Grace BALDWIN

Family 1: Roger PIERCE

  1. +Robert Franklin PIERCE 
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John BARNES

Family 1: MARY

  1. +Mary BARNES
  2.  John BARNES
  3.  Thomas BARNES
  4.  Joseph BARNES
  5.  Robert BARNES
  6.  Elizabeth BARNES 
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Nina Rebecca BEESON

Father: John Schooley BEESON
Mother: Sarah HARTLE 

                         _Richard Holmes BEESON _
 _John Schooley BEESON _|
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|--Nina Rebecca BEESON 
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|_Sarah HARTLE _________|
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Michael Alan BOERNER

Father: Timothy BOERNER
Mother: Mary Ann SEYBERT 

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 _Timothy BOERNER __|
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|--Michael Alan BOERNER 
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|                    _Dale E. SEYBERT ________
|_Mary Ann SEYBERT _|
                    |_Mardell Marie BIRKMANN _
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Margaret BOWEN

Father: Evan BOWEN

Family 1: Thomas REESE
  1.  Henry REES
  2.  Thomas REES
  3.  David REES
  4.  John REES
  5.  Robert REES
  6.  Solomon REES
  7.  Jane REES
  8.  Margaret REES
  9.  Mary REES
  10. +William REES 
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|--Margaret BOWEN 
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Charles P. BREHM

Family 1: Wilhemina DOERMANN

  1. +Frank Otto BREHM
  2.  Eda BREHM
  3.  Louise BREHM
  4.  Leona BREHM 
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Walter COOK

Family 1:

  1. +Nicholas COOK 
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Susannah DILLON

Father: William DILLON

Family 1: John REES

  1.  Elizabeth REES
  2.  William D. REES
  3.  Jane REES
  4.  Alvina REES
  5. +Thomas Clarkson REES
  6. +Bethina REES
  7. +Isaac REES
  8.  James S. REES
  9. +Sarah Ellen REES
  10.  Mary REES 
                   _Peter DILLON _
 _William DILLON _|
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|--Susannah DILLON 
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Irish

Sources:
The Mendenhalls: A Genealogy, Henry Hart Beeson, 1969, LDS film #1318059
History of Vermilion County, Illinois, H. W. Beckwith, 1879

A. Marshall Elliott, Mendenhall Collection at the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, Locust Street, Philadelphia PA

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Ted E. HARMS

Father: Theodore Peters HARMS
Mother: Lois Jean MCDONALD

Family 1: Janet Marie BEILFELDT

  1.  Jennifer Lynn HARMS
  2.  Jefferey T. HARMS 
                          _Theodore Dietrich HARMS _
 _Theodore Peters HARMS _|
|                        |_Ana Margaretha PETERS ___
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|_Lois Jean MCDONALD ____|
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Russell Dale HILLIARD

Father: Russell HILLIARD
Mother: Juanita CARIENS

Family 1: Debbie KING 

                     _Thomas Edward HILLIARD _
 _Russell HILLIARD _|
|                   |_Daisey Belle SWEENEY ___
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|--Russell Dale HILLIARD 
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|_Juanita CARIENS __|
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Samuel Roscoe HILLIARD

Father: James Anthony HILLIARD
Mother: Jane Andria SWEENEY

Family 1: Nettie K. COOK
  1. +Dale HILLIARD
  2.  Lyndle Faye HILLIARD
  3. +Wanda Lee HILLIARD
  4. +Metabelle HILLIARD
  5.  Wilma HILLIARD
  6. +Donne HILLIARD 
                           _James Wilson HILLIARD _
 _James Anthony HILLIARD _|
|                         |_Sarah DAUGHERTY _______
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|--Samuel Roscoe HILLIARD 
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|                          _James Hiram SWEENEY ___
|_Jane Andria SWEENEY ____|
                          |_Elizabeth SELLERS _____
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Caleb J. MARIS

Father: George MARIS
Mother: Elizabeth JONES 

                    _Caleb MARIS _
 _George MARIS ____|
|                  |_Ann FAWKES __
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|--Caleb J. MARIS 
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|_Elizabeth JONES _|
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Marinda Alice MCCLINTOCK

Father: J L MCCLINTOCK
Mother: Luvina Jane ?

