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From: Paul Sabol <>
Subject: Re: [OHJACKSO] "New" Rev War patriot surnames for Jackson county
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:25:51 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <8102cd6a1002261025t64e45703xdbb86314691474f5@mail.gmail.com>


Is there any family history published on Daniel Webster Williams? My Williams family hails from the Jackson County and Lawrence County areas. Wondering if Daniel might be related. Based on the dates, if related he could have been an uncle of my g-grandfather or cousin of my g-g-grandfather.

--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Anthony Coyan <> wrote:

> From: Anthony Coyan <>
> Subject: [OHJACKSO] "New" Rev War patriot surnames for Jackson county
> To: ,
> Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 1:25 PM
> Daniel Webster Williams (1862-1932)
> was easily the foremost historian in
> Jackson county's early history. In the late 1800's he
> became the editor and
> owner of the Jackson Standard newspaper. At that point he
> began a long
> career of documenting our local history. He was a great
> story-teller who,
> fortunately for us, cared about Jackson county, our
> heritage, and preserving
> it for future generations. He sought out the "old-timers"
> and would probe
> them for snippets of information about their families that
> he would then, if
> of interest, publish in his newspaper.
>
> Below is a link to just one "snippet" of the info that D.W.
> Williams looked
> for. Imagine, sitting on his "verandah", nearly 100 years
> ago, as he quizzed
> a neighbor about his heritage....Note the name of John
> Hanna, who has many
> hundreds of living descendants.
>
> And pay particular attention to the other surnames that
> surface in this
> article, regarding local Revolutionary War veterans. Names
> I have not
> previously posted. These men may not (or maybe ARE) buried
> in Jackson
> county, but it appears they certainly had roots here. "New"
> names like
> Johnson, Brown, Hartley, Halterman, Miller, Wallace, and
> Smith.
>
> The following men show up in a database I have for 1816
> (the year the county
> was formed) Jackson county voters & residents with the
> aforementioned
> surnames. If you think you may be descended from any of
> them, please email
> me:
>
> William, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, John & Nathan Brown -
> Nathan is an
> acknowledged Rev War vet
> Issac Hartley
> Basil, James & Richard Johnson
> John Wallace
>
> http://www.coyan.net/RevWarNames1913.pdf
>
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