Our Garner line is from John Michael Garner, of Germany, and Catherine Seiss, of Switzerland. I have a large database of Garners.
We are researching several names - Mary Elizabeth Kyler, DOB 7/26/1875, daughter of John Kyler and Nancy Summers, who was married to Milton Huston Garner, of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania; their son, Clair Oscar Garner, 1893-1946, and his wife, Grace Elizabeth Grubb 1894-1926, daughter of Samuel Grubb and Elizabeth Anderson; Jane B. Showalter, DOB 2/22/1848, possibly of Lorain County, Ohio, married to John G. Garner (thanks to some help from a fellow researcher, I now have her line back to Switzerland); Frank Nelson McEwen, (his father was Hoover McEwen), who was married to Irene H. Jones (her father was James Arthur Jones).
Any further information that could be provided on John M. Dignan 1811-1890 and Sarah Heaney 1815-1901, would be appreciated. The couple immigrated to Prince Edward Island from Anthron, Queens County, Ireland, by ship in 1840.
Another couple we are researching is John Wesley Matson and Matilda Loretta Bacon, who were married in Troy, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 3/19/1864. Matilda's parents were James and Fidelia Rice Bacon, and they were born about 1802, he in Massachusetts and she in New Hampshire. John Wesley's parents were Edwin and Mary Eberenz Matson, and Edwin's parents were Zebah Weed and Lydia (Merritt)Matson, from Connecticut. Zeba's parents were John Matson and Dorcas Weed. We have the Matson line back to Thomas Matson, DOB 1607 in London, England, and the Weed line back to Jonas Weed, DOB 1575, in Northampton, England. The Merritt and Gillett lines all tie into the Matson's and Weed's, and I have quite a bit of information on them.
James Bacon is one of my brick walls. I really need some help with him. There's a large group of Bacon's in the Tioga County, PA area, and he must be connected to them. I just can't find the link.
Fidelia Rice/Royce was born in Langdon, New Hampshire. She is the daughter of Lemuel Royce, who fought in the Revolutionary War from the Old Fort Number 4 in Charlestown, NH. She and James Bacon were married in the Old Fort in 1825. Their first child was born in Vermont. From there, they removed to Tioga County, Pennsylvania, where they are buried behind the Baptist Church in Cherry Flats, Tioga County. One of their sons, the oldest, James, was later found in Ravenna, Ohio. I don't know what happened to him after that.
William Locke and Mary Ann Williams came to the U. S. from England by ship in 1849 (The captain was William Bulley), and settled in Lorain County,Ohio. Mary Ann's parents were Samuel and Nancy (Rogers) Williams, from Devonshire, England.
The Difford family has been traced back to the year 1665,and was also from England. Thomas Difford and Eliza Wilcox Difford settled in Mesopotamia, Ohio, in 1838. Eliza's brother was already there, having come from England sometime earlier, and we are interested in more information about her family.
I am also researching the Nickels/Keppel family. I've had a lot of success with them, but would enjoy finding more family. John Nickels came from Germany in 1850, followed by his wife, Marie, in 1854. This information is from the 1900 census of Bayonne, New Jersey. They are buried in Jersey City, NJ. Their son, John, and his wife Margaret Busch, are my great-grandparents. Their son, Stanton, married Kathleen Ramona Keppel, daughter of James Joseph Keppel of Ireland, and Mary Hamilton of Chebeague Island, Maine. James was instrumental in beginning the Volunteers of America, having come to this country with Ballington Booth, son of the man who started the Salvation Army in England. They broke from that organization and formed the VOA. James died as the result of a blister on his foot that he got while preaching on the streets of New York City. His headstone in Westwood, New Jersey, was provided by the Volunteers.
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