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From: "Tim Cole" <>
Subject: Re: [OHHURON-L] Re: Asa COLE
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:57:40 -0400


I really wish I could answer the Asa/Asher question, but I have a concurrent
family of Coles of my own. My gggg-grandfather David Cole (wife, Hannah
Parker) owned Lot 16, Sec. 3, Bronson Twp., Huron Co., Ohio, in 1817 and in
1830 transferred ownership to his son Edward. In 1817 my ancestor's family
would have consisted of son Hylas B., 15; Edward Payne, 10; Carthaette
(Etta), 8; Cordelia D. and Arvilla, ages unknown.
Hylas died in a tree-felling accident in 1825;
Edward married Sally Dillingham, d/o John Dillingham, in 1829;
Carthaette married Daniel Osborn (Firelander) in 1832;
and Arvilla married Alvah Lawrence in 1839.
Edward P. and John Dillingham and their spouses and families moved to Porter
Co., Indiana, in 1835/6.
John Conger Cole, s/o Edward, returned to Huron Co., (or wherever Daniel
Osborn was living in 1856) and married his first cousin Mary Arvilla Osborn
and took her back to Porter Co., Indiana. Her parents and siblings followed
in 1858.
Supposedly, David had two brothers living close by, Bethuel and Attrusha (or
could it be Aarron?) who moved to the area later.
Everyone in this family could read and write. Carthaette taught school at
age 15/16 and her cousin Mary Arvilla Osborn attended Berlin Heights
Seminary (?)
This is virtually all I know of my family while in Huron Co. I would
greatly love to know more, and I would love to know how close the Asa/Asher,
etc., Cole families lived to my family in Bronson Twp. I get the impression
from the county histories that it wasn't very far at all.

I have good confidence that my ancestors descended from James Cole of
Plymouth, Mass., as documented by E. B. Cole in his book. Asher, Miner, and
the others, perhaps excepting Asa, apparently did not descend from James.
As prominent as these latter Coles were, surely someone must have or is
researching them.
Asking for any and all help,
Regards,
Tim Cole

http://www.niia.net/~timcole

-----Original Message-----
From: MR KENNETH W SHUTE <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 10:06 PM
Subject: [OHHURON-L] Re: Asa COLE

>-- [ From: Kenneth W. Shute * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
> To: Helene Crowley \ America On-Line: (CrowSH)
>I checked our Huron County, Ohio publications, and, like you, couldn't
>find a firm link between Asa COLE and the other COLES.

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