Daniel Davis (1746-1848?) was born at Reading, Pennsylvania. He served served with a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He and his wife, Sarah Albright (1784?-1828), had seventeen children, before 1800-1825, born in Bedford, Lancaster, and perhaps other counties in Pennsylvania, and Coumbiana County, Ohio. He was living in Carroll County, Indiana, when he applied for a Revolutionary War pension in 1845. Descendants listed lived in...

Ernest Russell Collis (1896-1976), son of Walter Winner Collis (1868-1930) and Laurie Suzie Grigsby (1866-1940), was born in Brentwood, California. He married Bertha Irene Sherman (1903-1970), daughter of Milton Kellum Sherman (1880-1953) and Addie May Sly (1811-1953), in 1923 in Spokane, Washington. They had six children.

Sly ancestry is traced to John Sly who was born in 1823 in Leeds County, Ontario. He married Mary Haskins in 1846 and came later came to St. Lawrence County, New York. Their son, William (1859-1930), came to married (1) Harriet Thurlow in 1885, Elizabeth Town in 1892, and Effie McKellar in 1926. He settled in Michigan. Franklin ancestry is traced to Edmund Franklin, son of John Franklin and Mary Clark. He was born in Cherington, England and immigrated...

The emigrant ancestor, Johann Phillip Strider (d. 1756), was born near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He married Anna Julianna Whittman (1715- 1774), daughter of Phillip Gottfried Whittman, 1733 in Germany. She was born in Nerwieden, Germany. He came to America on Sept. 26, 1737 landing at Philadelphia, Pa. Oldest surviving child, Anna Barbara Strider, was born 1738 in Cosphenn, Pa. Couple had eleven children born to them, but in 1774 only six were still...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Sly (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Baden, Bavaria, England, Holland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Prussia, and Scotland. Some allied families came from Sweden. Some Sly ancestors immigrated in the 1600s to Connecticut, Maryland, and Massachusetts. In the 1700s, some settled in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia....

Charles Browne was born in England. He emigrated and settled in Rowley, Massachusetts. His second wife was Mary Arcy. They married in 1647 and had nine children. He died in 1687. Descendant Sidney Brown (1801-1869) was born in Leyden, Massachusetts. He married Lavinia Salisbury, probably in New York. They migrated to Wisconsin in the 1850s.

Michael Heldenbrand, son of Johann George Nicolaus Heldenbrand, was born in 1766 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Schlenker (1774-1846), daughter of John Schlenker and Margaretha Stuerwald, in about 1791. They had ten children. He died in 1850 in Massilon, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Utah, Idaho and Washington.

William Fowlkes (d. 1835) was the son of John and Sarah Fowlkes. He married three times and had three children from each union. Sallie Cralle (1761-1840) was the last wife. He was a Revolutionary War soldier. Descendants and relatives lived chiefly in Virginia.