Hillbillies & Vikings

This site is focused broadly on all descendants of John Denboe, an indentured servant who came to the Crown Colony of Maryland in about the year 1664. Also, it maintains a special emphasis on the descendants of John Denbow (1797-1862) and his brother Bazeleel (1795-1857), early pioneers in the hills of Southeastern Ohio, as well as the descendants of Jón Jónsson (1841-1934) of Dalasýsla, Iceland, who was an Icelandic immigrant to Canada and now has progeny throughout North America.

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2301	This was the name of the valley where they emigrated from in Iceland. It was also further Anglicized as Hurdal.	Jónsson, Jón (I2611)
2302	This was written by his son, Arne Validmar Brogger, on 5/12/2020: Seventy seven years ago today, my father landed in Oslo, Norway. It was two days after the German capitulation that marked the end of WWII in the European theater. He was greeted by 450K fully armed German troops, 1K Norwegian National troops and a couple dozen Brits. He was charged with establishing the US Army HQ, which he shortly housed in a “liberated” mansion near the palace of the soon to return King Haakon 7th. The Resistance members began to materialize soon after his arrival (the “boys in the mountains” that I heard so much about as a kid) with offers of liberated material (e.g. a black Mercedes with a white star they had painted on the door), etc. One of the first items he requisitioned from London was a case of Chesterfield cigarettes, which were considered a precious currency. I heard many stories from that time, and later met and stayed with one of the “boys in the mountains” and his family, when I was in Oslo in ‘66. His name was Arne Knutzon and he stayed with us briefly in ‘47 or ‘48. He was christened by my mother as The Other Arne, to differentiate him from my father (also Arne). During my ‘66 visit, he told stories of how he and compatriots, sighted in machine guns in Nordmyka, the forest above Oslo. “The Germans stayed away” he told me. “We knew the forest, they didn’t.” He went on, “It was heady stuff, walking around Oslo as a 19 year old with a .45 under your arm. A lot of the daring-do was done by us youngsters, we were bulletproof.” And 1945 Oslo. What a time that must have been.	Brøgger, Arne (I709)
2303	This will is recorded in the Thompson Genealogy Book Footnote: Short Footnote: Bibliography: Short Title: Thomas Denbow Will Testator: Thomas Denbow Date: 3 APR 1826 Volume: DNK	Source (S190)
2304	Thomas Good Obit (1981)	Good, Thomas (I2028)
2305	Thompson Genealogy books says he had no children and lists no spouse.	Denbow, Joseph H. (I1261)
2306	Three miles east of Zanesville, now the Adamsville exit.	Denbow, L. Russell (I1281)
2307	Tijunga,Los Angeles,California,USA	Burch, Francis (I731)
2308	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I3704)
2309	Timothy Dwane Morton Obituary	Morton, Timothy Dwane (I3236)
2310	Tombstone in the old Prattsville Cemetery reads MARGARETT (all caps), Dau of T & M, Sharp, Died, June... stone broken here, Aged, 10years, 5 months,10 days. (According to the U.S. Census records thisage cannot be correct. The stone is hard to read, but I have beenthere twice to look at it and this appears to be what it says.) Birthand death dates given to me by Sherry Hunter Strickland in a letterdated 21 March 1995 from information contained in the family recordsof her Uncle Bill seem to confirm the above age at death. Censusrecords may have said Margaret when Martha was the child they meant?	Sharp, Margaret (I3855)
2311	Trenton Twp., Delaware Co., OH	Meeker, Eleanor S. (I5736)
2312	Trenton Twp., Delaware Co., OH	Barton, Elizabeth'Ettie' (I5739)
2313	Trenton Twp., Delaware Co., OH	Barton, Amplias (I5746)
2314	Twin of George Washington DENBOW	Denbow, Jackson (I1189)
2315	Twin of Jackson. There seems to be some disagreement about the date of birth. The date used here is from the grave stone and the grave's record form from the Adjutant General's office. Signe's work and Thompson book both list 1842. The age in 1864 listed in the Ohio Roster is 27. This agrees with neither of the above and would place his birth in 1837, rather than the 1834 date that I assume to be correct.	Denbow, George Washington (I1154)
