Person Page 933

From The Lincoln Family History by Waldo Lincoln page 52: Anne (Anne Lincoln) so spelled in her father's will, but the Tallman Bible omits the final "e". The dates in this family record are taken from the Tallman Family Bible, in which many of the years are so worn as to be illegible. The record was copied by Miss Mary Josephine Roe of Gilbert, Ohio, a great-great-granddaughter of Anne Lincoln, and is printed in "The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln," Page 176, born March 8, 1725; died Dec. 22, about 1812, on a farm near Harrisonburg, Virginia. She married Oct. 20, 1740 or 1741 (certainly before Jan. 17, 1742, when her step-mother made William Tallman her attorney, calling him her son-in-law), William, son of Benjamin and Patience (Durfee) Tallman of Warwick, Rhode Island. (The only evidence that William is the son of the above is a statement in the Tallman Family bible that William was born in Bode Island in 1720). Born March 25, 1720, at Portsmouth, Rhode Island; died February 13, 1791, in Rockingham County, Virginia. The year is illegible in the Bible, but a deed on record in Berks County, PA, shows that his will was proved in 1791, in Rockingham County. They were living in 1742, at Amity, and various deeds recorded in Berks County prove that they continued to live in that county until 1780, he being taxed from 1768 to 1780 as an inn-keeper at Reading, whither he had probably removed about the first named date, as in 1770 he deeded his homestead in Amity to his son Benjamin. That he was an inn-keeper before removing to Reading is probable, from his purchase in 1754 from Roger Rogers, his mother-in-law's husband, of what seems to have been a country tavern but which he sold in the following year. He probably removed to Virginia in 1780 or 1781, in which latter year his wife purchased land there. They lived on Smith's Run, at the foot of Massanutten mountain, near her brother John. (The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, Pages 73, 176, 195; Descendants of Thomas Durfee, Vol. II, pages 571-2; Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Ser.)

"Pioneer Period and Pioneer People of Fairfield County Ohio" by Wiseman.

Ohio Genealogical Quarterly Vol. 4-7 page 318.

1820 census Fairfield county, Ohio, Greenfield Township.

"Lineage of Peter Tallman and Joan Briggs" by Harry Edward Terrell.

per Herbert C. Probst 13173 County Road 215, Findley, Ohio 45840:

"In 1805 Lewis Scothorn left Virginia and crossed to Ohio. He took up a goodly piece of land in Walnut Twp., in Pickaway Co., Ohio, which although then was of a wild and unsettled section, was favourably located as to water, the first consideration among our pioneer fathers. He had married Anna Tallman (2nd) and six sons and two daughters were born to them bearing the names of Lewis, John, William, George, Charles, Samuel, Eliza and Sarah. Lewis Scothorn died in 1816, having lived in Walnut Twp. during the whole of his life in Ohio. He was a typical pioneer and gained a great local reputation as a woodsman, a great hunter and maker of moccasins. He was a man of great industry and began the clearing of the pioneer farm which he did not live to complete."

Anna Tallman had married first in Rockingham Co., a Mr. (James?) Piercy and they had two children: James Piercy who married (1) Nellie Peters; (2nd) Sally Noble and had 8 children - he died at Canal Winchester, Ohio; and Delilah Piercy who married Thomas Anderson and had 6 children - she died in Pickaway Co., Ohio.

"The widow of Lewis Scothorn subsequently married (third) a Mr. Turner and was generally known in her age as Grandmother Turner in her neighborhood, where she lived to advanced years.." (Mr. Turner died not long after this marriage).

Annah (Tallman) Piercy, Scothorn, Turner resided at the home of her son, Lewis S. Scothorn and his wife, Susannah Westenhaver and their six children. (1850 Census as quoted in "The Scothorn Family", by Ralph H. Lane 1955, page 55).

Note also that some descendants insist on the name as being "Annah", although she signed "Anna".

"Lewis Scothorn, the founder of the family in Ohio, lies in an old burying ground north of East Ringgold in a spot not far from the place where he first located when he came to Ohio. Where, in his day, waved the tall grass that concealed the richness of fertile land beneath, or grew the dense forest that harbored both wild beast and savage, now smile cultivated fields and on the pleasant slopes live his descendants, who, in his memory wish to preserve the old records. Full as they may be, they can never entirely portray the type of man who was able to leave an old civilized section and successfully combat the hardships and face the discouragements incident to establishing a home in an unbroken wilderness."

Taken in part, from "A History of Pickaway county, Ohio and Representative Citizens" by Aaron R. Van Cleaf 1906 pages 469-473. (in quotes) and "The Scothorn Family" by Ralph Lane. This data also came from the Greater Tallman Newsletter Autumn Issue, No. 11 1987, page 2.

Note: The 1850 census actually shows Anna Turner, age 74, living with her granddaughter Catherine (Trone) Long's family. DLB 2012.

Rockingham Co. D. B. 000, p 167 and Strickler's Rockingham Co. Marriages

"Zebulon and Mary resided on Smiths Creek, about a mile east of Mauzy."-pg 439.

May 12, 1827 issue of the Rockingham "Weeky Register":

"The subscriber will (one word illegible) take two or three Boarders on as reasonable terms as can be had in Town. Country produce at the Market Prices will be taken in Payment. She also takes in Sewing for Gentlemen & Ladies, which will be done in the neatest manner and at the most moderate prices. Mary Harrison. April 25, 1827."

Deposition of Joseph Sheffield regarding a declaration made by Peter Tallman of Portsmouth on 13 March, 1702/3:

"Joseph Sheffield, one of Her Majesty's Assistants, testified that being in the house of Peter Tallman in Portsmouth March 13, 1702/3, Peter declared:

'I am now 80 years of age and in the year 1647 I came from Hambrough to the Island of Barbados, and within two years after my arrival I married with Ann Hill the daughter of Phillip Hill and Ann his wife,' and he was married in Christ Church in said Island, and after seven or eight months after his marriage the said Tallman moved from the Island of Barbados to Rhode Island bringing with him his wife and wife's brother called Robert Hill, as likewise his wife's mother ... and further said Tallman declared to me the said deponent that the Peter Tallman whose habitation is now at Guildford in the County of New Haven in Connecticut is eldest lawfull son of said Peter Tallman."

DESCENDENTS OF THOMAS DURFEE BY W.F. REED VOL. 2 (1902) PAGE 574

Thomas and Sarah Henton went to the west fork of Brush Creek in Virginia about 1803. In 1804 they settled on a farm near Hillsboro, Ohio, where he died 1 July 1829. About 1842, the widow, Sarah (Tallman) Henton removed to Peru, Indiana, after the arrival of there of her sons, Benjamin, Sylvester, Thomas and Elam.