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Keith Coonrod contacted me through the 'Contact Me' page of this web site. He
shared some
interesting information with me about the Coonrods and with his permission I quote him in the following.
But first, thank you very much Keith for your contribution to my knowledge of the Coonrod
family tree.
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I had a great uncle named John Coonrod who retired and passed away in Ca. John was very much
into genealogy of the Coonrod family. He worked for Standard Oil and traveled the world with his
work.
He has visited Rotterdam and some of our family cemeteries there. John gave me the names of the 2 ships that three Coonrod brothers left Rotterdam on and the dates of both departures and arrival in Philadelphia in the mid 1700's. They migrated from there west thru West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and arrived in Kansas about the time of the Civil War.
Do you think we could be of the same stock? My Great Grandmother always told us that if we ever saw another Coonrod we were related some how. I don't understand a lot of the official protocol of genealogy but John also gave me a book he had put together with all kinds of charts with
people represented by numbers etc.
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According to our John's research John and Woolery Coonrod came to America on the ship Isaac. It landed in Philadelphia from Rotterdam on 09/27/1749. A brother Jacob followed the next year on the ship Patience and landed also in Philadelphia on 08/01/1750.
John was killed by Indians on the south branch of the Potomac Valley in Augusta Co. VA on 03/19/1758. He had no children.
All of Jacob's offspring spell their name Conrad and Wollery's offspring spell theirs Coonrod.
The Conrad group still lives in and around Ft. Sivert VA. I traveled there and visited with them in 1985. They are very nice folks.
If you can send me your mailing address I will copy the booklet John made for me and mail it to you. It is full of names, dates, births, deaths, marriages, etc. Maybe you can find something that
may further your endeavors.
John mentioned to me before his death that much of his research came from census records, the Mormon Church, and maritime records. Much of this was done before internet and e-mail and he had to travel to these places personally. I mentioned that John gave me the bible but actually my
grandfather, John's brother, gave it to me He advised the word is that it came over from Rotterdam, along with a flint lock pistol that my dad has with John and Woolery in 1749. I have not really looked thru the bible it but it has many names, deaths, patches of material, hair, etc
recorded in it.
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While I was locating Johns stuff I came across some other things that he had sent me thru the years such as the muster in and out papers from the Civil war including desertion papers from two Coonrods who went over to the south, They had just came from there and knew many folks from
that area.
My family has never talked of that much. After the war they tried to come back to
XX, but had to move under threat of life. They moved to YY. and their offspring is still there. I had these papers hid as John advised not to speak of it. John is gone now and that was a long time
ago. (Out of respect for the descendants, I am not showing the states
they are connected to - my note.)
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