Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Rabbs of Texas, and their allied families. Some Rabbs settled in New Jersey in the 1600's; others settled in the Northwest Territory (Ohio) and Pennsylvania in the 1700's. Focus is on the descendants of William Rabb (1770-1831) and Mary Scott. Williams father, Andrew Rabb (1740-1804) and his mother was Mary Scott. Andrew married his second wife, Catherine Pentecost in 1800,...

William Rabb was born 21 December 1770 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Andrew Rabb and Mary Scott. He married Mary Smalley in about 1789. They had five children. They migrated to Indiana Territory in 1803, to Arkansas in 1818 and to Texas in 1820. William and Mary both died in 1831 in Fayette County, Texas. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Texas.

This is supplement 2 to work entitled: Emison families revised : origin and history of the Kentucky Emisons ... / by James Wade Emison. Rev. [ed.] Vincennes, Ind. : J.W. Emison Jr., c1954 (Ann Arbor, Mich. : Edwards Brothers). Contains additional genealogical data, and some corrections, about Emison families in chiefly in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Indiana, particularly in the late nineteenth and in the twentieth centuries.

Andrew Rabb was born in about 1740 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Scott in 1768. They had nine children. In 1770 they moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Andrew served in the American Revolution. He married Catharine Pentecost in 1800. They had three children. Andrew died September 5, 1804 in Hot Springs, Bath County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.

Wolfert Gerritse Van Kouwenhoven immigrated from The Netherlands to Manhattan, New York in 1625. Descendants (chiefly using the surname Crownover by the early 1700s) lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas, California and elsewhere.

Wiley Kelly (1795-1873), son of David Kelly (1763-1838) and Elizabeth Tyner, was bornin Darlimgton County, South Carolina. He married Charlotte Parrott, daughter of Jacob Parrott and Penelope House (1797-1854), in 1816. They had twelve children. He died in Kershaw County, South Carolina.

Joseph Dimmick Helwig was born in 1926. His parents were David Benjamin Helwig (1892-1978) and Elsie Mae Dimmick (1893-1975). He married Betty Kareen Rabb, daughter of Robert William Rabb (1889-1948) and Lola Kareen Drum (1892-1971). Traces their ancestors and relatives in Pennsylvania, New York, Germany, Alsace and elsewhere.

Hypolite Clark was born 22 February 1851 in Lecompte, Louisiana, His parents David Clark (1809-1869) and Amelia Hébert dit Milan (1817-1867). He married Margaret M. Ware. Their son, Hardy Clark, married Ida Martha Louella Ware (1888-1969), daughter of Edward D. Ware (1853-1937) and Ophelia Jane Fortune (1857-1936). Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana....