The
farthest-back AYRES
I have is my great great great grandfather, John Chandler AYRES
1769-1852.
He is said to have been born in Virginia but I have not been able to
verify
that. In any case, he was in Belmont County, Ohio, by about
1814.
He spent most of his life in Ohio, but eventually moved to Iowa with
some
of his children, and died there in 1852.
It should be noted
that although the
original spelling was clearly Ayres, some branches of the
family eventually
came to spell it Ayers. They were not always consistent
in the early
days. In my data I have stuck with Ayres unless I know that the
individuals
involved in fact spelled it Ayers, in which case I have done so
too.
But they are all related.
John Chandler
Ayres's wife was
Frances Kendall FERGUSON ca 1788 - aft 1874. Some
sources say she
was born in Ohio but I suspect she was probably born in Virginia
too.
Neither is verified and I do not know who her parents were.
The children of John
Chandler AYRES
and Frances Kendall FERGUSON were:
William F. Ayres
b ca 1813
Margaret P. Ayres b ca
1814
Frances Kendal Ayres
b 1817 (my great great grandmother)
m George Washington
TAYLOR
Eliza Ayres b ca 1819
Betsey Ayres b ca 1820
John Wycliff Ayres b
8 Sep 1822
Benjamin Franklin Ayres
b 11 Apr 1825
Mary Scott Ayres b 26
Oct 1827 (twin)
Philander Chase Ayres
b 26 Oct 1827 (twin)
So this is where my
greatgrandfather TAYLOR's
given name, Chandler, came from. It pushes that problem back a
couple
of generations, but I still don't know whose, if anyone's, maiden name
was Chandler. Perhaps John Chandler AYRES's mother.
As anyone who has
explored my pages
knows, I like to include pictures of the ancestors. My latest
Ayres
ancestor was Frances Kendall Ayres, my great great grandmother,
the wife of George Washington Taylor. I
have no picture of her but as of Summer 2002, I now have a picture of
her
brother, John Wycliff Ayres b 8 Sep 1822, who died 14 Oct 1898
in Burrton,
Kansas:
