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Georgia genealogical magazine: Issues 103-110

books.google.com1987 – Snippet view
… NE unknown, [signed] GEORGE VANDIVER. Wit: JOHN MITCHELL, ROBERT P0RTW00D, who swore by oath 13 Jan 1802 before JOHN HARRIS, JP Recorded: 4 Feb 1802. p. 380. 26 May 1800: JOSHUA YOUNG to ISRAEL BLAG both of Pendleton …

It does prove one of the Israel Blagg’s was in Pendleton, probably the older one. WHo I still have no idea is or how he links in…

ok…here’s some more speculation:

FACT:
Jacob Light Founded New Richmond, OH

Probably bought land in Randolph Twp, Dearborn Co. in 1814

New Richmond is on Robert Beal’s survey of 1000 acres and David Jackson’s survey of 333 acres. 1804 – Jacob Light purchases the Jackson survey and lays out the town of New Richmond on 85 acres. Divided into 219 quarter-acre lots, six 60′streets and one 33′ street. Lots numbered 98 and 99 were reserved for public use. The name was suggested by a nephew of Jacob’s who had lived in Richmond, Va and suggested New Richmond.
The town later added the adjacent town of Susanna, founded by Thomas Ashburn which stood on 875 acres and was laid out in 1816. Thus Jacob Light is given the designation of the Founder of New Richmond, Ohio.

SPeculation:
Ruth is often listed as being from Virginia. Is she connected to the nephem of Jacob? a more distant relationship than maybe I thought but i’m casting the net farther now.

Trying out a little google map showing her path from birth to death. I’m trying to figure out to use the google map for visual aid in showing where people lived. This one still needs a little work.

View Ruth Light Whitney Golladay in a larger map

Bios & Obits. 

Go down this page to John Hull Rardin obit and there’s a bit about a catherine Light his mother  Catherine Light ( Daughter of Jacob and Catherine Light) who was from Clermont County and moved to Coles County.  This is the same route I suspect James Whitney and Ruth Light took.  It’s another Light family to track down. One of his sisters Nancy married a George Golliday. This could be how Ruth met Joseph!!!

It seems they were also in Campbell County where I think James WHitney’s sister Rachel lived briefly. Also, they apparently lived in Jasper County MO for a bit where Rachel’s daughter is for a time and where some of the Whitney/GOlliday clan lived briefly.

It looks like some of the bodies where taken back here to bury as well.

Opposed to War.

this link is just interesting for the background about Greasy Point Coles County.  That is where Joseph Golliday (oliver Whitney’s stepfather ) once lived with his first wife.  It also features a family where the wife has the name Light and might be a relative of Ruth.  It also confirms movement between Clermont Ohio and Coles Illinois.

Well, today I got my packet of info on Joseph Golliday’s will. In the words of the people from the Nebraska State Historical Society ” the quality of the prints is regrettably very poor”. The originals were apparently quite faded when microfilmed and the film itself has not held up well. The actual original may be on file in Phelps County Clerk Office and I may eventually try to get copies from there. Anyway, the good news is there was enough readable to answer a number fo questions and as always create more.

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In 1910 Living with Jacob and Eva Moser
in Rocks Falls are Earl and Ida Fink who are
Mary Pearl Whitney Fink’s children (Oliver and Cordelia’s grandchildren).
Mary died in around 1905. Ida later lives
with Josephine Whitney Callwell another daughter of Oliver and
Cordelia in 1920. I just found it interesting that
these Fink children ended up with
Jacob and Eva. The children were born near St. Joe
and it seemed off these 6 and 8 year olds were
with great uncle and aunt.

Next, Clyde Phillips Nancy Whitney’s son lives with his AUnt Elsie Atkins in 1920 in Miami County KS. On the same page is Wendell Surface, grandson of Michael Surface , Rachael WHitney’s second husband. Recall that I think Rachael is Oliver P. Whitney’s aunt. Currently following this a bit to see if it leads anywhere. Other coincidences, Wendell has a daughter Elsie, Joseph Galladay’s first wife was an Atkins. Probably won’t go anywhere, but who knows.

Just came across a reference to Israel Blagg:
Miller’s Weekly Messenger
Pendleton, SouthCarolina
Editor, John Miller and Son.
Abstracted by G. Anne Sheriff

October 20. 1810
John C. Calhoun elected to Congress from united districts of Abbeville, Laurens and Newbury.
George Butler is re-electedf rom united districtso f Edgefield,B arnwell and Beaufort.
Sheriffs Sale. Pendleton Court House. First Monday and Tuesday in November. Check newspaper dates
before and after this sale. Many times they are listedfor severql weeks.
240 acres, property of John Adair Jr.; suit of William Shaw vs. William Thompson and Adair.
Two young mares, property of Israel Blagg; suit of Stephen Fuller and Stephen Anderson.
170 acres, property of Benjamin Ragsdale; suit of James Cochran Jr. vs. William Montgomery, James
Williams, and Benjamin Ragsdale.
100 acres on Brushy Creek, property of John Elias Phillips; suit of John Sutton.
170 acres on Georges Creek, Charles Waters lives and owns; suit of Horatio Griffin.
Patrick Norris, S. P. D

This would be the older Israel Blagg and would probably be the one on the Indian Removal petitions. I’m very curious as to where he fits.

from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nephelps/2006Mar.pdf

here’s another version of the murder trial of William “Crazy” Miller.

“Now an old timer has come to our rescue and tells of what was, without
a possibility of a doubt, the first grand jury session in the county.
Deacon H. D. Jayne has given us the facts of that historical court
term.
It was held in September 1880, soon after the county was organized. It
convened in the only enclosed building in Phelps Center, there being
only two other partially completed buildings in the old county seat at
that time. The dwelling they used as a court house was not yet finished,
it being necessary for them to meet in an upstairs room.
Judge Gaslin, now living in Alma was the judge and two men now living
in the county besides Mr. Jayne served on the Jury. They were J. A.
Dunlavy of this city and I. N. Swartwood, living northeast of Funk.
The mater before the jury was the murder of a man named Miller by a
gang of men on Spring Creek. Miller was shot in a quarrel at a threshing
bee and several men were implicated. The grand jury, however, made
the mistake of indicting one man to many, the inclusion of an innocent
party spoiling the whole case and letting all go free when the case
came up for trial before the district court.”

Slightly different. The several men include Samuel and Jacob Moser and James Sweezy.

I am finding that the info on Dorcas parents is messy out there on the web.   Her father William Hiram Blair and mother Elizabeth Black are pretty well documented.  HOWEVER, William is getting confused with another William Blair.  So our William’s birth and death info is often probably wrong.  Ours seems to have been born in 1777 and died in Missouri or Arkansas in 1846.
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