USA > Indiana > Montgomery County > New Ross > History of New Ross and vicinity, 1829-1967 > Part 6
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13
James K. Everson born 8-26-1847, Union Township, to George W. and Rachel Hankins Everson, married Hannah Ever- son, daughter of Stephen M. and Sarah Horton Everson on. 11-20-1868. James Everson owned and operated a saw mill in New Ross. He employed 6 men in his mill and 6 to 12 men with teams to haul logs, or as choppers. Their daughter married Dr. C. T. Bronaugh in 1889. Sadie Everson Bronaugh was born 12- 6-1870, and she died 1890. In 1880, James Everson built one of the nicest homes in New Ross, where first cabin had stood.
Robert N. Bronaugh, died August 15, 1894, age 75, in New Ross, son of Thomas and ? (Tinsley) Bronaugh. His wife was Mary Taylor. Robert and Mary were both born in Hendricks County, Indiana, moved to Gerrard Co., Ky., then to Lizton in 1863, where they are buried. Their children were Elizabeth, Nancy, James Thomas, who had a drug store, a saloon, and a bicycle factory in New Ross; he married Minnie Dorsey, had a son Keifer; Mary V; John W. ; George, father of Claud Bronaugh; and Dr. Charles Tinsley Bronaugh, born 3-19-1854, Garrard County, Ky.
William A. Brown came 1 1/2 miles southeast of New Ross in 1828 and his father died one month later. William bought the homestead from his brothers. The Indians camped along the creek, on this land. William, born in Virginia, married Eliza- beth Gose, also born in Virginia, daughter of Stephen Gose. She died April 30, 1900 age 75-9-14 days. William had died before her. They had four son's, Earl; George; Tilghman A. Brown, born 7-19-1850, married Thalia Walters, born 1856, Iowa City, Iowa, daughter of William and Julia Fritter Walters. Tilghman and Thalia were teachers. He was principal of the school builtin 1871. They later went to Boulder City, Montana, then laterhe was a guard at Michigan City, Indiana State Prison. they are buried in New Ross Cemetery; and John W. Brown mar- ried Maud Musser. They had a son, Walter, farmer, bank dir- ector, and at one time county commissioner . . He married Clair McGuire, daughter of Stewart and Mabel Bratton McGuire, but she was raised by her Grandfather, Harvey Bratton. Walter and Clair have two daughters, Mary Catherine married Samuel Mahorney, and their three children are Jeanne Clair, Daniel Joseph Bennett, and Patrick Amond Mahorney; and Marilyn Jean Brown, married Dr. Norman Rogers, and they have two child- ren, Geoffrey Alan and Karen Lynn Rogers; and one daughter, Mrs. Ben Brown.
One of the early families here is still represented by descend- ants living in the area. Capt. Robert Bratton of Augusta County, Virginia and wife, Ann McFarland Dunlap Bratton, (she was widow of Alexander Dunlap when she married Capt. Bratton), had several children, one of whom was Capt. James Bratton, who married Rebecca Hogshead (or Hogsett) and they had seven children . . Two sons, one daughter and a son-in-law came to New Ross area. One son was William Bratton, born 1782, Va., and wife Mary G .. Berry Bratton born Va. 1789, to Indiana 1832, in a one horse wagon, north of New Ross; his brother John Bratton and wife Polly Gambral Bratton, nee Berry; his sister Margaret and husband Nathan Crawford, and a son-in-law John Porter, (with his seven children; he had married Nancy Agnes Bratton, but she died 1824 in Va., was born there 1787), had come with them and he settled 3 miles west of New Ross, after a year or so at Yountsville, Ind. , and it's on his land that Un- ion Hill Presbyterian church and cemetery were located. Wil- liam and Mary G. Bratton had son James born 1813 in Virginia, who married Phoebe Allen, born Ky. , and most of their family
remained around New Ross. Their daughter, Margaret, born 1838, married William Walkup; their son William Jr. married
- Page 43 -
1
at
2
11.
he S.
