On the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, I would like to list those members of the Jeffrey Ferris lineage who served in that war. The list is a work in progress. William Mead Ferris 1892-1918 KIA Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France died in hospital from injuries due to gas attack buried in […]
Category: Ferris – Jeffrey
The Four Husbands of Minerva Ferris
You could get the impression from this site that it is just Ferris men who have troubles with the opposite sex. Not so. And, I give you Minerva Ferris.
Five Ferris Lineages Under Management
Here are the statistics for the five Ferris lineages I am managing on Ancestry. At this point, none of them are related to any other.
Opening the Ohio Country
The Ohio country, in the 1790s, was wilderness. A French presence had been removed by a British win in the French and Indian War that ended in 1763. By decree, no white settlements were allowed in the region. At the end of the American Revolution, the area fell into American control and there was no […]
Ancestry Status
The mess with linking to Ancestry.com seems to be fixed. This link https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/115339067/recent goes to the Jeffrey Ferris lineage. Several other leafs that I could not link to the main tree have been removed. As I have the opportunity and energy, I will post links in the sidebar.
The First Wife
One of the interesting things that I have noted while building these trees is the problem of the first wife. For many of the men in the tree, only the first name of their first wife is recorded. There are perhaps several dozen women known to history by just their first names. No maiden name.
The Ferris Connection to Hillsdale College
In the mid 1830s, Chauncey W Ferris and John P Cook traveled to the Michigan wilderness just north of the Ohio / Indiana border. Chauncey was the fifth great-grandson of Jeffrey Ferris through Joseph. Born in 1811 in Cato, New York, he was destined to have a role in the establishment of one of America’s […]
The Ferris name before America
Ray Riegel, an attorney and traveler, has put together a significant work involving the Ferris name. His site: Henri de Ferrières (1036-1088) Descendants to the Era of Jeffrey Ferris (c.1610-1666)
