Emily Rebecca Lusk, my mom's Great-Grandmother Becky, was the last person to
carry the Lusk name in our family.
Becky said her father's name was Jonathan . . . and that was as much as we knew
when the genealogy bug bit us.
There is no totally solid documentary evidence linking us to anyone before Jonathan,
but there is pretty good circumstantial evidence
which takes us back as far as Samuel and Susannah Stephenson Lusk.
Before that, all is confusion.
My Line
Emily Rebecca Lusk - 1854 Indiana -1942 Illinois/Indiana
children
husband John Darr
Jonathan Lusk ~1831 Kentucky - ~1869 Illinois
children
wife Nancy Conner
military file
Andrew Lusk ~1804-10 Virginia - ~1840-50 Indiana
children
wife Charlotte Hull
Samuel Lusk ~1776 Virginia - ~1845 Kentucky
timeline
children - extra info about son Harrison's descendants
wife Sarah Bailey
Samuel's Indian Captivity - 4 versions
Samuel Lusk ~1747-1792 Virginia
David Lusk
parents of Samuel? - with the new DNA evidence (that we are not related to the William-of-Chester line) this needs to be updated, so I have taken it down for now.
wife Susannah Stevenson
Other Lusks
It has long been thought that our people (descendants of Samuel Lusk and Susannah Stevenson) were connected to the William-of-Chester line BUT Recent DNA tests (Nov 2007) show the descendants of David Lusk (Samuel's son) to be a distinct line. Sigh. For now I have taken down these pages - I needed to update them anyway and with gardening season approaching, I probably won't get to them for a while.
William of Chester
sons: David
James
Samuel
John
William
Hugh
Nathan
Nathan's James
Nathan's John
Information Arranged Geographically:
Illinois Lusks
Indiana Lusks
Kentucky Lusks arranged by county
arranged by date
Missouri Lusks
John C
John - Jean Boyd
Other Lusks (1860)
North Carolina Lusks
arranged by name, county and date
Ohio Lusks
William
sons of William
Charles
Polly
John C
Other Auglaize Lusks / Other Ohio Lusks (census index listings)
Pennsylvania Lusks arranged by county and date
South Carolina Lusks
Tennessee Lusks
arranged by name, county and date
Virginia Lusks
arranged by county, with some general Virginia information at the end
West Virginia Lusks
Helpful websites
Stanley Lusk
Mike Lusk
A Deason Smith - "The Descendants of Joseph Lusk"
Walter Bailey - "The Bailey Coulter Archives"
Chalkley's Chronicles - Augusta County, Virginia
Regarding the origins of the Lusk name - link
contact me at: lee@leesgenes.com
page last updated 30 March 2008