Nancy Evans; their daughter Mary, born 1840, married John Chambers, later they went to Kansas; their daughter Frances married William Lewis; son Benjamin, born 1846, married Mariah Stoner; son George A. married Dell Rider; daughter Ra- chel, born 1844, married Columbus Caldwell; son Robert Brat- ton married Hannah Davis, daughter of James and Mary Hunt Davis, (they had another daughter, Martha Davis Walkup, and sons Joe, the teacher, Matt, James, and John Davis). Robert and Hannah Bratton had two sons, Frank, who married Ruth Morrison, and their children were Zola Smiley, and Sherman Bratton (d); and Walter Bratton, who married 1. Burton Dorsey, she died, as did an infant; he married 2. Grace Webster, and their children were Robert and Ruth Elizabeth Glim, and she has two children, Pamela and Bernard Glim; Newton, another son; a daughter Elvina Pine Bratton married Henry Crain, and they had one son, Ernest Crain, who married Ethel Randel, whose father George Randel, son of William and Susan Hinkle Rande1 had attended school at Greenwood, west of New Ross. (William and Susan my great-grandparents. ) Ernest and Ethel Crain had 4 children, Rosebud Kashner, Lowell (d), Noble (d), and Mor- ris Crain, who owns Morris-Brant Restaurant etc. , in Lafayette. No doubt many residents of the New Ross area have patronized his restaurant. I know that Walter Bratton and my family have; another son Charles Bratton married Etta Bailey and they had 5 children, Warren married Mayme Funkhouser, 2 children; Carl Bratton; Marie Bratton married Earl Roberts, had one son, Ken- yon, raised her sister's daughter, Elaine Robbins as their own; Arthur; and Bernice Robbins, onf-of my mother's best friends; and two other children died. Many other Brattons were around the Mace area.
John Bratton and wife Polly Berry Bratton had a daughter Margaret Ann, born 1825, married James Mills Martin, son of Evi and Ann Mills Martin. Margaret and James had 4 children, Mary Ann married John Webster Linn; Charles Franklin Martin married Mary E. Bruce; Elizabeth Adeline Martin married George Mears and they had three children, Dora, died young, Lawrence, died young, and Elsie Mears married Jewel Turner, lived south of New Ross, no children. (George Mears married 2. Joan Randel Routh, daughter of Joseph and Mary Fisher Ran- del, and widow of Jesse H. Routh II, son of Andrew Jackson and Sarah Agee Routh; and Newton Martin (middle name Mills) married Eva Craig, no children. (This Bratton data taken from Arthur Porter's history of Union Hill Presbyterian Church, but in some families he made mistakes, so this data may not be quite correct. )
William Walters, born 1827, Fairfield County, Ohio, son of Jacob and Catherine Lamb Walters, married Julia Fritter, daugh- ter of Enoch and Catherine Fritter, on August, 1856, Fairfield County, Lancaster, Ohio. They were in Iowa City, Iowa, when their first child was born 1857, Thalia, who married Tilghman Brown, had 2 children, died infancy; William and Julia moved back to Ohio, Fairfield County before middle of 1860, where their other children were born, Illinois (Illa) Catherine married Till Rice, 2 children; Franklin Albert Walters, born 7-8-28, 66, died 3-31-1839, married Rose Jane Scott, daughter of Alfred Thomas and first wife, Martha Hannah Elrod Scott, and grand- daughter of Nathaniel Edward and Evaline James Scott, who lived in New Ross and also west of New Ross several years . . . Frank and Rose's chlidren were Carl, died 1941, Opal, married 1. William Owen Smith, he died 1951, she married 2. Carl Shoaf, he died 1957, Thalia, born 1896, died at age two, El- ston· Virgil, born 1902, died 10-1-1916, age 14, and Harold Buford Walters, husband of writer, Crystal Pauline Randel Wal- ters, and we have one son, Robert Lee Walters, born 5-11-1929 married to Mary A. Williams, daughter of Earl M. and Nellie C. Hadley Williams, who lived north of New Ross since 1920. They have 5 children, Jeffrey Lee, Larry Dean, Constance Kay, Pamela Sue and Michael Robert Walters. Harold Walters has
