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le room, not as much as the smallest night light now would e. I do remember a "sausage" rug she had made; I thought it as so pretty, and wished my mother would make one. We had hat was called a Rayo lamp, andit gave a brighter light. Later unt Em had an Aladdin lamp, and it gave out a real bright .ght. These were the kind of lights used by all the residents of le New Ross area before electricity came our way. Before elec- icity was available to farmers, etc. many people installed leir own acetyline light systems, but now with New Ross and le surrounding area having electricity, there's no difference etween the "city cousin" and . the "country cousin" in modern onveniences. Most of these Linns attended Greenwood school nd New Ross school, traded with New Rossmerchants, and were ctive in community affairs. Noah and Emmaline's brother Villiam married Mary Elizabeth Lytle, sister to Samuel Thom- s Lytle, and daughter of Robert and Margaret McCoy Lytle, outhwest of New Ross. They had 8 children, Matilda Gertrude inn, died young, Sarah Catherine Linn married John Morris tad 2 sons, Fred and Carson Morris, Robert Linn married Maud Canine, daughter of Henry and Priscilla Hays Canine, (Priscilla narried 2, as his second wife, William Brown, west of New Ross ' miles). Robert and Maud had one son, Ernest Linn who mar- ied Pearl Clark, daughter of John and Delista Clark, and they lad 2 sons, Dale, died, and Raymond Linn who married Phyllis Hays, daughter of Homer and Ethel Peterson Hays, and they have our children, Jeffrey, Janice, Cheryl, and Richard. Robert Linn lied 1894, age 26, and Maud, his widow, married his brother William T. Linn in 1896. They all lived 1 1/2 miles west, 1/2 nile south of New Ross. The Ernest Linn family den a nice lome on North Main Street in New Ross for Christian Church parsonage. They are farmers; a sister er Robert and William was Julietta, married Charles Shelby; another sister was Margaret Ann Linn and James O. Linn, a brother, born 1879, died 1896.
son Linn, a Professor at University of Illinois, and Mervin Oakel Linn, died y. . Manson Linn and I were in same grade at Green- wood school, and at that time they gave each student rank in his class, Manson and I competed for rank 1, and sometimes it was Manson and sometimes it was me. Now they have honor rolls as there are more students in each class, and there may be more than one in the top group. Manson is now a professor at Illinois University, Urbana, Il1. Charley Linn, son of John Web- ster and Mary Ann Martin Linn, married 1. Clara Duke, daugh- ter of J. F. and Jerusha Reed Duke, New Ross. They lived north - west of New Ross 1 1/2 miles. Their only child, Pearl Linn, married Oakley Shelley, and they had two children, Austin Linn Shelley, and Clara Carolyn Linn Shelley Hipes. Charles Linn married 2. Maud May Sinclair Utterback, daughter of Wil- liam and Margaret Davenport Sinclair. Another child of John ,Webster Linn and wife was Nancy Marilla Linn, who married Thomas Hunt, and they had 4 children, Joseph Corrington Hunt, married Mollie Conner. A farmer and postmaster at New Ross. They had two daughters, Zola Hunt Reiter Givans, and she worked in postoffice several years at New Ross. She and her first husband, Paul Reiter, a New Ross boy, had a daughter, Dorothy Jane Reiter, and she married Dorman Gates, Jr. , son of Dorman and Dorothy Randle Gates Sr. who lived north of New Ross. Dorothy Reiter Gates' children were Damon Lee, Donald Wayne and Dennis Duane Gates. Dorothy Reiter Gates died several years ago. Myrtle Hunt, daughter of Joseph and Molly Hunt married 1. Walter Brown, son of Thomas and Mollie Canada Brown, She married 2. Eddie Mckeown, has 3 children, Mary Patricia, Rob- ert, and Elizabeth Joan Mckeown. Another daughter of Thomas and Nancy Linn .Hunt was Ella L. Hunt, a son, Clarence Hunt, and a daughter Myrtle Hunt Robbins. (Jack Robbins, New Ross,
is her grandson).
Josiah and Mary Elizabeth Bowman had 3 children, Bruce Bow- man, born 12-27-1867 married Rose Sparks on 9-27-1888. She died August 3, 1939, he died 1947; Gertrude Bowman married Henry Clifton Linn, (see under Linn); and Eliza Bowman mar- ried Elmer Myers, no children. Elmer lived west of New Ross, but he and his second wife lived in New Ross, and she is living there now, east of school building.
Gilbert and Myrtle Skaggs Bowman had a daughter Iva, who married Harvey Minnick, son of Charles and Isabelle Downing Minnick, their children were Ruth, Ralph, Neva and Myrtle Min- nick; also a daughter Elsie Bowman Pointer.
Another family living near New Ross, but in Clark Township, very close to New Ross in their life's activities. George W. Mitchelltree married Rebecca Britts, daughter of John Britts, an early Ladoga, Indiana settler. Rebecca was born 4-18-1827, Botetourt Co., Virginia. They were married 1848. Moved south- west of New Ross in 1865. They had 4 daughters and 2 sons. One son was David Thomas Mitchelltree born 3-9-1861, married 1. Mary E. Peffley. She died 4-2-1891. Their children were Bessie Mitchelltree See, (d), Letha (d) and Clara (d); he married 2. Mary E. Puett 3-4-1903, and had three more children, Ruth, died infancy, Iris married Ezra McClain, they had children, but Iris died, and he married again, and lives southwest of New Ross. Irene Mitchelltree married Sherman Garner, and they have one son, Robert. Irene is a school teacher. They are members of the Trinity Methodist Church in Crawfordsville, and in December, 1967, they donated an organ to the newly remodeled church. David Mitchelltree lived southeast of New Ross.
Some of the Smith and Susan Hardesty Conner family were in the New Ross area, and others were in the Mace area of Wal- nut township. One son Martin or Marion Alexander Conner, born 1843, married Angeline Baird. Of their seven children, 3 lived near New Ross. Mary Jane married W. B. Powell, William mar- ried Nellie Temple, and Smith Conner II married Elizabeth Riffle, other 4 lived near Mace. Another son of Smith Conner I was Joshua Conner, born 1835, died December 1910, married Nancy Chambers, daughter of David and Isabelle Walkup Chambers, and their children were William A. Conner married Frances Sparks. How well Iremember the day that William Con- ner was buried in 1914/3, for a man fainted and I fainted right after he did! William's children were Virgil, married Ethel Rhoades, had 4 children; Valla married Otis Long, had 4 child- ren, they left New Ross area, went out west, then returned here 1 mile east of New Ross on old road 34, in early 1920s; Nora Conner married Charlie Clark, son of Benjamin and Mary Pen- nington Clark, and they had one son, Russell . . This Conner family lived northwest of New Ross, near Big Four RR. Susan Conner married James Wright, and they had two daughters, Ruth, died 1926, and Ethel, married Morris Wright, and they had two children, Sue Alice married Bill Henry, two children, Denny and Donova Henry; and James Wright married Corenia Frederick, have three children, Teresa, Jimmie Jr., and Joey Wright. James and Susan Jarvis lived one mile west of New Ross, Their widowed daughter Ethel lives there now; Dora Conner married Dick Jarvis on 12-21-1905. Dora was born 2-13-1876. They had five children, Mary Ebaugh, Elsie Booher, Ernest, and twins, Emmet, married Leah Hyten, have son Daniel, married to Karen Wilson, and Emory married Mariellen Hymer, daugh- ter of Oka and Elizabeth Evans Hymer, and their son, James, wife Jill and son Brad live northeast of New Ross. Richard Jarvis, after his wife died married 2. Maud Wallace Dickerson, and they lived first house north of K of P building; Mary (Mollie) Conner married Joseph Corrington Hunt (See Linn family). (Taken partly from History of Union Presbyterian Church by Ar- thur Porter, plus other sources).
West of New Ross, 1 1/2 miles, Ambrose and Frances Morris Williams lived, and they had seven children, Bion, (he worked
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for my father many times), Cleo, Dan, Oscar, Otis, Haskell, and Jeanette, who married a Stonebraker, then a Stribling. One of these boys had a barber shop in New Ross, then in Jamestown.
William McGuffin, son of Samuel and Polly Henry McGuffin, and wife Hannah, came to New Ross in 1869, and were in one of the seven original cabins of Valley City. William died 5-11- 1904, age 69. He had 3 children, Marion, Julian (Spot), and Blanch, who married William T. Coddington, son of William and Sarah Coddington.
Samuel P. Chambers and wife Sarah, were parents of "Tobe", William and Elliot Chambers. They lived in one of the seven cabins too.
