FAMILY TRAILS (as of 9/1/2002)

CUMMINGS/CUMMINS

We do not yet know the name of the Scottish immigrant that brought this line to America. But we do know that John Cummings and his wife, Martha, were both born in Pennsylvania around 1755. They raised their family in Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania until 1816, when they "removed" down the Ohio River to Franklin Co., Indiana. By 1875, their descendents had changed the spelling to Cummins and most had migrated on to Kansas, Illinois, and Missouri.
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HAMILTON

The Hamilton name supposedly derived originally from the lands of Hamildoun in Northumberland. This Hamilton family line is believed to have originated in Renfrewshire, Scotland, moving to Ireland in 16-17th century due to the political unrest at home. Robert Franklin Hamilton (1745-1822) lived in Dublin, Ireland. Robert had three wives, 22 sons and two daughters. There, the Hamilton family is thought to have become a strong influence in Irish politics. His youngest son, Robert Franklin Hamilton II, immigrated to the United States in 1791. This move was probably due to the lack of sufficient inheritance at home. Young Robert first settled in Charleston, South Carolina. By 1803, Robert had also married three times and had moved his large family to Buncombe Co., North Carolina. The Hamilton family lived in the area that eventually became Henderson Co., North Carolina.
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KRAFT

Ernst Kraft (1838-1894), immigrated from from Luedersfeld, Germany, in 1856. He met his wife to be, Charlotte Doering, aboard the ship New Orleans, when it departed Bremen and arrived in New Orleans, Lousiana. Both settled in Illinois, where they married in 1861. In 1878, the family migrated to Clearwater, Kansas.
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SMITH

Andrew Jackson Smith established his family line in Henderson County, North Carolina, by the mid 1800s.
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