In addition to having ancestral lines in my family, I also have ancestral Lynes in my family. The surname Lyne sits on the paternal side of our tree. My 3rd great grandmother, Margaret Ellen, was born a Lyne.
Margaret Ellen (Lyne) Scheetz, ca. 1880.
Week 50: Lines
My Lynes are thought to have originated in Bristol, England around the mid to late 1600s. It’s thought my 6th great grandfather was a Lyne who came to America with his brother. The two allegedly split up when they arrived, with my ancestor settling in Westmoreland County, Virginia and his brother settling in Granville, North Carolina. My Lyne married Miss Mary Edwards and raised a large family.
One of their sons, Thomas Lyne, was my 5th great grandfather, born about 1745 in Westmoreland. This was during the colonial era when Virginia was still under British rule. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Thomas joined as a private in the 6th regiment of Virginia. He survived the war and started a family with a woman named Mary Padgett. They raised their children in Loudon County, Virginia, and Thomas passed away on 14 December 1803.
His son, William Lyne, was born two decades earlier in 1783. He likely appears on the 1810 and 1820 federal censuses in Loudon County. If this is our William Lyne, in 1810, he is living near a brother Robert and has one slave in the household. In 1820, his number of slaves has increased to seven. This would make sense for the relative location and time period.
According to a letter written by David Lyne, William’s son, William was twice married. His first union was to Susannah Settle on 26 December 1807. He was believed to have 5 or 6 children by that marriage – who all remained in Virginia and married. David was a product of William’s second marriage to my 4th great grandmother, Margaret Ellen Gheen, in 1820 in Loudon, Virginia. William had a total of 7 children from that union, including my 3rd great grandmother Margaret Ellen Lyne who was born 5 July 1824 in Loudon, Virginia.
In 1836, William and Margaret decided to move to Morgan County, Ohio. David wrote that a couple years later, his father went back to Loudon to visit with his first round of offspring while on business, and he suddenly passed away there. The widow Margaret (Gheen) Lyne remained in Ohio and eventually remarried on 9 September 1869 to Mr. Samuel Fitch.
Right about the time of William’s death, my 3rd great grandmother, decided to adopt a new surname, when she married Martin Luther Scheetz at the very young age of 14. Despite having eleven children, the Lyne name ended with her and the Scheetz name took governance on that ancestral line. Her many brothers did carry on the Lyne legacy though, including David, who took up researching the Lyne history and whom most of this information originated.
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