber business. Dave Howard Aug 2004.


Name:
According to the 1897 All Russia census taken in the Rezekne area his name was listed as Gurevitch Genoch Girshev. The Girshev is the patronymic for son of Hirsch. Our researcher, Aleksandrs Feigmanis, notes that this is an error.

The Rezekne vital records entry at July 5, 1882, recording the birth of their son, Yeruchim (Reuben), shows his name correctly as Genoch-Girch Gurvitch, son of Getzel-Leizer Gurvitch. His wife was shown as Baseva, daughter of Morduch.

Because of all the different languages spoken and written in this region of the world the same name is written in many different ways in the official records. They are all the same name:

His first name was Henoch, Genoch, Henech, Genech they are all variations of the Bible prophet Enoch (English).

His second name was Hirsch, Hirsh, Girsh which are all versions of the same word meaning stag deer.

Dave Howard
Aug 2007

His last name was Gurevitch, Gurvitch, Gurevich, Hurwitsch, Horwitz, Horowitz

Birth:
In the Rezekne Family List he is shown as 59 in 1896 which would make the year of birth 1838 which agrees with Aunt Bessie information.

Henoch married Basheva/Basseva Joffe about 1879 in Rezekne, Latgale, Latvia. Basheva/Basseva (daughter of Morduch Joffa) was born in 1857 in Druya, Disna District, Belarus; died about 1904; was buried in Horwitz Family Residence, Rezekne, Latgale, Latvia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

My guess is that when they did the Rezekne Family List they only had the first and last wife and left out the middle wife. This will have to be verified.

Birth:
Her first children (twin sons) were born in 1880 and her last children (twin daughters) were born in 1896. My guess is that she was probably born about 1857. She would have been 23 in 1880 and 39 in 1896. She apparently died a few years after giving birth to the twin daughters.(Dave Howard, Jul 2004)

Name:
The Rezekne Family List shows her name as Brocha, daughter of Jankel and Second wife of Genech.She is shown as 45 in 1909 leading to a birth year of 1864. Could Brocha have been the third wife?

Bessie Horwitz gave her mother's name as Basheva.

Died:
She died some time before Bessie left Rezekne because Henoch remmaried and had a third wife by the time she had left about 1908. We are using 1904 as an estimate. It is also assumed that she was burried in Rezekne. (Dave Howard, Jul 2004)

Notes:

When he came to Chicago in the 1920's he lived with his daughter Sara and her husband Max. He did not always have a pleasant personality. He was bad tempered. Max was always kind to him. Max was one of his few friends and he really liked Max.

He would send money to his wife Sosha to buy a ticket to come to Chicago. She would spend the money on other things and never come.

He was an upholsterer. He developed Bell's palsy and went back to Rakov in 1927 to be with his wife.


Name:
When he lived in Chciago he used the name of Isaac Segal. The name on his tombstone in Hebrew is Shmuel-Itskhok Sagalowitch son of Tvsi. The character alef could be translated as either an "A" or "O" so the name could be Sagalawitch or Sogolowitch. The family names used in the Minsk area were either Sagalovitch or Segalovitch. The more common surname in Rakov was Segalovitch. Accordingly, I am going with Segalovitch for now.

The tombestone shows his father's name as Tvsi which is the Hebrew word for deer. However, according to Alexander Baider, he probably never heard that name used. He would have been called the more common Yiddish word for deer, Hirsh. Since Isaac named one of his sons Hirsh it is likely this son was born after his grandfather's death and was named for his grandfather.

Birth:
His tombstone says he was 72 years old at the time of his death that would make the year of his birth 1862.

Died:
The tombstone says that he died on the 29th day of Tevet in the year 5694 or January 16, 1934.

Shmuel-Itskhok married Shoshe Levin in Rakov, Minsk, Belarus. Shoshe (daughter of Jacob Levin) was born about 1860 in Rakov, Minsk, Belarus; died on 15 Aug 1930 in Rakov, Minsk, Belarus. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Here is the translation of the tombstone, photo is attached. The Translation is Line By Line:
Here Lies
A Virtuous Woman
Precious - satisfied - warm daughter - with character
Our dearly beloved mother
Mrs. Shoshe (Susanna from Bible or Sophie)
SAGALOWITCH - We are using SAGALOVICH
Daugher of Ya'akov
She lived 70 years and died
21 AV 5690 (15 Aug 1930)
The photo was taken in Rakov, Minsk, Belarus


Name:
The death certificate for her daughter Rose gave her name as Shophie Lee. However, Lee is not a very likely surname. I spoke directly with Alexander Beider about this. He indicated that the most common Jewish last name in the area that started with the Lee sound was Lewin (Levine). This is the more likely last name. We will have to keep our eyes peeled for more information. Dave Howard, July 2005.

I buttonholed Alexander Beider at the Jewish Genealogy Conference in Las Vegas in 2005 and asked him what name Lee might have really been. He pointed out that there was a Jewish person with the last name Lee who won the Nobel Prize. However, he thinks it is most likely her name was Levin since that was such a common surname in the Minsk area.

Therefore, I have decided to show her name as Levin.
Dave Howard - June 2006

From Alexander Beider's book A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names I have extracted this information under the name Shoshane from the biblical Shin-Vav-Shin-Nun-Heh which in English is Susan. The name is derived from the identical Hebrew common noun meaning lily. This was not a common Ashkeazic gven name and was more commonly used by Christians.

Shoshane is the standar Yiddish form of the name however Shoshe was commonly used in 19th century Belorussia.

Dave Howard 7/2006

Notes:

According to Claude Edgar Peck, his father Claude Emerson Peck, worked at blast furnaces
until he was 19 yrs. old and then worked in the coal mines in and around Clay, Parke and
Vigo counties, IN, until coming to Vermillion County, IN., except some of the early years of his
married life when he was a pump repairman on the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad. He
was an engineer and pilot on the Wabash river boats from Clinton on the north down to
Memphis, Tenn. on the south and held license for the same from the U.S. Goverment. They
moved to Clinton in 1903. He as a mine boss for the Clinton Coal Co. His last work was for the
Miami Coal Co. as hoisting Engineer. Later he owned and operated two grocery stores before
his death. He could make anything he wanted, either wood or metal and was a good carpenter and
a fair civil engineer though not having went farther than the second reader in school.
________________________________________________________________________________

Buried with his wife, Evaline in block 10, lot 16, Riverview Cemetery, Clinton, IN
Title: 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Jackson, Clay County, Indiana
Page: E.D.: 233; page: 24
Text: Peck, Claude; white male; age 25; coal miner; born in Indiana; father born in Indiana; mother born in Indiana
Eva; white female; age 22; wife; keeping house; born in Indiana; father in Indiana; mother in Indiana
May; white female; age 2; daughter; born in Indiana
Title: 1910 United States Census; Clinton, Vermillion County, Indiana
Page: E.D.: 120, page; 3B
Text: Address: 900 South Main Street
Peck, Claude E.; head; white male age 55; married, 34 years; born in Ohio; father born in Ohio; mother born in Ohio;works in coal mine rents home
Eva; wife; white female; age 49; married 34 years; 11 children, 9 living; born in Illinios; father in Pennsylvania; mother in Pennsylvania
Everett; don; ehite male; age 16 ; single; born in Indiana; clerk in grocery store
Toy; son; white male; age 14; single; born in Indiana; in school
Albert; son; white male; age 9; single; born in Indiana; in school
George; son; white male; age 6, single;born in Indiana; in school

