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A Genealogical History of the Dunlevy Family
Author: Gwendolyn Dunlevy Kelley
Call Number: R929.2 D921
The history and genealogy of the Dunlevy Family.
Bibliographic Information: Kelley, Gwendolyn Dunlevy. A Genealogical History of the Dunlevy Family. The Evans Printing Company. Columbus, Ohio. 1901.
COPIED FROM PAGE 114…
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. 21, 1900.
HON. JAMES H. ANDERSON,
Columbus, Ohio.
My Dear Kinsman:--Your favor of the 12th inst. duly received, and with the aid of my brother and sister I have been getting what information I could for an answer.
Neither father nor mother took much interest in communicating their genealogy to their children. The record in the family bible states that Daniel Yandes, my father, was born January 28, 1793, and died June 10, 1878; and that Anna Wilson, my mother, was born July 18, 1795, and died Feb. 24, 1851; and that they were married on Feb. 16, 1815, in Fayette County, Pa. Father was the son of Simon Yandes and Catherine Rider Yandes, and mother was the daughter of Esquire James Wilson and Mary Rabb Wilson, all of whom lived in Fayette County, Pa. My oldest sister was named Mary Rabb Yandes, after her grandmother. I was born Jan. 5, 1816, and am now a little less than six months younger than father was when he died. I knew Andrew Rabb, who lived here, and my understanding has always been that he was a half-brother of my mother's mother, and was the son of a second, and possibly a third, wife. I think the Rabbs occupied a higher social (PAGE BREAK 115) position than the Wilsons, and the Wilsons than the Yandeses. Mary Rabb was the first wife of James Wilson, who upon her death, early in the nineteenth century, married a second wife. He received about twelve thousand dollars through his first wife, which was then considered a large amount.
The father and mother of Daniel Yandes were born in Germany, and his father, Simon Yandes, died about 1817 at the age of eighty-four. In 1818 father moved to Connersville, Ind., and in March, 1821, to Indianapolis. James Wilson was a man of fine appearance and that may have helped him in obtaining his wife. Near the end of the second war with England an order came to raise a regiment in the south-west part of Pennsylvania to assist in protecting Washington City, and father was elected a captain of one of the companies, and then the major of the regiment; but when they were ready to commence a long march an order came that the regiment disband; father was at that time twenty-two years old, and his military honor may have helped him in getting his wife. I don't think that one in a hundred of our old citizens ever knew that he had been a major, and he was never, that I know of, called by that title.
Your great-grandmother, Mary Scott Rabb, was the wife of Andrew Rabb from 1768 to 1798. Your grandmother, Hannah Rabb Dunlevy, was born in 1780. My grandmother, Mary Rabb Wilson, had her first child (my mother) in 1795 and she must have been born, I think, between 1770 and 1775. It follows that our grandmothers were full sisters. I think this is clear and am pleased to think so.
There was a Rabb (a connection) who was a prominent banker in New Orleans. I think I heard he afterwards came north, and it may be to Cincinnati. My best regards to yourself and to Gen. Wright. He was the patron of U. S. Senator Fairbanks, receiver of a railroad, and an elder of our church, while he lived here. We were very glad to receive your letter, and I remain,
Yours sincerely,
SIMON YANDES.
(Mary Rabb Wilson, the grandmother of Hon. Simon Yandes, was born July 6, 1777.)
J. H. A.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec. 14, 1900.
HON. JAMES H. ANDERSON,
Columbus, O.
My Dear Sir:--Your favor of the 10th inst. duly received and I will answer as fully as I can. You inquire the names of the children of father and mother, where born, etc., together with any other items in brief form. Answer: Simon Yandes, Jan. 5, 1816, born in Fayette County, Pa. James Wilson Yandes, born Dec. 19, 1817, in same county, died Oct. 30, 1885, at St. Paul, Minn. Mary Rabb Yandes, born Feb. 27, 1823, at Indianapolis, Ind., married to John Wheeler, Sept. 8, 1842, died Sept. 5, 1854, in Indianapolis, Ind. Catherine Yandes, born Sept. 3, 1825, in Indianapolis, Ind., married Elijah T. Fletcher, and is now a widow, living in Cincinnati, O. Daniel Yandes, jr., born April 11, (PAGE BREAK 116) 1830 in Indianapolis, Ind., died June 30, 1846, in same city. Elizabeth Yandes, born Feb. 6, 1833, in Indianapolis, Ind., married to Joseph R. Robinson July 28, 1859, who is since deceased, and she, his widow, is now living in Indianapolis, Ind. George B. Yandes, born June 7, 1838, in Indianapolis, Ind., where he now resides. There were several other children who died under two years of age.
(Catherine Yandes was first married to Andrew M. Carnahan, June 1, 1848, who died Feb. 20, 1850, and she was married Sept. 11, 1856, to Elijah T. Fletcher, who died August 24, 1877.)
James W. Yandes was married to Fanny B. Button on April 29, 1851 and his wife died March 28, 1884. Simon and George were never married.
The children of James Wilson and Mary Rabb, my grandfather and grandmother, were four, that is, Anna Wilson, my mother, born in 1795; Alexander Wilson, born in 1797; Andrew Wilson, born in 1799, and Mary Wilson, born in 1801. The husband of Mary Wilson was Mr. Malaby. All of these except Alexander died in Indiana. Alexander and Andrew lived to be about eighty years of age. Alexander died in Fremont County, Iowa, where he lived at the time of his death, having formerly lived here in Marion County, Ind. James Wilson had four children by his second wife, that is, William, James, John and Elizabeth, but as they were not of the Rabb blood, I suppose you do not want particulars.
Alexander Wilson was Probate Judge in Iowa, receiving the votes of both parties. I was a practicing lawyer from 1839 to 1863 and have since been a real estate dealer. James W. Yandes was a merchant for many years, and George B. Yandes was formerly president of the Citizens National Bank of Indianapolis, and afterwards vice president of the Indiana National Bank, of same city.
If it is not out of place, and is in good taste, and you prefer to have the information printed, you may say that James W. Yandes left an estate of $350,000, that George B. Yandes has an estate of over $250,000, and that I acquired $850,000, of which $500,000 has gone or will go to church and charities, and that the remainder has gone to relatives. Andrew Rabb, jr., was a moderate farmer, without much ambition or talent, whose wife was the sister of Andrew Wilson's wife, and he and Wilson lived on adjacent farms.
I do not know where our great-grandfather, Capt. Andrew Rabb, and great-grandmother, Mary Scott Rabb, were born, and have no information additional to yours of the Dunlevy genealogy.
In my first letter there were two omissions, that is, that James Wilson was a man of very decided talent, and was the leading man in his township, in Fayette County, Pa., and that Daniel Yandes served six months on the northwest frontier during the last war with England.
I have been informed that two of the sons of James Wilson, jr., are Presbyterian clergymen, and that one of them has hunted up the James Wilson genealogy, but what it is and what he has ascertained I do not know.
When Daniel Yandes was a little over sixty years of age he gave $100,000 to his children, and when he was eighty years of age he had an (PAGE BREAK –117) estate of $250,000, but lost all of it by a partnership which he went into at about that age. He built a cotton spinning mill, a paper mill, grist mills and sawmills, making at least eight mills in all, and gave about $60,000 to church and charities. In looking at our city directory I find the name of Dr. Ira E. Dunlavy and of Lawyer William O. Dunlavy. In the great cities the directories must show a great many persons of this name. In printing my name, please say to Miss Kelley to attach no title, but to print it simply "Simon Yandes." I have no right to any title. The oldest son of Mary R. Wheeler was Charles Y. Wheeler, born in 1843 in Greencastle, Ind., and died Sept. 5, 1899, at Pittsburg, Pa. He was the inventor and manufacturer of the Wheeler Sterling Armor-Piercing Projectiles, which were in great demand during the war with Spain.
Sincerely yours,
S. YANDES.
N. B.: Simon Yandes was descended from (his great-grandfather) Capt. Andrew Rabb, Fayette County, Pa., who married Mary Scott, Sept. 1, 1768. Their daughter, Mary Rabb, born July 6, 1777, married James Wilson. Anna Wilson, daughter of Mary Rabb Wilson and James Wilson, was born July 18, 1795, and was married to Daniel Yandes, of Fayette County, Pa., Feb. 16, 1815. Simon Yandes, of Indianapolis, son of Daniel and Anna Wilson Yandes, was born in Fayette County, Pa., Jan. 6, 1816.
J. H. A.
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