James and Mary Ellen Gardner Baber had six children, Willa, married Verne Bowers, and they have two children, Betty and Bobby; Fred, never married, lives east of New Ross, on old road 34; Savor married Richard Norris, lives northeast of New Ross; June Myers lives Indianapolis; Herman and his wife Helen lived in Crawfordsville; Forest Baber (d), was born 1-24-1895 in Jamestown, Indiana, but the family moved east of New Ross when she was young. She married Emmet Tolle April 1923, and they lived east of New Ross, on homestead of her grandparents, John and Julia McClain Gardner. Forest was substitute teacher at Greenwood school last half of 1914-1915 term, when regular teacher Opal Rhoades had her eye put out by an exploding bul- ' let. Emmett Tolle was one of the leaders in getting the New Ross school and gymnasium built in 1930s. Willa Bowers lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana, with her retired postmaster husband, and she is a very good source of information for New Ross peo- ple and events through the years.
David Milton Turner, a hardware merchantin New Ross, mar- ried Ossellia Henthorn, daughter of Isaac and Julia Ann Fordyce Henthorn. Julia Ann was born 7-6-1825 in Lawrence Co. Indi- ana, came to Montgomery County 1891, one of 12 children. She married Isaac Henthorn 1853, he died 1859. Beside Ossellia they had a baby boy, who died infancy. Julia Ann married 2. Josiah Wheeler 1864, he died 1893. She had three stepsons, T.M., W.A., and A. M. Wheeler. David and Ossellia Turner had five children, 3 died young, one was Julie, died 7-5-1883, age 5, and the two surviving children were Lula Inez, born 6- 25-1880, New Ross and was 9 years old when her mother, Os- selia died 4-5-1890, age 35, and Jewel Turner, who married Elsie Mears, lived south of New Ross, where Mrs. Lula Nees lived when she died. David married 2. Louise Webb. He died 1897, when Lula was 17 years old, and she continued to live with her stepmother. She married Milton Nees, son of David and Sarah Kennedy Nees, on June 5, 1901, in New Ross Christ- ian Church, which she and her friend, Ethel Bowers had joined in June 1894. From 1906 until 1918, they lived in Crawfords- ville, then returned to south of New Ross, near the cemetery, where their daughter, Marcella and her family now own and live. They had four children, Ruth Nees, Sarah Nees, Marcella and David Nees. Marcella is the only child who remained around New Ross. She married Denver Feltner, and their children were Richard, Ruth Ann, Marcia, and Nancy Feltner. Milton Nees was a teacher, and Mrs. Nees taught for 4 years, 2 years in Clark township, and at schools No. 7 and 9 in Walnut township. Mr. Nees was county surveyor, and many new roads were added in county at time of his service as surveyor. When the Farmers State Bank was organized in 1925, Mr. Nees was named cashier of the bank, and Mrs. Nees assisted him from 1925 to 1945. He died 1946. She was first president of PTA in New Ross . . She was in an auto accident in 1965 which caused her death. She was baptized in Raccoon Creek by Elder Abraham Plunkett. (I remember when my aunt, Flo Linn was baptized in this creek, west of bridge, a little southwest of Horace Routh's house. This is another thing that isn't done any more, people are baptized in church baptistry and not in a running stream). (Above taken mostly from Mrs. Nees' obituary, plus other sources).
Walter Whitecotton, born January 27, 1889, Advance, son ( John and Lucy Jane Clow Whitecotton, married Merle Shaha in Advance December 26, 1912. He was a surveyor, teacher and city engineer in Boone County, but in 1918, he and h father-in-law Pat Shahan, came here to New Ross and started the New Ross Grain Company. He was one of the founders of th Farmers State Bankin 1925. They continued tolive in New Ro even after he retired from the business, but spent the winters i Florida, then three years ago moved to Lebanon, where he die December, 1967. He was buried there. He belonged to Sons c American Revolution. Their children were Robert Whitecotton" who operated the Lumber yard in New Ross, married to Eliza beth Gilbert, and they have two children, both married. Rober is the only child to remain in New Ross. Other children were Patrick, Rosemary Whitecotton Shubert, and Margaret White cotton Franklin.