been a registered professional health sanitarian since 1950, but was a farmer, dairyman, superintendent of Ben Hur Home for elderly for 7 years, but worked there 11 years. Robert L. Wal- ters has been a farmer, dairyman, active in church and politi- cal events, trustee of Walnut Township, on advisory board at time Ralph Miller was trustee, was listed in 1965 edition of Jaycees' Outstanding Young Men in America. Harold Walters received the first award given in 1962 as the Outstanding Health Sanitarian of Indiana. (Incidentally, the writer was listed in Indiana Lives, published 1967. ) William Walters left Ohio in 1867, after he had been in Civil War, and had been wounded. They went to Colburn, Indiana, then Jamestown, Indiana, then to New Ross around 1868. He followed his trade of blacksmith, which he also did in the army. They left here and went to Montana where their daughter Thalia Brown lived, but they re- turned to New Ross, where he died January, 1899, and she died 1910; another son was Alva Walters, b. . 1860, died 1932, married Nettie Baker, daughter of Alva Baker, and their child- ren were Jesse Walters, 1886-1953, married 1. Jesse Gott, and and they had one son Lawrence Homer Walters, a Big Four sta - tion agent at several places along the line, including New Ross, who married Louise Paddack, daughter of Eric and Lilly John- , son Paddack, and they had a daughter, Jesse Lou Walters mar- ried Allen Stewart, and they live where old power house used to be located on E. State Street. They have 3 children, Marta Jo, Larry and Stephen Allen Stewart, born 1967, and James Walters, adopted, married Mabel Sparks, and they have child- ren; Jesse Gott Walters died and Jesse married 2. Lillian Tof- ford Baker Walters; Julia Elizabeth Walters married Martin Kinkead. (She was born 1893). Martin was son of Stephen and Nancy Zimmerman Kinkead. Their children were Robert Kin- kead, married Mildred Neff, a New Ross girl, but they do not live here now, but live in Crawfordsville. They had 9 child- ren, Kay, Ann, William Lee, Keith Robert Martin, Ralph, Richard, Michael, and Linda; Martha Belle Kinkead Redman has three children, twins, Larry and Jerry Kinkead, both in armed for - ces now, and are stationed overseas. Larry married Diana Kay Nance, and she lives in New Ross, and Dennis Redman; Marion- ette Kinkead Kincaid; Mona Jean; Julia Ann Wise; and Stephen Kinkead, works on county highway; Jennie Walters married N. A. Rogers, who owned a hardware in New Ross at one time, later farmed, their children are Francis, Vernon, and daughter Winifred Rogers Padgitt; Lola Walters married Raleigh (Shiner) Myers, and they live sheridan, Indiana; their children are Lois Ann, Betty Rose, Robert Dale, and William Myers; Mayme Walters (d), married 1. Fred Jesse; married 2. Morris Hesse; The fifth child of William and Julia Walters was Charles Walt- ters, he died 1904, married Eva Shepherd, lived in New Ross, had daughter Eva, called "Baby" born 4-4-1897 died 2-27-1910. Sixth child was Jennie Walters, born 1867, Ohio, died 1885 and seventh child, Pochohantas Waiters, porn 1869, New Ross, died age 17. All buried Union Hill Cemetery, west of New Ross. Franklin Walters only had one good eye, and it wasn't too good, but his wife, Rose read all the newspapers to him, and he was a keen mathematician, figuring in his head very speedily. He confessed he was a pessimist; he always said bright side would take care of itself, but one needed to worry about the dark side. When they married October 7, 1888, they moved to Stewart Farm, northwest of New Ross, then to Crawfordsville, on E. Market Street, back to New Ross in my Grandfather Linn's prop- erty on Green St. , then to Mears property on south Green street in 1909, then they bought the property which had belonged to his mother on S. Main Street, to which they moved in 1910. He bought the property from William Wall. They had an ice house next to alley, back of house, until they moved from there in 1925 . . William and Julia Walters owned and lived west of New Ross, which has been owned by Pete and Grace Evans until recently. Julia bought the property on South Main
- Page 44 -
reet (back of where Raymond Routh's barber shop is now) after er husband died in 1899. Frank and Rose Walters moved to leir farm, 6 miles west of New Ross in 1925, and in 1936 to ew Market to a larger farm, but after his death, she sold this irm, and boutht another farm 6 miles west of New Ross, but ne mile north of first farm they owned 1925-1936. They cele- rated their golden wedding anniversary in 1938. Incidentally, ley were married the day my mother was three years old, and hey held her on their laps many times, as my Grandfather inns were good friends of theirs and the men hauled logs to- ether in New Ross. They didn't dream that in 41 years they could be holding their grandson and my mother's grandson, on heir laps, which did occur. Little Thalia Walters had been uried at Union Hill cemetery, but when Elston died, they bur- ed him in the New Ross cemetery, and moved her body to the Jew Ross cemetery, too. Carl Walters was in WW I, and he is buried in New Ross cemetery, as are his parents.
