Good Morning Patricia,
How can I ever thank you for straightening out this family. Prior to the
DNA, I only half heartedly concerned myself with this family. Now I am
open to all...and have updated my records.
I did come across one glitch...where you write about Levi, John D's son.
You have him marrying in 1814 and I have him born in 1814. I have him
marrying a Eliza Ann who was born in New Jersey. You have him married to
Patience Ridlon. Questions, questions...
Now we can all wonder what the 'D' stands for in other family
names....Duckett or Dudley.
Thank you again for answering my e-mails so promptly. You are a
wonderful correspondent.
Carolann
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 13:57:18 -0700 "Patricia Straube"
<straube(a)earthlink.net> writes:
> Hello Carol,
> Jon wrote the introduction for his "letter from the president" for
> the Aaron
> and Ruth (Wiggins) Wells Family Association. I then wrote the short
> articles
> about each man whose descendants' DNA has matched Aaron's
> descendants'.
> Since this was the audience, I didn't feel the need to identify
> Nathan. He
> is the son of Aaron Wells and Ruth Wiggins, and the recepient of a
> disability pension from the War of 1812. He had a tree fall on him
> while
> cutting wood for the encampment at St. Mary's, Ohio. I've often
> wondered if
> Aaron also served in that conflict and it was the cause of his death
> in
> 1813. However, I haven't been able to find the evidence.
>
> Dudley H. Wells married Lucinda McCollum, 13 Dec 1840, in Clermont
> Co., OH
> and later a Dudley H. Wells married Ruth Ann Wells, daughter of
> Nathan and
> Jane (Guffin) Wells, 24 Oct 1849, in Nicholas Co. KY. A Ruth Wells
> married
> John McCollum, 29 JUL 1840 in Clermont Co., OH. Dudley H. Wells, age
> 32 born
> Ohio, was enumerated with Ruth and the child from his first
> marriage, Rachel
> E. Wells, age 5 born Ohio, in the 1850 Federal Census of Nicholas
> Co., KY.
> John and Ruth (Wells) McCollum are in the 1850 Census of Nicholas
> Co., KY,
> living next door to John and Ruth (Wiggins) Claypool. This second
> Ruth was
> the daughter of William Wiggins and Elizabeth Ashcraft Wells,
> daughter of
> Aaron Wells and Ruth Wiggins, and so would be Ruth (Wells)
> McCollum's first
> cousin if she were, also, a child of John D. Wells and Rachel E.
> Wells..
> Unfortunately, I've lost the McCollum family after 1850. Dudley and
> Ruth
> (Wells) Wells later had two children, Nathan (named for her father)
> and
> Lucinda (presumedly named after his deceased first wife.) Lucinda
> apparently
> died young, but Nathan, born in 1854, married Sarah Jane Crockett
> and has
> eft many descendants, including a member of our family association
> with the
> surname Wells. I hope it's not TOO confusing with all these
> intermarriages
> but you can begin to see why I always suspected that Robert Wells
> of
> Clermont Co., OH and Aaron Wells of Nicholas Co., KY were kinsmen
> as,
> indeed, they have proved to be. As an aside, the family of John Boyd
> Wells
> of Jefferson Co., IN (whose descendant, Raymond Wells, is also a DNA
> match)
> also has the name Dudley in his family. John's son, Levi Wells, was
> the one
> of that name who married Patience Ridlon in Clermont Co., OH in
> 1814. John
> D. Wells and Rachel Wells' oldest known son (the one Rachel was
> living with
> in 1880) was also named Levi. John Boyd Wells Jr.'s oldest known son
> was
> named Aaron. Somtimes a coincidence is just a coincidence but it
> doesn't
> hurt to be aware of them.
>
> Patricia
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol A Williams" <cwillie2(a)juno.com>
> To: <ZachariahWells-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:01 AM
> Subject: [Zachariah Wells] Robert Wells
>
>
>> Good morning Patricia,
>> Last Feb. you passed on a wonderful summery of the different men
> written
>> by Jon Hagee. Today, I was going over them carefully and came
> across
>> something that I need clarification on.
>>
>> Regarding Robert, and I quote..."John D. and Rachel E.(Wells)Wells
> were
>> probably the parent sf Dudley H. Wells who married Ruth Ann,
> daughter of
>> Nathan Wells and Jane Guffin......"
>>
>> Question regarding Nathan and Jane....Nathan is the son of whom ??
> How
>> does he fit in?
>>
>> Robert's Nathan m. Catherine Davis...and there is a brick wall for
> me,
>> regarding children's names.
>> John D's Nathan I have married to Mariah Hughes.
>>
>> What am I missing? Hope you can help me with this....Carolann
>>
>>
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The Levi Wells that married Patience Ridlen was the son of John Boyd Wells
who settled in Jefferson County, Indiana about 1815-1820.
Sharon Seaver