Henry Reasoner

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• Reference Number: 11667
• Residence: Between 1760 and 1936, USA

Henry married Mary Shepler 25 Feb 1796, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Peter Shepler and N N Hammond) was born 20 Aug 1778, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 18 Sep 1855, Morrow, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Nancy Reasoner was born 17 Sep 1817, Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA.
2. Henry Speers Reasoner was born 17 Sep 1817, Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; died 29 Jun 1897, Deep River, Poweshiek, Iowa, USA.
3. Daniel Reasoner was born 8 Jun 1815, Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; died 19 May 1890, De Kalb, Indiana, USA.
4. Elizabeth Reasoner was born 10 Mar 1813, Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; died 19 May 1890.
5. Elsie Shepler Reasoner was born 7 Jan 1811, Morrow, Ohio, USA; died 1 Nov 1892, Morrow, Ohio, USA.
6. Catherine Reasoner was born 6 Apr 1809, Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; died 5 Apr 1889, Union City, Muskingum, Ohio, USA.
7. Jacob S Reasoner was born 25 May 1807, Ohio, USA; died 2 Mar 1884, Brown, Kansas, USA.
8. Solomon Reasoner was born 8 Oct 1803.
9. Peter Shepler Reasoner was born 24 Nov 1801, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1 Mar 1879, Morrow, Ohio, USA.
10. Rebecca Reasoner was born 6 Feb 1797, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 1829, Union City, Muskingum, Ohio, USA.
11. Mary Reasoner was born 2 Feb 1799, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; died 21 Sep 1841, Muskingum, Muskingum, Ohio, USA.

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• Reference Number: 11681
• Religion: Presbyterian
• Birth: 17 Feb 1735, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA
• Alt Birth Date/Place: 17 Feb 1735, Virginia, USA
• Birth: 7 Dec 1735, Frederick, Virginia, USA
• Birth: 17 Feb 1743, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 13 Oct 1748, West Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1763, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA
• Occupation: Between 1773 and 1783; On The Frontier, Wash Co, PA; Occupation: Captian In The Pennsylvania Rangers
• Residence: 16 May 1791, Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1805, New Concord, Muskingum, Ohio, USA
• Death: 1807, Guernsey, Ohio, USA
• Death: Apr 1807, Guernsey, Ohio, USA

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Buried:
Old Reasoner Burying Ground

Peter married Mary Spears Dec 1763, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Peter Henry Spears and Regina Froman) was born Dec 1745, Augusta, Virginia, USA; died 1806, Muskingum, Ohio, USA; was buried , Guernsey, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary "Mollie" Speers
• Name: Mary Speers
• Name: Mollie
• Reference Number: 13248
• Birth: Between Dec 1744 and 1745, Virginia, USA
• Birth: Dec 1745, Augusta, Virginia, USA
• Birth: 1752, Frederick, Virginia, USA
• Death: 1805, Muskingum, Ohio, USA
• Death: 9 Nov 1841

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Buried:
Old Reasoner Burying Ground

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• Reference Number: 11677
• Death: 1771, Virginia, USA

Nicholas married Mary Froman 1733, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen) was born 1705, Germany; died 1757, Patterson Creek, Hampshire, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 5073
• Death: 1757, Virginia, USA

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• Find-A-Grave: 47028134
• Name: Henry
• Reference Number: 13256

Notes:

After arriving in America, Peter settled in Augusta, Co., Virginia until 1751-52, then moved up to Frederick Co., Virginia. Henry and George F. Spears explored the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, possibly together, where George remained and established the "Spears" family of Rockingham County. Henry went to Maryland then later established the "Speers" family in Pennsylvania.

Henry married Regina Froman and settled on farm known as Gibstoton, on the Mon River, below Belle Vernon.

Henry Speers and his wife took up residence on the east bank of the Monogahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1764. He called his home "Summer House." He died circa 1782, supposedly from a kick to the head by a horse. His wife, Regina was taxed in 1783 for 250 acres of land, stock and nine slaves. Regina and sons would be found later in Washington County, Pennsylvania, at Speers Borough, a small community south of Donora on the Monogahela River. It is felt that the Speers family lived in the same general area as the "colony" where the early Crist family lived.

Henry was active in community affairs - occasionally busy with one project or another for the county. He was appointed a captain of the militia in August of 1757.

Abraham Frye and family located on the opposite side of the river. He owned land from Maple Creek on the outskirts of Charleroi, to Pigeon Creek in Monongahela, from the Mon River, to where Fallowfield township school now stands, except for the Grant and Wickerham Farms, near what is now Fisher Heights. They came here from their homes in a place 18 miles south of Winchester, Virginia.

The Speers and the Fryes were intimately associated in everything that pertained to each others comfort, and this fact, in these days of trial and danger, was no small affair. In going from place to place or in the field, these settlers were compelled for personal safety to carry firearms so as to meet the attacks of the Indians.

Buried:
Gibson Cemetery

Peter married Regina Froman Abt 1744, Augusta, Virginia, USA. Regina (daughter of Peter Froman and Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen) was born 1725, Alsace, Germany; died 1793, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Find-A-Grave: 47028188
• Name: Ragina Froman
• Reference Number: 5077

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Buried:
Gibson Cemetery

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• Reference Number: 11665

Garrett — Marie Baroness. Marie was born 1670, France; died 1697, Germany. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 1148

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• Reference Number: 5075
• Birth: 1690, Germany

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Family tradition says that Peter was a teacher and Huguenot. In 1685,
after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, an edict issued by Henry
IV of France in 1598, granting religious freedom and political
equality to the Huguenots. This revocation was a sentence of civil
death on them all; it crushed more than half the commercial and
manufacturing industry of the kingdom. Life in France became
extremely perilous for the Huguenots and many were leaving the
country. During a meeting held to choose a safe haven for their
people, the look out came crying, "The enemy is upon us, save
yourselves. Family tradition says that Peter hastily went home, took
his ready cash, silverware and other valuables in a four-horse wagon
and so quickly left that he forgot his hat. A friend called to him,
"Peter Froman, where is your hat?". He replied, "It is better to have
a head without a hat than a hat without a head." He placed his
valuables in a ship, leaving his horses and wagon standing on the
street.
After escaping from France, Peter went to Germany where he married a
French girl and settled in the Heidelberg or the Strassburg, Alsace
area which was under German control at that time.
His daughter Regina was said to have been born in Alsace. Although
there are records of several Peter Froman/Vrooman in New York and New
Jersey, no satisfactory proof has been found to show that Peter
Froman came to America, but we know his grown children were with Jost
Hite in Pennsylvania by 1731. If they were in America earlier, they
probably followed, rather closely, the trail of Hite's group from
Kingston, Ulster Co., New York to the Perkiomen (Skippack),
Philadelphia Co., (now Montgomery) PA, to York, Lancaster Co., (now
York), PA, and finally to the Shenandoah Valley in Frederick Co., VA.

Peter married Elizabeth Margretta Ficklesen 1700. Elizabeth was born , Germany. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 4706

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• Reference Number: 13255

Peter married Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen Abt 1708, Germany. Margaret (daughter of Peter Henlopen) was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany; died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 5407