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From: "ROSALIE CARROLL" <>
Subject: Fw: James L. Wells, Pa.
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:09 -0800


> Date: Friday, April 03, 1998 11:34 AM
>
> James L. (Laughead or Langhead) Wells born 1815 in Williamsport
> (Monongahela) Wash. Co. Pa.; died 1888 married Mary Mason daughter of
> Robert Mason. Their children: Sarah Farquhar Wells, William W. Wells,
> Robert M. Wells, Julius L. Wells, and Martha A. Wells. James died in
Sept.
> 1888 in California, Wash. Co. Pa. Mary Mason Wells died in 1874. James
L.
> Wells was a member of the Weslyan Methodist Church and later the
Cumberland
> Presbyterian Church. He assisted the Underground Railroad and was a
member
> of the Abolition Party. He was a boat builder as was his brother, Joseph
> Wells, husband of Sophia Boyd Wells of Bridgeport, Fay. Co. Pa. James'
> Son, Robert M. Wells b. June 22, 1846, in Coal Center, Wash. Co. Pa. was
a
> prominent doctor in Coal Center (Greenfield) and also in Davenport, Iowa.

> Dr. Wells served in the Civil War. In 1879 he married Susanna Wood
> daughter of John Wood and moved back to Pa. because of her ill health.
> William W. Wells and Julius Lemoine Wells were in business in Moline,
> Illinois.
>
> James L. Wells was the son of William Wells born in 1791 in Va. and came
to
> Wash. Co. Pa. in 1800. William married Martha L. (Laughead or Langhead)
> and lived in Wash. Co. and Fay. Co. Pa. He was a Methodist, Whig, and
> chairmaker. Later William and Martha moved to Woodstock, Ohio and then
to
> Zanesville, Ohio where he died in 1856. William's children were: James
L.;
> **Joseph,born in 1819, d. 1890, husband of Sophia Boyd Wells, parents of
> Oliver Charles Wells, ancestral grandparents) Dennis B.; William,
> Benjamin, Wesley; Martha, Elizabeth, Christiana, Jane, Matilda, and Mary
> Ann.
>
> William Wells was the son of Joseph Wells husband of Sarah Farquhar
Wells,
> and the grandson of Thomas and Ann Wells. Thomas Wells born in 1726 in
> England served in the Rev. War.
>
> Hoping to find family connections and cousins.
> Rosalie Carroll wife of John Regis Carroll, Jr. son of Mary Virginia
Steen
> Carroll, daughter of Leah Wells Steen.
>
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