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Dear Ann:
The Raymond b 1911 was my dad;-) So of course your inventory is of great interest. Jeremiah was his father, Theodore his grandfather.. one of the first children born of new settlers to the Oregon territory. Felix Grundy, born in Harrisonville of Il. headed for the NorthWest in about 1850 following the death of his parents of cholera at American Bottom, with a number of his siblings being raised by neighbors, or in the family of Felix's uncle, Henry <1790>. You mention Abraham -- an illustrious guy about whom we know way too little. Considered by some a dunker, he married into a dunker family (Whetstone) in Hardy Co. of VA (WV now).. though he seems to have been a member of the Lemen off-shoot of David Badgley's first backwood baptist congregations of the Midwest. Abraham could read and write, as evidenced by his famous correspondence in the trials of Jacob Stookey. He was one of three representatives elected from Belleville to the second House of Representatives for the new state of Illinois-- an un-dunker like thing to do;-) In his estate there was a shared note where he and Henry had helped loan funds to a neighbor -- past that it's hard to tell how close Abraham and Henry's lines were. Henry's folks were close to Clarks.. don't see that in the more Scots-Irish links of Abraham's kids.
You get all kinds of stories back from there... that Abraham was born in Lancaster at a time where we can't find a father. Most imagine that the Ulrich who was in Conestoga had brought grand-kids by his German son Ulrich, but there's no real clear evidence of that, and they sure weren't taken care of in Ulrich's will. I personally suspect the problem is that we know little about other Eymans who we know did arrive, including a Jacob Eiman <1725> who arrived in 1749 and who isn't mentioned in most accounts. He had lands out in the Dauphin area up Clark's Creek and was a first owner of lands there. He joined the mililtia with another Jacob Eyman and a Christian Eyman in 1775.. far from Connestoga.
Your notes have a Christian Eyman born 1799 in Monroe, and I'd sure like any details you might have on that. I think this is the Christian Eyman who was Felix's father. The mortuary listings had him born in Hardy, and if that's so, he might have been the son of either Henry, or Henry's probable father, the Christian Iman who had 500 acres there and had married a Catherine. Abraham had signed Christian's deeds in 1790 or so, though he didn't appear on local tax records for quite a while after 1786, and so it seems more likely that he was a brother of that Christian than a son of his. You'll hear stories that Abraham was from Lancaster and migrated back and forth to VA several times. That's not clear, though the Jacob Eyman who married Barbara Jones in 1786 at First Reformed was a next door neighbor of Christian and seems to have been back and forth to the Paxtang area, even buying and selling town lots while he was residing in Hardy and paying taxes there. Most accounts have Abraham as a woodsman and adventurer, a blacksmith, carpenter, and farmer with a wool carding machine. His uncle Jacob, on the other hand, purchased existing estates in Westmoreland, and seems to have been a tavern operator with connections to prominent surveyors and military officers.
The best sources of information on the European Eymans is the work of Torsten at http://www.eyann.net
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