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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 514 Today's Topics: #1 SCHOOLEY FAMILY CHART [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 THE REASONER FAMILY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:16:06, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907180116.VAA13102@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: SCHOOLEY FAMILY CHART Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families July-September 1964 Vol. V No. III Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT SCHOOLEY FAMILY CHART England-Virginia-Ohio-Iowa Contributed by: C.H. Chandler, Gladstone, OR I. John Schooley, the immigrant, born about 1730 in England, married about 1755 Mary _____. II. Elisha Schooley, son of John and Mary, born April 23, 1756 in Loudoun Co., Va., married Dec. 16, 1779 Rachel Holmes b. April 17, 1759 in Loudoun Co., Va. died July 18, 1833, daughter of William and Mary Holmes. Elisha d. June 19, 1838. III. John Schooley, son of Elisha and Rachel, born Oct. 10, 1780 in Loudoun Co., Va. married May 14, 1807 Phoebe Beeson. John died Jan. 28, 1866. IV. Reuben Schooley, son of John and Phoebe, born Sept. 27, 1809, Salem Columbiana Co., Ohio. He died at Salem Oct. 11, 1859. He married July 1836 Hannah McClun born April 9, 1815, New Franklin, Columbiana Co., Ohio, daughter of Nathan and Martha (Beal) McClun. V. William Henry Schooley, son of Reuben and Hannah, born Dec. 18, 1840, Salem, Ohio married Dec. 18, 1861 Lydia Ann Gochnaur born Oct. 5, 1839, Columbiana Co., Ohio, daughter of Elkanah and Elizabeth (Crumbacher) Gochnaur. William and Lydia both died in Indianola, Iowa. He died Feb. 24, 1906 and she died June 4, 1923. VI. Franklin Howard Schooley, son of William H. and Lydia Schooley, born Jan. 20, 1866, Sandyville, Iowa married Clara Josephine Brewster born June 1, 1868, Lombard, DuPage Co., IL m. Jan. 16, 1890, daughter of Charles F. and Matilda (Duryea) Brewster. Franklin died April 25, 1943, Calgary, Canada and Clara died Dec. 11, 1905 in Lacombe, Canada. VII. Charles Henry Schooley, son of Franklin and Clara, born Oct. 23, 1890, in Indianola, Iowa, married Aug. 19, 1942 to Lillian Alfreda Matson. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREWSTER CHART I. Jonah and Mehitable Brewster II. George Waterman Brewster, son of Jonas and Mehitable, b. Worthington, Mass. May 5, 1800, m. in 1829 Sarah E. Bells b. Nov. 5, 1813, Bridgeport, Conn., daughter of Waterman and Luthenia (Tomlinson) Bells. George died November 9, 1865 in Mason, Ill. Sarah d. Jan. 18, 1890 in Des Moines, Iowa. III. Charles F. Brewster, son of George and Sarah b. May 13, 1838, Independence, Mo., m. May 5, 1860 Matilda Duryea Wilson b. Dec. 25, 1842, Portchester, N.Y., daughter of Dr. and Sarah (Bunce) Wilson. Charles d. Nov. 7, 1890, Des Moines, Iowa. Matilda d. Nov. 16, 1929, Long Pine, NE. Had Clara above. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:16:01, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907180116.VAA13094@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: THE REASONER FAMILY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families April-June 1963 Volume IV No. II Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT An abstract of the Reasoner (Raisonneur) Genealogy. Especially the line of Nicholas whose descendants pioneered in the settlement of Muskingum and Guernsey Counties, Ohio. Contributed by William M. Baker, Bakersfield, CA. The first known ancestor of the Reasoner family was Garrett Reasoner said to be a school teacher in germany, either born in Germany of Huguenot French parents or born in France and while in his late teens fled France to the are of Strasburg or Heidelberg at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He married, on an unknown date a German girl named Marie, said to be a woman "of little means". She and Garrett had three, possibly four son, Christopher born ca 1690, Stephen