| John Loar (1782-1867) came from Brooke County, West Virginia before it was divided from Virginia. This is the panhandle of West Virginia with Pennsylvania on one side and Ohio on the other. He migrated into Ohio and lived there as a married man and had several children in Ohio. Later he moved to Indiana. Finally in the late 1820s or early 1830s, he came down river to Louisiana. He settled in Plaquemines Parish, purchased land and also took out a Federal land grant to land which is located on territory which is the Bohemia Wildlife sanctuary today and was located across from Port Sulphur approximately. Its location is Sect 18 of T 18 S Range 15E. He became a rice planter and in the 1850 census is listed as owning property worth $5,000.00. He was married twice and had children from both marriages. He went blind during the last years of his life and died in 1867. He was born either in Pennsylvania or West Virginia shortly after the American Revolution. He moved into Ohio in the early settler days and into Indiana when it was still a raw frontier. Finally, around the end of 1820, he came down river to Louisiana, probably attracted by the opening of federal land for sale after all the claims left over from the Spanish period had been settled in Louisiana. He died a few years after the Civil War had ended and quite a number of his children had died or returned to Indiana. He had traveled from the upper reaches of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Mississippi River - he was a true pioneer. (Source: Joy Jackson) This register report now contains the Zachariah Loar Family that was part of the Genealogy Page put online 11 Jul 2001. I received a marriage record that lists Zachariah Loar's parents as Peter and Frances Howlett Loar. Peter Loar is the 7th child of John Loar the Head of this family. The "One Louisiana Loar Family" register report and many records prepared by Patty Spongia Loup was the foundation for building this Online Register Report for John Loar. Special thanks go to Gladys Stovall Armstrong, Mark Chatelain, Bonnie Hingle Creamer, Amy Lynn Fischer, Charlene Loar Hoxmeier, Albert Loar, Andrew Thomas Loar III, Beverly Loar, James Loar, Jr., Rodney Loar, Betty Loar Millien, Sharon Loar Romero, Peggy [Loar] Sajevic, Jeanette Tabony, Cornelia Warner, Doris Marilynn Loar Williams, and Gerry Yost for their family information. If you think that you are a member of this family and want to know more please email me at the address listed below. Enclose in your email your name, your parents' names and dates, and your grandparents' names and dates (if known). This will help find a connection to this family or other Loar families on which I maintain data. CAUTION: The information in this register report is based on a number of sources. Genealogists do not consider some of these sources as primary sources. Care must be taken when using this data as errors could be transferred to your records. |
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