DEWEES/DEWEESE GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr
What little bit I know about the early Deweese family comes through my wife's connection with the HERRIMAN family. Others have found the kinship with the Roberts and Spencers and Deweeses. I have not had a chance to look at any primary records to prove this lineage.
I do know there is a man by the name of DEWEESE who is on the staff of Oral Roberts University. Tulsa is not that far away from Madison County, Arkansas, so possibly he is a relative??
Recently I have learned about a Dewees/Deweese family newsletter published by Ted DeWeese (which is now available on CD-ROM). Another relative, Bill Martin, has a very nice web site outlining all the extended Deweese family members and going back to the earliest known ancestor. The web site is found at http://www.deweeses.com
Here is my wife's DEWEESE lineage as far as can be proven:
- Adriaen Hendricxz DE WEESE, b. ca. 1595, d. April 1674 Amsterdam, Netherlands; md. 28 March 1615 Amsterdam, Netherlands to Hillegond GOVERTS, b. ca. 1595 Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, d. aft. 1661 Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Hendrick DEWEES, b. 1615 Beverwijk, Netherlands, d. 1661 East Indies; md. 22 April 1640 Leiden, Netherlands to Adriaentje JANS, b. ca. 1615 Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, d. aft. Nov. 1661 Amsterdam, Netherlands?
- Garrett Hendricks DEWEES, b. 1640 Netherlands, d. ca. 1700 Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA; md. 28 Sept. 1662 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland to Sijtske (Sytje) (Sytie) LIEUWES, b. bef. 1649 Netherlands, d. aft. 1701 Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA
- Cornelius DEWEES, b. ca. 1682, d. aft. 1735 Philadelphia Co., PA; md. ca. 1704 Pennsylvania to Margaret KUSTER, b. ca. 1690 Kaldenkirchen, Germany, d. ?
- Garrett DEWEES, b. ca. 1707 Germantown Township, Philadelphia Co., PA, d. ca. 1769 Berks Co., PA; md. ca. 1730 to Mary ________.
- Cornelius DEWEESE, b. 22 March 1730/31 Philadelphia Co., PA, d. 1794 Patrick Co., VA; md. 26 Dec. 1752 Berks Co., PA to Elizabeth JONES, b. ?, d. ?
- Rev. Peter DEWEESE, b. ca. 1770 Botetourt Co., VA, d. 1830 Perry Co., KY; md. ca. 1796 to Sarah BROWNING, b. ?, d. ?
- Elizabeth DEWEESE, b. 4 June 1803 Clay Co., KY, d. 24 Feb. 1889 Crawford Co., AR; md. 20 March 1818 Clay Co., KY to Elijah SPENCER, b. ca. 1798 near Blue Ridge Mountains, TN, d. 1877
- Nancy E(lizabeth?) SPENCER, b. 14 Sept. 1822 IN, d. 31 July 1866 Hot Springs, Saline Co., AR; md. 26 Nov. 1817 Boone Co., IN to Noah Andrew ROBERTS, b. 12 Oct. 1817 KY, d. 22 Dec. 1889 Benton, Saline Co., AR (buried in Winters Cemetery)
- Joel Van Buren ROBERTS, b. 30 April 1842 Platte Co., MO, d. 26 Jan. 1921 Madison Co., AR; md. 6 Sept. 1860 Madison Co., AR to Rachel Caroline HERRIMAN, b. 10 Nov. 1844 Cannon Co., TN, d. 12 March 1911 Madison Co., AR (both buried Aurora Cemetery)
- Kima Nevada ROBERTS, b. 1882 Japton, AR, d. 23 Dec. 1944 San Bernardino, CA (buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA); md. 1900 Madison Co., AR to Franklin Montgomery CALLICO, b. 9 July 1877 Drake's Creek, AR, d. 15 Nov. 1969 Ely, White Pince Co., NV
- Bonnie Ruth CALLICO, b. 5 Aug. 1905 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 1 Dec. 1968 San Bernardino, CA; md. 22 Aug. 1928 to Robert Archie HENRY, Jr., b. 26 Aug. 1902 Cycles, OK, d. 10 June 1944 Los Angeles, CA (both buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA) *These are my wife's grandparents.
DEWEESE E-MAIL LIST
If you have queries concerning the DEWEESE surname, you may post these at the Deweese Family Genealogy List which was started by Rootsweb in 1998. Deweese Genealogy List is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Deweese surname and variant spellings.
To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe
Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]
Archived postings to the Deweese e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:
https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/
When prompted, type in DEWEESE for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in DEWEESE you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letter of the month.
An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the DEWEESE family. It can be found at the following address:
http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/deweese
***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the DEWEESE lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.
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Last updated January 1, 2003.
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