Raney, Dyson & Dougan Family Tree

Artist: Norman Rockwell

I feel we're losing track of individual ancestors as we go up and down our ancestral branches so, despite its being rather boring, I'm going to set out our family tree for your future reference. Our family has deep roots in Colonial America. Many of our ancestors were illiterate and led uneventful lives, but sometimes circumstances forced them to come forward to participate in a war, a movement or an event. I'm not finished telling our family stories - but I am taking a deep breath.

A portion of our family tree on Ancestry.com, using my mom Geneva as starting point.

I'll begin with our Raneys, but won't travel very far up that branch because I'm still uncertain of the missing link between James Rainey and his forebears. Remember, if you are not my first cousin, but a 2nd or 3rd cousin, you'll have to add a "great" or "two greats" to the designations of our ancestors. I'll also branch up into the Dysons and Dougans. Pay attention to what they died of - high blood pressure appears to be the bete noir of our family : 

Frank and Mary (Smith) Raney

1. Our grandfather, Frank Whitman Raney (1888 Princeton, Gibson Co., IN - 1969 Spokane, WA), married June 1910 in Fredonia, Kansas, Mary Emma Smith (18 Jul 1882, Fredonia, Wilson Co. KS - 10 May 1979, Spokane, WA); Mary died at age 97. Her parents were Eugene Smith (Schmitt) (1850 Shelby Co., Ohio - 1928 Spokane, WA) and Louisa (Petitjean) Smith (1849, Belfort, Franche-Comté, France - 1931 Spokane, WA), our great-grandparents. The Schmitts and Petitjeans and their forebears were French Catholics.

Mary, Eugene, Laura, Gusta, Louisa (Petitjean) Smith

James Eugene Raney (1911-1921)

     1) James Eugene Raney (8 Apr 1911, Fredonia, KS - 8 Sept 1921, Spokane, WA; died from sepsis subsequent to foot puncture from barnyard wire). 

Louise, Geneva, Paul, Mary Agnes, Denny Raney

     2) Paul Whitman Raney ( 14 Feb 1913, Fredonia, KS - 23 Dec 2005, Maricopa Co, AZ). Died of a stroke at 92.  Married 2 Jul 1934, Spokane, WA, Grace Bernhardt (13 Apr 1914, Duluth, St. Louis Co., MN - 9 Apr 1989, Seattle, WA). After her death he married a second time.

         a. Children: Patrick; Sandra; Larry (1942-2008), died of cancer; Paula; Michele.

    3) Dennis Patrick "Denny" Raney (13 Oct 1915, Princeton, Gibson Co., IN - 17 Sept 1991, Spokane, WA); married on 11 Nov 1938 in Kellogg, ID, Junice Vivian Moe (28 Aug 1916, Maple Creek, Sask., Canada - July 2012, Spokane WA). Junice died at age 95.

          a. Children: Dennis "Jack"; Franklin "Frank" (1942-2012); died of neck trauma from bicycle accident;  Mary Jean; Geraldine; Kathleen.

     4) Louise Ann Raney (5 Apr 1918, Princeton, Gibson Co., IN - 12 Sep 1949); died on Highway 10, Newman, WA in a one-car rollover; married Donald Wayne Hunter (1917 Spokane, WA - 30 Dec1996, Oregon).

        a. Children: Nancy (1938-2003) died of renal failure; James; David (1945-2015) died of complications from MS; Douglas; Dale.

    5) Mary Agnes Raney (12 June 1921, Spokane, WA - 4 Aug 2003, Spokane, WA); died of complications from breast cancer;  married on 1 June 1940 in Spokane, WA, Omer J. "Red" Charbonneau (6 Jul 1917, Rolette Co, ND - 2 Feb 1987, Spokane, WA); died of a stroke.

         a. Children: Charles "Chuck"; Richard; John (1943-2001), died of cancer;  Thomas; Gregory; Nicholas; Paul; Sharon; Steven.

     6) Geneva Elizabeth "Jean" Raney (20 Mar 1925, Spokane, WA - 4 June 2014, Post Falls, Kootenai Co, ID); died of complications from dementia at age 89; married 20 Nov 1944 in Spokane, WA, Albert Joseph Charbonneau (cousin of Omer) (28 Feb 1921, St. John, Rolette Co., NC - 23 Oct 1994 Kootenai Co, ID); died of a heart attack.

         a. Child: Karen "Kerry."

