Hi Marian,
Sorry about the delay as working 60 hour week, 12 hour nights.
I have read your data and didn't find any connections to my
Decatur/Frankilin County ancestors.
I do have Rays in our town, good friends of mine.
James Wilkinson
tnecjim(a)earthlink.net
I am the light of the world, he who follows me shall not walk in darkness.
Jesus, John 8:12 NKJV
[Original Message]
From: Marian Dunlap <mdunlap(a)consolidated.net>
To: <indecatu(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: 1/3/2007 10:25:46 AM
Subject: [INDECATU] BLOCKED MESSAGE
My reply to James Wilkinson is blocked before he receives it so I
will try
posting it on this board where he should see it! It is giving
some history of some of my Decatur Co families, so if anyone else has
connections I'd be happy to hear from them! Marian
From: "Marian Dunlap" <mdunlap(a)consolidated.net>
To: ""James Wilkinson"" <tnecjim(a)earthlink.net>
Subject: [INDECATU] Wilhoit
Date: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:27 AM
First, I had a note back from Russell Wilhoit after he read my message
on the
list, and he said some people do have trouble getting through to him,
but
if
I have trouble just keep trying and eventually it will make it to
him!
One
of the things he did for me was go through the old microfilmed
newspapers
at
the library and make copies of obituaries he found there and I
learned a
lot
of things I hadn't found in my research.
My main line in Decatur Co was my RAY family. Once in a while it got
spelled differently, but basically there it comes out RAY. My
great-great
was a James Ray who was born in North Carolina, and ended up in
Nicholas
Co
KY. He named a son James also, and this James moved on into Scott
Co
IN,
and finally on into Decatur Co IN where he died young. While he was
in
Scott Co he went back home and married Jane MORRIS. We know nothing
about
her but that she was indentured at a very young age, which they tell
me
could mean that both parents were dead or that only her mother was living
but that she was unable to support the child. She was lucky, and the
family
she was indentured to treated her like their own child and she stayed
with
them long after she could have left. I was told that there were
many
deaths among the people moving into Kentucky at that time and there
aren't
records to tell us much. In fact, the family that raised Jane ended
up
in
Decatur Co, and I have felt that was what brought James and Jane Ray
there.
Then there was my BUTCHER family. I should mention that in I
think
it
was 1850 there were four William Butchers on the census--mine and his
son
William, and a completely separate William Butcher family who also had a
son
William--that Butcher family ended up in Howard Co IN, and we found
no
connection. To make it even weirder, that other William Butcher married
a
sister of MY William Butcher! On the Butcher's again I go back
only to
that
great-great-grandfather who shows up in the Decatur Co 1850 census
with
no
wife, but with some children. His Margaret BUTCHER married into the
RAY
family and I have been able to follow those Butcher children and the
youngest Butcher daughter married a HAVICE. And my HAVICE line. I have
taken them back to when they arrived and at that time their name was
spelled
HEBEISEN in Pennsylvania. That Abraham Hebeisen kept moving west
until
he
ended up in Beaver Co PA. Gradually the name Hebeisen turned into
Havice.
We pronounce it like Hay-vise--while another branch I found
pronounced it
as
HAV-IS. We think our way is probably the original way.
My great-grandfather Abraham Havice moved from Decatur Co over to
Central Illinois (Champaign Co), and he had married a Malinda
McCARTY--yes,
in Decatur Co. Haven't found a trail of any kind to help me with
that
McCarty line. There is a prominent McCarty line in Decatur Co that
people
have traced, but that doesn't seem to be Malinda's family.
My James Ray and Margaret Butcher ended up in Bourbon Co KS where
they
homesteaded. Her brother William Butcher was there a while, but
later
settled across the line in Cedar Co MO. Kind of a mixed up mess, isn't
it?
Does all that connect anywhere?
Marian
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