Midwest Genealogical Register


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Includes some issues in reprint editions.







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Martin Shellabarger, 1817-1894, Descendants-antecedents, Allied Lines


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Martin Shellabarger (1819-1894), son of Ephraim and Rebecca Winget Shellabarger, was born in Madriver Township, Clark County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Sheller (823-1912). Descendants lived in Colorado, Ohio, Washington, California, and elsewhere. Ancestry traced to the following families: Hans Heinrich Schellenberg who married Barbara Gutherz in 1605 in Bülach, Canton Zürich, Switzerland; Hans Bär, born ca. 1545 in Hausen Parish, Canton Zürich; John Winget, (ca. 1625-1687) was born in England and died in Dover, Stafford County, New Hampshire; Peter Billow (ca. 1785-ca. 1860) of Perry County, Pennsylvania; Alexander Drummond (1744-ca. 1800), born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died in Huntington County, Pennsylvania; Kimball Farr (ca. 1799-1861), born in New Hampshire, died in Ohio; Christianus Servas, born ca. 1664 in Sagendorf, Germany, immigrated to New York in 1726; Adam Sheller (1789-1883) of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Clark County, Ohio; and other related families.







Here Come the Douthits


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The Douthit name is spelled many different ways. John Douthit, Sr. (1709-1784) emigrated from Ireland to southern Pennsylvania in 1724. Other Douthits, spelled various ways, had already emigrated. John Douthit, Sr. settled at Monocacy, Maryland, where he married Mary Scott in 1738. He moved to Anson County, North Carolina in 1750/1751, and later became a Moravian (members of this church settled nearby in 1753).




Thomas and Mary Ann (Morgan) Lawson of Missouri, Iowa, and Tennessee, and Their Descendants


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Thomas Lawson was born in 1793, probably in Virginia. His parents wer Drury Lawson and Hannah Potts. He married Mary Ann Morgan (1796-1879) in about 1816 in Tennessee. They had fourteen children. He died in 1874 in Putnam County, Missouri. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, California and Washington.







Congressional Record


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