Individual Details

Birth

also Bucks Co., Pennsylvania

Residence-shared

p. 39
Not far south of the county line, Storms Creek enters the river, and it extends through a small portion of this county. It receives its name from Mr. Storms, an old resident.

p. 93
Just when a settlement was made by the Stormses around and above Tremont City and German township it is not definitely known, but William Chapman and William Ross came near Tremont City in 1798.

Residence-shared

Charles Rector, Christopher Weaver, William Ross and William Weaver and wife settled in the part of Champaign County (now Clark County) around Tremont City. Henry Storm lived in the neighborhood prior to the Weavers. William Weaver moved into Mad River Township in 1806

Residence-shared

p. 196
The first family who attempted to establish a home in the dense forest of Green Twp were Henry Sturm and family, who came from Clark Co OH some time during the year 1814, and made a settlement on the SW quarter of section 1. They had a family of 12 children, viz., Mattias, Margaret, Nicholas Henr, Peter, William, Jacob Frederick, Ephraim, Elizabeth, George. and John, all of whom are now deceased except George, who resides in perry Twp., Shelby Co and John, who owns and is residing on the old home farm where the family first settled.

The next settlement was made by Samuel Robinson, a son-in-law of henry Sturm's, who came from Champaign Co OH with wife and 2 or 3 small children in March 1815 and settled on the NW quarter of section 19 where he made imporvments and lived many years.

Residence-shared

Cleared out a farm in the wilderness, four years before Shelby county was laid out.

Note

Historically, families, relatives, and friends migrated
westward in groups, frequently settling in the same locali-
ties. It seems that the ancestors of this compiler who
eventually settled in Mad River TWP which became Champaign
County with another split becoming Clark County, the WEAV-
ERS, STURMS, RECTORS, CHAPMANS,and ROSS families all lived at one
time in the western edge of Berkeley County, VA and the
nearby eastern edge of Hampshire Co. (Note in the above
1782 Hampshire County census that William CHAPMAN and two
ROSS families had the same census taker!) (A settlement in
Hampshire County was supposedly named for the RECTOR fami-
ly, but thus far this compiler has yet to locate*
where it might have been - there is, of course, Rector-
ville, about seven miles east of Maysville (formerly Lime-
stone), Mason County, Kentucky. Most of the members of the
above families spent several years in Mason County before
coming to Mad River Twp. (William CHAPMAN's neighbor and
"in-law", Charles RECTOR, according to an affidavit, he was
drafted into military service by Captain Tepley, in the
spring of 1781, at Hampshire County, Virginia, (now West
Virginia) near Oldtown "on the Virginia side." The pension
was apparently denied because it lacked substantiating
evidence. A note in the file states that the Colonel
Cresap Charles said he served as an orderly sergeant died
in October 1775. Old Town is in present day Allegany Coun-
ty, Maryland across the Potomac from Green Spring,
Hampshire County, West Virginia. This is the closest
discription of the locale where these families lived -
about 30 miles west of Sleepy Creek, the WEAVER'S home.)

Note

NAME, BIRTH & DEATH:LAURENCE A WEAVER JR., SUN CITY CENTER, FL.