Welch (Welsh)
Major John Welsh1, born ? ; died 1686, Maryland
In the 1650s, when Lord Baltimore was looking for settlers for his proprietorship, the colony which became Maryland, he advertised his religious tolerance as one of the incentives to colonists from any other country or New World settlement. As a result, the Annapolis area of Anne Arundel County was soon populated with virginia Non-Conformists (the Lloyds, Owens, Bennetts and others), with Quakers such as the Galloways (Calloways), with Huguenots (the Duvall family) and with Welshmen (Snowden, Davis, Griffith and Welsh). However, many of the Welshmen were not religious dissenters: they conformed to the doctrine of the Church of England and established St. Anne’s and All Hallows Parishes in their settlement.
In the 1660s, John Welsh immigrated to this community, probably directly from Wales. There is no record that he went first to Virginia. John Welsh is one of the earliest officials of Anne Arundel County government. In 1667, he served as a Justice, and again in 1676, at which time he was called Major John Welsh and was a member of the Quorum. In 1678-79, Major John Welsh was the Sherriff of Anne Arundel County, and his son, called Captain John, was a member of the Quorum. (J. D. Warfield, A. M., The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Baltimore, 1973, pp. 37-40) The earliest record of land owned by John Welsh (Welch) is a survey dated June 1, 1669 for 65-acre parcel named “Preston’s Enlargement,” bounded by “Burrages End.” (Maryland Historical Magazine, “Maryland Rent Rolls for Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties.” Baltimore, 1976, p. 129.)
By 1681, Major John Welsh had more than one plantation. In that year, “at a plantation of Major Welsh’s” the Indians killed and wounded both Negroes and Englishmen, according to the old Anne Arundel County records (Warfield, p. 51).
Major John Welsh’s first wife was the widow of Honorable Roger Grosse, an early settler and large landholder of Anne Arundel County. Anne ______? Grosse died in 1675, and part of her inheritance devolved upon her surviving husband and executor of the estate, Major John Welsh. Later that year, he married Mary, a stepdaughter of Nicholas Wyatt. After John Welsh’s death, Mary Wyatt Welsh married James Ellis (Warfield, p. 92). Major John Welsh died in 1686, leaving the will on record in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
The land for St. Anne’s Church and for the Peggy Stewart house in Annapolis were once owned by Major John Welsh and some of his heirs. Both of these buildings are national historical sites (Warfield, p. 93, 195).
John Welsh1 and Anne _____? Grosse Welsh had children:
1. Sylvester Welsh2, married Elinor _____? . Their children were:
3. Benjamin Welsh2, married Elizabeth Nicholson
It is not clear which wife gave birth to John Welsh’s1 four daughters:
4. Mary Welsh2, married Josias Toogood
5. Sarah Welsh2, married John Giles
6. Elizabeth Welsh2, married Daniel Richardson
7. Damaris Welsh2, married Thomas Stockett
John Welsh1 and Mary Wyatt Welsh had a son born after John’s1 death:
8. Robert Welsh2, born 1686, married Katherine Lewis, had children:
Colonel John Welsh2, born 1672, died 1733 (Major John1)
Colonel John Welsh married Thomasin Hopkins March 13, 1700. (Marriage Records of All Hallows Church, p. 247, on deposit at Maryland Historical Society). Thomasin was the daughter of Gerard and Thomasin Hopkins of South River. Apparently Thomasin Hopkins Welsh did not live long. Colonel John2 married as his second wife Rachel Hammond, caughter of John and Ann Greenbury Hammond, probably around 1710 (Warfield, p. 92, ff.) The home plantation of Colonel John Welsh2 and his large family was “Arnold Gray,” located on the West side of South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Colonel John2 had inherited this tract from his father, to whom it had come by his marriage to Roger Grosse’s widow, according to Major John’s will – copy attached.
John Welsh2 was in the business of shipping iron; his partner was his cousin, Richard Snowden, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Grosse Snowden. Colonel John Welsh2 was a Justice and County Commissioner of Anne Arundel County, 1726-33 (Virkus’ Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. I, p. 642). John Welsh2 and Henry Ridgley and Mordecai Hammond were authorized to buy out land for a customs house for Annapolis in 1728 (Warfield, op.cit, p. 207).
Colonel John2 and Thomasin Hopkins Welsh had a daughter:
1. Sarah Welsh3, married Samuel Warfield
Colonel John2 and Rachel Hammond Welsh had children
2. John Welsh3, born 1719/20, married ca. 1741 Hannah Hammond, born 1723. See a list of their descendants in this family history.
3. Thomas Welsh3
4. Benjamin Welsh3
5. Rachel Welsh3
6. Comfort Welsh3
7. Sophia Welsh3, married ______? Hall
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Captain John Welsh3, 1710/20 - ? (Colonel John2, Major John1)
John Welsh3 inherited part of “Arnold’s Gray,” which had come down from Anne Grosse
Welsh through Major John Welsh, her husband, to Colonel John Welsh2, their son, and then to Captain John3. Captain John3 married Hannah Hammond, born 1723, daughter of John and Ann Dorsey Hammond, who lived next to the “Old Brick Church” (Warfield, p. 92, ff.). John Welsh3 also claimed a large tract of land opening in the western part of the county, a part which became Howard County in 1851. This might have been the tract called “John’s Beginning,” as it is often mentioned in the land records and wills of Anne Arundel County -- on deposit at the Hall of Records, Annapolis – as being parcelled out to some of the descendants of Captain John Welsh3.
Captain John3 was a Justice of Anne Arundel County in 1774-75 (Virkus, op. Cit, p. 642). The site for St. Anne’s Church in Annapolis was bought from Benjamin and Henry Welsh, a brother (and a son?) of Captain John Welsh3. It is now a national historical site. (Warfield, loc. Cit.) Before his death, Captain John Welsh3 settled four of his sons on a large tract of land surrounding what is now the town of Florence, Maryland in Howard County (Warfield, p. 450). On the 1790 census, they are listed as close neighbors: Samuel4, Charles4, Phillip4 and John4. Charles Welsh4 is apparently the oldest, his oldest son Henry5, being sometimes mistaken as a son of John3, because Henry is apparently the same as his Uncle Phillip4.
John Welsh3 probably died before 1790, because his son John Welsh4 is styled John Welsh, Senior, in that year. Captain John3 and Hannah Hammond Welsh had children:
1. Charles Welsh4 , born 1742-44, died 1814; married Sarah (Warfield?), ca. 1763-64. See a list of their descendants in this continuing family history.
2. John Welsh4, born ca. 1745, died after 1810; married (1) _____? Hammond, married (2) Lucretia Dorsey, daughter of Colonel Nicholas and Sarah Griffith Dorsey. This couple had a son named Nicholas, born ca. 1780.
3. Phillip Welsh4, born 1768-70, died 1831; married April11, 1791, Elizabeth davis, daughter of Caleb and Lucretia Griffith Davis. Their son Milton is the only heir named in the deed drawn up as a will. (Maryland Land Records, Vol. WSG# 16, pp. 337-338.)
4. Samuel Welsh4, married Rachel Griffith, born 1775 to Henry and Elizabeth Dorsey Griffith.
Note that John4, Phillip4, and Samuel4 each married heirs of Orlando Griffith and his wife Katherine Howard Griffity (Warfield, p. 93).
