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    Out of Kentucky
    Out of Kentucky
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    Out of Kentucky

    By Wilson Zaring

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    Wilson Miles Zaring is a retired Associate Professor of Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He coauthored four mathematics textbooks during his teaching career. After retirement, Wilson began delving into his passion with earnest—genealogy. He has published three genealogical works, as well as coauthoring a history of the First United Methodist Church of Champaign, Illinois. Born and raised in Kentucky, Wilson moved to Champaign, Illinois to start his career in mathematics. He, and his wife, raised two children in Champaign, where he currently is enjoying his retirement by researching genealogy and writing fiction.

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    PublisherWilson Zaring
    Release dateDec 31, 2012
    ISBN9781301665945
    Out of Kentucky
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    Wilson Zaring

    Wilson M Zaring is a retired Associate Professor of Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He coauthored four mathematics textbooks during his teaching career. After retirement, Wilson began delving into his passion with earnest—genealogy. He has published three genealogical works, as well as coauthoring a history of the First United Methodist Church of Champaign, Illinois. Born and raised in Kentucky, Wilson moved to Champaign, Illinois to start his career in mathematics. He, and his wife, raised two children in Champaign, where he currently is enjoying his retirement by researching genealogy and writing fiction.

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      Out of Kentucky - Wilson Zaring

      Out of Kentucky

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      Wilson Zaring

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      Copyright 2012 Wilson Zaring

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      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Our Zaring Ancestors

      Our Miles Ancestors

      My First Birthday

      Life on the Farm at Stanley

      Life in Henry County

      We Left the Farm

      Uncle Sam Wanted Me

      Back to School

      Additional Works

      Dedicated

      To

      David and Susan

      Our Zaring Ancestors

      Let me begin this account with a brief summary of our Zaring family history. We are descendants of Johannes Zehrung, who was born at Ritzhausen, Germany, sometime around April 1, 1706. Johannes was a farmer who married three times, twice in Germany, and once in Pennsylvania. His first wife was Anna Marie Crumm, his second was Anna Marie Uhr, and his third was Anna Elizabeth Lotz. Apparently he collected Annas. In 1753, Johannes and family of six emigrated from Germany. I do not know whether this was six plus Johannes or six counting Johannes, but I assume that it was six including Johannes. Only five members of this family have been positively identified in America. They are Johannes and four of his children Henrich, Ludwig, Mathias, and Anna Elizabeth. The sixth person was probably Johannes' second wife, Anna Marie Uhr. In any event, the family arrived in Philadelphia on September 29, 1753, aboard the snow Rowand out of Rotterdam. (A snow is a type of sailing ship.) The arrival of the Rowand was reported in the October 4 edition of Benjamin Franklin’s weekly newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette.

      From 1753 to 1755 there is a gap in the family record. I would love to know where they were and what they did during that time. In 1755, Johannes was living on Indian land on Middle Creek in what is now Snyder County, PA. It was Cumberland County at that time. In October 1755, Indians attacked a settlement a few miles north of Johannes, on Penn's Creek. This settlement, of about 23 people, was destroyed and everyone was killed or captured. Johannes fled to safety, but where he went I do not know. So there is a second gap in the record. In 1760, in Host Church, Berks County, PA, Johannes married Anna Elizabeth Lotz.

      In 1765, Johannes filed a claim for his land on Middle Creek. In 1772, he sold this land to John Rush. Johannes died in 1773 at the age of 67. The inventory of his estate shows him in possession of more things than one would need in order to run a household, for example, 3000 needles and 10 dozen boxes of snuff. This inventory suggests that Johannes may have operated a store, or he could have been a peddler who traveled around the area.

      We descend from Johannes' son Philip Zehrung, whose mother was probably Anna Marie Uhr. It is a curious fact that except for Philip, I have birth dates for all of Johannes’ children, but I do not know where Philip was born or when. He may have been born in Germany, he may have been born in route to America, and he may have been born in Pennsylvania. The earliest record that I have of Philip is an Orphan's Court record in Lancaster County, PA, dated 1773. This record settles Johannes's estate and lists all of his heirs, including our Philip. Why is this an Orphan's Court record? Because at the time of his death Johannes' youngest son, John, was a minor.

      There is also a deed on file in Sunbury, PA, dated October 3, 1774, that lists all of Johannes' children. Recall that in 1772, Johannes sold his land on Middle Creek to John Rush. Johannes did not convey title to this land while he was alive, so his children transferred the land after his death. Philip's name, and the names of his brothers and sister, appear on this deed.

