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And more: The Ohio arrival about 1800 of all these parents and children, public vital records of marriage, land purchase, federal census, voting, incidents in trading, doctoring, lawyering, religion, business and other events up the Muskingum to about 1865. The 14 Cheadle and White estates of Washington and Morgan Counties, Ohio to 1930 - all there are. Old and New material on Rial Cheadle-Great Conductor on the Underground Railroad-heroism and sacrifice against slavery, Civil War service of about 50 men of the Cheadle, White and related families, seven men who died during their wartime service. Branching off: The 1836 move of Joseph and Sarah Hand Cheadle, Augustus and Nancy Baker Cheadle, Elisha and Sarah Hand Cheadle, Asa and Sarah Dennis Cheadle and their families to Vermillion Co, Indiana and Illinois. Includes the 1863 estate record of Joseph Cheadle, the 1838 move of Augustus and Nancy Baker Cheadle with their children to Pike Co, IL, the 1863 move of George L. and Sarah Ramage Cheadle with two little children across the plains on foot and by ox team to California. 

Also includes: 1832, 1855 Pension applications, copies of some original documents 1803-1855 not found elsewhere. Three pages of contemporary colored pictures of the grave stones and cemeteries. Appendices: Genealogies of the Newton, Hand, Paddock and White families back to England in the early 17th century, the Benjamin and Sarah Newton Baker family record as well as speculation on the Mayflower Connection. Many referenced sources of further information. 

Note: The Elisha and Sarah Hand family history is in the author’s Hand [family] Genealogy on the internet. That does not include recently discovered letters by Elisha written in 1839 on. There are 158 footnotes of sources and explanation. Names are mostly in bold type for easy location.