2316	U. S. Census 1850, Ohio, Vinton County, Swan Township, Family192-193.	Fewry, Elijah (I1807)
2317	U. S. Census 1860, Iowa, Powsesheik County, Deep River Township,Family No. 755.	Acord, Joseph (I80)
2318	U.S. Census 1850, Tucarawas County, Ohio, Goshen Township, taken 22 August 1850, Page 496, Dwelling 354. George Walker; 27; male; farmer; real estate valued at $106; Sarah J.; 21 female; Columbus W., male age 2; Susan E. or C. ?; age 2/12. George WalKer and Sarah Jane and their children are listed as having been born in Ohio. At the time of this census Sarah Jane was living in Tuscarawas County, Goshen Township along with her Mother, Julian Sharp Merryman, and her sister, Mary Ann Sharp Eberhardt.	Sharp, Sarahjane (I3880)
2319	Unnamed son of Wilelm Duncelnberg of Pighausen, who lived onlyone-half hour and died without baptism. This child's burial date of 20September 1682 would indicate that he may have been a twin ofClemensen who was baptized 16 September 1682.	Dunckelnberg (I1638)
2320	Upper Arlington High School	Denbow, Mary Katheryn (I6396)
2321	US Census 1860 Vinton County, Ohio, Madison Twp. Kim found this - Ineed to repeat.	Bobo, Marquis L. (I577)
2322	US Census 1870, Pennsylvania, Jefferson County, Pine Creek Twp.,Enumeration Date, 8 August 1870, Page 3, Dwelling No. 16, Family No.16. Name, Mowry, Jerry; Age 26; Sex, M; Color, white; Occupation,Laborer; Value Real Estate, $75; Value personal property, $100;Birthplace, Pa.; Male US citizen of 21 or over. Name, Salome; Age 25;Sex, F; Color, white; Occupation, Keeping house; Birthplace, Pa.;Cannot read or write. Name, William; Age, 5; Sex, M; Color, white;Birthplace, Pa. Name, Elizabeth; Age, 3; Color, white; Birthplace, Pa.Name, George; Age, 1; Sex, M; Color, white; Birthplace, Pa. Name,Doney, Susan; age, 19; Sex, F; Color, White; Birthplace, Pa.; Cannotread or write. See U.S. Census 1870 for Gaston Doney. The Doney's werehousehold 15. Both households have a Salome, age 25. I believe this isthe same person that was listed in both households. Who is Susan Doneyin this household? Book: Caldwell's Atlas of Jefferson County, Pa.1878 shows the 40 acre farm of G. Doney, on the map of Pine CreekTwp. The farm is right on the border of Pine Creek and Winslow Twp. J.Mowry is shown as living right next to G. Doney on 4 acres. Jerry wasG. Doney's son-in-law. In this same book, in the Advertising BusinessDirectory of Jefferson County, Pa., The Pine Creek Township Directoryshows Doney, Sr., G; 40 acres; Post Office, Emerickville; Nativity,Penna; Occupation, farmer. Also shown as living on the same 40 acresare Wm. Doney, G. Doney Jr., & D. Doney. Book: Tombstone Hopping byPatricia Steele, Moore Cemetery , Pine Creek Twp., Located on LR 3341 near Emerickville, Pa. Row 2, Jeremiah Mowry, 1844-1929, Co. B, 57Pa. Vol. (CW)	Mowery, Jeremiah (I3241)
2323	USS Gherardi (DD-637) -- RWB's ship during WWII	Barton, Robert Wilson (I5333)
2324	Valley Cemetery,Washington,Ohio,USA	Denbow, Elizabeth (I1119)
2325	Valley Cemetery,Washington,Ohio,USA	Starkey, William (I4144)
2326	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I4099)
2327	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I2807)
2328	Viola was unmarried. Newspaper Article: Democrat-Enquirer, VintonCounty's Living Pioneers, No. 250. Point Rock's Jarrot and Carrie BoboCan Trace Ancestry to Revolutionary War, no date on paper. Miss ViolaG. Bobo was a nurse in World War I and with a Cincinnati hospital unitsaw army service at Verdun, France.	Bobo, Viola Green (I623)
