SKETCHES OF THE O’REAR FAMILY — TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Acknowledgements

Foreward


*NEW* Family Sword pictures - courtesy of Dennis O'Rear

 

FAMILY ORIGINS, HISTORY, AND TRADITIONS

  • The O’Rear (Orear) Family, 1688-1800 - Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia.
  • Deposition of George Washington O’Rear
  • Tradition of Origin - by George M. O’Rear
  • Susan Marshall’s Letter (1900) about Origins of the O’Rear family.
  • John O’Rear, the Common Man?
  • The O’Rears, A Personality Sketch.
  • How do we spell our name?
  • Possible Location of the O’Rea family in Ireland - Dennis O’Rear May 1995

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    VIRGINIA PLANTATION AND MODERN LIFE

  • Neighbor Original Young and the Golden rule (1792)
  • Elizabeth Marshall Sues John O’Rear - or a Lesson Why You Should Not Sue Your Neighbor. 1761.
  • Daniel O’Rear’s will
  • Sheriff Benjamin Orear invents the reaper.
  • The Midas of Prince William
  • Until Death Us Do Part
  • John O’Rear, Poet

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    WARS OF THE REVOLUTION, 1812, AND WITH THE SEMINOLE INDIANS

  • Daniel O’Rear, Revolutionary War Patriot - as narrated in his pension application.
  • The Winning of the West. The O’Rears help by John, Jessie and Daniel O’Rear.
  • Daniel O’Rear Goes To War.
  • Major Enoch O’Rear and the War of 1812
  • George Washington O’Rear and the Seminole Indian War.

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    CROSSING THE ALLEGHENEY MOUNTAINS TO BOONESBORO AND OTHER SETTLEMENTS

  • William O’Rear, Tavern Keeper in Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1786
  • Politics, the Livestock Market, and General Andy Jackson in 1828 As Related by Irwin O’Rear
  • Courtship of John Orear, Mount Sterling Kentucky - 1836. Narrated by the Principals.
  • George O’Rear Goes to Boston
  • Senator William O’Rear and the Hog Market (1840)
  • Untimely Death of Albert O’Rear (1850)
  • Joe and John O’Rear make good.
  • Daniel O’Rear’s Carding factory, Montgomery County, Kentucky. (1865)
  • Believe it or not. -- Ripley’s.
  • Colonel Jerry O’Rear and the camp Meetings. -- 1840.
  • Ed O’Rear versus the Licking River -- 1882.

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    THE CIVIL WAR

  • A Hero of Chaplin River and Stone River -- Lieutenant George Washington O’Rear, C.S.A.
  • Christmas Story
  • John O’Rear was a Stubborn Man (1865)
  • From the Minutes of 1865 (The Blue Eye Baptist Church) Obituary of Captain Elisha O’Rear

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    AFTER THE WAR

  • Ed O’Rear and The Circus, 1873.
  • Jefferson Davis O’Rear Goes West:
  • The "Arkansas Thomas Cat."
  • My Grandfather’s Grandfather’s Clock
  • Newton O’Rear goes west.
  • Martin O’Rear Loved His Land

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    INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

  • Leslie O’Rear’s Namesake (The O’Rear - Leslie Building)
  • John O’Rear, U.S. Minister to Bolivia, 1917.
  • Early Female Liberation -- Helen O’Rear, First Female to Pilot an Airplane Over New York City (1915)
  • Antiques I have known. (Eleanor O’Rear and the Wilderness Trail) A Book Review.
  • Greg O’Rear and the Motorcycle
  • A million to one odds -- the recovery of John O’Rear’s Desk and papers by Colonel John O’Rear (1930)