Lovelace of KY- Rees of DE- Geiss of Germany- Hall of MO

Hometown: Cove, Oregon- 5th generation
Grew up: Ontario, Oregon

Please help me find my great great grandmother. She was Gertrude Alice Woody Lovelace Chriswell and was last known to have been in Canyon Co, ID in 1910. She disappeared and was never heard from again.


Early Oregon Families

REES from Llanllwchaiarn, Wales to Little Creek Hundred, DE to Union Co, OR
GEISS from Ober Ohmen, Germany to Cass Co, IL to Umatilla Co, OR
LOVELACE from TN to London, Laurel, KY to Union Co, OR
STACY from Eng, to MA & CT to Stacyville, IA to Early, Sherman,OR
GILKISON from Scotland to Guernsey Co, OH to Baker Co, OR
BRATTON from Ireland, to PA, to Guernsey Co, OH
WALL from Gravesend & Whitstable, Kent, Eng. to Sherman Co, OR
HALL from Eng. to PA to VA to Madison Co, KY to Clay Co, MO to Marion Co, OR
JONES from VA to NC to Cocke Co, TN to Union Co, OR

Family Photos

• Elizabeth Stout Griffin-HighlandCem-Minneapolis,KS (62 KB)
  Obituary Abstracts 1850-1890 from Eaton Register & Eaton Democrat Newspapers in Eaton,Preble County,Ohio Vol I, p. 134: REES, Mrs. Elizabeth S. nee Griffin, died January 13, 1884 at the home of her son, Victor D. Rees near Minneapolis, Kansas and was buried in the Highland cemetery near Minneapolis. Born March 23, 1801 in Smyrna, Newcastle Co., Delaware, educated at Litiz boarding school, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, married Thomas Rees of Delaware in St. Clairsville, Belmont Co., Ohio, June 4, 1817. Moved to Preble in 1825 and to Reily, Butler Co. in 1834. Raised 11 sons and 2 daughters.
• Lovelace Cabin Found, Part III (1361 KB)
  From the London Sentinel
• Raymond R. Rees House- Walla Walla, WA (578 KB)
  260 E. Birch (corner of Birch & Palouse) across from the YMCA
• Dewie Lovelace (1319 KB)
  Chas. D. "Dewie" Lovelace posing as old timer
• Dewie (Chas. D.) Lovelace, Moss Springs, Cove, OR (341 KB)
  My dad, Dewie Lovelace, in his element.
• Rees Family on Porch (137 KB)
  This photo was taken on the Rees Ranch at their house on Conley Road, Cove, Oregon.
• Dewey & Carolyn Lovelace- Rees Farm (124 KB)
  Taken before 1960 at Rees Farm in Cove, Oregon
• Corwin Pottenger Rees (866 KB)
  Rear Admiral Corwin Rees, of Admiral Dewey's Flagship, Olympia, Battle of Manila Bay,1898
• Rees House Cove, OR 1910 (167 KB)
  Photo taken after house remodelled abt 1910
• Angelina Moore Hall McCulloch (2086 KB)
  Sister of my gr gr grandmother, America Frances Hall Rees. The Halls came to Butteville, Marion, OR by way of the Meek Cut-off in 1845.
• McDonough Bainbridge Rees (433 KB)
  M.B. Rees b. 1831 Reily, Butler, OH; d. 1915 Cove, OR; m. America Hall 1856 Butteville, Marion, OR
• William Frank Lovelace (873 KB)
  Son of Lafayette F. Lovelace & Gertrude Alice Woody
• Ober Ohmen, Hessen, Germany (27 KB)
  Hometown of My Geiss Family
• Peter & Annie Guenther Geiss Family (276 KB)
  Taken at family farm Umatilla Co, OR
• Ranch House of Ruth Wall Geiss Baker (1973 KB)
  Located on Catharine Creek, out of Union, Union, OR Ruth was my great grandmother
• Thomas Jones Homestead (481 KB)
  This is the original Thomas Jones place on Lower Cove Road in Cove, Oregon.
• Charles H. Jones & Rhoda Gilkison Jones Family (148 KB)
  Lived in Union Co, OR
• Cove Library (2136 KB)
  Library in my hometown of Cove, Oregon
• Jesse Lovelace Cabin Found- London, KY (446 KB)
  The log house of Jesse Lovelace was found during tear-down for development. Jesse was my great-great grandfather.
• Lafayette F. Lovelace & Stella Perry Lovelace (308 KB)
  2nd wife of Lafayette (AKA Charles F.); lived at La Grande, Union, OR
• Lovelace Cabin Found, Part I (658 KB)
  London Sentinel, London, KY Newspaper Article
• Thomas Rees- Fairmount Cemetery- Camden, Preble, O (177 KB)
  Thomas Rees, husband of Elizabeth Stout Griffin b. Kent Co, DE. Married 1817 St. Clairsville, Belmont, OH. Obituary Abstracts 1850-1890 from Eaton Register & Eaton Democrat Newspapers in Eaton, Preble county,Ohio, Vol. I, p.56: REES, Thomas, died of apoplexy, April 21, 1870 at his home south of Eaton. Native of Delaware, came to Ohio in 1825, settling for a time in Preble, then Butler Co., near Riley until 1861 when he returned to Preble. Mason. Leaves wife and 11 children. Buried at Camden.
• London Cabin Found, Part II (779 KB)
  From the London Sentinel

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Peter Geiss


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of William Lovelace


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Hugh Stacy


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of James Elliott Hall (View PDF)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of McDonough Bainbridge Rees (View PDF)

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• SAMUEL GRIFFIN b. WALES- d. Duck Creek Hundred, DE (87 KB)
  Letter from Willard Hall Rees to Thomas Hale Streets, written in 1869- Original at Siuslaw Pioneer Museum, Florence, OR: "William and John Griffin from Wales and Emanuel Stout a young educated english gentleman came to the Delaware Peninsula at that time included in the Penn purchase, with or abot the time William Penn made his second voyage to America 1699- They were financially in good circumstances, William Griffin bought a large tract of land a portion of which joined the town of Smyrna Kent Co- Here he built of brick his mansion house- he had five children three boys and two girls, Charles, David, William, Mary and Martha. Emanuel Stout married Mary Griffin and David Griffin married Emanuel Stouts daughter, Hannah- David Griffin was the father of Jacob Stout and Ellen Griffin, consequently William Griffin from Wales and Emanuel Stout were both grand fathers of Jacob Stout Griffin our mothers Father- Another rare occurrence in a new country is that our Great Grandfather, grand father mother Sister Olivia and myself were all born in the same house built by our great, great, Grand Father from Wales- It come to pass in this wise, In 1877 when grand father was preparing to leave Delaware for Ohio, our father purchased the historic brick house and part of his land, Rented his mill property at Dover. Acompanied the Griffin familie to Ohio married our mother there, returned to Delaware, lived in the old family mansion house untill I was a month or two old when the lease on his Dover property expired and he reoccupied it."
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