 

2. Frank Whitman Raney's father was our great-grandfather, James Samuel Raney (1868 Pike Co., IN - 1954 Spokane, WA). Married 7 Sept 1887, Pike Co., IN, Nancy Ann Dyson (1867 Pike Co. IN - 1938 Gibson Co, IN); she died of a stroke. He married a second time in old age.

Jame Samuel, Great-aunt Esther, Nancy (Dyson) Raney

    Children:

      1) Frank Whitman Raney (26 Aug 1888, Princeton, Gibson Co, IN - 23 Oct 1969, Spokane, WA). Died of kidney or liver failure (I think).

      2) Claude Raney (c1890 Gibson Co., IN - bef. 1900 Gibson Co., IN)

     3) Laura Esther Raney (1902 Gibson Co., IN - 1953 Princeton, Gibson Co, IN). Married and divorced Jess L. Kolk. Married Everett Straw late in life. Great Aunt Esther died of a brain aneurysm, the weakened arteries in the Circle of Willis now considered a hereditary condition.

          a) Walther James Kolk (c.1919 - c.1921)

3. James Samuel Raney's father was our 2nd great-grandfather, Everett Rainey (changed spelling of surname to Raney) (1844 Pulaski County, KY - 1899 Blodgett, Scott County, MO); married 1st on 12 Dec 1865, upon returning from serving with the 91st Indiana Regiment (1862-65) in the American Civil War), Nancy Jane Dougan (1847 Warrick Co., IN - c.1876 in a house fire, Monroe Township, Pike Co, IN).

    Everett and Nancy (Dougan) Raney's children:

     1) Sarah Raney (1867 IN - c1876 Monroe Township, Pike Co, IN in the house fire with her mother)

     2) James Samuel Raney (1868 Pike Co., IN - 1954 Spokane, WA); died of complications from diabetes.

     3) Cordelia "Della" Raney (1872 Warrick Co., IN - 1955 Lawrence Co, IL). Married Asa Gibson Nichols (1874-1947). 

Everett married 2nd on 28 Feb 1877,  Mary Ann "Polly" Early, 1856 IN - 1941 Scott Co., MO.

     4) Henry Raney (1880 IN - 1933 WI)

     5) Rose "Rosie" J. Raney (1883 IN - 1948)

     6) Alminta Mae Raney (1884 IN - 1973)

     7) Cora E. Raney (1888 IN - death unknown)

     8) Rebecca S. Raney (1889 IN - 1965)

4) Everett Rainey's father was our 4th great-grandfather James Rainey (1814 KY - before 1870 Pike Co., IN). He married in 1832 in Pulaski Co., KY, Milla "Millie" Roberts (c1808 - after 1880 Pike Co., IN); in the 1880 census she was suffering from being "struck by thunder" (stroke). Milla's father was John Roberts (c1771 in what became Hawkins Co., TN - 1857 Pulaski Co., KY) and Jane "Jennie" Patton (1775 - after 1860 Pulaski Co., KY), our 4th great-grandparents.

   James' and Millie's children:

    1) Absolom E. "Al" Rainey (1833 Pulaski Co., KY - 1907 Warrick Co., IN); married in IN Sept 1853 Mary Jane Riddle; died of acute cerebral meningitis.

    2)  James C. Rainey (c1836 Pulaski Co., KY - 1884 Kenton Co., KY); married Sarah Ann Taylor.

    3)  Larkin Rainey (c1838 Pulaski Co., KY - 1914, Gibson Co, IN); married 1858 in Pike Co., IN Eleanor "Ellen" Lance (1840-1863); he married 2nd 1864 in Pike Co. Eleanor's sister, Martha Lance Ambrose (1844-1880);  he died at the county farm. 

    4)  Sarah A. Rainey (1840 Pulaski Co., KY - 1881 Pike Co., IN); married Civil War veteran John Miller in 1864.

    5)  Cordelia Ann Rainey (1842 Pulaksi Co. Ky - 1920 Pike Co., IN; married 1870 in Pike Co., IN,  Civil War veteran Robert Barrett; died at the Pike Co. Asylum (I assume she had dementia).

    6)  Serena Susanna Rainey (1843 Pulaski Co., KY - 1923 Lewis Co., KY); married 5 Dec. 1865 in Pike Co., IN, Civil War veteran William H. Mason of Buckskin, IN (this must be Everett's best friend "Buck" that our grandfather spoke of, saying they went through the war together, although Mason was in the 42d Indiana Regiment, and that "Buck" married Everett's sister at the same time Everett married Nancy); Serena died from influenza and "of old age."

