Storm(s)
Conrad Cornelius Sr.
1765 – 1849
Conrad Cornelius Storm(s) Sr. appears to have been born Conrad Sturm, son of Johann Peter and Maria Barbara Fickes Sturm. It is not known exactly why, but at some point part of the family started using Storm, Storms, and/or Stormes instead of the original Sturm spelling.
Move to Virginia
Conrad Sr. was born in Pennsylvania, but moved at a young age to Virginia where he married Nancy Hall, Daughter of Nathaniel and Ann Rowe Hall. At the time of their marriage, Nancy had a daughter Elizabeth (m. Richard Kidd). There are many stories about this daughter including stories of Native American ancestry. Conrad and Nancy raised this daughter and twelve children of their own as they moved across the frontier with children being born in Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. In his will, he made provision for his widowed daughter-in-law giving her more than “his other children.”