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From: "Walker Family" <>
Subject: Re: [OBANNON-L] Second wife of Welton O'Bannon
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 11:18:35 -0800


Is there any information on Benjamin O'Bannon and wife Eleanor Helen Ash and
descendants in your wonderful gedcom? I have little information on dates
and places.

Thank you.

Lori


----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick O'Bannon <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 7:11 AM
Subject: RE: [OBANNON-L] Second wife of Welton O'Bannon


> This certainly looks like a match to me!! I assume Rachel's from MD, but I
> wonder why Welton went back east - his parents and most/all of his
siblings
> had moved to Ohio, or what's now West Virginia, or Missouri by this date.
> Allegany Co. (where Cumberland, MD is) is not TOO far from Hardy Co.,
VA/WV,
> but it's not exactly next door either.
>
> I think you've both solved the mystery and compounded it - congrats that
> makes you a genealogist first class.
>
> I have the ability to spit out a gedcom, but I've more than 11,000 people
in
> my database. Do you want the whole thing or just descendants of Joseph &
> Martha or William & Anne? And, of course, I'll greedily take whatever you
> care to send me!!
>
> Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [SMTP:]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:53 PM
> To:
> Subject: [OBANNON-L] Second wife of Welton O'Bannon
>
> Patrick,
> Recall our discussion last week about the subject wife. How does
> this
> sound?
> O'BANNON, Welton married CUNNINGHAM, Rachael on 25 April 1824 in
> Allegany County, Maryland. Every thing seem to fit perfectly,
> name(s),
> date, but not the location. I have contacted the Allegany County
> Genealogy Society to determine if more information is available
> about
> the marriage, however there is not much hope since little
> information
> was recorded in those days. Since the name Welton O'Bannon is so
> rare
> in that time period and the marriage record for Welton's son stating
> the
> mother was Rachael, I'm confident the mystery has been solved. The
> only
> part remaining is what was Welton doing in that part of the world at
> that time. Perhaps a death of parents or grandparents, perhaps
> arrangements for land patents etc. I'm altering my data to make
> Rachael Cunningham the mother of William O'Bannon, which is better
> than
> having Hannah A. Minerva as his mother. By the way, do you have a
> GEDCOM somewhere? I will be glad to send you mine.
> Allan C. Tims
>

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