Claude married Evaline Turner in Apr 1878 in Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA. Evaline (daughter of Collin F. Turner and Susan Bolton) was born on 7 Sep 1860 in Duquoin, Perry County, Illinois, U.S.A.; died on 17 Sep 1939 in Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana, U.S.A.; was buried on 20 Sep 1939 in Riverview Cemetery, Clinton County, Indiana, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Buried:
Her Obituary appeared in the Clinton Newspaper as follows:

Former Resident
Dies On Sunday [17 Sep 1939];
Funeral Wednesday

Mrs. Eva Peck, age 79, mother of Everett Peck of 605 South Third Street, died early Sunday morning in the Odd Fellows Home at Greensburg. She was a former resident of this city and was a member of the local Rebekah lodge.
Other survivors are four other sons, Ed of Paris, Ill., Roy of North Terre Haute, Albert of this city and George, address unknown; one daughter, Mrs. Floyd Spann of New York City, 23 grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
The body has been removed to the Peck residence on South Third St., where funeral services are to be conducted at two o'clock Wdnesday afternoon with Rev. Wilbur Yocom Christian minister, officiating. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery. The First Funeral Home is in charge of this body.

Notes:

According to the 1900 Census, Indiana, Nevins Township for Claude Peck and family,

His mother and father were born in Ohio
Evaline's mother and father were born in Pennsylvania

Children:

Bessie, born Aug. 1883
Edward, born Jan. 1886
Arthur, born Mar. 1889
Ethel, born Aug. 1891
Evert, born June 1894
Roy, born Oct. 1896

Notes:

Birth:
U.S. Census 1870, 1910, 1920, & 1930, and Marriage Record, 1 Nov 1930, of Charles Lee Senter: "b. Kentucky," and thus confirm the letter from Aunt Lyda Bell Senter. Dave Howard August 2009

Died:
Perth is an "unincorporated area in Dick Johnson Township, Clay County, Indiana, part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area."

William married Mary Emaline Deal on 15 Feb 1880 in Clay City, Clay County, Indiana, USA. Mary (daughter of Isaac Wiseman Deal and Mary Jane Jones) was born on 27 Feb 1864 in Asherville, Clay County, Indiana, USA; died on 13 May 1919 in Perth, Indiana, USA; was buried in Perth Cemetery, Perth, Clay, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In the 1870 Census for Washington Township, Putnam County, Indiana there is a family with the father Isaac Deal age 32, occupation RR Hand; mother is Jane age 34 and two children Daniel age 8 and Mary age 4. This would indicate that Mary was born about 1866.

In the 1880 Census for Springfield Township, LaGrange County, Indian there is a family with the father Elisha Deal age 50, a farmer; the mother is Catherine age 43 and one child, a daughter Mary E age 16. This would indicate that Mary E was born about 1864. This record was found by our relative Karen Mills of Indianapolis. I found it on Ancestry.com.

Springfield, LaGrange County, Indiana is almost at the northern border of the State of Indiana and east of South Bend. It is about 255 miles from Putnam County. I believe that the Mary E of LaGrange is not our Mary. I believe the correct family is the Isaac Deal family of Putnam County were all our other relatives came from.

Dave Howard, 8 Nov 2011

Died:
Perth is an "unincorporated area in Dick Johnson Township, Clay County, Indiana, part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area."

Notes:

Married:
Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941: "Mary Deal & William H. Senter, 15 Feb 1880, Clay County."

Notes:

Birth:
In the Rezekne Family list he is in Family 138 and is shown as 82 in 1896.

Died:
His is in the Rezekne Family Lists from 1896-1914 and he was alive in 1896 and age 82.

Getzel married Itka. Itka was born in 1818 in Horwitz Family Residence, Rezekne, Latgale, Latvia; died after 1896 in Horwitz Family Residence, Rezekne, Latgale, Latvia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
She is listed as 78 in 1896

Died:
She is shown as 78 in 1896 so I am assuming she died after 1896 and I am also assuming that she died right there in Rezekne. This is all still to be proven.

Dave Howard Aug 2007

Notes:

In the All Lithuania Revision List Database there is an entry with the date 23 Oct 1850 for the town of Druja, Uyezd of Disna, Guberniya of Vilnius for Mordukh IOFA son of Ayzyk age 17, indicating a birth year of 1833.

Name:
Brocha is shown as the second wife of Genech and her father's name is shown as Jankel. There could be another wife. Jankel is an alternative name for this fellow.

Other Events:

• Jewish Name: Rakov, Belarus; Zvi or Tzvi ??? - Hebrew for stag deer same as Hirsch which is German for stag deer

Notes:

Name:
His son's tombstone says that the father's name is Tsvi. Beider says that Tsvi is a name created by Jews from the Hebrew common noun meaning deer as a calqu of the Yiddish name Hirsh. * * * All Jews having Tsvi as their shem ha-godesh were called in everyday life by their kinnui, Hirsh, Hersh or Herts, which also means deer in German (Yiddish).

Hirsch married Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

His name comes from the tombstone for Samuel-Isaac Sogolowitch

Notes:

His daughter Sophie's tombstone says that she was the daughter of Ya'akov (Jacob). Rose Segal's death certificate states that her mother's name was Sophie Lee. Accordingly, for now we will use Jacob Lee as his name.

Other Events:

• Lived: 17 Sep 1850, Bloomington Township, Muscatine, Iowa, USA; From US Census Record
• Resided: 1866, Salem, Indiana, USA; There was a watchmaker retailer named Daniel W. Peck assessed about $59 in income tax in Salem, Indiana
• Lived: 1870, Terra Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, U.S.A.; Some time between 1860 when he lived in Jackson, Ohio and 1880 when he was living in Helena, Arkansas with a new family he brought his family to Terre Haute, Indiana area and was a coal miner.

Notes:

Claude Edgar Peck wrote: When I was about 15 years old [abt 1900], Grandfather, Daniel Webster Peck, visited us at Ehrmandale, [Vigo County], Indiana. His home at that time was at Helena, Arkansas and he told me of my forefathers, Peter Beck of Penn. Dutch. There were several families of Beck's and the mail would get mixed up, so Peter went to the court house and asked that his name be changed. The Judge asked him if Peck would do. Peter say "Yaw, dot is alright." So there is the beginning of our name.

Daniel seemed to have lived in a world of hyperbole as can been seen by the different stories he told the census takers over the years.

The Peck family is from England and they started by settling first in Providence, RI. -- Dave Howard 2022

I went to Jackson, Ohio and visited the property where he and Amanda had a home. He was listed at a clock repairman at that time. Jackson was famous for its wood fired steel making blast furnace.
Dave Howard

1900 Census, 3rd Ward, Helena, Phillips C.,AR, St. Frances Township T623, Microfilm 71, Book 1, Page 248A
1880 Census for Helena, Phillips Co., AR:
Peck, D.W. 530 Walnut Street, white male, age 42, married in census year, Brick Mason (Not true. He was age 48.)
Place of birth: Iowa (Not true he was born in Ohio)
Father's place of birth: Iowa (Not true)
Mother's place of birth: Iowa (Not true)

Wife: May, white female, married in census year
Keeping house
Place of birth: MS
Father's place of birth: Ireland
Mother's place of birth: Ireland

_______________________________________________

1900 Census for Helena, Phillips Co., AR:
Daniel W. Peck, 316 Mandelin Street, renting, white male
Age 50, Married 21 years (By 1900 he was age 68)
Birth Mo: Nov., Year: 1849
Born: Iowa (Not true, should be Ohio)
Father born: unknown (Not true)
Mother born: Virginia (Not true)
Bricklayer

Mary, wife, white female
Birth Mo: July, Year: 1859
Age 40, married 21 years (She was 23 in 1880 she would be 43 now.)
Born: Missouri

Emma M., daughter, white female
Birth Mo: Jan., Year: 1878
Age 22, single
Born: Arkansas


Eugene H., son, white male
Age 15, single
Birth Mo: Sept, Year: 1884
Born: Mississippi

Leo F., son, white male
Age 12, single
Birth Mo. March, Year: 1888
Born: Arkansas
At school


Harris, Jessi, servant, black female
Age 14, single
Birth Mo. Nov, Year: 1885
Born: Arkansas
House servant

Hampton, Mandi, boarder, white female
Age: 20, single
Birth Mo: March, Year: 1880
Born: Arkansas
Dressmaker

__________________________________

Listed in the 1900 City Directory:
Peck, Daniel W.
Occupation: Contr
Residence: 316 Walnut
__________________________________

Listed in 1906 City Directory:

Peck, Danl W.
Residence: 320 Walnut
__________________________________

Helena, Phillips County, AR Cemeteries, Vol. II
by Loyd & Flora Turner

St. Mary's Cemetery:
Peck, Daniel
No birth date, d. 11 July, 1907


In 1880 Federal Census for Helena, Phillips, Arkansas, D.W. Peck age 42, born about 1838 in Iowa was living with his wife May age 23. He said his father and mother were both born in Iowa. We was a brick mason. Others in the household were Suson McIntoush age 20, Winie Powell 2 and Heue Smith 9.

Daniel married Amanda J. Gillespie on 14 May 1854 in Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio. Amanda (daughter of William Gillespie and Martha Dryer) was born about 1837 in Gallia County, Ohio, USA; died on 5 Jan 1891 in Terra Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, U.S.A.; was buried in Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Lived: 1866, Salem, Indiana, USA; According to Tax Records Daniel Webster Peck was in Salem, Indiana in 1866. I have assumed his family was with him. Dave Howard Aug 2009

Notes:

Birth:
Some family members say she was born in Jackson, Ohio where she was living in 1860 with Daniel Webster Peck and other Gillespies in town.

The family tree researchers have her brothers and sisters born in Gallia, Ohio. They show her as the daughter of Alexander Gillespie and Martha.

In the census record in Terre Haute her mother Martha was living with her. A family member says the Terre Haute obituary for Martha said she was the widow of William. The family members who show her married to William also have a last name for Martha of Dryer.

The more I look at the family history of Alexander Gillespie the less I feel he was the correct spouse. I am leaving him as William. However, I feel it is likely she may have been born in another city in Ohio other than Jackson. I have left her birth place as Gallia. I am not at all sure this is correct. I would appreciate any comments on this.

Dave Howard, dshoward@usa.net 24 Oct 2010

Notes:

As far as I can tell from talking with various older relatives, Daniel never did divorce Amanda, he ran away to Arkansas and was never heard of for years and years. When his daughters were adults and Amanda was dead he did return to Indiana for a brief visit. Dave Howard

Notes:

Colin Turner was a Civil War Veteran who moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois, where he raised his family.

Collin married Susan Bolton. Susan (daughter of Lorenzo Bolton) was born on 5 Dec 1821 in Somerset, Pennsylvania; died on 14 Jul 1868 in Illinois. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Resided: 1860, Township 8, Range 3W, Jackson, Illinois, USA

Other Events:

• Resided: 1860, Morgan, Kentucky, USA
• Resided: 1870, Jackson, Clay County, Indiana, USA
• Resided: Jun 1880, Aubry, Johnson County, Kansas, USA

Notes:

In a letter from Lydia Bell Senter Hawthorne to her niece, Mary Lois Peck Howard, she states:

"Dear Mary, thought you would like to know about your great-grandfather, my father's father [James Harvey Senter (1820-1900)]. He was a wonderful man. He and Grandmother [Mariah M. Baker (1823-1910) made their home with us [in Asherville, IN] when I was a small girl, 10 to 12 years old. He was a Baptist Minister and in his old days he was a shoe cobbler. He mended all the children's shoes in the little village of Asherville. I used to stand beside his chair many days and watch him. and hand him the little wooden pegs he used to fix the shoes. His hair was as white as snow and he wore it real short, guess now days you'd call it a crew cut, so beautiful. He went to church every Sunday.

I sure did have a beautiful childhood, everybody doing so many interesting things. Grandfather owned a farm in Kentucky and he said there was a silver mine on it. When the Civil War was on the North and South he lost all he had and came North. He had a map of the silver mine but some how it was lost he told my father and his boys to go find it. But they never did, so I guess it is still there. Bro. Frank went down 2 years ago. But I guess he didn?t find out much about it he knows the town in Kentucky so when I see him again, I?ll ask him and write and tell you.

In those days, Kentucky was far far away from us. No way to get there only by horse and buggy or train."



Sources:
Abbrev: Vanderhoofven Web Site
Title: Vanderhoofven Web Site of Johnny L. Vanderhoofven of Crescent City, California
Abbrev: 1850 Federal Census (Grayson County, Virginia)
Title: 1850 Federal Census (Grayson County, Virginia)
Note: Mouth of Wilson, page 198.
Abbrev: New River Genealogy Web Site
Title: New River Genealogy Web Site
Abbrev: Harold Haga
Title: Harold Haga

James married Mariah M. Baker on 31 Dec 1839 in Probably Virginia. Mariah (daughter of Henry Baker and Mary Bakers Mother) was born on 23 Jul 1823 in Mouth of Wilson, Grayson County, Virginia, USA; died in Abt. 1910 in Bowling Green, Clay County, Indiana, USA; was buried in 1910 in Asherville Cemetery, Clay, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

In a letter from Lydia Bell Senter Hawthorne to her niece, Mary Lois Peck Howard, she states:

"Grandmother [Mariah M. Baker (1823-1910)] was a carpet weaver and had a large room there in our lot and a big, big, large loom made of shined wood. I used to fill the shuttle with the carpet rags for her. She sewed the carpet; 25 yards covered a room from wall to wall. She had to cut it and sew it all together and get straw and put it under it all colors and kind of checker board or striped, had to wrap the chain on stretchers. Was very interesting, when I was 14 years old, mother bought our first imported wool carpet and velvet couch. Gee, I thought we were rich.

I sure did have a beautiful childhood, everybody doing so many interesting things.

Grandmother often told me George Washington was her cousin. She came from Virginia her maiden name was Baker. In those days, Kentucky was far far away from us. No way to get there only by horse and buggy or train."


In the 1870 Census she is listed as Mary M. age 45 and having been born in Virginia.

In 1900 Census she is included in the family of her son William Henry Senter. Her birth date is given as July 1824 age 75 widowed and the mother of 8 children of whom 6 are alive as of the date of the census June 1900. The record says she was born in Virginia and both her parents were born in West Virginia.

