So much has been learned in the past couple of weeks that it will be hard to follow the text Sandra originally wrote in our Woodruff Book containing all the various families the family has married or descended from. We now have a website to connect to that gives the ancestry of our Colegrove family. This history was provided by Terry Colegrove. I just noticed they closed his old pages out so will see if I can connect the new ones here. These too were written by Terry Colegrove.It will take you back a few hundred years. We had only gone back to Asa Colegrove, so what a surprise to find so many more generations available to us! To follow the right path look in her list of surnames. You will find a few Asa Colegroves choose the one born in Jan 1801. They did not know his wife Eliza Mann, I just found a page showing some of the Mann family history that I am certain connects to ours. I need to try for more evidence, but his page takes you to Joseph Mann, father of Zadock Mann. This Zadock Mann married Esther Warner and is the father of Fanny Mira Mann who married Josiah White. They are also listed in a new book that I purchased (Descendants of John Warner of Farmington, compiled by Davis Warner)showing many of the descendants and related families of John Warner. (see my Early Warner Line Pages). There are so many of our related families in the http://newenglandgenealogy.pcplayground.com/sjc.htm pages as well, that I know all doing research on these families will want to view it. We are still researching Eliza Mann's history. July 2003, I just got lucky in my google search today and found some of Eliza's history along with her & Asa's marriage info. Check into the Ashtabula County, Ohio's marriages and give Carol Page Tilson a big thanks for her hard work. Go to the Mann name. You will see 3 other Mann names who seem they could be closely related to Eliza. Stephen & Esther Mann Buffum I have learned are Zadock & Esther Warner Mann's daughter & son-in-law. I also in my search found a page on one of Stephen & Esther's sons, Judge Joseph W. Buffum with the discription of the travel his parents and certainly other Woodruff's & related families have made. The other two couples shown in Ashtabula are Josiah & Fanny M. Mann White. Fanny M. Mann is Esther's sister and another daughter of Zadock & Esther Warner Mann. Zadoe (this is Zadock Mann)& Hannah Williams Mann (Zadock's 2nd wife). His first wife Esther Warner died September 29, 1846 at East Plymouth, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. I have lost some of my links in this page and have found others. There are some new revised pages on Ashtabula Co., Ohio. I just lost sight of my print off of the page, so will add in here later. It provided the name of the person who officiated the marriage of Asa & Eliza.
In trying to rewrite some of this history as it becomes known to me I have found in the 1850 census for Wayne Township in Knox Co. Ohio the following information:
We see some of the family again in the 1870 Census for Union Township in Benton Co, Iowa. The list here shows the following entries:
The Mann family that Zadock Mann descended from I understand goes back to a Richard Man (note only on "n" in last name) I will add more information as I get it together.
Going back to the Colegroves the history on a Calvin Colegrove was at the following link, which was at the library of the university of Chicago. I will try and see if the address was changed to see if I can reconnect. Colegrove-Woodruff Camp No. 22 honored Private Calvin Colegrove and Lt. George Wooruff for their service. We have now linked Pvt. Calvin within the Colegrove site and hope to someday show that Lt. George Woodruff was probably one of our Woodruff's. There is another Colegrove website that gives some earlier history. They have a very exciting history and now a book(!)to go through. What an understatement on that last sentence as least as far as that site is concerned. I seem unable to find the webmaster of this great site, but for a full view of what they have in their virtual tour of Smethport you will want to start at their main page and have the grand tour. I have been in there for hours and hardly saw the same place twice. Anyone having herritage there will enjoy the walk.
It was believed there was nothing known about Asa Colegrove and Eliza Mann's ancestry except that Maude Root felt that her grandmother, Ellen Colegrove Woodruff's family came from Vermont. The feeling my sister had was that the Woodruff, Warner, Colegrove and Mann families were possibly from bordering Vermont/ Upstate New York counties, and that the families traveled back and forth between the two states. The Mann family name is well-known in the New England states. The educator, Horace Mann, taught for a while at Antioch College in the mid-west, and is known to have vacationed in Michigan, possibly visiting relatives there.
It was also believed that when Waite Warner Woodruff and Ellen Colegrove moved from Ohio to Michigan in the 1870's, and travelled around by covered wagon, that both sets of their parents traveled with them, and that all four- Nelson Woodruff, Junie Warner Woodruff, Asa Colegrove, and Eliza Mann Colegrove- are buried in the Englishville (Rockford area), Michigan cemetery. She was unable to verify this information.
The Children of Asa Colegrove and Louisa Eliza Mann were, so far as we knew:
To see the new home page of early Woodruff history click the early lines
To return to the Woodruff family old home page click Woodruff
or to continue on to read more about Waite and Ellen's family click Waite
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