Moses Feltner, born Perry County, Ky. 1885, was a black smith in New Ross; his wife was Maggie Cornett Feltner, They had nine children, Denver, teacher and farmer in Walnut Tow; ship, married Marcella Nees. They own farm where her par. ents did own, also the old fairground site; James, who was i heating and plumbing business in New Ross for awhile, but nov an electrician at Donnelleys in Crawfordsville, wife Lou, an an children Marilyn S., Norman, Terry and Linda, oldest child George M. Feltner married Martha Wilson, daughter of Waltellme and Alpha McIntire Wilson (who were New Ross residents), and. their children are Madonna, Mary Lou, and twins, Marjorie andige Margaret, live 2 miles west, 1 mile north of New Ross; Ra Feltner, Betty Weber; Lily Green; Nancy Woodlock; Tona Bruch and Robert Feltner (d). Mose Feltner, son of Carlo and Fanne Feltner, died 1957, age 72.
Henry B. Hulett, born 1844, son of William and Lucy Wil k liams Hulett, came to New Ross, 1866 and operated a mercan- od tile and general store for 8 years, and with A. C. Mays and George Dorsey I, changed name of Valley City to New Ross. He married in 1869 Emma Webster. They had 5 children, Mau On Edith, Edna, Lillian and Harry Hulett, who died at age 14. Head was county clerk of Montgomery County later on, 1887 - - Em ma Webster was the daughter of Taylor W. and Lovina Power3 Webster. Mr. Hulett was born in Putnam County, Indiana. Hi: D parents moved to Iowa in 1854, but he only remained there on se year, couldn't stand the climate, so he came back here, buthe father went on to Kansas.
George Dorsey Sr. , born Virginia 1794, and wife Alice Rol- ler Dorsey came to New Ross from Maryland (or Virginia) 1836 coming to Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1834, remaining there two years before coming on to west of New Ross. They had thre children, Eliza, born Maryland 7-23-1822, died 1905, married John W. Lockridge, born 6-18-1819, Va., son of William and Rachel Chambers Lockridge, and grandson of John and Ann Ray Lockridge. John Lockridge was president of New Ros Fair AAs- sociation. He and Eliza had two children, Benjamin Franklin, born 1858- died 1886 and Thomas R. Lockridge, born 5-21-1860 married Rose Gray, daughter of Gilbert and Sarah Richie Gray; George T. Dorsey born 1833, Virginia, married Docie Jessee, daughter of James R. and Nancy Candler Jessee. He was an un- dertaker. (His father was a farmer, miller, and owned Wayside Inn, 1 mile west of New Ross, and was first postmaster and helped name the town of New Ross in 1867). Children of George Dorsey II were Belle, married Bert Rivercomb; he died and she married James Nicely. Minnie Dorsey married 1. James Thomas Bronaugh, had son Keifer, who married Salome Cox, had two children, Salome died and Keifer married Gladys Clark. His mother Minnie married 2. Fred Rogers; Leota Dorsey married Dayton Thompson, and they had a son Harold Thompson, who married Lucy Stewart, and they have a son Freddie, an ac- complished organist; Ellen Dorsey married William Sparks, and they went to Newton, Iowa, and he was in the Maytag Company;
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Na Dorsey married William Evans, had daughter Allie, who add; Ida Dorsey married Theodore Hankins, his second wife; al Burton N. Dorsey married Walter Bratton, and they had a by boy, who died infancy, and she died 1905. (He married (2 Grace Webster). The third child of George Dorsey I was Hinah Dorsey, born 1831, Maryland, married James Peterson abn 1829, Ohio, a cooper, on 11-7-1850. He had Peterson's Fel in New Ross. (James Peterson was son of William and Lise Wheat Peterson, whose other children were Garret, born 111, Ohio; Samuel, born 1834; O .; Isaac, born 1836, O .; Da- v, born 1839, O .; Mary, born 1842, Ind. ; John born 1844, I. and Taylor Peterson, born 1847, Indiana. Dates taken from 150 census of Walnut township). James Peterson was in Civil Vr in Co. K 164 Regiment. His children were William; Alfred n rried Hattie Hopper, had a daughter Mildred Peterson, and a on Roy Peterson; Emory Peterson; John T. Peterson married Sah Emily Graves; and Alice Peterson married Daniel Morri- s. The Dorsey family was quite prominent in history of New Fs and community. They had a Harris-Peterson-Dorsey re- .on for several years. George Dorsey Jr. was killed at a ral- when his horses became frightened and ran away.
ames Evans and J. J. Wren Duint new houses in New Ross in 73. W. R. Harris and John Kelly, shoemakers, dissolved triership, 1872. Another doctor here in 1872 was a Dr. O- r. John Walkup had married Jane Allen 2-25-1826 Rock- dge Co. Virginia, and they came here 1828.