Notes:

U.S. Census Ward 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, IN 1860: "Isaac W. Deal age 22 b. Abt. 1838 Indiana, day laborer," in the household of his brother: "Solomon J. Deal, age 23 b. Abt. 1837 Indiana, day laborer, wife Rachel, age 19, b. Abt. 1841 Indiana; two children b. Indiana: John N. 2 Clarence 8/12."

Name:
"Encyclopedic Directory of Clay County, Indiana: Biography, History, Politics, Religion," (1896); Harmony, Clay, IN:

"Deal, Major, occupation: miner, residence: Crawford St., spouse: Deal, M, b. Putnam County, 1838, arrived Clay, IN: 1876, OARB [Republican, Baptist].

Deal, Daniel, occupation: miner, residence: Crawford St., spouse: Deal, D., b. Putnam County, 1863, arrived Clay, IN: 1867 [sic], OORB [Republican, Baptist]."



Died:
Travis, "A History of Clay County, Indiana," v. I, Ch. VVVII "Necrology," p. 323: "Deal, Major, d. April 19, 1899."

Isaac married Mary Jane Jones in Jul 1860 in Putnam County, Indiana, U.S.A.. Mary (daughter of Nathan JONES and Abigail DeWeese) was born about 1833 in Indiana, USA; died in 1892 in Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mary Jane Jones shows up as Mary Jane Mullinix in the 1860 Putnam County, Washington Township, Manhattan Post Office, Indiana census as 27 without a husband and with a 5 year old daughter Sarah Mullinix.

Dave Howard Apr 2008

Mary Jane Jones is in the 1870 Census of Washington Township, Putnam County, Indiana as the wife if Isaac Deal age 32. Her name is listed as Jane Deal. She is age 32 and children Daniel age 8 and Mary age 4 are with them. There is no mention of daughter Sara who would now be about 15.

Dave Howard Apr 2008

1850 census: found

On 10 Sep 1850, Nathan (47) and Abagail [sic] (45) Jones lived in Washington Twp. (Putnam) IN. Nathan was a farmer and owned $700 in real estate. They lived with their children Wm. L. (21), Mary J. (17), David (15), Lewis G. (10), Cenith C. (5), and Cerena E. (5). Many neighbors were family.

In the 1900 Federal Census for Rockford, Pottawattamie, Iowa there is a family of Joseph Moss born May 1834 age 65 Married 39 years to Mary J. wife born Nov 1838. She was born in Indiana and bother her parents were born in Kentucy. Joseph Moss was born in Indiana and both his parents were born in Kentucky.

Notes:

Married:
Indiana Marriages. 1800-1941: Isaac W. Deal & Mary J. Mullinix, m. Jul 1860 Putnam County."

Notes:

In the All Lithuania Revision List Database there is an entry with the date 23 Oct 1850 for the town of Druja, Uyezd of Disna, Guberniya of Vilnius for Mordukh IOFA son of Ayzyk age 17, indicating a birth year of 1833 for Mordukh. Ayzyk is shown as age 43 indicating a birth year of about 1807.

Aizik married Bluma Rafailov. Bluma (daughter of Rafael) was born in 1807 in Druya, Disna District, Belarus. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Lived: 1818, Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, USA

William married Mary Ann Hickey on 16 Dec 1819 in Sciotto County, Ohio. Mary (daughter of Matthew Hickey and Dorinda Kennedy) was born in 1791 in Dublin, St Catherine's, Dublin City, Ireland; was christened on 13 Feb 1791 in Dublin, St Catherine's, Dublin City, Ireland; died on 1 May 1849 in Bloomington Township, Muscatine, Iowa, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Many researchers have Alexander Gillespie as Amanda's father.
See Ancestry.com Dave Howard 8 Nov 2011

William married Martha Dryer. Martha (daughter of Dryer and Marth's Mother) was born in 1806 in Virginia; died in in Terra Haute, Vigo County, Indiana, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Some researchers have Martha "Patsy" Wright as Amanda's mother. Others have Martha Dyer as her mother. Perhaps one last name is her maiden name and the other her widowed name.
Dave Howard 8 Nov 2011

Collin married Wife. was born in in Scotland. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Memorial to Rev. Drury Senter of Grayson County, Virginia


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Birth: 25 Sep 1788 in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina
Death: 10 Jan 1853 in Mouth of Wilson, Grayson, Virginia
Burial: Senter Family Cemetery Mouth of Wilson, Virginia

From the minutes of the Washington District Baptist Association for the year 1855 copied by J. E. Sutherland, Clintwood, Virginia is the following:

"The subject of this memorial, the Rev. Drury Senter, was born in Cumberland County, NC, on the 25th day of September 1788. His parents moved with him to Washington County, Va. And there he married on June 6th 1809. In the year 1814, he became a member of the Baptist Church at Saint Clair’s Bottom. In September 1814 he commences exercising a public gift and in December 1815 was licensed to preach by the same church. About 2 years and 6 months thereafter he was Regular Ordained by the proper Presbytery as an Elder and pastor of the Regular Baptist Church at Saint Clair’s Bottom in June 1818, he labored as a public minister in the bounds of the Washington Association until about the year 1823. He was chosen by the Washington Association as their messenger to Sister Association. In the year 1823 removed to North Carolina and settled in the County of Ashe, where he labored as a public Minister in the mountain and Adjoining Association and his labors were greatly blessed. About the year 1840 he removed to the County of Grayson in Va. where he lived till the time of his Death on the 10th of January 1853. During the greater portion of his life from 1823 to the time of his death, he was chosen Moderator of the Mountain Association and their Messenger to the Neighboring Association from 1823 to 1853. He also was pastor of several churches in Mountain Association."



http://www.newrivernotes.com/nc/senter.htm#Mem

Membership Records of the Senter Primitive Baptist Church Nathan's Creek, Ashe County, North Carolina 1829-1924:

"North Carolina, Ashe County

The Baptist Church of Christ at Senter Meeting House was constituted in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and fourteen members given up from the different churches to wit: From Piney Creek [seven names], From Silas Creek Church [one name], From Fox Creek Church [one name], From Beaver Creek Church [two names], & From Cranberry Church [two names]. [total was thirteen names; was Reverend Drury Senter the fourteenth member?]

The Presbytery called for and these brethern examined and found orthodox in the principle of the gospel and set apart as a church of Christ to hold their own kees (sic).

By the Presbytery

Elder Drury Senter
Elder Henry Vanover

Abstract of [Primitive] Baptist Principles:

1. We believe in one true and living God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost and that these three are one.

2. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the words of God and the only rule of faith and practice.

3. We believe in the doctrine of election by Grace.

4. We believe in the doctrine of Original Sin, and in man's impotency to recover himself from the fallen state he is in by nature by his own free will or ability.

5. We believe that sinners are called, converted, regenerated, and sanctified by the Holy spirit and that all who are thus regenerated or born again by the Spirit of God shall never fall finally away.

6. We believe that sinners are justified in the sight of God only by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.

7. We believe that Baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of Jesus Christ and that true believers are the subjects of these ordinances and we believe that the true mode of Baptism is by immersion.

8. We believe in the resurrection and a general judgment and that the joys of the righteous and the torments of the wicked will be eternal.

9. We believe that no minister has a right to administer the ordinances except such as are regularly called and come under the hands of the presbytery."

The following names appear on the membership roll of the church:

"Senter A.N.; Senter, Peggy; Senter, Matilda; Senter, Ellen; Senter, Nancy; Senter, Cosby d. 13 Apr 1923; Senter, Cledine; Senter, Eli."

