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From: "Polly Dixon" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] Re: RHEA-D Digest V02 #91
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:33:05 -0500
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Hi Norma:

You probably already know this, but there are a jillion McSpaddens in East
Tennessee and on into Texas. They married Wrights, Magills, Lowrys, etc,
etc, etc, ad infinitum, and there is a collateral Lowe line.

There has been a lot of excellent research done on this line of McSpaddens.
No connection with my Rheas, that I know of.

Polly in Houston

----- Original Message -----
From: Norma Lewis <>
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Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 12:56 AM
Subject: [RHEA] Re: RHEA-D Digest V02 #91


>
>
> Thank you, Leon, that was a very nice history! I wonder how the Rheas of
> Augusta County fit in here. Are you saying they are another branch of
> the family from Ireland?
>
> My Koiner family moved from Lebanon, North Lancaster, in 1773 to
> Shippensburg, which became part of Franklin Co. after 1800 ~ in our
> history which is so full of errors it is mind boggling ~ it says they
> settled on the banks of the Yellow Breeches Creek and I looked for that
> creek for a long time before finding it, and I've since learned it has
> nothing to do with Yellow Breeches, it was an Indian name that sounded
> like Yellow Breeches to the settlers.These settlers were not eager to
> keep Indian names as this was a very violent Indian fighting area. My
> Koiners bought their land from the Culbertsons of Culbertson Row, and
> when they went to Augusta County in 1789 they bought their land there
> from the Culbertsons.
>
> I have also recently learned my Keinadt family whose name evolved to
> Koiner, Coiner, Coyner, actually borrowed the spelling of that name from
> the Irish. I can't find any evidence of Irish Coiners left in this
> country, but there are plenty of German Coiners and Coyners ~ this Irish
> family were Irish accountants to the English, thus coin counters, or
> coiners.
>
> There are Snodgrasses in my Coyner-Rhea family from Shenandoah County,
> and some also lived in Augusta.
> The Coiners are my maternal line, the Matneys are a paternal line. Isn't
> it interesting how they all mingled in these few eastern states?
>
> What got me started on this PA history is the fact that my English
> Matneys (Mattingly) married Culbertsons, Buchanans, Lindseys, Coopers,
> from this area, and the McCullys (McCullough) and McSpaddens we have
> been looking for seem to come from Philadelphia. In the Washington Co.
> VA land surveys some of these names are listed as from "New Britain" in
> Chester Co., PA ~ Doesn't say that but appears to be a fact.
>
> I also have found several of the same families listed in several states
> at the same time ~ in Augusta County although they were on the Holstein
> River ~ they were also listed in PA, and about the same time in
> Rockbridge or Montgomery County, depending on the dates and when the
> counties were formed.
>
> Some of these Lindseys from Falling Creek in Cumberland County went to
> KY via SW VA and TN where they lived near and married into the family of
> Daniel Boone. The Applegates are also related to this family, also from
> MD and PA, and these families wound up in Oregon with my Matneys where
> they all intermarried . Walter Jefferson Matney was on the first big
> wagon train in 1843 to Oregon along with several Applegates who
> reportedly led a cow train of some 900 heads of stock. Jesse, Lindsey
> and Charles Applegate founded the Applegate Trail into Southern Oregon ~
> This is a short version of a long story, but it shows how these families
> moved around the country and wound up together, many who had started out
> together. My Gpa Coiner came to Oregon in 1925, and although it is much
> newer than eastern history, Oregon and Washington History is very
> interesting, and very western.
>
> Its been fun finding all this early history, and I'm still finding new
> family associations in all sides of my family!
> Norma
>
> PS: Your Mary Kymer who married Samuel Thompson born 1803, could be a
> Kyner which is a Koiner. The one son who remained in PA when the rest of
> the family went to Augusta County VA used the spelling Kyner and Kiner.
> I'm familiar with the German Kimes, have never seen Kymer, which doesn't
> mean anything as they used so many creative spellings it is hard to
> follow the Germany families.
>
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