Re: Lost, unconnected Ohio Lents
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In reply to:
Lost, unconnected Ohio Lents
Thomas Lent 7/24/01
All of the area that you describe is in the region that my ancestors' cousins lived in for a time. The cousins' names were Oliver Perry Lent and wife. I am a descendant of William Lent and Elizabeth Sidwell of Morgan County, Ohio. Their daughter Anna Rebecca Lent married a James Henry Willis of Morgan County, Ohio. Their son, whom was my ancestor is William Henry Harrison Willis, named after Anna's brother William Henry Harrison Lent whom served in the Civil War. Somehow the Lent family is supposed to be related to the wife or mother of Abraham Lincoln. My ancestor William Willis sat on Abraham's lap as a baby. Anna and her family moved to Oregon to be with her brother Joseph Lent and cousin Oliver Perry Lent. She died of consumption soon after moving to Oregon. Oliver Perry Lent the cousin, was born in Marietta, Ohio to Abraham Lent, brother of William Lent, my ancestor. I think they were sons of Leben Lent.