    7)  Everett Rainey (1844 Pulaski Co., KY - 1899 Blodgett, Scott Co., MO); married 12 Dec 1865 in Pike Co., IN, Nancy Jane Dougan; after her death he married Mary "Polly" Early in 1877. A poignant discovery as I write this - Casey Bricker, a volunteer for "Find a Grave" copied a paragraph of Pat Raney's story on Everett's death from my blog and published it with the photo of his grave. HERE

    8)  Elizabeth Rainey (1847 Pulaski Co., KY -  1924 Posey Co., IN); married Civil War veteran William Heath between1865 and 1871in Pike Co., IN;  died of kidney disease.

    9)  Malvina Rainey (1852 Warrick Co., IN - 1888 Pike Co., IN); married 1878 in Pike Co., IN, David Hanover. It was Malvina who cared for her mother Millie (Roberts) Raney at her death; Malvina died after the birth of a child.

Dyson Family Tree

1. Our grandfather Frank Whitman Raney's mother was our great-grandmother Nancy Ann Dyson (1867 Pike Co., IN - 1938 Patoka, Gibson Co., IN); married 1888 in Pike Co. James Samuel Raney. She died of a stroke. 2. Nancy Ann Dyson's father was our 2nd great-grandfather Whitman Hill Dyson (1836 Warrick Co., IN - 1914 Pike Co., IN). He married 1st in 1858 in Warrick Co., IN, our 2nd great-grandmother Elizabeth "Ella" Turpin (1841 Owen Co., IN - bef 1870), daughter of Moses Turpin (1812 Pulaski Co., KY - 1892 Decatur Co., Iowa) and Frances "Frankie" Utterback (1818 Woodford Co., KY - 1865 Decatur Co., Iowa), our 3rd great-grandparents. It was William Turpin (1640-1685), our 9th great-grandfather, who came as an indentured servant to Maryland from Oxfordshire, England, in 1661  (his voyage paid for); served 7 years before being granted 50 acres and married Margaret Ivory (1654-1721). As for the Utterbacks, our 9th great-grandfather Hermann Otterbach (1663-1748 in what became Prince William Co, VA) and his family emigrated from Trupbach, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1714 at the invitation of Virginia's royal governor Alexander Spotswood to work his iron mines. The colony established Germanna, Virginia. They were of the German Reformed religion, a branch of Presbyterianism.

  Children (our great-great aunts and uncles): 

     1)  Mary Dyson (1856-??); married Timothy Wiry (she is on Whitman Hill Dyson's 1860 census, but perhaps from an earlier marriage or was a niece)

     2)  Clary A. Dyson (1857 Pike Co. - ??) (also on 1860 census, perhaps from an earlier marriage or a niece)

     3)  Alice "Alsie" A. Dyson (1859 Pike Co. - ??)

     4)  Margaret Ellen Dyson (1861 Pike Co. - 1944 Park Co., IN); married William Butler; suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis for 10 years, but immediate cause of death was influenza, which turned into bronchial pneumonia.

     5)  Sarah Elizabeth Dyson (1865 Pike Co. - 1940, Pike Co., IN); married James Bass; died of liver cancer (of "long" duration, but the two people I've known with liver cancer died within 6 months of its discovery).

     6)  Louann Dyson (1866 Pike Co. - 1943, Posey Co., IN); married William Leach; died after 17 years of severe arthritis.

     7)  Nancy Ann Dyson was the youngest of this first family, born in 1867. Her mother died shortly thereafter and Whitman Hill Dyson married 2nd in January 1871 in Pike Co. Sarah Jane Combest Roy (about 1837 Ky - 1886 Pike Co., IN). She came into the marriage with children, including her deaf and dumb daughter, Sarah Ellen "Ella" Roy (1865 Pulaski Co., KY - 1934 Warrick Co. IN).

     8)  Willard Jackson Dyson (1879 Pike Co. - 1936 Gibson Co., IN); married Lucy May Nalley; died of a heart attack.

       After Sarah's death in 1886, Whitman solved the dilemma of having an unmarried non-blood female living in his house. He married Sarah Ellen Roy in 1888.

    9)  Grover Dyson (1890 Pike Co. - 1957 Evansville, IN); married Pearl Reed.