Family 1: John HILLIARD
  1. +Marilda B. HILLIARD
  2.  Henry Oliver HILLIARD
  3. +Sarah Luvenia HILLIARD
  4. +Clarence W. HILLIARD
  5. +James Calvin HILLIARD
  6.  John A. HILLIARD
  7.  Orma Alice HILLIARD
  8.  Ivis A. HILLIARD
  9.  Clyde Leland HILLIARD 
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 _J L MCCLINTOCK _|
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|--Marinda Alice MCCLINTOCK 
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|_Luvina Jane ? __|
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Lydia Mary MENDENHALL

Father: Aaron MENDENHALL
Mother: Rose PIERSON

Family 1: Joshua MENDENHALL
  1.  David MENDENHALL
  2.  Jonathon MENDENHALL
  3.  Hannah MENDENHALL
  4.  James MENDENHALL
  5.  Isaac MENDENHALL
  6.  Aaron MENDENHALL
  7.  Martha MENDENHALL
  8. +Jemima MENDENHALL 
                     _John MENDENHALL _
 _Aaron MENDENHALL _|
|                   |_Elizabeth MARIS _
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|--Lydia Mary MENDENHALL 
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|_Rose PIERSON _____|
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Sources

Charity G. Monroe, 4315 W. Lora Ann Lane, Peoria, IL 61615

Kay Edwards, 8140 E. Moonstone Drive, Tucson, AZ 85715, (602) 749-3114

The Mendenhall Family, Thomas A. Valentine, 485 Ramsdale Drive, Roswell
GA
30075, (404) 992-3581, 1994

John Kieffer, jvmusik@@primenet.com

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Richard MENDENHALL

Father: Mordecai MENDENHALL
Mother: Charity Grubb BEESON

Family 1: Jane THORNBURGH
  1.  John MENDENHALL
  2.  Richard MENDENHALL
  3.  Jane MENDENHALL
  4.  Benjamin MENDENHALL
  5.  Charity MENDENHALL
  6.  Margaret MENDENHALL
  7. +Joseph MENDENHALL
  8. +Aaron MENDENHALL 
                         _John MENDENHALL , Jr._
 _Mordecai MENDENHALL __|
|                       |_Susanna PIERSON ______
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|--Richard MENDENHALL 
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|                        _Richard BEESON _______
|_Charity Grubb BEESON _|
                        |_Charity GRUBB ________
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Notes

Richard was part of a scouting party led by James Boone, brother of
Daniel, which was ambushed by Indians near Crab Orchard, KY. During the
American Revolution Daniel Boone made arrangements to sell what property
that
he could not move with him and persuaded some of his wife's family, the
Bryans,
to join him on a trip to claim new land in Kentucky. He was joined by his
brother, Squire, Squire's wife, Jane, and their three children, along
with
Benjamin Cutbeard and his wife, who was a niece of Daniel's. Making a
total of
five or six families, along with about 40 men who each had a horse or two
to
help carry all the supplies. Among these 40 men were John and Richard
Mendenhall. Richard was 36 years of age. John Mendenhall, 25, was a first
cousins to Richard.

The party left the Yadkin on 25 Sep 1773. Travel was slow as the trail
was
only wide enough for the pack horses, walking single file, and all who
were
able-bodied had to walk. When they reached Wolf Hills, now Abingdon, VA,
Daniel
sent his seventeen year old son, James, along with John and Richard
Mendenhall
to go to Castle Woods, which was off the trail to the north about 25
miles.
They were to pick up supplies and meet the main party further west. The
main
party would follow the old wilderness trail, through Moccasin Gap, over
Wallens
Ridge at a point about 10 miles east of the Cumberland Gap, where they
would
make camp and leave the women and children to rest until James and the
Mendenhall party overtook them. They feared that if the Indians would
attack it
would be in that area and for protection they wanted the party to be
altogether.

Upon arriving at Captain Russell's home, on the Clinch River, Henry
Russell,
the seventeen year old son of Captain Russell, a man by the name of Isaac
Crabtree and two Negro slaves named Charles and Adam, joined James Boone
and
Richard and John Mendenhall to help out with the supplies and farm tools.
Captain Russell himself said he must follow along later as he had some
necessary work to do at home before leaving. He would join David Gass who
lived
eight miles down the Clinch River.

James Boone and the Mendenhall party set out on 8 Oct 1773, following the
old Fincastle Trail down past David Gass's place and crossed Clinch River
at
Hunters Ford, now Dungannon. From that point they passed through Rye Cove
and
took the Wilderness Trail over Powell Mountain to the head waters of
Wallens
Creek.