William Emmert moved to New Ross, January 1873, to en- ge in the hardware business. Also in January 1873, W. T. rnes, who lived southeast of New Ross sold all his farming plements and his livestock and bought a third interest in the Mckville flouring mill, and moved it to New Ross. In 1873 hools in Walnut township were in session only 110 days or /2 months. May, 1873, Capt. George Dorsey gave up farm- ¿ and engaged in the furniture business in New Ross.
On May 7, 1873, the Sunday School was organized at Green- pod school. David Chambers was the superintendent, Isaac .ller the assistant superintendent, John Miller secretary, and ey met at 10 A. M. on Sunday.
On May 29, 1873, John Agee died in New Ross. His children mere Mrs. Andrew J. Routh, Oliver Agee, Mrs. Austin Klep- ger, Mrs. Densmore, Mrs. Dempsey Auman, Mrs. Nettie bson and Mrs. Zeb Auman. Robert Lytle died July 24, 1873. s wife was Margaret McCoy Lytle. They lived west of New ss and he farmed and had a chairmanufacturing place. Lou- Peterson, wife of William Peterson, died September 1873, e 67. In May 1873 John Bell moved his flour mill to New E ss. (This may be the one that Mr. Barnes owned third in- :est in from Beckville. )
Inlow and Hulett sold their store to Frank Gill from Dallas unty, Iowa in 1873. Tom Southard, who had taken over a incleave store, gave up to Mr. Todd October 1873.
Joseph Spohr, who was an early settler here, lived north of :w Ross, was visiting his children in Tama Co. Iowa and died jere October 26, 1873. He was born 11-23-1803 Rockbridge ). Va., was married August 1830 there; had 3 sons, 7 daugh- rs. His sale was held here in December 1873, and everything Id well. Abraham Inlow died October 1873. D. T. Rogers died ay 28, 1915, wife was Louvilla Dean Rogers, who died Dec. , 1916, age 53. W. B. Gott, a Civil war veteran, was born Ladoga 1837, married Mary Strahan, and they had Harry, arles, Jessie Gott Walters, and another child.
Frazier and Lockman and Co. were to begin slaughtering of gs December 1873. John Chambers went to Iowa in 1869. Sol erriweather was a sewing machine salesman in New Ross 1873. In February 1874, a meeting was held at Browns Chapel about lilding a new Methodist Church.
A. J. Morrow moved to New Ross from Fayette Co. , Indiana nuary 1872.
June 13, 1872 S. H. Ross, and 154 others petitioned commis- sioners for voting place to be changed in Walnut township from Center School to New Ross. In 1873 teachers in this area were: Center, E. C. Lesh, No. 6 Powell Garrett Vanhorn, Greenwood, No. 8, W. T. Eddingfield.
F. M. Wilson 2 miles west of New Ross buried two children in February 1873, had measles. In March 1873, there had been 60 cases of measles in the Greenwood school, and one had died.
The Odd Fellow Lodge made plans April 25, 1872 to open Lodge in New Ross. Lovena Walkup married John Spohr in De- cember 1873. In 1874, Frank Gill had coal. Dora Beck, who died 1916, had two sisters, Mrs. Isa Hysong, and Mrs. Frank Bowman.
F. J. Booher went to Tennessee in April 1916, and visited his Booher and Hampton families, and was told by the Boohers there about the families of his line who had come to Indiana in 1830s.
Dick Hamilton, son of Robert Hamilton, diedat age 4 in 1916.
