The family of Thomas Rees and Hannah Rees

 In case you haven't noticed, this is not an easy family (Rhys, Rees, Reese) to follow.  Not only did cousins marry, but other family connections are also in the mix.  And then there's the matter of the names of the children.  I don't have enough fingers and toes to count all the Thomas, Hannah, Margaret, Morris, and so on Rees names that I've come across.  If a child wasn't named for their parent, then they were named for aunts and uncles, with only an occasional "where did that name come from" thrown in just to upset the apple cart.  

All this is to say, I've found a lot of errors in family trees and have probably made a few myself.  I started out with a list of 16 potential children for the family of Thomas and Hannah Rees Rees, but only have some degree of confidence about 8 of them, and the birthdates of each child could be wrong by a matter of years.  Thomas is the son of Thomas and Margaret Bowen Rees, and Hannah is the daughter of Morris and Sarah Butterfield Rees.  Thomas died in 1812 in Fairfield County, Ohio, and his wife probably died there too.  Thomas, at least, had been born in Chester County, Penssylvania, then went to Frederick County, Virginia, and they raised their family mostly in Washington County, Pennsylvania.  Thomas and Hannah would have been close to 70, or maybe a little older, when they moved to Fairfield County.  

Morris Rees was one son, born about 1757.  He died in 1842 in Fairfield County, Ohio.  His marriage was to Coracy or Corracy Townshend, the daughter of John and Hannah Richards Townshend.  As did his parents, he is considered a patriot in the American Revolutionary War, having suffered depredations in 1781, probably at the hands of one of the indigenous peoples loyal to and stirred up by the British.  Their children are John, Hannah, Mary, Thomas, Morris, Sarah, Coracy, Anna, Isaac, Gertie, a second Mary, and Lewis.

Thomas may have been born about 1759 and died in 1832.  He married twice.  His first wife is Ann Crumley, who may be the daughter of William and Hannah Mercer Crumley.  Their children are Nancy, Rachel, Jesse, Sarah, William, Solomon, Hannah, James, Thomas and Asenath.  His second wife is  Elizabeth Harlan, the daughter of George and Mary Harris Harlan.  They had one daughter together, Kessiah.  

Margaret was born about 1760 and died in 1845 in Fairfield County, Ohio.  She may have married Larkin Reynolds, but I've found no further information for that marriage.  She married James Hunter, the son of David and Martha Hunter.  The only child I've found for that couple was Thomas.  If seems likely that there are more children.

Jesse was born about 1767 and died in 1812 in Fairfield County, Ohio.  He married (are you ready for this?) Hannah Rees, the daughter of William and Keziah Pray Rees.  I have not yet determined which Rees family William belonged to.  Jesse's children are Rebecca, Hannah, John, Thomas, Maria, David, Elizabeth, Abner, and Margaret.  

There seems to have been a daughter Hannah, who married an Isaac Davis and then a Nathan Paxton, but I've not found children listed for either marriage.  Hannah's death date is given variously as 1820 and 1850, so it's quite possible that there are two Hannahs, mixed together.  In 1850, there was a Hannah Paxton living with Jesse and Sarah Greene, in Clark County, Ohio.  The census shows that she was born in 1774 in Virginia, so this could indeed be Hannah, and Sarah could possibly be a daughter.  Could and possibly, not is...

Mary was born about 1769 and died about 1775.

And then there is Solomon, who married Ann, and is a mystery to me.  I show him twice on our family tree, once as the son of Thomas and Hannah, and once as the son of Thomas and Margaret Bowen Rees.  Obviously, one of these is wrong.  But for the record, their children are Sampson, John, Sarah, Lydia, Owen, Hiram, and Rebecca.  

There may also be a daughter, Sarah, but I've found nothing definite about her.  

Even those these children mostly died less than 225 years ago, the records about them are not easily found.  I would so love to hear from others who can tell me more about this family.