R/RFHA Newsletter, June 1994               P.14

One of our new subscribers has mentioned she lives in Southern Ohio very close to the Ohio River, and that there are many ROLLINS/RAWLINS living there in Scioto, Jackson and Lawrence Counties, and could perhaps assist others researching in that area. For example, she says the death record on an ANTHONY ROLLINS who died Aug. 8, 1902, aged 104 yrs, in Scioto County. He was born in Virginia and died in South Webster, Ohio, so he would have been born ca 1778. Can you imagine, he lived in 3 centuries!

Virginia Rawlins Bradley P.O.Box 52 Wheelersburg, OH 45694

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Another NATHAN RAWLINGS has turned up in one of our subscribers' research - Ed Wiessing. His name was NATHAN A. RAWLINGS, b. Marion Co., Indiana ca 1834. He was 28 when he enlisted in the Civil War in 1862, in the 40th Regiment of the Iowa Volunteers. Blue eyes, black hair, 6 ft. 1 in. He enlisted in Newton, Iowa.

From "Records of Accounts, MD. Hall of Records Maryland Deaths 1718-1777”

1722/3 SAMUEL RAWLINGS Dorchester Co.

1724 JOHN RAWLINGS Baltimore Co.

1727 DANIEL RAWLINS Kent Co.

1729 ANTHONY RAWLINGS Dorchester Co.

1728 DANIEL RAWLINGS Calvert Co.

1738 JOHN RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

1744 ELINOR RAWLINS Anne Arundel Co.

1744 AARON RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

1747 AARON RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

1756 DANIEL RAWLINGS Calvert Co.

1758 AARON RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

1759 DANIEL RAWLINGS Calvert Co.

1759 JEHOSOPHAT RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

1759 DANIEL RAWLINGS Baltimore Co.

1759 JOHN RAWLINGS Frederick Co.

1761 JEHOSOPHAT RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

1761 AARON RAWLINGS Anne Arundel Co.

BENJAMIN SCOTT RAWLINGS, son of NATHAN (1750-1821) has been a difficult one to find in records in Illinois. We know he was married to Christina "Kitty" Mattox/Maddox in May of 1823 in Lawrence Co. Ed Wiessing has been pursuing this search for some time from Lawrence Co. thru Menard Co., eventually to Clinton Co., Iowa, where it is presumed he died because there is no further mention of him, and the census records show Christina with her family, 1850. She is aged 44, and her children are: MARY A., aged 22; LUKE, aged 18; WASHINGTON, aged 17; EMALINE, aged 14: ROBERT, aged 12; BENJAMIN Jr., aged 9; and CATHARINE, aged 6. Only CATHARINE was born in Iowa, the rest of the children being born in Illinois.

The peculiar thing about the research Ed did in Iowa is that the Clinton Co. Clerk had no records on file for either BENJAMIN or Kitty, but they did have for LUKE and WASHINGTON. There also was mention of BENJAMIN coming to Clinton County in the "History of Clinton Co., Iowa" published in 1879. That statement says the year of arrival was 1840, and that BENJAMIN died in 1846.

Sonia Cesarino informs us of a recently republished book entitled "The Tenmile County and Its Pioneer Families" by Howard L. Lackey. Within this area called "tenmile" are Washington and Westmoreland and Bedford Counties, Pennsylvania, where we find many early settlers married RAWLIN(G)S. and ROLLIN(G)S along with associated families like RANKIN and Pendergass et al. She has sent us many xeroxed pages concerning those families in which our organization is interested. I'll fill you in on that information in future issues of the newsletter.

From PIONEER AND GENERAL HISTORY OF GEAUGA CO. OHIO, 1880

Hambden Township - In 1802 and 1803, Hambden began to be settled, and in those years some 8 or 9 families moved into the township. The names of the first settlers were Shadrack Ruark, JAMS RAWLINS, Joseph & Stephen Bond, Thomas & William Evans & Andrew Cooey. All had families except Stephen Bond.

Ruark chopped down the first tree in the township, but he and RAWLINS did not like the area & moved later to Mentor. In those days there were no roads, but in 1805 one was chopped out so people could move about in wagons.