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Charles Welsh4, born 1741-45; died 1814 (John3, John2, John1)
Charles Welsh was possibly named for Charles Hammond, the name of his mother’s brother and of her grandfather. The official records on Charles Welsh4 begin in 1790, when John Welsh, Senior -- John Welsh4, brother of Charles4 – and wife, Lucretia Dorsey Welsh sell 200 acres of “John’s Beginning” and “Bite the Skinner” to Charles Welsh for five schillings, a gift price. John4 “sold” land to another brother, Samuel4, for the same price on the same court day, March 6, 1790. And on the same day, John Welsh, Sr.4, sold 212 acres to Phillip Welsh for a larger sum. The land transactions among John4, Samuel4, Charles4 and Phillip4 are numerous and appear to be mainly on brotherly terms. See copies of Maryland Land Records in my personal files.
About 1764, Charles Welsh4 had married Sarah _____?, possibly Sarah Warfield, judging from the fact that Charles Welsh4 owned part of the tract known as “Warfield’s Forest,” a piece of land in Lisbon Township, now in Howard County, Maryland, which was surveyed 7 June, 1673 for Richard Warfield, 182 acres “in the woods.” (Maryland Rent Rolls, Anne Arundel County, 1707.) Sarah must have had a share in the property/ in 1813, Charles Welsh4 directed that their parcel of “Warfield’s Forest” be sold and the money divided among certain of his heirs; see a copy of Charles Welsh’s4 will included in this family history. During his lifetime, Charles4 owned parts of “John’s Beginning,” Range Decline,” Chestnut Hills,” “Bite the Skinner,” a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, and a parcel of “Warfield’s Forest” in Baltimore in County.
Charles Welsh4 and Sarah Warfield? Welsh had children:
1. Henry Welsh5, born ca.1765, married 25 January Mary Davis
2. John Welsh5, born ca. 1775
3. Walter Welsh5, born 1787, married, had a son named Matthew, an infant in 1812
4. Phillip Welsh5, born 1788, married Mary Delauder. See a list of their descendants in this continuing family history.)
5. Warrin Welsh5, born ca. 1790
6. James Welsh5, born ca. 1795
7. Reasin (Rezin) Welsh5
8. Hannah Welsh5, married James Holland 3 March, 1792
9. Ann Welsh,5 still unmarried in 1812
Judging from the separation in ages between Charles Welsh’s4 children, one would say that he was married two or three times; possibly only children born 1787-1795 belonged to Sarah Warfield? Welsh.
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Phillip Welsh5 (Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
Phillip Welsh5, born 1788, probably farmed the land he lived on in Montgomery County, Maryland, land his father had bought from George Ellicott (Anne Arundel Co. Wills, Vol. JG#3, pp. 26-29) until around 1830. Some time before 1820, Phillip had married Mary Delauder, duaghter of John and Margaret Creager Delauder (John and Margaret Delauder married 21 March 1798, Frederick County, Maryland – Frederich Co. Marriage Licenses, DAR Magazine, vol. 85; Anne Arundel Land Records, vol. WSG#8, pp. 587-588). In a822, Phillip5 and Mary Delauder Welsh were involved in several land deals, disposing of their inheritance from John Delauder. In one of the deals of 9 March, 1822, they and the other children of John Delauder sold Lot #1, consisting of 5 acres and a house located on the Turnpike Road for 1 schilling to Margaret Wilcox, presumably John Delauder’s widow, remarried. (Ibid.)
Eleven years later, in 1833, Phillip5 and Mary Delauder Welsh sold to Jacob Waggoner what seems to the their last interest in the inheritance from John Delauder, a piece of property located on the Frederick-Baltimore Turnpike. On the day the deed is recorded, September 30, 1833, Phillip5 and Mary Welsh are residents of Licking County, Ohio. (Anne Arundel Land Records, Vol. WSG# 18, pp. 214-216.) Included in this family history is a map of the road by which they travelled West (Arkansas Family Historian, Summer, 1979).
It seems likely that Phillip’s brother, John Welsh5, went West at about the same time. He does not appear on the federal Census of Anne Arundel County in 1830, but in Richland County, Ohio, a neighboring county of Licking County, a John Welsh is enumerated; his birthdate is approximately the same as John Welsh5, son of Charles Welsh4 of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Considering the complex terms of Charles Welsh’s4 will, we should not be surprised to find his sons along the emigrant trails to the West. One or possibly both John5 and Phillip Welsh5 had a son also named Phillip Welsh6, for there seem to be two of the same name and family connections, both born in 1820 in Maryland and living in various townships of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Western Virginia in the 1840s. Moreover, the other descendants of Major John Welsh1 by now could have been settling in places outside Maryland.
Nevertheless, geography and family association leads me to the conclusion that our line of ascent to Major John1 is through this Phillip5 and Mary Delauder Welsh and possibly a son (whose connection to Phillip5 and Mary Welsh I have not been able to document) Phillip H. Welch6 – the spelling of the name changes in this generation which has moved away from their historical Maryland roots. After more than a century in Maryland, the western pioneers leave the old family lands and the original spelling of the name.
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Phillip H. Welch6 (Phillip5, Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
The name now comes to be spelled Welch on the public records for this line of the family. Phillip H.(Henry?) Welch6, born 1820 in Maryland, presumably moved with his parents along the National Road (#40 on Emigrant Trails Map). The generation of Welches to which Charles4 sons belong began the restless push to the West that became a way of life for succeeding generations until their descendants reached the San Joaquin Valley of California. Phillip H. Welch6 himself, by 1850, when he was 30 years old, had lived in four different states: Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In fact, the census-takers, beginning with the one in 1850, always got different answers when they asked where he was “from.” The 1850 enumeration of his family and their origins revelas the restless moving about that will characterize his descendants. They were living at the time in the 44th District of Ohio County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Wheeling would have been the nearest town. Phillip6 has, I believe, married his second wife by this time; she is nine years older than he is. Phillip6 had lived from about age 10 to about age 25 in Ohio, probably in Licking or Richland Counties. He probably married his first wife in Ohio, where his first two children were born in 1842 and 1843. Then apparently Phillip6 moved his own family back along the National Road to Virginia and stayed there until 1847. In 1848, Phillip took his family to Pennsylvania for a very short stay. He possibly married Elizabeth _____? (West?) there. She bore a son in Pennsylvania in 1848; then the family returned to Virginia before 1850 (1850 Census of Ohio County, Virginia). Phillip6 was a farmer in the 44th District of Ohio County, Virginia (now West Va.) from 1849-54. In that year, Phillip sold his farm and moved to Locust Grove Township, Jefferson County, Iowa (1856 Special Census of Iowa). Some time before 1856, Phillip6 married a third time, this to Sarah A. ______?, also born in Pennsylvania, as his second wife had been. Elizabeth (West?) Welch, his second wife, nor her son, was any longer listed as part of the family on the 1856 Special Iowa Census. By 1860, Sarah A. ____? Welch is also absent from the enumerations of the family on the Census. And now that Phillip no longer has a wife to misinform the census-taker as to his birthplace and birthdate (his wife Elizabeth, being born in 1811 herself, had put Phillip’s birthdate at 1815 instead of 1820, and had told the census-taker that he was born in Virginia, because she knew that is where had lived before he married her in Pennsylvania. On the Special Iowa Census in 1856, Sarah A. had either misinformed the census-taker that Phillip had been born in Pennsylvania, or the census-taker possibly simply wrote the same birthplace for both husband and wife after only asking the wife for their state of origin.