Charles Lewis, born Virginia, went to Ky. then to Montgom- ry County Indiana, then to Boone County, Jackson Township, ! mile east of New Ross. He died 1856. His wife was Nancy Adams Lewis. Their children were George W. Lewis, Benjamin 3. Lewis, Charles Jr., Fielding, John, and Sarah Lewis. His ion, Fielding married Tabitha Davis, daughter of John Davis. Fielding was born 10-23-1807 in Ky. He had the following children, Charley L., John W., Priscilla, married James H. spry, had two daughters; Nancy C., George W. , Alfred, James, Thomas, Hubbard L., and Mary J. Lewis, she never married. Fielding died December, 1859. Tabitha died 8-15-1879. Ben- jamin F. Lewis, son of Charles, married Hannah Hudson, lived north of New Ross. She was born 2-14-1817, Ky. - died 11-18- 1903, daughter of William and Margaret Miller Hudson (both from N. C. ) George W., son of Fielding, was born 6-13-1844, Missouri, and came to Indiana when a young boy. He owned a store in New Ross, grocery, I believe. He died June 24, 1906. There was a David B. Lewis born 1852, lived 1 mile southeast S New Ross. The Lewis family was quite active in community af- fairs.
Timothy Lane and wife Catherine had six children, M. W. Lane, Timothy Jr., Julia, May Hedge, Malinda, and Dan W. Lane, born 8-27-1862, who married Effie Walkup, daughter of Benjamin G. and Jane Conner Walkup, and they had three children, Henry W. Lane, married Dorothy Glenn, he was a farmer and teacher, as was his mother and his wife. Dorothy Lane now lives in Pittsboro, Indiana; Elizabeth J. (the girl who owned the matched black ponies, mentioned earlier); and Le- lia Lane Dooley, she lived in Va.
David Norman, son of Joseph and Martha Coons Norman, was an early blacksmith here. He and his wife Amanda Norman had six children, Martha Brown, Malinda Bonney; Maud McElvice (?); Charles Norman, also a blacksmith; Valentine Norman, married Julia Newkirk, and they lived west of New Ross, had 5 children, an infant (d), Elbert Moss Norman died 1908; Aud- rey Norman married Herman Thompson, son of George and Elizabeth Hinkle Tofford Thompson, 3 children; Hubert and Fred Norman; (Audrey and Fred live in Florida, and Hubert lives in Mooresville, Indiana. ) Bessie Norman, sixth child of David Normans, born 3-26-1875 married Jack Burk in 1898, their children are David, Earl, Mrs. Ralph Young, Mrs. Mil- ford Hays, Mrs. Carl Leonard, Katherine, Evans, Harry, and Robert Burk . . They also reared Mrs. Charles Turner. Earl Burk married Naomi Turner, (see Bradley family for more of the family. )
The Bradley family live 2 1/2 miles southwest of New Ross, in Clark township, but are members of New Ross Christian Church and very active in its work and growth. There were 4 brothers, James M. Lewis, Cass, Ray and Charles Winton Brad- ley, sons of Josiah David and Sarah Jane Otterman Bradley. (Josiah's ; other children were Rosie Tapp, Fannie May Tharp,
Ida Myers, and George Lodi Bradley, but these didn't live New Ross. James Monroe Bradley, born 12-13-1873 married Bertha Leona Byrd, born 8-27-1879, on 10-12-1899,, their children were Luther Bradley, born 6-18-1901, married 1. Gen- eva Clark, daughter of John and Fannie Brown Clark, southeast of New Ross, and they had one daughter Bernice Warner. Gen- eva Bradley died January 16, 1938. Luther married 2. Harriet Bastion, daughter of Ed Bastion, and they have Billie and James Bradley; Russell George Bradley, born 12-18-1904 married Myr- tle Jones of New Ross, daughter of Charles and Mary Jane Henry Jones, had two sons, one died infancy, and Russell George Jr. , James Paul Bradley born 6-14-1911 married Wilma May Buch- anan, daughter of Andrew Fulton and Hazel Florence Sosbe Buchanan, and they had four sons, David, Gary, Stephen, who served in armed forces in Vietnam; and Michael, who died in a midget car race, or accident; Lewis Cass Bradley born 3-23- 1880 married Vinnie Hostetter, daughter of Lewis Dayton and Susan Corn Hostetter, from Whitesville and Ladoga. Vinnie taught school. They had one daughter, Betty, born 9-12-1917, and she married Lester Albertis Swoverland, son of Leonard Peter and Lizzie Myers Swoverland and they have two children, both married, Sally and Lester Jr. ; and Ray Bradley born 3-25- 1844 married Lela Long, he died, and she lives in Ladoga; and Charles Winton Bradley married Mertie Starks, daughter of James Henry and Sarah J. Randel Starks (she was my great-aunt). They had four children, Dorothy Rhinehart, Clara Cook, Clyde, and Hazel Bradley, who married Alva Turner, a New Ross boy; he died, but she lives in New`Ross now. They had four children, Robert Hugh Turner, (for whom New Ross American Legion Post is named) killed 6-6-1944 on D-Day WW II, buried in New Ross cemetery; Naomi Turner married Earl (Zeke) Burk, and they had four children, Patricia Ann Steele, Charles Thomas Burk, Evelyn Rosebud Smith, and Bernie Lee Burk, who was head coach at Russellville, New Ross, now Mitchell, Indiana. He married Susie Todd and they have 4 children, Kenneth Gene Turner married Waltraut (Trudie) Emgard Vice Turner, widow of Robert L. Vice, who died WW II, and they have two child- ren, Rose Marie Candy and Marcus Andrew Turner. Gene Tur- ner works in Allisons at Indianapolis, but lives in New Ross, as does his mother and sister, Mrs. Burk. (Taken partly from Pef- fley Family history and other family sources. Peffley history by May Frost.
Many of the residents of New Ross and area today, live there but work at Crawfordsville or Indianapolis, as there isn't enough employment in New Ross to take care of the populus. The ele- vator, lumber yard and custom farm stores employ several peo- ple from the area.
There have been many of the Linn family (mine) who have lived in or near New Ross. My great-grandfather, Noah Castle Linn, born 1831, Butler Co. Ohio, and wife Margaret D. Corn Linn, lived about 3 miles west of New Ross. She was the daugh- ter of Williams and Sarah Allen Corn, 5 miles southwest of New Ross. Noah's children were my grandfather, James W. Linn, born 8-20-1861, named for his grandfather, James Washington Linn, 1810-1855, who had come in 1837 from Butler County, Ohio to 6 miles west of New Ross, with his wife Mahala Castle Linn, and their family. My grandfather married Flora Belle Humbert born 3-4-1862, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, to Isaac and Mary Joh Humbert (or Humbard) who had married 1858 in Preble Co., Ohio. Isaac was in Civil War, was in infamous Andersonville prison, and was drowned in the sinking of the Sultana, at Vicksburg, Mississippi 1865. His widow came west of New Ross with her children, and in her later years lived with her daughter, Mrs. Ulysses Harris. Mary Humbert died at the daughters, Mrs. Harris, 8-19-1901, her funeral at Methodist Church, of which she was a member. She is buried on Mrs. Harris'lot in New Ross cemetery, but no marker is there for her. She was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1835. James and Belle
- Page 45 -
d
1- - at of
in
1
d
=
-
Linn were also members of the New Ross Methodist Church. They lived with his parents, Noah and Margaret Corn Linn after marriage west of New Ross, and their first child, my mother, Dora Evaline Linn was born there 10-7-1885, and she married Orval Wingert Randel on 2-28-1907, son of James Goodwin and . ing the life of a little eight-year-old girl, who had been hit b Sarah Magdalene Wingert Randel. He was born 2-22-1886, Boone Co., Ind., 1 mile east, 1 mile north of Dover. They moved to Cloverdale, Indiana for 5 or 6 months, then they moved to place where my father was born and here I was born, 12-30-1907, same house, same room, same bed as my father! (Incidentally this house was completely demolished by the tor- nado on Palm Sunday 1965). When I was nearly two we moved 2 1/2 miles west of New Ross, on the farm owned by Phillip Bruchs, where we lived over 8 years, and where my mother had lived from February 1893 to February 1903, with her parents. My sister Vivían Lucile Randel was born here 12-18-1913, and she married Walter Jennings Harpel, son of A. Douglas and Cora Fruits Harpel. Walter has a modern hybrid seed plant at Shannondale, Indiana, about 5 miles north of New Ross. They have no children. I married Harold Buford Walters on 7-7-1928 (see Walters "family for our family). Two sons were born to James and Belle Linn while they lived in New Ross (where my grandfather and my father-in-law worked together, hauling logs, etc. ). Earl Joseph Linn, born 6-9-1888 married Bonnie June McMullen, born 2-18-1894. He died 7-7-1967, she died 6-19-1966. Their only child Donald J. Linn, born 6-28-1921, graduated from New Ross High School, and married Norma Jean Crowe, daughter of Fred and Orpha Stewart Crowe, and they have three daughters, Diana Kay, Judith Ann, and Deborah Jo;
Donald was in WW II, and Floyd Isaac Linn, born 11-28-1891, never married, was in WWI. ; James and Belle Linn moved west of New Ross, to Phillip Bruch farm in February, 1893, and the next year they had another daughter, Jennie Flo, born 2-24- 1894. She married Roy Robison, son of Oscar and Icy Williams Robison. They live in Ladoga, Indiana. Bonnie McMullen was daughter of Joseph and Lucinda Graybill McMullen, in early 1900s they lived west of New Ross, across from farm of Ernest Linn. When Phillip Bruch wanted his farm for his niece and husband, Michael and Mary Zenor Whoel in 1903, my grand- father moved east of Greenwood school to George Layne farm, until 1911, when he moved first farm east, the Priscilla Brown farm (where Donald Haffner now lives), now owned by Donald Smith and his step-father Vern Byroads. They lived here until 1918, when they moved to Monroe Smith farm, north of Green- wood School (now Amos Bruch farm), until 1920, when they moved west of New Ross 4 miles (on highway 34 then, now 136), the Loop farm, where iny grandfather died in 1922 in April, then in 1924, the family, consisting of my grandmother, daugh- ter Flo, son Floyd, and son Earl and wife Bonnie, and son Don- ald, moved 2 miles southwest of New Ross, on John Miller farm, (now owned by Raymond Linn), and in 1930 they all moved 1/4 mile east of this farm to Dave Spark's farm, and lived with his widow, Elizabeth Miller Sparks. My grandmother died here April 1, 1937. My uncle, Earl Linn owned the farm later and he and his wife and his brother, Floyd, lived there until after her death in 1966 and his in 1967. Now it is owned by Donald Linn and wife, and no one lives in house. They were like a good many families, moving around, but never getting far from New Ross, and always trading and taking part in events of New Ross. Another son of Noah Linn was Joseph Andrew Linn, farmer, thresher-man, trustee, married Mary Anna Candace Weaver, daughter of Jasper and Margaret Joh Weaver (his sec- ond wife). Jasper had a mill in New Ross in 1870s. Joseph and Anna had two children, Mabel Linn, born November, 1903, married Alvis Braxton Myers, Jr. from Chicago, but his inother Leona Brown Mvers was a New Ross native, daughter of Willis and Nancy Ellis Brown, and granddaughter of William and Nan- cy Routh Brown, west of New Ross. Mabel taught school at
Greenwood, and she and her husband now live in Pompand Beach, Florida. Leona Brown had married Alvis Braxton Myer Sr., who had come from N. Carolina, and worked at Hinkles west of New Ross. Braxton Jr. was credited in 1966 with sav.
