The Rambo Family Tree

 Dawn Harvey is working on a book and found documentation showing several children for Jesse including more children for his known son George.

 Susan Alexander Herrera has found a family Bible record that declares the father of George to be Joel.  Now I need a copy of that from her to post here.

This blog is dedicated to DOCUMENTATION of any Rambo ancestor or descendant. Document jpegs and transcriptions are very much welcomed. Comments and questions will be acknowledged or answered sporadically, perhaps no more often than once a year.

This letter was written in 1772 by the trustees of Gloria Dei church in Philadelphia to Lawrence Rambo in Edgefield, SC naming his deceased brother and his sister. The Book needs this correction: Ann Rambo [#315] married Daniel Jones, not Ann Rambo [#334] The Jacob Rambo [#36] who died before 1772 was an uncle of Lawrence rather than his brother, so the church wardens missed that detail. This letter will soon appear in Volume 7 of the Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in Pennsylvania. 30 April 1772 : Letter, church wardens to Laurence Rambo [1] To Mr. Laurence Rambo in Granville County to the care of Mr. Tutt at the Ridge, South Carolina Enclose this letter and direct it to Mr. John Waggoner in Charlestown, South Carolina.                                                       Philadelphia, April the 30 th 1772 Mr. Laurence Rambo Dear Sir,         After some inquiry of Mr. Daniel Jones respecting your place of residence, we are with pleasure informed

By exhaustive study of the Wilkes County, Georgia Tax Records 1785-1805 published in 1996 by Frank Parker Hudson, Cynthia Forde has confirmed that there was only one adult Jacob Bankston in Wilkes County, Georgia before 1795.  Confusion arose from the fact that the militia districts changed from year to year, making it appear as if there were more than one Jacob Bankston.

This blog was prompted by the discovery by Katt Rambo of a court case in Sevier County, Tennessee discussing probate of property belonging to Henry Rambo deceased and naming his heirs, one of whom was Elias Rambo of Mississippi [#XXXXM] in the Rambo Family Tree, hereafter referred to as The Book.  One of his sisters named in the court case was Rona McCroskey and the 1850 census revealed her name to actually be Rheuhemiah McCroskey with a daughter of the same name.  From there it was a short jump to deciding that Jacob Rambo of North Carolina who married Rheuhemiah Sulcer and bought property in adjoining Sevier County Tennessee in 1810 must be the father.  So far, the name Rheuhemiah is the only proof of the relationship, but it is an incredibly unusual name. Unfortunately Jacob and Rheumehiah left very few footprints, their whereabouts are still mostly conjecture, and their dates and places of death are entirely unknown. Here are the jpegs: Katt, we need to add the URL of the sou