Phillip6 and Sarah A. ____? Welch were divorced in 1865 (Jefferson County, Iowa Court Records, Box 381). A witness to the court proceedings was Jacob Brantner, an uncle or cousin of Jancy J. Poffenbarger, Phillip’s6 next wife. Nancy J. Poffenbarger was the daughter of Christian Poffenbarger (see an account of this family in the Poffenbarger section of this family history) of Washington County, Maryland. She married Phillip H. Welch on 29 January, 1865 at Abingdon Township, Jefferson County, Iowa (Jefferson County, Iowa Marriage Records, bond no. 2479). B6 1870, Phillip6 and his oldest son have disappeared from Jefferson County. It is possible that Phillip6 died, since his wife, Nancy, remarried in 1873 (Jefferson County Marriage Bond #4105: Nancy Poffenbarger married Frederick Sallenberger November 2, 1873). Nancy Poffenbarger’s first husband – preceding Phillip Welch6 – was John Carson, born 1831 in Highland County, Ohio. They were married before 1854 in Iowa (ancestor chart of Velma Mae Chatt, compiled by Henry Voss of 24421 Redlen St., El Toro, CA 92630 in 1975; thereon Nancy J. is “Jane”). I have a copy of the divorce of Phillip H. Welch6 and Sarah A. _____? In my family papers.
[Important Note on the information in the preceding paragraph: It has been brought to my attention that we are probably dealing with two different women with the name Nancy J. Poffenbarger (Poffinbarger) living and marrying in this part of Iowa at approximately the same dates. Paul Dunton offers the following information on the Nancy Jane -- Jennie -- Poffenbarger who married John Carson, courtesy of the research of his father on this family line. Paul writes to me in personal correspondence:
"My father has transcriptions of two local newspaper articles about Jennie and her husband John Carson. The first is:
"MARRIED 63 YEARS
Mr & Mrs John Carson of Creston Enjoy This Distinction
Sixty-three years of married life. This is the distinction that falls to the lot of Mr & Mrs John Carson who reside at 411 Northeast Chestnut St. in this city. The custom of bringing the children together nearly every year was not followed this year owing to the stormy weather. However, the aged and highly esteemed couple was remembered by all of the children and by many old friends and neighbors. Numerous cards and messages were received.
Mr & Mrs Carson have resided in Creston for eleven years, and previous to coming to this city resided on a farm near Prescott. They are numbered among Union County's most highly esteemed people, and have a multitude of close friends, who extend sincere good wishes upon reaching the 63rd milestone of their wedded life.
Thirteen years ago, or upon this couple reaching their Golden epoch in married life, an elaborate celebration was held at the home, and upon that occasion the couple received many valuable presents. An elegant wedding feast was the crowning feature of the event, to which all eleven children again sat down to the family table with their aged parents.
John Carson was born in Highland County, Ohio, September 8, 1831. His wife, Miss Jennie Poffenbarger, was born near Columbus, Ohio, August 22, 1836. After a courtship of several years the couple were married in Jefferson County, Iowa, January 22, 1852.
Later Mr and Mrs Carson went to Adair County where they resided a number of years, and then moved to a farm near Prescott. Eleven years ago they came to Creston [that would have been 1904- PLD], and have resided here continuously since. Mr Carson is an honorable member of Company M, 4th Iowa Cavalry, and a charter member of the Jewitt Post No. 6, now disbanded. Mrs. Carson is a faithful member of the Jewitt W. R. C. No. 2.
To this union were born thirteen children, eleven of whom are still living. They are, Mrs M B Oshel, Creston; Phil F Carson, Creston; Mrs A J Faust, northeast of Creston; Miss Lilly Carson, northeast of Creston; Ottie Carson, northeast of Creston; Grant Carson, northeast of Creston; Mrs E L Wilmeth, Spaulding; Eugene Carson near Williamson, and Charles, Russel and H H Carson, all of Kansas City, MO. The departed children are Henry and Bert."
The other article is the obituary of John Carson, who died 3/13/1915. In it, Jennie's name is spelled Poffinbarger, and it turns out two additional children were born, who died in infancy.
Here Paul Dunton notes: There are definitely enough similarities to make me believe your Nancy Jane and my Jennie are the same person, but the two extra husbands and the lack of a son named William Henry (unless the H H Carson referred to in the newspaper is a typo, or the son Henry Carson who died is really William Henry) are concerns.
Editor's note: based on this well-documented marriage of one of the Nancy Jane Poffenbargers of that generation in Iowa, I would say that we now know of three different Nancy Jane "Jennie" Poffenbargers who lived in that area at least part of their lives-- Ann Garner. Any help in clearing up this mystery would be appreciated.]
Phillip H. Welch and his first wife, name unknown, had children:
1. John F. Welch7, born 1842, Ohio, married (1) Elizabeth Jane Collins in Jefferson County, Iowa, 28 October, 1860; married (2) Nancy Jane “Jennie” Poffenbarger (the neice and namesake of his father’s fourth wife), born 1848; married November 18, 1866, Sigourney, Iowa. See a list of their descendants in the continuation of this family history.
2. William Welch7, born 1843, Ohio; married ?27 September 1863 Charlotte A. Plymire, Brookville, Iowa.
3. Mary C. Welch7, born 1847, Virginia
Phillip H. Welch6 and Elizabeth _____? Welch had a son:
4. George N. Welch7, born 1848, Pennsylvania. He died or was separated from the family (along with his mother) before 1856.
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John F. Welch7 (Phillip H.6, Phillip5, Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
John F. Welch7, born 1842 in Licking County, Ohio had the kind of irresponsible character that could have been a result of living in such an unsettled family. He accompanied his father through three or four states and approximately the same of number of “mothers.” He himself married his first wife when he was only eighteen. John F. Welch7 and Elizabeth Jane Collins married on October 28, 1860 (Jefferson County, Iowa Marriage Bonds #1970). John F.7 was a farmer in Jefferson County, Iowa at the time.
Elizabeth Collins Welch was divorced by desertion before 1866 (Mrs. Doris Loos, a descendant of John F.7 and Elizabeth Collins Welch, via personal communication). On November 18, 1866, John F. Welch7 married Nancy Jane “Jennie” Poffenbarger, the niece of his step-mother (the record of this marriage is included in our family files). Nancy Jane was born in 1848 to John and Sarah ____? Poffenbarger in Jefferson County, Iowa (see the Poffenbarger section of this family history).
John F. Welch7 was married to Jennie only a short time before he deserted her and their three young children around 1870 (personal communication from my grandmother who was the second wife of George Washington Welch8, the son of John F.7 and Jennie Poffenbarger Welch). It is possible that John F. Welch7 and Phillip H. Welch6 went to Nebraska after leaving Jefferson County, Iowa. My mother Edna Welch Mullins has met a Welch man who claims descent from John F. Welch7 and Elizabeth Collins Welch, John F.s 7 first wife, supports this claim. My Welch family papers file contains the personal communication on the “Nebraska family” from Mrs. Verda Baird of Fairfield, Iowa.
