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Date Posted: 10:27:20 03/10/07 Sat
Author: Ty Stumpf
Subject: Re: Anna Severs dau. of Abraham Seevers ???
In reply to: Dwayne Burton 's message, "Anna Severs dau. of Abraham Seevers ???" on 16:08:48 10/27/04 Wed

> After an extended research trip to southeastern
>Ohio, here is what I have concluded as to Anna Severs,
>wife of Edmund Burton. Because the documenting of the
>Ohio Severs/Seevers Family is still a work in
>progress, however, I invite anyone and everyone’s
>comments and critiques concerning my findings and
>conclusions.
> To fully understand what follows, you must first
>understand the geo-political history of the Hiramsburg
>area where Edmond and Anna settled. Hiramsburg is in
>Noble Township, which is bordered on the west by the
>eastern lands of Brookfield Township, on the east by
>the western lands of Center Township, and on the south
>by Olive Township. Those lands collectively comprise
>an area which might be referred to as the "Noble
>area." The Noble area was moved from county to county
>over the years. It was originally a part of Muskingum
>County, but it was incorporated into Guernsey County
>in 1810, and then into Morgan County in 1819. Since
>1851, it has been a part of Noble County.
>Consequently, when reading what follows, it is easier
>to think in terms of townships and their relative
>proximity or of the Noble area, rather than in terms
>of the counties where the events occurred.
> The other geographic feature to keep in mind is
>Duck Creek. It bisects Noble Township and then winds
>its way southward through Olive Township (in what is
>now Noble County) and on through Salem Township and
>Fearing Township (formed from part of Salem Township
>in 1808) (in what is now Washington County), before
>emptying into the Ohio River at Marietta, Ohio.
>During the early 1800’s the Duck Creek Valley was a
>major line of settlement, expansion and passage from
>the Ohio River northward through Noble Township.
>Today, old Duck Creek is known as the "West Fork of
>Duck Creek" above Lower Salem and as "Duck Creek"
>below Lower Salem.
>
>The Severs/Seevers Family
>
> Soon after Edmund Burton settled in the Noble area,
>he married Anna Severs. The published accounts of the
>Burton Family claim that they were married in Cuyahoga
>County, Ohio, or somewhere in Pennsylvania, but their
>marriage certificate, which is recorded in the public
>records for Guernsey County, Ohio, says that they were
>married in Olive Township in Guernsey County on April
>25, 1817.
> According to a copy of several pages from what
>appears to be a family Bible kept by Anna Burton, she
>was born on March 10, 1786. Her date of birth is
>confirmed by a second note in that Bible saying that
>she died February 25, 1856 at the age of 69 years, 11
>months and 15 days. That birth date is also
>consistent with the 1820 census of Morgan County,
>Ohio, which had Anna between 26 and 45 years old, the
>1830 census of Morgan County, Ohio, which had her of
>40 but under 50 years old, and the 1850 census of
>Schuyler County, Illinois, which had her as 64 years
>of age. The only inconsistency is the 1840 census of
>Schuyler County, Illinois, which (in the ten years
>since the last census) still had Anna of 40 and under
>50 years of age.
> The original census transcription for 1850, as
>indicated by Edmund or Anna, gives her place of birth
>as Pennsylvania, while the original census
>transcription for 1870, as indicated by her son Aziel,
>gives her place of birth as Maryland.
> Old, undocumented, Internet communications claim
>that Anna was the daughter of Frederick and Ekatrina
>(or Caterina) Severs of Jefferson County, Ohio
>(situated along the Ohio River several miles north of
>Zane’s Trace) and that she had a brother Caspar and a
>half brother Solomon (by Frederick and his first
>wife). Extensive research on Frederick and Ekatrina
>(particularly with regard to their later years in
>Muhlenberg County, Kentucky) almost certainly
>disproves that claim. A Casper Severs did surface in
>Jefferson County, Ohio, however. On July 18, 1813, he
>purchased lot 153 in the town of Mt. Pleasant in
>Jefferson County, Ohio (about 60 miles northeast of
>where Edmund and Anna later lived). On October 2,
>1815, Casper Severs and his wife Anna sold that lot,
>but they remained in Mt. Pleasant, where Casper Severs
>appears in the 1820 federal census of Mt. Pleasant.
>The problem is that there is absolutely nothing which
>connects Casper (or Frederick, Ekatrina or Solomon) to
>Anna or to the Noble area.
> I believe that it is much more likely that Anna
>Severs was actually the child of (or at least related
>to) Abraham and Mary "Seevers" who along with their
>children populated the Noble area and the Duck Creek
>Valley during Edmund and Anna’s time there. This
>conclusion is based exclusively on circumstantial
>evidence, however, as the only known public or private
>source document which reveals Anna’s last name is her
>marriage certificate.
> The first "Seevers" to venture into the Noble area
>may have been Charity "Severs," along with her husband
>John Wiley. According to the History of Noble County,
>they settled in Olive Township on Duck Creek some time
>between 1810 and 1816 and remained there until they
>died many years later. Consequently, John and Charity
>are listed in the Olive Township census for 1820,
>1830, 1840 and 1850. It is interesting that the same
>historical note in the History of Noble County reveals
>that Charity had children named after each of her
>parents, after herself, and after each of her known
>siblings; and that one of Charity’s children was named
>"Ann."
