Internet Resources - Bryant, Duncan, Mantooth , Traughber and Wells Branches
Our Roots
Our roots run deep
And time will keep
Our ancestors memories alive.
For this we strive
And genealogists thrive
Amidst the branches that creep
Where our ancestors sleep.
-- Diana Tolladay
You will notice as you read through the page - variations on how our surname is spelled. They appear in this page as they appeared on the document found.
A few words about the 1830 Book of Mormon and how it involves the Traughber's.
Traughber settlers in Macon County, Illinois. From History of Macon County, Illinois. With Illustrations Descriptive Of
Its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Phildelphia, 1880. p. 230 [Logan County] I found, REV. DANIEL TRAUGHBER was born in Logan county, Ky., in May, 1800, and came to Illinois in 1837 or '8, and settled on Big Creek, in Mt. Zion township. He married Mary Banks, in Kentucky, by whom he had four children - ELIZABETH married Robert Lansden, Wilson county, Kansas. GABRELLA married Robert Foster, Wilson couny, Kansas. HENRY married in Wilson county, Kansas. Mr. Traughber married a second time to Elizabeth Foster, by whom the following children were born - CYRUS lives at Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. Traughber married a third time to Eliza Smalley, by whom the following children were born - Mary A. married John Edwards; lives in Wilson county, Kan. DANIEL
B., dead. HARRIS lives in Wilson county, Kan. Mr. Traughber removed to Fredonia, Kas., in 1872.
The Traughber family owns/owned lands in downtown Dallas, near where the Texas School Book Depository is located. Here you'll find a current archeological dig going on to preserve Texan heritage. Warning* This is a very large file
You will notice as you read through the page - variations on how our surname is spelled. They appear in this page as they appeared on the document found. 