Wren Kin

Ruth Wren sent me a binder containing all the family group sheets submitted by Wren Family Association members in the early 1990s.

I’ve been wondering about the best way to share it with everyone, and have decided to input each group sheet into the database, preferably after I’ve found some vital records to back each family connection up. After all, most of this data is over 10 years old, and the original submitters may have found new evidence since they submitted their group sheets to Wren Kin.

This week I started at the beginning of the binder, the first few pages of which contained information on a branch of Illinois Wrens: Washington J. Wren and his brother Edward D. Wren.

A little poking around at the World Connect database found pedigrees identifying these men as brothers, sons of Binns Jones Wren and Elizabeth “Betsey” Depew, and indeed, there is a note on the back of one of the family group sheets that says:

Benjamin Wren - Father of Dr. Edward D. Wren of IL. This Benjamin lived in KY, then IL from 1820 - 1860s. Wife of this Benjamin was Elizabeth.

Very few of any of the family group sheets in the binder cite sources for every fact, so I tracked the families of these two men as best I could through censuses and other vital records. You’ll find the results of my efforts in our database.

The original submitter was hoping to find information on descendants of Edward D. Wren, especially for one of Edward’s grandsons named Sammie Jones Wren (b. 2 November 1894 in Big Sandy, Texas, d. 17 March 1963 in Oregon). I’m presuming she’s had some luck since 1992, but in the meantime, if anyone would like to add family data to the families I’ve outlined—or if they find any errors—please feel free to contact me and let me know.