son of Azariah and Sally Wise Felton Denny
husband of Mary Ann Fulk
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I used the photo added to the memorial to figure his birth using the FTM calculator
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About 1814, he migrated to Gallia County, Ohio with three brothers, James, Harrel, and Henry.
Of the four brothers that went to Gallia County, James and Harrel remained there, lived, worked, raised their families and died there. Brother Henry went to Mercer County, Ohio and William Felton Denney went to Jay County, IN about 1831. There is evidence that some of brother James sons also left Gallia County with uncle William and moved to Jay County, IN, even though their father James remained in Gallia County. Other families from Gallia County, Ohio moved to Jay County, IN and Mercer County, Ohio during this same 1831 period, it seems like the people in those days migrated in bunches. The book Gallia County Ohio-People in History to 1980 has several stories therein that state families moved to Jay County and Mercer County.
There is some doubt as to his exact date of death. Per his tombstone it is 2 Dec 1855, per Guy C. Denney's book, it is 7 Dec 1855 and per William Denney's Family Group Sheet it is 9 Dec 1855. I have changed it to Dec 7, 1855, this info from Mercer County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. VII. Also per this inscription data, he died at age 63 years thus that puts his birth year at 1792 and not 1782, the 1850 census places his birth year at 1790-1791
Moved to Gallia County, Ohio 1814. Their oldest daughter "Asenith", was a baby in arms and rode on the pommel of the saddle across the mountains from Surry County, NC to Gallia County, Ohio. With the exception of Asenith who was born in Surry County & one daughter born in Jay County, In, the rest of the children were born on the farm in Mercer County owned (in 1940's) by Jeremiah Grover.
1850 Census of Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana page 304, residence 96. This page lists William as 60 or 61 (poor script) b NC.
Mary 62 NC
Asariah 25 OH
Harrel 23 OH
Henry 20 OH
Mary (A?) 16 IN
Bumham E. (???) 5, male IN (Nephew)
Per an internet message from Cicely Sprouse in December, 1997, she found this information in some land records while searching for Sprouse/Denney connections. William F. Denney and his wife Amy (Ann?) sold their 65 acres in Section 25, Morgan Township, Gallia County, Ohio to Nehemiah Grober,Jr. (Grover) for $150 on October 7, 1831. This is about the time they migrated to Jay County, Indiana. I think the name was Grover rather then Grober, there were Denney/Grover ties in Gallia County and Jay County. This Nehemiah was undoubtedly somehow related to Jeremiah Grover above or John Grover that married Catherine Denney.
Per an Internet message from a Susan Fisher that researches the Eblen lines, she ran across the following: In the Family History Center on microfilm #1303077, a court docket entry from the Court of Common Pleas, Gallia County, Ohio. John D. Questel/Questal filed a lawsuit against Asa Eblen, James Eblen, Henry Denney, Josiah Denney and William F. Denney for injuries incurred from a beating they allegedly gave him about August 31, 1830. Asa Eblen is the only one whom a judgement was rendered and that was because he failed to appear for the hearing.
There is little information available as to how this pioneer family fared during their life in Gallia County, but from the fact that all they had when they landed in the wilderness in Jay County, In in November of 1831 was 30 dollars in gold, their cows and horses, dogs and guns, would indicate that they were not very prosperous. The only neighbors they had were 21 families of Miami Indians. They constructed a log house with a dirt floor and open on the east side. This was built near the west bank of Simmisons Run on what is now known as the James B. Sheffler farm. They were dependent on leaves & brush to feed the livestock through the winter as they brought no food for them. They spent the winter clearing the land so they could put out a crop in the spring. Their own food supply was ample as wild turkey and deer and other game was available. When the spring thaws came, they discovered the fact that they had built their house right over a spring which burst forth right in the middle of their dirt floor and they were forced to seek another location. They moved across to the east side of Simmisons Run and there built another house about 100 feet from the now "Famous" Grandmother Denney Spring. This was a bitter water district and as other settlers came in, they dug wells by the score and nothing but bitter water could be found, so the entire community came from far and near to do their washing and get drinking water from this grand old spring of good water.
The following is taken from the "History Of Jay County, IN", "SETTLERS & INCIDENTS of 1831 &1832".
During these years new settlers came very slowly, so at least thought the small advance guard of pioneers who were waiting and hoping for neighbors to come in, and the germs of society to spring up around them. It was in the autumn of 1831 that the tinkling of the cow bell and the sound of the white mans axe first broke the wild stillness of what four years later became Madison Township. John Eblin and William F. Denney with their families settled there at that time, and were the first settlers of the township. By coming together, they avoided much of that dreariness and many of the severer trials which met those families who lived their first years in the county alone amid the wild woods, wild men and ferocious beasts. However they passed through those privations which necessarily follow the pioneer in his aggressions upon the territory hitherto the home of the aborignes. William Denney lived upon the land he entered by opening a large farm until a few years since when he died. John Eblin also cleared a fine farm, then moved to the Osage Country in Missouri, where, being an unflinching lover of the Union, he became a victim of Rebel hate and lost his property, being obliged to flee to Iowa, where he died in 1863.
William Felton Denney was of rather small stature but stockily built.
His son Jordan was the executor of his will probated on Dec 22, 1855.
husband of Mary Ann Fulk
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I used the photo added to the memorial to figure his birth using the FTM calculator
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About 1814, he migrated to Gallia County, Ohio with three brothers, James, Harrel, and Henry.
Of the four brothers that went to Gallia County, James and Harrel remained there, lived, worked, raised their families and died there. Brother Henry went to Mercer County, Ohio and William Felton Denney went to Jay County, IN about 1831. There is evidence that some of brother James sons also left Gallia County with uncle William and moved to Jay County, IN, even though their father James remained in Gallia County. Other families from Gallia County, Ohio moved to Jay County, IN and Mercer County, Ohio during this same 1831 period, it seems like the people in those days migrated in bunches. The book Gallia County Ohio-People in History to 1980 has several stories therein that state families moved to Jay County and Mercer County.
There is some doubt as to his exact date of death. Per his tombstone it is 2 Dec 1855, per Guy C. Denney's book, it is 7 Dec 1855 and per William Denney's Family Group Sheet it is 9 Dec 1855. I have changed it to Dec 7, 1855, this info from Mercer County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. VII. Also per this inscription data, he died at age 63 years thus that puts his birth year at 1792 and not 1782, the 1850 census places his birth year at 1790-1791
Moved to Gallia County, Ohio 1814. Their oldest daughter "Asenith", was a baby in arms and rode on the pommel of the saddle across the mountains from Surry County, NC to Gallia County, Ohio. With the exception of Asenith who was born in Surry County & one daughter born in Jay County, In, the rest of the children were born on the farm in Mercer County owned (in 1940's) by Jeremiah Grover.
1850 Census of Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana page 304, residence 96. This page lists William as 60 or 61 (poor script) b NC.
Mary 62 NC
Asariah 25 OH
Harrel 23 OH
Henry 20 OH
Mary (A?) 16 IN
Bumham E. (???) 5, male IN (Nephew)
Per an internet message from Cicely Sprouse in December, 1997, she found this information in some land records while searching for Sprouse/Denney connections. William F. Denney and his wife Amy (Ann?) sold their 65 acres in Section 25, Morgan Township, Gallia County, Ohio to Nehemiah Grober,Jr. (Grover) for $150 on October 7, 1831. This is about the time they migrated to Jay County, Indiana. I think the name was Grover rather then Grober, there were Denney/Grover ties in Gallia County and Jay County. This Nehemiah was undoubtedly somehow related to Jeremiah Grover above or John Grover that married Catherine Denney.
Per an Internet message from a Susan Fisher that researches the Eblen lines, she ran across the following: In the Family History Center on microfilm #1303077, a court docket entry from the Court of Common Pleas, Gallia County, Ohio. John D. Questel/Questal filed a lawsuit against Asa Eblen, James Eblen, Henry Denney, Josiah Denney and William F. Denney for injuries incurred from a beating they allegedly gave him about August 31, 1830. Asa Eblen is the only one whom a judgement was rendered and that was because he failed to appear for the hearing.
There is little information available as to how this pioneer family fared during their life in Gallia County, but from the fact that all they had when they landed in the wilderness in Jay County, In in November of 1831 was 30 dollars in gold, their cows and horses, dogs and guns, would indicate that they were not very prosperous. The only neighbors they had were 21 families of Miami Indians. They constructed a log house with a dirt floor and open on the east side. This was built near the west bank of Simmisons Run on what is now known as the James B. Sheffler farm. They were dependent on leaves & brush to feed the livestock through the winter as they brought no food for them. They spent the winter clearing the land so they could put out a crop in the spring. Their own food supply was ample as wild turkey and deer and other game was available. When the spring thaws came, they discovered the fact that they had built their house right over a spring which burst forth right in the middle of their dirt floor and they were forced to seek another location. They moved across to the east side of Simmisons Run and there built another house about 100 feet from the now "Famous" Grandmother Denney Spring. This was a bitter water district and as other settlers came in, they dug wells by the score and nothing but bitter water could be found, so the entire community came from far and near to do their washing and get drinking water from this grand old spring of good water.
The following is taken from the "History Of Jay County, IN", "SETTLERS & INCIDENTS of 1831 &1832".
During these years new settlers came very slowly, so at least thought the small advance guard of pioneers who were waiting and hoping for neighbors to come in, and the germs of society to spring up around them. It was in the autumn of 1831 that the tinkling of the cow bell and the sound of the white mans axe first broke the wild stillness of what four years later became Madison Township. John Eblin and William F. Denney with their families settled there at that time, and were the first settlers of the township. By coming together, they avoided much of that dreariness and many of the severer trials which met those families who lived their first years in the county alone amid the wild woods, wild men and ferocious beasts. However they passed through those privations which necessarily follow the pioneer in his aggressions upon the territory hitherto the home of the aborignes. William Denney lived upon the land he entered by opening a large farm until a few years since when he died. John Eblin also cleared a fine farm, then moved to the Osage Country in Missouri, where, being an unflinching lover of the Union, he became a victim of Rebel hate and lost his property, being obliged to flee to Iowa, where he died in 1863.
William Felton Denney was of rather small stature but stockily built.
His son Jordan was the executor of his will probated on Dec 22, 1855.
son of Azariah and Sally Wise Felton Denny
husband of Mary Ann Fulk
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I used the photo added to the memorial to figure his birth using the FTM calculator
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About 1814, he migrated to Gallia County, Ohio with three brothers, James, Harrel, and Henry.
Of the four brothers that went to Gallia County, James and Harrel remained there, lived, worked, raised their families and died there. Brother Henry went to Mercer County, Ohio and William Felton Denney went to Jay County, IN about 1831. There is evidence that some of brother James sons also left Gallia County with uncle William and moved to Jay County, IN, even though their father James remained in Gallia County. Other families from Gallia County, Ohio moved to Jay County, IN and Mercer County, Ohio during this same 1831 period, it seems like the people in those days migrated in bunches. The book Gallia County Ohio-People in History to 1980 has several stories therein that state families moved to Jay County and Mercer County.
There is some doubt as to his exact date of death. Per his tombstone it is 2 Dec 1855, per Guy C. Denney's book, it is 7 Dec 1855 and per William Denney's Family Group Sheet it is 9 Dec 1855. I have changed it to Dec 7, 1855, this info from Mercer County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. VII. Also per this inscription data, he died at age 63 years thus that puts his birth year at 1792 and not 1782, the 1850 census places his birth year at 1790-1791
Moved to Gallia County, Ohio 1814. Their oldest daughter "Asenith", was a baby in arms and rode on the pommel of the saddle across the mountains from Surry County, NC to Gallia County, Ohio. With the exception of Asenith who was born in Surry County & one daughter born in Jay County, In, the rest of the children were born on the farm in Mercer County owned (in 1940's) by Jeremiah Grover.
1850 Census of Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana page 304, residence 96. This page lists William as 60 or 61 (poor script) b NC.
Mary 62 NC
Asariah 25 OH
Harrel 23 OH
Henry 20 OH
Mary (A?) 16 IN
Bumham E. (???) 5, male IN (Nephew)
Per an internet message from Cicely Sprouse in December, 1997, she found this information in some land records while searching for Sprouse/Denney connections. William F. Denney and his wife Amy (Ann?) sold their 65 acres in Section 25, Morgan Township, Gallia County, Ohio to Nehemiah Grober,Jr. (Grover) for $150 on October 7, 1831. This is about the time they migrated to Jay County, Indiana. I think the name was Grover rather then Grober, there were Denney/Grover ties in Gallia County and Jay County. This Nehemiah was undoubtedly somehow related to Jeremiah Grover above or John Grover that married Catherine Denney.
Per an Internet message from a Susan Fisher that researches the Eblen lines, she ran across the following: In the Family History Center on microfilm #1303077, a court docket entry from the Court of Common Pleas, Gallia County, Ohio. John D. Questel/Questal filed a lawsuit against Asa Eblen, James Eblen, Henry Denney, Josiah Denney and William F. Denney for injuries incurred from a beating they allegedly gave him about August 31, 1830. Asa Eblen is the only one whom a judgement was rendered and that was because he failed to appear for the hearing.
There is little information available as to how this pioneer family fared during their life in Gallia County, but from the fact that all they had when they landed in the wilderness in Jay County, In in November of 1831 was 30 dollars in gold, their cows and horses, dogs and guns, would indicate that they were not very prosperous. The only neighbors they had were 21 families of Miami Indians. They constructed a log house with a dirt floor and open on the east side. This was built near the west bank of Simmisons Run on what is now known as the James B. Sheffler farm. They were dependent on leaves & brush to feed the livestock through the winter as they brought no food for them. They spent the winter clearing the land so they could put out a crop in the spring. Their own food supply was ample as wild turkey and deer and other game was available. When the spring thaws came, they discovered the fact that they had built their house right over a spring which burst forth right in the middle of their dirt floor and they were forced to seek another location. They moved across to the east side of Simmisons Run and there built another house about 100 feet from the now "Famous" Grandmother Denney Spring. This was a bitter water district and as other settlers came in, they dug wells by the score and nothing but bitter water could be found, so the entire community came from far and near to do their washing and get drinking water from this grand old spring of good water.
The following is taken from the "History Of Jay County, IN", "SETTLERS & INCIDENTS of 1831 &1832".
During these years new settlers came very slowly, so at least thought the small advance guard of pioneers who were waiting and hoping for neighbors to come in, and the germs of society to spring up around them. It was in the autumn of 1831 that the tinkling of the cow bell and the sound of the white mans axe first broke the wild stillness of what four years later became Madison Township. John Eblin and William F. Denney with their families settled there at that time, and were the first settlers of the township. By coming together, they avoided much of that dreariness and many of the severer trials which met those families who lived their first years in the county alone amid the wild woods, wild men and ferocious beasts. However they passed through those privations which necessarily follow the pioneer in his aggressions upon the territory hitherto the home of the aborignes. William Denney lived upon the land he entered by opening a large farm until a few years since when he died. John Eblin also cleared a fine farm, then moved to the Osage Country in Missouri, where, being an unflinching lover of the Union, he became a victim of Rebel hate and lost his property, being obliged to flee to Iowa, where he died in 1863.
William Felton Denney was of rather small stature but stockily built.
His son Jordan was the executor of his will probated on Dec 22, 1855.
husband of Mary Ann Fulk
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I used the photo added to the memorial to figure his birth using the FTM calculator
***********************************************************
About 1814, he migrated to Gallia County, Ohio with three brothers, James, Harrel, and Henry.
Of the four brothers that went to Gallia County, James and Harrel remained there, lived, worked, raised their families and died there. Brother Henry went to Mercer County, Ohio and William Felton Denney went to Jay County, IN about 1831. There is evidence that some of brother James sons also left Gallia County with uncle William and moved to Jay County, IN, even though their father James remained in Gallia County. Other families from Gallia County, Ohio moved to Jay County, IN and Mercer County, Ohio during this same 1831 period, it seems like the people in those days migrated in bunches. The book Gallia County Ohio-People in History to 1980 has several stories therein that state families moved to Jay County and Mercer County.
There is some doubt as to his exact date of death. Per his tombstone it is 2 Dec 1855, per Guy C. Denney's book, it is 7 Dec 1855 and per William Denney's Family Group Sheet it is 9 Dec 1855. I have changed it to Dec 7, 1855, this info from Mercer County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol. VII. Also per this inscription data, he died at age 63 years thus that puts his birth year at 1792 and not 1782, the 1850 census places his birth year at 1790-1791
Moved to Gallia County, Ohio 1814. Their oldest daughter "Asenith", was a baby in arms and rode on the pommel of the saddle across the mountains from Surry County, NC to Gallia County, Ohio. With the exception of Asenith who was born in Surry County & one daughter born in Jay County, In, the rest of the children were born on the farm in Mercer County owned (in 1940's) by Jeremiah Grover.
1850 Census of Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana page 304, residence 96. This page lists William as 60 or 61 (poor script) b NC.
Mary 62 NC
Asariah 25 OH
Harrel 23 OH
Henry 20 OH
Mary (A?) 16 IN
Bumham E. (???) 5, male IN (Nephew)
Per an internet message from Cicely Sprouse in December, 1997, she found this information in some land records while searching for Sprouse/Denney connections. William F. Denney and his wife Amy (Ann?) sold their 65 acres in Section 25, Morgan Township, Gallia County, Ohio to Nehemiah Grober,Jr. (Grover) for $150 on October 7, 1831. This is about the time they migrated to Jay County, Indiana. I think the name was Grover rather then Grober, there were Denney/Grover ties in Gallia County and Jay County. This Nehemiah was undoubtedly somehow related to Jeremiah Grover above or John Grover that married Catherine Denney.
Per an Internet message from a Susan Fisher that researches the Eblen lines, she ran across the following: In the Family History Center on microfilm #1303077, a court docket entry from the Court of Common Pleas, Gallia County, Ohio. John D. Questel/Questal filed a lawsuit against Asa Eblen, James Eblen, Henry Denney, Josiah Denney and William F. Denney for injuries incurred from a beating they allegedly gave him about August 31, 1830. Asa Eblen is the only one whom a judgement was rendered and that was because he failed to appear for the hearing.
There is little information available as to how this pioneer family fared during their life in Gallia County, but from the fact that all they had when they landed in the wilderness in Jay County, In in November of 1831 was 30 dollars in gold, their cows and horses, dogs and guns, would indicate that they were not very prosperous. The only neighbors they had were 21 families of Miami Indians. They constructed a log house with a dirt floor and open on the east side. This was built near the west bank of Simmisons Run on what is now known as the James B. Sheffler farm. They were dependent on leaves & brush to feed the livestock through the winter as they brought no food for them. They spent the winter clearing the land so they could put out a crop in the spring. Their own food supply was ample as wild turkey and deer and other game was available. When the spring thaws came, they discovered the fact that they had built their house right over a spring which burst forth right in the middle of their dirt floor and they were forced to seek another location. They moved across to the east side of Simmisons Run and there built another house about 100 feet from the now "Famous" Grandmother Denney Spring. This was a bitter water district and as other settlers came in, they dug wells by the score and nothing but bitter water could be found, so the entire community came from far and near to do their washing and get drinking water from this grand old spring of good water.
The following is taken from the "History Of Jay County, IN", "SETTLERS & INCIDENTS of 1831 &1832".
During these years new settlers came very slowly, so at least thought the small advance guard of pioneers who were waiting and hoping for neighbors to come in, and the germs of society to spring up around them. It was in the autumn of 1831 that the tinkling of the cow bell and the sound of the white mans axe first broke the wild stillness of what four years later became Madison Township. John Eblin and William F. Denney with their families settled there at that time, and were the first settlers of the township. By coming together, they avoided much of that dreariness and many of the severer trials which met those families who lived their first years in the county alone amid the wild woods, wild men and ferocious beasts. However they passed through those privations which necessarily follow the pioneer in his aggressions upon the territory hitherto the home of the aborignes. William Denney lived upon the land he entered by opening a large farm until a few years since when he died. John Eblin also cleared a fine farm, then moved to the Osage Country in Missouri, where, being an unflinching lover of the Union, he became a victim of Rebel hate and lost his property, being obliged to flee to Iowa, where he died in 1863.
William Felton Denney was of rather small stature but stockily built.
His son Jordan was the executor of his will probated on Dec 22, 1855.
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