Samuel Stillwell Harris 1, born 1800, Virginia, married Mary Rhea born 1807, Blount Co. Tennessee, daughter of Robert Rhea. Mary died 3-18-1887, age 80. Came to New Ross 1837. Samu- el Harris (father or son built a house west of New Ross in 1857, later Marvin Chambers tore it down and built another house there. Samuel Stillwell Harris Sr. came to New Ross around 1837. His children were William K. Harris, born 1831, Ohio, died Linnsburg, Indiana 2-10-1916, wife Catherine Martin Har- ris. He was born Preble County, Ohio on December 19. He was in Co. C. 10th Indiana Volunteers 3 years; a wagon maker. He married 10-8-1866, had three sons and one daughter; Martha J. Harris married Frederick Imel 11-2-1854; Nancy E. Harris married Franklin Imel 2-16-1854; Samuel Stillwell Harris II, born 1834, Ohio, married Maria Margaret Schnepp and their children were Ray Burton Harris, who married Nellie Jones, had 6 children, Mary Elizabeth, married Merle Terry, son of Leon- ard Terry, west of New Ross, and they had two daughters, one died young; Delmar Edward; Samuel Dale, wife Kathryn and son Steve, live in New Ross, he works at New Ross Grain Co .; Irma Fay; Virginia Kay; and Gordon Dorman Harris, married Beulah Jarvis, and they had a daughter who married a Reeves, and lives away from here. Dorman is manager of New Ross Grain Company; Ulysses Perry Harris married my grandmother's sister, Lily Dora Josephine Humbert, daughter of Isaac and Mary Jane Joh Humbert. She was called Phoenia. They mar- ried 3-5-1891 .. They had five children, Don, he carpentered with his father many years, then he and his wife, Josephine moved to Indianapolis, but retained their home here in New Ross, and when he retired from work, they moved back to their property here, no children; Dorothy (Dot) married Arthur Clay .- pool, had two children, Josephine and Robert Claypool; Earl (Dode) never married, served in Navyin WWI, died, buried in New Ross cemetery; Elsie Gertrude Harris, never married, and although she worked at Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Co. in Indi- anapolis many years, she was in New Ross nearly every week end and has retired here, lives on N. Main St .; and William Herman Harris, also in WWI, married Evangeline Douglas Kel- ley, daughter of Emmons and Augusta Louella Trotter Douglas (who spent their last days in New Ross and are buried in New Ross cemetery); Bill had no children, but a human interest story concerns a step-daughter. On May 14, 1930, a baby girl was left behind the Indiana theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana, and she was found by 2 patrolmen, Fred Hague and Harry Schley. Mr. Hague gave her the name of Patricia Hague, but Evangeline Douglas Kelly had no children and wanted to adopt her, which she did, and the baby became Patricia Hague Kelly. She grad- uated from the New Ross High School, and married a Schulte, and they had a son Mike, who has lived and worked in New Ross. Bill died 1965 (and his widow married Harry Inskeep). Bill, Don and Dode all helped their father in the carpenter
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business and many homes and barns around and in New Ross were built by them. Bill worked at New Ross Lumber Co. for 26 years; Robert Harris married 1. Carrie Porter. married 2. Fannie Palmer; his daughter Carrie (1st wife) married Clyde Newkirk, son of Albert and Amanda Buchanan Newkirk, 3 children; Wallace Arthur Harris married Ella Forest Golliday, born 1873 in a log cabin in Boone County, to Isaac and Mary Duncan Golliday, their children were Sherman Burton Harris, a nd Ernest L. Harris; Glorianne Delilah (Dell) Harris married 1. William R. Brooks 11-27-1895, they had a daughter Helen, who married Raymond Bratton, had two children; Dell married 2. Alonzo Miller, son of Martin and Ann Miller, no children. They built a new home west of interurban station on State St. Edith Harris married Perry Routh and they had a daughter, Faye, (d), and Russell. Went to Oklahoma, where Edith died 1962; other children of Samueland Mary Thea Harris were Robert T. Harris, died 1887 age 46; Rebecca Harris, born Ohio, 1840; Delilah T. Harris , called "Chunk, " born 1845, never married, raised a great niece, Miriam Davis Gray; Virginia Harris mar- ried Frank Davis Sr. , they had a son, Frank Davis Jr., married a Switzer, parents of Miriam Davis, who married Ward Gray. Frank Davis Sr. died in Civil War, and Virginia married 2. Wil- liam Peterson, brother to Alf, Emory, John and Alice Peterson Morrison; Thomas Harris, never married, lived west of New Ross, no relation to Thomas Harris north of New Ross accord- ing to Dell Harris Miller, who gave above family to me . . One Samuel S. Harris married Sally A. Jones, 12-23-1875, don't know about this, for Samuel Stillwell Harris I's first wife didn't die until 1887, and Samuel S. Jr. died 1893, but his wife Mar· garet was still living, so perhaps someone . can solve this. Franklin and Nancy Harris Imel's children were Oscar, William Charley, Eva, (Tode), another chlid, and Jane Imel Lowell and her children were Ethel, Fred and Blanch Lowell. Freder- ick and Martha Harriet Imel's children were Samuel S. Imel, and another one, (Omitted from children of Franklin and Nan- cy Imel was Viola Porter and Mrs. James Williams.
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