John F. Welch7 and Elizabeth Collins Welch had one son:
1. Floyd Welch
John F. Welch7 and Nancy Jane “Jennie” Poffenbarger Welch had three children:
2. George Washington Welch8, born January 3, 1868 in Sigourney, Iowa, married (1) Mrs. Laura ____? Martin ca. 1885, Muskogee, Oklahoma; married (2) Annie Parnell Dougherty in 1904, Waldron, Arkansas. See a list of their descendants in the continuation of this family history.
3. Henry Welch8, born before 1870
4. Sadie Welch, born ca. 1870; married ______? Mooneyham, lived many years in or near Van Buren, Arkansas. See a picture of Aunt Sadie in the collection of family photos in the Garner-Mullins family files.
We have no record of John F. Welch’s7 death. Jennie Poffenbarger Welch married Erb Sumpter in the 1880’s in or near Weber’s Falls, in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Jennie Poffenbarger Welch Sumpter died ca. 1913 and was buried in Marble City, Oklahoma (via person communication from Anne Dougherty Welch).
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George Washington Welch8 (John F.7, Phillip H.6, Phillip5, Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
George W. Welch8, born 1868, died 1946 was born January 3, 1868 in Sigourney, Iowa. He was still very small when his father deserted the family. George’s grandfather, John Poffenbarger, moved the family to Kansas City, Missouri in the 1870s. Soon thereafter, George’s mother, Jennie Poffenbarger Welch, remarried, but the marriage did not last long because of a disagreement between the new husband and the rest of the family. Around 1885, George Welch8 went to Indian Territory (Oklahmoa) and married Mrs. Laura _____? Martin, a widow with a daughter named Jennie, in Muskogee. They moved to Scott County, Arkansas where Laura bore six more children before she died in 1904 while the youngest was still nursing. A young neighbor, Annie Parnell Dougherty, the daughter of John Lewis and Permelia Ann Allen Dougherty, came in to help feed the infant. She and George Welch8 were married that same year in Waldron, Arkansas.
Annie Parnell Dougherty was the second-generation descendant of an Irish refugee from the famine. Her father was John Lewis Dougherty, born 1844 in Glasgow, Scotland to Irish parents, Peter and Bridgett ____? Dougherty, who had been forced to flee Dublin when peter was caught poaching in order to feed his family during the famine. In 1848, Peter brought his wife and children – John Lewis, William, Thomas, Agnes and Bridgett to New York. It is possible that some of them were born in New York. In 1862, John Lewis Dougherty lied about his age, claiming he was born in 1842, and joined the Union Forces in the Civil War. He served as a Private in Company M of the 5th Cavalry Regiment of New York from November 17, 1862 to June 29, 1865. Several pages of his pension application and war records are in our family files.
In 1890, John Lewis Dougherty began drawing a ten-dollar-a-month pension for his military disability. John had to swear many affidavits and conduct a drawn-out correspondence in order to obtain the pension. Our family files include copies of a lot of these documents, the originals of which are on file at the National Archives. In 1919, after John’s death in 1917, his widow, Permelia Ann “Annie” Allen Dougherty, drew a widow’s pension. Some of her fellow citizens of Marble City, Oklahoma presented her case so strongly to the War Department that, though Anne was unable to comply with all the bureaucratic rules, she was able to draw the widow’s benefits.
John Lewis Dougherty died in 1917 and Permelia Ann Allen Dougherty died in 1934. They are buried in Marble City, Oklahoma. A list of their residences surpasses even that of the Welch family: John Dougherty was in Glasgow 1844-1848; New York 1848-1862; Maryland, Virginia and Georgia during military service 1862-1865; New York 1865-1868; Missouri and Louisiana 1869-1872; Mississippi 1872-73; Texarkana, Arkansas 1873-1885; Texas 1885-1891; Durant, Oklahoma 1891-1900; Scott County, Arkansas 1900-1914; Marble City, Oklahoma 1914-1917 (taken from pension file on deposit in Military Service Records, National Archives).
Permelia Ann Allen Dougherty was born in 1848 in one of the Carolinas, had lived in Georgia, married John Lewis Dougherty in Friar’s Point, Coahama County, Mississippi and from there moved, of course, when John moved. I have a copy of their marriage license in our family files.
It is their daughter, Annie Parnell Dougherty, whom George Washington Welch8 married when his first wife died. Annie P. Dougherty Welch was born on Christmas Day, 1885. She was about 19 years old when she married George W. Welch8, who was then 36 years old. Annie P. Dougherty Welch bore 10 children, some in Arkansas and some after she and George moved to Marble City, Oklahoma in 1910. George farmed in Scott County, Arkansas and continued farming in Marble City until he retired in 1943 and moved to the small town of Sallisaw, the county seat of Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Annie Parnell Dougherty Welch died at the age of 100 years and 3 months old in Bakersfield, California in 1986. She was buried near her husband in Marble City, Oklahoma.
George Washington Welch8 and Laura ___? Martin Welch had children:
1. Earnest Welch9, married (1) Jane Choat – no children; married (2) Nanne Mackanally. Children:
4. Jessie Welch9, died in WWI, unmarried.
5. William Henry Welch9, married Ella Pennick. Children:
6. Telitha Elizabeth Welch9, married Hoolie Sanders. Children:
8. Fred Warren Welch9, married Willie Asbill. Children:
12. Patrick Welch9, died as an infant
13. Clayton Cornell Welch9, married, no children
14. Orvil Reynolds Welch9, married (1) Juanita Bretz; married (2) Mary ____? Children by first wife:
Major John Welsh1, born ? ; died 1686, Maryland
In the 1650s, when Lord Baltimore was looking for settlers for his proprietorship, the colony which became Maryland, he advertised his religious tolerance as one of the incentives to colonists from any other country or New World settlement. As a result, the Annapolis area of Anne Arundel County was soon populated with virginia Non-Conformists (the Lloyds, Owens, Bennetts and others), with Quakers such as the Galloways (Calloways), with Huguenots (the Duvall family) and with Welshmen (Snowden, Davis, Griffith and Welsh). However, many of the Welshmen were not religious dissenters: they conformed to the doctrine of the Church of England and established St. Anne’s and All Hallows Parishes in their settlement.
In the 1660s, John Welsh immigrated to this community, probably directly from Wales. There is no record that he went first to Virginia. John Welsh is one of the earliest officials of Anne Arundel County government. In 1667, he served as a Justice, and again in 1676, at which time he was called Major John Welsh and was a member of the Quorum. In 1678-79, Major John Welsh was the Sherriff of Anne Arundel County, and his son, called Captain John, was a member of the Quorum. (J. D. Warfield, A. M., The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Baltimore, 1973, pp. 37-40) The earliest record of land owned by John Welsh (Welch) is a survey dated June 1, 1669 for 65-acre parcel named “Preston’s Enlargement,” bounded by “Burrages End.” (Maryland Historical Magazine, “Maryland Rent Rolls for Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties.” Baltimore, 1976, p. 129.)
By 1681, Major John Welsh had more than one plantation. In that year, “at a plantation of Major Welsh’s” the Indians killed and wounded both Negroes and Englishmen, according to the old Anne Arundel County records (Warfield, p. 51).