  10)  Joseph Alva Dyson (1891 Pike Co. - 1970 Pike Co. IN); married Margaret Riddle; died of a cerebral thrombosis (stroke)

  11)  Lydia Dyson (1893-1896)

  12)  John Whitman Dyson (1897 Pike Co. - 1971 Evansville, IN); married Charity Nixon and then Gladys Roy; died of pancreatitis.

  13)  Leonard Cleo Dyson (1901 Pike Co. - 1977 Evansville, IN); married Nellie Pearl Woolsy; died of acute pulmonary edema (from congestive heart failure)

Joseph Alva, Ella, Willard, Whitman, and Grover Dyson c1896

3. Whitman Hill Dyson's father was our 3rd great-grandfather, William Hill Dyson (1801 St. Mary's Co., MD - 1870 Warrick Co., IN); married in 1826 in Union Co., KY Alice Julian (1806 Rutherford Co., NC - after 1870 Warrick Co., IN), daughter of Methodist minister Samuel Denton Julian (1780 Rutherford Co., NC - 1851 Warrick Co., IN) and Mary Condry (Condrey) (1786 NC - 1854 Warrick Co., IN), our 4th great-grandparents. The name Whitman came from Alice's brother Whitman Julian (1809-1849). The Julians descended from our 7th great-grandfather Rene Julian (c1665-8 Vitre, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France - 1745, Winchester, Frederick Co., VA) and his father Pierre de St. Julien, French Hugeunots, who sought religious freedom, arriving in South Carolina in 1694, then resettled in Maryland and finally in Virginia. William Hill and Alice Dyson had 5 daughters and three sons.

4. William Hill Dyson's father was our 4th great-grandfather, Bennett Dyson (1768 Frederick Co [became Montgomery Co]., MD - after 1840 Union Co., KY); married Elizabeth Warman (1770 MD - c1825 Union Co., KY). Elizabeth's 2nd (and our 8th) great-grandfather Stephen Warman (1631 London, England - 1695 Anne Arundel Co., MD) emigrated to America in 1660.

5. Bennett Dyson's father was our 5th great-grandfather, Maddox Dyson (1744 Charles Co., MD - 1820 York Co., SC); married widow Jean Turner Swann (1736 Prince George's Co., MD - 1778 Frederick Co., MD). Bennett Dyson served in the Revolutionary War (3rd Co., Upper Bn, Montgomery Co. troops of Maryland Line). He had four children by Jean and three children by his second wife Elizabeth.

6. Maddox Dyson's father was our 6th great-grandfather Thomas Dyson (1715 Charles Co., MD - 1757-8, Charles Co., MD); married in 1740 Mary Ann Maddox (1718, Charles Co., MD - 1784, Charles Co., MD); they had ten children. Mary Ann's parents were Benjamin Maddox (Maddocks) (1693, Charles City, VA - 1770 Charles Co., MD) and Frances Posey Wheeler (1695 Charles Co., MD - 1785 Charles Co., MD), our 7th great-grandparents. It was Benjamin's father Cornelius Maddox (Maddocks) (1661 Eastbourne, Sussex, England - 1705 Port Tobacco, Charles Co., MD), who immigrated to America in 1680 and married Mary Smallwood (1670-1736). Her father Col. James Smallwood arrived in Maryland from Cheshire, England in 1664 and married Hester Evans (our 9th great-grandparents).

7. Thomas Dyson's father was our 7th great-grandfather Thomas Dyson (1688 possibly Inkberrow, Worceshire, England - 1759 Charles Co., MD). His wife was Sarah Swann, whose grandfather (our 9th great-grandfather), Edward Swann arrived in Maryland from Kent, England about 1653, and married Hannah Heath from Surrey, England. 

8. This Thomas Dyson's father was our 8th great-grandfather Thomas Dyson (Dison) (1657 possibly Inkberrow, Worceshire, England - 1709 Charles Co., MD). He and wife Ann Walford emigrated to Maryland from England in 1694. The Dyson family and spouses were of the Anglican faith until they migrated beyond the Appalachians. The Great Awakening affected the religious beliefs of many Americans, converting them toward more fundamentalist religious thought, such as the Baptist religion, into which our grandfather Frank Whitman Raney was born.