In 1853 the Senter Association was formed and a convention was held at Senter Church. This Association was formed from the Mountain and Three Forks Associations. Senter Church at Crumpler, Ashe County, NC was named for Rev. Drury Senter and his son, Rev. Nathaniel Senter.

Property

Drury received land grants in what was to be Grayson County in 1781, 1839, and 1840. These grants were on Piney Creek and New River. On February 4, 1841 Drury purchased from Elizah and Sarah Baker three tracts of land, totaling 520 acres on Wilson Creek and Beaver Dam Creek, a branch of Wilson Creek (Grayson County Deed Book #9 - Pages 422-23) .

Drury and Polly's house is vacant, but still stands beside Wilson Creek about a mile southwest of Mouth of Wilson on Route 16. It is unclear if they built the house, or if it was already standing when they moved to the property in 1841. The house has been added onto over the years, and could probably accommodate two families. Drury and Polly and some of their children are buried in the family cemetery on the hill above the house."


1
Birth: 25 SEP 1788 in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina 2
Death: 10 JAN 1853 in Mouth of Wilson, Grayson, Virginia
Note:
Drury died from Dyspepsia.


2 3
Burial: 10 JAN 1853 the family cemetery at Mouth of Wilson, Grayson, Virginia.
Note:
Drury's grave marker reads: "In memory of the Rev. Drury Senter, Died Jan. 10th 1855, Aged 64 years 3 mo &16 days He was a minister of the Regular Baptist Church about 38 years and a successful Preacher of his day and died in the triumphs of faith"

1
Will: JAN 1853 Grayson County, Virginia
Note:
Book No. 3, Page 206 Grayson County Court Records

WILL OF DRURY SENTER
November 4, 1852

Grayson County State of Virginia November the fourth AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty two I, Drury Senter being of sound mind and memory as I ever were and taking into consideration the worldly goods which it has been pleased God to possess (?) me with amen I now proceed to the distribution of the same in manners as followoth to wit first I desire that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid if any secondly it is my desire that my wife Polly Senter shall have as much of the farm and wood land including my mansion house and all my house hold and kitchen furniture and as much live stock including one small filly and cattle sheep and hogs during her natural life, I desire that my sons Nathaniel Henry John Aaron William Harvy Levi Calvin shall have one hundred and fifty dollars in land that they have already received except Calvin and he shall be made up equal with them either in land or money, it is my desire that all my money that is due me be collected and all my perishable property be put to sale and after my wife Polly dowry is laid off and Calvin made equal with the rest of the boys in land and other property and if there be anything left after the first sale there shall be an equal distribution made amongst all my children both boys and girls, it is also my desire that the bit of land that Henry now lives on that I have deeded to him since this indenture was dated that he should have it extra, it is my desire that Matilda Jones __?__ who inter married with Joseph Sturgill shall have five dollars in good and lawful money of Virginia so as to disinherit her of any further claims of any real estate or perishable property Lastly I ordain and appoint my two sons Nathaniel Senter and Levi B. Senter my lawful coexecutors I do hereby make void and null any will or testament made by me heretofore declaring this to be my last will and testament and I have here unto inter changeably set my hand and seal in the present of us

Drury Senter (Seal) Attest John A. Parsons Levi B. Senter


Grayson County Court January term 1853 This last will and testament of Drury Senter deceased was presented in court proved by the oath of John A. Parsons and Levi B. Senter witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded, and on the motion of Nathaniel Senter and Levi B. Senter the CoExecutors there in named who made oath there to and together with Isom Cox and Stephen J. Bryant their securities entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of $1600 conditioned (?) as the law directs certified, is granted them for obtaining probets of said will in due form

Test Stephen M. Hale C. C.

There are at least two large pages of items that were sold at the sale of Drury's estate. Among the last names of some of the buyers are: Young, Senter, Parsons, Blevins, Pugh, Baker, Wells, DeBoard, Pasley, Phipps, Barton, Strange, Griffeth, Perkins, Drawn, Durall, Thomas. Drury Senter had notes on people totaling approx. $1,000.


1
Sources:
Abbrev: Trula Purkey of Troutdale, Virginia
Title: Trula Purkey of Troutdale, Virginia
Abbrev: Senter Family History
Title: Senter, Rodney Dale, "Senter Family History" (Untitled document in the library of the Ashe County Historical Society, West Jefferson, N.C.)
Repository:
Name: Ashe County Historical Society
West Jefferson, North Carolina 28694
Abbrev: Bob Baker
Title: Bob Baker
Abbrev: McClure Web Site
Title: McClure Web Site of Andrew P. Thomas of Brazil, Indiana


Sale of land to Drury Senter:
Grayson DB9:422. 4 Feb 1841. ELIJAH BAKER AND WIFE SARAH to Drury Senter. 50a. $200. On Beaver Dam Creek, a branch of Wilson Creek.
Signed: Elijah Baker, Sarah (x) Baker. Witnesses: Ephraim Gentry,Chrisley (x) Reedy, William Senter.
Information provided by Larry Baker, mrbakerman1@hotmail.com
19 Aug 2013

Grayson DB9:422. 4 Feb 1841. ELIJAH BAKER AND WIFE SARAH to Drury Senter was a Preacher and preached at one of REV Andy's former churches Saint Clair?s Bottom.
Larry Baker 19 Aug 2013
mrbakerman1@hotmail.com

400a. $700. On Wilson Creek ... Robert Parsons survey SAM BAKER's father-in-law ... not far from Beaver Dam Creek ... Joseph Young's line. Witnesses: Ephraim Gentry, Chrisley (x) Reedy, William Senter.
Larry Baker 19 Aug 2013
mrbakerman1@hotmail.com

Drury received land grants in what was to be Grayson County in 1781, 1839, and 1840. These grants were on Piney Creek and New River. On February 4, 1841 Drury purchased from Elizah and Sarah Baker three tracts of land, totaling 520 acres on Wilson Creek and Beaver Dam Creek, a branch of Wilson Creek (Grayson County Deed Book #9 - Pages 422-23)
Larry Baker 19 Aug 2013
mrbakerman1@hotmail.com

HOLD THE FORT!!! Drury Senter's mom was Rebecca Avent, sister of Elizabeth Avant w/o Rev. Andy Baker so DRURY and old Elijah BAKER were 1st cousins. Larry Baker 19 Aug 2013 mrbakerman1@hotmail.com

Drury married Mary Jane McClure on 06 Jun 1809 in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Nathaniel McClure and Dorcas Cole) was born in Abt. 1791 in St. Clair's Bottom, Grayson County, Virginia; died on 9 Oct 1863 in Mouth of Wilson, Grayson County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Senter Cemetery, Mouth of Wilson, Grayson, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850: "Drewry [sic] Senter & Polly McClure, 29 Jun 1809, Washington, VA."

The religious ceremony may have taken place on 6 June and not been recorded at the court house until 29 June 1809. On the other hand, one or the other date may be incorrect.

In any case, note the spelling of his given name, "Drewry," which probably represents a phonetic pronounciation. Also, note that she married under her informal name, "Polly."

Roy Richard Thomas July 2010

Henry married Mary Bakers Mother. Mary was born in in West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

This branch of the Deal family of North Carolina is somehow related to the Willis Lawson family of Putnam County, as evidenced by the fact that James Graves (1833-1892) and Mary Barnett Deal (1800-1880) lived in adjacent households in Putnam County, perhaps on land owned by Mary Barnett Deal (1800-1880).