Major John Welsh’s first wife was the widow of Honorable Roger Grosse, an early settler and large landholder of Anne Arundel County. Anne ______? Grosse died in 1675, and part of her inheritance devolved upon her surviving husband and executor of the estate, Major John Welsh. Later that year, he married Mary, a stepdaughter of Nicholas Wyatt. After John Welsh’s death, Mary Wyatt Welsh married James Ellis (Warfield, p. 92). Major John Welsh died in 1686, leaving the will on record in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
The land for St. Anne’s Church and for the Peggy Stewart house in Annapolis were once owned by Major John Welsh and some of his heirs. Both of these buildings are national historical sites (Warfield, p. 93, 195).
John Welsh1 and Anne _____? Grosse Welsh had children:
1. Sylvester Welsh2, married Elinor _____? . Their children were:
- 1.A.Sylvester, Jr.3
1.B. Elinor3
1.C. Lucia3
3. Benjamin Welsh2, married Elizabeth Nicholson
It is not clear which wife gave birth to John Welsh’s1 four daughters:
4. Mary Welsh2, married Josias Toogood
5. Sarah Welsh2, married John Giles
6. Elizabeth Welsh2, married Daniel Richardson
7. Damaris Welsh2, married Thomas Stockett
John Welsh1 and Mary Wyatt Welsh had a son born after John’s1 death:
8. Robert Welsh2, born 1686, married Katherine Lewis, had children:
- 8.A. James Welsh3
8.B. Lewis Welsh3
8.C. Robert Welsh3
8.D. Jemima Welsh3; married _______? Edwards
8.E. Elizabeth Welsh3; married ______? Tongue
8.F. Grace Welsh3, married _______? Elliott
8.G. Katherine Welsh3, married ______? Stewart
8.H. John Welsh3
8.I. Benjamin Welsh3
Colonel John Welsh2, born 1672, died 1733 (Major John1)
Colonel John Welsh married Thomasin Hopkins March 13, 1700. (Marriage Records of All Hallows Church, p. 247, on deposit at Maryland Historical Society). Thomasin was the daughter of Gerard and Thomasin Hopkins of South River. Apparently Thomasin Hopkins Welsh did not live long. Colonel John2 married as his second wife Rachel Hammond, caughter of John and Ann Greenbury Hammond, probably around 1710 (Warfield, p. 92, ff.) The home plantation of Colonel John Welsh2 and his large family was “Arnold Gray,” located on the West side of South River in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Colonel John2 had inherited this tract from his father, to whom it had come by his marriage to Roger Grosse’s widow, according to Major John’s will – copy attached.
John Welsh2 was in the business of shipping iron; his partner was his cousin, Richard Snowden, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Grosse Snowden. Colonel John Welsh2 was a Justice and County Commissioner of Anne Arundel County, 1726-33 (Virkus’ Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. I, p. 642). John Welsh2 and Henry Ridgley and Mordecai Hammond were authorized to buy out land for a customs house for Annapolis in 1728 (Warfield, op.cit, p. 207).
Colonel John2 and Thomasin Hopkins Welsh had a daughter:
1. Sarah Welsh3, married Samuel Warfield
Colonel John2 and Rachel Hammond Welsh had children
2. John Welsh3, born 1719/20, married ca. 1741 Hannah Hammond, born 1723. See a list of their descendants in this family history.
3. Thomas Welsh3
4. Benjamin Welsh3
5. Rachel Welsh3
6. Comfort Welsh3
7. Sophia Welsh3, married ______? Hall
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Captain John Welsh3, 1710/20 - ? (Colonel John2, Major John1)
John Welsh3 inherited part of “Arnold’s Gray,” which had come down from Anne Grosse
Welsh through Major John Welsh, her husband, to Colonel John Welsh2, their son, and then to Captain John3. Captain John3 married Hannah Hammond, born 1723, daughter of John and Ann Dorsey Hammond, who lived next to the “Old Brick Church” (Warfield, p. 92, ff.). John Welsh3 also claimed a large tract of land opening in the western part of the county, a part which became Howard County in 1851. This might have been the tract called “John’s Beginning,” as it is often mentioned in the land records and wills of Anne Arundel County -- on deposit at the Hall of Records, Annapolis – as being parcelled out to some of the descendants of Captain John Welsh3.
Captain John3 was a Justice of Anne Arundel County in 1774-75 (Virkus, op. Cit, p. 642). The site for St. Anne’s Church in Annapolis was bought from Benjamin and Henry Welsh, a brother (and a son?) of Captain John Welsh3. It is now a national historical site. (Warfield, loc. Cit.) Before his death, Captain John Welsh3 settled four of his sons on a large tract of land surrounding what is now the town of Florence, Maryland in Howard County (Warfield, p. 450). On the 1790 census, they are listed as close neighbors: Samuel4, Charles4, Phillip4 and John4. Charles Welsh4 is apparently the oldest, his oldest son Henry5, being sometimes mistaken as a son of John3, because Henry is apparently the same as his Uncle Phillip4.
John Welsh3 probably died before 1790, because his son John Welsh4 is styled John Welsh, Senior, in that year. Captain John3 and Hannah Hammond Welsh had children:
1. Charles Welsh4 , born 1742-44, died 1814; married Sarah (Warfield?), ca. 1763-64. See a list of their descendants in this continuing family history.
2. John Welsh4, born ca. 1745, died after 1810; married (1) _____? Hammond, married (2) Lucretia Dorsey, daughter of Colonel Nicholas and Sarah Griffith Dorsey. This couple had a son named Nicholas, born ca. 1780.
3. Phillip Welsh4, born 1768-70, died 1831; married April11, 1791, Elizabeth davis, daughter of Caleb and Lucretia Griffith Davis. Their son Milton is the only heir named in the deed drawn up as a will. (Maryland Land Records, Vol. WSG# 16, pp. 337-338.)
4. Samuel Welsh4, married Rachel Griffith, born 1775 to Henry and Elizabeth Dorsey Griffith.
Note that John4, Phillip4, and Samuel4 each married heirs of Orlando Griffith and his wife Katherine Howard Griffity (Warfield, p. 93).
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Charles Welsh4, born 1741-45; died 1814 (John3, John2, John1)
Charles Welsh was possibly named for Charles Hammond, the name of his mother’s brother and of her grandfather. The official records on Charles Welsh4 begin in 1790, when John Welsh, Senior -- John Welsh4, brother of Charles4 – and wife, Lucretia Dorsey Welsh sell 200 acres of “John’s Beginning” and “Bite the Skinner” to Charles Welsh for five schillings, a gift price. John4 “sold” land to another brother, Samuel4, for the same price on the same court day, March 6, 1790. And on the same day, John Welsh, Sr.4, sold 212 acres to Phillip Welsh for a larger sum. The land transactions among John4, Samuel4, Charles4 and Phillip4 are numerous and appear to be mainly on brotherly terms. See copies of Maryland Land Records in my personal files.