James and his companions could see signs, probably made by his father's
party; he knew that the place of rendezvous was but a few miles ahead.
However,
darkness overtook them and fearing they might lose their way, went into
camp
the evening of 9 Oct.

They built a fire and ate a scanty meal. Then, lying down beside the
fire,
they tried to sleep. Although weary from the long hard walk, they
couldn't
sleep for the incessant howling of wolves evidently disturbed by the fire
light. The Mendenhalls were so alarmed at the weird howling that they
walked up
and down, listening and making no effort to conceal their fear. Isaac
Crabtree,
although he also may have been afraid, joked about the howling.

The fire died down and its light dimmed. The howling reached further and
further into the forest. Little by little day dawned. The men sat up,
stretched, listening. For a while there was no sound but the whimper of
the
waters of Wallens Creek and the eerie whisper of the wind in the trees.

But, suddenly, the calm was broken by the war whoop of Indians who rushed
up
with knife blades raised and guns cracking. A man by the name of Drake
and one
of the Mendenhalls were killed out right, the other Mendenhall crept off
mortally wounded. Henry Russell was shot through the hips and brought
down.
Then an Indian attacked him with a hunting knife and began to stab him.
He
grabbed the knife blade with his bare hands, trying to protect himself,
but he
failed. Soon he lay dead. Yet, the Indians shot arrows into his body.

James was immediately attacked by a big Indian who he knew to be Big Jim,
a
Shawnee, who had roamed the Yadkin Country and had pretended to be a
friend of
his father. Big Jim seemed to delight in whacking James with a knife and
pounding him with a tomahawk. Instead of killing the boy instantly, the
big
Indian prolonged the torture. The Negro, Adam, who had escaped to a pile
of
driftwood heard James cry out.

Big Jim was intent upon making death come with all the torture possible,
and
he continued to whack away with his knife. James, like Henry Russell,
grabbed
onto the blade until his hands were cut to shreds. Even after death the
slashing went on until the bodies were horribly mutilated. Then, leaving
a war
club on the scene, the Indians slunk away into the forest. The dead had
not
been scalped. The Indians would not bring a white scalp into their towns
in
time of peace.

All in the party were killed save Isaac Crabtree and the two Negroes
slaves,
Adam and Charles. Adam, after watching the massacre from the driftwood,
ran
into the woods, tried to find his way back to Castle Woods but got lost
and
wandered alone several days before finding his way out.

Charles was taken prisoner and forced to travel with his captors. About
forty miles from the scene of attack, two Indians quarrelled over
possession of
him, each wanting to take him North to sell him. Unable to settle the
dispute,
the leader of the party slew Charles with a tomahawk, and then the
disputants
ceased to argue.

Sources

History, Correspondence and Pedigrees of the Mendenhalls of England and
the United States, William Mendenhall, 1865

Cheryl Mendenhall, 9622 177th Avenue SE, Snohomish WA 98290,
mcgee@@accessone.com

Wally Garchow, 6228 Manitoba Avenue, Sacramento CA 95841-2016,
(916) 331-9910, wally@@calweb.com

Leo E. Rasor, 11550 W. Panther Creek Road, Bradford OH 45308-9403

John Kieffer, jvmusik@@primenet.com

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Fob Janse OOTHOUDT

Father: Jan OOTHOUDT 

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Terry Leonard PETERSON

Family 1: Annette Kay PETERS

  1.  Marty Ray PETERSON
  2.  Troy Lee PETERSON
  3.  Travis Ryan PETERSON 
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John RAGLAND

Father: James RAGLAND
Mother: Leola L. KELLEY 

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 _James RAGLAND ___|
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|--John RAGLAND 
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|                   _James Odus KELLEY ____
|_Leola L. KELLEY _|
                   |_Mattie Alabama SMART _
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James SWEENEY

Family 1: Ruth BROWN

  1. +James Hiram SWEENEY 
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Grace WEEKS

Father: John M. WEEKS
Mother: Sarah Ellen REES

Family 1: William LONGMIRE

  1.  William LONGMIRE
  2.  ? LONGMIRE 
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 _John M. WEEKS ____|
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|--Grace WEEKS 
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|                    _John REES _______
|_Sarah Ellen REES _|
                    |_Susannah DILLON _
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? WILLIAMS

Family 1: Maude Anna MCFARLAND 


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