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From: "Helen S. Durbin" <>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Ross family line
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 15:16:56 +0000


Hi,
Early Fonner History can be found at <<http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/5429/>>; under the Fonner pages.
Good Luck!
Helen in Pa.

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> On 05/04/98 10:00:02 you wrote:
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> >My Fonner line married some Loughman's after Fonner's arrived in
> >Greene Co about 1804.
> >Most of my info is on www page at
> >www.age.uiuc.edu/acadprof/ref/index2.html
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> >I don't remember any Ross's but will check.
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> >Good luck.
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> Dear Randy,
> Thank you for your reply to my query. David Loughman married Christina Fonner. Their
> daughter, Maria Loughman, married a John Ross. He is of the New Jersey Ross line that came to
> the Virginia wilderness that became Greene County, I think my immigrant, John Ross, had some
> connection with them and probably came west with or because of them. John who married Maria was
> the son of Thomas Ross and Hannah Denny. Thomas's sister, Abigail, married the youngest son of
> my immigrant John, Jacob Ross. They and their descendants stayed in Greene County on the
> property Abigail inherited in Richhill Township. Thomas and Abigail were some of the children of
> Timothy Ross and Rachel Wolverton. Timothy was born in Westfield, Essex County, N.J. in 1765.
>
> A few years ago I located a Loughman in Waynesberg by telephoned and paid a worker at the
> Bowlby Library to copy her family records, however, he didn't do it. I doubt she is still alive.
> I regret that the two times I was at John Ross's farm which is still there on Ruffs Creek that I
> did not have time to look up the Loughmans in Waynesburg but I had had lobar pneumonia while in
> Williamsburg, VA and was in a hurry to get home.
>
> Ray
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