Whether Lurannah Chenoweth Wilson was a grandmother or aunt to Matilda Jane, their genetic match confirms Matilda Jane's connection to a migratory branch of the Chenoweths. Lurannah Chenoweth was a daughter of Isaac Chenoweth (1752-1792) and Sarah Lane (1747-1830). She and three of her siblings, all born in a section of Virginia that is now included in West Virginia, formed lifelong bonds that were almost clannish in nature, living near or in one another's homes, marrying closely, and relocating from one common area to another. By the early 1820, two of the four - Lurannah and her husband Zachariah Wilson, along with her sister Elizabeth Chenoweth (1787 - 1860) and her husband Robert Gordon Jr.(1783 - 1847), had moved from Virginia to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and then to adjacent counties in Ohio, Before long they were joined in Ohio by their brother Isaac Chenoweth (1772 - 1850) and his wife Sarah Bailey (1795 - 1854), and in the mid-1830s by their other brother, Edward Chenoweth and Mary Wilson.
Lurannah Chenoweth's husband, Zachariah Wilson, was a 60-day draftee in the Revolutionary War, (6) a weaver by trade, and the brother of Edward Chenoweth's wife Mary Wilson. They were Guernsey County pioneers, having moved to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1813 when the county was a wilderness. (7) In 1825, when Matilda Jane was born, the Wilsons were in Guernsey County while the Gordons were in adjacent Muskingum County. By then, the relationship between the sisters had become especially close; Elizabeth attended to Lurannah as she gave birth to her third daughter, and was with Lurannah when Zachariah died in 1828. (8) There is a suggestion, admittedly speculative but nonetheless probable, that Matilda Jane's birthplace was the home of Elizabeth Chenoweth Gordon.
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