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From: "Randy Dunavan" <>
Subject: [KSCRAWFO] Surname Hunt
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 10:31:52 -0700


Morning Everyone,

Great response! We have had allot of response. Will respond to
all ASAP.

A little background. The first group of surnames have roots to
(1795-1800s) Kentucky. Some of those counties are Daviees, Marion, Nelson,
Taylor,
Washington. From KY, branches went to ILL, IN and MO. From those area as
well as
KY, we see branches that came to S. E. Kansas. It would appear that many
were attracted
by the opening up of Osage Indian lands the government made available
(about 1870)
for settlement. Fr. Shoemakers establish a Indian mission on the Neosho
River
(St. Paul) in 1847. He was able to get help setting up the mission from the
Sisters of Lorrato, who were established in Washington County, KY.
So, that is where the KY migration to S. E. Kansas began.

The majority of these names below can be traced to St. Mary's County, MD,
beginning with the
immigrant, some dating back to the 1630s. A key component to these names
is most were Catholic or
came from a Catholic background.

Abell, Adams, Bailey, Bell, Beaven, Blandford, Boaz, Boone, Bowling, Bowman,
Bradshaw, Bray, Brewer, Brown, Buckman, Burch, Carrico, Cave, Cecil, Church,
Clark, Clements, Combs, Coomes, Cooper, Cox, Dent/Dant, Drury, Elder,
Elliottt, Evans, Ewing, Fager, Ford, Fowler, French, Gardiner, Graves,
Green, Greenwell, Hagan, Hamilton, Hayden, Hayes, Heverin, Hill, Hutchins,
Jarboe, Johnson, Johnston, King, Knott, Leake, Luckett, Lynch, Maguire,
Mattingly, McAtee, Martin, Mills, Moore, Mudd, Murphy, Neighbors, Newton,
Norris, O'Brien, O'Bryan, O'Conner, Osborn, Owens, Parsons, Parrott, Peirce,
Phillips, Price, Roach, Rhodes, Rice, Scott, Shively, Simms, Smith,
Spalding, Speake, Stone, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Tucker, Turner, VanCleve,
Vessells, Walker, Ward, Warner, Warren, Whalen, Williams, Wimsatt,
Woods, Worland, Yates

The second group of names are those that came to Osage Mission or St. Paul,
Ks and married into some of the families listed above. Obviously this is
just a sampling of the names.

Beechwood, Burnett, Butler, Carroll, Cavanaugh, Crager, Devine, Diskin,
Dowd, Farran, Fortune, Gallet, Gregg, Greve, Lamb, Lero, McGowen,
McKiearman, Miller, Nunnick, O'Roark, Paine, Pratt, Renner, Showalter,
Speilbusch, VanLeeuwen,Volmer, Ward

We welcome any information on lineage that may fit in with these groups.
In return, we may have data that you may data that you'll find useful.
Data base is quickly approaching 43,000 links.

Looking forward to hear from you.

Randy Dunavan
Longview, Texas

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