Edith Pearl Rennison (1908- ? ) was a descendant of the Adams, Osborn and Rennison families. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and traced her ancestry to William Adams and Thomas Osborn of Connecticut and William Rennison of Northern Ireland. In the 1960s and 1970s Edith Rennison compiled genealogies of the families of these men. William Adams ( ? -1793) married Susanna Bronson ( ? -1812) probably in Waterbury, Connecticut ca. 1739-1740. It was their son John (1751/2-1826) who migrated into the Western Reserve in 1810, settling on a farm near Columbia in 1811. Thomas Osborn (1775-1832) purchased land from the Connecticut Land Company and migrated into what is now known as Columbia Station, Ohio, prior to 1812. William Rennison (1803-1886) migrated first to Canada with his wife Margaret McBride (1798-ca. 1862) in 1846, then to Olmsted Falls, Ohio, thirty years later to join his children Stephen and Alecia.
The Edith Pearl Rennison Papers, 1913-1975, consist of family genealogies and historical anecdotes relating primarily the experiences of these families as well as original mortgage and warranty deeds.
This collection pertains primarily to Edith Rennison's genealogy and to the experiences of these families in western and southern Cleveland, Ohio, area communities such as Olmsted Falls, North Olmsted, Bay Village, Columbia Township, Middleburg, and Ridgeville.
The collection is arranged by document type and surname and is maintained in four folders.
Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1989.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4364 Edith Pearl Rennison Genealogical Papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Edith Rennison, l979.
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