Myers Genealogy

• Title	Myers Genealogy
  Author	Chrystie Myers
  Publisher	Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chrystiem/maternalbios.html;
  Source ID	S1657
  Linked to Individuals: 9	Batton, Jacob Franklin Brookover, John Lem Brookover, Permelia E. Buchanan, Eliza Jane Thomas, Robert Wetzel, William 'Henry' Whiteman, Frances Laverna Whiteman, John Marshall Whiteman, Melissa Jane

  
  

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  Source Medium: Electronic WHITEMAN Biographies Washington Co., PA & Wetzel Co., WV You'll see "links" - this will take you to photo's of the name menentioned My maternal grandmother, "Lucille (Sallie) Lawrence THOMAS/LEMLEY was the daughter of Robert "Bob" THOMAS (a.k.a. Sanford LEMLEY) and Malissa Jane WHITEMAN. The WHITEMAN family migrated into WV (once VA) ca1847 from Washington Co., PA. It is believed that they were possibly "Mennonite" but it's speculative. The THOMAS, LEMLEY, BROOKOVER and STEWART bio's will follow. Malissa Jane WHITEMAN was born on March 22, 1858 and though I was always told she was from an area called "Minnie", my cousin, a WHITEMAN, from the area tells me she was but a small girl in an area of Wetzel Co., WV called "Honeytown Bend". I know that she attended Snuff's Chapel as well as a school on what was once known to the my folks as "WHITEMAN'S KNOB" or MTN., though only a small portion of the area is now owned by ancestors. You can see their lineage by clicking here. Malissa was known to my line as "Rebecca" yet another cousin who's also a great grandson of Malissa Jane says his family knew her as "Missy and Janie". She died in 1942 in Preston Co., WV. She married abt 1887-1889 in the Cumberland area of Allegheny Co., Maryland to Robert H. THOMAS, son of Nancy THOMAS of OH/WV/PA, but went by the name of Sanford LEMLEY. That's how I grew-up knowning of him, as well from their daughter, my grandmother Lucille and her siblings. My grandparents raised me from the time I was 6 weeks old so the information I have here regarding the WHITEMAN'S is 1st hand family heritage that was told to me while growing up and I'm doing the best I can to remember everything and I'm going by old postcards, letters and writings on the back of old family photos to help jog my memory. I also traveled back to these areas with m y grandparents as well as with their youngest daughter, my aunt, many many times - so I'm going by what I seen and heard, too.