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==Ransom family==
Orrie's emigrating ancestor was Robert Ransom (b. 1598 Suffolk, Eng. - d. 1675 Plymouth, MA) who emigrated to the U.S. in 1654, as per ''Founders of Early American Families''. His first wife was Lucy Purefoy (b. 1590 Leicester, Eng. - d. 1657 Elizabeth City, VA). Their son Robert (b. 1636 Ipswich, [[England|Eng. - d. 1697 Plympton, Plymouth, MA) lived in Sandwich that first year (as per [as per Freeman's [https://archive.org/details/historyofcapecod01free History of Cape Cod] and was working as an apprentice to Thomas Dexter, Jr. in Plymouth, becoming a freeman in 1657. Subsequently he acquired a farm in Lakenham which merged in 1708 with Plympton. In spite of early troubles in Robert Jr.'s young adult years, as per [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/48312/images/FamWestNY-007590-195 Families of Western New York], he is credited with rearing "a large family of sons and daughters who appear to have been respected people who intermarried with the best families of the colony". In 1675, he was appointed one of four surveyors of highways of Plymouth. The paternal grandparents of Orrie were Miner Ransom (b. 1813 Plymouth, Luzerne, PA - d. 1897 Lanark, Carroll, IL) & Elizabeth Shonk Ransom (b. 1817 Sussex Co., NJ - d. 1895 Lanark, IL). Elizabeth Ransom's paternal grandfather was Johann "John" Martin Shonk/Schenck/Schanck (b. 1741 Oberriexingen, Wurttemberg, Germany - d. 1815 Hope, Warren, NJ) who, with his wife Dorothea and three grown children were members in the latter days of the Moravian Church there before relocating to Illinois. Hope was a Moravian settlement previously known as Greenland, the latter as a tribute to Samuel Green who, with his wife Abigail, "served as hosts for Moravian missionaries and Indians passing through n their way to the missions in New York and Connecticut", as per [https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/11263/images/dvm_LocHist002256-00004-1 History of Hope 1769-1808] (by Vernon H. Nelson). It was sold to the Moravian Church in 1769, and renamed "Hope" in 1775. The Revolutionary War broke out about this time, and the Moravians found themselves in an difficult position due to their pacifistic stance but enjoyed relative peace, and even had opportunity to house George Washington for several hours on July 26, 1782 when he was enroute from Philadelphia to Newburgh, NY after spending the night in another Moravian settlement of Bethlehem. In 1946, area Moravians (Riverside, Palmyra, Egg Harbor & Union) established [https://www.camphope.org/ Camp Hope], a youth camp on Little Silver Lake. In 1830, the Beetle family (Orrie's maternal ancestry) resided in Bedford, PA until between 1848-1850 when they moved to Dublin, OH. Then to Lee Co., Illinois until 1855 when they resettled to a farm near Leoni, Butler, IA. Orrie's maternal grandfather Andrew Beetle (b. 1813 PA - d. 1902 Clarksville, IA) was later a member of the [https://www.clarksvilleiowachurchofchrist.com/ Stone-Campbell movement] (CoC) in Clarksville. Orrie's maternal grandmother was Susanna Willis Beetle (b. 1820 PA - d. 1893 Clarksville, IA). Nothing further appears known in [https://www.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com] about Andrew or Susanna's ancestry. * Orvil "Orrie " Shonk Ransom (b. 1873 Jackson, Butler, IA - d. 1951), son of Charles Miner Ransom(b. 1841 Plymouth, Luzerne, PA - d. 1921 Clarksville, IA) & Ruth Ellen Beetle Ransom (b. 1850 Dublin, Mercer, OH - d. 1891 Clarksville, IA). In 1917, Orrie was farming near Gary, Deuel, [[South Dakota|SD]].
* Flora Lore Ransom
** Bernice Ransom Miller