Roy Richard Thomas February 2013

Birth:
The Catawba River Valley, Rowan County NC, became in 1777: Burke County NC, and became in 1779: Lincoln County NC, and finally in 1842: Catawba County, NC.

Died:
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index: "Andrew Deal, age 50 b. North Carolina, d. Nov 1850 Putnam, IN; Cause of Death: Congestion & Chills."

Andrew married Mary Barnett on 05 Sep 1822 in Harrison County, Indiana, USA. Mary (daughter of James Otis Barnett and Elizabeth Ann Keller) was born in Abt. 1800 in Harrison County, Indiana Territory, U.S.A.; died on 3 Dec 1892 in Brazil, Clay County, Indiana, USA; was buried in Harmony, Clay County, Indiana, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

This branch of the Deal family of North Carolina is somehow related to the Willis Lawson family of Putnam County, as evidenced by the fact that James Graves (1833-1892) and Mary Barnett Deal (1800-1880) lived in adjacent households in Putnam County, perhaps on land owned by Mary Barnett Deal (1800-1880).

Roy Richard Thomas February 2013

Birth:
Ronald L. Baker, "From Needmore to Prosperity, Hoosier Place Names" (1995): Harrison County was "Named for William Henry Harrison, first Governor of Indiana Territory."

Notes:

Married:
LDS FamilySearch Indiana Marriages, 1811-1959: "Andrew Deal & Mary Barnett, license & m. 5 Sep 1822, Harrison County by Frederick Leslie."

This marriage is one of seven Deal family marriages performed between 1815 and 1821 in Harrison County, IN: John, Andrew, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, Michael, & Moses Deal.

ECW, p. 9: "Andrew Deal was a blacksmith in partnership with his brother, John Deal, who married Mary Barnett's older sister, Sally Barnett. Andrew and Mary (Polly) lived in Bowling Green, Clay, IN for some time and then moved to Putnam County, IN, where they lived about two miles from the old [Barnett?] mill. . . ."

ECW, "Corrections," p. 68:

"7. Mary (Polly) Barnett (James Otis) correction from p. 9. Born 1808 and m. 5 Sep 1822 in Harrison IN Andrew Deal, a blacksmith. Had 12 children . . ."

Edited by Roy Richard Thomas July 2007

Notes:

I was looking at the 1850 Federal Census Records for Washington Township, Putnam County, Indiana and I was checking out the family of Henley Mullinix, the first husband of Mary Jane Jones. I thought that he might have married a neighbor and I scrolled forward in the census record and found two Jones families. To me they looked like brothers. Nathan and Abagail Jones had a Mary Jane that was just the right age.

I have attached the census record. I then searched on this family and came across the family records of alloch from Tucson, Arizona at ancestry.com. I will attempt to contact him but I have created him as a source and I have picked up his information. I will have to confirm this but it all ties in with what I have from other sources so far.

Dave Howard April 26, 2008

Nathan married Abigail DeWeese on 23 Sep 1829 in Putnam County, Indiana, U.S.A.. Abigail (daughter of David DeWeese and Elizabeth Jane Harry) was born on 18 Oct 1805 in Knox, Pike, Kentucky, USA; died on 06 Oct 1865 in Pottawattamie County, Iowa; was buried in Branson Cemetery, Loveland, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Hezekiah married Abigail Gray on 8 May 1791 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Abigail was born in 1770 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 31 May 1833 in Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

Matthew married Dorinda Kennedy. Dorinda (daughter of James Kennedy and Honor) was born in Jul 1767 in Dublin, St Catherine's, Dublin City, Ireland; died in Sep 1824 in Dublin, St Catherine's, Dublin City, Ireland. [Group Sheet]

married Marth's Mother. Marth's was born in in Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Henry married Rebecca Avent in Abt. 1785 in North Carolina, USA. Rebecca (daughter of Peter Avent and Amy Massie) was born in Abt. 1765 in Cumberland, NC; died in Aft. 26 Jul 1853 in Carroll, TN. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

U.S. Census District 1, Carroll, TN 1850: "William Senter, age 64 b. Abt. 1786 North Carolina, farmer[not minister], wife Jane, age 64 b. Abt. 1786 Virginia, Alvin A., age 19 b. Abt. 1831 Tennessee. Rebecca Senter, age 85 b. Abt. 1765 North Carolina."




Name: Rebecca AVANT
Given Name: Rebecca
Surname: AVANT
Sex: F
_UID: 3294A1DDD043C945B55F4205A511370EBBE4
Change Date: 30 May 2003
Birth: 1764 in Cumberland County, North Carolina 1
Death: AFT 26 JUL 1853 in Carrol County, Tennessee 1

Father: Peter AVANT
Mother: Amy MASSEY

Marriage 1 Henry SENTER b: 1760 in Cumberland County, North Carolina
Married: 1785 1
Children
Stephen Senter b: 1787
Drury SENTER b: 25 SEP 1788 in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina
William Senter b: 10 MAR 1789 in North Carolina
Elizabeth Senter b: 21 SEP 1791
Aaron Senter b: 1793
James B. Senter b: 1796

Name: Peter AVANT
Given Name: Peter
Surname: AVANT
Sex: M
_UID: 57130297F50E8A42A3211B86D4F647529A71
Change Date: 12 Feb 2003

Father: Thomas AVANT
Mother: Mary GOOCH

Marriage 1 Amy MASSEY
Children
Rebecca AVANT b: 1764 in Cumberland County, North Carolina

Name: Thomas AVANT
Given Name: Thomas
Surname: AVANT
Sex: M
_UID: 5DCF2A2F4060D64995723F3EED39459CCFA8
Change Date: 12 Feb 2003

Marriage 1 Mary GOOCH
Children
Peter AVANT

ID: I2381
Name: Peter AVANT
Given Name: Peter
Surname: AVANT
Sex: M
_UID: 57130297F50E8A42A3211B86D4F647529A71
Change Date: 12 Feb 2003

Father: Thomas AVANT
Mother: Mary GOOCH

Marriage 1 Amy MASSEY
Children
Rebecca AVANT b: 1764 in Cumberland County, North Carolina

Notes:

Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: "Henry Senter, b. 1760 North Carolina & Rebecca Avant [sic], b. 1764, m. 1785 [North Carolina]."

Nathaniel married Dorcas Cole in 1770. Dorcas (daughter of Eleazer Cole and Eunice Cole) was born on 20 Jun 1764 in Ulster, Ulster, New York, USA; died on 1 Nov 1837 in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
Marriage year from U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 at Ancestry.com

Notes:

Birth:
The Catawba River Valley, Rowan County NC, became in 1777: Burke County NC, and became in 1779: Lincoln County NC, and finally in 1842: Catawba County, NC.

Died:
William Deal's will was dated 19 November 1838 [Putnam, IN Book A p. 757-59]. His wife was listed as Eve and a son John was mentioned.

William married Eve Decker in Abt. 1798 in Lincoln County, North Carolina, U.S.A.. Eve (daughter of Christopher Decker and Elizabeth Unknown) was born in Abt. 1770 in Virginia; died in Aft. 1860 in Indiana, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Which person is the daughter, "Eve" mentioned in the will dated 1807 and probated 1808 in Lincoln, County, NC, of Christopher Decker I13181 (Abt. 1855-1808) & Elizabeth (Unknown): Eve Decker I9132 (Abt. 1770-Aft. 1860, wife of William Deal) or Eve Ann Decker I39975 (Abt. 1795-1861, wife of Jacob Miller Julius)?