between, and Nicholas born 1796-18=700. Research in American Colonial records reveal a Michael Reasoner. (see note). Tradition states there were daughters born to the union but they are unnamed. The three brothers came to America along with other Huguenots and German families about 1710-1715. They located in Dutchess or Ulster County in New York for a while but due to anti-German feelings the brothers decided to leave the unfriendly area. Stephen went west and nothing more is known about him. Certain inferential evidence suggest those of the Reasoner name now living in Arkansas are his descendants. Christopher's family moved on to Montgomery County, N.Y. and in time his descendants removed to northern Ohio, thence to Michigan and with time continuing westward into the northwest coast. Young Nicholas remained for a long time along the Hudson in close association with the Froman and Speers family, Germans, who with the Reasoners came to America in the same party. They left New York 1720-1725 and since the Reasoners and Hites intermarried it is believed they were in the party led by Joist Hite to go "on the Perkiomen" near Philadelphia. It is stated that this hardy band floated their goods on rafts down the Susquehanna and drove their livestock along the Indian trails bordering the river, to their destination. It is not known when the band broke up but Nicholas Reasoner remained with the Peter Froman and Henry Speers families, and Joist Hite, in 1730 or 1731 left Pennsylvania for Virginia and there acquired some 40,000 acres of land from the Fairfax holdings in the Northern Neck of Virginia. It was this time or a little later that the Froman and Speer party went into Bucks County. Her it was that Henry Speers wed Regina Froman and Nicholas Reasoner wed her sister mary. The sisters were the daughters of Peter Froman. Tradition states that three sons were born to Mary and Nicholas in Bucks County, Peter in 1735, Jacob 1737 and Garrett in 1739. It cannot be stated with certainty just when this family left Pennsylvania but it was prior to 1744 as public records exist showing Nicholas Reasoner living in Prince George County, Maryland. It was during the Maryland sojourn that their daughter Susie (Susanna) was born. In 1747-1748, George Washington surveyed part of Lord Fairfax's land grant in Virginia and on the 23rd of October, 1748, Fairfax granted Nicholas Reasoner 277 acres, Plot No. 3 on Patterson Creek, Virginia near the present town of Romney, West Virginia. The Reasoner land lay adjacent to that of A. Johnston's which was surveyed by Washington and is shown on one of his maps that exist today. There is no doubt but what the Reasoner land was a part of the original survey. In 1748 the Patterson Creek area was part of Virginia's western frontier and the land sparsely settled was the ancient hunting grounds of the Delaware, Shawnee and other tribes of the Six Nations. The Indians resented the white man being there and in the serious uprising of 1755-56 they murdered and plundered throughout the area. Tragedy befell the Reasoner family for Indians stole the young daughter Susie and she was never heard of again. Her body was never found which supports the tradition that being in or approaching her early teens she was taken into one of the tribes of her captors and later, through environment and association, more Indian than white, mated with one of the tribe members. It was about this time or a little later that Mary Reasoner her mother, brokenhearted at the loss and fate of her daughter, died. No records exist as to the date and year of her death nor where she is buried. It may be that she was interred in an early cemetery near Reese's Mill, Patte rson Creek and her husband Nicholas who died in 1771 was probably buried beside her. In the Patterson Creek area the three sons of Nicholas and Mary were wed. Peter to Mary Speers his first cousin, daughter of Regina Froman and Henry Speers. This was in 1762. In 1763-1764 young Peter