About 1764, Charles Welsh4 had married Sarah _____?, possibly Sarah Warfield, judging from the fact that Charles Welsh4 owned part of the tract known as “Warfield’s Forest,” a piece of land in Lisbon Township, now in Howard County, Maryland, which was surveyed 7 June, 1673 for Richard Warfield, 182 acres “in the woods.” (Maryland Rent Rolls, Anne Arundel County, 1707.) Sarah must have had a share in the property/ in 1813, Charles Welsh4 directed that their parcel of “Warfield’s Forest” be sold and the money divided among certain of his heirs; see a copy of Charles Welsh’s4 will included in this family history. During his lifetime, Charles4 owned parts of “John’s Beginning,” Range Decline,” Chestnut Hills,” “Bite the Skinner,” a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, and a parcel of “Warfield’s Forest” in Baltimore in County.
Charles Welsh4 and Sarah Warfield? Welsh had children:
1. Henry Welsh5, born ca.1765, married 25 January Mary Davis
2. John Welsh5, born ca. 1775
3. Walter Welsh5, born 1787, married, had a son named Matthew, an infant in 1812
4. Phillip Welsh5, born 1788, married Mary Delauder. See a list of their descendants in this continuing family history.)
5. Warrin Welsh5, born ca. 1790
6. James Welsh5, born ca. 1795
7. Reasin (Rezin) Welsh5
8. Hannah Welsh5, married James Holland 3 March, 1792
9. Ann Welsh,5 still unmarried in 1812
Judging from the separation in ages between Charles Welsh’s4 children, one would say that he was married two or three times; possibly only children born 1787-1795 belonged to Sarah Warfield? Welsh.
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Phillip Welsh5 (Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
Phillip Welsh5, born 1788, probably farmed the land he lived on in Montgomery County, Maryland, land his father had bought from George Ellicott (Anne Arundel Co. Wills, Vol. JG#3, pp. 26-29) until around 1830. Some time before 1820, Phillip had married Mary Delauder, duaghter of John and Margaret Creager Delauder (John and Margaret Delauder married 21 March 1798, Frederick County, Maryland – Frederich Co. Marriage Licenses, DAR Magazine, vol. 85; Anne Arundel Land Records, vol. WSG#8, pp. 587-588). In a822, Phillip5 and Mary Delauder Welsh were involved in several land deals, disposing of their inheritance from John Delauder. In one of the deals of 9 March, 1822, they and the other children of John Delauder sold Lot #1, consisting of 5 acres and a house located on the Turnpike Road for 1 schilling to Margaret Wilcox, presumably John Delauder’s widow, remarried. (Ibid.)
Eleven years later, in 1833, Phillip5 and Mary Delauder Welsh sold to Jacob Waggoner what seems to the their last interest in the inheritance from John Delauder, a piece of property located on the Frederick-Baltimore Turnpike. On the day the deed is recorded, September 30, 1833, Phillip5 and Mary Welsh are residents of Licking County, Ohio. (Anne Arundel Land Records, Vol. WSG# 18, pp. 214-216.) Included in this family history is a map of the road by which they travelled West (Arkansas Family Historian, Summer, 1979).
It seems likely that Phillip’s brother, John Welsh5, went West at about the same time. He does not appear on the federal Census of Anne Arundel County in 1830, but in Richland County, Ohio, a neighboring county of Licking County, a John Welsh is enumerated; his birthdate is approximately the same as John Welsh5, son of Charles Welsh4 of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Considering the complex terms of Charles Welsh’s4 will, we should not be surprised to find his sons along the emigrant trails to the West. One or possibly both John5 and Phillip Welsh5 had a son also named Phillip Welsh6, for there seem to be two of the same name and family connections, both born in 1820 in Maryland and living in various townships of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Western Virginia in the 1840s. Moreover, the other descendants of Major John Welsh1 by now could have been settling in places outside Maryland.
Nevertheless, geography and family association leads me to the conclusion that our line of ascent to Major John1 is through this Phillip5 and Mary Delauder Welsh and possibly a son (whose connection to Phillip5 and Mary Welsh I have not been able to document) Phillip H. Welch6 – the spelling of the name changes in this generation which has moved away from their historical Maryland roots. After more than a century in Maryland, the western pioneers leave the old family lands and the original spelling of the name.
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Phillip H. Welch6 (Phillip5, Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
The name now comes to be spelled Welch on the public records for this line of the family. Phillip H.(Henry?) Welch6, born 1820 in Maryland, presumably moved with his parents along the National Road (#40 on Emigrant Trails Map). The generation of Welches to which Charles4 sons belong began the restless push to the West that became a way of life for succeeding generations until their descendants reached the San Joaquin Valley of California. Phillip H. Welch6 himself, by 1850, when he was 30 years old, had lived in four different states: Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In fact, the census-takers, beginning with the one in 1850, always got different answers when they asked where he was “from.” The 1850 enumeration of his family and their origins revelas the restless moving about that will characterize his descendants. They were living at the time in the 44th District of Ohio County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Wheeling would have been the nearest town. Phillip6 has, I believe, married his second wife by this time; she is nine years older than he is. Phillip6 had lived from about age 10 to about age 25 in Ohio, probably in Licking or Richland Counties. He probably married his first wife in Ohio, where his first two children were born in 1842 and 1843. Then apparently Phillip6 moved his own family back along the National Road to Virginia and stayed there until 1847. In 1848, Phillip took his family to Pennsylvania for a very short stay. He possibly married Elizabeth _____? (West?) there. She bore a son in Pennsylvania in 1848; then the family returned to Virginia before 1850 (1850 Census of Ohio County, Virginia). Phillip6 was a farmer in the 44th District of Ohio County, Virginia (now West Va.) from 1849-54. In that year, Phillip sold his farm and moved to Locust Grove Township, Jefferson County, Iowa (1856 Special Census of Iowa). Some time before 1856, Phillip6 married a third time, this to Sarah A. ______?, also born in Pennsylvania, as his second wife had been. Elizabeth (West?) Welch, his second wife, nor her son, was any longer listed as part of the family on the 1856 Special Iowa Census. By 1860, Sarah A. ____? Welch is also absent from the enumerations of the family on the Census. And now that Phillip no longer has a wife to misinform the census-taker as to his birthplace and birthdate (his wife Elizabeth, being born in 1811 herself, had put Phillip’s birthdate at 1815 instead of 1820, and had told the census-taker that he was born in Virginia, because she knew that is where had lived before he married her in Pennsylvania. On the Special Iowa Census in 1856, Sarah A. had either misinformed the census-taker that Phillip had been born in Pennsylvania, or the census-taker possibly simply wrote the same birthplace for both husband and wife after only asking the wife for their state of origin.
Phillip6 and Sarah A. ____? Welch were divorced in 1865 (Jefferson County, Iowa Court Records, Box 381). A witness to the court proceedings was Jacob Brantner, an uncle or cousin of Jancy J. Poffenbarger, Phillip’s6 next wife. Nancy J. Poffenbarger was the daughter of Christian Poffenbarger (see an account of this family in the Poffenbarger section of this family history) of Washington County, Maryland. She married Phillip H. Welch on 29 January, 1865 at Abingdon Township, Jefferson County, Iowa (Jefferson County, Iowa Marriage Records, bond no. 2479). B6 1870, Phillip6 and his oldest son have disappeared from Jefferson County. It is possible that Phillip6 died, since his wife, Nancy, remarried in 1873 (Jefferson County Marriage Bond #4105: Nancy Poffenbarger married Frederick Sallenberger November 2, 1873). Nancy Poffenbarger’s first husband – preceding Phillip Welch6 – was John Carson, born 1831 in Highland County, Ohio. They were married before 1854 in Iowa (ancestor chart of Velma Mae Chatt, compiled by Henry Voss of 24421 Redlen St., El Toro, CA 92630 in 1975; thereon Nancy J. is “Jane”). I have a copy of the divorce of Phillip H. Welch6 and Sarah A. _____? In my family papers.
