Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Indiana, Oregon

Thomas Zell was born probably in Pennsylvania, but died in Botetourt County, Virginia about 1810

His son Peter Duty was born in 1795 in Virginia and is the one that I am descended from. He married Catherine Graybill, in Virginia and they headed slowly westward. In the 1830's they were in Mahaska County, Iowa, the in the 1840's they were in Indiana. Two of his children made it to Linn County, Oregon in the early 1850's, others of the family joined them later. My 2nd-great-grandmother married in Kansas and never moved from Jefferson County in that state.

Return to the home page