last updated:
3/12/2008
Hartshorn-Way Family History
Founders
Who were the founding ancestors of our family lines in America?
The Natives
At least one of Sue's ancestors was Cherokee, a native race living in North America. Descendants of our Cherokee ancestor can still be found in Oklahoma. Another branch of the family with native blood are our cousins who are also living in Louisiana. Our Cherokee founders are Sarah Goodnight and her daughter Mary "Polly" Stockton.
The Immigrants
One of Sue's recent ancestors stowed away aboard a ship from France when he was 10 years old. John Weaver entered the US through New Orleans and was taken in by an Irish family. He grew up a sharecropper and married a red-headed Scotch-Irish girl. In later years, he rejected his inheritance to family lands in France.
Ishmael Clarence is the founder of the Way family in the mid-west. His father was a wealthy Jewish man from New York. One night Ishmael’s mother, Edith, smuggled him under her coat and went out for a walk. She ran away to Peoria where she registered herself and the boy. She remarried to an older gentleman, Eli Way. As the young boy grew, he started going by his middle name, Clarence. He married Lydia Jane Murry from Missouri.
Louis Rudy Rush came from Germany in the mid 1800s. He traveled with his wife, Mary Hopkins, by wagon train from Pennsylvania to Missouri. He died before his youngest daughter, Carefull, was born.
One of Rod's recent immigrant ancestors was Ernest Francis Stash, a Czech from Bohemia. He followed his brother Louis to America in 1910. The brothers stayed in Connecticut in the home of Prussian immigrant Emil Rux. Ernest married Emil’s daughter Frieda.
Emil Rux was from Prussia, Germany. He and his brother Albert immigrated to Connecticut in 1887. Emil married German immigrant Bertha Koltz.
Bertha Koltz was born in Germany and immigrated to America in 1885. She married Prussian immigrant Emil Rux. They brought her parents, Adam and Frieda Koltz, to America in 1891.
William Hartshorn came from England and immigrated to Iowa in 1887. He married Emily Christine, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, Olaf and Hannah Peterson.
The Colonists
Cornelius Maddox (Maddocks) came from England in the late 1600s and settled in Charles County, Maryland. He married the daughter of Col. James Smallwood.
James Smallwood came from Cheshire, England in the mid 1600s and claimed land in Charles County, Maryland.
Abraham Lemaster (LeMaistre) came from the Isle of Jersey of the Channel Islands in the mid 1600s and settled in Charles County, Maryland. He married Elizabeth of St. Mary's County.
Thomas Sedwick came from England in the mid-1600s as an indentured servant. He settled in Calvert County, Maryland.
Thomas Applegate of Norfolk, England came to New Jersey with his family in the early to mid 1600s. His son Thomas Applegate II was one of twelve patentees of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Johannes Ridenhour (Reutenauer) was born in Alscace, France to a Swiss family. He and his wife Maria Bendler came to Pennsylvania in the early 1700s.
Johann Wilhelm Zumwalt was born in Switzerland. He and his German born wife, Anna Jacob, came to Pennsylvania. After his wife’s death he moved to Shenandoah, Virginia.
William Patton was an Ulster-Scot. The family immigrated from Fifeshire, Scotland to County Donegal, (northern) Ireland. His mother was Sarah Lynn. He moved his family in the mid 1700s to the Appalachians of Virginia.
Sarah Lynn, wife of Henry Patton, is the daughter of the Laird of Loche Lynn. Her sister, Margaret, married John Lewis, also an Ulster-Scot. The forced exile of John Lewis motivated the migration of the families to America.
William Symes II was born in Gloucestershire, England. He married Mary Sherwood of Somerset, England in the American colony of Virginia in 1679.
Richard Stockton
Rev. Francis Doughty came to Connecticut in the mid 1600s. He left the English colony to preach and obtained permission from the Dutch to establish a village on Long Island.
John Morford, Wales to NJ
William Mayo, mid 1600s, England to Virginia
Bridgett Stone
Weaver-Pritchet-Way-Sims Ancestors:
Founders of their lines in America:
Hartshorn-Kirby-Stash-Rux Ancestors:
