Samantha
Maybee - David Youmans Ancestry
by Jim Sauchyn
Samantha Maybee b. Ontario March
6 1839 and David Youmans b. Ontario 1834 were my great great grandparents.
Samantha was the great grandaughter of Capt. Abraham Maybee, United Empire
Loyalist and British agent (spy) in the American Revolution. Her parents
were Abraham Peter Maybee and Mary Campbell. David Youman's parents
were Eleazer Youmans jr. and Mary Magdeleine Laveck. His grandfather Eleazer
Youmans Sr. had come to Ontario from NY state after 1778, and probably
sometime in the 1780's. His great grandfather, (Eleazer Youman's Sr.'s
wife's father) was Samuel Smith UEL, b. about 1739 Kings co., Long Island
New York, d. 1797, Ontario. Samantha d. Feb. 1 1911 Denbigh, Ontario, and
David d. April 9 1912 Tweed, Ontario.
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This photo is of David and Samantha's
son Joseph Henry Youmans, left, b. July 6 1858, Ontario, d. Jan. 7 1938,
Belleville, Ontario. He was my great grandfather, and married Josephine
Lane Dec. 25 1880 in Denbigh, Ontario. With him are two Maybee first cousins,
David, middle, b. 1860, and Abe, right, b. 1858. They were likely the sons
of Samantha Maybee's brothers Henry and Malcolm, respectively. David was
the great grandfather of Fred Maybee who hosts this newsletter. |
The extended Youman's and Maybee's
families lived in close proximity in and around Lennox and Adddington county
in southern Ontario for many decades, both having arrived in the area before
1800. Thus we find several intermarriages between these families, as with
many other early Ontarian families. Samantha's brother Henry married 2nd(?)
Mary Magdeleine Youmans, and her brother Peter married 1st, Esther Youmans.
Mary and Esther were sisters, and daughters of Aaron Youmans who was David
Henry Youmans uncle. Thus, Mary and Esther were David Youmans 1st cousins,
and, sisters-in-law.
As evidenced by the photo of Joseph,
David and Abe, these Maybee-Youmans relatives would have been close friends,
and some, like these three men, had been born about the same time and probably
lived close to one another. Above is a photo of two unidentified young
ladies from my grandmother's collection, taken c. 1910-1915, who are thought
to be Maybee 2nd cousins of hers. According to a 2nd cousin of mine, my
grandmother and her siblings chummed around quite a bit with their Maybee
cousins when they were growing up in Ontario around the turn of the last
century, as had the generation before them. If anyone recognizes these
two I'd certainly appreciate knowing who they might be.
Jim Sauchyn
jsauchyn@compusmart.ab.ca |
