James Douglas Medaris 
James was born on March 16th, 1827 in Guilford County, North Carolina. James' father was James Davis Medaris and his mother was Levisa King. His paternal grandparents were Oliver Medaris and Wilmuth Redmond. He had eight brothers and a sister, named Jonathan, Ithamer, Riley, Salathiel, Massey, Stephen, Nathaniel, Abraham and Teancy. He was the second youngest of the ten children. He had a half-sister named Mary.General Notes
James was a minister and performed many marriages in Owen County, Indiana. James married Elizabeth Coble, his stepsister, and sister to his brother Stephen's wife Milly Coble.
James D. and Elizabeth moved from North Carolina to Spencer Ind. and the deed to their land was signed by Martin Van Buren in 1840.
Of their five daughters, four of them married one of "the Ring boys," four brothers. The Ring boys (with Medaris wives) moved to St. John Kansas in 1885. Charles, Jacob and Alexander did not stay there long, all three were great carpenters and they headed west with their families and were employed in the contracting and building of the huge Coronado Hotel on Coronado Island, San Deigo, Ca. from 1888 to 1894. The other brother Thomas stayed in Holton, Kansas to be a merchant and made it their home.
Nancy J Medaris and Jonathan W Medaris, children of Nathaniel Davis Medaris and Nancy Ann Rogers, lived with James after the death of their mother.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1620 in Maderia, Portugal or Virginia d.1680
- b.~ 1667 in Middlesex County, Virginia
- b.21 Feb 1704 in Middlesex County, Virginia d.1799
- d.07 Feb 1720
- b.~ 1759 in Dragon Swamp, Middlesex County, Virginia d.1829 in Shelby County, Ohio
- b.20 Nov 1715 in Essex County, Virginia d.1795 in Tennessee
- b.13 Feb 1788 in Guilford County, North Carolina d.08 Feb 1878 in Owen County, Indiana
- b.~ 1762 in Chatham County, North Carolina d.19 May 1842 in Shelby County, Ohio
- b.16 Mar 1827 in Guilford County, North Carolina
- b.07 Jan 1790 d.10 Apr 1838 in Shelby County, Ohio
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