[Important Note on the information in the preceding paragraph: It has been brought to my attention that we are probably dealing with two different women with the name Nancy J. Poffenbarger (Poffinbarger) living and marrying in this part of Iowa at approximately the same dates. Paul Dunton offers the following information on the Nancy Jane -- Jennie -- Poffenbarger who married John Carson, courtesy of the research of his father on this family line. Paul writes to me in personal correspondence:
"My father has transcriptions of two local newspaper articles about Jennie and her husband John Carson. The first is:
"MARRIED 63 YEARS
Mr & Mrs John Carson of Creston Enjoy This Distinction
Sixty-three years of married life. This is the distinction that falls to the lot of Mr & Mrs John Carson who reside at 411 Northeast Chestnut St. in this city. The custom of bringing the children together nearly every year was not followed this year owing to the stormy weather. However, the aged and highly esteemed couple was remembered by all of the children and by many old friends and neighbors. Numerous cards and messages were received.
Mr & Mrs Carson have resided in Creston for eleven years, and previous to coming to this city resided on a farm near Prescott. They are numbered among Union County's most highly esteemed people, and have a multitude of close friends, who extend sincere good wishes upon reaching the 63rd milestone of their wedded life.
Thirteen years ago, or upon this couple reaching their Golden epoch in married life, an elaborate celebration was held at the home, and upon that occasion the couple received many valuable presents. An elegant wedding feast was the crowning feature of the event, to which all eleven children again sat down to the family table with their aged parents.
John Carson was born in Highland County, Ohio, September 8, 1831. His wife, Miss Jennie Poffenbarger, was born near Columbus, Ohio, August 22, 1836. After a courtship of several years the couple were married in Jefferson County, Iowa, January 22, 1852.
Later Mr and Mrs Carson went to Adair County where they resided a number of years, and then moved to a farm near Prescott. Eleven years ago they came to Creston [that would have been 1904- PLD], and have resided here continuously since. Mr Carson is an honorable member of Company M, 4th Iowa Cavalry, and a charter member of the Jewitt Post No. 6, now disbanded. Mrs. Carson is a faithful member of the Jewitt W. R. C. No. 2.
To this union were born thirteen children, eleven of whom are still living. They are, Mrs M B Oshel, Creston; Phil F Carson, Creston; Mrs A J Faust, northeast of Creston; Miss Lilly Carson, northeast of Creston; Ottie Carson, northeast of Creston; Grant Carson, northeast of Creston; Mrs E L Wilmeth, Spaulding; Eugene Carson near Williamson, and Charles, Russel and H H Carson, all of Kansas City, MO. The departed children are Henry and Bert."
The other article is the obituary of John Carson, who died 3/13/1915. In it, Jennie's name is spelled Poffinbarger, and it turns out two additional children were born, who died in infancy.
Here Paul Dunton notes: There are definitely enough similarities to make me believe your Nancy Jane and my Jennie are the same person, but the two extra husbands and the lack of a son named William Henry (unless the H H Carson referred to in the newspaper is a typo, or the son Henry Carson who died is really William Henry) are concerns.
Editor's note: based on this well-documented marriage of one of the Nancy Jane Poffenbargers of that generation in Iowa, I would say that we now know of three different Nancy Jane "Jennie" Poffenbargers who lived in that area at least part of their lives-- Ann Garner. Any help in clearing up this mystery would be appreciated.]
Phillip H. Welch and his first wife, name unknown, had children:
1. John F. Welch7, born 1842, Ohio, married (1) Elizabeth Jane Collins in Jefferson County, Iowa, 28 October, 1860; married (2) Nancy Jane “Jennie” Poffenbarger (the neice and namesake of his father’s fourth wife), born 1848; married November 18, 1866, Sigourney, Iowa. See a list of their descendants in the continuation of this family history.
2. William Welch7, born 1843, Ohio; married ?27 September 1863 Charlotte A. Plymire, Brookville, Iowa.
3. Mary C. Welch7, born 1847, Virginia
Phillip H. Welch6 and Elizabeth _____? Welch had a son:
4. George N. Welch7, born 1848, Pennsylvania. He died or was separated from the family (along with his mother) before 1856.
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John F. Welch7 (Phillip H.6, Phillip5, Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
John F. Welch7, born 1842 in Licking County, Ohio had the kind of irresponsible character that could have been a result of living in such an unsettled family. He accompanied his father through three or four states and approximately the same of number of “mothers.” He himself married his first wife when he was only eighteen. John F. Welch7 and Elizabeth Jane Collins married on October 28, 1860 (Jefferson County, Iowa Marriage Bonds #1970). John F.7 was a farmer in Jefferson County, Iowa at the time.
Elizabeth Collins Welch was divorced by desertion before 1866 (Mrs. Doris Loos, a descendant of John F.7 and Elizabeth Collins Welch, via personal communication). On November 18, 1866, John F. Welch7 married Nancy Jane “Jennie” Poffenbarger, the niece of his step-mother (the record of this marriage is included in our family files). Nancy Jane was born in 1848 to John and Sarah ____? Poffenbarger in Jefferson County, Iowa (see the Poffenbarger section of this family history).
John F. Welch7 was married to Jennie only a short time before he deserted her and their three young children around 1870 (personal communication from my grandmother who was the second wife of George Washington Welch8, the son of John F.7 and Jennie Poffenbarger Welch). It is possible that John F. Welch7 and Phillip H. Welch6 went to Nebraska after leaving Jefferson County, Iowa. My mother Edna Welch Mullins has met a Welch man who claims descent from John F. Welch7 and Elizabeth Collins Welch, John F.s 7 first wife, supports this claim. My Welch family papers file contains the personal communication on the “Nebraska family” from Mrs. Verda Baird of Fairfield, Iowa.
John F. Welch7 and Elizabeth Collins Welch had one son:
1. Floyd Welch
John F. Welch7 and Nancy Jane “Jennie” Poffenbarger Welch had three children:
2. George Washington Welch8, born January 3, 1868 in Sigourney, Iowa, married (1) Mrs. Laura ____? Martin ca. 1885, Muskogee, Oklahoma; married (2) Annie Parnell Dougherty in 1904, Waldron, Arkansas. See a list of their descendants in the continuation of this family history.
3. Henry Welch8, born before 1870
4. Sadie Welch, born ca. 1870; married ______? Mooneyham, lived many years in or near Van Buren, Arkansas. See a picture of Aunt Sadie in the collection of family photos in the Garner-Mullins family files.
We have no record of John F. Welch’s7 death. Jennie Poffenbarger Welch married Erb Sumpter in the 1880’s in or near Weber’s Falls, in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Jennie Poffenbarger Welch Sumpter died ca. 1913 and was buried in Marble City, Oklahoma (via person communication from Anne Dougherty Welch).