and his wife removed to Cumberland county , Pennsylvania in that part which was to become Westmoreland County. Peter prospered, owning land, cattle, sheep, horses and slaves. He obtained considerable prominence locally as a Patriot during the Revolution and as such met regularly with the County Lieutenants and other officers in the conduct of the War in their locality. He also served as a Frontier Ranger and when time from these duties permitted and in an area more convenient to his home in Rostraver Township served two tours of duty with the Washington (PA) county Militia. In 1800-1801 Peter's son John Reasoner went into Ohio to "take a look", an found a desirable site for a home on the Zane Trace. Returning to Pennsylvania his enthusiasm for the new country was contagious, resulting in Peter Reasoner, four of his sons and a nephew or two selling all their property and with their families followed John Reasoner into the area where John had selected a site for a new home. John Reasoner is said to have been the fifth family to establish itself on the Zane Trace between Cambridge and Zanesville. It is stated by Reasoner descendants who have the records, that the first Presbyterian service in the County was conducted by a Rev. Arbuthnot, an itinerant preacher, under a beech tree at the Reasoner home on July 4, 1803. In the following year Muskingum county was erected from Washington County. Henry Reasoner, the fourth son of Peter owned the land where the town of New Concord now stands. Jacob Reasoner, the second son of Nicholas and Mary Reasoner wed Catherine Thompson ca 1764-65. To this union were born three boys and three girls. Jacob became a prosperous and successful farmer owning the original grant of 277 acres which he purchased from his brother Peter, the heir of Nicholas. He acquired in his own right a land grant from Fairfax and three from Beverly Randolph, Governor of Virginia. In addition to these holdings he bought 31 acres of his father-in-law David Thompson in 1790. Although Jacob owned slaves the idea of human servitude was repugnant to him and he disposed of all the field hands before he died. In his will of 1795, he bequeathed to his wife, among other things, "my negro wench and her two children." These were probably house servants and it was stipulated that she dispose of them at her death. Jacob Reasoner, as his brothers, Peter and Garrett was an intense Patriot. Records show that as Deputy Commissioner in 1778 he helped organize and equip through commandeering of guns, ammunition and supplies, a company of militia in the Patterson Creek area whose purpose it was to go to the British-Indian besieged, Wheeling. Documents exist recording this activity, also showing certain materials furnished the army. He also served as waggoner, probably with the company he helped organize and equip. Jacob Reasoner had three sons and three daughters. William who was born in 1768, wed Jemima Ann B. Rollin (Rollings, Rawlings) October 31, 1793. They removed to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania into the immediate neighborhood where his Uncle Peter lived. It is very probable that he returned home to aid his father in the cultivation of his fields, for Jacob was quite ill for a year or more prior to his death in 1796. William was named in his will, inheriting certain lands which he and his wife Jemima sold in 1798. Inasmuch as they do not appear in the county tax records after that date he undoubtedly returned and took up abode near his Uncle Peter in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. William and his wife accompanied the Peter Reasoner party into Washington (Muskingum) County, Ohio where he appears with his cousin John serving on the first jury held in Muskingum County in 1804. In 1812 William and his son Garrett enlisted and served in Captain Cyrus Beatty's Company of Col. Miller's Regiment of Ohio Militia in the War of 1812. Benjamin Reasoner, a son of Peter and other cousins also served