Jennetta A. LANNING  was born about 1866/67 in Jobs, Hocking Co., OH, and died on 14 Dec 1941 in Shawnee, Perry Co., OH, USA about age 75.

Jennetta married Andrew Huston, 13 Dec 1885 in Hocking Co., OH.  Andrew was born in Vanwert, OH. 

Children from Jennetta and Andrew's marriage were: 
1- Carrie Huston  was born in Perry Co., OH
2- Madeline Huston  was born in Perry Co., OH.
3- Robert Huston was born in Perry Co., OH - married Florence (?)
4- Eysle Huston was born in 1894 in Perry Co., OH - Married James Jones abt. 1912
     Eysle and James had two children - Jannetta Jones and Charles Jones
5- Leonard Huston was born 1898 in Perry Co., OH - Married Hazel (?)

Levi A. WARD was the son of Job L. WARD and Mary KEISTER.   Levi was born  May 1864 in OH, and died on 5 Nov 1934 in Perry County. Levi's first wife was Rebecca Ellen Cotterman.   They married  27 Oct 1887 in Perry County.

Levi and Rebecca had two children:

  1. Lillian Ward  b.Feb.1889 OH
  2. John T. Ward b.Jan.1896 OH.

Rebecca died  before 1900 and left Levi a widower. 

Jennetta divorced Andrew Huston and married Levi Ward about 1900 

Children from  Jennetta and Levi's marriage were:

     1- Ida V. Ward was born 1901 in Perry Co., OH  
    2 - Hazel Ward was born Jan 13, 1903, Perry Co., OH - died March 1986, Muskingum Co, OH -
         Hazel  married unknown Bennett                                                         
    3- Sarah Ward was born 1905 in Perry County
    4 - Goldie Blanche Ward   was born May 29, 1907 in Perry Co. OH and died in Perry Co. at age 54, 
         and was buried  in Shawnee Cemetery, Perry Co. OH. 
    5-  Isaac J. Ward born 1910 in Perry Co., OH 
    6 - Jefferson Ward born 1911, Perry Co., OH

  Goldie Blanche WARD  was born on 29 May 1907 in OH, Perry Co., died in 1961 in OH, Perry County at age 54, and was buried  in OH, Perry Co., Shawnee Cemetery.

Goldie married John Thomas JOHNSON, son of John H. JOHNSON and Ida WHITE . John was born on 12 May 1905 in OH, and died on 26 Dec 1989 in Zanesville, Muskingum Co., OH at age 84, and was buried  in Shawnee Cemetery, Perry Co., OH.

Children from this marriage were:

1. John Henry JOHNSON was born on 19 May 1932 in Shawnee OH, Perry Co., 
    and died on 22 Oct 1989 in Lancaster, OH, Fairfield County at age 57,
    and was buried  in Fairview Cemetery, Hocking County OH.
2. Hester Johnson  
3. Vera Johnson
4. Bert Edward Johnson (died in infancy)
5. infant Johnson  (died at birth)

4. John Henry JOHNSON was born on 19 May 1932 in Shawnee, OH, Perry Co., died  22 Oct 1989 in Lancaster, OH, Fairfield Co., at age 57, and was buried in Hocking Co., OH.

John married Joy Arlene PARSONS March 25, 1956 in Hocking Co., OH.  Joy is the daughter of Hubert PARSONS and Edna Ellen MYERS .

Children from this marriage were: 

1. Living Johnson-Cummins
2. Living Johnson
3. Living Johnson
4. Living Johnson

Fifth Generation

5. Living

At least three living generations follow in Hiram and Ann Lanning's Genealogy

This page is a work in progress and is not complete.  I take full responsibility for any mistakes you find but PLEASE be kind when you correct me!  :)  I hope to be adding tombstone pics to this page in the near future.  If you have additional information, please email me .  I'd love to hear from you!

The following is Research
History of Bedford and Somerset Counties

Chapter 4, Volume 2

THE JERSEY SETTLEMENT

The neighborhood about the Jersey and Draketown has been known as the “Jersey Settlement”
from the earliest times, being so known because most of those who settled in the parts adjacent
thereto had come from Essex and Morris counties, New Jersey , which in those days was looked on
as rather a poor country.  Wheat is known of their emigration into this Turkeyfoot region rests
mostly on the traditions that have been preserved among the descendants of these people, many of
whom still dwell in these parts.  While some errors may have crept into these traditions, as must
be inevitable in so long a lapse of time, they cannot be passed by in any history that is to be
written of this Turkeyfoot region.

Accounts have spread far to the eastward of the fine country beyond the Allegheny mountains-a
country that was well watered, and which, while covered by forest of many kinds of timber, also
possessed a fertile soil, on which, when cleared, everything might be raised: a region wherein fish,
game and wild animals abounded almost without number; and with all these advantages, it had a climate
healthful and delightful.  A pleasing picture indeed to these people, who had become tired of the
sandy wastes and the thin soil of the country in which they then lived.  Taking council together,
a number of these people determined to emigrate to what to them appeared as a new Arcadia .