a car. Being a former policeman, he was well versed in wha to do with an accident victim. They had two children, Nylen and Lynn. Lynn was discharged from army service in 1966. Ny lene married Albert Gilbert, an artist, and in August 1966 is sue of Audubon Society magazine, he had quite a spread of hi painting of birds, hawks mainly, in their natural color, and Nylene had been given credit for the professional picture sh had taken of Albert and their son Andy, which was also in th magazine. While they are not from this area, both sides of he family have lived around here, and any area should be proud t claim them. Joseph Linn's son was Lawrence Russell Linn, bor 1911, married Mildred Morrison, and they have a son, Joe Morrison Linn, who married Nancy Gray, daughter of Robert an Saralı Cornett Gray, and granddaughter of Bert and Mattie Brigh Gray, all New Ross residents at one time. Lawrence Linns and Joed Linns live west of New Ross, 3 miles and 2 1/2 miles res pectively. Joed and Nancy's children are Jeffrey Lee, Robe Lawrence, and Donna Marcell Linn. Lawrence owns the Clif Linn fa mn, north of where Greenwood school was located, the Harve Minnick farin (has a new home on this farm) and the Bernie Cosby farm. Joed lives on land which his grandfather an father lived, and which was owned by both Noah Linn, Joe Lini and Oscar Eddingfield, now owned by Mr. Mitchell; a daugh- ter of Noah Linu was Evaline Linn, married Wesley Wright, and had three sons, one died in infancy, one died young, and Wil liam Cassell Wright, (he was named for his great-grandmother Mahala Castle Linn, note the difference in spelling), and Wil- lie married a New Ross girl, Leota Chloe Duke, daughter of Thomas A. and Emma Stoner Duke. They had four children, Joseph, William C II, Margaret and Catherine; another daugh ter of Noah Liun was Nancy Linn, married James Ray, they lived near New Ross, but their children, Glen, Ethel and Floyd mar- ried and lived elsewhere; a son of Noah, Isaac, married Zula Mote, lived three miles west of New Ross, their children were Leslie Linn, who married a Jamestown, Indiana girl, Winifred Miller, who went to Hollywood one time, but decided it was too hard work to ever make top billing. She was a beautiful girl; Carl Linn, died, and Margaret Linn, died. Isaac lived near his parents; another daughter of Noah Linns was Sarah Ma hala, called "Haley", married Henry Newton Vancleave, had three children, Wallace, Milton, and lily Vancleave. Wallace Vancleave had a remarkable one-man's band and he went all over the country with this, so I'm sure he entertained at New Ross at one time or another. Noah Linn's sister, Emmaline Linn Inarried first my great-uncle, Andrew Vineyard Randel, and they had four children, William Noah Randel married 1. Ger- tie Markey, and married 2. Ida Logan, both women were grand- children of the William and Nancy Routh Brown, west of New Ross. He had children by both wives, but they aren't connected to New Ross; Myrtle Randel married Oliver Vannice, from New Ross, and they had two children, Lily, died young, and Lola Vannice, who spent her last days in New Ross. After Andrew died, Emma married Samuel Thomas Lytle, son of Robert and Margaret McCoy Lytle, who owned land southwest of New Ross, and west 2 1/2 miles. Land for Greenwood school, 1 acre, was taken in 1857 from this land. They had five children, Charley, Clarence, Marion, and Nellie Lytle Sicks. Clarence married Blanche Hardesty and they lived with their children in New Ross several years. Marion Lytle married Rena Brown, daughter of Seth (Jabe) and Melissa Redenbaugh Brown, who lived west of New Ross with her parents Williams Corn and Alice Mcenach Redenbaugh. How well I remember going to Aunt Em Lytles at night time, and what a little kerosene lamp they had to light
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.