2329	Vivian graduated from Indiana State Teacher's College, now IndianaState University, located in Indiana, Pa. She lived in John SuttonHall, Room 416 N. The dorm faced the main campus. The N denoted annex.As you face the front of the Building, 416 N was to the far fight. Herfirst roomate was Famie Finn, who later married Ken Yost. Her secondroomate was Ann Rodkey, who married Lee Confer. We visited John SuttonHall in 1989. It is still a beautiful building with a lovelyauditorium and ballroom. Room 416 is now used as an office. WhenVivian went to College, she asked as she got out of the car whatshould I major in? Her Mother said Music- and that is what she did.She was an elementary music teacher, a gym teacher and a high schoolEnglish teacher. Vivian remembers that her family subscribed to theNew Yorker Magazine, a Philadelphia newspaper-The North American(once had a picture of Santa Claus in it that Viv cut out), TheSaturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's(had paperdolls in them sometimes). On Christmas Eve Viv went with her motherand father and brothers to church. When they came home the tree wasall decorated with real candles and their presents were underneath it.Santa came while they were in church. (Grandma and Grandpa Frantz hadto decorate in a hurry.) Viv had both Diptheria and Scarlet Fever. Shewas quarrantined for both while they lived in the boarding house. Hermother was quarrantined with her. She would take care of Viv all dayand do the work in the boarding house at night. No one else got it.When Viv had Diptheria at Christmas she remembers they carried herdownstairs to see her presents. She said she got everything that year(Did they think she was going to die?). She got a doll dresser with anoval mirror, (she thinks Grandpa Frantz gave it to her), a child'sdesk with pigeonholes and a slant top closure, a little cedar chestand a doll. On Christmas Eve Uncle Jake came dressed as Santa Clausand they were all scared of him. He usually arrived after they hadopened their presents. Viv's nickname was 'Toots'.	Doney, Lena Vivian (I1593)
2330	W ILLIAM ALLEN, the prominent lawyer, judge and legislator of Greenville, Ohio, was born in Butler county, this state, Aug. 13, 1827, and died July 6, 1881, in Greenville. His father, John Allen , was a native of Ireland, born Jan. 26, 1800, and came to America in 1812. After residing six years in New York, he located in Butler county, Ohio, in 1818, and in February, 1838, moved his family into the sparsely settled forests of Darke county, where he erected a log cabin, having a split-log floor and mud and stick chimney. He died on the 2d of October, 1858, a very much respected citizen. He possessed fine conversational powers, and in the latter part of his life was a preacher of the United Brethren church. Our subject was favored with the advantages of the common schools only, yet by earnest personal application he qualified himself to teach the English branches at the age of fifteen and in this way for several years employed his winters. At the age of nineteen he began reading law under the late Felix Marsh , of Eaton, Ohio, was admitted to the bar in June, 1849, and the following October began practice at Greenville. He met with success in his chosen calling and became one of the most prominent and successful lawyers of Darke county. On the 30th of September, 1851, Mr . Allen married Miss Priscilla , daughter of John Wallace , a native of Pennsylvania, and an early pioneer of Butler county, Ohio, who settled in Darke county in 1834, and died in the summer of 1863, at the age of about eighty years. He was always recognized as an upright man and an excellent citizen. The children born of this marriage were five sons and three daughters, of whom only one son is now living. (His sketch is given next ). Four of the children died of diphtheria under the most afflicting circumstances, and within the brief, space of two months. This was in the winter of 1861, when Mr . Allen was summoned home from Washington city to the scene of bereavement. Early in life Mr . Allen became prominently identified with public affairs, and has been called upon to fill several important official positions. In the fall of 1856 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Darke county, and re-elected in 1852. In the fall of 1858 he was elected representative to congress from the fourth district of Ohio, comprising the counties of Miami, Darke, Shelby, Mercer, Allen and Auglaize, and re-elected in, 1860, thus serving in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. In the winter of 1865 he was appointed by Governor Cox as judge of the court of common pleas of the