Surnames of Interest

Shipe
Obaugh (alt. Orebaugh)
Black
Long
Bowman

All in Rockingham, Augusta, and Shenandoah counties (that I know of)

Reply with your surnames!

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Cheryle Hoover Davis on July 8, 2009 at 5:58pm

Hoover, Ritchie/Ritchey/Rutschley, Shoemaker, Winters, Wolfe, Lam/b, Roadcap, Cherryholmes, Rhodes, Bowman, Pulse, Taylor, Layman, Pittington

Permalink Reply by Michael Hait on July 8, 2009 at 6:06pm

Who are your Bowmans? My Anne Bowman married James Decatur Shipe in Shenandoah Co. She was the daughter of Jacob Bowman. (I will have to check specific dates, but they married ca. 1845-1850.)

Cheryle Hoover Davis said:

Hoover, Ritchie/Ritchey/Rutschley, Shoemaker, Winters, Wolfe, Lam/b, Roadcap, Cherryholmes, Rhodes, Bowman, Pulse, Taylor, Layman, Pittington

Permalink Reply by Cheryle Hoover Davis on November 6, 2009 at 7:56pm

Oh my! Sorry for not answering until now! I didn't get notification. Will have to rectify that!

My Bowmans are David Bowman b: 1830 in VA, married to Eliza Ann Hoover b: 1837 in VA (her parents, John Hoover and Catherine Ritchie, were my 3rd great-grandparents).

David Bowman's parents were: Jacob Samuel Bowman and Barbary Myers.

Permalink Reply by Sandy Jacques on July 10, 2009 at 3:03pm

My surnames are Whittinghill and Gabbard (Gabhart), also Robertson. They were in Augusta and Rockingham in the mid 1700s.

Permalink Reply by Shirley Vildibill on July 24, 2009 at 9:13pm

Hi Sandy...I am a descendant of Rebecca Ann Gabbert and Jordon Epperson. Rebecca is the daughter of William, granddaughter of George, g-granddaughter of Mathias and gg-granddaughter of Johann Friedrich Gebert from Germany. Would love to share shat little information I have with you.

Permalink Reply by Kerry Black on July 13, 2009 at 12:46pm

My Rockingham County ancestors are HOPKINS. (Archibald, William H, John Hinton, Thomas Wallace, in descending order.) Great grandfather Thomas Wallace Hopkins left Virginia and settled in Indian Territory in late 1880's or early 1890's.

My last name is BLACK but I don't know if I have ancestors in the Shenandoah. My earliest known BLACK ancestor is from Union, SC in 1790's. Popular wisdom says the Blacks *probably* came to SC down the great wagon road from Virginia, but I have no solid information to that affect.

Permalink Reply by Diana L. Carlson on July 14, 2009 at 9:48am

I also have BOWMAN relatives from the Shenandoah Valley, along with HITE and SEDAM/SUYDAM. The oldest BOWMAN was George BOWMAN (1707-after1764) who married Mary HITE (1708-1768), who was daughter of Jost HITE. In fact, in about a week, I'm going to the HITE Family Reunion at Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown VA. We plan to tour the American Revolutionary sites while we're there. Most of the relatives I track eventually ended up in Indiana (where I was born, coincidence, right? :-) . Diana

Permalink Reply by Cheryle Hoover Davis on November 6, 2009 at 7:58pm

I'm related to the Jost Hite's by marriage. My great-grand aunt, Nancy Ackles b: 1845 married John Hite b: 1820, descendant of Jost Hite. Nancy Ann Ackles and John Hite (first wife Prudence) lived in Iowa.

Permalink Reply by Diana L. Carlson on November 7, 2009 at 5:53am

I collected some interesting stuff at the Hite Family Reunion in July....including some data on Jost's ancestry in Germany. If you're interested, send me an email Diana.L.Carlson at gmail.com.

Permalink Reply by Sharon Clontz Rowe on July 17, 2009 at 7:59pm

Bidleman, Jordan

Permalink Reply by Michael Hait on July 24, 2009 at 9:42pm

I had a client who was attempting to enter the DAR under the service of a Christian COPP - any relationship to your COPPs?

Permalink Reply by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on January 21, 2010 at 2:51pm

I am attempting to establish link between Christian and Frederick and my line of John to Henry to Henry to Sanford to Franklin to Cecil to Mom to me. Henry was born abt 1740 because he owned land by 1760 from George so could not have been born 1760. Susi