Lois Chaney to Alma Moore Tompkins. Letter
 
Patricia Chaney's <Father's side> relative by marriage letter to Patricia's  Grandmother,
Jo Alma Moore Tompkins <Mother's side>.
<Patricia Chaney Gantt's comments in arrowed brackets, bolding>

June 8, 1965

Dear Mrs. <Jo Alma Moore> <Robert Pinkerton> Tompkins,

Was interested and pleased to hear from you. In the early years of our marriage I tried to run down some data on Gene's family. <husband, Eugene? Gene?>. I can't say I was very successful. I jotted down in a cookbook what I have copied for you. Mr. Chaney -Charles- wasn't a great talker and I don't remember whether I dragged the list of family names from him or from Lee Goff. You know Alma Chaney off died and Charles Chaney died and my mother-in-law, Sadie married Lee Goff. Alma's husband. They came to our house often in the early 1940's and Lee was a great raconteur, the word for word kind. Several times he took Sadie and me down to the Chaney place. There is a road past the Frazeysburg Cemetery which turns right and back off the right on that road and across a small stream was the old Chaney place. I think Dale <my father> is wrong about the Chaneys being from Licking County. The number of Chaney tombstones in the Frazeysburg graveyard seems evidence that many of them were in that vicinity.
Grace Bonnett kept more records than anyone I ever heard of. I believe Mrs. Bonnett still lives in Newark.

Wed. A.M.

Decided it was time to call Mrs. Bonnett, whom I saw and see if she had any data which might help you. She had their family Bible and I don't know where their family branches off the family tree. Her (she was adopted by Adaline Chaney Norris) grandfather and mother were

Lewis Chaney-m-Catherine
Adeline (Norris) she would be about 100 years old if living
Joe (the rich one)
Dolfus
Grant (a doctor)
Liza Fry
Catherine Young
Jonathan
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Lewis
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Mable
Myrtle (Rothstein)
Mable has worked in Licking Co. offices for years & we kinow Myrtle
Ward
Roy
bbbbFlorence

Emmaline Kilpatrick-m-Joseph Benson Chaney

Evaline-m-Weise (in Michigan, I think ask Henrietta <my grandmother>)

Jennie (Jane) Moore

Ella-m-Sally (Sallie?) - Emmaline
Alfred
Elsworth

Oscar (Will)-m- Florence - Eula-Fred
Gayle-Eula
Annie

Charles-m-Sade Norman - - Eugene-m-Lois Coon <Chaney> - David-m-Shirley Lawson
Second husband Lee Goff <Lois wrote this letter>
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Cynthia
Susan
Steven
- Robert-m-Myrna Conkle
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Mark
Cathy
- Joseph-m-Deanna Church
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Rodney
Rene
RavLynn <?>
- Carol-m-Ronald Jones
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Micheal
Jeffrey
Alma-m-Lee Goff - James Thumbewood <?>

Ward-m-Henrietta Chaney <my grandfather and grandmother> - Bonita <Mrs. Bart Bodine Sr.,
my aunt>
Dale <Ward Chaney>
<pretty sure this is Henry Ward Beecher Chaney just called Ward>

Bert

Vernon - was institutionalized

Clayt-m-Zora Ashcra<o>ft - Velorous <?>
Paul

Guy-m-Hazel Davies - Janet
James

At sometime and from somebody I jotted down

Emmaline Kilpatrick-m-Joseph Benson Chaney
Brothers and Sisters
John (Michigan)
David
Priscilla
Robert
Cousins
Lewis
Mart
Lige
(Jesse's father Ashcra<o>t Lige
Mabel Chaney {Great Grandfather was cousin
Myrtle Chaney to Joe Bens Chaney}

Adeline Chaney Norris & later

I do not believe Joe Benson & Lewis were brothers but possibly first cousins. There is a Jesse Chaney at Perrytow<n?> but I don't know what family he is from. Mrs. Bonnett said her family were from the vicinity of Coshocton and there were some relatives at West Carlise. I dimly remember Gene's mother & dad speaking of or visiting the W. Carlisle folks.

As for the Inlows, <Enlows? Enloes?> I can't help. Somewhere back in the Wickham tree, my own family brushed; as I remember going to a Coon reunion at the old Wickham place on Rt. 16 (no torn down) and there must have been at least a distant relationship., My father's folks descended from Abner Coon of Hanover and there are Lambs, Wolves, Hunter, and Fox in the family. <Lots of animals - grin> My mother's maiden name was Fox and they settled in Muskingum County around 1830, so I have heard. My father's sister traced back her ancestry via Clara Koontz to Phillip Munch and a brother, one of whom a bachelor, fought in the Revolution. Evidently the married man was a bit more cautious. They were from the Shenandoah Valley and there was mention of relationship to a Sarah Boone - any kin to Daniel?

I think you have a fascinating avocation and I fell too many of us quit living too long before we die. Idle hands in older people are not happy ones. As for me, I do substitute teaching during the school year, keep books for Gene's business and for the past year have had the guardianship of my father's sister who is in a nursing home here. I sew quite a bit too for myself and right now summer shifts for my granddaughters.

Hope you get over this way and we can visit.

Yours sincerely,
Lois <Coon?> Chaney