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We are without most of the faces of our ancestors, the Pancake family, who came from Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. But, we know that from 1820 until almost 1880, they lived here. Their children were born here and buried here. This wonderful photograph of a funeral procession in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, […]
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William and Mary Crawford Pancake married in Ohio in 1818. They affiliated with the first of the churches in the area which was Methodist. As this compiled History of Warsaw, Ohio indicates, “Mr. and Mrs. Pancake” were among the first members.
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William Pancake Senior and his son William junior and direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake were Masons. All lived their lives primarily in the town of Warsaw, in Coshocton County, Ohio. This Masonic Temple was likely built after the deaths of both Williams but was used by ancestor Samuel Pancake and his son Stewart Megge Pancake. […]
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In the middle 1870s, our ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake and his son-in-law William Franklin McVey bought a bank in the Illinois town of Blandinsville in McDonough County. The Pancake and McVey families moved from Ohio to Blandinsville. Many of the children of Samuel and Catharine Pancake were school age at the time. This school was […]
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Maria Wilmott Gallagher was born in Ohio in 1839. In 1856, at the age of seventeen, she married William Crawford Pancake. He was the youngest child of William and Mary Crawford Pancake. Maria and William became the parents of four children. Three daughters lived to adulthood but one son, Oliver, died before his second birthday. […]
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Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William […]
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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so. We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him. We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen. Emma and Pauline were […]
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Joseph Butler was born in Virginia in 1742 to Thomas Butler and Jane Gilbert. He was the fourth of five children born to his parents. He served in the 7th, 9th and 10th regiments of The Virginia Continental Line in the American Revolution. In 1764 he married Elizabeth Burley. They became the parents of seven […]
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Mary Rowley is our direct ancestor. She was the fifth child of six born to her parents Jesse Rowley and Bathsheba. Nothing is known about Mary’s childhood except that her father took his own life in 1810 and her younger sister Mabel died sometime before 1816. In about 1816, Mary Rowley married her deceased sister […]
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Timothy Watrous is the oldest known ancestor in our Watrous line. He was born about 1785 in Connecticut and died in 1818 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He migrated to Ohio in the company of many others. They all bought land or received “bounty lands” for their service in The American Revolution. It appears that ancestor […]