 

Before I had the DNA of cousins Pat Raney, his sister Michele Raney Betts, Jack Raney, and Paul Charbonneau,  I only suspected that James Dougan (1754-1837) was our 5th great-grandfather. We inherited such a nice mix of inherited DNA, it's with a sigh of relief I now claim without hesitation that James Dougan, fierce patriot of the American Revolutionary War, is our 5th great-grandfather, whom I wrote about last year HERE 

Dougan Family Tree

Beginning with our great-granfather, James Samuel Raney (great-grandfather) mother Nancy Jane Dougan, here is the Dougan line:

1. Nancy Jane Dougan (1847 Warrick Co, IN - c1876 Pike Co., IN); died in house fire; married Everett Rainey 12 Dec 1865.

2. Nancy Dougan's father (3rd great-grandfather) Samuel B. Dougan (c1820, possibly Franklin Co, TN - died c1872-80 Pigeon, Warrick Co, IN); married in 1847 in Warrick Co., IN Mary "Polly" Erwin (c1817 Ohio Co., KY - c1850 Warrick Co, IN). Polly Erwin's parents were William Erwin (c1790 VA - c1855 Warrick Co., IN) and Elizabeth Whittinghill (1794 VA - 1859 Union Co., Ohio), our 4th great-grandparents. Elizabeth's father Peter Whittinghill (1752-1844 Warrick Co., IN) served in the American Revolutionary War on the Virginia Line.

     Samuel B. and Polly Dougan's children: 

               1)  Peter Dougan (1845-1922) served in the American Civil War; died of mitral regurgitation (valve disease) and perenchymatous nephritus (kidney disease).

                      2)  Nancy Jane Dougan (1847-c1876 in house fire). Married Everett Rainey.

       Samuel B. Dougan married 2) Mary Ann Shoulders (1832-1919) in 1851.

                      3)  Sarah Ellen Dougan (1856-1881)

                      4)  Mary C. Dougan (1857-1930); died of pneumonia.

                      5)  Sophrona Dougan (1860 - bef 1880)

                      6)  Isaac Monroe Dougan (1862-1933); died of complications from diabetes

                     7)  Ella Mariah Dougan (1865-1920); died of myocartitis (inflammation of heart muscle) subsequent to contracting the Spanish influenza.

                     8)  Sherman T. Dougan (1867-1936); died of a stroke.

                     9)  Georgia F. Dougan (1873-1921); cancer of left kidney.

3. Samuel B. Dougan's father was our 3rd great-grandfather James Dougan, Jr. (c1782 Randolph Co, NC - 1827 Dyer Co., TN). Married in Logan Co., KY in 1797 Anne Cross (c 1781 - c1827). (I've yet to discover Anne's parents). After James and Anne's deaths, son John appears to have been reared by his grandfather James or an uncle in Franklin Co., TN; Charles Carl and Samuel B. migrated with Dougan relatives to southern Indiana. There may have been more children.

        Known children: 1) Charles Carl Dougan (c.1816 TN - 1896 Pike Co, IN).

                                    2) John Forrest Dougan (c1817 TN - 1886, AR) 

                                    3) Samuel B. Dougan (c1820 - c1872-80, Warrick Co. IN)

4. James Dougan, Jr.'s father was our 4th great-grandfather James Dougan (1754 Lancaster Co., PA - 1837 Franklin Co., TN); eventually attained a colonelcy in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War. He married in 1780 in Randolph County, NC, Hannah Sharp (1762 Somerset Co., PA - 1831 Franklin Co., TN). They had five sons and four daughters.

5. James Dougan's father was our 6th great-grandfather, Thomas Hill Dougan (1719 Donegal, Ireland - 1769 Randolph Co., NC). He married in Lancaster Co., PA in 1744 Mary Kerr (1726 probably Scotland - 1826, Randolph, NC).

6. Thomas Hill Dougan's father was 7th great-grandfather Thomas Dougan (1685 Donegal, Ireland - 1776, Randolph, NC). He married about 1705 in Donegal Eleanor O'Connor (1687 Donegal -1784 Randolph Co., NC). The Dougan family, Scots-Irish and Presbyterian, arrived in Philadelphia in 1731; most of the family resettled in Randolph Co. NC in the 1760s.

                                 

As you can see, there are still ancestors' identities to discover. If any of you Raney descendants want to add your DNA to our mix, you can order a DNA kit from Ancestry.com/DNA. When you register your kit, name as manager Karen Charbonneau at shipscatbooks@jrcda.com. You'll still have access to your results.  The  more DNA for our extended family I have access to, the easier it will be to pinpoint the identities of our ancestors, especially on the elusive Raney line.