Lester Family Information.
Sam
The candle light will always be gleaming through the sycamores.
The latch string is always out.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carl English Porter <rosebud(a)gtec.com>
To: scline(a)hoosierweb.org <scline(a)hoosierweb.org>
Date: Sunday, July 26, 1998 9:39 PM
Subject: Lester - O'Neall et al
I have been sitting on this, not realizing others were actively
seeking what I already found. Please forgive my being inconsiderate.
Perhaps I
have nothing of interest, perhaps I have answers to some long-standing
questions for some. Well, better late than never!
Thomas Clarkston Lester b 3 Aug 1816 d 22 May 1851 m ca 1837 Eliza
Hughen children include:
1. Lambert Lester b 11 Feb 1839 d 29 Dec 1914 m 14 Oct 1869 Mary
Esther
Dixon b 13 Apr 1849 d 20 Jun 1936 d/o Eli & Jemima (Boyd) Dixon
2. Mary Lester m Walter Paine
3. Elisha Lester
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Peter Ruble Lester b 23 Dec 1790 SC, d 1 Sep 1887 bur Lester Cem. Cass
Twp.
Greene Co. IN m ca 1813 prob SC, Hannaueel 'Hainey" O'Neal b 8 Jan
1797 SC
d 27 Sep 1831, bur Lester Cem Cass Twp. Greene Co. IN d/o John &
Hepzibah
(Gilbert) O' Neal children include:
1. Hepzibah Lester b 1 May 1814 Newberry Dist. SC d 23 Feb 1877 m ca
1831 Charles Gillam b ca 1810 Orange Co. NC d bef 1850 s/o Edmund &
Nancy
(Stalcup) Lester
2. Thomas Clarkston Lester (above)
3. Judge Willis Drayton Lester b 21 Jun 1818 d 3 Jun 1880 m (1) 8 Aug
1839 Margaret Buckner m (2) Mary Tate
4?. Emily Lester b 28 Sep 1822, d 5 Jan 1845 bur Lester Cem Cass Twp.
Greene >Co. IN m Isaac Benham ( interpretation was necessary here,
Ike may have
been the Lester.)
5?. John N. Lester b ? d 30 Dec 1824 (in infancy)
6. Peter Lester b 3 Sep 1827 d 25 July 1829 (in infancy)
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Charles Gillam came to Richland Twp. Greene Co. IN in 1818 He &
"Hepsey" had at least,
1. Hainey Hana Gillam b 16 May 1832 d 19 Jan 1883 m 6 Jun 1850
Ashiel Asbel Zook b 5 Feb 1827, d 15 Dec 1854
2. Edmund Gillam b 23 Dec 1833 d 18 Oct 1854
3. Peter Gillam b 19 May 1836 d 6 Jun 1855
4. Lucy Ann Gillam b 1844
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Judge Willis Drayton & Margaret (Buckner)Lester had at least this
child:
1. Nancy Lester b 22 Jun 1840 d 26 Jul 1918 m 26 Aug 1869 William
Francis Thomas b 3 May 1840 d 23 Feb 1911. Their Children include:
A. Alva Thomas m Eliza Strauser
B. Laura Thomas m Joseph Hasler
C. Oliver Thomas m Laura Crossland
Judge Willis Drayton & Mary (Tate) Lester had at least:
1. Peter Simpson Lester m Nancy Lyons d/o Joseph b OH, & Margaret
(Harbert) b PA, Lyons their son:
A. Joseph Willis Lester m Bertha Jane Wright of Ridgeport, IN d/o
Joseph Perry & Margaret Ann (Porter) Wright their
children include:
1. Roy Wright Lester b 18 Jul 1907 Taylor Twp. Greene Co. IN, d 18 Jan
1986 m 28 Jan 1939 Mable Roberta Alexander, presumed living. (2 ch)
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There is a Dra(y?)ton Ritchey Lester m Malinda Huffman b ca 1855 whom,
I think, belongs somewhere in this branch.
I have 4 generations of Lesters before Peter Ruble Lester, which I
will share with the list if interested. I do hope this is helpful!
It has been years in the accumulation, but recently stepped up when my
1st cousin's son, who's mother was a Lester, showed an interest. I'll
be glad to add any detail, of course.
Carl
Pat Thomas wrote:
> I have been doing some collateral work and started to add in some
family
> for a Mary Lester who married Walter Paine in Warren county,
Illinois.
> While I was doing that I realized that they lived next door to
Daniel
> Chapman and Hannah Hilburn Chapman and family and that Daniel
Chapman had
> an uncle, Henry O'Neall Chapman who had also married a Mary
Lester
in
> Indiana. I started a bit of checking and see that their are
Boyd's
and
> O'Neall's mixed in this line.
> If anyone else has Lester's, Boyd's, Dixson"s mixed into their
lines in
> Warren county, it looks like we may be able to add a bit to them
in
Point
> Pleasant.
> The Paine's were not Quakers, but an old New England family but
they seem
> to be a bit mixed into the Quaker families in Illinois.
>
> Pat Thomas
> Post Office Box 885
> Winona, Minnesota 55987-0885
> 1-507-452-8290
> mailto:ptthomas@luminet.net
>
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Dear Sam,
I thought the enclosed might be of interest to the Greene Co. list,
though you may have to edit a bit. As you see, there are several
early
Greene Co. families treated here.
It has as you see, been sent to the O'Neall list, but there are
perhaps
several on the list who would be interested, who are not on the
O'Neall
list. Do as you see fit. Thank you for your efforts in Greene Co.
IN.
I'm glad Erma Jean Loveland has joined our list, she is an able
researcher.
Carl