Knowlton/Buell/Oatman second cousin amusement
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Elizabeth W Knowlton
May 12, 2020, 9:45:30 AM5/12/20
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I did this research last fall to share
with some other close researchers and decided to share it here
on the larger Knowlton list
Working away on both Descendants of Stephen Knowlton #475 and also his brother Robert #476, I came up with some amusing and informative connections.
Robert and his first wife Rachel Perry, we recently learned through Dean Case's good research, had a daughter Zerviah Knowlton who married Zebe Buell. The couple had a son Zebe Jr. who married a local Watertown, NY, woman named Philinda Oatman.
Long ago I did research on Stephen Knowlton's son, Daniel #1170, who married Anna French and moved with his children from Vermont to NY to Ohio to Missouri, to Wisconsin. (Makes me tired.) His first son was named George Clinton Knowlton who married Desire Catman Lane in Ohio, but the poor man did not live long, dying in Missouri after siring four children. George C Knowlton and Zebe Buell Jr. were second cousins.
The longer I looked at George's wife's middle name, the stranger it seemed. Someone on line told me the name was really Oatman, also unknown to me. I thought it might be her mother's maiden name, but her mother was Ruth Graves. After I found that Zebe Buell's wife was an Oatman, I decided to track the name.
This proved rather easy to do, an old Northeastern colonial family reaching back to George OUTMAN in its Dutch spelling. Generations of men had been in shipping, sometimes living in Hamburg, Germany. Johannes Outman immigrated with his wife to New York City, had an import business, and is said to have financed Captain Kidd!
Be that as it may, I soon found that Desire Oatman Lane's maternal grandmother was Desire Oatman who married Asa Green, another immigrating family who ended up in the far west. Philinda Oatman was the daughter of Truman Oatman and Orra Perry (ah, that name again), while Truman was the son of Benjamin Oatman and Bethia Smith.
And both Desire Oatman and Benjamin Oatman were siblings, children of George and Ruth Wooster Oatman, which makes Desire Oatman Lane and Philinda Oatman second cousins also. I wonder if they ever knew this, second cousins marrying second cousins.
Working away on both Descendants of Stephen Knowlton #475 and also his brother Robert #476, I came up with some amusing and informative connections.
Robert and his first wife Rachel Perry, we recently learned through Dean Case's good research, had a daughter Zerviah Knowlton who married Zebe Buell. The couple had a son Zebe Jr. who married a local Watertown, NY, woman named Philinda Oatman.
Long ago I did research on Stephen Knowlton's son, Daniel #1170, who married Anna French and moved with his children from Vermont to NY to Ohio to Missouri, to Wisconsin. (Makes me tired.) His first son was named George Clinton Knowlton who married Desire Catman Lane in Ohio, but the poor man did not live long, dying in Missouri after siring four children. George C Knowlton and Zebe Buell Jr. were second cousins.
The longer I looked at George's wife's middle name, the stranger it seemed. Someone on line told me the name was really Oatman, also unknown to me. I thought it might be her mother's maiden name, but her mother was Ruth Graves. After I found that Zebe Buell's wife was an Oatman, I decided to track the name.
This proved rather easy to do, an old Northeastern colonial family reaching back to George OUTMAN in its Dutch spelling. Generations of men had been in shipping, sometimes living in Hamburg, Germany. Johannes Outman immigrated with his wife to New York City, had an import business, and is said to have financed Captain Kidd!
Be that as it may, I soon found that Desire Oatman Lane's maternal grandmother was Desire Oatman who married Asa Green, another immigrating family who ended up in the far west. Philinda Oatman was the daughter of Truman Oatman and Orra Perry (ah, that name again), while Truman was the son of Benjamin Oatman and Bethia Smith.
And both Desire Oatman and Benjamin Oatman were siblings, children of George and Ruth Wooster Oatman, which makes Desire Oatman Lane and Philinda Oatman second cousins also. I wonder if they ever knew this, second cousins marrying second cousins.
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