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Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina
In 1793, Eli Dodgen was born to William and Elizabeth Dodgen (nee Pitts) in Abbeville, South Carolina. He married Jane Edwards and they had four children: Emmaly, James, William and Eli Washingon. Emmaly migrated south marrying Harris Goodwin on February 13, 1834 in Forsyth County, Georgia.
 
Butler County, Ohio [map]
In 1857, Yorkshire born Samuel Lambert Stead married another Yorkshire-born immigrant Mary Jane Moore. The family moved briefly to Minnesota where their oldest daughter was born, and then migrated back to Ohio and eventually south to Georgia where the children grew up.
 
Chanhassen, Carver County, Minnesota
Immigrating sometime before 1860, Joshua and Hannah Moore immigrated to America and settled in the town of Chanhassen in the new state of Minnesota. A spinster aunt Mary Booth joined them later. They died in Sibley and are buried in Aspden Cemetery in Chanhassen.
 
Charles City County, Virginia [map of Virginia counties]
 
Chillcothe, Ross County, Ohio

Reverend John Andrews moved to Chillcothe, Ohio c. 1807, and there in 1814, he began publishing the Presbyterian Recorder.

City of Richmond, Virginia

DeKalb County, Georgia

Hanover County, Virginia
 
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia
 
New Haven County, Connecticut
  • Derby, Connecticut
    • Thomas Selby was naturalized 16 Oct 1868 in Derby, New Haven County. On 7 May 1872 , he married Annie Bowen whose family had immigrated from Llanelly, Wales. Raising eight children with Annie, Thomas worked as a machinist in a brass factory. He died on 21 Jan 1911 and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Ansonia. Thomas and Annie's children were Anna Louise, William Henry, Fanny Mary, Lena Emily, Arthur Richard, Thomas Edward, Kittie Elizabeth and Helen Bowen.
  • Meriden, Connecticut
    • Frederick Joseph Wallace and Carrie Emogene Brooks raised their family in Meriden where FJ owned a market and prospered. Their older children all died in childhood, but their youngest daughter Harriette Belle Wallace survived. She attended the Lewis Avenue school and then went to Springfield, Massachusetts to attend the MacDuffie [Girls'] School. She returned to Meriden after her graduation, and she married Arthur Richard Selby in Ansonia. The marriage ended quickly in divorce, and Harriette and her small daughter Evelyn Emogene returned to Frederick and Carrie's home in Meriden, where Evelyn was raised.
 
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Immigrating to Philadelphia from Germany and Russia/eastern Europe, our ancestors were part of the flood of immigrants into America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The City Directories, a predecessor to modern telephone listings,are a useful resource. Here I have an excerpt of the FOX surname from the 1890 Philadelphia City Directory
 
  • Manayunk, Philadelphia
    • The Maurers settled on Terrace Street in Manyunk by the 1870s; the Golembiewskis and the Auchs followed in their footprints, settling there some forty years later in the early 1900s.
 
Pittsburgh and Alleghenytown, western Pennsylvania
Reverend John Andrews was accepted to the Washington Presbytery in 1813. His son Lewis F. Wilson attended Washington and Jefferson College (c. 1821); Lewis lived in Allegheny County through 1830, first practicing medicine in Pittsburg and later becoming the editor of Pittsburg Commonwealth.
 
Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee
 
Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
 
Washington D.C.
 
Sometime after her husband died in 1852, Elizabeth B. Haynes moved to Washington D.C. from Charles City County, Virginia. There her daughter Sarah (Sallie)operated a boarding house and Cornie (Cornelia) cared for her aging mother. Together the three fought for Elizabeth's right to William C. Haynes' pension from the War of 1812. His pension file held in the national archives documents their struggle. Elizabeth had friends testify that she indeed had married William, and remained widowed, nearly 25 years after his death. After several rejections and appeals, she was finally awarded the pension due to her for William's sixteen days of service in the war with Great Britain. William served with John Armistead's Virginia militia from 28 Jun 1813 to 13 July 1813.

Elizabeth's granddaughter Leilia LaVarre (nee Haynes) also came to Washington D.C. by 1900 when William Johanne LaVarre brought his family to Washington D.C. from Richmond, Virginia. In the city, William J. worked as a draftman and later a naval architect, with an interim residnecy in Washington State c. 1900 while William J. worked at the Bremerton Shipyard, off Puget Sound. By 1910, the family was in Washington D.C. again. Although they moved to Staten Island briefly while Wm. J. worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (c. 1911), they had returned again to Washington D.C. by 1926 where they lived until the children were grown. Leilia LaVarre (nee Haynes) stayed in Washington through the 1940s.

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Presbyterian
 
An excellent history of the early Presbyterian church is here. John Andrews was a Presbyterian minister in, first, the Presbytery of West Lexington, Kentucky and later the Washington Presbytery in Washington Co., Pa. and the Redstone Presbytery in Fayette Co., Penn. His son Lewis F.Wilson Andrews married Jane Gray, the daughter of the Methodist minister, James Gray of Sewickley, Penn.
 
Unitarian Universalist

Dr. Reverend Lewis F. Wilson, raised in the Presbyterian faith, was an early preacher in the Unitarian Universalist church. The church's evolution can be followed here.

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