William Louk
This is likely William Lough (also known as Loak or Loch), the youngest son of Nicholas and Barbara (Ott) Loch, was born August 15, 1781 in Woodstock, Virginia (not long after his parents John Nicholas Loch and Barbara Ott moved to Virginia from Pennsylvania). He was the youngest child of his family and was conceived when his father was 50 years of age. William grew up in Virginia and spoke German until learning English when he attended school. At 27 years of age, he married Elizabeth Shoup, age 17, in 1808 in Rockingham, Virginia. William and his young wife were married by the Rev. William Bryan, a descendant of Cornelius and his Thomas Bryan. On the third of February 1809, they had a son named Levi Lough. Shortly thereafter, on the 15th of November 1810, less than three years after her marriage, his wife Elizabeth died. After the death of his young wife, William took his infant son to his father's home in Woodstock, Virginia, where he put him I charge of his sister, Betsy, who was unmarried. Aunt Betsy never did marry and she continued to live with Levi even after his marriage. After the death of his wife, Elizabeth, in November 1810, William apparently went to Kentucky where some members of his family had already moved. Evidently he did not want to settle there for he returned to the Virginia valley. Then in 1818, he moved with his father, Nicholas, his Aunt Betsy, and other members of his family, including his infant son, Levi, into Ohio. She also stated that Levi was carried in his father's arms as he rode horseback. With Elizabeth gone, William later married Mary Ann Bowman, age 21, on 15 June 1813. William served in the militia during the War of 1812.By 1815 there seemed to be no members of this family in Rockingham land inventories.
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