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Lived in Oklahoma.

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Lebanon, MO Known as Jennie.

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Hillsboro, IL

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Lived in Oklahoma.

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Lebanon, MO

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Hillsboro, IL

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Located in Ross County, Ohio, by 1806, in the part that became Jackson County.

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Melissa West was the grand-daughter of George West who had been a Major in the Virginia Militia during the American Revolution.

She died in 1935 and is buried in Concord Cemetery beside her husband. Their farm house is still occupied today.

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Information provided by
Judy Narum Bray of Montana
kruzzin8859044@yahoo.com

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Killed by a train in Ansonia, OH. See article in Greenville (OH) Democrat, June 7, 1916, reprinted in Borror's corners No. 12, June 1991.

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William Riley Borror had two bothers, John and Alfred, who had walked the 600 miles from Pendleton Co., VA, to Montgomery Co., IL, to visit their sisters. In 1858, William Riley B. moved to the same area in IL with his family. In 1858, John and William moved by covered wagon and ox team to an area near Welda, KS, arriving October 8, 1859.

William was a corporal in Co. F, 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, during the Civil War, from Aug. 14, 1862 to May 24, 1864. When he returned home, he was nearly blind and his wife had died. He married Rebecca Norton Smith and had 7 children, for a total of 18 children.

After Rebecca died, William's brother Alfred was ill and advised his wife, Elizabeth, to look up his brother William if she decided to remarry, because he was available and wealthy. In June, 1907, he went to Illinois and brought Lizzy (or Bessie) back to Kansas as his third wife. She had been previously married to a Mr. Lloyd and then to William's brother Alfred. She was 63 and William was 88 and blind when they married. William died at age 93 and is buried at Springfield Cemetery, Garnett, KS.

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He was the son of a Methodist minister and moved to Columbus when his father became minister of the Linden Heights M.E. Church. He earned his BSc from Otterbein Collegein 1930 and PhD from Ohio State in 1935. He was an instructor in zoology at OSU from 1930 to 1959, when he became full professor. He retired in 1977. He served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946.

His major interest was in ornithology and he built the world's largest collection of recordings of bird songs. When he retired, his colection of recordings, publications, and equipment became the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics. housed in the Biological Sciences Building at OSU. He is featured in BC No. 12, June 1991.

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Mary Christina Borror was born at the home of her parents at 5765 Haughn Road, Grove City, OH. A 1925 graduate of Grove City High School, she was a lifelong attendee of Concord United Methodist Church. She worked at Orient State Hospital under the Foster Grandparents Program. She was known for her quilts and helping others to do quilting. She never married, and lived with her parents at the farm where she was born. After their deaths, she and her brother Arthur continued to live at the farm until 1967, when they moved to Darbydale, OH. She passed away in 1989 at a retirement home in Grove City.