The differences in the information available are:

AGE--Eve (Decker) Deal b. Abt. 1770, Eve Ann (Decker) Julius b. Abt. 1795; If Elizabeth (Unknown) were born Abt. 1855, then either Eve Deal or Eve Julius could have been a daughter; also, both were alive when Christopher Decker wrote his will in 1807.

TIMELINE--Dates of Christopher Decker's land transactions in North Carolina: bought 29 Dec 1792; sold 3 Nov 1802.

Eve Ann Decker was born Abt. 1795 in Pennsylvania. It is unlikely that Chrictopher Decker and wife Elizabeth (Unknown) were in Pennsylvania during a ten-year period, when he was buying and selling land in North Carolina.

MARRIAGE PLACE--Eve Decker & William Deal were married Abt. 1798 in Lincoln County, NC. Eve Ann Decker & Jacob Miller Julius were married 31 Jan 1815 in York County, PA.

CHILDREN'S BIRTH PLACE--The first three of Eve Deal's children (John, Andrew, & Joseph) were born in Lincoln County, NC. None of the children of Eve Julius were born in North Carolina. The first three were born in Pennsylvania; the others were born in Pittsylvania County, VA.


It appears from the evidence above that Eve Ann Decker and her husband, Jacob Miller Julius, never lived in North Carolina. Thus Eve Decker, wife of William Deal, must be the daughter of Christopher Decker, Sr. of Lincoln County, NC.

James married Elizabeth Ann Keller on 6 Jun 1797 in Washington County, Kentucky, U.S.A.. Elizabeth (daughter of John Keller and Jerusha Barrett) was born on 02 Apr 1780 in Wilkes County, North Carolina; died on 14 Nov 1838 in Washington Township, Putnam County, Indiana; was buried in Barnett Cemetery, Washinton Twnsp, Reelsville, Putnam, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

William married Mary Jane VanDerver in Sep in Catawba Area, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA. Mary (daughter of Charles Vandever and Mary Jones) was born in 1760 in Orange, North Carolina, USA; died on 22 Jun 1847 in Putnam County, Indiana, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

David married Elizabeth Jane Harry on 28 Nov 1787 in Botetourt, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Evan Harry and Elizabeth Abigail Thomas) was born in Abt. 1767 in Botetourt, Virginia, USA; died in Abt. 1834 in Putnam County, Indiana, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Birth date about 1740/1750 per researcher. I have used 1745 to make database searches work.

Peleg married Phoebe Mason on 07 Nov 1756 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Phoebe (daughter of Hezekiah Mason and Rebecca Martin) was born on 17 Dec 1736 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA; died on 23 Jul 1778 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

James married Honor. Honor was born in in Ireland. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"Virginia County Formation

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vaggsv/virginia_county_formation.htm

COUNTY, DATE FORMED, FROM COUNTY/COUNTIES

Prince George 1703 from Charles City

Brunswick 1720 from Prince George, Isle of Wight, Surry

Lunenburg 1746 from Brunswick Lunenburg

Halifax 1752 from Lunenburg"

Edited by Roy Richard Thomas August 2008

Stephen married Simms Mary about 1737. Simms (daughter of Joseph Simms and Mary Unknown) was born on 04 Apr 1739; died in AFT. 1810. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton Co, NC Book I, p. 216, proved Sept. Court 1779,
shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham,
Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.),
Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.

PETER AVENT:
Constable
Removed to North Carolina and married.
ABSTRACT: WILL, NORTHAMPTON CO., NC, 13 MAY 1779, filed: September court, 1779: son, William Avent,...son, Isham Avent...son, Joseph Avent...son, John Avent...son, Thomas Avent...daughter, Sarah Avent... daughter, Eliza Barker...daughter, Lucy Truelove...daughter, Mourning Avent...daughter, Rebecca Avent...wife's daughter, Lucretia Tomlinson...wife, Molly Avent...EX: William Avent and Lucas Tomlinson.


[Gregory Family Tree 2.FTW]

[Bakers of Harnett County.FTW]

The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton Co, NC Book I, p. 216, proved Sept. Court 1779,
shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham,
Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.),
Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.

PETER AVENT:
Constable
Removed to North Carolina and married.
ABSTRACT: WILL, NORTHAMPTON CO., NC, 13 MAY 1779, filed: September court, 1779: son, William Avent,...son, Isham Avent...son, Joseph Avent...son, John Avent...son, Thomas Avent...daughter, Sarah Avent... daughter, Eliza Barker...daughter, Lucy Truelove...daughter, Mourning Avent...daughter, Rebecca Avent...wife's daughter, Lucretia Tomlinson...wife, Molly Avent...EX: William Avent and Lucas Tomlinson.


The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton Co, NC Book I, p. 216, proved Sept. Court 1779,
shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham,
Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.),
Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.

PETER AVENT:
Constable
Removed to North Carolina and married.
ABSTRACT: WILL, NORTHAMPTON CO., NC, 13 MAY 1779, filed: September court, 1779: son, William Avent,...son, Isham Avent...son, Joseph Avent...son, John Avent...son, Thomas Avent...daughter, Sarah Avent... daughter, Eliza Barker...daughter, Lucy Truelove...daughter, Mourning Avent...daughter, Rebecca Avent...wife's daughter, Lucretia Tomlinson...wife, Molly Avent...EX: William Avent and Lucas Tomlinson.


[Gregory Family Tree 2.FTW]

[Bakers of Harnett County.FTW]

The will of Peter Avent recorded in Northampton Co, NC Book I, p. 216, proved Sept. Court 1779,
shows Elizabeth Baker daughter of Peter Avent. Peter m. 1st Any Massie; Ch: William, Isham,
Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth (Baker), Lucy (Truelove), Rebecca, Mourning (dau.),
Peter m. 2nd. Mary Tomlinson. No CH.

PETER AVENT:
Constable
Removed to North Carolina and married.
ABSTRACT: WILL, NORTHAMPTON CO., NC, 13 MAY 1779, filed: September court, 1779: son, William Avent,...son, Isham Avent...son, Joseph Avent...son, John Avent...son, Thomas Avent...daughter, Sarah Avent... daughter, Eliza Barker...daughter, Lucy Truelove...daughter, Mourning Avent...daughter, Rebecca Avent...wife's daughter, Lucretia Tomlinson...wife, Molly Avent...EX: William Avent and Lucas Tomlinson.

Peter married Amy Massie on 3 Jun 1742 in Brunswick County, Virginia, USA. Amy (daughter of Joseph Massie and Elizabeth Washington Lanier) was born in BET. 1718 - 1720 in Brunswick County, Virginia, USA; died in BET. 1776 - 1777 in Northampton Co., North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Nathaniel married Mary. Mary was born about 1716; died in 1767. [Group Sheet]

Eleazer married Eunice Cole about 1760 in New York City, New York, USA. Eunice (daughter of Israel Cole, III and Remember Burgess) was born on 27 Apr 1742 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA; died on 9 Oct 1786 in Dutchess, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The surnames "Deal," "Deel," and "Teel" were adopted by some members of immigrant families in the former English colonies as Anglicised versions of various spellings in German of "Diehl," "Diel," "Dhiel," and "Thiel."

U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, (Tax List - 1779 [NC State Archives]; Call Number: C.R. 085.701.5) Rowan County, NC 1780: "William Dills 'Capt Davis District'; Samuel Dayel 'Capt. Lyons' District; Deal ? [sic]."


Bob Jones, "Jacob Shook, The Man and His Legacy, Chapter III":

http://www.shookhistory.org/ShookBook3.htm

"The original land grants on Lyles creek record the owners, Johan Baum in 1750 was the first recorded, Simon Yonoss (Jonas) and Hinrich Shrink, Phillip Hahn, Conrod Mull, Conrad Boobey and Johann Hagins appear soon after.

Then in 1753 the German United Brethren or Moravians purchased a huge tract of land in Lord Granville’s district, location undefined. They set out to determine the land they would select and brought a small team of surveyors across the Catawba to "look for the land". As guide they hired Johann Baum. Being duly impressed with the area between the South Fork of the Catawba and the Catawba proper they decided that this area, which included Lyle’s Creek, would be an ideal spot for their projected colony. John Carteret, Lord Granville set aside this huge parcel, as well as several others, for the Moravians and ceased to sell land there late in 1753.

For ten years the land lay under this reserve. The Moravians decided to place their colony at a less remote area which is today Forsyth County, NC in 1755, but the restriction still remained on the Catawba lands until 1763.

In that year the land was released and it seems that many German settlers had been living on the land in question without deed for up to ten years. In 1763 many of them came to the Land Office in Rowan County at Salisbury, a two-day walk away from home, and registered their claims.

The surnames from Lyle’s Creek include Henry Pope, George Schmidt (Smith), Jacob Wissenaut, Adam Aker (Eckard), Adam Bolch, Thomas Cowan, Peter Grunt, Michael Hart, Johan Haun, Andrew Killian, Isaac Lowrance, Peter Stutz, Christian Treffelstadt, Conrad, Joseph and William Whittenburg and William Fulbright. . . .

Then in late 1763 John Carteret, Lord Granville, died and his heirs in England closed the sale of his lands. It was 1778, 15 years later, before the office would open again, and many, many Germans had come to live on the unclaimed lands by then. In December 1778 8,900 acres were registered in Salisbury on Lyle’s Creek alone. Among these names we find Christopher Beekman (Jacob’s Capitan in the Cross Creek Campaign) Adam Bolick, George, Peter and William Deal, George Eslinger, Peter Gront, Frederick Gross, Devault Hunsucker, Johann Isonhower, Frederick Shull, Andrew Fulbright and . . . Johann (Hans) and Jacob Shuke (Shook). In that year Jacob was 29 years old."

Edited by Roy Richard Thomas March 2008

Died:
The Catawba River Valley, Rowan County NC, became in 1777: Burke County NC, and became in 1779: Lincoln County NC, and finally in 1842: Catawba County, NC.

William married Anna Catherine Fry in Abt. 1767 in Lincoln County, North Carolina. Anna (daughter of Johannes Nicholas Fry and Maria Elizabetha Pabst/Pope) was born on 17 Mar 1756 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; died in Aft. 1805 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
U.S. & International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: "William Deal, age 25 b. Abt. 1742, & Anna Catherine Frye, m. Abt. 1767 North Carolina."

Notes:

Birth:
Birth information found on Ancestry.com and has not been otherwise verfied.

Died:
Eaker, p. 138: ""Christopher [Decker] makes will April 8, 1807 which was probated January 1808 in Lincoln County"

The filmstrip image of this will is on Ancestry.com, Images 1141-1143.

Christopher married Elizabeth Unknown. Elizabeth was born in Abt. 1755 in Pennsylvania; died on 5 Jan 1814. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Birth & death information found on Ancestry.com and has not been otherwise verfied.

Byram married Isabella Monroe in Abt. 1758 in Virginia. Isabella (daughter of George Monroe and Ann Osborne) was born in Abt. 1743 in Rutherford County, North Carolina; died in Abt. 1811 in Kentucky, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kellerhoyle&id=I19425

"Note:
Church: Lutheran Reformed Union Church of Lower Bermudian, Adams Co., PA; Christ's Church (Lutheran) at York, York Co., PA.

It is believed that John Keller and Jerusha (BARRETT) KELLER were visiting their children in Cass (now Wabash) County at the time of John's death, as they still had most of their home furnishings in Harrison Co.,IN.

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=royharper&i d=I2974

Sources:
l. Court records of Harrison County, IN
2. 1850 Census of Harrison and Wabash Countys, IN
3. History of Wabash County, IN
4. Family records of Jesse Green Melton in possession of E.C.
Wiscombe

1772 - John Keller bought land on the South Fork of the Catawba River, on both sides of Hoyles Creek, Royal Patent.

1786 - John Keller sold his land purchased in 1772.

1795 - 1799 John Keller moved to Washington County, KY. In 1805, he mov
to Harrison County, IN.

1880 Census of Harrison County, IN lists Anthony Keller, age 85, living
with the Wilford Melton family. The census indicates that his parents were both from NC.

Buried McClure Cemetery, Noble TWP, Harrison County, IN

Family Data Collection - Individual Records
about John Keller
Name: John Keller
Spouse: Jerusha Barrett
Parents: John Peter Keller , Barbara Felger
Birth Place: York, PA
Birth Date: 11 May 1755
Marriage Place: Northampton, Northampton, PA
Marriage Date: 4 May 1779
Death Place: Richvalley, Wabash, IN
Death Date: 6 Oct 1830

Source Citation: Birth year: 1755; Birth city: York; Birth state: PA.
http://theharmons.us/harmon_t/tharmon.htm

Family Data Collection - Births
about John Keller
Name: John Keller
Father: John Peter Keller
Mother: Barbara Felger
Birth Date: 11 May 1755
City: York
State: PA
Country: USA"

John married Jerusha Barrett on 4 May 1779 in Burke County, North Carolina, USA. Jerusha (daughter of Jonathan Barrett and Elizabeth Henderson) was born on 04 Mar 1761 in Catawba River, Alexander, North Carolina, United States; died on 14 Dec 1849 in Rich Valley, Wabash County, Indiana, U.S.A.; was buried in McClure Cemetery, Noble, Wabash County, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
Some show her as Elizabeth.

Notes:

Married:
U.S. & International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: "John Keller, b. 1755 Pennsylvania, & Jerusha Barrett, b. 1761 North Carolina, m. 1779 North Carolina."

Thomas married Rachael Higgins. Rachael was born in in Wales. [Group Sheet]

Charles married Mary Jones in 1757 in Kent, Delaware, United States. Mary (daughter of Benjamin Jones and Barbara) was born in Abt. 1733; died in Abt. 1824 in Casey County, Kentucky, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

William married Hannah Nellie Gearhart about 1759 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.. Hannah (daughter of Peter Gearhart and Margaret Dudley) was born in 1733 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; died in 1830 in Montgomery, Virginia, Usa. [Group Sheet]

Evan married Elizabeth Abigail Thomas about 1768 in Talbot County, Maryland, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Stephen Simon Thomas and Mary Jane Clothier) was born on 18 Mar 1746 in Queen Annes Parish, Talbot, Maryland, USA; died on 18 Sep 1790 in Talbot County, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet]