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Five Generations of Descendants of Christian LEHMAN (LEMAN) , a Germanic Immigrant to the Colonies
This is a database of over 435 individuals related to the LEMMON family of Harrison Co., Kentucky. This family are the descendants of Christian Lehman (Leman) from the Germanic part of Switzerland. Christian immigrated to the colonies and settled in the Philadelphia area. It was in this area that Jacob Lemmon Sr., the progenitor of the Germanic Lemmon family of Harrison Co., Kentucky, was born about 1736. Jacob grew up in Pennsylvania where he learned the trades of weaving and farming. In 1757, he married Anna Marie Jung of York Co., Pennsylvania, and moved to Frederick Co. (now Carroll Co.), Maryland. There they bought land, and raised a family of 10 children. In 1795, Jacob and his children and their respective spouses, sold all their Maryland lands, and moved to the Twin Creek area of Harrison Co., Kentucky. Anna died shortly before the move; and Catherine, his oldest daughter stayed behind only to came sometime later. There in the Twin Creek area, the family settled, and Jacob's unmarried children and grandchildren intermarried with many of the other local German descendant families (Conrad, Eckler, Boyer, Renneckar {various spellings}, Juett and Jewett to name a few) as well as many non-German families. In 1797, Jacob married his second wife, Catherine Conrad of Harrison Co., Kentucky. Many of the subsequent generations of the family migrated north into Grant Co., Kentucky. This is how the origins of the Germanic Harrison Co. Lemmon family is told by David C. McMurtry, a well known northern Kentucky genealogical researcher.
A slightly different version of the origins of the Harrison Co. Lemmon family comes from the Rev. Burl (Burwell) N. Carter, a childhood friend of one of Jacob's grandsons in the 1820s, and later the second husband of Emily Chandler Lemmon (first husband was benjamin F. Lemmon). Later as an adult, possibly as late as the Civil War times, Burl set down on paper the history of the Lemmon family and its origins. In 1909, a Lemmon descendant, Stella M. Lemmon, transcribed his notes and updated them to current times (1909). This transcription was done on my grandfather's business letterhead (F.B. Benson, Contractor and Builder). Rev. Carter states that Jacob was the immigrant, having been born in Germany (probably near the Swiss border) or Switzerland, and came to the colonies as a boy. His family settled in the Hagerstown, Maryland area where he grew up, married, and raised a family. In 1795, he moved with his family to Harrison Co., Kentucky. Soon after arriving in Kentucky, Jacob's wife died. He then remarried as mentioned above.
From these stories, the various collateral family lines of the Germanic Lemmon family of Harrison Co. were developed using other existing records, personal letters and files on the Lemmon family, and various published Lemmon lineages. As this is a work in progress, additions and/or corrections are welcomed.
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