John Herring, Sr. - Susanna Herring

Maxine,

I performed the merge, I am not the person who added or manages Susanna Herring. Please contact Jim Rigsby at the link below for a complete answer to your question:

James Thomas Rigsby

If no satisfactory answer is attaned then we can cut that member from the tree OR add a note to the profile indicating that Jim Rigsby is working on finding source documentation.

Hope that helps,

J

... as an example, I just found today that a person I had thought died in 1911 (paper genealogy from my grandmother) actually lived until 1942 (based on a FindAGrave memorial).

... all thanks to the new Smart Matches from the MyHeritage connection.

So ... documentation is important, as well as checking multiple possible sources of confirmation of details.

I think John Herring's death date might be "off" - I'm more seeing him dying 1760 with Susannah born 1761. No hard evidence though.

She married John Becton, a son of

Frederick Edwin Becton

So you may want to contact that profile manager also & consider making the missing profile.

The dates are all suspect. I've seen birth dates for Susanna as early/late as 1725, which makes more sense with the dates of the other children. If she was not born until 1761, Catherine would not still be alive and she would have been about 40 years younger than her siblings.

... or she just need connecting elsewhere and is not really John & Catherine's daughter?

That is always possible. I don't have any hard evidence on her. Since she is not important to my tree, I would have no trouble deleting her and john Becton. What do you think?

I am inclined to agree with Dan - John Herring Sr is my 8th grandfather...and I have no family records of a Sussanah Herring being his daughter.

Delete? NO!! Disconnect? maybe -- if a bit of searching doesn't show up where they might really belong.

Jaim, I have a window for both birth/death for John Herring Sr (also a several- grandfather of mine). I have not been able to find anything solid. Have you? I'm descended from Benjamin Herring, how about you?

Hi Maxine,

I have no record of Susannah belonging in my line of Herrings during the time frame in question. Given the attention given to Bathsheba Herring's genealogy throughout the past century I am surprised Sussanah shows up at this time; perhaps the manager of the profile can help us understand?

I am descended from James Herring, Sr. James F. Herring

My line of Herrings descends from Julienes John Herringe

Your Benjamin Herring is my 6th cousin 7 times removed's husband's father; there are a lot of Herrings in Virginia at that time...

How do we connect Bathsheba to our family of Herringe's (Herring)? I haven't located any ancestors of hers.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Herring-276

My notes tell me that the Lincoln Family genealogists present evidence that she is the daughter of Alexander Herring, Jr. who came down to Virginia from Delaware as sailor. Children: Edith, Leonard, John, Bathsheba, William, Bethuel and Jesse.

Parents: Alexander Herring, Abigail Harrison
Birth Place: Rockingham Co, VA
Birth Date: 1746
Marriage Bridgewater, A, VA
Marriage Date: 1770
Death Date: 1793

Source Citation: Birth year: 1746; Birth city: Rockingham Co; Birth state: VA.
Source Information: Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Millenium File too:

Name: Bathshaeba (Prob Dau of) Herring
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 1750
Birth Place: Virginia, USA
Death Date: 1836
Father: Alexander Herring
Mother: Abigail Harrison
Spouse: Abraham Lincoln
Children: Thomas Lincoln

Source Information: Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.

I accept the notion of Abigail Harrison marrying Alexander Herring. If we examine the history of Harrisonburg, VA, we find the following:

Harrisonburg (located in Rockingham County, VA), previously known as Rocktown, was named for Thomas Harrison, a son of English settlers. In 1737, Harrison settled in the Shenandoah Valley, eventually laying claim to over 12,000 acres (49 km2). This was situated at the intersection of the Spotswood Trail and the main Native American road through the Valley.

In my opinion, there was no way to own land in Rockingham County unless you married into the Harrison Family.

Sources:
Harrison, J. Houston (1935). Settlers by the Long Grey Trail J.K. Ruebush. p 214-249

Julian Smith, 2007, Moon Virginia p. 246

Ok, I tried to follow Bathshaeba's line up to try to make the connection to our line. I did not make the connection as the name changed spelling and I did not see it coming together. Who is the connector?