with Muskingum and Guernsey County troops in this War. Garrett Reasoner b. ca 1660-1662 France m. Marie (?). Known children: Christopher b. ca 1690 Germany Stephen Nicholas b. ca 1697-1700 Michael (possibly 4th son) Nicholas III (above) b. Germany d. 1771 Patterson Creek, Va. buried probably Reese's Mill, Patterson Creek, VA m. Mary Froman b. ca 1705 Germany d. ca 1757-58 Patterson Creek Va. Known children: Peter b. 1735 Bucks Co., Pa. d. 1807 Muskingum Co., Ohio buried near New Concord, Ohio m. Mary Speers b. 1735 Maryland d. 1806 Muskingum Co., Ohio Jacob b. Bucks Co., Pa. 1737 d. 1796 Patterson Creek, Va m. 1764 Catherine Thompson b. ? d. 1803 Patterson Creek, Va., both buried Resse's Mill, Patterson Cr. Va. Garrett b. 1739 Bucks Co., Pa, d. Green Co., TN m. Kesiah (?) d. Green Co., TN Susie (Susanna) b. 1741-42 Prince George Co., Md. Peter and Mary (Speers) Reasoner (above) had: Nicholas b. 11 Dec. 1764 d. 27 Mar. 1847, buried Terra Haute, IN m. 2 Mar 1797 Polly Stout f. 16 Feb. 1772 d. 1800 buried Mayesville, KY. Had 4 children. Benjamin b. 27 Apr. 1770 PA d. 23 Jan. 1844 m. Mary Hill b. 6 Aug. 1775 d. 17 Aug. 1853. Both died in Hartford City, IN. Buried Elizabethtown Cemetery. 15 children. John b. 26 Feb. 1774 PA d. 15 Jan. 1850 m. Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Thompson b. 1 Mar. 1777 d. 11 Mar. 1859. Buried Pleasant HIll Cemetery, New Concord, Ohio. 11 children. Jacob b. 13 Aug. 1768 d. ? m. unknown. Believed buried in Nashville, TN. Had children. Henry b. 28 Feb. 1772 PA d. 30 Sept. 1836 m. 25 Feb. 1796 Mary Shepler b. 5 Feb. 1796 PA d. 18 Sept. 1855. 11 children. Solomon b. 1779 PA d. 6 Aug. 1854 m. 30 Nov. 1809 Elizabeth Smock b. July 1785 d. 1818. Both buried Pleasant Hill Cemetery New Concord, Ohio. 8 children. Regina b. PA Susan b. PA m. 14 Feb. 1809 Joseph Dean. 4 children Nancy b. PA m. ? had children Sarah (Sallie) b. May 1776 PA d. Sept. 1852 near Fairfield, Iowa 1800 Stephen Hill, brother of Mary Hill, wife of Stephen Reasoner. 6 children. Mary b. 12 Mar. 1686 PA d. ca 1825 buried Muskingum Co., Ohio m. Peter Camp. 6 children. Rachel b. ? d. 24 Apr. 1851 Hartford City, IN m. William Roberts or Rupert. 7 children. Infant died young Children of Jacob and Catherine (Thompson) Reasoner (above) John b. 1765 Patterson Cr. Va d. 11 Oct. 1854 m. 1 Aug. 1793 Ann Greenwall b. 23 Feb. 1773 d. 15 Nov. 1829. 7 children. William b. 1768 Patterson Cr. Va. d. 7 July 1843 Henry Co., IN buried Henry Co., IN m. Jemima Ann B. Rollin (Rollings, Rawlings) b. 1773 MD d. after 1855 Henry Co., IN. 5 children, maybe more. Susan b. Patterson Cr. Va m. Jonathan Parker, son of Nathaniel Peter D. b. Patterson Cr. b. 1780 Patterson Cr. Va. d. 25 Aug. 1822 Muskingum Co., Ohio m. Mary Greenwell b. 1784 Patterson Cr. Va. d. 9 Dec. 1818 Muskingum Co., Ohio. Peter m. 2nd ? Rebecca b. Patterson Cr. Va m. Thomas J. Withers Mary b. Patterson Cr. Va. believed a spinster. Note: Although not named in Jacob's will, Gideon Reasoner who resided in the Patterson Creek area was probably the eldest son of Jacob & Catherine Reasoner. Jacob is shown in the Hampshire County Tax Lists of 1790 and 1791 sponsoring Gideon as a tithable. Note: Michael Reasoner has been mentioned as a possible 4th son of the Huguenot Garret Reasoner and his wife Marie. He first appears on the Monocacy near where Frederick, Md. now stands and in the immediate area where the village of Creagerstown is located. In Vol. II, Chapter 2, #282 he is shown as a member of the Lutheran Church of Monocacy, date of 1734. Later he appears in Va. where he served in French Indian War, receiving a land bounty in Fincastle Co. in 1763 which he sold shortly thereafter. Michael and Nicholas found in same areas at same time. -Would love to hear from others researching this line. My e-mail: aupq38a@prodigy.com (until Oct. 1, 1999) or GREASONER@prodigy.net GREASONER@aol.com -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #514 *******************************************