> The next "Seevers" who may have had an association
>with the Noble area was Mary "Sivers." In April 10,
>1816, Mary married Nathan "Lyncicome" in Guernsey
>County. Their marriage record (which follows
>immediately after Josiah Burlingame’s in the records)
>does not give the township where they were married,
>but the fact that Mary was married three weeks after
>Josiah Burlingame by the same person who married
>Josiah leads to the probability that Mary, like
>Edmund, either resided in or was married in the
>vicinity of Josiah Burlingame and his wife Sarah Noble
>(both of whom resided in the Noble area). In the 1820
>census, Nathan "Linsecome" and his family lived next
>door to Elisa Enochs in Union Township in Monroe
>County (which later became part of Center Town-ship in
>Noble County) just east of Noble Township and just
>north of Olive Township. In the 1830 census, Nathan
>"Linsecum" was in Enoch Township in Monroe County just
>south of Union Township and east of Olive Township.
>(Josiah Burlingame and Mary "Sivers" were both married
>by "Elisha Enochs Esq" who apparently was of Nathan
>Lynci-come/Linicome’s first wife’s family, which
>inhabited the Noble area.)
> Mary’s marriage was followed by the marriage of
>Anna "Severs" to Edmund Burton in Olive Township in
>April of 1817 . The marriage record, which was
>completed by John McKee several weeks after their
>marriage, spells her name "Severs." Given all of the
>spellings of the name attached to Abraham "Seevers"
>and his children, however, that spelling is of no
>particular significance.
> Anna’s marriage was followed by the marriage of
>William "Severs" in Guernsey County to Betsy Devol on
>December 1, 1818. In the 1820 census of Noble
>Township, Morgan County, Ohio, "Edmon" Burton was
>listed between Joseph Lippitt and Josiah Burlingame,
>all of whom were also listed with William "Sivers" and
>John ‘Sivers." The History of Noble County also lists
>William and John "Seevers" as taxpayers in Noble
>Township in 1822. In the 1830 census, John and
>William "Seavers" were still in Noble Township (but
>Edmund and Anna were living next door on the
>Noble/Brookfield Township boundary line). John
>"Sivers" was again included in the 1840 census of
>Morgan County (in Center Township). (John "Seavers"
>married Nancy Devol in Washington County in August of
>1817. The township of their marriage is not shown in
>the record, but given "Seevers" family history
>discussed below, it most likely was Salem or Fearing
>Township, somewhere along Duck Creek. Nancy and
>William’s wife Betsy were apparently sisters.)
> The last "Seevers" sibling known to have been in
>the Noble area was Jacob. In 1819, he acquired 80
>acres of land along Duck Creek in Olive Township from
>his sister Charity and her husband John Wiley. Jacob
>was married to Margaret "Renolds" in Salem Township in
>November of 1807.
> What begins to tie all of those "Seevers" to
>Abraham and Mary "Seevers" is the following note from
>History of Washington County (H.Z. Williams & Bro.,
>1881):
>
> "William Seevers came to Newport Township in 1852
>from Noble County. He was born in Fearing Township in
>1799; married Elizabeth Devol."
>
>The same source says that a "Mr. Seevers" was one of
>the earliest settlers of Fearing Township (which was
>then still part of Salem Township) and that he died in
>Fearing Township in 1822. Those observations are
>probably correct as Abraham, Jacob and David "Seevers"
>all first acquired land along Duck Creek in Salem
>Township in 1797. In addition, Abraham, Jacob and
>David "Seavers" show up in the 1800 territorial census
>of Salem Township and Abraham, and Jacob "Seavers" are
>listed in the 1810 census of Fearing Township.
>Abraham and Jacob "Severs" also appear on the Salem
>Township tax roles in 1808. Finally, Abraham’s estate
>was probated in Washington County, beginning in 1822.
>Those records spell his name both "Seevers" and
>"Seavers."
> Some Seevers family genealogists have concluded
>that Abraham and Mary lived in New Jersey and then
>Pennsylvania prior to migrating to Ohio. If Abraham
>was, as they suggest, the "Abm Seevers" shown in the
>1790 census for Fallowfield Township in Washington
>County, Pennsylvania (in the southwestern corner of
>Pennsylvania), he and Mary may well have been in
>Pennsylvania in 1786 when Anna was born. That census
>shows a household of one male over 16 and three males
>under 16, as well as four females of no designated
>age. If you assume that all of those persons were of
>the Seevers family and remove Abraham and Mary from
>the equation, that leaves three sons under 16 and
>three daughters. Based on later census records for
>the family, the three sons most probably would have
>been Jacob, David and John and two of the daughters
>most probably would have been Charity and Margaret
>(who apparently spent her adult life in Washington
>County, Ohio). The third daughter is still
>unaccounted for, which means that she could have been
>Anna.
> On the other hand, those same genealogists suggest
>that the 1788 tax records for Bernards Township,
>Somerset County, New Jersey, show Abraham Seevers as
>still being in (or at least still owning land and
>livestock in) New Jersey that year. Even assuming
>that he was the same Abraham and that he was still
>living in New Jersey in 1788, it is still possible
>that Anna may have been Abraham’s daughter. From her
>earliest memories of spending her childhood in
>Pennsylvania, she may have come to believe that she
>was born there.
> That is all I found on the Ohio Severs/Seevers up
>to 1839 when Edmund and Anna left for Illinois.

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