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From: "AutumnLKruer" <>
Subject: Re: [WVPOCAHO] Ocie McNeil (to Hevener lines)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:33:17 -0400

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From: Valerie & Tommy Crook (by way of John Ballard) <>

> History of Virginia, Volume IV,
> Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1928
> Page 61
>
> JACOB HEVENER, city clerk of Staunton, represents an old and
> honored family of the Valley of Virginia, his people having been
> steady and industrious pioneers who came into the Valley at a
> time when the settlements were constantly threatened by Indian
> attacks.

Ah, the Heveners . . . another one of my lines. I'm not very familiar with
the particular Jacob above, but do descend from the first Jacob (son of
Nicholas Haeffner and Elizabeth Seibert) whose wife, Mary Mallow, was
captured in the 1758 raids and held by the Shawnee for six years. The
Heveners (originally Haeffner and sometimes seen as Heavner) are fascinating
people who started in PA after arriving in 1738 on a ship called the Davy,
then migrated to Highland and Pendleton Counties, to eventually spread all
over eastern to central West Virginia. There is also a branch of them who
moved into North Carolina, descendants of another of Nicholas' sons.

My own Heveners are later associated with the Folks, Hogan and Wamsley
families around the Mingo district of Randolph Co., where Randolph,
Pocahontas and Webster Counties meet.

Autumn

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