"All of the Lemasters in the following pages are believed to be descended of Abraham Lemaster, b. abt. 1639 in Europe, emigrated to St. Mary's County, Md. by 162, d. 1722 in Charles Co., Md.". The surname is spelled Lemaster, Lamaster, Lamasters, and Lemasters.

Jacob Lemasters was born on a farm near Port Jefferson in Salem Township, Shelby county, Ohio, on 16 April 1845. He was the seventh of eleven children born to Luman Walker Lemasters, Sr. and Nancy Young. Sarah Ann Halfhill was born in Ohio 26 November 1844. Jacob and Sarah Ann were married in Indiana 26 December 1866. They were the parents of eleven children. In March 1883, when their oldest child Hubert was sixteen, the family moved to Valley County,...

Ruth Louise Boydston was born January 26, 1926 in Wichita, Kansas. Her parents were Edwin Edward Boydston (1897-1962) and Florence Helen Lemasters (1902-1987). She married Don Walton in 1951. Traces her direct Boydston and Lemasters lines back to the immigrant ancestors. Ancestors and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas and elsewhere.

Richard Tennant (1744-1822), a Revolutionary War soldier, was born near Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to America in 1760 and settled in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Haught (1748-1830), at Mooresville, Hardy County, Virginia, ca. 1769. They had thirteen children, 1770-1792. The family lived in Jakes Run, Monongalia County, West Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and elsewhere.

Abraham LeMaitre, a Huguenot, was born at Derval, Brittany, France, and immigrated to England, with his wife, Elizabeth, in the late 1650s. There they anglicized their surname to Lemasters. They immigrated to Maryland ca. 1660. He died in 1722 on his plantation "Betty's Delight, Charles County, Maryland. His great great grandson, Benjamin Lemasters (1756-1837), was born in Charles County, Virginia, the son of Isaac and Ann Scott Lemasters. His family...

Chiefly ancestral and related families of the author, Philip Taylor. He was born at Evansville, Indiana, in 1916, the son of John Philip Taylor (1863-1949) and Mary Luella Simpson Taylor (1876-1925). He married twice and is the father of one daughter.

"Samuel and Elizabeth (Malseed) Doak came from Ireland to the State of Pennsylvania about the year Eighteen Hundred, thence into Virginia (now West Virginia) in Eighteen hundred Twenty-four. They purchased a farm ...at Central Station, Doddridge County; but soon sold this farm...They removed with their family into Ohio from which State [sic] they returned after a little more than a year had elapsed, and settled permanently on Middle Island Creek,...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Boggs (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Some settled in Barbados and Jamaica (West Indies), and in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia in the 1700's. During...