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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