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George Washington Welch8 (John F.7, Phillip H.6, Phillip5, Charles4, John3, John2, John1)
George W. Welch8, born 1868, died 1946 was born January 3, 1868 in Sigourney, Iowa. He was still very small when his father deserted the family. George’s grandfather, John Poffenbarger, moved the family to Kansas City, Missouri in the 1870s. Soon thereafter, George’s mother, Jennie Poffenbarger Welch, remarried, but the marriage did not last long because of a disagreement between the new husband and the rest of the family. Around 1885, George Welch8 went to Indian Territory (Oklahmoa) and married Mrs. Laura _____? Martin, a widow with a daughter named Jennie, in Muskogee. They moved to Scott County, Arkansas where Laura bore six more children before she died in 1904 while the youngest was still nursing. A young neighbor, Annie Parnell Dougherty, the daughter of John Lewis and Permelia Ann Allen Dougherty, came in to help feed the infant. She and George Welch8 were married that same year in Waldron, Arkansas.
Annie Parnell Dougherty was the second-generation descendant of an Irish refugee from the famine. Her father was John Lewis Dougherty, born 1844 in Glasgow, Scotland to Irish parents, Peter and Bridgett ____? Dougherty, who had been forced to flee Dublin when peter was caught poaching in order to feed his family during the famine. In 1848, Peter brought his wife and children – John Lewis, William, Thomas, Agnes and Bridgett to New York. It is possible that some of them were born in New York. In 1862, John Lewis Dougherty lied about his age, claiming he was born in 1842, and joined the Union Forces in the Civil War. He served as a Private in Company M of the 5th Cavalry Regiment of New York from November 17, 1862 to June 29, 1865. Several pages of his pension application and war records are in our family files.
In 1890, John Lewis Dougherty began drawing a ten-dollar-a-month pension for his military disability. John had to swear many affidavits and conduct a drawn-out correspondence in order to obtain the pension. Our family files include copies of a lot of these documents, the originals of which are on file at the National Archives. In 1919, after John’s death in 1917, his widow, Permelia Ann “Annie” Allen Dougherty, drew a widow’s pension. Some of her fellow citizens of Marble City, Oklahoma presented her case so strongly to the War Department that, though Anne was unable to comply with all the bureaucratic rules, she was able to draw the widow’s benefits.
John Lewis Dougherty died in 1917 and Permelia Ann Allen Dougherty died in 1934. They are buried in Marble City, Oklahoma. A list of their residences surpasses even that of the Welch family: John Dougherty was in Glasgow 1844-1848; New York 1848-1862; Maryland, Virginia and Georgia during military service 1862-1865; New York 1865-1868; Missouri and Louisiana 1869-1872; Mississippi 1872-73; Texarkana, Arkansas 1873-1885; Texas 1885-1891; Durant, Oklahoma 1891-1900; Scott County, Arkansas 1900-1914; Marble City, Oklahoma 1914-1917 (taken from pension file on deposit in Military Service Records, National Archives).
Permelia Ann Allen Dougherty was born in 1848 in one of the Carolinas, had lived in Georgia, married John Lewis Dougherty in Friar’s Point, Coahama County, Mississippi and from there moved, of course, when John moved. I have a copy of their marriage license in our family files.
It is their daughter, Annie Parnell Dougherty, whom George Washington Welch8 married when his first wife died. Annie P. Dougherty Welch was born on Christmas Day, 1885. She was about 19 years old when she married George W. Welch8, who was then 36 years old. Annie P. Dougherty Welch bore 10 children, some in Arkansas and some after she and George moved to Marble City, Oklahoma in 1910. George farmed in Scott County, Arkansas and continued farming in Marble City until he retired in 1943 and moved to the small town of Sallisaw, the county seat of Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Annie Parnell Dougherty Welch died at the age of 100 years and 3 months old in Bakersfield, California in 1986. She was buried near her husband in Marble City, Oklahoma.
George Washington Welch8 and Laura ___? Martin Welch had children:
1. Earnest Welch9, married (1) Jane Choat – no children; married (2) Nanne Mackanally. Children:
- 1.A. Rosemary Welch10, born 1956-7
1.B. George Washington Welch10, born October, 1959
- 2.A. Leota Welch (male)10, married, had children:
- 2.A.(1) Lila Welch11, married, had 4 children (names unknown)
2.A.(2) Mary Welch11, married had 4 children (names unknown)
2.A.(3) Thelma Welch11, married had 3 children (names unknown)
2.A.(4) Glenn Welch11
2.A.(5) Everett Welch11
- 3.A. Bennie R. Lovett10, married Thelma Pearl Sullivan Children:
- 3.A.(1) Dwayne D. Lovett11
3.A.(2) Mary Edna Lovett11
- 3.A.(3) Gloria G. Lovett11, married Danny White. Children:
- 3.A.(3)(1) Matthew D. White
- 3.A.(3)(2) John E. Mcpherson
3.A.(3))3) Autumn J. Mcpherson
4. Jessie Welch9, died in WWI, unmarried.
5. William Henry Welch9, married Ella Pennick. Children:
- 5.A. Edmond Welch10, married (1) unknown (2) Dacy Berry
2 children (names unknown) by first wife; 1 child by second wife (name unknown)
5.B. Bill Welch10, married (1) unknown (2) Betty Berry
- 1 son by first wife; 1 son and 2 daughters by second wife (names unknown)
6. Telitha Elizabeth Welch9, married Hoolie Sanders. Children:
- 6.A. Jack Sanders10: 5 children
6.B. John Sanders10: 6 children
6.C. Kate Sanders10, married _____? Hill: 4 children
6.D. Mose Sanders10: 6 children
6.E. Charlie Sanders10: 8 children
6.F. Bill Sanders10: 2 children
6.G. Mary Sanders10, married ____? James; 3 children
6.H. Sammy Sanders10: 7 children
6.I. Gussy Sanders10: 1 child
6.J. Glenny Sanders10: 4 children
6.K. Tom Sanders10: 3 children
6.L. Janie Sanders10, married ____? Robertson: 2 children
8. Fred Warren Welch9, married Willie Asbill. Children:
- 8.A. Frieda Welch10, married, had 4 children
8.B. Charlotte Verlynn Welch10; married had 9 children
8.C. Robert Bonner Welch10; married, had 6 children
8.D. Glenda Welch10, married, had 7 children
8.E. Christine Welch10, married, had 2 children
- 9.A. Robert Dale Welch10, married Irma Cooper, had 3 children
9.B. Geoge Welch10, married, had 5 children
9.C. Tom Welch10, married, had 4 children
9.D. Telsie Welch10, married had 6 children
- 10.A. Raymond Welch10, married, 2 children
10.B. Jessie Monroe Welch10, married, 2 children
10.C. Doris Jane Welch10, married, 2 children
12. Patrick Welch9, died as an infant
13. Clayton Cornell Welch9, married, no children
14. Orvil Reynolds Welch9, married (1) Juanita Bretz; married (2) Mary ____? Children by first wife:
- 14.A. Sharon Kay Welch10, married, 1 child
14.B. Valerie Welch10, married, no children
- 15.A. Hewey German10, married, 2 children
15.B. George German10
15.C. Jerry German10
15. D. Donald German10, married, 1 child
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