      Philip married Catherine Zeller. I do not know where and when this marriage took place, but Philip appears to have been on the move. On January 5, 1776, he bought a lot in Fredericksburg, Dauphin County, PA, now Lebanon County. Philip served in the Lancaster County Militia during the Revolution. He appears on the 1790 Federal Census of Pennsylvania as a resident of York County, PA. On December 9, 1794, Philip bought 116 acres of land on Beargrass Creek in Jefferson County, KY, and on August 11, 1795, he bought a lot in Louisville near the Falls of the Ohio. He sold this lot in 1802, and, at a time unknown to me, moved to a farm in what is now Oldham County, KY. This farm was located west of Brownsboro, but I do not know its exact location. Philip died sometime between 1812 and 1815 and is probably buried in a family cemetery on the farm near Brownsboro where he lived. My cousin Alan Zaring and I spent a lot of time searching for Philip’s land, his cabin, and his graveyard, but without success.

      All of Philip's children adopted the spelling that we now use. Our direct line from Philip is through his son Jacob Zaring, who was born on January 10, 1788, in Pennsylvania and died on August 20, 1820, in Shelby County, at the early age of 32. This information is from an old family Bible that passed from my Aunt Celia (Zaring) Neel to Uncle Charles Zaring, to his son John, and then to my cousin Alan Zaring. Why Jacob died so young I do not know. There is surely a story here if we could find it. Jacob was my great great grandfather and he was the first Zaring to settle in Shelby County.

      I grew up thinking of Shelby County as home base for the Zaring family. Exactly when Jacob came to Shelby County I do not know. On August 7, 1809, in Shelby County, Jacob married Christianna Caplinger. They settled on Bull Skin Creek in a little log cabin. You may remember visiting Aunt Tommy Zaring at the family home place. There is a long driveway from her house to the Shelbyville-Smithfield road. If you continue going west in the direction of that driveway, across the Smithfield road, and through the fields for about two miles you would come to the Harrington Mill Road, which runs parallel to the Smithfield Road. As you drive south on this road you come to Bull Skin Creek. Jacob Zaring's log cabin stood on the east side of this road and on the north side of the creek. Several years ago Uncle Charles took me to the site of this old cabin. I have forgotten whether there were remnants of the cabin still left when we visited, but the old Caplinger Cemetery is located nearby on the banks of the creek a few hundred yards west of where the cabin stood. Jacob’s wife Christianna (Caplinger) Zaring is buried there. I have seen a footstone with the initials C.Z. Jacob is probably buried there too, but there is no evidence of this known to me. This cemetery was located on land that the Caplinger family owned at one time. I showed Guthrie and his brother Alan where this old cemetery is.

      My great grandfather was Lawson William Zaring. He was a very frugal man, perhaps the word is stingy. My grandfather is reported to have said that even when he left home to attend school in Shelbyville, he had great difficulty getting his father to give him a quarter. With Lawson William, the Zaring family rose to some prominence as successful farmers and landowners. Lawson was born on December 20, 1817, died on February 27, 1896, and is buried in the Grove Hill Cemetery at Shelbyville. Lawson was the first owner of the farm and home that was known in the family as the Zaring place, near Finchville. He bought this 175-acre farm on October 13, 1856, when it was auctioned at the court house door in Shelbyville. It was previously owned by William Finley. The Finleys were well-to-do and it is thought that they built the old brick home that stood on the south side of Interstate 64 near the Shelbyville exit. Aunt Celia thought that it was built about ten years before Lawson bought it. If so, it was built about 1846. My cousin Guthrie thinks the architecture is identical to other houses in the area that were built as early as 1805. No matter, in spite of the fact that this old home was on the Kentucky Historical Register, it was torn down in 1998 after my cousin Roy Neel sold the farm to a developer.

      On April 23, 1846, in Shelby County, Lawson married Elizabeth Ann Boyd. According to Uncle Charles, her parents disapproved of their marriage on the grounds that the Zarings were poor and would never amount to anything. Elizabeth lived on the farm that is known to older generations in the family as the Boyd place but now is referred to as the home place. That is where Aunt Tommy lived. It is located on the Shelbyville-Smithfield Road. In 1846, the home was a double log cabin. One night Elizabeth climbed out of a cabin window and eloped with Lawson.

      According to Uncle Charles, Lawson resented his in-law's attitude and was determined to prove them wrong. Whether this drive made him frugal or it was his nature, I do not

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