Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Again! Stumbling Blocks!

Smith: Doesn't everybody have a Smith stumbling block [or Jones, see below]? Actually, I was pretty lucky to put together three generations for this family. My ancestor, Ama Jemima "Amy" Smith, married Jacob Crousore and her brother [you guessed it!] John married Elizabeth Crousore. I think Jacob and Elizabeth were siblings. [I should add that confirmation to my mounting Crousore list.] Amy's parents were William and Elizabeth [Reel] Smith. The Smiths, Crousores, Reels and Reeders were a travel pack - Western Pennsylvania and Virginia to Ohio to Indiana [primarily Rush, Delaware, Madison, Howard & Tipton Counties] Various individual families dropped out along the way.

William was the son of Henry Smith a Revolutionary War vet and his first wife, as of yet unidentified. An SAR application for Henry has Elizabeth Powell as William's mother. She was Henry's 2nd wife and too young to be William's mother. There we have the block. Who was William's mother? Add to that the history of Henry. Who were his parents? From where did they come and when?

Jones: Yes Smith and Jones! Mary Ann Jones was born about 1811 in Ohio and died in 1887 in Indianapolis. Most of her story is in my post that includes her husband, James Crail. Mary's death certificate gives her father as T. Jones, born in  Kentucky. Thomas, Thaddeus, Timothy? Just about anything about Mary while she was alive would help! Marriage place and date, more specific birth  information, parents' names and vitals, location in 1820-30-40-50-60-70. Just a few tidbits needed!

Fry: Eve Fry was the wife of John Faucett. I have her birth [6 Feb 1762 VA] and death [6 April 1851 Marion Co., IN] info, but very little to flesh out her life. I couldn't find Eve in the 1850 census. The marriage record [VA or OH] has remained elusive. I have yet to locate her parents. Was she the mother of all of John's children? [Thomas Faucett is the son in question.] Was Fry her maiden name or had Eve been married before?

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