MR. MAGYER'S EMAIL AND PICTURE OF HIS JOHN MILLIGAN'S GRAVESITE IN WEST VIRGINIA ARE BELOW:

Rootsweb Database on John Milligan

1. John MILLIGAN I, b. August 1751 in Down Co., Ireland, d. February 5, 1838, m. September 28, 1786 in Augusta County, VA to Isabella DOAK.
They had 5 children, most probably born in Virginia. 

1. Mary MILLIGAN, b. 1781
2. Hannah M. MILLIGAN, b. 1783
3. Hugh MILLIGAN, abt. 1786
4. Elizabeth MILLIGAN b. 1787
5. Sarah MILLIGAN, b. 1790

Marriage 2 Sarah ROBINSON married about 1793
1. James MILLIGAN, b. 1794
2. Ruth MILLIGAN b. 1797
3. John MILLIGAN II, b. 1799 in Tridelphia Ohio Co., VA, d. February 12, 1867 in Lawrence Co., AR, m. 1818 to Eda A. JEFFERY.
4. George MILLIGAN, b. 1802
5. Lydia MILLIGAN, b. 1804


Skip Magyer

Hi Joe,
 I'd like to correct a mistake that hass been floating around on Rootsweb and other places for years. It concerns Isabel/Isabella Doak and her husband
 John Milligan. It also appears at the following link on one of your webpages:  http://www.joepayne.org/doak.htm
 
The error is where it says: 
1. John MILLIGAN I, b. August 1751 in Down Co., Ireland, d. February 5, 1838, m.September 28, 1786 in Augusta County, VA to Isabella DOAK. They had 10 
children, most probably born in Virginia. 
Isabel Doak did marry a John Milligan (MILLIKEN), just not THIS John Milligan. This John Milligan, born in County Down, Ireland in Aug. 1751, is my 4th great 
grandfather. My line goes through John's oldest daughter as shown below:
John Milligan and Sarah Robinson
   Mary Ann Milligan and George Giffen
      Robert Giffen and Sarah Hinkle
         William Harvey Giffin and Sarah Griffith
            William Piper Giffin and Linnie Dale Hepburn
               June Giffin and Joseph B. Magyar (my parents)
                  Joseph B. "Skip" Magyar, Jr. (me)

Essie Milligan from Caddo Co, OK and Jane Carson Topoly of Newburg, PA did a tremendous amount of Milligan research in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Prior to this research, it was believed that John Milligan's first wife was Isabella Doak. This was based on a marriage record for a John Milligan and 
Isabella Doak in Berkeley Co, VA in the 1786. Essie disproved this theory when she found John and Isabella Doak Milligan's tombstones in rural
Tennessee. Different John!. Besides which the time frame would not fit with the birth of John's children or his location before coming to Ohio Cointy, (W)VA.

I have attached a recent photo (Feb.  1, 2006) I took of  my ancestor, John Milligan's gravestone in Stone Church Cemetery in Elm Grove, West Virginia. The flag
holder says 1776 signifying John's service in the Revolutionary War. According to his Revolutionary War pension application, John emigrated to America in his 20th
year, landed at New Castle, DE, lived in PA for two years, then moved to Berkeley Co, VA where he resided until 1792 when he removed to Ohio Co, VA. 
On 6 Feb 1792, John purchased from William and Jinny Wilson, for 75 £, 100 acres of land on Peter's Run in Ohio Co, VA.
 
Stone Church Cemetery is only a few miles from where I live in Shadyside, Ohio. Next to John is a stone that reads, Sarah, wife of John Milligan, but the dates are 
unreadable.
John and his wife Sarah Robinson had 10 children, the oldest of which, as I mentioned, was Mary Ann Milligan who was born about 1780 in Berkeley County, VA. 
She married George Giffen and they moved from Ohio County, VA (West Virginia today) to Belmont County, Ohio around 1800.
They were my 3rd great grandparents.
 
I'd be happy to supply any addition information you need.

Best regards,

Skip Magyar
Shadyside, Ohio
740-676-0818
Revolutionary War hero/soldier
from Northern Ireland

Enlisted August 1775. Private for 1 year in Captain Hugh Stephenson's company, Colonel Rawlings regiment.

1776 - Served 5 months under Captains Smyser & Swope in Colonel Swope's regiment

1781 - Served 2 months in Captain Isaac Evans' Company

Records in the State Library of Virginia show that John Milligan enlisted in the Army in 1775 for 1 year and at the end of that time, re-enlisted for three years. Was discharged after that and in Jan. 1781, re-enlisted and served to the end of the war.

1. John MILLIGAN II, and Eda A. JEFFERY, b. June 1800 in TN, d. 1886 had 13 children, most of which were probably born in Arkansas, or on the way to Arkansas.

  1. Mary Ann MILLIGAN, b. 1819
  2. Hulda MILLIGAN, b. 1820
  3. James Lancer MILLIGAN, b. 1823 in AR, m. December 17, 1840 to Edith Eveline SEXTON
  4. Ellis R. MILLIGAN, b. 1825
  5. Israel MILLIGAN, b. 1827 at Reeds Creek, Lawrence Co., AR, d. December 7, 1887, in Sharp Co., AR, m. December 23, 1847 to Clarissa DUKE
  6. John MILLIGAN, Jr., b. 1829
  7. George Washington MILLIGAN, b. 1831
  8. Eady MILLIGAN, b. 1832
  9. Sarah Jane MILLIGAN, b. 1834
  10. Melissa Aveline MILLIGAN, b. March 18, 1837, d. May 25, 1862, m. May 11, 1854 to Enoch SOFLEY
  11. Lydia MILLIGAN, b. 1839
  12. Elvira MILLIGAN, b. 1841
  13. Andrew J. MILLIGAN, b. 1844, m. November 28, 1866 to Mary SMITHEE

I am related to the Israel MILLIGAN line through his wife, Clarissa DUKE, as she was the sister of my ggg grandmother's sister, and through Melissa Aveline MILLIGAN, as she is my ggg grandmother. I hope that this information is helpful to someone else, and if they see anything they need or want more info on, please let me know.

Again, thanks Joe, for your help!

Regina

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