In the spring of 1770, placing their slender belongings, with their women and children, on
ox-teams, bidding farewells to such of their kindred who remained behind, with brave hearts
they left the sand hills of New Jersey and turned their faces toward the setting sun.  After
a long and toilsome journey, exposed to all kinds of weather and all manner of danger, some
time in the latter part of April or early part of May their train of ox-teams might have been
seen slowly winding its way down the narrow valley of White’s creek.  Presumably they must have
come in over the Braddock road from Fort Cumberland , Maryland , leaving it somewhere between
the top of the Negro mountain and the Winding ridge, and cutting a road for themselves toward
the Turkeyfoot.  They appear to have crossed the Castleman’s river near the site of the present
village of Harnedsville , and passing over the Hog Back, pitched their tents for the night in
the valley of the Laurel Hill creek.  Resting here, like the Children of Israel coming out of
Egypt in to the promised land, they went out to possess it. Leaving their families here, these
settlers went forth, each selecting for himself a portion of the land whereon to build a home
for himself and his family.  By a mutual understanding among themselves, each one was to be
limited to such quantity of land as he would walk around in a single day, at the same time
marking its boundaries by blazing the trees.

Such may be said to be the sum of the traditions relating to the coming of these particular settlers. 
It is further said that in al there were some eighteen or twenty families of them, the heads of which
were Robert Colborn, David King, Oliver Drake, William Rush, Andrew Ream, Reuben Skinner, John Mitchell,
John Hyatt, William Tannehill, James Moon, Edward Harned, David Woodmancy, John Copp, John McNair,
Joseph Lanning, William Brooke, Jacob Strahn, Obadiah Reed, and William Lanning.  Some accounts
include the Mountains, Morrisons and William Tissue, as well as the names of Benjamin Jennings and
Hickson, but as these last two are mentioned in Captain Steele’s report, they could not have come with
the main party, although they also may have originally come from New Jersey .  The Mountains and Morrisons
certainly were here at a very early day.  As for Captain William Tissue, his relations with these Jersey
people must have been quite close, as his second wife was Huldah Rush, a daughter of William Rush, and
he may have come on with tem. But if he did he did not settle in the Turkeyfoot region.  He settled in
Elk Lick, where he continued to reside until 1798, then removing to the Turkeyfoot region.

Another Account
Captain John Rush who was a soldier in Cromwell’s Army later became a Quaker. In 1683
Captain Rush, his wife, Susanna Lucas, several children and grandchildren emigrated to
America with William Penn and settled at Byberry near Philadelphia. Later most of the
family following the lead of one of the sons-in-law, Rev. John Hart, became Keithians
and still later Baptists. Some of the descendants moved across the river into New Jersey.
About 1773 some fifteen or twenty families more or less related by marriage moved from New
Jersey to Lower Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania and founded what came
to be known as the Jersey Settlement. In 1775 they formed the Jersey Baptist Church near
the present village of Ursina. Among these were the families of William Rush, a descendant
of Captain John Rush, Nathaniel Skinner, Senior, Robert Colborn, William Tissue, David King,
Oliver Drake, Andrew Ream, Joseph Lanning, William Lanning, William Brooks, Obediah Reed and others.

TURKEY-FOOT derived its name from a peculiar natural configuration of the land formed by the
junction of three rivers where the town of Confluence now stands. Within the territory of
Lower Turkey-Foot the first settlements in Somerset county were made. Here white men dwelt
in the hunting grounds of the savages; here the severest trials of pioneer life were encountered.

At the organization of Somerset county, in 1795, Turkey-Foot township embraced fully one-sixth of
the entire county. It was the second township within the present territory of the county, having
been formed from a portion of Brother's Valley as a township of Bedford County in the year 1773.
Townships organized subsequently, reduced the territory of Turkeyfoot, so that in 1848 it embraced
only the present townships of Upper and Lower Turkey-Foot, which were organized as separate precincts
in that year.

Joseph Lanning located on what is now known as the Lichty farm, and it is on this farm that the famous
Jersey church is.  William Lanning, whether a brother or son of Joseph Lanning is not now known, was
bitten by a rattlesnake, which caused his death.  This is as recorded on his tombstone.

John Lanning was born in about 1773, probably in New Jersey. He married Nancy Kerlin in about 1795. They had ten children. John died in 1828 in Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and elsewhere.  FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOG familysearch.org

John LANNING (Sr.)  BIRTH: ABT 1768, Chester, Morris Co., New Jersey
Father: Joseph LANNING  Came to Somerset Co., PA from Chester Co., NY
Mother: Anna UNKNOWN

Wife:  Nancy KERLING - BIRTH: ABT 1770
MARRIAGE: ABT 1796, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Children
Joseph LANNING b: 3 JAN 1797 in New Jersey
John LANNING b: in Somerset Co., Pa
Peter LANNING b: 1799 in chester, Morris, New Jersey
James LANNING b: ABT. 1802 in Somerset Co., Lower TurkeyFoot, Pa.
Corelius LANNING b: 24 APR 1804 in Somerset Co., Lower TurkeyFoot, Pa.
Elizabeth LANNING b: ABT. 1807 in Somerset Co., Lower TurkeyFoot, Pa.
Marietta "Rhetta" LANNING b: ABT. 1809 in Somerset Co., Pa.
Catherine "Katie" LANNING b: ABT. 1811 in Somerset Co., Pa.
Nancy LANNING b: 27 OCT 1813 in Somerset Co., Pa.
Henry LANNING b: ABT. 1819 in Somerset Co., Pa.

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