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- [S1643] Sheryl Kelso, e-mail: Sheryl Kelso.
Subject: Ruhama (16) facts
20250623Chicago- edited
Subject: Ruhama
Hi! Thought I'd send this along just so you'd know I hadn't forgotten about you. Found this information and have more to add, but didn't know what you had on this family. If you already have this, let me know so I don't dig any deeper. Sheryl
Documentation:
Title: The record and genealogy of the (Tilghman-Tillman-Tilman-Tilmon) family, 1225-1938 : compiled from an original mss. by James D. Tillman, Jr., of Meridian, Miss., an old family Bible of Christopher Tilghman, the English emigrant of 1638, family records of descendants of Dr. Richard Tilghman, the English emigrant of 1661, various documents at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., D.A.R. records, census reports, wills, and information supplied by living descendants of the family
Author: Tillman, Stephen Frederick,
City of Publication: Ann Arbor, Mich.
Publisher: Edwards Bros.
Date: 1939
This is paraphrased information:
Zachary Taylor Tilman, son of Thomas and Teresa Morris Tilman, born 4 Feb 1833, Fluvanna Co., Virginia, died 22 Oct 1906. Served in the Confederate Army with Company B, 15th Virginia Cavalry. Married 5 June 1859 to Ruhama Wetzel, born 26 March 1838, died 16 June 1917.
Children of Zachary and Ruhama:
David Alvin b. 23 Nov 1860 d. 18 Jul 1864
Mollie Priscilla b. 6 Nov 1863 d. 7 Dec 1879
Teresa Willis b. 20 Apr 1865 d. 27 Jan 1934
Lena Olivet b. 1 Dec 1866 married William E. Reger 31 Oct 1915, lived in Astabula, Ohio
Jacob Morris b. 4 Dec 1871
Orpha Etta b. 4 Apr 1874 married James C. Remage 4 Dec 1919, lived in Walkersville, WV
Orion Kent b. 2 Jan 1876 married Aura Lee Bond 26 Aug 1913, lived in Weston, WV
Chesley Hugh b. 25 June 1878 d. 2 Jan 1880
Virginia Bernice b. 4 April 1881
Since this book was published in 1939, several of these children were still alive.
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