first subdivision of the second judicial district of Ohio, composed of the counties of Butler, Darke and Preble, to fill an unexpired term in the place of Judge David L. Meeker , resigned. In 1872 he was a member of the Grant electoral college, and also an elector for Garfield in 1880. The electors of Ohio, after casting their vote for the latter, paid him a visit of congratulation at his home in Mentor, Ohio. Mr . Allen was again nominated for congress on the Republican ticket from the fifth congressional district of Ohio in the summer of 1878, but declined the honor on account of ill health. Of local positions, it may be mentioned that he was president of the Greenville Bank, then a private enterprise, conducted under the firm name of Hufnagle , Allen & Company; Mr . Allen began the world in poverty, was reared in a rough log cabin, and enjoyed none of the golden opportunities for social and educational improvement which are lavishly, bestowed on the youth of today, but he always made the most of his advantages, and without the aid of influence or wealth rose to a position among the most prominent men of his county, his native genius and acquired ability being the stepping stones on which he mounted. As a lawyer his career was successful, while his record as a statesman was creditable to himself and satisfactory to his constituents. Source: A Biographical History of Darke County, Ohio, Compendium of National Biography - Illustrated - Publ. Evansville, Ind. - 1900 - Page 653	Allen, William (I6661)
2331	War of 1812 Veteran Witness Role: Bride: [I4335] Mary Elizabeth TIPTON Witness Role: Groom: [I4288] John TANNER	Family: John Tanner / Mary Elizabeth Tipton (F331)
2332	War of 1812 Veteran Witness Role: Principal: [F331] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I4335] Mary Elizabeth TIPTON Witness Role: Groom: [I4288] John TANNER	Tanner, John (I4288)
2333	War of 1812 Veteran Witness Role: Principal: [F331] ...of (parents not known) Witness Role: Bride: [I4335] Mary Elizabeth TIPTON Witness Role: Groom: [I4288] John TANNER	Tipton, Mary Elizabeth (I4335)
2334	Warwick's record of his death mentions that "three hundred people attended his funeral."	Williams, Lt. Col. Samuel (I4563)
2335	Was a blue baby and was not expected to live much beyond the age of 20. Witness Role: Child: [I4283] William Worland TAYLOR	Taylor, William Worland (I4283)
2336	was a judge	Thompson, John Richard (I6808)
2337	was a landscape painter. Active in various clubs, including Bexley Women's Club, of which she served as president. Active member of Bexley United Methodist Church.	Taylor, Miriam Jane (I4272)
2338	was a member of the Committee of Observation of Lancaster County, Pa.	Haldeman, Jacob (I2119)
2339	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I3216)
2340	was a very generous man. He gave money to his nieces and nephews to help with their children's college educations.	Denbow, Elmer Forest (I1124)
2341	was a World War I veteran	Blum, Frederick Aaron (I467)
2342	was an ordaned Methodist minister for 36 years, from 1870 until his death in 1906. He received a doctor of divinity degree from Mt. Union College.	Toland, John Watkins D.D. (I5118)
2343	was Democratic candidate for governor in 1902.	Thompson, William Henry (I6809)
2344	was killed by a drunk driver when about 11 years old, according to uncle, Robert S. Denbow.	Denbow, William James (I1460)
2345	was living in Carroll County, Ohio,	Toland, Thomas Denbow (I4338)
2346	was one of six Denbow brothers who fought for the Union in Civil War, five of these brothers were in K Company of the 78th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Their father, John Denbow (1797-1862), was also in this same regiment and company.	Denbow, Bazzel (I1036)
2347	We found gravestone in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Hawthorne, PA. The dateof death may be June instead of January. The stone was hard to read.	Doverspike, Amelia (I1619)
2348	Webb Devor's line?	Devor, Henry Webb (I1503)
2349	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: Michael Sales / Living (F956)
2350	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Living (I1278)