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Carol A Van Rensselaer 1791 Bridle Path Way Cowan Heights, CA 92705 A-United States 714-544-5202 Fax: 714 544-2892 8888888888@msn.com |
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| These pages contain research on the Pierson, Pixler, Adams, Lawrence and other family names appearing in the Genealogy of Carol Ann Pierson Van Rensselaer. The names reflect the English, Scots-Irish and German heritages found throughout this lineage. The families date back to the original European settlers in the 1600's, 1700's, and 1800's along the eastern coast of North America. Colonies such as Massachusettes, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North and South Carolina contain the earliest family records. Migration patterns would take the family names North, South and West through the expansion of colonial and territorial imperatives. Colonial wars, the Revolutionary War, Indian wars, the Civil War, and World War I & II kept the family moving West. Sometimes the decision to move West was as simple as young, single brothers working their way West and South in an effort to see this vast country. For instance, Perry Commodore Pixler grew up in Wayne County, Ohio. He became a blacksmith for the Calvary. Later,he and his brothers would dig wells as they moved west to Iowa. He met and married Ida Leigh Jones and kept moving and working as a blacksmith until he ran out of money. They raised five children on a big rice plantation in Almyra, Arkansas. He still had his blacksmith shop and rice plantation when I visited in the 1950's. Health issues compelled Grandfather Pixler to move to California. Katherine, his sister, had died as a teenager of Malaria in Almyra, Arkansas. My grandfater was close to his sister and suffered when she died. Loren Pixler (grandfather) also contracted Malaria, and after he recovered, moved to the hot dry climate found "out West" in California along with George Adams his brother-in-law. He later sent for Grandmother. In the grand scheme of things they were the actors on the stage of life, fulfilling a destiny entirely their own, and for the most part, forgotten except for a notation in the census records, or in a list of family birth and death records in the family bible, church records, a letter written back to family left behind here and there, family pictures, newspaper articles, Wills, land grants, service records and pension records, misc. court records, and obituaries. Many people took time to piece these threads together and over time a clearer picture of who they were and what they accomplished has surfaced. This Web site is an effort to do justice to the strengh and goodness of these families. If possible, this story was told in their own words so you can draw your own conclusions about what was important to them, their education and values. At times, as needed, I added a voice to their history as a legacy for future generations. |
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