THE FAMILY BALLENTINE
(Ballantine, Ballantyne, Ballentine, Balentine)
"A Scot who came from Ballindean (village by the hill) in Fifeshire; or from the lands of Bellenden in Roxburyshire."

The Ballentines/Ballentynes in our family tree came to the United States in the mid-1800's and settled in the Pennsylvania and Ohio area. John Ballentine/Ballentyne and his wife Agnes Lindsay emigrated to the U.S. from Glasgow, Scotland. Their daughter Jean married Henry James Cossler and settled in Youngstown, Ohio. Jean and Henry had 7 children: Agnes, Nell, John, Quintin, Andrew, Jean and Mary. Their house at 61 East Marion Ave. in Youngstown, OH, still stands.

I am currently researching the Lindsay/Ballentine roots in Scotland.

Surnames in our family include the following:
BALLENTINE/BALLENTYNE, BRADY, BRIGGS, CASSLER/COSSLER, CIRCLES/ZIRCLES, DECKER, LINDSAY/LINDSLEY, MCCARTY, MILLSOP, UMHOLTZ, YOUNG

• Jean Ballentine Cossler (113 KB)
  Portrait of Jean Ballentine Cossler, made shortly after her marriage to Henry Cossler, in 1896.
• Henry James Cossler (115 KB)
  Henry J. Cossler, at home in Youngstown, Ohio, about 1940.

Susan Virginia Briggs
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