Re: William Thrash & Hanah Thrash McKern
THRASH, MCKERN, HAMMOND, FAULKNER, VANDORIN, MCMURREN, WHITACRE, BARTON, PARRISH, PARROTT
Posted By: H.Vargus (email) In Response To: William Thrash & Hanah Thrash McKern (KAY)
Date: 9/26/2011 at 09:43:31
In the History of Henry County, Iowa, (1982) there is a biography of Luke McKern written by Annalee Kirkwood, pp. 315-316.
"Luke McKern, the eldest son of Michael McKern, was born about 1770 and grew to manhood in North Carolina.
Michael and a younger brother immigrated to America from highlands of Scotland prior to American Revolution and settled in New Jersey. Both brothers served in the Revolutionary War with the younger being killed. Michael married a German girl before the war and had two sons, Luke and Abraham.
Luke married Hannah Thrash, the daughter of Valentine Thrash, a veteran of five enlistments in the Revolutionary War who is buried near Ashville, North Carolina. About 1809, Luke's eldest child, Mary, was born. Luke served in the War of 1812 and in 1815 he and his family started west through Tennessee and Indiana. Along the way his eldest son William was born. Their six addtional children, John, Sarah, Anna, Edmond, Luke and Isaac were born in Indiana; John in Ripley County, Luke and Isaac in Orange county.
In 1834 Luke and Hannah moved to Illinois leaving behind daughter, Mary, now Mrs. Aaron Denny Hammond. They came through Chicago when it was a fort and trading post, settling near present location of Galesburg. Luke's son William and cousin John Thrash broke the first furrow in the prairie where Galesburg now stands.
In 1836 the family moved to Henry County, Iowa and settled on a farm in Tippecanoe township where in September 1847, after a short illness, Luke died. An auction of his property was held and proceeds divided among his widow Hannah and eight children.
In 1840 William married Nancy Faulkner, John married Selaw Caroline Vandorin, Anna married Thomas McMurren; in 1846 Sarah married Ephraim Whitacre; in 1848 Edmond married Mildren Evelyn Vandorin; in 1853 Issac married Mary Barton; all in Henry County.
William was given a razor bone of petrified wood by his father Luke which had been handed down in the family for generations from the eldest son to the eldest son on his twenty-first birthday. This bone is now in the possession of an "eldest son" in Spokane, Washington.
In 1850 young Luke moved west with a wagon train, settled in Yamhill county, Oregon and established a successful farm. He married Melinda Parrish and after her death married Mrs. Mary Ann (Parrott) Parrish. Descendants of both marriages still live in Oregon and Washington. John's and Edmond's families remained in Henry County where many of their descendants still live. Anna (McKern) McMurren migrated to Arizona.
Isaac, accompanied by his wife and mother, traveled to Oregon by ox train in 1854, settled in Washington County where on 6 Feb 1868 near Scholls Ferry he drowned leaving his widow Mary and children, Lucy, William Thomas, Anna, Luke David, Henry, Asa and George. An eighth child, Ella, was born three months later. Isaac's widow remarried in 1870 and died in childbirth in 1871. The children were reared by various families. Hannah (Thrash) McKern died in Oregon at age 87."
The information continues with the descendants of Isaac McKern.
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