R/RFHA Newsletter, March 2002                                            P.4

From the Tri-State Genealogical Society, c/o the Willard Library, 21 First Avenue, Evansville, Indiana 47708. (1981)

The Genealogy Newspaper Columns of Robert E. Turman

(Extracted from the early Family histories from Gibson, Harrison, Knox, Montgomery, Perry, Pike, Posey, Sullivan, Washington, Vanderburgh and surrounding counties in Indiana, and including Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, plus the paths of migration to these general areas.) Edited by Bethe Anne Cummings Cook CG

Jacob Turman was only 11 when his family left southwest Virginia via the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap to Kentucky...then on to Ohio in 1798. Jacob and his brother Isaac returned to Kentucky and married Jacob to SUSAN ROLLINS around 1812. (This SUSAN was the daughter of JOSHUA RAWLINGS and his first wife Verlinda Darnall) In Turman's column he mentioned that SUSAN was distantly related to the famed US Senator Henry Clay.

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Another RAWLINGS/ROLLINGS connection with the Turman family. One of the first settlers at Foot Boonesborough, KY, was named PEMBERTON RAWLINGS/ROLLINS. He and Col. Richard Calloway were killed by indians on March 9, 1780 while building a flatboat for a ferry to cross the Kentucky River. PEMBERTON was listed as owner of land on nearby Paint Creek. A Bennett Pemberton md. a Mary Turman, daughter of Charles Turman of Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. They moved to Kentucky not long after PEMBERTON ROLLINS had helped to establish Boone's fort.

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Still another connection was a little more round-about. The Van Meter family came down the Ohio River to settle in Kentucky/Ohio area. A Margaret Van Meter married Edward Rawlings, son of STEPHEN RAWLINGS of Maryland who settled in Hardin Co., Kentucky.

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From the "Index of the Source Records of Maryland" (Genealogical & Historical) by Eleanor P. Oassano

RAWLINGS Tombstone Inscriptions. Anne Arundel Co.,MD DAR, & the Maryland Historical Society Records.

RAWLINGS Family - Baltimore Sun Series, May I4-June 11, 1905

RAWLINGS-Marsden Lineage Books - DAR and Maryland Historical Society

RAWLINGS, RAWLINS, RALLINGS - Colonial Families of USA by Mackenzie, Vol.3 RAWLINS Family - "Skeletons of Paxton & Powhatan Counties, VA" by Baskerville, Maryland Historical Society.

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From "West Virginians in the Revolution" compiled by Ross P. Johnston

MOSES ROLLINS: Enlisted Oct. 5, 1780, in Culpeper County, under the command of Capt. Smith; attached to regt. commanded by Col. Buford, Virginia Line. Served to near end of war. At Battle of Guildford Courthouse he received wound which later entailed amputation of both legs below the knees. He was 18. Married Nancy Cave of Ritchie Co., VA Dec.5,1814. She was 32 years younger than her husband. He received pension in 1819, died Feb. 4, 1856, aged 96. He was issued 2 bounty land warrants for his service, one for 60 acres, one for 100 acres. Nancy received widow's pension in 1857. Some records say he had 5 children, others say he had 11.