Hi,
Do you have a George Carey living in Missouri in 1850's & 60's?
Pat
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From: Charles W. Carey <cwcarey(a)earthlink.net>
To: CARY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CARY-L] Careys in OH and NJ
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 3:18 AM
Dear CARY-L members,
I've been just lurking since I signed up awhile ago and haven't seen
anybody who seems at all related to me. So I'll post some information on
my
own CAREY (note the correct spelling!) line just in case somebody
happens
to know anything...
My farthest-back ancestor that I know anything about is:
George Carey
b 1759 (?) in Essex County NJ (?)
d 1846 in Paulding or Miami County OH
m Phoebe Clark
b 1765 (?) in NJ
d Feb 1850 in OH
The information on George and Phoebe is very sketchy. We believe they
migrated from the area around Elizabeth, NJ, to the Miami River valley of
OH, around 1810 where George worked on the Miami Canal as a stonemason.
They seem to have made the trip West along with a number of other
interrelated families. See my posting to the Miami County GenWeb page at:
<
http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/Miami/nj_mig.html>
for some comments on this migration.
George and Phoebe had 8 (?) children who all seem to have been born in NJ
and who all moved to OH with their parents:
John (1787-1835)
David (1790-1832)
Dana (1792-?)
Thomas (1795-?)
Isaac (1799-1850)
Benjamin Clark (1801-1877) <- my g-g-grandpa
Jacob (1802-?)
Sarah (1807-1863) m James Hudson
The children's birth dates given here are questionable. George, Phoebe
and
some of the children may be buried in Raper Chapel cemetery, near
Troy,
OH.
Benjamin is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery at Piqua. The descendants
scattered to other parts of western OH in the late 1800's. This line has
always insisted on spelling its surname as CAREY, in spite of efforts of
everybody to add and subtract letters from it.
If this sounds like the heritage of anybody else out there, please
contact
me directly or post to the list. I have a lot more information to
share.
Chuck CAREY
Anaheim, CA