Notes

[NI0007] Special selection of scriptures - What a friend we have in Jesus 439

Pall Bearers at her funeral were John and Levi Mills, Rick Fox, Duane Hought, Herb Harris, and Frank Whisenhunt.

Helen Ann moved with her family from Noonan North Dakota to Monroe Oregon in 1935. She attended Monroe High school and graduated in 1941.

Helen Ann worked for more than 15 years as a patient registration clerk in the admitting department at Sacred Heart General Hospital in Eugene, Oregon. She retired in June of 1990.

Made and dressed porcelain dolls. Enjoyed knitting, crocheting, and quilt making

[NI0013] In 1998, Alta talked about her memories about when she was going to school around 1919.

The John Engle family moved to Colorado when Alta was young - she started school in Colorado. She was taught by Mary Belle for first grade. Mary Belle was a school teacher. Mary Belle received an 8th grade education, and was able to pass a test to become a teacher. At that time teachers did not have to go to college for school teaching - just had to pass a test. While they were in Colorado, they lived on a farm. They had a cattle ranch where they raised some cows & chicken. Alta also remembers they had a corn field in Crowley Colorado, and raised water melon. Later they moved to La Junta Co. - Alta was in 3rd grade in La Junta. Sold everything except what would fit in a car when they moved to Oregon. During the trip out to Oregon Alta recalls that they carried a tent in the grub box on the side of the car, camping along the way.

In the early 1920's the Engle family moved to Oregon with 6 children. At that time everything they had fit in their car. Originally, they lived in SE Portland in the Montville district. Before that year was over John got a job at Twin Rocks, north of Tillimook working in the woods. Lived in Tillimook for awhile. Another person taught John how to make tombstones, and went in business together in Tillimook making tombstones. John had to wear goggles and a mask making tombstones. Alta remembers John's partner's name was Wilson or Hildebrand. Glenn was 4 years old in Tillimook.

Alta remembers Glenn playing at railroad station at Twin Rocks. At that time the highway was right on the beach. There were boards with a platform out to the side. In some places they had what was called a corduroy road which was constructed by laying logs parallel in the sand.

In La Junta John also had a small store at "The Cedars", which was near La Junta and Crawly Colorado.

Alta remembers "the boys" always getting into trouble and Mary Bell arguing with the neighbors in La Junta.
December 3rd, 1919 homestead documents for John R. Engle: northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and the sourtheast quareter of Section thirty-five in Township eight south, and the Lots two, three and four of Section two in Township twenty-nine south all in Range fifty-two west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, containing three hundred twenty-one and fourteen hundred three acres.

Glenn remembers stories of the Engle family in Colorado. One winter they were low on hay and John took a cactus burner out to burn the needles off the cactus. As soon as the cows heard the cactus burner they would run over and eat the cactus.

1920 Census for Colorado - Los Animas (LIttle Johnny) Pricinct #56, page 2 lists John Engle:
John R Engle, Head, Male, White 29 - Home Farm
Mary B., Wife, Female, 30
Ervin L., Son, 10
Cecil L., Son, 9
Jessie R., Son, 7
Alta B., Daughter, 5
Ethel, Daughter, 3 9/10
Glen B, Son, 11/12

October 18, 1920 homestead documents for John R. Engle:
south half of the northwest quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section two and the east half of the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of Section three in Township twenty-nine south of Range fifty-two west of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Coloradio, containing three hundred twenty acres.


1930 Census lists John Engle in Oregon - outside of Eugene (up highway 58 which at that time was called the Willamette Highway). The record is found in the Lost Valley pricinct of Lane County Oregon page 9.

[NI0015] William and Margaret moved to Vancouver Washington about the same time or before John moved to Oregon. They belonged to the 7th day Church of God. He made his living as a small farmer. They moved around a lot, like his son John.

William was born and raised in Missouri.

Moved back to Colorado (? via Kansas). Abt. 1929

Note 1

Elsie Engle Meadville, wrote that her parents left Dallas Co., MO in 1905, arrived in Alva, OK by wagon the 5th day of May 1905. They lived there the rest of their lives. Joseph was visiting his daughter, Grace, when he died in Dallas Co., MO.

Note 2

William is noted in the 1920 Census for Bent Co., Colorado

Note 3

William is noted as Homsteading Bent Co., Colorado 1921

Marriage Record:

William J. H. Engle found in:

Missouri, 1851-1900 Marriage Index
Gender: Male
Spouse: Margaret A. Davison
Marriage Date: Mar 26, 1885
County: Dallas
More About: This record can be found at the County Court Records, Film # 0932232 - 0932234

Homestead Patent 14569 application B4643 - Missouri in the name of William J. H. Engle 11/1/1904. North East quarter of the South East Quarter and the South East quarter of the North East quarter of Section Twenty nine in Township Thirty three north of Range eighteen west of the Fifth Principal Meridian in Missouri containing eighty acres.

Homestead Patent # 834611 - Colorado in the name of William J. Engle for Township 27 South, Range 52 West issued 11/25/1921.

[NI0016] Note 1

White Horse Cemetery is 20 miles NE of Alva

[NI0017] Jim, as he was called, grew up among the tall timber on the farm and developed a symbol of those environments, tall and straight both in stature and in dealings with fellow men. He was his father's right hand man in the timber, at the saw mill and on the farm in general. But in due course of time he succumbed to the urge of pioneering ventures and soon found himself on a homestead near Noonan, North Dakota with a god wife and a lignite coal mine to boot. There they fought the furies of the variable seasons for many years and successfully proved their ability to make good. Finally they moved from their pioneer home where all their children were born and to the greener pastures of Oregon near Junction City where they bought a nice farm, but before long they sold out and retired from hard work. They built a home at 90 Ruby Lane off of River Road in the Santa Clara area near Eugene. There Jim built himself a wood-working shop where he spent many enjoyable years concocting both useful and ornamental articles for gifts, sale and/or exhibit at local fairs. Sophie found a vent for her abundant energy in keeping her fine home spic and span as well as holding down the portfolio of family chauffeur. Jim's pet saying is "If I'd had as good fore-sight as back-sight I'd been OK" However, they have done exceedingly well as it is.

[NI0018]

[NI0019] Eber was a farmer, he and Geneva had four children. After Eber passed away Geneva married Lloyd Rodin.

[NI0020] Neva graduated from Trinity Hospital of Nursing in 1932. She served in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II stationed in India. She served as a second lieutenant in the Army Nursing Corps from March 1945 to May 1946. She worked at Sacred Heart Hospital as a registered nurse in Eugene and retired after many years of service.

She was a member of Central Lutheran Church in Eugene and a charter member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Eugene.

[NI0027] Waldo Homer Hought was baptized as an infant at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Noonan, North Dakota. He died of heart failure in his home on August 7, 1998 in Eugene, Oregon at the age of 76.

Homer was number eight of ten children born to James and Sophie. They lived in Noonan until 1935, when the family moved to a farm in Monroe, Oregon. Homer was confirmed in his faith at Central Lutheran Church in Eugene, Oregon in 1937. He played basketball at Monroe High School. After graduating from Monroe High School he served in the U.S. Navy Air Corps during World War II. When he returned from military service, he and his first wife, Eda, moved to Grants Pass, Oregon where they owned Homer's Homemade Ice Cream. When the store was destroyed by fire, Homer moved to Eugene. He worked for Gordon Olsen Investments until his retirement in the early 1980's.

Homer and Conie enjoyed camping together and were camp hosts for the Oregon State Parks on the Central Oregon coast for four years. They especially loved Sunset Bay in Charleston, Oregon, where they went crabbing and clamming.

Homer had a woodworking shop at home where he made many things for family and friends. He was the woodworking supervisor at Campbell Senior Center. He played golf for many years and was a life member of the Elks Lodge. He also had a collection of bottle openers. But his favorite hobby was people - and did he love to talk!

He was an active member of Bethesda Lutheran Church since 1983, where he served faithfully as an usher and chair lift operator. He attended the Men's Breakfast regularly and just recently attended Promise Keepers. A lifelong Lutheran, Homer loved His Lord and his congregation.

Homer and Glenn Engle spent many evenings going to Monroe High School football, basketball, and baseball games during their retirement.

[NI0028] Hans was a streetcar conductor, office worker, and representative for sail cloth etc.

Note

The youngest son was my father, Hans Hermann Griep, the rebellious one, untrained and never disciplined in any schooling. His interest was to live healthy, which he studied very much, but by being so unconventional cut himself off from many friends and relatives.

I do not know any more of my father's sisters or brothers. Since Hamburg was heavily bombed during World War II, I do not believe that there are birth registers available anymore from that time.

Since people in the olden times had large families I am quite sure that I have a lot of relatives in Mecklenburg.

[NI0029] Gertrud was trained and worked as a flower shop girl, making flower arrangements

[NI0030] Note 1

Carl and Maria had 14 children. 12 living, a pair of twins died. Their youngest son was Hans Griep, who did a majority of the Griep research. He was a land inspector and civil servant at the harbor department. of the city of Hamburg, Germany

Note 2
Born in Klein Schallum, Kreis Osterburg in the Altmark, Germany

Note 3

Carl had to sign a Burgerbrief, swearing allegiance to the Hansest�dt Hamburg, April 9, 1898. Received a letter from Hamburg city "Allowing them to stay in Hamburg" after swearing allegiance.

Note 4

Carl Friederich Griep was a Harbormeister for the port of Hamburg

[NI0031] Note 1
Church records indicate that Joachim Heinrich L�bbe indicated that he was the father.

[NI0032] Werner Christen was a house painter and artist. He moved around a lot. He had an affair with Lise-Lotte Falkenberg but Lise-Lotte's mother would not allow them to get married. He then married Amalie (Molly) in Switzerland. Amalie's parents said they would disinherit her if they got married. They did get married, and she was effectively disinherited. They were divorced after a few years. Werner then got married to Annie (need to get maiden name). They did not have any children. They remained married.

[NI0034] Eberhard Hought was the third son of our 1st generation in America. He was born in Aasnes, Sol�r, Norway, February 23rd 1858 and emigrated to the Pelican Rapids, Minnesota district in 1879. He married Caroline Beckstrom, born in Sweden, June 7th, 1861, and her sojourn in life extended till March 1947. Eberhard's life journey ended August 2nd, 1936. They are both at rest in Spruce Grove Cemetery, Becker County, Minnesota. Lina, as we called her, was an outstanding orderly and lovable person well suited to manoeuvre a large family like theirs. Eber, as he was called, was totally dedicated to making a living for his large family by the slow process of wrestling tillable land from the slow yielding forested areas among the swamps. His timber and saw mill, however, came to the rescue. He was a resourceful man and dealt with problems according to their complexity. Throughout it all he kept faith with the Church of his forefathers, and with the aid of his inherited tenacity conquered the swamps and the jack-pines and came out on top. They seemingly encountered the lions share in hardships in some ways. For instance, in wet weather groceries and other victuals had to be carried piggy-back from a distant town over the otherwise impassible trails across the springy swamps, in the good old days. They had 15 children, all born in the Menahga, Minnesota district.

[NI0036] From "Our Haug's in America"

EINAR (& MATHEA) of the 1st generation (to move to America), like the Noah of old, floated on the big waters and in due course of time landed on dry land with his entrusted belongings to become the father of a great clan. This, our Noah in America, Einar T. Haug is registered in Norway under the name of Einar Tostensen Nyen, born June 22, 1831, but a notation in his old Bible has it June 23. So it is up to us to either believe the old bible or the Government Archives of Norway. He was born on his parent's place Nyhaugen, Sol�r, Norway. So, evidentially,"Haug" is derived from Nyhaugen. In the early years in America, Einar often was referred to as Einar Nyen and why this name did not stick is hard to figure out as Einar and his family came from their own little place in Norway called Nyen. This is according to the records from Norway.

Einar was small of stature but a giant in attitude toward his faith in God, his country and his fellow man. Although he lacked the higher education he was found to be a worthy opponent in various fields where he more learned would often stumble. Many a wolf and dog did he sew together into snug fitting warm fur coats, the rage of that era. His workmanship was amply manifested in the many years he sewed and fashioned men's suits and garments in the neighborhood.

Einar and Mathea had their log house built about 1881 on the south half of the S.W. quarter of section 13, Norwegian Grove Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. There were also two fractions of land in the same sections that went with it, making a total of 41 35/100 acres.

Einar did not have a lazy bone in his make-up; idleness was an abomination to him so that when we was not busy in his trade he had no trouble finding other work to do. He was very handy with the woodman's axe and no slouch with carpenter's tools. however, perhaps he was the most efficient with his feet, of all things. Back in Sol�r he was renown for his agility on the log floats down the Felisa River. In this country, in his lonelier years, his pastime pride was his long walks that took him deep into old age Einar had always been blessed with good health. At the age of 50 he became the sensation of the neighborhood by sprouting a new tooth. His eyes served with well throughout his whole life. At the age of 82 1/2 years he suffered his first confinement into a reclining chair for a period, after an entanglement with a horse drawn vehicle. He survived this ordeal in a comparatively short time and lived to be 93 years, 4 months, and 4 days old. He had 89 grandchildren, 75 great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren at the time of his departed on October 27, 1924. His adherent longevity together with his melodious soul finding express in humming of his favorite songs while he deftly applied his skill with his needle and thread and what have you.

[NI0037] From "Our Haug's in America"
Our Roots in Norway

Gleanings from Norwegian Archives reveal that our stem-father Einar T. Howg was registered as Einar Tostensen Nyen, born June 22nd, 1831 to parents Tosten Knutsen Nyen and wife Elena. Tosten was baptized August 25th, 1793. He was the son of Knud Tosten Larsen Kornstad and wife Kari (Eriksdatter)

The 1801 Norwegian Census lists:

Knud Tostensen, Mand, age 29, Begge i 1ste aegteskab, Huusmand med jord oggevorben soldat (M)
Anne Olsdatter, Hands kone, age 32, Begge i 1st aegteskab (K)
Tosten Knudsen Deres b�rn, 8 (M)
Knud Knudsen, Deres b�rn, age 5 (M)
Anne Knudsdatter, Deres b�rn, age 3 (K)
Olea Knudsdatter, Deres b�rn, age 1, (K)

and

Kari Erichsdatter, Qvinde, age 74, Gift men fra sin mand F�deraadskone (K).

The fact that C.M. Houg's research(see above) indicated the subparish of Aasnes, and this information is for the same subparish, it looks like good data. Especially with Kari there.

[NI0044] Karen and her husband stayed in Norway. According to the book "Our Haug's in America" they did not have any children.

[NI0045] Note 1

Alice Grace Engle told the story of "Little Maribee" in 1964. Beatrice Collins updated records in 1980. Grace was blessed with a long, active, useful life. She once told Wayne A Randleman, "I never felt old, until one day, when an old man came to my door, and it was my son."

[NI0050] Note 1:

Also recorded as Aaron William Engle

[NI0090] Note 1

Middle name may be 'Cole'

Note 2

Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County
1967
by the Cherokee Strip Volunteer League

SMITHSON, B. C.

Bryan Cole Smithson, the son of William and Martha Horner Smithson was born in San Antonio, TX. December 31, 1862. His wife Minnie Clap was born in Van Buren County, Iowa July 20, 1870. They met in Greensburg, KS. and were married there, Oct. 19, 1886. They lived there until 1893, coming to Oklahoma with the opening of the Strip, along with his father-in-law Uriah Clapp and brother-in-law George Clapp.

Uriah Clapp was one of thirteen children, born December 12, 1842 at Springfield, In. He enlisted in the Union Army, January 4, 1864 and served under Generals Sherman and Thomas. He participated in the battles of Atlanta and Nashville when both were captured. He was wounded in the shoulder while building breastworks, then given an honorable discharge from the Army in 1866. He married Mary Mathilda Godown a year later in Iowa. Five children were born to this union. They moved by ox team to McPherson, Kansas. in 1877 and to Greensburg, Kansas in 1885. He, son George and Bryan Smithson made the Run for claims, going south of Alva. Uriah Clapp found a place but lost his pony. There was much lawlessness going on. When his claim was jumped, he homesteaded 15 miles west and 1/2 mile north of Alva. An Indian riding through the country had told them there would be water here. He found a beautiful soft water spring that later furnished water for the settlers from miles around and is still running. In 1903 he moved to Alva where his wife died in 1906. He moved to Manson, Washington in 1933 to be with his son George where he died May 1, 1938.

George Clapp gave up his claim south of Alva and homesteaded on land that is now owned by Don Smith. It was close to his father's land. Later he moved to what is known as the Brown place and is farmed by Frank McMurphy. A tragedy occurred when he lost his wife and four of his children including twin boys, with his children including twin boys, with diphtheria. They are buried in the Whitehorse cemetery. The other two children, Mart, and Moe, were taken by Bry Smithson and wife to rear along with their family. George Clapp later married Phena Clapp. He reared a second family of six children. They later moved to Manson, Washington, where George died some time ago and Phena passed away this year (1976).

Bryan Smithson made the race in a buckboard with a team of horses. He first staked his claim 4 1/2 miles south of Alva on land now owned by Gene Tyree. He later moved to the Cora neighborhood and homesteaded 15 miles west of Alva near his father-in-law. There was plenty of water for his livestock here. He put his cabin below the rim of rocks for protection from the weather. There were many arrowheads and other Indian artifacts found here. The Indian who had told them about the water also said the large hole in the huge red rock had been ground smooth by Indians crushing corn. There were also fresh-water fossils found in these rocks.

The first cabin burned down and Bry and his family lived with Uriah Clapp until this could be replaced. A house was moved from Greensburg, Kansas with horses. It took many months to move it as roads had to be built, hills circled and crossing fixed. This house was put at the spring and stood for many years. It was a mansion for those days and both families lived there for a time.

Ten children were born to Bry and Minnie Smithson. There were six girls, Mary (Mrs. John Engle), Ethel (Mrs. Ollie Bloyd), Lena (Mrs. Melton), Bertha Smithson, Josie (Mrs. Norbert Peters), and Opal who died in infancy. The four boys were William, Carl, George, and Ollie. Survivors today (1976) are Mrs. Lena Melton, Irving, Texas., Mrs. Josephine Peters, Caldwell, Kansas and George and Ollie of Alva. Bry's brother, Henry, and his ailing father, William Sr. had also come to live with them so there were fifteen mouths to feed.

When we think of the labor from sun-up to sun-down, the washings by board, the crop raising, the milking, the sewing (mostly by hand), the ironing (and much starch was used in those days), the canning and drying of fruit, the gardening, the huge task of feeding fifteen mouths three times a day, we think what interminable hardships they must have endured. But what to us would seem almost impossible was to them a way of life and a good one.

The ground was new and fertile and anything planted usually made a good crop when rains were plentiful. There were lots of sweet potatoes raised, and sometimes fed to the cattle, Irish potatoes, watermelons, muskmelons, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and all other kinds of garden produce were grown. Chickens were raised and cows were milked, so there were plenty of eggs, milk, cream, butter and cottage cheese. Several pigs would be butchered at once. The meat would be smoked or salted and put in a meat box. The lard would be rendered outdoors in an iron kettle. The neighbors would help and they, in turn would help the neighbors.

The principal crops were corn, wheat, oats, kaffir corn, and some broom corn. The ground was listed, using four horses, and when later, a two-row lister was used, it took six horses to pull it. There were two lead horses, and one was sometimes ridden by a child to help with the guiding. There was much competition over who could make the straightest furrows. The key was to keep your eyes on a far site, a distant goal. Perhaps there is a moral here. Corn was raised for food and fuel. IT was eaten as roasting ears, dried, ground to make cornbread and mush, used for livestock food and burned for extra warmth in the cast-iron, wood-burning heater. Corn was very cheap, and a load would only bring around $2.50, but three or four times a year, a load would be taken o Alva to buy necessary supplies. Everyone was happy when a store and post office located at Cora.

The wheat would be planted between the rows of kaffir corn (or other rowed crops.) with a small four-hole drill pulled by one horse. Later as farming advanced 12 hole drills were used pulled by four horses. Wheat was cut either by a binder or header. The barges would stack it and then a long wait for a threshing machine and crew to come through. Wheat was ground for flour, boiled for breakfast food and soaked for pigs.

There was much herding to be done as there were few fences. It was not legal for the settlers to cut their own timber for fence posts, as the land belonged to the government until proved up on. Most law officials overlooked this, but a few would confiscate the posts and later on have a sale of government property and get to keep half of the proceeds. This made the settlers unhappy and some of them would go o the "Ragged Hills," over by Quinlan to cut cedar posts. This took three days. They would build a campfire at night, then put it out and spread their blankets over warm earth where the fire had been. Of course if caught the posts would be confiscated and the settlers fined. The posts would sell for $1.50 per load to buy supplies.

Bryan Smithson gave permission for school to be put on his place with the understanding that when the school was no longer in use, the land would revert back to the owner. Years later the school was consolidated with Farry, the building moved there, and the land reverted back to the present owner. Bry's children received their grade education here.

Pony racing was a popular sport as everyone had a pony. Dancing was also popular, not only in public places, but in the homes. Saturday nights were gala nights as the parties made the rounds, especially in the summer time when out-door party games were played Everyone took turns being hosts. Card parities were also popular and sometimes the furniture had to be moved out of the houses to make room for the people.

When the children were out of grade school a house was purchased in town and Mrs. Smithson would move to town and send the children to school in the winter, then move back in the spring. When the boys were old enough to assume the farm work Bry Smithson took a job with the Crowell Lumber Co. of Alva. His wife Minnie died in 1929 at Alva.

After Bry's retirement a small home was built for him on the ranch so that he could come to the country whenever he wished. His home was destroyed by the tornado of 1947. It was the first building replaced by his son George (who was called "Young Bry") and who now owned the ranch. On the site where Bry homesteaded a house had burned down, a barn had burned down, a house and eleven other buildings had been destroyed by a tornado, still the place survived, a tribute to a pioneer who planted his roots deep, a badge of courage which he, and others like him, bequeathed to a coming generation so they too might leave their footprints in the future history of Woods County.

Bryon C. Smithson passed away at Alva in 1951.

By Mr. and Mrs. George Smithson

[NI0101] George stayed on the farm that Mary Bell was raised on in Alva Oklahoma.

[NI0108] Middle name Dugan, identified by Jane Poore.

Not certain about E. Smithson. Ammon has William F. Smithson born about 1873.

1880 Census has his home in Big Spring, Benton, Arkansas with an occupation of Miller. Spouse's name Martha S. Father born in Virginia, mother born in Virginia.

[NI0113] Note 1

Smithson, H.H.

Henry Herbert Smithson, son of Martha Horner and William Smithson, was born in Benton County, at Rogers, Arkansas on April 4, 185. His mother died when we was thirteen years of age and he and his ailing father came to the Whitehorse area to live with B. C. Smithson, his older brother Henry grew up with the children of Bry whose two oldest boys were nearly the same age. The boys, Bill and Carl, could not decide whether to like him or not, but Henry gave them a quarter and this settled the issue. They were good friends all their lives. Henry, who remained single, spent his entire life in this area, aside from the times a job called him away.

Henry staked a claim west of Alva on land that later came to be known as the Neff place. He was living in his cabin on his claim, when Bry asked him to help him for a few days. When Henry returned home the cabin and furniture were gone. The sides of the cabin had been let down and it had been hauled away. It was not hard to follow the trail, and the man who had taken it said he thought that Henry was through with it. Henry did not agree with this and had the cabin put back.

Henry's uncle Frank M. Canton had a great influence in the molding of Henry's early life. He would have liked to follow in his uncle's footsteps, but circumstances and a back injury did not permit. See notes of Joe Horner.

It can be understood why Henry loved and respected him. Henry became a peace officer for western Woods County and served in that capacity for many years. Social gatherings were rough in those days but he was fearless in quelling disorder. One time, at a dance at old Whitehorse, (north of the present site) three saddles were stolen. Henry, who knew everyone in that area, suspected who might have taken them and rode most of the night to get to their place. He found nothing at first but as the men were still up when he arrived he took a closer look. Sure enough, the saddles were suspended by ropes from the ceiling of the barn and were covered by a large pile of stacked hay.

Henry participated in two cattle drives, one to North Platte, Neb., where there was a railroad spur. Here he saw the home of Buffalo Bill Cody. His drive took over three months. Later he went to Abilene Kansas with a trail herd. He punched cattle on the King's Ranch in Texas where at one time part of the land belong to his relation. The Tornado of 1947 took Henry's valued possessions, among them a land grant for land in what is now Texas, signed by the King of England. It was always thought that Sir James Smithson distant cousin of Bry and Henry, and the one who willed his money for the start of the Smithsonian Institution, had been instrumental in securing this.

Henry loved horses and always had a good cow pony. When his nephew George Smithson bought the family ranch west of Alva Henry stayed on and for many years helped to look after his nephews' cattle and his own cattle, riding the fences.

In Henry's later years he and Mrs. George Smithson bought a registered quarter-horse colt, "Bonnie." She became the mother of "Sandy," the beautiful palomino of which he was so proud. I am sure that many people missed Henry after his passing as he used to ride along U.S. Highway 64 on this beautiful horse going from one pasture to another.

Following is an excerpt from a Sport Column written by E.M. Barker for the Alva Review Courier twenty-five years ago: "Henry Smithson, the old cowhand from the - hills of Cora, has always been a lover of good horses and his pride and joy at this time, is a beautiful three-year old palomino. Time was when Henry could ride and rope with the best of them, but the years have taken their toll and Henry is not nearly as spry as back in the old pioneer days when they were having such wild and wooly times in the Western Section of Woods County."

Henry moved to Alva two years before his death to be close to a doctor because of a heart condition. He still spent many days on the Ranch. He passed away in 1963. On the day of his death he took his usual ride in the pasture. His favorite mare "Bonnie" died in 1974 at the age of thirty-one years. Sandy, age twenty-eight, is still living. He is also pensioned for the rest of his days. With Henry's death passed one of the early settlers whose lives contributed so much color of the History of Woods County. Another Pioneer was gone.

Mrs. George Smithson.

[NI0114] Note 1

A census Sheet June 9, 1900
Lists Uriah Clapp, head of household, White Male, Birth date December 1842, 57 years old at the time of the census, Married, married for 33 years. Born in Indiana, Father born in North Carolina Mother born in Pennsylvania.

Note 2

Enlisted as Private in Co. K, 12th Indiana Cavalry Volunteer, January 4 1864
Discharged 16 June, 1865 at Cairo, Illinois. Following Discharge resided in Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (Wendell, Edwards, Kansas). His unit fought in the battles of Atlanta and Nashville.


Note 3

" I have information that indicates that Uriah Clapp and his wife Mary Mathilda Godown Clapp had five children, but I only have the names of two of them (George M. and Minnie Elma.) ..."

Note 4

"...I did find out that he was born in Whitley County, Indiana and that his father's name was George Clapp. There was no record of his mother's name [in the Civil War Pension Files]..." Whitley county is in the North East quarter of the state according to the 1895 map of Indiana.

Note 5

Extracts from American Civial War Battle Summaries for battles that Uriah more than likely participated in.

Search Terms: 3459 (1)
Database: American Civil War Battle Summaries
Combined Matches: 1
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Dec. 7, 1864


Reconnaissance by Maj.-Gen. Robert H. Milroy.

Pursuant to orders from Gen. L. H. Rousseau, commanding the District of Tennessee, Milroy organized a reconnaissance to feel the enemy in the vicinity of Murfreesboro.

His force was divided into two brigades. The 1st, commanded by Col. Minor T. Thomas of the 8th Minn. infantry, consisted of that regiment, the 61st III., 174th and 181st Ohio infantry and a 6-gun battery under Capt. Bundy of the 13th N. Y. artillery.

The 2nd brigade,commanded by Col. Edward Anderson, of the 12th Ind. cavalry was composed of the 177th and 178th Ohio infantry, the 12th Ind. cavalry (dismounted) and a detachment of the 5th Tenn. cavalry, the total strength of the expedition being 3,325 men.

Milroy moved out on the Salem pike about 10 a. m., the cavalry detachment in advance. Half a mile from the Union picket line the enemy's cavalry was encountered and part of the 61st III. was thrown forward to assist the Tennesseeans in driving them.

At Stone's river, 2 miles out, some 300 Confederate cavalry was discovered on the opposite bank and a section of artillery was brought up to dislodge them. A few shells served to do the work, and Milroy pressed on in pursuit for 2 miles, when he learned that two brigades of the enemy's cavalry -- Jackson's and Armstrong's -- were at Salem, a mile further on, and that Forrest and Bate, with a large force of infantry, cavalry and artillery were just north of him on the Wilkinson pike.

Milroy turned his course in that direction and when within half a mile of the pike his skirmishers encountered those of the enemy, who soon afterward opened fire from a 6-gun battery stationed in the edge of a wood. Bundy's guns were brought to the front and replied with spirit, but his limited supply of ammunition was exhausted in 30 minutes.

Finding that the enemy would not advance across the open field to attack, Milroy fell back until he had Fort Rosecrans in his rear, and sent the battery back to the fort for a new supply of ammunition. He then formed his command in two lines of battle Thomas' brigade in the first and Anderson's in the second, with the 61st III. deployed as skirmishers.

The whole force then advanced and the skirmishing commenced, the enemy gradually falling back about a mile to a strong position in the edge of a wood with a cotton field in front.

The Union skirmishers now fell back to the flanks of the first line of battle, which advanced and soon became engaged in a fierce contest for possession of the wood. As the line showed signs of wavering, Milroy directed Anderson to send the 178th Ohio on the double-quick to the left, and move the remainder of his brigade up in close support.

Thus reinforced the line moved forward with a yell and drove the enemy from his position, capturing a number of prisoners, 2 pieces of artillery (12-pounder Napoleons), and a battle flag.

At this juncture Bundy returned with his battery and shelled a body of cavalry that was threatening Milroy's flank, causing them to join in the general retreat. The command was now halted to replenish ammunition, and while thus engaged an order was received from Rousseau, directing Milroy to return to the fort as a large force of Confederates was advancing upon him from the north.

The Union loss was 22 killed and 186 wounded.

No report was made of the enemy's casualties, but Milroy reported 197 prisoners, and says: "From the number of dead and wounded observed on the field their loss must have been greater than mine."

Source: The Union Army, vol. 6, p. 625


Note 6

Search Terms: 3460 (1)
Database: American Civil War Battle Summaries
Combined Matches: 1
Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Dec. 15, 1864


61st Illinois Infantry, 1st Michigan Engineers and 12th Indiana Cavalry.

A train bearing these troops from Stevenson to Murfreesboro was fired into near Christiana and it became necessary for the detachment to disembark and repair the road.

Even then the progress of the train was very slow and when within 6 miles of Murfreesboro it became apparent that it would have to be abandoned and an attempt made to cut a way out, as by this time it was wholly surrounded.

After a desperate fight about 8 p. m. the Federals managed to break through the enemy's line, but only after losing 85 men of the 61st III., including the colonel, the whole detachment of engineers and the larger portion of the 30 men of the 12th Ind. cavalry.

Most of the men were captured.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 6, p. 626


Note 6:

Uriah's shoulder was injured in the Civil war while building a blockhouse in norhern Alabama, and he had an oozing shoulder for the rest of his long life. Uriah smoked cigars and pipes. When he stayed with his son Clarence who he was posted at Ft. Barry and his son would read to the newspaper to Uriah. When he was tired of an article, he rapped his cane on the floor so his grandson would change the subject.

Note 7:

Uriah Clapp was one of thirteen children, born December 12, 1842 at Springfield, In. He enlisted in the Union Army, January 4, 1864 and served under Generals Sherman and Thomas. He participated in the battles of Atlanta and Nashville when both were captured. He was wounded in the shoulder while building breastworks, then given an honorable discharge from the Army in 1866. He married Mary Mathilda Godown a year later in Iowa. Five children were born to this union. They moved by ox team to McPherson, Kansas. in 1877 and to Greensburg, Kansas in 1885. He, son George and Bryan Smithson made the Run for claims (the Oklahoma Land Rush) in 1893, going south of Alva. Uriah Clapp found a place but lost his pony. There was much lawlessness going on. When his claim was jumped, he homesteaded 15 miles west and 1/2 mile north of Alva. An Indian riding through the country had told them there would be water here. He found a beautiful soft water spring that later furnished water for the settlers from miles around and is still running. In 1903 he moved to Alva where his wife died in 1906. He moved to Manson, Washington in 1933 to be with his son George where he died May 1, 1938.

[NI0116] Note 1

Vada Jean read the following tombstone in the same Cemetery lot as Uriah & Wife:

Frank J. Clapp
Died January 27, 1895
Age 27 yr. 2 mo & 27 days
Husband of Mary

Also Anderson Clapp is buried there with them.

[NI0132] Fred and Alta

Alta went to High School in Tillimook. Grandpa Engle moved to Dexter, and Alta and Jess stayed in Tillimook to finish High School.

After graduating from High School in Tillimook, Alta moved to Yakima with some friends. She went to work at a vegetable packing plant in Yakima Washington and met Fred there. He lived in Argusville North Dakota on a farm - a short distance away from Fargo ND at the time. He came to Yakima to see his sister before he was drafted in the Army. Birds Eye later bought the plant. When he came back from the Army, Birds Eye had a job waiting for him. Soon after that he became a foreman. Fred worked for Birds Eye for 36 years, most of that time as a foreman. They lived in Hillsboro for 8 years, then moved to Walla Walla. He retired in 1978. They left Walla Walla, Washington in 1984 and moved to South Salem, Oregon. Fred sewed his own clothes, and spent a lot of time volunteering at the local elementary school.

[NI0169] Note 1

George Tobias Clapp, son of Valentine called himself Tobias on census and again when he signed his will written in 1800.


Note 3

Tobias and Barbara moved from Guilford Co., NC in 1811, the year after George was born, to Lexington, Twin Twp, Preble Co., Ohio. Barbara's brother John went at the same time, and others followed. Tobias fought in the War of 1812, and there is a record in the National Archives, Washington D.C. Tobias died in 1819. Barbara stayed there awhile.

Note 4

Brick Church Baptism Records
30
Born April 8,177_
Tobias Clapp Sr. and his wife, Anna Maria, one child baptized and named Tobias. Sponsors were Henry Weitzel and his wife , Anna Maria.

[NI0204] Note 1:

According to Monica Ellis, daughter of Darlene Levi Engle may have been in the Civil war, probably on the confederate side, however it seems most of the solders from Dallas Co., were Union.

According to the 1880 Dallas County Mo. Census for Benton Township, it shows Rebbecca Engle, 45 years old, a widow with the occupation of keepinghouse - farmer, coming from Illinois with the following at home:

Mary 22 dau. single keppinghouse mo ky il
William 20 son single works on farm mo ky il
Marshal 18 son married works on farm mo ky il
Miraby 14 dau. mo ky il
Nancy 13 dau. mo ky il
Louisa 13 dau. twins mo ky il
Laura 10 dau. mo ky il

The census shows Rebecca's mother as born in North Carolina and Father born in Illinois.

Also, on the BLM Homestead Land Grant web site the following was found:

Land Grant no. 20344, Levi U. Engle of Dallas County, Missouri where Levi purchased the south west quarter of the north west quarter of section thirty five in township thirty four of range eighteen in the district of lands subject to sale at Springfield Missouri contain inj. Forty, dated May 15, 1857.

Homestead Certificate 3293, application 2171:

Whereas there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a CERTIFICATE of the Register of the Land Office at Springfield Missouri, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," and the acts supplemented thereto, the claim of Rebecca M. Engle, widow of Levi U. Engle deceased has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the south west quarter of the northwest quarter and the north half of the south west quarter of section twenty nine in township thirty-four of range eighteen in the district of lands subject to sale at Springfield, Missouri containing one hundred and twenty acres according to the Official Plot of the Survey of the said Land returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the SURVEYOR GENERAL... Dated July 30, 1878.

Note 2

Listed as Levi R. Engle, age 37, b. KY in the Benton Twp., Dallas Co., MO, 1860 Census, with Rebecca, age 24, Mary A., age 2, and William J., age 8/12. He was a farmer, attorney, Justice of the Peace. (A younger Levi Engle, b. Apr. 15, 1856, d. Feb. 8, 1936 bur. Oak Lawn Cem. was active in Dallas Co., Mo.; son of Joseph Engle, 1819-1901).

Ivia Turner Spillman on Oct. 28, 1964 wrote that: Grandfather Engle came home from the (Civil) war (Missouri Adjutant General's Office could not locate a service record in 1980). Becca was fixing him something to eat when he fell dead by the fireplace.

Listed as Levi R. Engle, age 37, born Ky in the Benton Twp., Dallas Co., Mo. 1860 Census with Rebecca, Age 24, Mary A., age 2, and William J., age 8/12. He was a farmer, attorney, Justice of the Peace. (A younger Levi Engle, b. Apr. 15, 1856, d. Feb. 8, 1936, bur. Oak Lawn Cem. was active is Dallas Co., Mo.; son of Joseph Engle, 1819-1901).

Note 3
1860 Census, Missouri, Benton Township
Engle, Levi R - 24 Yrs Old, married, Born in Kentucky, Occupation: Farmer
Rebecca, 24 Yrs old, Born in Illinois 1836
Mary A. 2 Born in Missouri 1858
William J. 8/12 born in Missouri 1860

[NI0205] Note 1

REBECCA M. RANDLEMAN, daughter of Martin Christopher Randleman Jr. (1805) Died April 8, 1889 of Typhoid Fever.

In Nov. 1963, her granddaughter, Grace Engle Patterson, wrote that Rebecca Randleman, "before she married my grandpa Engle, had everyone call her 'Becca'. She was a school teacher in Dallas Co. MO, before the Civil War. She had a large family, Joseph was the oldest son and the next to oldest child. Becca's husband, Levi, died when Joseph was eleven years old. They had a son, Marshall, twin daughters, Sil and Louisa, and a daughter, Maribah Villa, that they called 'Villie'. Another daughter was Laura, and a son John, that died when he was small."

They lived on a farm north of Long Lane, MO, before Levi died, but later they had a farm near Greasy Creek. "where it flows into the Niangua River".

1880 Dallas County Census, Benton Township, Page 30/31
Page 30
ENGLEREBECCA45widowIL1835Hskping/Farmer ILNC
Mary22dauMO1858KYIL
William20sonMO1860KYIL
Marshall18sonMO1852KYIL
Mariby14dauMO1856KYIL
(Nancy13dauMO1857KYIL
(Louisa13dauMO1857KYIL
Laura10dauMO1860KYIL

[NI0209] From "Our Haug's in America"

Einar's wife Mathea (nee Kokkin) is the feminine side of our first generation of "Our Haug's in America". She was the daughter of Peder and Eli Kokkin and was born in Sol�r Norway on June 20, 1829. She was a quiet serene woman. Her people were from a higher class in Norway, that is, they were land owners who had tenants working the lands on a sort of work-pay proposition including free use of a small house and a bit of land all within the farm proper. These so called "Hus men" were evidently to be on call at any and all times, but Mathea did not bring any of this aristocratic halo with her to this country. She remained true to her inner feelings of equality and friendship towards kinfolk and friends alike. She passed away July 12, 1897 at the age of 68 years and 22 days, true to the faith of her childhood to the end. She was laid to rest in the cemetery at the Lutheran church 4 miles west of Pelican Rapids where she had walked to services for so many years. Her husband, Einar, joined her there 27 years later under a tombstone erected with fond memories by a grandson and protege.

From the 1801 Norwegian Census:
The reference is for Subparish Aasnes, in the county of Hedemarkens.

[NI0212] The 1801 Norwegian Census for Hoff Parish, Hedemarkens County, Sokn (subparish) Aasnes, farmhouse Kokkin shows:

Tosten Michelsen as Husbonde age 42, Begge i 1ste aegteskab, Bonde og gaardbeboer (M)
Ingebor Pedersdatter, Hands kone, age 46, Begge i 1ste aegteskab (K)
Peder Tostensen, Deres b�rn, age 13, Ugift (M)
Morten Tostensen, Deres b�rn, age 11 (M)
Iver Tostensen, Deres b�rn, age 5
Kari Tostensdatter, Deres b�rn, age 9

[NI0222] [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Jun 28, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.112649.35]

Individual: Hought, J.
Social Security #: 541-04-8045
SS# issued in: Oregon

Birth date: Feb 9, 1968
Death date: Nov 1991


ZIP Code of last known residence: 97760
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:

Terrebonne, Oregon

[NI0382] Johann was a miller and rancher (Freigutsbesitzer)

[NI0383] Note 1

1811 Wedding documents her name as L�deke.

[NI0385] Marie Elisabeth L�decke was the oldest daughter of Johann Dieterich L�decke.

[NI0386] Ranch Manager and Farmer

Note 1

Johann was baptized the day after he was born because according the the writer of the baptism record noted that the Elbe was flooded over. They did not know whether the child would live with the flooding so they baptized him quickly.

[NI0388] Dietrich was Accendator and Pensionarius

Note 1:

Dietrich Griep died June 1, xxxx and was intered June 3, xxxx, he was an "Altsitzer" (Pensioner?) at Klein Holzhausen and was 77 years, 7 months, and 2 days old. "Altsitzer" are most probably the parents, former owner of a farm, who lived at the "altenteil" - an apartment or smaller house on that farm used only for the old parents. They get their food from the farm and are looked after by the new owner, which could be the son. Year not noted on the church records received.

Note 2:

Birth Record - Schoenberg 1771 - Maria Dorothea, daughter of Hans Nachtigal and wife Anna Gertrend Koehnan, May 19, 1771. Baptism witnesses include Marie Ahlfeldten (Married Falcken), The Widow Nachtigal ... Dr. Wilhelm Nachtigal, and Dieterich Griep of Klein Holzhausen

[NI0390] Letter from paster indicated name as Joachim Heinrich L�bbe born February 16, 1822

[NI0392] Farmhand, Day worker, Fisherman, Small farmer, roofer

Note 1

Hans Griep noted that he was a workman for a farmer, roofer, fisher, and he had a house. People said he died because in the winter his boots froze in the ice. Other stories indicated he died of cancer.

[NI0394] Small Farmer

[NI0397] Einlieger in Goldewin, Mecklenburg

[NI0398] Mecklenburg is the area of northern Germany east of Hamburg along the Ostsee (Baltic Sea).

[NI0401] Godparents Peter Hinrich Allen, David Joachim Merkens, Mrs. Catharina Margaretha Hurtig.

Reimer Von Postel (Godfather of Hans Ewe Haack) was married to one of Hannelore Falkenberg/Griep's grandfather's sisters. They had a small farm in Westerdeichstrich. One of their sons became a lieutenant in the German army in World War 2 and right after than became the office manager with Hannelore's uncle Wilhelm Haack in Suederdeichstrich. Reimer had one son and one daughter.

Today the city of Buesum and Hedwigenkoog is one city under the name of Buesum. In the summer it is crowded with tourists. There is still a small fishing fleet there.

As a child Hannelore's grandfather played in the tide marches (when the tide went out). The boys caught flatfish by stepping on them when the water ran out. When he was a young man or teenager he borrowed someone's horses and wagon and went out into the tide marshes, as she recalls, he drove over to Helschen. But on his return the incoming tide caught up with him and he did not know what to do. So he let the horses find their own way and they made it safely home.

When he told me that he and his friends went into the field to the horses, who just had some foals, the horses drank milk from the mother horses, I told him that it was lucky. He just grinned.

I think that there is much more in the church register books in Suederdeich or in Buesum about the Haack and Diercks families. But we did not want to spend more time there when we visited in 1992. It is not easy to go through all the names and find the correct ones, because there are so many Haack and Diercks. We went twice to the church office in Seuderdeich. Someone before us had ripped a page out of those church books, without letting the secretary know it. She discovered it later. It would be nice to just take photographs from al those pages, then study them at home.

[NI0402] Born at 1:30pm - A twin

Baptism witnessed by:
Anna Rebecca Busch
Bertha Emilie Blecken
Auguste Magdalene Soltau

[NI0404] "Franz Wollschlaeger was the husband of Bertha Haack, my Mother's sister. He was the life of the party, got to other women, failed his business and hanged himself"

[NI0406] Martha's cousin

[NI0418] Hobo, lost leg in accident.

[NI0420] First Gulliver in US.

[NI0421] Either or Kincaid Kincard

[NI0424] Note 1:

Notes from Hannelore Falkenberg (Griep) after visiting Germany during the Summer of 2000:

Then there was the youngest brother, Willi Meyer, also a landscape gardener. He was the caretaker of the cemetary and church in Billwerder (suburb of Hamburg, Germany, ed.), living next door to us. Pastor Von Busch also gave him duty as the bookkeeper of the church. Every Saturday the whole cemetary was raked, as well as the memorial to the fallen soldiers of WW I. The graves, which had a contract to be planted, were done so, hedges cut regularly, so that the whole place was always in top shape. When we visited this summer of 2000 it made a run-down impression. Weeds were everywhere, you could hardly see the WWI war memorial. Leaves had been raked in some places, but left in the middle of walkways. Hedges were not trimmed well. In contrast the church and the cemetary in Ochsenwerder was very well taken care of. The pastorlady we had encountered four years before was on a leave of absence and they had in Billwerder only a temporary pasterlady, who apparently did not care too much. We did not meet her.

Uncle Willi also cleaned the church regularly, washed the floor, dusted all around, and on Saturday P.M. had to stick the new numbers of the songs to be sung on Sunday morning into their slots. As helpers for all of this he had is daughter, Anni, and "Tante Ische" Schertel (Luise Schertel, sisgter of Paul Schertel, a cabinetmaker with his own business in Billwerder. Both Anni and Luise Schertel were not married. This was my Tante Anni, my mother's cousin, also living next door to us. Her sister was Grethe, married to Arnolod Homann, vegetable farmer.

[NI0428] Note:

Mother and dad moved from the Noonan area to Alamo, North Dakota and from there to Fairview, Montana. Following dad's stroke in 1949 they left Fairview and spent his remaining years in Rochester Michigan with their three oldest children and families. Dad died in October, 1952.

Following his death, mother spent a year traveling and visiting with her children making Charles' home in Fairview, Montana her place of residence. The next seven years she spent with Charlotte in Waverly, Iowa and Green Bay, Wisconsin. Following Charlotte's marriage in 1960 she went to Pontiac, Michigan and lived with Mildred and Maurice until 1968. During that time she experience the loss through death of the first of her eleven children.

Mother wasn't ready to retire from active life and so moved from Pontiac to Marinette, Wisconsin in order to help Charlotte by baby sitting for her three small children. She stayed there for 10 years. She did her fair share of the family chores and contributed her Christian influence and transgenerational experience for her grandchildren.

In 1977 Charlotte and family moved to Bettendorf, Iowa. At that time mother went to live with Irene, who had been living alone since the death of her husband in 1974. Living next door to daughter Mildred and her husband Maurice gave all four of them many happy times together. Following Mildred's death Maurice continues to watch over mother and Irene and often becomes their "wheels" to get about. Irene's sons living near also keep in touch.

Rochester, Michigan is also a travel spot for them where they spend much time with Irene's daughter Leah, and her other children in the area Besides local trips these two wonderful ladies have made several trips to Iowa and also to North Carolina where Irene's granddaughter, Sally lives. They spent last winter in Iowa with Charlotte and family and this year are with them in Maple Grove.

Minnesota was an attraction for them this year as mother has a brother and three sisters in the near area. She has been in touch with them by telephone and has visited Esther in her home. They plan to have many visits together while mother is in the Twin City area.

Irene, at 80 years, is a marvelous nurse, companion and tender, loving caring person not only fulfilling mother's needs but also anticipating them. Mother, at 99 is still our miracle. She is in good health, continues to have a quiet sense of humor, still exhibits a Christian influence and a positive attitude of faith. They are both an inspiration to all who meet them.

God be praised for their continued ministry.

[NI0431] In 1991 Emma celebrated her 100th birthday.

[NI0478] George and Jackie died in a plane crash at Cape Edgecumbe on Kruzeof Island about 10 miles south of Sitka, Alaska.

Note:

A Memorial service for George Howard and Jacklyn Lee Rossow is planned for 11 A.M. Friday at The Grace evangelical Lutheran church, 308 Tilson, with pastor Arthur Valeio officiating. The couple was killed in a plane crash Sunday.

Mr. Rossow was born May 13, 1936, in Eugene, Oregon, to Walter and Edna Rossow. After spending seven years in the U.S. Coast Guard, he entered the machinist trade, working 10 years at Alaska Pulp Company. Recently he had founded Sitka Machine and Steel, a local machine shop.

Mrs. Rossow moved to Seattle in 1958 where she attended business school. She met and married Mr. Rossow in 1960. She worked for nearly 10 years at Harry Race Pharmacy in Sitka.

The couple was involved in community activities and organizations in Sitka. They were charter members of the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church. They also enjoyed aviation and were members of the local chapter of the Civil Air Patrol.

The couple is survived by their sons, Greg of Cupertino, California, and Chris, of Sitka. Mr. Rossow is survived by his aunt, Neva Hought of Eugene; and uncles Homer and Glen Hought, all of Eugene.

Mrs. Rossow is survived by sisters Janet Kreifels, Janis Meadows, and JoAnn Wohlers, al of Syracuse, Nebraska; Valetta Achatz of Ellensburg, Washington; Ann Means of Loveland, Colorado; Jean Walker of Beckley, West Virgina; and brother Johny Hespen of Syracuse. One brother and two sisters preceded Mrs. Rossow in death.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church.

A private family grave side service is pending at Sitka National Cemetery.

[NI0505] Maurice was self employed and had a service station.

[NI0520] William had spent 4 years in the air force. He was a siding-applicator.

[NI0527] Walter was a plumbing and heating contractor. For four years he was in the U.S. Navy. His untimely death was due to a stroke.

[NI0533] Walter, like his father, was a plumbing and heating contractor. He met his death by drowning.

[NI0884] Carl was a Great Northern R.R. Engineer.

[NI1284] Mark had the occupation of Carpenter in the 1860 census records.

Note 1

Army of the United States, Certificate of Disability for Discharge, 1863

Mark Godown of Captain Saml E. Paine's Company I of he Nineteenth Regiment of United States Vol. Infantry was enlisted by Capt. Sam'l E. Paine of the Nineteenth Regiment of Iowa Infantry at Bentonsport Iowa on the ninth day of August 1862, to serve three years; he was born in Franklin Co. in the state of Ohio, is thirty nine years of age, six feed one half inch high, light complexion, hazel eyes, brown hair, and by occupation when enlisted a farmer. During the last three months said soldier has been unfit for duty 75 days.

During the past ... he was troubled by cough & difficulty in breathing, and weakness rendering him unable for marching and guard duty. Soon after coming into the field he contracted the disease.

Station: Camp near Huntsville Ark
Date: Jan 8th 1863. Lieut Henry H. Martin

I certify, that I have carefully examined the said Mark Godown of Captain Saml E. Paine's Company, and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of chronic bronchitis with incipient Phthisis Pulminalis greatly infecting his constitution and rendering him unfit for the exposure of guard duty and the fatigue of marches. I believe his disability to be the result of a marked presuppositions to pulmonary diseases together with exposure surrounding his two months camp life.

etc.

End of document
March 27, 1879 - Declaration for original invalid pension. To be executed before a Court of Record or some officer thereof having custody of its seal.

State of Kansas, County of McPherson.

On this 27th day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy (1879) personally appeared before me, Clerk of the District Court, a court of record within and for the county and State aforesaid, Mark Godown, aged 55 years, a resident of the __ of Canton P. O., county of McPherson State of Kansas, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Mark Godown who was ENROLLED on the Ninth day of August, 1862, in company I of the 19 Regiment of Iowa Vol. In commanded by Captain Samual E. Pain, and was honorably DISCHARGED at Carlton Arkansas on the Sixteenth day of January, 1863; that his personal description is as follows; Age, 39 years; height, 6 feet 1 1/2 inches; complexion, light; hair, brown; eyes, Hazel. That while a member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and in the line of his duty at Rolly, in the State of Missouri on or about the first day of November, 1863, he by taking a bad cold and by blowing the fife having to act in place of Regimental Fifer (who was home on sick furlough) contracted Chronic Bronchitis with Incipient Phthisie and Pubuonation for which he was discharged as above state which disability continues to the present time and continues growing gradually worse. That he was treated in hospitals as follows: At Rolly Missouri at time of first taking cold. That he has not been employed in the military or naval service otherwise than as stated above. That since leaving the service this applicant has resided in the County of Vanburen in the State of Iowa, and his occupation has been that of a day laborer. That prior to his entry into the service above named he was a man of good, sound physical health, being when enrolled a farmer. That he is now one half disabled from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor, by reason of his injuries, above described, received in the service of the United States; and he therefore makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the invalid pension roll of the United States. He hereby appoints with full power of substitution and revocation, WM. CONARD & CO., OF WASHINGTON, D. C., his true and lawful attorneys to prosecute his claim. That he has not received or applied for a pension. That his Post Office Address is, Canton, county of McPherson state of Kansas.

Signed, Mark Godown
Attest: David S. Hurlbert and Eli Shaw

End of Document

16 December 1879 -

Mark Godown applied for pension, stating his occupation as carpenter and farmer. He further states on the form "Since my discharge from said service on the Sixteenth day of January, 1863 I have resided in Vanburen County & state of Iowa (my post office was Killburn) until about March 1868 my Post office was Doud Station in the same county. In October 1869 I moved to Farefield, Jeferson County, Iowa. In April 1870 to Pierceville, Van Buren county, Iowa. In September 1870 to Bentonsport, Van Buren County, Iowa. from there I moved to Canton, McPherson co. Kansas in November 1871 where I now reside and my occupation has been that of a day laborer mostly. I further state that the disability for which I claim a pension arises from chronic Bronchitis caused by exposure while in the servise (sic) which was contracted on or about the first day of November 1862 at Rolly Missouri by taking a bad cold and by blowing the fife I having to occupy the place of Regimental Fifer. From my said discharge to the present time, I have received the following medical treatment for said disease while on my way home after my discharge at Springfield Missouri I had a very severe attack (?). I was placed in hospital but I do not know the name of Physician as I was unconscious most of the time about four weeks, this was about the time of February 1863 after I came home from poverty I was compelled to do without medical treatment until sometime in May or June 1870. I called on Dr. Middeton of Pierceville Van Buren County Iowa he prescribed Jaynes Expectorant which I have combined To use off an on as I have been able to get it (Dr. Middleton is now dead) since coming to this place I have advised with Dr. George of Canton McPherson County, Kansas who advised me to continue the same medicine which I am still doing when able.

Since the origin of the disability for which pension is claimed, I have suffered with the following acute diseases: I think that I have no other sickness but what I think have been caused by the disease contracted as before stated. I have had irregular chills and spells of hacking and spitting of blood which Dr. George thinks is all caused by the same sickness for which I was treated by Dr. George of Canton in January and February AD 1879.

And during all the said time my physical condition and ability to perform manual labor has been as follows: About one year after my discharge I was not able to do manual labor from that period the spring of Sixty four until sometime in October 1872 I was nearly as I can estimate by comparison (?) I could work about one half the time but I was not realy (sic) able to work at all but have been compelled to work when I was not able from October 1878 until the present time I have been very nearly total disabled having to sit up many times all night on account of the chocking sensation. I am in fact in very bad condition and have a large family on my hands and if it were not for my friends I know no what I would do.

Signed Mark Godown
Witnessed E. Fairhurst, ?

State of Kansas, County Mc Pherson etc.

End of document

War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 30th, 1880

Sir:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt from your Office of application for Pension No. 281579, and to return it herewith, with such information as is turned by the files of this Office.

It appears from the Rolls on file in this Office that Mark Godown was enrolled on the 9th day of Aug. 1862, at Bentonsport, in Co. "I" 19th Regiment of Iowa Volunteers, to serve 3 years or during the war, and mustered into service as a Private on the 2nd day of Sept., 182, at Keokuk, in Co. "I", 19th Regiment of Iowa Volunteers to serve 3 years, or during the war. On the Muster Roll of Co. "I" of that Regiment, for the months of Sept and Oct, 1862, he is reported present and so borne for Nov and Dec/62 Jan and Feb/63. Dischgd Jan 16th/63 for disability. Regtt. Korpl. Register Reports him as follows:- Dec. 2/62 cough & diarrhea. Dec. 16/62, debility. Dec. 17/62 - cough. Dec 20/62 Pleurisy & cough. Dec. 21/62 cold & cough. Dec. 22/62 neuralgia. Dec 23/62 hepatitis & neuralgia. Dec 25/62 Hepatitis & effusion in chest. Dec. 29/62 neuralgia. Dec 31/62 neuralgia. January 3rd/63 Flux. January 4/63 diarrhea. January 7/63 cough. January 12/63 diarrhea. Cert. of disby repts him dischg'd at Carolton, Ark. Jany 16th 1863. Dirp. Cert. sent Pension Office, Mch 24, 1863.

etc.

End of Document

11 April 1881

Declaration for Original Pension of a Widow - Child or Children under Sixteen years of age surviving.

State of Kansas, County of McPherson:

On this 11th day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and Eighty One personally appeared before me the Clerk of the district court the same being a court of record within and for the county and State aforesaid, Mahala Godown aged 56 years, who, being duly sworn according to law, takes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension provided by Acts of Congress granting pensions to widows: That she is the widow of Mark Godown who enlisted under the name of Mark Godown at xx, oln the xx day of August, A. D. 1862 in the war of 1861, who contracted lung disease and what she said disease caused his death on the 19th day of September, A. D. 1880 who bore at the time of his death the rank of Private in xx; that she was married under the name of Mahala Hurlbert to said Mark Godown on the 29th day of November, A.D. 1843, by Benjaman Schofield Esq. at Franklin County, Ohio, there being no legal barrier to such marriage; that neither she nor her husband had been previously married - none on either side - that she has to the present date remained his widow; that the following are the names and dates of birth of all his legitimate children yet surviving who were under sixteen years of age at the father's death, to wit:

Heneretta Godown born August 25, 1869
Philip E. Godown born July 16, 1873

That she has not abandoned the support of any one of his children, but that they are still under her care or maintenance - I have not. and they are under my care and maintenance - that she has not in any manner been engaged in, or aided or abetted, the rebellion in the United States; that no prior application has been filed by her for invalid pension ...

etc.

Witnessed by David S. Hurlbert and Judy J. Evans on 11 April 1881.

End of Document

Affidavit - hand written just a few months before his death

State of Kansas, County of McPherson.

In the Pension Claim No. 281,59 of Mark Godown Claimant late of Co. I 19th Regt Iowa Vol Inftry. Personably appeared before me a Mark Godown, citizen of Canton in the County of McPherson and state of Kansas well known to me to be refutable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn and declares in relation to the afore said case as follows I was an able bodied man up to the time of my enlistment in Capt Samuel E. Pains Co. I 19th Regt Iowa Vol. Infty August 9th, 1862 and I was discharged from said service on the 16th day of Jany 1863 by reason of Surgeons Certificate of disability and from that time until the present I have been disabled fully one half caused by disease contacted in the army. I would further state that I am now unable to obtain Physicians affidavit to said facts from the time of discharge until I have been under the are of DWH George from the fact that Dr. Middleton who was my family Physician in Iowa up to that time is now dead. Mark Godown. Subscribed and sworn before me this 2nd day of June A. D. 1880. Chas. S. Kuapp. Clk dist ct McPherson Co. Kansas.

End of Document

General Affidavit (Probably 11 April 1881)

State of Kansas County of McPherson

In the matter of Widows Pension Clain no. 281,853 of Mahala Godown widow of Mark Godown Co. I, 19 Iowa Vol. Infty.

Personally came before me, a clerk of the Dist. Court in and for aforesaid County and State, David S. Hurlbert aged 54 years and Judy J. Evans, aged 60 years citizen of the Town of Canton & Spring Valley county of McPherson, State of Kansas, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declare in relation to aforesaid case, as follows:

They have been personably acquainted with the above named Mahala Godown, for the last 45 years, and that they, they affiante, were present in Franklin Co. Ohio, near the town of Columbus, on the 29 day of November 1843 and saw the said applicant married to the above mentioned deceased soldier, Mark Godown, on that day by Benjamin Scofield a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin, State of Ohio. Farther that the applicant lived with, and they cohabited together as man and wife from the said Twenty ninth day Nov, 1843 up to the time of Mark Godown's death, which occurred on the 19th day of September 1880, with the exception, of the time, of said soldiers service in the army. Affiante further state that the afore mentioned Benjamine Scofield, Justice of the Peace, is now dead; and that they are well acquainted with the facts herein set forth. They further declare that they have no interest in said case and are not concerned in its prosecution. Signed David S. Hurlburt and Judy J. Evans.

12 December 1882

General Affidavit, State of Kansas, County of McPherson

In the matter of Widows claim for pension of Mahala Godown widow of Mark Godown, now deceased, personally came before me, a clerk of the Dist. Court in and for aforesaid County and State, Mahala Godown aged 56 years citizen of the Town of Canton, county of McPherson, State of Kansas, well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declares in relation to aforesaid case as follows: That she made application for widows pension sometime on or about the 11th day of April 1881, and that she has heard nothing from said application since. She further says she sent said application direct to the Pension Department at Washington. She makes this application now for the purpose of knowing what she shall do to complete said claim.

etc.

End of Document

Pensioner Dropped - US Pension Agency, Topeka, Kans Jan 14, 1895

Hon. Wm. Lochren. Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir:

I hereby report that the name of Mahala Godown, who was a pensioner on the rolls of this Agency, under Certificate No. xxxxxx and who was last paid at $17, to 4 Aug 1894, has been dropped because of her death. Very respectfully, G. W. Glick, Pension Agent

End of Document

[NI1285] Mary was one of 15 children. The first 3 children were born in Ohio (1844-1846) and the last 12 were born in VanBuren Co, IA (1849-1874).

Information From:

Richard Godown
158 North Street
Caledonia, NY 14423
716 538-6956
[email protected]

[NI1291] Henriette was born at 3am. Henriette was adopted in 1904 at the age of 16 by August J�rgen Orthmann (Also noted at Ortmann in same adoption/birth records). August was a Sneidermeister (Master Taylor) in Bilwerde Auslage (Suburb of Hamburg, Germany). His wife is Catherina Dorothea Henrieta nee Deoth living in Eckernf�rd, near the Baltic See.

[NI1323] These children all came to the United States of America from Norway and first settled in Calumet, Michigan. Julia Jacobson, Undersod, Minnesota, has a copper name-plate from the home of Hogen Jacobsen, her husband's father, from their home in Calumet, Michigan.

[NI1357] From Hannelore Falkenberg (Griep):

The oldest son was Otto Griep, who became a professor for chemistry at an all girls high school in Hamburg (Lerchenfeld Gymnasium). He married Else ?, whose parents had a furniture store somewhere at the Luebeckerstrasse in Hamburg Germany and must have been well off. They built a house outside the city limits of Hamburg in Gross Hansdorf, so that the Nazi party could not get him. His address was no longer in the city of Hamburg, but in the county of Schleswig-Holstein.

[NI1360] From Hannelore Falkenberg (Griep):

Wolfgang didn't have a chance to get married, he was drafted right out of university, where he had just gotten a Ph.D. and was killed in Russia during World War II.

[NI1368] Note 1:

Guenther, who married a dancer and immigrated to Melbourne, Australia. He was a businessman and seemingly well off until his nice wife became ill. Having no medical insurance in all of Australia he had to pay privately. They have a son and a daughter, who by now are also married and having children of their own.

[NI1371] A sister of my father, Elise, was a dressmaker with her own studio. She died of breast cancer; never married, just had a steady rich boyfriend.

[NI1372] Another sister was Anna, who married a man from Vienna from a rich house, but who hadn't learned anything and Tante Anna worked as a sewing sleeves at home to bring in the money. His last name was Wenig. They have two children: One son, whose name I don't know, and who was killed in Russia in World War II; One daughter, Leopoldine, called Poldi, who married a gardener. For some reason they were connected with the Salvation Army as receiver. Her husband had something wrong with him, either he didn't like to work, or was in prison or something, but they had two lovely children, whom I saw one day, when they visited Tante Sophie: a boy and a little girl. Poldi apparently couldn't learn very well, she never grasped the way to measure something on a scale, although my father and Tante Sophie tried to teach her in order for her to get a job in a store.

Tante Anna and her husband were bombed out in Hamburg in 1943 and sent to the Bohemian forest, a very beautiful but lonely place. Since they didn't have money nor connections, they couldn't return to Hamburg and died there shortly after each other. My father says from homesickness and loneliness.

[NI1376] Then my father had a sister Marie, who was married and lived in Rostok at the Baltic Sea (Ostsee). She had at least one daughter, Bertha, but maybe more children. Tante Sophie visited her in her late years in the East-Zone (Former Communist East Germany) in Rostok. We never met her.

[NI1377] There was another sister Bertha, whose name I have forgotten. She married an older man: Emil Ehmke. They had a son, Bernhard, who was killed in Russia in World War II.

[NI1380] The sister next to my father is Tante Sophie, who practically raised him. The mother was too old and most probably tired of having and raising children. Tante Sophie never married, but cared for her old parents, then lived in their apartment, renting out to single people. Sometimes we lived there in the winter. In the summer we lived in a cottage in Hamburg-Farmsen. Tante Sophie was a piano teacher and I got my lessons from her. It was difficult for me going to school, then going to her lessons, and the long way home. I was tired, when I came home and didn't practise much or doing homework for school.

[NI1385] Note

On his wedding day, said that his bride should be "sweet and warm"; he had cut wood to pay for his marriage license and paid the minister with sorghum molasses.

[NI1386] Note 1

Tombstone has "Marybee A."

[NI1387] NOTE 1
RACHEL MARCELLA "Sella" ENGLE, daughter of Rebecca Randleman (1835), b. July 3, 1866, Dallas Co., Mo, d. June 9, 1947, Waterville, WA. In 1911 the family moved to California, then back to Missouri, but by 1913 they had settled on a large wheat farm just outside Withrow, WA. About 1922 they bought a fruit orchard near Soap Lake, WA. About 1922 they bought a fruit orchard near Soap Lake, WA, where they operated a campground and motel.

Kneeva Spillman Miller, writing in 1964 recalled her grandmother's clear sweet voice and her grandfather's love of a good story. "Sometimes Grandma Sella didn't approve. If one of us got out of line, including Grnadpa, she would sit us down in a corner and proceed to read the Bible to us. She believed that the Bible passages were a balm for the soul and that Soap Lake water was a sure cure for anything. If you hurt inside you drank it, if you hurt outside you bathed in it."

They had a big house at the farm and at the motel and plenty of extra beds so their many friends and large family were always welcome. George's greeting to friend and stranger alike was to say, "Welcome, come right on in and set a spell.l" And they always did, neighbor, salesman, tourist. Sella just mixed up more biscuits and added a little extra water to the gravey.

Married Sept. 26, 1886, Buffalo, MO. GEORGE WASHINGTON TURNER, b. May 16, 1865, Buffalo, MO, d. Jan 30, 1944, Soap Lake, WA. bur. Waterville, WA. He was a farmer and motel operator. Over six feet tall, his wife could stand under his arm.

[NI1388] Note 1

Lived with Wm. Joseph Engle, 1900 Census, Dallas Co., MO

[NI1395] Note 1

MARTIN CHRISTOPHER RANDLEMAN JR, son of Martin Christopher Randleman (1761). His tombstone has age 64 years, but he lists himself younger in the 1830, 1840, 1850, and 1860 Census.

Martin lives with his parents in the 1830 Census, St. Clair Co. IL. Before 1835, his name appears on a deed with his father, Martin Randleman, when he paid $175 for 40 acres belonging to William Gooding. On Aug. 19, 1936 (1836?), he sold land in Sec. 18, Twp. 1, near present-day Milstadt, IL, to his brother, Henry for $600.

In February 1964, Wayne A. Randleman made a trip to check records in the Bellevile Courthouse and passed through Milstadt in hopes of locating the original Randleman lands. On February 23rd, he wrote that the land Martin Jr., Michael and Jacob Randleman sold to Henry Randleman, prior to their departure for Missouri, in Sec. 17 and 18, was on the ridge, rather hilly, about three miles west of Milstadt, just before the land levels off into the Missippippi's long flat river bottom.

Wayne drove by for a look and saw Milstadt in the morning: "Milstadt is practically all residential, only two grocery stores, a drug store, grain elevator. It's on very flat land with corn and soybeans growing right up into town. I noticed some strip coal mines (abandoned) on Martin Randleman Sr's place... A Milstadt realtor told me land sold for $300-400 an acre, when it was available."

In Sept. 1980, Alice Undersood Houston, drove Billee Snead Webb to the "Randleman Addition" of Milstadt, which was flat farmland, on the edge of town, near a very old, well-kept cemetery where many grave markers dated to the 1830's. Particularly noted were the many "Dutch" brick houses, built right up to the sidewalks, about 1830-60, and still in use. Mary Underwood Howenstein sent a picture of her home in Freeburg, IL, built in the same style.

Martin Jr. (as he called himself), moved his family to Missouri in 1836-37, with his brothers, Michael and Jacob, and was soon settled on the eastern edge of Buffalo Head Prairie. On Jan. 17, 1839, he obtained title to 240 acres of this to William E. Williams for $62.50.

Martin's wife, Maribah, signed the above deed for Williams, but when it came to time to donate land for a county seat, and William E. Williams gave his 50 acres; Maribah hesitated. Family tradition says she refused to sign; in any case, the land became the town site of Buffalo, MO. After the courthouse burned, affidavits as to the ownership of this land were made by the older citizens of the town, establishing land titles. (One such affidavit confused Martin with his nephew, Martin Randleman.)

On Jan. 24, 1839, Martin Randleman and his wife, Maribah, sold fifty acres to Samual Williams, Elias Parrott and William E. Williams for $62.50. This was the south end of the west half of the South-East quarter of Section No. 26, Township 34, Range 20 West.

Martin Randleman signed, Maribah Randleman made her mark, when S. B. Noe served as witness. A second statement says that Michael E. Randleman, J. Peace, took Maribah aside, and afterward swore that she was agreeable to the sale.

"And said Maribah Randleman being by me first made acquainted with the contents thereof and examine separately and apart from her said husband, whether she executed the said deed and relinquish her Dower to the land .....(she knew what the deed contained and agreed)". [Filed May 1839, Dallas County Courthouse]

Martin sold the rest of his land at Buffalo, and took land on the Niangua River, where he was running the Old Water Mill (grist mill) during the Civil War. Tradition says the Bushwhackers caught him unawares and demanded his trousers as a condition of his unharmed release.

Almond Sturdevant, an early settler, told of talking to the Randleman brothers, while they were plowing with oxen on the very land that the courthouse now stands on. He said they were getting ready to plant corn.

Martin Jr's occupation was that of carpenter, but he did black-smith work, and with his brother, Michael, made two or three fine rifles. In 1952, Albert Newton Randleman (1881) told about '01 Rattlesnake" the nickname given the gun made by martin and Micheal Randleman, because of the unusual grain of its stock. This stock was made from a sugar tree from Sugar Tree Hollow. The barrel was bored from a piece of octagon steel. In 1967 may Turner Randleman gave the rifle "in trust" to Wayne A Randleman, asking that it be kept by the family in Dallas County; it was almost with the same words it had been given to Albert Newton Randleman.

Martin Jr. had a horse trained to where he could shoot off of its head. One day the horse fell on the gun and broke off the guard and trigger. The gun was carefully repaired. It went through the Civil War with Martin Jr's son, James, and tradition of the Missouri Randlemans says that Michael took his gun to California where he didn't find much gold but a good trip, hunting through the Pacific Northwest killing bear, elk, and deer.

The same story, according to John Wesley Randleman (1867), said that Michael had a "Wap" partner whose mule fell with him, breaking the Wap's leg. Infection set up in the injury to the point where he could not travel. Concluding that amputation was necessary to save his partner's life. Mike notched the back of a butcher knife, cut the flesh and used the notched part to saw the bone. He then nursed him back to health and they went on to California. [Our research indicates that Michael's son, Henry was the probable hero of this story.]

Because he knew of only one gun made by the brothers, and found "Old Rattlesnake" still in Dallas County, Wayne A. Randleman, the family historian, had concluded that Michael died in Missouri after his return from California. He was surprised in 1963, when he learned of the Oregon family and that until the Bandon Fire of 1936, they too had one of the rifles.

The Buffalo Reflex, Buffalo, MO. Sept. 15, 1932, in a story about the Merry-go-round Club's Quilt and Hooked Rug Tea, said that the Randleman rifle "whose history is closely associated with the development of Buffalo" would be among the interesting articles exhibited. (Club was still active in 1964).

[NI1396] Note 1

Married Sept. 30, 1832, St. Clair Co., IL, MARIBAH LEMONS, (license says Maribee Lemings, and does not give her age or parents). She was buried by her husband at the Sweaney Cemetery. She was taken from her foster parents to live with her sister, Jane Lemons Randleman, and is listed with her in the 1830 Census of St. Clair Co., IL. Maribah lived with her son Albert Newton Randleman after Martin died.

Grace Engle Patterson said that she "didn't know where Michael went to get Maribah, but it was where Bear were common, because Maribah often had to wait at the spring for a bear to drink and go before she could get water."

Grace was a little girl when Maribah lived with Grace's father, Albert Newton Randleman. She remembered Maribah sitting, knitting and smoking a little clay pipe. (1964)

Delania/Delila Sweaney, b. 1855, has descendents around Ozark, MO, who have contacted Wayne A. Randleman.

The Story of Little Maribee

Maribah Lemons and her older brother and sister, Jason and Jane, lost their parents when Maribah was six years old (1822?). She said her brother and sister were older and beg enough to work, soon found a new home. But being small, no one wanted her. On that day that their parents' property was sold and disposed of, a family agreed to take her in.

All she had was her clothes and a dog and a cat. She asked her new parents if she could take them. They said the dog was OK but not the cat. She let her cat down and it ran up a tree. How sad she was when she looked back and saw the cat scratching the side of the tree.

They took her to their house, led her up a ladder and showed her her bed. It was a pile of old rags on the floor. She related many stories of brutality that she suffered from those people. She carried scars through life from the beatings they gave her. She showed the scars to my Aunt Villa Engle Ingram, who told me her stories.

In the following years, her older sister kept in touch with her and had married a Randleman. One day when she was twelve years old, a man came to her house saying he had married her sister and that he would take Maribah to live with him. Her foster parents were angry and told him that he couldn't have her as they had raised her up to where she was big enough to do a lot of work and they planned to keep her. Maribee said he looked very impressive, so heavily armed carrying a rifle. He said nothing then, just turned and left the house.

For the next few days her foster parents kept close watch on her for fear that her brother-in-law might steal her away. But about a week later there was a quilting at the house. Her foster mother gave her a bucket and told her to go to the spring for some cool water since it was such a hot day. This had been Maribah's usual chore.

He (Michael Randleman) knew this, and found a place to stay not far away, where he could watch the spring. When she got there this day, he stepped out from behind a tree and said, "Come with me, and if they follow us, I'll shoot them." He had a big gun. She went with him and never did see those people again, according to Grace Engle Patterson in 1962.

Grace Patterson later said that, When Maribah was a small child living with foster parents, one Sunday morning as they were getting ready to go to church, Maribah got "sick". The foster parents told her she could stay home and they would go to church. They hadn't anymore than left when Maribah got to feeling OK. As they lived near a river, Maribah got fishing pole and bait and went fishing. Fishing luck was good, and by the time the parents returned from church, she had caught several good fish. Seeing them coming, she ran to meet them to show her string of fish. They severely beat her for fishing on Sunday.

Some Lemons Research Notes (Randleman Book Pg 642)

Jason Lemons name may have been William Jason Lemons according to his descendents. He may have taken his foster parents name? There were several Lemons families prominent and numerous in St. Clair Co., IL. Maribah is living with Michael and Jane Lemons Randleman. 1830 Census. St. Clair Co. She gave her name as Maribah Leming on her marriage license.

Carleton N. Hughs, 1022 Briar Ridge, Houston, TX 77057, 11/21/82 wrote: Meryber Layman md. May 1808, Lincoln Co. NC to Daniel Young, b. 1773 NC, d 1853 Habersham Co., GA Meryber was known as Mary B., b. 1784, NC, d. 1854, Habersham Co., GA....An 1814 deed in Lincoln Co., NC, shows land sold by Daniel and Meriba Young (signed by 'x' since neither could read or write). This land was inherited by Meriba Lemmings (Young) from her father Isaih Lemmings. Land adjoined James Lemings. Sarah Lemmings, and Thomas Lemmings. (Above letter in response to inquiry in Index of North Carolina Ancestors by Billee Snead Webb.)

[NI1422] Heinrich Furrer was born on 6 Jul 1727 in Zell Parish, Lucerne Canton, Switzerland. He died on 27 Sep 1769 in Mecklenburg County, NC. He was buried in Furrer graveyard near Georgeville, NC. According to Mae Elizabeth Herrin Perry, Heinrich Furrer's cabin was built by the west side of Buffalo Creek with the graveyard next to it. In 1762, Buffalo Creek was probably a small creek. Water flooded the cabin and graveyard. The second graveyard was made on the east side of the creek upon a hill and is called the John Furr graveyard. She believes John Furr and his wife, Catherine, are buried there. 24 Jun 1762 purchased 301 acres in Anson County (later Mecklenburg, now Cabarrus) just south of the Rowan County line. Purchased 185 acres adjoining 5 years later. On 16 February 1820, Henry Furrer, Sr. sold 146 and 1/2 acres in Cabarrus County to Tobias Furrer for $566 (Deed Book 9, page 486, LDS Film #463,597). This land adjoined Daniel Furrer's land.

His name appears on a list of immigrants naturalized in Rowan County on Sep 22, 1763.

He was married to Russena Rosser in 1751. Russena Rosser (1) died in Mecklenburg County, NC. She was buried in Furrer graveyard near Georgeville, NC. Some sources spell her last name as Roffer.

Note 2

The book, Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, compiled and edited by Albert B. Faust and Gaius M. Brumbaugh, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968 (reprint of the 1920 edition). This book includes the following:


No. 91. FROM THE PARISH WETZIKON THERE
LEFT FOR CAROLINA IN MAY 1743


Heinrich Furrer, from Stagen, who really belongs to the Gossau district, born November 13, 1691. He has with him his wife Susan Baumann, born January 24, 1692 and the following children:
Felix, April 1, 1720.
Hans Jacob, October 4, 1722.
Susanna, December 31, 1724.
Hans Felix, July 12, 1729.
Anna Maria, October 8, 1731.
Barbara, May 15, 1735.
A son Hans, born October 10, 1717, is in the Dutch service, the father wrote to him from Rotterdam that he should also make the journey with them, but he did not go.


No. 98. FROM THE PARISH ZELL, AGAINST ALL WARNINGS AND ADMONITIONS, THERE LEFT FOR THE PURPOSE OF GOING TO PENNSYLVANIA, CAROLINA, ETC., THE FOLLOWING PERSONS:


August 29, 1734
Bernhardt Furer, September 19, 1697.
Babelj Zuppinger, August 8, 1697.
Children:
Heinrich, July 6, 1631 [sic].
Hans Rudolff, January 27, 1737.
May 13, 1743
Ulrich Furer, Ulrich Furrer's son, baptized on August 18, 1720.

[NI1424] 2. John Furr was born in 1752. Dorothy McDaniel shows as 1747. He died on 15 Dec 1827 in Cabarrus County, NC. He was buried in Furrer graveyard near Georgeville, NC. Probably buried at Furr graveyard near John Teeter farm about 1 mile from Georgeville, NC. According to Mrs. John F. Malinda Sides Herrin, her Sides relatives said John Furr had a nice tombstone but someone vandalized it. The family decided not to buy Catherine one for fear it would be vandalized.

Came to North Carolina with his parents in 1758 when he was 6 years old. He inherited the original Furrer homestead on Dutch Buffalo Creek in 1769 when he was only 17. He continued working it and expanded the plantation. He was a religious man of the Lutheran faith. His first wife died after her second son was born. His first two sons and his first daughter intermarried with the Stallings family. On April 18, 1769, he paid 7 pounds and 2 shillings for lot number two in the southwest square of Concord, North Carolina. He owned 314 acres in Cabarrus County and 826 acres in Stanley County. He was a very good planter. When he was 75 years old, he was poisoned by a servant. Since he left no will, his land was divided among his children by court ruling. He was buried in what was to become the Furrer graveyard, near the John Teeter farm, outside Georgeville, NC. A slate rock stone with no inscription marks his grave.

He was assessor in Mecklenburg County in 1778.

1790 census shows: 2 males over 16, 6 males under 16, 2 females, and 3 slaves.

The descendants of John I were mostly farmers by trade and Baptists by faith. They practically settled Stanly County all by themselves. Many of them had large families and as a rule lived to be over 70 years of age. The descendants of John I intermarried with the Stallings family. The earlier descendants are buried in the Furrer graveyard on Dutch Buffalo Creek near the Teeter Farm. Many later descendants were buried in Bear Creek Baptist Church Cemetery in Stanly County.

[NI1426] Henry Furr (4) was born on 6 Apr 1762 in Mecklenburg County, NC. He died on 24 Dec 1851 in Cabarrus County,
NC. Obit in the Raleigh Register, date unknown. "In Cabarrus, on the 24th of December last, Mr. Henry Furr, aged about 96 years. The last Revolutionary soldier living in Cabarrus has now passed away." He was buried in Phanuals Baptist Church Cemetery, Rowan County, NC. November 4, 1779, "Henry Furr Orphan of Henry Furr to be Bound to CONRAD
BREAM for 2 yrs. 10 mos. to learn the Trade of a Turner & Spinning Wheel Maker, Master to comply with Act of
Assembly & give sd Apprentice a set of Tools." On 12 December 1826, Henry Furr sold 25 acres in Cabarrus
County to Silas Shinn for #137.50 (Deed Book 11, page 343, LDS Film #463,597).

On 7 September 1839, Henry Furr sold land in Cabarrus County to Samuel C. Klutts for $297 (Deed Book 14, page
227, LDS Film #463, 598).

Revolutionary War Record.

He was born the same year that his father received the land grant from King George of England, through the Governor of
the Province of North Carolina, Arthur Dobbs. Henry I was only 7 years old when his father died in 1769. He spent his
formative years on the family plantation. He liked to spend time around the old Bost's Mill. He grew up to be a
energetic young man with a vigorous personality.

Henry I was an ardent patriot, and on May 1, 1779, joined the Continental Army, giving his age as 21 and his birth date as 1758. He was, of course, only 17 years old at the time. He enlisted in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, and
served as a private in Captain Carrigan's Company, a part of Colonel McDowell's Regiment. He was then reassigned to Colonel Malmedy and fought in several skirmishes. In August of 1779, he was discharged. On November 4, 1779, it was ordered by the Court that Henry Furr, the orphan of Heinrich Furrer, be bound to Conrad Bream for 2 years and 10 months to learn the trade of a turner and a spinning wheel maker. The master was to provide a set of tools for his apprentice. The trade of a turner was not for Henry I, so in March of 1780 he broke his bond with Conrad Bream and re-enlisted in the Army. He was promoted to Sergeant and served for 4 months with Captain Peter Faust's Company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina Regiment. The Company stood guard duty in Salisbury. In July
of 1780, Henry I re-enlisted again in Captain Craig's Company of Cavalry. He joined to aid in chasing Tories out of the
county. This assignment lasted 2 weeks. He then returned and served as a minute man in Captain Faust's Company again. For a period of 3 months, he took part in scouting parties, being away from Salisbury for 2 weeks at a time. He was discharged for the last time in April 1781.

Shortly after his discharge from the Army, Henry I married Catherine Wiser in Salisbury. They had eight children:
Elizabeth, John, Rachael, Rosena, Sophia, Henry, Daniel, and Tobias. Two of his daughters intermarried with the Eagle
family. On April 18, 1796, he paid 7 pounds and 2 shillings for lot #2 in the northeast square of Concord, North Carolina. He sold this lot on September 14, 1797 for 18 pounds (deed book 2, page 518). Henry I was a family man. In 1794, he became guardian for Henry, the orphan of his brother Jacob I. In 1796, he became guardian for Paul and Solomon, orphans of his sister Catherine. In 1798, he became guardian for George, a third orphan of his sister Catherine I. In all, he reared 13 children, nine sons and daughters and four nephews. In 1783, he was the bondsman for his sister Mary's wedding.

Henry I was also a great civic leader and a fluent speaker. At one Fourth of July celebration, he was called upon to give an oration. His wife Catherine Wiser died after their children were grown. Not one to live alone, Henry I married Catherine Goodman in September of 1826. He was 64 years old at the time and she was 32. He was exactly
twice her age; however, he was still a vibrant man because the next year Catherine gave birth to a daughter whom they named Elizabeth Caroline after his first daughter who had died sometime before 1810. In 1834, they had another child, a son this time whom they named Paul M. On November 19, 1832, at the age of 70, Henry I applied for and
received a pension for his service during the Revolutionary War. He wrote his will on February 2, 1846 when he was 84
years old. He willed his entire fortune of $200 to the heirs of his second son and namesake. His first son, John, died in
1837. Henry I was the last surviving soldier of the Revolutionary War living in Cabarrus County. He was virtually
penniless and living off his pension. His widow, Catherine, only 57 years old at his death, continued to receive his pension after she reached age 60. On December 21, 1851 this dynamic maverick of a man, who did so much for his family and fellow countrymen, died at the age of 89.

1790 census shows: 1 male over 16, 1 male under 16, and three females.

Cabarrus County, NC Will Book #1, page 201 (LDS Film #466,184)

In the name of God, Amen! I, Henry Furr, of the County of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina, calling to mind the
uncertainty of life and certainty of Death, do make this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all former Wills by me made.

First, I recommend my Soul to God who gave it and my Body to this Earth, from whence it was taken; to be buried according to directions of dear relatives and my Executor hereafter named.

2nd. I Will that all my debtors' bills and just debts, funeral expenses be paid as soon after my Death as practicable.

3rd. I Will and Bequeath to my beloved wife, Catherine Furr, the use and privilege of the Plantation and buildings that is on it for her use during her lifetime or widowhood and after her Death or marriage, my will and desire is that my beloved son, Paul M. Furr, shall have the whole Plantation above named containing One-hundred and Ninety Acres, more or less.

4th. My Will and Desire further is that my beloved wife, Catherine Furr, have Two-Hundred Dollars out of my Estate
and also my loom and all the tackings belonging to it, one side saddle and one bridle, one chest to have for her own use during her lifetime or widowhood, and after her death or marriage, to fall to my beloved son, Paul M. Furr.

5th. I Will and Bequeath to my beloved daughter, Elizabeth Phillips, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

6th. I Will and Bequeath unto my son, Paul M. Furr, my negro man, Wilson, to have the said boy, Wilson, until he, the said Paul M. Furr,arrives to the age of Twenty-One and then to be sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds to be equally divided among all my legatees.

7th. I Will and bequeath to my son-in-law, Peter Earnhardt, the sum of One-Dollar and no more.

8th. I Will and Bequeath unto the Heirs of my son John Furr, Dec'd, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

9th. I Will and Bequeath unto my daughter, Rachael Misenheimer, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

10th. I Will and Bequeath unto my daughter Rosinia Eagle, the sum of Two Hundred Dollars.

11th. I Will and Bequeath unto my daughter, Sophia Eagle, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

12th. I Will and Bequeath unto my son, Daniel Furr, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

13th. I Will and Bequeath unto the Heirs of Henry Furr, Dec'd., my son, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

14th. I Will and Bequeath unto my son, Tobias Furr, the sum of Two-Hundred Dollars.

15th. My Will further is that all my property that is not willed to be sold by my Executors at Public Sale, and that the moneys arising from such sale shall be equally divided among my lawful Heirs, except Peter Earnhardt and my son, Paul M. Furr.

Lastly, I nominate my son-in-law, John Eagle, and my beloved and trusty friend, David Barrier, as my Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

I testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this 2nd Day of February 1846.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered In the Presence of:

Jacob Hileman Henry Furr's Mark
John Hileman
Henry Long


I, Henry Furr, of the County of Cabarrus, do this the 18th Day of February 1849, make and publish this Codicil to my Last
Will and Testament in manner following, to wit:

I give and bequeath to my son, Paul M. Furr, my negro woman, Helena, until he is Twenty and another year of age.
And as soon as he arrives to that age, my will is that, that her and her increase, if any be put up by my Executors at Public Sale and Fifty Dollars of the money she brings, to go to my son Paul M. Furr and the balance of the money she
brings, to go to pay for her if not paid for before my Death.

I further Will and Bequeath to my son, Paul M. Furr, one sorrel bald-faced colt.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal the Day and Year above written.

Signed, Sealed and Published In the presence of:

Henry Long Henry Furr's Mark
Thomas A. Still
James M. Log

[NI1440] Note 1

"Founded shortly before the middle of the eighteenth century by Pennsylvania Germans of the 'Dutch Second Creek Settlement,' it first occupied the so-called Hickory Church but had no regular minister for a generation. Then, in 1773, one of its members, Christopher Rintelmann; (Rendleman), and Christopher Layrle; (Lyerly), of Buffalo Creek Church (now St. John's), returned from a trip to the Fatherland, where they had successfully petitioned the Hanoverian Consistory ("Consistorialrath"), for a pastor, the Rev. Adolph Nussmann, and a schoolteacher, Johann Gottfried Arndt;. The latter, having meanwhile been ordained, succeeded Nussmann in 1775, following this removal to Buffalo Creek, in the present county of Cabarrus. These two subsequently established many new congregations in piedmont Carolina. The Hickory Church, which had been used jointly by the Lutherans and the German Reformed neighbors, was replaced in 1774 by another log building, on a different site, after some disagreement had arisen between the two denominations. For this second church a member named Steigerwalt (Stirewalt) built the first pipe organ known to that section. Soon the official designation of Zion gave way to the name of Orgelkirche, which in its Anglicized form, has persisted until now. From the fact that on August 16, 1786, Ludwig Siffert; deeded ten acres of land 'to the Lutheran congregation belonging to the Second Creek Organ Meeting-house,' it is evident that the organ had been installed prior to that date. The instrument was later moved into the stone edifice erected nearby a few years thereafter.

[NI1456] Note 1: Rintein is English for Rinteln on the Weser in Westphalia.

[NI1459] Note 1

Also noted as being born in Lincoln County, NC

[NI1467] Note 1:

Another reference has Samual's death between 1921 and 1924.

[NI1539] Richard Godown's web page at www.uftree.com in the family web pages under 'g' has the following:

These are the descendants of the Goedowne (Godon,Godown, Godowns) family. Goedowne was the prominent spelling for the family while they were living in England. The name has been found to have a number of possible spellings: Godonet, Godinot, or Godinet, all coming from the French Huguenots. Godon is found in Amsterdam. Godown, Godowne, Gordown, and Godowns are spellings found here in the US and in England we find Goedowne, Goodowne, Godowne, and Godown. It appears that the family was one of thousands that fled France in the late 1500's or early 1600's during the religious persecutions namely the massacre know as St. Bartholomew. It is hinted by some researchers that the family may have been from Nantes. 39 Goedowne family records have been found that place the family in Spitalfields, London, in and around the Stepney parish. In a search of the English parish registers for London, England is found the marriage of Jacob and Luce in 1627, John and Susan in 1627, and Abraham and Elizabeth in 1640, and the christening of 28 Goedowne children. From this information, the Godown(e) family could have lived in England for at least 50 years. We are assuming that these three are brothers and are the ones referenced in some early research done in South Carolina by Leon J Zeigler. In the Zeigler research we see the earliest documented Godown in the south is from a deed dated Feb 13, 1759, of which there was a Jacob Godown as the Justice of the Peace. This deed is recorded in Charleston SC. I have included some of the research on the Joiner (Joyner) family back to Malachi (Eugenia's , James Godowns wife's, grandfather) to show his death in the Civil War in the Georgia Battalion. This is a sad turn of events for me in that with the southern line of the family we have at least 4 documented Godown(s) fighting for the South and at least 3 for the North There are least two Godown's that fought in the Rev. War, John Godown from Hunterdon Co., New Jersey and Jacob V Godown from Burke Co., Georgia. From the original Jacob, John, and Abraham, there have been some guesses and speculation at relationships and dates. All the researched Godown family in the north seems to originate from the original settlement in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The southern Godowns seen to originate from around the Charleston area and moving to the Jefferson Co. Georgia area near or at the end of the Rev. War. The "s" seems to have been added to the Godown name beginning with Jacob W Godowns, Jacob V's only son. The migration of the Godown's from England is further hinted at by looking at the Carlile family. A John Carlile married a Mary Goedowne in Stepney, England. Their daughter Mary, born in Stepney England, married Richard Haines Jr of Northamptonshire, England. Both Richard and Mary died in Evesham, Burlington Co, NJ. A Mary Haines is recorded in the Colonial Census index as living in Evesham Twp in 1709. The Haines family were Quakers and looks like originally settled around the Virginia area. In looking at the WFA Colonial Census index, we find several Carlile's up the east coast from SC to NJ and Haines from NC to NH with the majority of each in NJ. Please until we have a good deal of this research done, don't take this as 100% accurate. This is a collection of the research of a number of Godown researchers: Albert W Godown (NJ/FL) (most of the researchers have referenced Albert's research); Marilyn L. Winton in her article "THE TALE OF TWO TRADITIONS," ; Dean Godown(CT); Authur Godown(NJ); Donna Evans(NJ); Leon Zeigler(GA); Peggy Ennis(CA); Doris Godown (Ohio); Donald Godown(Ohio); Ruth Godown(NJ); Huff Research(IA); Robert Godown(FL); Robert Zimmerman; Wilber Haines(Ca); Milton Rubincan Family Papers along with a lot of help from individuals just sending a note about their families. Of course there is and will be more discrepancies that I will attempt to make note on. We have done a lot in the short time I have been actively working on this starting December 1996. We still lack much detail in they top few generations and in a number of legs. Keep up the good work and keep the information coming.

First Generation
1. Abraham1 Godon was born about 1560.

Father of Jacob has not been proven but an Abraham came to London from Amsterdam several years before 1598.

Abraham Godon had the following child:

2. Jacob2 Godon (Abraham1) was born in Tournai, Belgium about 1580.

He married Marie Du Moulin London, England, about 1600. In the research done by Marilyn L. Winton, the work references this man and his wife as the parents of Abraham. According to this book, Jacob was in London by 1598 and was married about 1600. He was probably born in Tournai, in Belgium, (Flanders), near the border with France. He was in London by 1598, and had a brother, cousin or possibly father, named Abraham Godon, "came to London from Amsterdam" several years before that. Source: "THE TALE OF TWO TRADITIONS," by Marilyn L. Winton

Based on the Ziegler research from South Carolina that begins by saying that "The original Godown's were Hugonaughts, and that after the massacre at Nantes, they migrated to England in the late 1500's. At that time they were thought to have carried the name Godinot or Godinet. They were silk producers and weavers by trade. In the late 1600's three brothers migrated to the states landing in (Charleston?) SC, where the name Godown was given to them. Two of the brothers stayed in the south (Jacob and John), while the third brother (Abraham) moved to New Jersey. It says it was probably Amwell County near Flemington." The research of the South Carolina branch was done by Leon J Zeigler over a period of ten years.. We still have no documentation on the Charleston settlement. There were 5 ships that were sent from England for this resettlement but only one ships passenger list has survived. Also there were marriages in England that can be traced to New Jersey. How and on which ship(s) the family actually came to America is yet to be discovered.

Another note: The dates recorded from the old parish records were from the old calender dating. In the "old" dating the beginning of the next year was March 26th. This date was used up until 1752 when the current calender was universally accepted.

Jacob Godon had the following children:

+ 3 i. Unknown Father3 Godown (living status unknown).

+ 4 ii. Jacob Goedowne was born about 1607.

+ 5 iii. John Goedowne was born about 1607.

Jacob Godon and Marie Du Moulin had the following child:

+ 6 iv. Abraham Goedowne was born August 9, 1616.

[NI1541] In the 1840 census there is a Joseph R. Godown living in Kosciusko Co., Indiana. Living in the household was 1 male less than 5, 1 female 5 to 10, male 20-30 and a female 20-30.

[NI1549] Joseph died in Vicksburg, Miss., during the American Civil War at the age of 21

[NI1560] Ralph Godown died at the age of 20. Volume 2418, Certificate 0383, Fairfield Co. His name also is recorded as Ralf Godown.

[NI1574] Note 1

Ira was a Civil War veteran having enlisted Dec. 31, 1863, Malone, NY, mustered into Co. D, 14th Regt. of Heavy Artillery, New York on Jan. 2, 1864 to serve three years. A copy of his "Volunteer Enlistment" suitable for framing is with his service record in the National Archives. His description then was age 21, a farmer, with blue/grey eyes, brown hair, sandy complexion, 5' 10" tall. Muster rolls for Jan.-Feb. show his name as Ira S. Ingraham, and the same on Sept. -Oct. rolls. He was discharged officially at Washington, DC, Aug. 26, 1865. (Filed with this service record is the death record of S. Ingerson, Pvt., Co. F., 14th Regt NY, who died at Anderson Prison, GA on Sept. 30, 1864)

[NI1585] The Favor Passed On

Edna Turner Smeltzer and her husband Clyde, had a mail contract between Waterville and Mansfield, WA. This was in an area of dry wheat farming; sometimes there would be several mail boxes together, more often there were miles between boxes, with homes set well back from the road. One day Edna drover up behind a car with a flat tire; the driver had no spare. She stopped, waited while he removed the tire, took him to Mansfield, and told him when she would be ready for the return trip. He got the tire fixed and rode back with Edna; she waited until he mounted the tire.

When he offered to pay for the accomodation, she told him to just pass the help on to someone else. later, she met him at Odd Fellows meeting. He said he'd loaned a family a 5-gallon can of gasoline, and told them what Edna told him. Later, he had recognized his gas can on the east coast (so that family had passed on the help he'd given them). Story by Opal Wert in 1980.

From the Randleman, Rendleman Rintelman Reunion book of 1981.

Edna and her sister, Esther, lived out the last part of their lives first in California, Soap Lake, and finally at the Rebecca Home in Walla Walla. Edna died April 3, 1993. She is buried in the mausoleum next to her husband, Clyde, at the Waterville Cemetery. Her parents are also in that building. Esther died two weeks later, on April 22, 1993. Esther is buried in Walla Walla.

From email written by David Smeltzer [email protected]

[NI1647] She had shingles of the face

[NI1648] Note 1
1880 Census
Jasper Twp:
pg 245-246
DAVISON, WARREN 54, married, Farmer b. KY- parents b. KY, VA
Susan, 53-wife, b. KY
Thomas 23, son, b. IN
Margaret 18, Dau, b. IN
Sylvanus 17, son, b. IN

From Yvonne Warner email of 11 June 2000:

Susan's parents were probably William Sebastian and Louisa Strother. In 1850
Warren and Susan were living a few houses away from William Sebastian in
Grayson Co., KY. They moved to Rockport, Spencer So, IN about 1854 where a
number of their children were born. Sometime after 1868 they moved to
Missouri. He was a constituent member of the Pleasant Home Christian Church
which was organized 1884 in Dallas Co.

[NI1650] Henry Furr was born on 11 May 1777 in Cabarrus County, NC. He died on 20 Dec 1846 in Stanly County, NC. He was buried in Furrer graveyard near Georgeville, NC. First of two sons born to John I and his first wife (name unknown). He married Rhoda Stallings in 1802. They had seven children. They were buried in the Furr family graveyard near the Teeter Farm. Their tombstones are slabs of slate rock which abound in the vicinity. On Rhoda Furr's stone is carved, "I don this in memory of mother. P.S. Furr."

[NI1659] . Paul Furr (5) was born in 1754. Dorothy McDaniel shows as 1752. His death notice in the December 20, 1837 issue of the Charlotte Journal shows he died on December 4, 1837 at 87 years of age which would mean he was born in 1750. He died on 4 Dec 1837 in Cabarrus County, NC.(6) He was buried in Albert Widenhouse Farm, near Georgeville, NC. He came to North Carolina with his parents in 1758. He was 4 years old at the time. Paul I inherited his land in 1769 when he was only 15 years old. He identified this land in his own will as the land "I hired of my father." He was also known as "Barefoot Paul" and by
later generations as "Paul of All." He married young, but his first wife died shortly thereafter. His second wife was Mary Stutts whom he married in 1774. Paul I and his wife, Mary, were both very industrious. He was known as a man of great energy and good judgment, and she was known for her strong, forceful personality. They were Lutherans by faith, farmers by trade, and Democratic in political matters. They reared a family of 11 children: Paul, Henry, Leonard, Jacob, Daniel, Noah, Rosena, Catherine, Polly, Sally and Elizabeth. Paul I wrote his will 2 years before his death at the age 83. At this time, he owned 23 slaves, 1,342 acres of land, and a large amount of cash. Mary outlived him by 11 years before dying at the age of 85. She had obtained property of her own and, therefore, she also left a will. This was very rare in that day and age. They are both buried on a 1 acre plot surrounded by a stone wall on her estate, less than 1 mile from Heinrich and Russena's graves on Dutch Buffalo Creek.

1790 census (Mecklenburg Co): 1 male over 16, 3 males under 16, 4 females, and 1 slave.
1800 census (Cabarrus Co): 1 male over 45, one female 26-25, 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 4 female 10 to 16-24.
1820 census (Cabarrus Co): listed.
1830 census (Cabarrus Co): listed.

His death notice in the December 20, 1837 issue of the Charlotte Journal shows he was survived by a wife and 8 children.

In the name of God, Amen! I, Mary Furr, of the County of Cabarrus and the State of North Carolina, being sick and debilitated, but of Sound Mind and Memory and knowing it is appointed for all to die and come to Judgement, do appoint and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following. To Wit:

First, I give my Soul to God who gave it and my Body to the dust, to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner, at the discretion of my Executor, hereinafter named in the grave afore set apart by my Husband Paul Furr, Dec'd.

2nd. I give and bequeath to my beloved son Leonard Furr One-Hundred Acres of land to be laid off on the South end of the Plantation that Paul Furr did gave me to be laid off in one compact square, as near as can be without prejudice to the others. To the balance of the land, to him and his Heirs forever.

3rd. I ordain that the balance of the land shall be put up to the highest bidder and reasonable credit at the discretion of my Executor, as shortly after my Death as convenient and the money to be divided among my children: Sally Heilick, Rosina Klutts, Polly Ury, Paul Furr, Daniel Furr, Leonard Furr, share alike to them and their Heirs forever.

4th. I ordain that One-Acre of the aforesaid land mentioned for a graveyard at the place where my husband, Paul Furr is buried, to be fenced in by a stone wall and tombstones to be put up by my Executor, to be paid for out of my Estate, for my son Jacob, my husband, Paul Furr and myself.

5th. I give and bequeath to my beloved daughter, Roninia Klutts, one negro girl, Tamer and her increase to be her and her Heirs forever.

6th. I ordain that as shortly after my decrease as possibly that the balance of my property shall be exposed to Publick Sale .... ... Twelve Months and the proceeds after paying all my just debts and all my expenses to be divided among my children: Paul Furr, Daniel Furr, Leonard Furr, Rosinia Klutts, Polly Ury and Sally Heilick, share and share alike, to them and their Heirs forever.

7th. I ordain and order that Elizabeth Furr and Caty Osborne, wife of Christopher Osborne, do not receive and are not entitled to one cent of my Estate.

8th. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Polly Ury, One-Hundred Dollars to be taken from Sally Heilick share of my Estate as my Daughter Sally Heilick has received One-Hundred Dollars more than her in a former distribution to or piece by me Executor out of said Sally Heilick's share of my Estate.

9th. I hereby revoke and annul all former Wills and Testaments heretofore made or by me utterly and do Publish this my Last Will and Testament and no other.

10th. I ordain that in case there should be any money of any description, silver, gold, or paper found in my possession may decrease, that the same shall be divided among my children: Paul Furr, Daniel Furr, Leonard Furr, Rosinia Klutts, Mary Ury and Sally Heilick immediately or as soon as a manager to my Estate shall be appointed to share and share alike and their Heirs forever.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 26th day of March 1845.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in Presence of and Declared to be the Last Will and Testament

Solomon Furr Mary Furr's Mark
B. Kruminger
Sopia Furr's Mark

[NI1661] . Leonard Furr (7)(8) (4)(9) was born about 1758 in Cold Water Creek, Anson Province, NC. The Cold Water Creek area of Anson Province became part of Mecklenburg County in 1762 and became a part of Cabarrus County in 1792. Dorothy McDaniel shows as 1755-56. He died in 1835 in Copiah County, near Allen, MS. He was the first Furrer born in North Carolina. Since he was born at the same time that his family arrived at Cold Water Creek, his infancy may have been a major factor in his father's decision to remain there. With this in mind, it is ironic to note that all seven of his children left North Carolina to settle elsewhere, and in later life he himself moved to Mississippi. Leonard I was only 11 years old when his father died in 1769. Although he received an equal value of the estate, he did not inherit any land. He purchased land in Moore County and farmed it. His seven children were named: Elizabeth, Jacob, Paul, Henry, Christian, Isham, and Mary. Paul left North Carolina for Georgia, and the rest of the children moved to Mississippi. In 1830, Leonard I moved to Mississippi where he died at the age of 77. He was buried in Copiah County near Allen, Mississippi.

1790 census (Moore Co): Listed.
1810 census (Moore Co): 1 male over 45, 1 female over 45, 3 males under 10, 1 male 10-16, 2 males 16-26, 3 females 10 to 16-26.
1830 census (Copiah Co): listed as living with his son Isham.

Per Debi Baugh, there is much confusion about Leonard's birth date. She shows him married in 1770 which would have made him 12 if he were born in 1758. He would have been 18 if born in 1752 but that would have made him older than Paul Furr who is shown as Heinrich Furrer's second son. The 1810 census shows him over 45 which would mean he was born before 1764. An 1800 North Carolina tax list gives his age as 48.

[NI1668] Jacob Furr was born in 1763 in Mecklenburg County, NC. He died in 1794.
Was only 6 years old when his father died. He grew up on the family plantation,
married, and had four children: Mary, Elizabeth, Rosina, and Henry. However, he
did not enjoy the longevity that some of his brothers did. He died at the age of 31.
The court ordered that his orphan, Henry, be hired to his uncle, Henry I, until
reaching the age of 21.

[NI1670] Catharine Furr was born in 1765 in Mecklenburg County, NC. Joy
Holder shows her birth date as 1760 and shows her as born in Anson County,
North Carolina. Robert & Dana Kapp show he born about 1768 in Anson,
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She died on 9 Jan 1798 in Cabarrus
County, NC. On Feb 6, 1798, Adam Furr qualified as administrator to the estate
of Catherine Furr Aaronhart.

[NI1671] On Aug 8, 1797, Tobias Furr qualified, in the Rowan County
Court, as guardian for John, Peter, George, and James Aaronhart, "orphans of
John Aaronhart" and on the same day Henry Furr qualified as guardian for Paul
and Solomon Aaronhart, "orphans of John Aaronhart." On Feb 7, 1798, Tobias
Furr Having died, Henry Furr qualified as guardian for George Aaronhart and
Moses Brown (son of Michael Braun of the Old Stone House) qualified as
guardian for John, Peter, and James Aaronhart.

[NI1682] Godparents Johann Friedrich Peters from Neuenkirchen, Rainer Hinrich Mathieshen from Buesum, and Wiebcke Catharina Denker, from Hedwigenkoog.

[NI1683] Godparents for Johann: Johann Friedrich Peters from Neuenkirchen, Rainer Hinrich Mathieshen, from Buesum, and Wiebcke Catharina Denker, from Hedwigenkoog.

[NI1684] Godparents: Anna Christina Dehn from Hedwigenkoog, Sophia Maria Deeder or Dreder from Hedwigenkoog, Adolf Reimers from Helschen (a very small island in the North Sea, close to the coast of Buesum and Hedwigenkoog).

[NI1685] Hans was killed in East Prussia near Koenigsberg in World War 2. His Godparents were Johann Haack from Suederdeich, Reimer Von Postel from Westerdeichstrich, Franz Wollschlaeger from Hamburg, and Johann Bruhn from Hedwigenkoog.

[NI1699] Knox county 1830 census index review

Note 1:

Jacob Engle 2 M Under 5
2 M 5-10
1 M 10-15
1 M 15-20
1 M 30-40
1 F Under 5
1 F 5-10
1 F 10-15
1 F 30-40

Note 2:
Jacob purchased land on Indian Creek near Woodbine in Knox County Kentucky in 1811 and by 1840 was paying tax on 795 acres. All the children were born and raised there. Jacob and his wife are buried on the family farm there. His will is in will Book B page 450 in Barbourville, Kentucky.

Individual: Engle, Jacob
County/State: Knox Co., KY
Page #: 302
Year: 1820

Note 3:

Jacob purchased land on Indian Creek near Woodbine in Knox Co. in 1811, and in 1840 he was paying taxes on 795 acres. All the children were born and reared there. They are buried in the family graveyard on their farm. His will is recorded in Will Book B, page 450, at Barbourville, Ky.
KNOX COUNTY COURT, JULY TERM 1861.

A paper purporting to be the last will & testament of Jacob Engle, dec'd. was this day produced in court and proven by the oaths of William Helton & Joshua Engle subscribing witnesses thereto and the said will is ordered of record as follows:

In the name of God Amen, I Jacob Engle of the County of Knox being sick and weak in body but of sound mind & deposing memory for which I thank God and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with. I give and bequeath the same in manner following that is to say.

1.I give my loving wife Rachel my plantation my farm that I now live on, the farming tools and all the kitchen furniture two cows & calves, six head of sheep, seven hogs, two horses, all the money if any after my debts are paid, two beds & furniture during her lifetime.
2.I give my daughter Lucy Love, One Horse & Sadclle & Bridle.
3.All the balance of my land I dispose of in the following way all to
be equally divided amongst my heirs and none to sell their share to a stranger. 4. All my perishable estate to be sold & the proceeds to be equally divided.
5.I give & bequeath my son, Israel Engle my farm known by the name of Porch, he is to have equal of my estate also, and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Joshua Engle and my son in law William Helton, executors of this my last will and testament and impower my said executors to convey the title of the land to Israel Engle that I gave him.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 17th day of January 1860.

Note 4:

1860 Census

Page 3 for Knox Co.
Jacob Engle - age 70
Rachel - age 63
Lolla - age 24
Joshua - age 22
Lucy - age 19
Jacob - age 15
Elizabeth - age 5

Listed in Kentucky Land Grants of 1816-1873 page 543:

Jacob Engle, 50 Acres, Book J Page 197 on 3-29-1824 Knox County, Fk Indian Creek
Jacob Engle, 50 Acres Book N-2 page 277 on 8-12-1837 Knox County, Dowes Fk Indian Creek
Jacob Engle, 100 Acres, Book Q-2 page 140 on 3-17-1845 Whitley and Knox County, Meadow and Indian Creek.

Listed in Kentucky Land Grants 1797-1866 Page 307:
Jacob Engle, 200 Acres, Vol. 20, page 58 surveyed 9-20-1811, Knox County, l h Fk Indian Cr.

[NI1701] Note 1

"Jesse married and went West", so says the Melchor Engle book. He came to Dallas County, Missouri about 1836 and settled southeast of Buffalo, according to the History of Hickory County, MO. (p 330). In 1823, according to the tax lists on file in the State Historical Library in Frankfort, KY, Jesse owned 2200 acres of land on Indian Creek and Lynn Camp in Knox County, valued at $9800. He left Knox County for the west, it is thought in the 1830s. The census report for 1830 lists a family of 5 children under 10 years of age. The church of LDS shows a "Jessie", son of George and Eliz. Sturm to have been born about 1788 in Lancaster, PA.

Records show that land in Dallas County, Missouri was patented to Rebecca Engle on June 8, 1858 and land was patented to Jessie Engle on October 1, 1845.

The following story was told by Bertha Engle: Jessie Engle, Sr., had a large farm on the Niangua River. The roads were blazed trails. He had many fine horses. He made a race track in his barnyard. Rebecca, his wife, went somewhere on one of the fine horses with a small child riding in front of her. Jessie heard the horses coming home at a fast gait. He opened the gate and the horse came in with his wife and child, and a panther on the back of the horse. The panther had dropped out of a tree onto the horse's back. About the third time around the race track, Jessie shot the panther, as in those days, one always carried a gun and it is said that he was a crack shot. Someone asked Rebecca if she was afraid he would shoot her or the child, and she said "no - I knew he was a good marksman."

Jesse and Rebecca adopted 2 daughters, Sally age 10, and Alice "alcey" age 6. These children were Rebecca's nieces, the daughters of her sister Mary who died in 1821.

Note 2:

1830 Knox County Census:

Jesse Engle 2 M Under 5
1 M 5-10
1 M 30-40
1 F Under 5
1 F 5-10
1 F 20-30

Note 3:

In 1823 according to the tax lists on file in the State Historical Library at Frankfort, Ky., Jesse owned 2200 acres of land on Indian Creek and Lynn Camp in Knox Co. valued at $9,800. He left Knox Co. for the West, it is thought, in 1830's. The census report for 1830 lists a family of five children (3 boys and 2 girls) under ten years of age. n.f.r.

[NI1703] Knox County Census, 1830

Philip Engle 1 M Under 5
2 M 5-10
1 M 10-15
1 M 30-40
1 F 5-10
1 F 30-40

[NI1704] Engle School on the property that was Joseph Engle's in Dallas Co., Mo. near Union Home Cemetery.

[NI1705] Note 1

Extract from "Alias Frank Canton", with in line reference notes at the end of John W. Horner's notes.

John W. Horner was born in 1812, one of five sons and a daughter of a Virginia physician of Scottish descent who was said to have fought in the Revolutionary War. (1)

John W. Horner was a farmer and Methodist preacher who also practiced medicine. According to family tradition, he had only six months of formal schooling but educated himself through reading and kept an extensive library. He married twice and fathered twelve children.

John Horner had wanderlust. In the early 1830s he left Virginia for the frontier country of Ohio, where he married. The couple had three daughters: Mary, born in 1834, Virginia in 1836, and Eliza Ann in 1838.(2) John's wife died in about 1840, and he returned east and married Mary Jane Clemmons, a twenty-four-year -old woman of English and Irish heritage, in Baltimore. Nine children - four boys and five girls - were born to this union. Josiah W. ("Joe") Horner was the middle child, with four older and four younger siblings. In 1849, the year of Joe Horner's birth, William and Josiah Clemmons, brothers of Mary Jane, joined the great rush to the California gold fields. Josiah, for whom Joe Horner was named, died during the return trip and was buried at sea.(3)

After his second marriage, John Horner led his family to Keokuk, Iowa, where Margaret was born in 1841, Martha in 1843, and John Wesley in 1844. The Horners next settled in Harrison Township, Henry County, Indiana. Here daughter Mary Jane (Mollie) was born in 1847, Josiah on September 15, 1849, and George in 1852. By 1854 the Horners were located near Kansas City, Missouri, and the following year were in Topeka, Kansas, where Allen joined the family in 1855 and Kate in February 1857. The next stop was Huntsville, Arkansas, where the last child, Minnie Belle, was born in January 1859. The Horners in 1860 were back in Missouri, living at Ozark, in the southwestern corner of the state.(4) Despite the constant uprootings, the Horner children were evidently well provided for. "He must have been a wonderful financier," mused a daughter, "to have transported such a boodle of children (most times in a prairie schooner) & but a few of us could claim the same state for our birthplace... We could not have appeared shoddy as we were well clothed & had not thot [sic] but what we were as good as anybody."(5)

At the outbreak of the Civil War, the Horners were living at Ozark. Although almost fifty years old, with a wife and a flock of children, Horner went off to fight for the Confederacy. On August 20, 1862, the Confederate secretary of war had authorized Colonel H. E. Clark to recruit and equip a regiment of Missouri volunteers. Within ten days John W. Horner had joined the unit as a private in the company of Captain A. F. Jones.(6) Three months later the oldest son, John Wesley, also enlisted in the confederate army, joining Company C of the 34th Regiment under General Sterling Price. Despite wounds received at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, he fought for the Confederacy until Robert E. Lee's surrender in 1865 (7).

In early 1863 the elder John Horner became a military surgeon. Wounded and captured at the battle of Mount Vernon, Missouri, in 1864, he was taken by Union forces to Alton, Illinois, and confined in the formal state penitentiary as a prisoner of war. He died there in 1865. There are two versions of Horner's death in the family tradition. According to one, the doctors at Alton, recognizing that Horner treated a Union officer's wife, who had pneumonia, and that he died after contracting the disease from his patient. (9) It is more likely that Horner was one of the last victims of the smallpox epidemic that raged in the Alton prison during the winter of 1863 and did not abate until late in 1864. At the peak of the scourge, the dead mounted up so fast that prison officials gave up trying to keep accurate records. Estimates of prisoner deaths from disease ranged from one thousand to five thousand; the army officially listed 1,354. (10)

Sixty-two years after her father died, Minnie Belle Burnett, who was only six at the time, remembered receiving the news. "It was the year peace was declared and he had written Mother to dispose of the household goods and come to him. He felt they could make a happy home there. She had everything packed and we were to leave the next morning.... I heard Mother scream and we rushed to the house to find she had received the message of his death." (11)

(1) The boys were William, Sam, John, Richard, and Ben. The daughter's name has been lost to history. The family history is derived from letters written to Canton's widow after his death. Mary Jane Sams, Canton's sister, in a letter dated December 14, 1927, provided details, although she said it was difficult because the old family Bible had been lost. Other information is contained in an undated letter from Minnie Belle Burnett, another sister, in a letter from Ethel Horner, a niece, dated February 15, 1928, and in additional details reported by Ethel after interviewing her father, John Wesley Horner.

(2) Horner's first wife apparently came from a well-to-do Ohio family. "I am sure their people were prominent as one Auntie visited us in Indiana & took Sister Jennie back to Cincinnati on a visit & Jennie thot [sic] they were wonderful & houses grand," Mary Jane Sams remembered in 1927. "Sister Eliza was the brightest of the seven sisters... [She] was poring over books (& our father kept a fine library) & best of all she had such a wonderful memory. Jennie was beautiful & such a lovely figure. Moved like a princess & was inclined to a little vanity" (Mary Jane Sams to Anna Canton, December 14, 1927).

(3) Minnie Belle Burnett to Anna Canton.

(4) Mary Jane Sams to Anna Canton, December 14, 1927. In addition to the cited letters, the Horner family history is reconstructed from official records: U.S. Census, Henry County, Indiana, 1850; Benton County, Arkansas, 1860; Denton county, Texas, 1870; and Young County Texas, 1880; Texas State Penitentiary, Huntsville, Records for Joe Horner; Oklahoma State Department of Health, Certificate of Death, Frank Melvin Canton.

(5) Mary Jane Sams to Anna Canton, December 17, 1927

(6) Confederate Records, Military Service Branch (NNMS), National Archives. To be accepted, Horner lied about his age, saying that he was only forty-three. Clark's Regiment of Recruits later became the Seventh Regiment of the Missouri Cavalry.

(7) Crouch, A History of Young County, 223-24

(8) Ethel Horner to Anna Canton, February 15, 1928

(9) Minnie Belle Burnett to Anna Canton

(10) "Alton's Disaster in War between States," undated clipping from the Alton Telegraph, Hayner Public Library, Alton, Illinois.

For additional information about Joe Horner, refer to the End notes for publication information

[NI1709] Note 1

Notes for Levi Vail:
Levi Vail first shows up in the Kentucky census in 1830 which is 5 years after the death of this Levi. It could be his son. There was a Levi Vale in Pennsylvania census for 1810. Levi shows on the Knox County tax records as Levi VALE from 1815 to 1818. In 1818 he was sued for slander by Tabitha Dowis, daughter of Jesse Dowis; after this, he disappears. His wife Elizabeth lived with the Engles until her death in 1878 in Knox County. Beginning in 1805 there is a Levi Wells listed on the tax records and on the 1810 census. In 1788 there was a Levi Vale as witness to a Montgomery Co., VA marriage.


Individual: Vail, Levi
County/State: Hardin Co., KY
Page #: 347
Year: 1830


Notes for Elizabeth Williams:
After the death of her husband, Elizabeth lived with the Engles until her death in 1878 in Knox County.


Child of Levi Vail and Elizabeth Williams is:
87 i. Rachel Vale, born 1797 in Virginia; died 1875 in Barbourville, Kentucky; married Jacob Engle March 18, 1814 in Knox County, Kentucky.

[NI1712] She is thought to be from the Hagerstown, Maryland area. Her last name is sometimes spelled Storm.

Note 1:

Elizabeth's parentage is not known although family tradition is that her people lived near Hagerstown, Md., and that her father was related to Lord Baltimore. Tradition is that she had a brother Jacob Sturm. In Deed Book 15, page 274 of Frederick Co., under date of August 20, 1771 there is a record that Michael Engle ]eased land to Peter Storm for five years. Further investigation may show that Peter was a father or brother of Elizabeth. It will be noted that their oldest child was named Peter Engle.

[NI1715] Note 1:

In the Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd series, volume 11, page 309 is the record of naturalization of Melchor, dated Aug 21, 1743 at the supreme Court held in Philadelphia. Melchor owned land In Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his family attended the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He moved to Fredrick County, Virginia. in 1753 or 1754 when he received a patent for land. The grant of land to Melchor Ingle is in the State Land Office in Richmond, Virginia book H, page 412 was received from Lord Fairfax. This was for 397 acres on Elk Branch. He purchased 105 acres six months later recorded in Deed Book 3, page 311 in Fredrick County, Virginia. His will is recorded in Will Book 2, page 421 in Winchester, Virginia.

Children of Melchor Engle and Mary Beyerle are:
i. Phillip Engle, born October 08, 1743.
ii. Michael Engle, born Abt. 1745.
iii. John Engle, born 1746.
iv. William Engle, born Abt. 1747.
v. Fredrick Engle, born April 03, 1749.
172 vi. George Engle, born April 19, 1750 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; died May 31, 1826 in Knox County, Kentucky; married Elizabeth Sturm 1773.


Note 2:

The earliest known record of Melchor Engle was found in the second edition of I. Daniel Rup's Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1726-1776; with a statement of the names of the ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia.

The name of Engel or Engle is believed to have been of German origin and is stated by some authorities to have been a corruption of the name applied to the race known as Angels. Whether Melchor came to this country with his parents, his step-father and his mother, or alone is not known, but it is doubtful that he was an immigrant from the Palatinate. When William Penn received the grant of land now known as Pennsylvania, he immediately began planing for a colony on the bank of the Delaware which would provide a refuge for his oppressed fellow Quakers. Penn promised that no person in his colony who believed in God should be molested of his persuasion or practice. Thus, the colony was thrown open to Christianity of all denominations. In the year 1749 alone, 12,000 Germans landed in Philadelphia.

Melchor was one of the early settlers in the Lancaster, PA area and naturalized in 1743 and had at least one sister, Anna Susanna who married a Fred Dochterman. He probably moved to Virginia in 1752 or 1753.

Melchor and Mary Engle lived near what is now Shenandoah Junction, Jefferson County, West Virginia per DAR mag. pg. 133, Feb. 1936.

Michael Beyerle was a yeoman. His son-in-law, Melchor, was a saddler. Melchor came to Frederick County, Virginia while it was still part of the wilderness. It was during hazardous times that the three sons of Melchor Engle (Michael, John, and George) migrated to the Watauga settlement in North Carolina; soon to be part of the new state of Tennessee. On January 12, 1760, Melchor Engle made his last will. In his will, he mentions his wife Mary, and 5 sons.

Phillip, Michael, John, and William have Revolutionary War records. No records have been found of the service of George Engle.

More can be found about Melchor in the Melchor Engle Book.

Note 3:

The will is also listed as "Milker Engle"

464 1805 Chancery Court, Berkeley Co. Engle v. Burns
Milker Engle, deceased.
Will Dated 12 January 1760. Widow,
Mary. Sons: Michael; John; George; William; and Philip.


MELCHOR ENGLE'S WILL

Following is the will of Melchor Engle and the record of the appraisement of his estate. The contents of both his will and the appraisement show that Melchor Engie was a man of means for that day.

Will Book 2 p. @88 Winchester, Frederick Co., Va.
Probated April ist 1760
In the name of God Arnen, the twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord 1760. I Melchor Engle of the county of Frederick and province of Virginia (Saddler) being very sick and weak in Body but in perfect mind and Memory, thanks be given to God therefore Calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul unto the Hands of God, that gave it and for my Body I Recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and Decent manner at the Discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again, by the mighty power of God and touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me, in this life I give-Devise and dispose of tlye same in the following manner and form:-

It is my will and I do order that in the first place all my Just debts and funeral charges be paid and Satisfied. I give and bequeath unto Mary my beloved wife my Roan pacing mare with her Saddle and all Horses and mares and all Horned Cattle to be Praised and equally divided according to the appraisement and all moveables to be appraised and Equally divided.
I give unto my well beloved Son, Philip Engle one hundred acres of Land adjoining John Wright and Nicholas Parker. I give unto my well beloved son Michael Engle one Hundred acres of land adjoining Joseph Darke and John Humphries and the plantation I now live on I give and bequeath the Same to Mary my beloved wife during her life and at my wife's decease the Said plantation to be equally divided Between my beloved Sons John Engle George Engle and William Engle.
I do Constitute make and ordain my only and Sole Executors my beloved wife Mary Engle and Henry Loyd. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testament, Wills, Legacies and Executors by me in any way before this time named willed and bequeathed. Ratifying and conforming this, and no other, to be my last will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have here-unto Set my Hand and Seal the day and year above written.
Signed, Sealed Published, Pronounced and Declared by the said Melker Engle as his last Will and Testament. In the Presents of us the subscribers.
Thomas Hart
Benj. ( ) Allen Melkor Engle
John Spencely

APPRAISMENT OF MELCHOR ENGLE'S ESTATE

Will Book 2 p. 421Winchester, Va.

To the worshipful Court of Frederick Co. Virginia we have been in persuance of your Order and now tender to your worship a true and perfect inventory of the appraisement of the Estate of Meleger Eingle late of Frederick Co., Dee'd being brought to our view by Henry Loyd and Mary Engle Executors of the last will and testament of the said Melchor Engledee'd.We being first sworn as the law direct.

Lb Sh P
To 13 sheep -----------------------------------------------------5-14- 0
To I cross cut saw -----------------------------------------------2- 0- 0
To I crow bar ---------------------------------------------------0- 7- 6
To 13 Pewter plates ------------------------------------------0-13- 0
To 2 dishes-Bason and porringer--------------------------1- 0- 0
To a Brass Skillet and Iron Ladle--------------------------0- 6- 0
To I Brass Kettle -----------------------------------------------1-10- 0
To I Frying pan ---------------------------------------0- 3- 0
To a Lock Chain -------------------------------------- --------0-15- 0
To a Grubbing-hoe & old Chains ------------------------0- 6- 0
To 2 Candle-sticks ---------------------------------------------0- 0- 8
To a Wagon Jack ----------------------------------- ------1-15- 0
To a Shovel & Tongs -------------------- -----0- 2- 0
To 2 Pairs of Sheets --------------------------------------1- 0- 0
To 3 Sheets and Tablecloth -------------- -0-18- 0
To Sundry Linens --------------------------------------------1- 0- 0
To 1 Chest ------------------------------0- 11-0
To 1 Pair of Holsters and Pistols --------- 0- 7- 0
To a Pepper mill ----------------------------------------------0- 3- 0
To a Funnel & Trenchers ------------------------------------- 0- 8- 0
To a Bed and Pillow --------------------4- 0- 0
To Bed and Bedstead ------------------------6- 0- 0
To Alyum ------------------------------------------------------ 1- 5- 0
To Sundry of Clothing -----------------------------------------3- 0- 0
To One Red & Mottled-faced young Cow -----------2-10- 0
To One Red White Black young cow -----------------2-10- 0
To I young Red Cow ---------------------------------------------2- 0- 0
To I young White Cow -----------------------------------------3- 0- 0
To I Tall Red Cow with a star ---------------------------------2-10- 0
To I Cow with a bell -------------------------------------------3- 2- 0
To One Brindle White Black Cow --------------------------3- 0- 0
To Three 3 year old Cattle -------------------------------------2- 5- 0
To a Red & Brindle & Brown Heifer -----------------------4- 0- 0
To 2 Heifers more -----------------------------------------------2- 5- 0
To a Roan Horse----- ----------------- -----------------------12-0- 0
To a Gray Horse -----------------------------------------------9- 0- 0
To another Roan Horse ---------------------------------------6- 0- 0
To 3 dozen & a half Sweep Irons -------------------------1-15- 0
To Ladder----------------------------------------------------0- 5- 0
To a Wagon -----------------------------------------------------8- 0- 0
To .4 old hoes & shovels --------------------------------------0- 4- 0
To 2 old scythes ---------------------------------------------------0- 4- 6
To 7 Tubs ------------------------------------------------1- 6- 0
To a still and a Worm tub ------------------------------------27-0- 0
To One Iron Pot ---------------------------------------------0-13- 0
To 3 Cedar Tubs ----------------------------------------------0-12- 0
To I Hogshead & old tub & barren -------------------------0-13- 0
To I Chum & Keeler ------------------------------------------0- 2- 6
To Old Iron ---------------------------------------------------0- 6- 0
To 2 Spinning Wheels -------------------------------------------0-13- 0
To 2 Chairs ---------------------------------------------------- 0- 6- 0
To 2 Chairs0- 3- 0
To Black Walnut Table0- 4- 0
To Old Tobacco Hogsheads ----------------------------0- 4- 6
To a Woman's Saddle-tree0- 5- 0
To a Pair of Iron Geers & Collars1- 2- 0
To a Pair of Iron Geers & Collars1- 0- 0
To 4 Plow Bridles0- 6- 0
To a Grind Stone -----------------------------------------------4-12- 0
To Sundry Carpenter Tools ----------------------------0- 6- 0
To 2 axes, drawing knife Hand saw and peon -0-15- 0
To an Old Saddle0- 4- 0
To one Iron Stove -----------------------------------------------3-10- 0
To a Plow & Tackling in full --------------------------------0- 1- 0
To a pair of Plow Irons ------------------------------------0-15- 0
To a Bedstead0- 5- 0
To one Harrow Tooth & Band to old Wagon tongue0- 1- 6
To 3 Sows -----------------------------------------------------1-12- 0
To a Flax Breake ------------------------------------0- 3- 0
To 6 Chairs0- 8- 0
To Cash in hand -----------------------------------------------35-5- 3
To Dung Fork --------------------- ----------------------------0- 5- 0
To Poplar Bedstead ------------- ----------------------------0- 8- 0
To 14 Swine3- 3- 0
To a Harrow -----------0-11- 0

Appraised the 20th of May 1760

Edward Lucas
his
William W. X StrGop
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Returned into Frederick Co. September 1760 & ordered to be recorded.
Teste
Arck'd Wager, C. C.

INGLE'S PARTMON

The division of Melchor Engle's land in accordance with his Will and recorded in deed book 13 page 83, at Winchester, Va. This land is in what is now the north central part of Jefferson Co., West Virginia.

To the worshipful Court of Frederick County of Virginia: Gentlemen, we have been endeavoring to act according to your worshipful orders about Engle land according to division. The choice is as follows :

John Ingle is allowed the upper lot, together with the chief buildings on it. The said John is to pay his brother William Engle twenty pounds; ten pounds in the year 1770, the other ten in 1771. The above said William Ingle is to have the middle lot; and George Ingle is to have the lower lot at the lower end of the meadow, and is to pay his brother William Engle the sum of 30 pounds; ten pounds to be paid in the year 1773, and so on yearly until paid. All current lawful money of Virginia.

To which we have hereunto set our hands this 31st day of July, A. D. 1769.
(Sgd) Henry Lloyd.
James Hendricks.
Edward Lucas.
The above partition was returned into Court Aug.lst 1769, and ordered recorded.


Note 4

EARLY DEEDS OF LAND TO MELCHOR ENGLE

FOLLOWING IS THE FIRST DEED OF LAND GRANTED

Michael Beyerle to Melchor Engle

This indenture made the 10th day of April in the year of our Lord 1746 between Michael Beyerle of the Borough of Lancaster in the Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, and Catherine his wife of the one part and Melchor Engle of the County of Lancaster and Province aforesaid, Saddler, son of the said Catherine by a former husband, of the other part, witnesseth that the said Michael Beyerle and Catherine his wife for and in consideration of the natural love and affection they bear unto the said Melchor Engle and for his advancement in the world, as of the sum of 100 pounds lawful money of the said Province to them in hand paid by the said Melchor Engle the receipt thereof they do hereby acknowledge have given granted and aliened enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents to give grant, and aliened, enfeoffed, and confirmed unto the said Melchor Engle, his heirs and assigns all of that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being on the east side of Conestoga creek in Larnpeter Twp. in the county of Lancaster afores, beginning at a beech tree by Conestoga creek at a corner of land formerly of Edmund Carthedge and extending thence by the same south, south east 264 perches to a black oak, thence by lands late of Jacob Harress and Christian Jonce, west by south 155 perches to a post, thence by vacant land west by north 400 perches to a Hickory tree by the aforesaid creek, thence down the same by the several courses thereof, 220 perches to the place of beginning, containing 225 and an allowance of six acres on a hundred for roads and highways, which said tract or parcel of land was granted to the said Michael Beyerle, his heirs and assigns by patent from the Hon. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esquires, true and absolute proprietors and Governors in chief of the said Province, under the land of the said Thomas Penn and the great seal of the said Province bearing date of the 2nd day of May in the year of our Lord' 1740, as by the said patent recorded in the office for recording of deeds for the city and county of Philadelphia in Patent book A. Vol. 10 page 229 the 10th day of March in the year of our Lord 1740, (relation being there unto had may more fully and at large appear) together with all and singular the improvements, rights, and members and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues & profits thereof and all the estate, right title, interest, property claim and demand of them the said Michael Beyerle and Catherine his wife, of in and to the premises hereby granted and true copies of all deeds, evidences & witnesses concerning the same to be had and made at the proper costs and charges of the said Melchor Engle, his heirs and assigns, to have and to hold the said tract of 225 acres of land hereditiments and promises hereby granted with their and every of their appurtenances unto the said Melchor Engle and his heirs, to the only proper use in behoof of the said Melchor Engle his heirs and assigns forever, under the yearly quit rent henceforth accruing and growing due and payable to the chief lord or lords of the fee thereof. And the said Michael Beyerle and his heirs, the said tract of land hereditaments and promises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said Melchor Engle, his heirs and assigns, against them the said Michael Beyerle and Catherine his wife, and their heirs and against all persons claiming or to claim by, from, or under them, shall and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. And the said Michael Beyerle, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators and for the said Catherine his wife, doth covenant, promise and grant to and with the said Melchor Engle, his heirs and assigns by these presents, that he, the said Michael Beyerle and Catherine his wife, and their heirs and all and every other person and persons, whatsoever having or lawfully claiming or to claim any estate right title or interest of, in or the said premises r any part thereof, by, from or any of them, shall or will at any time or times hereafter at the reasonable request cost and charges in the law of the said Melchor Engle, his heirs and assigns, make, execute and acknowledge or cause so to be all and every such further and other lawfull and reasonable act and acts, deed and deeds, devices and devices in the law, whatsoever for the further and better assurance and confirmation of the said tract of 225 acres of land, hereditaments and promises hereby granted or mentioned so to be with the appurtances under the same Melchor Engle, his heirs and assigns, as by him the said Melchor Engle or by his or their council learned in the law shall be reasonably devised, advised and required,

In witness whereof the said parties to these presents their hands and seals interchangeably have set here unto. Dated the year and day first above written, sealed and delivered in the presents of us.

German name (in script) Michael Beyerle (in German)
German name (in script) her

Tho. CooksonCatherine X Beyerle


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Received of the above named Melchor Engle on the day of the date of these presents the full sum of 100 pounds lawful money of Penn., being the consideration money above mentioned.

100 0 0
Lb Sh P Test. Tho. Cookson,


By me Michael Beyerle, (written in German)

The above deed was placed on record in Deed Book DD page 235, Oct. 8, 1785.

LAND GRANT BY PATENT FROM LORD FAERFAX TO MELCHOR ENGLE IN FREDERICK COUNTY VIRGINIA

State Land Office

Richmand, Va. Land Grant

Northern Neck, Va.
H-412 1 Jan. 1754, 397 acres on Elk Branch. !Frederick county Va.

The Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia.

To all to whom this present writing shall come sends greeting, Know ye that for good causes for and in consideration of the composition to me paid and for the annual rent hereafter reserved, I have given granted and confirmed and by these presents for me my heirs and assigns do give grant and confirm unto Melger Engle of Pennsylvania, a certain tract of waste and ungranted land on Elk Branch in Frederick county and bounded as by a survey thereof made by Mr. Thomas Rutherford Junr as follows:

Beginning at two white oaks and one hickory standing amongst rocks a corner to Thomas Hart then with his line So. 8(o) Et. 320 poles to two black Oaks and two Hickory Saplings in the line of James Lloyd, then with Lloyd's No. 82(o) Et. 106 poles to a black Oak a corner to Thomas Hart Junr, then leaving the said Lloyd's line and extending with the said Hart Junr's Line No. 85(o) Et. 60 poles to two black Oak Saplings then leaving the said Thomas Hart Junr's Line and extending No. 82(o) Et. 34 poles to two white Oaks and two Hickory Saplings thence No. 8 (o) Wt. 320 poles to a stake standing among Rocks near Joseph Darke's house, then So. 83 (o) Wt. 201 poles to the beginning containing three hundred and ninety seven acres. Together with all Rights Members and appurtenances thereto belonging Royal Mines excepted and 6 full third part of all Lead, Copper, Tin, Coals, Iron Mines and Iron Oar that shall be found thereon:

To have and to hold 397 Acres of Land, Together with all rights profits and benefits to the same
belonging or in any wise appertaining Except before Excepted to him the said Melger Ingle his heirs and assigns forever, He the said Melger Ingle his heirs and assigns therefor. Yielding and paying to me my heirs or assigns or my certain attorney or attorneys, agent or agents or to the certain attorney or attorneys, of my heirs or assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck yearly and every year on the feast day of St. Michael the Archangel the fee rent of one shilling money for every fifty acres of land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity provided that the said Melger Ingle his heirs and assigns shall not pay the before reserved annual Rent so that the same or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of two whole years after the same shall become due ff lawfully demanded that then it shall and may be lawful for me my heirs or assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain attorney or attorneys agent or agents into the above granted premises to reinter and Hold the same so as if this grant had never passed.

Given at my Office in the county of Fairfax within my said Proprietary under my hand and Sea].

Dated this first day of January 1754.


Copy of will

Land Records of Bucks and Lancaster Counties - Pennsylvania 1682-1825
Engle, Melchor
Date: Mar 1, 1757 Residence: VA
Land Record ID: 41811
Description: Mortgagor Book-Page: E-159
Property: King st., Lanc.
Remarks: MORTGAGE.

[NI1717] Saw your message dated May 25 re. Warren Weston Davison. My ancestor was his son, John. It is believed that Warren's parents were John Davison and Mary Lawrence. I have a copy of an old letter written from Davisons in Missouri to Davisons remaining in Kentucky. In the letter is acknowledged an existing relationship. An old bible record lists the names of the Davisons of the Kentucky family. Warren's relationship is established by default to this family. A complete listing is shown for the families of his uncles but he was not added to the family of John Davison and Mary Lawrence for some reason. The relationship of Warren to John is accepted by Davisons still remaining in Kentucky. m

From Yvonne Warner email 6/2000

[NI1719] Note 1:

Notes for John Michael Beyerle:
Came to America on the ship 'Alexander and Ann" Sep. 5, 1730 sailing from Rotterdam with 45 Palatine families. He shows up in Lancaster County, PA. Oct 18, 1750 in Deed Book 1, page 602 where he deeds some land to his son-in-law, Melchor Engle. This is land that he acquired from James Hamilton Esq. May 30, 1735. He purchased additional land in 1749 and 1750. They attend Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, PA. His will is in Will Book B volume 1, page 441 in Lancaster, PA. His will indicates that he had some children that stayed in Germany.


Father could be Johan Daniel in WFT Vol 4.

Notes for Catherine:
Catherine married John Michael Beyerle , her son's father-in-law after the death of her first husband.


Children of John Beyerle and Anna Maria are:
i. Martin Beyerle, born Abt. 1713.
ii. Anna Maria Beyerle, born Abt. 1715.
iii. John Michael Beyerle, born Abt. 1717.
iv. Andrew Beyerle, born Abt. 1719.
345 v. Mary Magdalena Beyerle, born Abt. 1721 in Palatinate, Germany; died 1769 in Fredrick County, Virginia; married Melchor Engle Abt. 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
vi. Fredrick Ludwig Beyerle, born Abt. 1722.

[NI1721] After his father, Melchor, died, Phillip continued farming on his father's plantation where he prospered and remained until his death. He acquired a large acreage and personal property.

Revolutionary War soldier, serving under Gen. Gates in the Carolina's. However, he was fortunate enough not to see active service, probably owing to the fact that he was one of the general's guards.

Philp married Mary Darke and had 11 children; after her death he married Isobelle Pollock and had 7 children for a total of 18 children.

[NI1726] Notes for Johann Jacob Sturm:
The Sturm / Storm family in America originated with arrival of Johann Jacob Sturm, son of Christian Sturm of Schifferstadt Germany, in Philadelphia on the ship Mortonhouse August 28, 1728. The family moved to the Adams County, PA area by the 1750s, and they are associated with the Brunner family. They subsequently spread out to other areas such as Berkeley, (West) Virginia.

The following info is based on Pioneers of Old Monocacy, Early Settlements of Frederick County MD 1721-43 by Grace L. Tracey and John P. Dern.
Johann Jacob Sturm and sister Maria Barbara Brunner were two of 12 children of Christian Sturm & his second wife Anna Barbara Gah, all natives of Klein Schifferstadt. The Sturm family could trace its history there back to at least 1470. The family is still there (1998), and its current town history was written by a Sturm.
Both were married in Germany, he about 1726 to Anna Benedictina Sauer, she on Nov 25, 1725 to Johann Jacob Brunner. The two couples along with two children each, born in Klien Schifferstadt emigrated together in 1728, arriving in Philadelphia aboard the Mortonhouse on Aug 23, 1727 Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Ralph B. Strassburger lists the ship arrival twice; once also on 15 Jun 1728. They eventually settled around Lancaster, PA between 1739 and 1741.

Jacob Storm (as his name changed), spent over 10 yrs in PA. The Lancaster Reformed Church book records the baptisms in 1739 and 1740 of his 8th (Christina) and 9th (Johann Peter, called Peter) children. On 9 Jan 1742, the marriage of Jacob Storm and Maria Saurian was recorded, probably at Earl Town. Jacob Storm was naturalized (recorded as Jacob Stern) on 19 Oct 1743. He bought land called "Indian Field" on "Tasker's Chance" on July 28, 1746. The deed mentions a road passing through, which was apparently on the west side of the Monocacy River, between it and the extension of Market St. Jacob purchased this property from Daniel Dulany, founder of Frederick. After his death, this land was sold to Gov Thomas Johnson, first Gov. of Maryland. This property became part of his home known as Rose Hill Manor which is a historical site and open for visitors.

Jacob Storm was one of the initial elders of the Frederick Reformed Church. His name appears as a signatory on the 1748 appeal to Paster Michael Schlatter for help to strengthen the congregation against the Dunkers. He died at 57, leaving his sons Vandel (Wendel), Jacob the Younger, John, Peter, and his daughters Susanna (wife of Martin Cuntz), Anna Maria (wife of Peter Brunner), Anna Elizabeth (wife of Adam Kyle), Maria Barbara (wife of Jacob Turner), Christina, Mary, Catherina, Charlotta, and a second Anna Maria. In accordance with his will, "Indian Fields" was sold to Peter Tofeler, who had married Anna Maria Sturm on 17 Apr 1757.


Johann Jacob Sturm was baptized in Klein Schifferstadt in the Palatinate of Germany on Feb. 13, 1701. The following is the the family tree down to John Jacob: Sebastian Sturm wife Gloss son Christian b1662 d 1734 wife Magdalena wife Anna Barbara Gah b1675 m 5/10/1695 son Johann Jacob Sturm b 1701 d wife Anna Benedictine Sauer Daughter Maria Barbara wife of Jacob Brunner b 12/13/1702 son Johann Wendall b 3/28/1709 (Vandel John Jacob had thirteen children that are known and maybe two more that died at an early age. They are Susanna, Johann Wendel, Anna Maria, Jacob the younger, Jacob, Johan (John) Peter, Nickolas, Johannes(John), Elizabeth, .Barbara, Christina, Peter, Mary, Catherina, Charlotta, and Anna Maria. Most of this material (60 pages) comes from a book called "Jacob Brunner of Schifferstadt".


Books and References
Storm Families by William M. Storm of Frederick MD
History of the Storm Family by S. B. Storm
History of Sturm Family by Margaret H. Storm (1938)
Book by Harry O. Storm - FHC film 0817854 Item 9
Thomas E. Storm, Peter Storm, Maria B. Fickes info - FHC file 1035535 Item 1
James & Sarah Storm - FHC film 1307507 Item 5
Kin of My Grandchildren Volume 1 Storm/Arnold by Judge Noble K. Littell - Main FH library book 929.273 L717L
Genealogy of the Sturm Family, Records of the Descendants of Jacob Sturm of Sharpsburg, MD 1750-1936 by Lloyd E. Sturm (1938)
The Descendants of Sebastian Storm compiled by Jeanine Hartman (1994), FHL 929.273 St97h. Sebastian Sturm's son, Johann Peter Sturm, was born in K. Schifferstadt, Bavaria, Germany.
Joseph Brunner of Rothenstein, Schifferstadt, and Frederick by Donald Lewis Osborn (1991), FHL 929.273 B835r. Johann Jacob Brunner, a son of Joseph, married Maria Barbara Sturm.


Children of Johann Sturm and Anna Sauer are:
i. Wendell Sturm.
ii. John Sturm.
iii. Susanna Sturm.
iv. Anna Maria Sturm.
v. Anna Elizabeth Sturm.
vi. Maria Sturm.
vii. Mary Sturm.
viii. Catherina Sturm.
ix. Charlotta Sturm.
x. Nickolas Sturm.
xi. Johann Jacob Sturm, born Abt. 1730 in Germany; died in Fredrick County, Maryland.
Notes for Johann Jacob Sturm:
Individual: Sturm, Jacob
County/State: Frederick Co., MD
Page #: 66
Year: 1790
Age ranges in household: 03-02-02-00-00



xii. Christinia Sturm, born 1739.
346 xiii. Peter Sturm, born November 09, 1740 in York County, Pennsylvania; died Aft. 1790; married Maria Barbara Fickes March 14, 1757.

Note 2 from S. Kaufman

Jacob Storm, the younger of Frederick Co., Md.
An over-looked source of original papers held by the Md. State Archives are called Releases. This one should be of interest to those researching Johann Jacob Storm, the elder (1701-1757) of Frederick Co. and his children:
Releases 1784-1825 Mdhr 9496
Know all men by these prospects that I Jacob Storm of New Yok government - farmer- due herebe acknowledge to receive of Peter Doffeller of Frederick County in the province of Maryland the sum of two hundred and fifteen pounds current money of Maryland it being in full of all laments concerning my father's estate and I acknowledge to be true and fully satisifed and contented and do hereby for ever acquit the said Peter Doffeller and his heirs forever. Acknowledge to April 6, 1781. Test. Benedict Swope
Rec. 15 Oct 1784
Peter Tofler mar. Anna Maria Sturm, widow of Jacob the elder 17 Apr 1757. There were several accounting for Jacob's estate. The final accounting was made by Stephen Ramsburg 15 Oct 1784. It appears that Jacob , the younger received his share from his step father in 1781. The above would seem to negate information in some known Storm family histories. I have never read where this Jacob may have gone to New York.

[NI1728] 692. Johann Jacob Sturm, born February 13, 1701 in Germany; died December 1756 in Fredrick County, Maryland. He was the son of 1384. Christian Sturm and 1385. Anna Barbara Gah. He married 693. Anna Benedictina Sauer April 24, 1725 in Germany.

693. Anna Benedictina Sauer, born Abt. 1702 in Germany; died Aft. 1742 in Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of 1386. Johan Nicheim Sauer and 1387. Anna Maria Strihl.

Notes for Johann Jacob Sturm:
The Sturm / Storm family in America originated with arrival of Johann Jacob Sturm, son of Christian Sturm of Schifferstadt Germany, in Philadelphia on the ship Mortonhouse August 28, 1728. The family moved to the Adams County, PA area by the 1750s, and they are associated with the Brunner family. They subsequently spread out to other areas such as Berkeley, (West) Virginia.

The following info is based on Pioneers of Old Monocacy, Early Settlements of Frederick County MD 1721-43 by Grace L. Tracey and John P. Dern.
Johann Jacob Sturm and sister Maria Barbara Brunner were two of 12 children of Christian Sturm & his second wife Anna Barbara Gah, all natives of Klein Schifferstadt. The Sturm family could trace its history there back to at least 1470. The family is still there (1998), and its current town history was written by a Sturm.
Both were married in Germany, he about 1726 to Anna Benedictina Sauer, she on Nov 25, 1725 to Johann Jacob Brunner. The two couples along with two children each, born in Klien Schifferstadt emigrated together in 1728, arriving in Philadelphia aboard the Mortonhouse on Aug 23, 1727"Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Ralph B. Strassburger lists the ship arrival twice; once also on 15 Jun 1728. They eventually settled around Lancaster, PA between 1739 and 1741.\\

Jacob Storm (as his name changed), spent over 10 yrs in PA. The Lancaster Reformed Church book records the baptisms in 1739 and 1740 of his 8th (Christina) and 9th (Johann Peter, called Peter) children. On 9 Jan 1742, the marriage of Jacob Storm and Maria Saurian was recorded, probably at Earl Town. Jacob Storm was naturalized (recorded as Jacob Stern) on 19 Oct 1743. He bought land called "Indian Field" on "Tasker's Chance" on July 28, 1746. The deed mentions a road passing through, which was apparently on the west side of the Monocacy River, between it and the extension of Market St. Jacob purchased this property from Daniel Dulany, founder of Frederick. After his death, this land was sold to Gov Thomas Johnson, first Gov. of Maryland. This property became part of his home known as Rose Hill Manor which is a historical site and open for visitors.

Jacob Storm was one of the initial elders of the Frederick Reformed Church. His name appears as a signatory on the 1748 appeal to Paster Michael Schlatter for help to strengthen the congregation against the Dunkers. He died at 57, leaving his sons Vandel (Wendel), Jacob the Younger, John, Peter, and his daughters Susanna (wife of Martin Cuntz), Anna Maria (wife of Peter Brunner), Anna Elizabeth (wife of Adam Kyle), Maria Barbara (wife of Jacob Turner), Christina, Mary, Catherina, Charlotta, and a second Anna Maria. In accordance with his will, "Indian Fields" was sold to Peter Tofeler, who had married Anna Maria Sturm on 17 Apr 1757.


Johann Jacob Sturm was baptized in Klein Schifferstadt in the Palatinate of Germany on Feb. 13, 1701. The following is the the family tree down to John Jacob: Sebastian Sturm wife Gloss son Christian b1662 d 1734 wife Magdalena wife Anna Barbara Gah b1675 m 5/10/1695 son Johann Jacob Sturm b 1701 d wife Anna Benedictine Sauer Daughter Maria Barbara wife of Jacob Brunner b 12/13/1702 son Johann Wendall b 3/28/1709 (Vandel John Jacob had thirteen children that are known and maybe two more that died at an early age. They are Susanna, Johann Wendel, Anna Maria, Jacob the younger, Jacob, Johan (John) Peter, Nickolas, Johannes(John), Elizabeth, .Barbara, Christina, Peter, Mary, Catherina, Charlotta, and Anna Maria. Most of this material (60 pages) comes from a book called "Jacob Brunner of Schifferstadt".


Books and References
Storm Families by William M. Storm of Frederick MD
History of the Storm Family by S. B. Storm
History of Sturm Family by Margaret H. Storm (1938)
Book by Harry O. Storm - FHC film 0817854 Item 9
Thomas E. Storm, Peter Storm, Maria B. Fickes info - FHC file 1035535 Item 1
James & Sarah Storm - FHC film 1307507 Item 5
Kin of My Grandchildren Volume 1 Storm/Arnold by Judge Noble K. Littell - Main FH library book 929.273 L717L
Genealogy of the Sturm Family, Records of the Descendants of Jacob Sturm of Sharpsburg, MD 1750-1936 by Lloyd E. Sturm (1938)
The Descendants of Sebastian Storm compiled by Jeanine Hartman (1994), FHL 929.273 St97h. Sebastian Note 1:

1384. Christian Sturm, born Abt. 1662 in Germany; died August 09, 1734 in Germany. He was the son of 2768. Johann Peter Sturm and 2769. Anna Barbara unknown. He married 1385. Anna Barbara Gah May 10, 1695 in Germany.

1385. Anna Barbara Gah, born 1675 in Planckstadt, Germany; died Aft. 1725 in Germany. She was the daughter of 2770. Paulus Gaa and 2771. Margaretha unknown.

Notes for Christian Sturm:
The following is the line of Christian Sturm according to the Catholic Church records of Gross Schifferstadt, St. Jakobus Kirche Taufbuch 1693-1746. Christian Sturm
With wife Magdalena (died soon after birth of this child)
son Joannes Jacobus Sturm baptized. 6/24/1694 (thought to have died young)
With wife Anna Maria Gah m. 5/10/1695
daughter Maria Barbara Sturm b 1/31/1696 d prior to 4th child
daughter Veronica Sturm b 6/29/1698
son Johann Jacob Sturm b 2/13/1701 m Anna Benedictina Sauer 4/24/1725
daughter Maria Barbara Sturm b 12/3/1702 m Johann Jacob Brunner
son Johann Peter Sturm b 5/27/1702
daughter Anna Elizabeth Sturm b 1/10/1708
son Johann Wendell Sturm b 3/28/1709
daughter Maria Catharina Sturm b 5/25/1711
daughter Catharina Margareta Sturm b cir 1725 confirmed 4/1/1725
daughter Maria Catharina Sturm b 9/30/1714
daughter Maria Helena Sturm b 3/20/1722 d 3/5/1722
son Johannes Sturm b 1/26/1723




Children of Christian Sturm and Anna Gah are:
i. Maria Barbara Sturm, born January 31, 1696.
ii. Veronica Sturm, born June 29, 1698.
692 iii. Johann Jacob Sturm, born February 13, 1701 in Germany; died December 1756 in Fredrick County, Maryland; married Anna Benedictina Sauer April 24, 1725 in Germany.
iv. Maria Barbara Sturm, born December 03, 1702.
v. Anna Elizabeth Sturm, born January 10, 1708.
vi. Johann Wendel Sturm, born March 28, 1709.
vii. Maria Catharina Sturm, born May 25, 1711.
viii. Maria Sturm, born September 30, 1714.
ix. Maria Helena Sturm, born March 20, 1722.
x. Johnas Sturm, born January 26, 1723.
xi. Catharina Sturm, born March 26, 1725.

Child of Christian Sturm and Magdalana unknown is:
i. Joannes Jacobus Sturm, born February 20, 1694.

[NI1741] Note 1:

Peter was born in what is now Jefferson Co., W. Va., and went with his parents to Washington Co., N. C. (now Carter Co., Tenn.) in the 1780's or 90'9 At the age of twenty-one he purchased from his father 100 acres of land on Watauga River and Roan Creek in the newly formed Carter Co. for a consideration of 150 pounds currency, (Deed Book A. Page 57, Elizabethton Court House). This land Peter sold back to his father in 1901 for $500. In the spring of 1802 Peter Engle moved to Knox Co., Ky. where we find in Order Book A. Page 89, of Knox Co. under date of June 7, 1802, it was ordered that Peter Engle "mark his stock with a slit in the left and a hole in the right and no other person admitted. On June 1, 1806, Peter Engle received a grant "agreeable to an act of Assembl), for encouraging and granting relief to settlers" from the Governor of Ky. for 146 acres of land situated on the Main Fork of Indian Creek in Knox Co., Book 6 page 356, Ky. Land Grant South of Green River, Frankfort, Ky. On Oct. 20, of the same year one William Engle received a grant of 200 acres on Indian Creek, (Book 5, page 71, Ky Land Grant) which he sold to Peter Engle an Oct. 26, 1808. It is not known what relationship this William Engle was to Peter; he may have been a son of Peter's uncle Michael Engle who also settled in eastern Tenn. In 1809 this same William Engle then "of Garrard Co., Ky." deeded land on Indian Creek to George Engle, (Peter's father) of Knox Co.

Peter Engle continued to purchase land from time to time until ir, 1882 the Knox Co. Tax Lists on file at the State Historical Society at Frankfort, Ky., show him to have taxable property valued at $3,040.00, including 100 acres of land, town lots listed at $1,000, two blacks over 16, and 2 horses. Lists for 1823 show that his town lots were valued at $1,900, and that he paid taxes on a wholesale and retail store, and on Whitley Seminary. The Lists show that he paid taxes for land entered in the name of Whitley Seminary from 1823 to 1831. He was licensed to keep a tavern as early as 1815, and Lists for 1823 show that he still paid taxes on a tax,ern. The 1824 Lists include his wheel carriage as taxable property.

Peter was a prominent citizen of Knox Co. and served in an official capacity during most of his life there. In Order Book A, page 277, there is a record showing that he was sworn in as Deputy Sheriff Dec. 7, 1807, under Alexander Stewart, Sheriff. On Dec. 12, 1808, he was ordered to view out a road on Indian Creek, Order Book A, page 327.

Peter twice served as Justice of the Peace in Knox Co. Recorded in Order Book A, page 358, Dec. 4, 1809 is the following: "Peter Engle produced a conunission from His Excellancy Charles Scott Esquire appointing him a Justice of the Peace in Knox County and had the several oathes of office administered unto him and took his seat." He was again appointed Justice of the Peace Feb. 25, 1833, Order Book B, page 409. At that period of time the Justice of Peace served as Judge of the County Courts in Ky. It was not until 1845 that the office of County Judge became an elective office.

Peter was Jailor of Knox Co. from 1816-1818. He was also appointed Road Commissioner in 1820. A few years later he "Produced in court a commission from the Governor of this commonwealth as keeper of the gate on the Turnpike and Wilderness road and entered into bond in the surn of four thousand dollars conditioned in the law."

Peter was also in the employ of the national government. The 1810 Census of the United States (the earliest extant for Kentucky) for Knox Co., is headed thus, "I do certify that this schedule contains a true statement of all the inhabitants and sexes within my division agreeable to the acts of Congress authorizing the third census to be taken. Given under my hand this 23rd day of December 1810. [Signed] Peter Engle, Assistant to- Joseph Crockett, M. D. K."

He was also deputy postmaster of Barbourville, the county seat of,Knox Co. The "Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the 30th of September, 1819", published by the U. S. Department of State in 1820, lists the following on page 110 under General Post Office: "Barbourville, Ky., name of Deputy Postmaster, Peter Engle, born in Virginia, compensation $50.63." On page 208 under Mail Contractors, Peter Engle is listed as receiving the compensation of $150. At that time Barbourville was the only Post Office between Tazewell, Tenn. and Mount Vernon, Ky., a distance of about 115 miles.

In the report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812, by S. E. Hill, page 321, the service of Peter Engle is given as follows: "Corporal Sept. 10, 1814--Oct. 9, 1814; Under Roll of Capt. Memorial Forrest's Co., Ky. Vol. Militia. Commanded by Lieut. Col. Andrew Porter." The above service, or service in any of the public offices which Peter Engle held prior to 1815 entitles any female descendant of his to membership in the U. S. Daughters of 1812.

In 1805 Peter Engle was received into the Cumberland River Baptist Church of Knox Co. The church had been organized May 12, 1804 on the North Bank of the Cumberland River near the mouth of Indian Creek and in May 1805, that part of the church on Indian Creek was set apart as an arm of the church. It is now known as the First Baptist Church of Barbourville. The minutes for the third Saturday in June, 1805, records, "Rec'd Peter Engle ... by experience." His wife, Margaret, had been received by experience at the April meeting and his parents, George and Elizabeth, by letter at the May meeting. On the third Saturday of September, 1805, the order of business was this, "lst appt. Bro. Peter Engle clerk. 2nd Bro. Peter Engle was chosen as Deacon of the church". At that same meeting Peter was also chosen as a delegate to the Association. The minutes of the October 1810 meeting state that the next meeting was to be at Peter Engle's on Indian Creek. In August, 1811, Peter was chosen moderator. Apparently the church had been meeting at the homes of the members for in March, 1814, Peter was one of the trustees chosen to superintend the building of a meetinghouse. In that year he was again ordained as Deacon. In June, 1818, the meeting was held at Barbourville, and in 1822 the church was moved to the school house at Barbourville. At the meeting in Barbourville in July, 1834, Sister Mildred Engle (Peter's second wife) was received by letter. Peter was among those appointed to prepare rules of decorum. In 1835 Peter was appointed clerk, and in 1836 he was called to the deaconship. Most of the minutes in this record book are signed by Peter Engle and are in a very legible handwriting. The last minutes recorded by him are for the February meeting in 1840. He served faithfully in the church up to within a few days of his death.

Peter Engle's family Bible was given to Virginia Engle (434) by his grand-daughter, Sarah Catherine (Ramsey) Culton, (No. 117). The Bible was published in 1815, and contains not only records for his immediate family and many of their children, but date of death of his parents. The space for records is completely filled. Preserved in this Bible are several mementos, among which are the printed minutes of the South Union Association of United Baptists held at Poplar Creek Meeting-House in Knox Co. in 1834. Peter was a delegate from the church at Barbourville, and was the Clerk of the Assoc. His brothers, Philip and John, were messengers to this Assoc. from the Laurel River Assoc.

Peter died without having made a will. The inventory of the appraisement of his estate includes among other items: To one clock $15.00, one folding table $10.00, two trunks and one chest $4.00, one looking glass $1.25, two bed steads, bed and furniture $50.00, one lot of books $3.00.

Mildred Engle, second wife of Peter, was left a widow with six children the eldest of whom was fifteen years of age. The Census Repor-t of 1840 lists her as head of the family which was composed of 25 persons including 18 slaves. Six persons in the family were employed in agriculture. Family tradition is that she managed the farm on which they lived, and operated a grist m-Ul after her husband's death. She was born in Virginia, the daughter of James Chick who had come to Knox Co. from Culpepper Co., Va. about 1807. He was granted a license to keep a tavern in 1808 "at the 19 mile tree on the State Road" and at various other times including 1814, in the town of Barbourville. He received a pension for his services during the Revolutionary war. Silas Woodson, son of Mildred's sister, Aley Chick Woodson, was a prominent lawyer of Barbourville, and later, governor of Missouri. During the 1850's Mildred moved from Knox Co. to Laurel Co. where her married children and their families had located around Gray Hawk. By 1858 this section of Laurel Co. was incorporated into a new county known as Jackson. Mildred died there in 1860 and was buried in the graveyard on the Elhannon Clark farm where other relatives are buried. Her grave is unmarked.

According to a deed recorded in Deed Book C, page 165, Knox Co., Ky., Peter Engle reserved a half acre lot adjoining his town lots in Barbourville for a graveyard and believed he was preserving this graveyard for the last earthly resting place of himself and his family, but the hand of man, greedy for gain, has committed an act of desecration, and no vestige of the graveyard remains. Judge Jesse D. Tuggle, Mrs. James D. Black, wife of Governor Black, and Mrs. Martha Costellow stated in 1936 that near relatives of theirs were buried there. Following is a letter in part which will bear witness to the profanation of this graveyard:

Dysard & Tinsley
Attorneys and Counsellors
Second National Bank Bldg. Ashland, Ky.
Oct. 2, 1936
Miss Virginia Engle,
45 A. Jackson St.
Berea, Ky.
My dear Miss Engle:
I have your letter of September 27th.

For many years after I was admitted to the bar and while I lived in Barbourville, I was engaged in the exandnation of land titles, and in that way became very familiar with the names of all the early settlers and old families of the county, and their places of residence as well. I know, from the public records of the County that Peter Engle was among the early settlers, and first settled on Indian Creek, seven or eight miles northwest of Barbourville, but I do not know just what year he moved to town.

The tract of land to which you refer, and which he sold in 1818, and from which conveyance he excluded the graveyard thereon, joined lots Nos. 50 and 51, which he purchased in 1818, and extended northwardly, between Main street and what is now College street, to the street now called Coyt street, which extends from College street to Main street. This tract contained approximately ten acres.

The grave yard embraced the three lots now occupied by Mrs. Margaret Sampson, Professor D. M. Humfleet and Dr. D. T. Wilson.

As I now recall, Peter Engle conveyed the tract to General Hugh White, of Clay County, from whom it passed, through successive conveyances, to the late Jesse T. Wilson, father of D. T. Wilson above mentioned, and who lived in the house adjoining my sister's residence, on the south; and by the way, his widow, (second wife) now Mrs. Hoskins, still resides there. Each deed of conveyance from Peter Engle, down to the conveyance to Mr. Jesse T. Wilson, excluded the grave yard, and during his life time Mr. Wilson recognized that he had no title to the grave yard, and during his life time refrained from any use of it other than to pasture his cow on it. After his death, however, his widow and sons began to assert title as by adverse possession, and since there were no persons then living in Barbourville who could c)r would take issue with them, they subsequently ciit it up into the three lots and conveyed them.

I have known that grave yard for more than fifty years. It joined my father's lot, and in my boyhood, it was the play ground of the boys of the neighborhood. About the center of it-which would now be within Humfleet's lot and just back of his dwelling house, there stood the largest wild cherry tree I ever saw. Around this tree there were seven or eight graves, each marked with "head" and "foot" stones. Each of them was the grave of an Engle. One of them was Peter Engle, and I have a faint recollection that another was George Engle. Two or three, maybe more, of them, were graves of women or girls, as indicated on the "head" stones. They, too, were Engles. These ... head" and "foot" stones as they were then called in the Kentucky mountains, and which are now called markers, were of dressed sand stone. The foot stones, square, standing about a foot above the surface. The head stones, larger, standing two and a half, or three, feet above the surface. They were well made and exhibited real craftsmanship. I remember Peter Engle's head stone distinctly. It was the largest, and his name was cut in larger letters than the others. When I can first remember the grave yard, all the markers were standing erect. In later years, many of them began to lean, and finally fell completely over and down, but they were all lying in their approximate original location when J. M. Wilson, another son of Jesse T. Wilsori, erected the first house within the lines of the grave yard. This is the house now occupied by Mrs. Sampson, and was erected about 1902 or 1903, and many, if not all, these Engle grave markers, were gathered up, and used, I am quite sure, in the foundation of that house. I recall, distinctly passing through the grave yard, as a short cut from the College to my home, just after the construction of the foundation was started, and observed some of the markers being broken up for some use, and upon reaching home, of protesting to my mother against such sacrilege, but of course, she could do no more about it than I could. Each of these head stones bore the name of a member of the Engle family, with year of birth and death, and each had a short inscription in addition, but I can not now, of course, recall any date, but we boys, many times, observed and commented upon the dates shown, as they were then the most ancient markers either of us had ever seen.

I realize that I have not helped you much, other than to locate for you the graves of Peter Engle and other members of his family, which I hope, will be of some worth to you.
Sincerely yours, (Signed) Thos. D. Tinsley.

Mildred was the mother of all the children and they were born and reared

[NI1742] 1830 Knox County Census
Note 1:
John Engle 1 M Under 5
2 M 5-10
1 M 15-20
1 M 40-50
1 F Under 5
2 F 15-20
1 F 30-40

Note 2:

According to the census report of 1850 John was born in Virginia and Mary in North Carolina. He married in Knox Co., Ky. a few years after his father had moved there from Carter Co., Tenn. He lived on Indian Creek where he received various grants of land. He was a member of the Baptist Church there. His will follows:
Knox County Court
Nov. 29th 1858, Special Term

A paper purporting to be the last will and testament of John Engle, Dec. was produced in court and proven by the oath of G.M. Adams, a subscribing witness thereto, he also attested to the handwriting of C.M. France & James F. Ballinger, said will is ordered to record. Recorded in Will Book B, page 336

[NI1744] Note 1

There are several Fickes listed in York County, Pennsylvania. Jost is not among them

[NI1746] From _American Boyers_, Vol. 1 (7th ed. 1984) (transcribed by Dean Scribner): Volume I, page 244-245:

1--AD CHRISTOPHER BAYER (JOHANN CHRISTOPH BEYER) was born about 1677 in the neighborhood of Gruenstadt in Dackeram, Palatinate, Germany, according to information recorded about 1751 by the Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church, Upper Salford Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa. He was still living in 1751, but no record has been found of his death or burial. The Lutheran Parish Records of Gross-Karlbach and Dackenheim indicate that he resided at Dackenheim from 1716 to 1728. He came to America from
Rotterdam on the ship Pennsylvania Merchant, John Stedman, master, landing at Philadelphia September 11, 1731 With him came his wife and children. They settled in Frederick Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa., and
became identified early with the Old Goshenhoppen Church. A warrant for 50 acres of land in Upper Salford Twp., Montgomery Co., was issued to Christopher on Mar. 3, 1737. The tract of land was near Spring Mountain House. He married, about 1702 in Germany, Anna Maria Kuehleisen, born about 1681. She was from Nueses near Dinkelsbuehl, as known from the christening of their son Johann Georg in 1726. She was deceased by 1751, acording to the Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran records, which give her name as Anna Maria. He and his wife may be buried in the old graveyard of this church, but their graves are not identifiable. Children: Johann Philip (2-AD3); Gotthart Lorenz (2-ADB); Andrew (2-AD1); Christina Agnes
(2-AD4); Johan Heinrich (2-AD5); Johann Jacob (2-AD6); Johann Theobald (2-AD7); Johannes (2-AD8); Ferdinand (2-AD9); Hannah Regina (2-ADA); John Henry (2-AD2); and George (2-ADC). These children are named in their chronological order, but the identifying numbers are not in chronological order due to this chapter being prepared for this edition based on the previous editions before much of our new information was discovered.

[NI1754] Note 1

William Henry Lemons was working for Robert Sturdevant, cutting timber. Rob got the news that Henry's brother, John Lincoln Lemons had died, went into the woods and told Henry that his brother was dead. Henry was chopping on a big tree, and without stopping or missing a swing of the axe, all he said was, "The hell you say."

Story by Wayne A. Randleman

[NI1789] From Sara Thompson:

George Washington Engle came to Dallas County, Missouri in 1836 with his father, Jesse Engle and mother, Rebecca Dowis Engle. George Washington Engle was a soldier in the Civil Sar, Sgt. Co. I, 8th Mo. Inf. and died as a result of that war. He is buried in Section H., grave No. 4403 in the Memphis National Cemetery. My grandmother, Rachel Engle Gaunt, told me that while in the Civil War, George fell ill with pneumonia. His wife, Sarah Ann, went by horseback or wagon to Tennessee with the intent that she would bring him home. She was not allowed to leave with her husband and he died in Tennessee.

Note 2

G. W. Engle came to Dallas County, Missouri in 1836 with his father, Jesse and mother Rebecca.

He was a soldier in the Civil War, Sgt., Co. 1, 8 Mo. Inf., died in September 1863 and is buried in Section H, grave no. 4403 in the Memphis National Cemetery. My grandmother, Rachel Engle Gaunt, told me that while in the Civil War, George W. fell ill with pneumonia. Sarah Ann went by horseback or wagon to him in Tennessee with the intent that she would bring him home. She was not allowed to leave with her husband and he died in Tennessee.

In 1864, Sarah Ann Engle applied for a pension due to her husband's death while fighting in the Civil War. She was 37 years old and had 6 children, ages 4-16. After trying twice, she finally got the pension. Later she tried to have it increased. Sarah Ann managed to run the farm and raise all the children without a father. A picture of the homestead is in the book "History of Dallas County Missouri".

Note 3:
Civil War Service - 8th Regiment MO Infantry:

Organized at St. Louis, MO, June 12 to August 15, 1861. Partial service includes: Moved to Cape Girardeau, MO, Paducah, KY, Caseyville, KY, Fort Henry, TN. Capture of Fort Donelson, TN February 12-16 1862. Battle of Shiloh, Lick Creek, Corinth Road. Also Tallahatchie March. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862. Siege of Vicksburg, MS May 18-July 4, 1862. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama.

The Regiment lost during service 3 officers and 78 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded; 1 officer and 124 enlisted by disease. Total 206.

Source: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V. III" byh Frederick H. Dyer, c1908, p.1326-1327.

Note 4:
1860 Census:

188-188
Engle, George W. 36, Born in Kentucky 1824 Occupation: Farmer
(pg 12)
Sarah A. 33, born in IN 1827
James H. J. 12 Born in MO 1848
Mary E. B. 11 Born inMO 1849
Rachel D. 8 MO 1852
William J. 6 MO 1854
Martha J. 3 MMO 1857
John W. S. 3/12 MO 1860
Snider Rebecca 19 MO 1841 Housework
A. J. 17 MO 1843 Farm Laborer
Mary 14, MO 1846
Engle William J. 27 TN 1833

[NI1790] From Sarah Thompson

My grandmother also told me that Sarah Ann Engle was "full blooded Cherokee", although I have not been able to ascertain that fact. The Dallas County History book makes mention of Sarah Ann Smith, and describes her as "Ind. Dau. of Solomon Smith and Sarah Wood". That is the only indication I have ever found that remotely confirms my grandmother's story.

Sarah Ann Smith Engle is buried in Powell Cemetery in Buffalo, Missouri. Nothing is known about her parents.

However, I do remember a story that my grandmother, Rachel Ellen Engle Gaunt used to tell - that her grandmother (Sarah Ann Engle) was "full-blooded Cherokee".

[NI1791] James K. P. Engle was a freighter, and drove ox teams.

[NI1812] Liselotte mother by adoption was Anna Auguste Louise Mahnke who was born the 22nd of November, 1881 in Neustadt, Mecklenberg, Germany. Anna's mother was Loise Wilhelmine Dorothea Mehnck (No father of Anna noted).

[NI1819] He fought in the Civil War helped capture John Brown at Harpers Ferry. - from [email protected]

[NI1838] Note 1:

Philip acquired several tracts of land and in 1836 paid taxes on 1200 acres on Indian Creek and Lynn Camp in Knox Co., Ky. Elizabeth was born in Virginia. They were members of the Baptist Church. (In the tax lists for 1839, on file in State Historical Library at Frankfort, there is also a Philip Engle, Jr.,-ni.r. on this Philip). Philip's will is recorded in Will Book B, page 197, at Barbourville, Ky.

KNOX COUNTY COURT, APRIL TERM 1856.

A paper purporting to be the last will and testament of Phillip Engle, Dec. was this day produced in court and proven by the oath of Thomas McNeil, Hiram Engle and John McNeil subscribing witness thereto, according to law, and ordered of record as follows, viz:

In the name of God Amen, I Phillip Engle of Knox County and State of Kentucky, being advanced in years but of sound mind, and of disposing memory and having a desire to dispose of the property which it has pleased God to bestow on me agreeable to my own wish, do make this my last will and testament.

My first wish is, that after my funeral, expenses and all just debts if any be fully discharged. Second. I wish my executors to retain money enough to pay for walling our graves. Third. I allow my wife Elizabeth all my household and kitchen furniture. I allow I horse, Cow and calf, one axe, hoe, and all grain on hand, with all the buildings, garden and cow pasture, and what fruit she wishes to use, and Martin and Hiram Engle to pay her thirty bushels of corn each year apiece, I allow the executors, to hold twenty-five dollars to go on until she can make some interest, I allow her this much so long as she remains my widow & remains at the old mansion house.

Fourth. But in case she should marry or move off I allow her one bed and sufficient clothing and all her own clothing, one cow and calf and cubbard, furniture, one skillet and baker for her own proper disposal.

Fifth. I will George M. Engle One Hundred Dollars to be paid him by my executors, when he becomes of age.

Sixth:I will Polly Thompson and her heirs the place where she now lives on, at Five hundred dollars out of my estate.

Seventh. John Engle has had Two hundred Dollars out of my estate.

Eighth. I allow Martin and Hiram Engle all the land that I possess at this place at two hundred dollars a piece, and if they cannot agree in dividing I want them to set up the old tract to sell and allow nobody to bid but themselves or, their widows or administrators.

Ninth. Out of the remainder of my estate I want John, Martin and Hiram Engle made equal to Polly Thompson, then the balance of my estate to be equally divided between John Engle, Polly Thompson, Mar-tin Engle and Hiram Engle.

Tenth. In case the land comes to sale I want the oldest survey sold first and so on as they stand in order, and if the land brings any more than four hundred dollars to be therein to the estate.

Eleventh. I allow my administrator to hold five hundred dollars to be put out on interest for the use of my widow and if that is not sufficient, I want them to take from the principal but if she marries or moves off, I do not allow her anything from the five hundred dollars, I disannul all former wflls.

Twelth. I appoint John Engle, Martin Engle and Hiram Engle as my executors with a bequest that this will shall be faithfully executed.
Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of Oct. One Thousand ei,-ht hundred and fifty five.
his
Phillip X Engle . . . . Seal
mark Attest:
Thomas McNeil, Hiram Engle, John McNeil

[NI1848] Note 1

On 1850 Dallas Co. Census

Family "tale" tells that he was going to marry Caledonia's mother but when he was in CA she got married. So when he returned he actually married HER DAUGHTER. Interesting...
Emogene

[NI1863] George was born September 14, 1810 in Guilford County, North Carolina. In 1811 he moves with his parents and other Clapp family members to Preble County Ohio. His father fought the British in the War of 1812 and died in 1819 when George was only 9 years old. The 1820 census shows Barbara as head of household and the family farming in Preble county. On May 9, 1833 he is married to Eliza Williams in Twin Township, Preble Ohio.

Note 1

1840 Whitley County Indiana Census lists George Clapp (3rd line pg. 451)
1 Male 20-30
3 Females under 5
1 Female 20-30

Note 2:

1850 Whitley County Census Pg. 921 (Image 18/126) lists George Clapp

George Clapp age 39 , Male, Farmer, value of Real estate $1000, born in North Carolina
Eliza Clapp age 34, Female, born in Pennsylvania
Barbara Clapp 14, Female born in Indiana
Elizabeth Clapp, 12, Female born in Indiana
Michael Clapp, 8, Male born in Indiana
Uriah Clapp, 7, Male born in Indiana
Henry Clapp, 5 Male born in Indiana
Peter Clapp, 3 Male born in Indiana
Joseph Clapp 1 Male born in Indiana

Note 3:

Census 1870, IN, Pulaski, Indiana (ending in "a") Creek, pg. 8/ image 8, dw 59, family 53:
George Clapp, 60, m, w, farmer, b-NC, cannot write, male citizen over 21
Charley (Clapp), 18, m, w, b-IN
At the bottom of the same page with the neighboring Jenkins family:
Eliza Clapp, 55, f, w, keeping house, b-PA, cannot write

(This township includes Star City, Pulaski Co. which is referred to in Uriah's disability paperwork)
Census 1880, June 15; IN, Pulaski, Indian (no "a") Creek Twp.

Page 11, image 11, Dwelling 97, Family 99, at the bottom of the page: George's son: Anderson Clapp, w, m, 29, married, machinist and farmer, b-IN, fath b- NC, moth b- PA D. Alice (Clapp), w, f, 20, married, b- IN, fath b- OH, moth b- IN

Page 12, image 12, Dwelling 98, Family 100, at the top of the page:
Charles Clapp, w, m, 27, farmer and machinist, b- IN, fath b- NC, moth b- PA M. Alice, w, f, 21, keeping house, wife, b- IN, fath b- IN, moth b- IN F. William, w. m, 8/12, b-Sept, son George Clapp, w, m, 69, fath, single, widowed within the census year, living with, b- NC, fath b- NC, moth b- NC

Note 4
Census 1860, IN, Pulaski, Indiana
Image 155 of 161 - Indian Creek Township (Page 1091)
George Clapp - age 49 - Male - Farmer - $1800 real estate, $400 Personal, born in South Carolina
Eliza Clapp - age 44 - Female - born in Pennsylvania
Michael Clapp - age 19 - Male - Farmer - Born in Indiana
Uriah Clapp - age 17 - Male - Farmer - Born in Indiana
Henry Clapp - age 15 - Male - Farmer - Born in Indiana
Anderson Clapp - Age 9 - Male - Born in Indiana
Charles Clapp - Age 7 - Male - Born in Indiana
Martha Washington - Age 22 - Female - Born in Indiana

Note 5
Census 1870, IN, Pulaski, Indiana (ending in "a") Creek, pg. 8/ image 8, dw 59, family 53:
George Clapp, 60, m, w, farmer, b-NC, cannot write, male citizen over 21
Charley (Clapp), 18, m, w, b-IN
At the bottom of the same page with the neighboring Jenkins family:
Eliza Clapp, 55, f, w, keeping house, b-PA, cannot write

(This township includes Star City, Pulaski Co. which is referred to in Uriah's disability paperwork)
Census 1880, June 15; IN, Pulaski, Indian (no "a") Creek Twp.

Page 11, image 11, Dwelling 97, Family 99, at the bottom of the page:
George's son:
Anderson Clapp, w, m, 29, married, machinist and farmer, b-IN, fath b- NC, moth b- PA
D. Alice (Clapp), w, f, 20, married, b- IN, fath b- OH, moth b- IN

Page 12, image 12, Dwelling 98, Family 100, at the top of the page:
Charles Clapp, w, m, 27, farmer and machinist, b- IN, fath b- NC, moth b- PA
M. Alice, w, f, 21, keeping house, wife, b- IN, fath b- IN, moth b- IN
F. William, w. m, 8/12, b-Sept, son
George Clapp, w, m, 69, fath, single, widowed within the census year, living with, b- NC, fath b- NC, moth b- NC

I'm guessing Barbara died before they left Ohio. She could still be with a daughter. I just find it helpul to have the death range in there to sort her in the FTW file index of names.
From the last line data and the census date, I concluded that George was born between June and Dec, 1810. AND, Eliza (Williams) Clapp died Jan 1-Jun 15, 1880.

[NI1865] 1830 Knox County Census

George Engle 1 M 10-15
1 M 15-20
1 M 40-50
1 F 10-15
1 F 15-20
1 F 5-10
1 F 30-40

[NI1886] 1830 Knox County Census

Peter Engle 2 M Under 5
1 M 5-10
1 M 50-60
1 F Under 5
1 F 20-30
1 F 70-80

[NI1888] Note 1
Elizabeth and William lived near Woodbine, Ky. where all the children were born and reared. They are buried in the family graveyard on their farm.

[NI1901] Notes from Sue Ann Morrow:
Birth year of 1815

[NI1904] Note 1

Sarah and John had 5 sons and 1 daughter

[NI1907] Note 1

Martin and Louisa had 1 son and 3 daughters, unnamed

[NI1908] Note 1
Hirum and Lucinda had 6 sons and 6 daughters

[NI1929] Note 1

Sarah and James had 1 son and 5 daughters.

[NI1944] Note 1

6 Sons and 4 Daughters - no names provided

[NI1948] 1860 Census:
181-181 Engle, Joseph 40 Yrs old, Born in Kentucky 1820, Occupation Farmer
Second wife: Silvina 24 yrs old, Born in Tennesee in 1836, (Mrs. Salliva Hays)

Children:
Darcus E (Eliz) 15 F Born in Missouri 1845
Lucy A. 13 Born in Missouri 1847
George W. 7 Born in Missouri 1853
Henry 5 Born in Missouri 1855
Levi 4 Born in Missouri 1856
John F. 2 Months born in 1858
Louisa J. 1/12 Born in Missouri 1860

Henry James 22 Born in Tennesse 1858 Farmhand
Martin Lafayette 13 Born in Missouri 1847

[NI1982] Note 1

Hiram and Mary had 3 other daughters and 3 other sons, unnamed.

[NI2317] John W. Horner's father is said to have fought in the Revolutionary War

[NI2322] Note 1

Extract from "Alias Frank Canton" by Robert K. DeArment

Frank Canton was accused of killing a number of men. But he spent most of his life trying to kill Joe Horner, the man he had been in his youth. Once he became Frank Canton, he lied about his name, his age, and even his place of birth in an effort to expunge Joe Horner from history. He was so successful that almost another half century passed after his death before the story of Horner came to light.

Joe Horner was the son of John W. Horner, born in 1812, one of five sons and a daughter of a Virginia physician of Scottish descent who was said to have fought in the Revolutionary War.

Note 2

Smithson, H.H.

Henry's uncle Frank M. Canton had a great influence in the molding of Henry's early life. He would have liked to follow in his uncle's footsteps, but circumstances and a back injury did not permit. Frank Canton had changed his name from Horner to Canton to protect his life from lawless elements, when he was a young man in Texas. For fifty years he was a relentless pursuer of criminals and his life was dedicated to the establishment of law and order. He served as a Texas Ranger, U.S. Deputy Marshal, Secret Service Agent, Livestock Inspector, Sheriff and Adjutant-General of Oklahoma. His trail stretched from the Rio Grande, to the Arctic Ocean and his memory is honored, not only in Oklahoma (where Canton and Lake Canton are named in his honor) but through all the region reaching to the Rockies and beyond. He played an active role in the Johnson county, Wy. war, where the most powerful gang of Rustlers ever in the Untied States was broken up. He helped to quell the criminal element in the Yukon District when gold was discovered on the Klondike, he helped with the routing of the Jackson Hole Gang in the Teutons and almost single-handed he put down the Crazy-Snake uprising, plus many more Indian battles. He was the wagon train's best friend as he was thoroughly versed in Indian war fare. As a culmination of his many honors, Chas. N. Haskell, first Governor of Oklahoma as his first official act appointed him Adjutant-General. He forced him to retire. As Commander of the National Guard of Oklahoma he built it from one Regiment of six hundred poorly-equipped, and poorly organized men, to that powerful fighting machine that gave such valuable service in WW I.

The Indian Territory had been a rendezvous for some of the worst gangs of outlaws in the Southwest. When the Cherokee Strip was opened in 1893, some of the worst outlaws from Montana, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and many other states were in the Run for claims There was no discrimination and as the outlaws usually had the best horses and knew how to ride them many of them got the best claims. They set up butcher markets and other stores and agencies where they could sell stolen property. Soon there were organized bands of outlaws stealing cattle, robbing trains, banks, stores, committing murder and defying the law. The Dalton Gang, Dunn Boys, and the James and Shelley Bros. were all active. Frank Canton and other lawmen played an active role in the disbursement of these and by 1897 all the principal bands of outlaws had been broken up. Frank Canton's work here in Woods County was undercover. When he would stop at the home of his nephews to visit a short time he would ask them not to mention his presence as he would be on the trail of some fleeing outlaw. He was not only Dist. Dep. Marshal of Oklahoma, but also U.S> Deputy Marshal, so that he had no boundary as most of the other officers had, but could follow the outlaws into any state. He passed away in 1927 at Edmond, Ok.

It can be understood why Henry loved and respected him. Henry became a peace officer for western Woods County and served in that capacity for many years. Social gatherings were rough in those days but he was fearless in quelling disorder. One time, at a dance at old Whitehorse, (north of the present site) three saddles were stolen. Henry, who knew everyone in that area, suspected who might have taken them and rode most of the night to get to their place. He found nothing at first but as the men were still up when he arrived he took a closer look. Sure enough, the saddles were suspended by ropes from the ceiling of the barn and were covered by a large pile of stacked hay.

Mrs. George Smithson.

[NI2332] 8 1/2 lb when born

[NI2341] Youngest daughter of Georg Friedrich Dahms

[NI2353] Note 1

Diary from 1796 to 1865 showing the money he loaned out, who did not pay him back. Also a note in 1804 about Heinrich L�bbe's 22nd birthday.

[NI2362] Note 1

The George Tobias, son of Ludwig, was commonly called GEORGE by his parents for the above estate settlement, and I believe that's how he's listed on the census as "George" grouped with the "Ludwig's". The other George Tobias Clapp, son of George Valentine called himself TOBIAS on census and again when he signed his will written in 1800.
From The Record of Graves in Brick Church Cemetery: "George Clapp of Valentine born April 17, 1739, died Dec. 18, 1806. He lived at the Green Wharton place. Age 67 yr. 8 mo. 1 da.", which refers to TOBIAS", the son of Valentine as having the 1739 birth.. (Thank you for the record, Marianne Claggett! NICE record keeping!) Because Tobias' formal first name of "George" (his official christening first name) was used in the burial record entry instead of his everyday name, it apparently confused everyone and detracted from which father was actually being listed as his.

Note 2

Copied from the Clapp Family Association Newsletter, Vol. III, Nos. 3&4.

Guilford County, North Carolina
Deed Book 1, Page 251

George Valentine Clap to George Tobias Clap 320 Acres

This indenture made the nineteenth day of May in the thirteenth year of our Sovereign Lord George the Third in the year of our Lord 1773, between George Valentine Clap & Barbary his wife of the one part & George Tobias Clap both of Guilford County Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the Sum of two hundred and fifty Pounds Proclamation Money by the said Tobias Clap to the said Valentine Clap in hand paid receipt whereof is hereby fully acknowledged he the said Valentine Clap for himself & his heirs hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened on ---(unreadable) & sett over by these Presents doth grant bargain sell alien & sett over unto the said Tobias Clap his heirs & assigns all that piece parcel or tract of Land lying being in Guilford County whereon said Tobias Clap now liveth bounded as follows that is to say beginning at a White Oak rubnning thence North 45 West 221 Poles to a White Oak thence South 45 West 232 Poles crossing 2 Branches to a Red Oak thence South 45 East 221 Poles to a stake by a small Hickory bush thence North 45 East 232 Poles crossing three branches to the beginning & containing in the whole 320 acres of land To have & to hold the aforesaid 300 & 20 acres of land in as full & ample a manner as said Valentine had of Henry E. McCulloh & Joshua Wilcox with all the appurtenances & all rights and privileges & improvements to the same and any wise belonging to him and the said George Tobias Clap his heirs & assigns forever subject only to the payment of Qitrents hereafter to grow due & payable for the same & to the reservation of one half of all mines & minerals which may hereafter be found thereon of the said George Valentine Clap for himself and his heirs doth hereby covenant & agree to & with the said George Tobias Clap his heirs & assigns that he the said George Valentine Clap hath full Power & authority to sell & convey & make over the afore granted lands & premises forever & further that he said George Tobias Clap his heirs & assigns shall & may forever hereafter peaceably & quietly have hold occupy possess & enjoy the afore granted lands & premises without the let or molestation of all or any Person whatsoever & free clear from all & all manner of former or other incumbrances whatsoever & the said Valentine Clap doth oblige himself his heirs executors & administrators to warrant & defend the afore granted lands & premises & every part & parcel thereof to him the said George Tobias Clap his heirs & assigns forever from & against him the George Valentine Clap his heirs & assigns & all Persons lawfully claiming or to claim by from or under him or them or any of them & from & against all & all manner of Persons who now lawfully claim or hereafter lawfully may claim the said lands & premises or any Part or Parcel thereof In Witness whereof the said George Valentine Clap & Barbary, his wife hath hereunto set their hands & seals the day & year first above written.

Signed Sealed & Delivered
In the Presence of us

(Signed by George Valentine Clapp, Barbary (her mark), Philip Clap (his mark), and an unreadable law clerk name)

North Carolina Guilford County May Court 1774
The within Deed from George Valentine Clap & wife to George Tobias Clap was proved in open Court by the oath of Barnaby Clap & on Motion ordered to be registered.
Test Thos. Hamilton, C. C.
Note 3

George Tobias Clap noted as land owner on the "Pre 1800 land owners of Guilford County NC." section D6, by the Easterd boundry of Guilford County with Alamance County south of the Alamance creek. Land was marked as Purchase or Will, 1778 (at the N 8,32.000 lat.).

Note 4
Brick Church NC Baptism Records

62
Born November 27, 1774
Tobias Clapp and wife, Anna Mary, one child baptized March 12, 1775 and named John. Sponsors were John Phil. Clapp and Catharina May

Note 5
Brick Church NC Baptism Records
68
Born September 28, 1778 Tobias Clapp one child baptized October 6, 1778 and named Magdalena. Sponsors were Philip Kirkenett and wife, Magdalena.

[NI2370] Note 1

John Ludwig's will recorded in Will Book A, pg 203, Orange Co, NC,
proved Feb 1778, written 25 July 1768. He states that his property is to be divided equally among his children. His estate settlement in 1778 gives the names of his sons and sons-in-law, indicating that he had 10 living children at the time.

[NI2373] Note 1

Brick Church Records, Guilford Co., NC

19
Born November 10, 1772
Ludwig Clapp Jr., son of John Phillip Clapp, and his wife Sophia one son baptized and named John December 1772. Sponsors were John Albright and Ester Clapp.
(Note *Mara*-one my copy someone circled Jr. and put a question mark, underlined son and put a question mark under John-I guess the question is�is how can Ludwig be a Jr. if his father was a John)

(Sophia Clapp was an Albright, sister of Captain William Albright.)
(Ludwig Jr. was born in 1742 in Berke Co. Pennsylvania)

[NI2387] Note 1:

George was baptized in Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on April 22, 1750. This record is cited in volume III page 202 of the Pennsylvania German Society. He lived in Berkeley County, West Virginia. Records in Berkeley County show that he stilled lived there March 21, 1775 and land records in North Carolina show that he purchased land there Nov. 24, 1795 by land grant number 1195 made by the Governor. He probably moved to North Carolina in the late 1780s or early 1790s. This grant was for 100 acres on the north side of Roans Creek and the Watauga River in Washington, NC. Carter County, Tennessee was cut out of Washington County and George lived in Tennessee for a time. George was a respected man in Carter County, for in 1796 we find his name on the ventire facias returned by by the sheriff for the second Court of Pleas ans Quarter Sessions. For this service his descendants are entitled to membership in the National Society United States Daughters of 1812. Goerge moved to Knox County, Kentucky in 1802. Goerge received two grants of land from the Governor of Kentucky in 1807. Both were in Knox County on Indian Creek not far from where it flows into the Cumberland River. Goerge and his wife were members of the Cumberland Babtist Church. This church is now the First Babtist Church of Barbourville, Kentucky.


Note 2:

George was the youngest son of Melchor and Magdalena Engle. He inherited part of his father's land in the state of West Virginia in the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, after the death of his mother. George was married to Elizabeth Sturm in the early 1770's. Elizabeth's parentage is not known, although family tradition is that her people lived near Hagerstown, MD, and that her father was related to Lord Baltimore. In 1795, George bought one hundred acres of land in North Carolina for fifty shillings. On June 1, 1796, George transferred this tract of land to his oldest son, Peter, for 150 pounds currency. In Washington County, NC in 1787, George paid taxes on 250 acres of land. George Engle moved to Knox County, KY about 1802. In 1807, he was buying land in Kentucky. He was a man of considerable means for the day, buying and selling many tracts of land.

Soon after coming to Kentucky, he and his wife Elizabeth placed their membership in the Cumberland Baptist Church.

Four of George's brothers served in the Revolutionary War. It is not known if George actually served in the war or if the record of his service was lost.

Note 3:

The birth date of George was found in the Trinity Lutheran Church Baptismal Record, Lancaster, Pa. George, together with his brothers John and William did not inherit their share of their father's estate until after the death of their mother. (Refer to Contents, page 7 for Melchor Engle's Will and Property Settlement.) This land, upon the formation of Berkeley County in 1772, lay within its boundaries, and upon the formation of Jefferson County in 1801, became a part of that county, which is now in the state of W. Va. Jefferson County is in the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley. George was married in the early 1770's to Elizabeth Sturm or Storm. The earliest record so far located showing the name of George Engle's wife is an indenture dated November 14, 1774 ". . . between Philip Engle Heir at Law of Melgar Engle deceased and Mary his wife and George Engle son of Melgar Engle and Elizabeth his wife both of Berkeley County in the Colony of Virginia of the one part and Jacob Miller of the other part... This indenture is recorded in Deed Book 3, page 101, Berkeley County, West Virginia.

Note 4:

The latest record so far located showing when George Engle was still living in Berkeley Co. is that of an indenture in Deed Book 3, page 238, dated March 21, 1775 to which he was a witness. Further search of records may show how long he continued to live there before following the stream of migration down the Shenandoah Valley. There are records, included elsewhere in this book, showing that all four of his brothers served the cause of Independence either by furnishing supplies or by active service in the Revolution. No record of such service has been found yet for George Engle. It may be that he did not serve, or that record of his service has been lost. The records of the State Archives at Richmond may not be complete, or the records of the War Dept. at Washington which were burned by the British troops during the War of 1812 may have contained a record of his service. It is not likely that he, alone, among five brothers did not render service.

The earliest record yet located showing purchase of land by George Engle is that of Grant No. 1195 made November 4, 1795 by the Governor of North Carolina, for 100 acres of land on the north side of Roans Creek and the Watauga River, in Washington Co., for the amount of 50 shillings. On June 1, 1796 George transferred the above tract of land to his son, Peter, for 150 pounds currency. Shortly after George was granted the above one hundred acres of land in Washington Co., N. C., Tennessee was admitted into statehood and by June 1, 1796 Carter Co. had been formed from Washington Co., with Elizabethton the county seat.

Not much is known about George Engle and his family during the years they lived in Tennessee. His son Peter, and his daughter, Mary, married in the community. When Carter Co. was first formed, George was apparently a respected man in the community for we find his name on the venire facias returned by the sheriff for the second Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions which was held in 1796. This civil service rendered by George entitles his descendants to membership in the National Society United States Daughters of 1812.

It was in Knox County, Ky. that George Engle next sought a home about the year 1802. He was preceded by his son, Peter, who on February 21, 1801 sold back to his father for five hundred dollars the same tract of 100 acres purchased from him in 1796 for one hundred and fifty pounds, Deed Book A, page 289, Elizabethton, Tenn. When George decided to follow his son to Knox County he disposed of this same tract on October 12, 1802 for six hundred and sixty-six dollars. Deed Book A, page 385, Elizabethton Court House.

George received two grants of land from the Governor of Kentucky in 1807, both on Indian Creek in Knox Co., not very far from where Indian Creek flows into the Cumberland River. The date of survey for both are November 3, 1807, the one of 43 acres recorded in Book 7, page 513 of Kentucky Land Grants, Frankfort, and 100 acres, in Book 9. page 308. From the time he came to Knox Co. until his death, George had bought and sold many tracts of land. Tax lists for that period preserved at the Kentucky State Historical Library, show him to have been a man of considerable means for that day.

Soon after coming to Knox Co., George Engle and his wife, Elizabeth, placed their membership in the Cumberland Baptist Church which had been constituted on the North Bank of the Cumberland River near the mouth of Indian Creek. The minutes of the Church, now known as the First Baptist Church of Barbourville, Ky., contain this record, "3rd Saturday in May 1805 the church met on Indian Creek . . . and received George Engle and Elizabeth Engle by letter." It would be of interest to their descendants to know from what church the letter came, but unfortunately, the record does not give the name of the church sending the letter. It can only be surmised that they were members of one of the Baptist churches of the Holston Association, perhaps the Buffalo Ridge Church or the Cherokee Church, both of which had been organized by 1786 in Washington Co., Tenn, near Jonesboro, or of a church in Berkeley County, Va. At the September 1805 meeting of the church, George was chosen on a committee to go to Poplar Creek "to look into their ability to become an arm of the church." Apparently he was an active member of the church. In July 1825 George and Elizabeth were granted letters of dismission in full fellowship. It is likely that they moved from their plantation on Indian Creek to the home of their son, Peter, who was then living at Barbourville, the countyseat of Knox Co.

Records of a Baptist church at Barbourville at that time however, are not extant. George Engle's will follows:


Knox County Kentucky Will Book A p. 106.
Knox County Court, June Term 1826
The last will and Testament of George Engle Sr. was produced in Court and proved by the oath'of Harrison Boswell and Reuben Warfield, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered of record viz as follows.

In the name of God, amen, I, George Engle senior of Knox County, who being aged and infirm and being sensible of the certainty of death, and the uncertainty of life, but being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make & publish this as my last will and Testament, hereby revoking and annuling and cancelling all and every other will and Testament by me heretofore made. First it is my will and request that my wife Elizabeth Engle, have, occupy and enjoy the farm plantation and tract of land whereon I -now live in Knox County Indian Creek for and during her natural life or wi dowhood except that part of said tract of land on which Joel Vannoy now lives, it is also my will and desire that my said wife have use of and enjoy all my house hold furniture, farming utensils, one two year old roanmare and saddle, her choice of two cows, out of my stock of cattle during her natural life or widowhood-Secondly it is my will and desire that Joel Vannoy occupy & enjoy that part of my aforesaid tract of land on which he now lives including the plantation which he heretofore cleared or which he may hereafter clear together with leave to use all necessary timber for keeping said plantation in repair for and during my said wife's natural life or widowhood-Thirdly, it is my will and desire that after my decease, all my property of every description be sold and all my debts collected except what has heretofore been reserved to my said vrffe and Joel Vannoy, and the proceeds thereof to be equally divided amongst my children Fourthly, it is my will and desire that my said tract of land on Indian Creek including that part reserved to my said wife, and that part reserved to Joel Vannoy, together with every description of property, and its increase which is hereby reserved to my wife, be sold for the best price which it will bring after my wife's death or in case she marries so soon as she may marry, and the proceeds thereof be equally divided amongst my children. Lastly, I hereby appoint my son Peter Engle, and my wife Elizabeth Engle, my executors to this my last will and testament. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this 24th day of May 1822.
George Engle, Sr. (Seal) Signed and acknowledged in the presence of us.
Joseph Eve, Reuben Warfield, Harrison Boswell
The date of George Engle's death and that of his wife are recorded in the Bible of his son, Peter, with whom he was apparently living at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife who died July 2, 1835, aged 77 years and 11 months, and by ten children-six sons and four daughters. Since he did not name all his children in his will and since no family Bible has been located, it is not known whether he had more than the ten children whose names are included in this book. It is not likely, however, that he had more children since the Kentucky census reports for 1810 and 1820 (none earlier are extant) fit in with the names of the ten children that are known.

[NI2390] Note 1

(Mary) Magdalena Beyerle, b abt. 1721, d 1769 It is reasonable to suppose that their second son Michael was 'named after Magdalena's father, and it is not improbable that one of the other sons was named after Melchor's father. The names Philip, John, William, George, James, Joseph, Anna, Mary, Catharine, Elizabeth, and many others are common family names, and to a lesser degree Michael, Frederick, and others. All the earlier names in the family have carried down through all the succeeding generations, with one outstanding exception, the name of Melchor, our earliest known ancestor. Not a single known descendant of Melchor Engle, out of 7430.

[NI2391] Note 1:

Johann Michael Beyerle came to America from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Deal,
England and then to Philadelphia. PA on the ship Alexander and Anne on
September 5, 1730.

He was one two list.
List 12 C Signers of Oathe of Abjuration
We do swear or solemnly declare, that we deny all obedience to the Pope of
Rome; and further swear or solemnly declare that no Prince or Person
whatsoever hath any Right or Title to the Crown of Great Britain but his
Majesty George the Second and his lawful Issue.

List 12 B
Palentines imported in the Ship Alexander and Anne, William Clymer Mast
from Rotterdam, but last from Deal. Qualified September 5, 1730.

John Married Melchor Engle's mother Catherine. His daughter married Melchor.

Land Records of Bucks and Lancaster Counties Pennsylvania for 1682-1825

Beyerle, Catherine
Date: May 16, 1754 Residence: Lancaster Co.
Land Record ID: 41524
Description: Mortgagor's wife Book-Page: D-177
Property: 80 acres on east side of Conestoga Creek.
Remarks: MORTGAGE.

Beyerle, Jacob
Date: Jul 1, 1748 Residence: Lancaster Co.
Land Record ID: 41137
Description: Mortgagor Book-Page: B-534
Property: 160 acres in Earl township, grist and oil mill
Remarks: MORTGAGE.

Beyerle, Jacob
Date: Mar 18, 1745 Residence: Lancaster Co.
Land Record ID: 41004
Description: Grantor Book-Page: B-293
Property: 160 plus 199 acres in Earl township
Remarks: DEED.

Beyerle, Michael
Date: Mar 26, 1741 Residence: Lanc.
Land Record ID: 41533
Description: Grantee Book-Page: D-190
Property: 80 acres on east side of Conestoga Creek.
Remarks: DEED.

Beyerle, Michael
Date: May 16, 1754 Residence: Lancaster Co.
Land Record ID: 41524
Description: Mortgagor Book-Page: D-177
Property: 80 acres on east side of Conestoga Creek.
Remarks: MORTGAGE.

[NI2392] Note 1

George Tobias, son of Ludwig, was commonly called George by his parents for the estate settlement.

Note 2
Brick Church, Guilford, NC Baptism records
Pg. 6
22
Born January 21, 1774
George Clapp and his wife, Anna Elizabeth, had a child baptized and Named Elizabeth February 20, 1774. Sponsors were Christian Albright and Ester Clapp. (The Daughter, Elizabeth, married Daniel Albright, P. M.)

Note 3
Brick Church, Guilford, NC Baptism Records

26
Born January 7, 1772
George Clapp and wife one child baptized and named John January 20, 1772.
Sponsors were John Clapp and Judith Faust. "White John Clapp"

Note 4
Brick Church, Gilford, NC Baptism Records

65
Born September 14, 1776
George Clapp one son baptized and named John George. Sponsors were Ludwig Clapp and wife. (John George Clapp. Brick House)

Note 5

86
Born April 28 1781
George Clapp one child baptized May 6, 1781 and named Anna Maria.

[NI2394] Julius fought in the Revolutionary war in Col. Sevier's (N.C) Regiment and in the battle of Lookout Mountain against the Creek Indians in 1788. He operated the first ferry boat on the Watouga River in 1784 and for many years after. (From the Melchor Engle Genealogy Book)

[NI2410] Note 1.

Census 1840: David Clapp (brother of George and son of Tobias and Barbara): Ohio, Butler Co., Limon Twp,
pg 152. 1 m und 5, 1 m 5-10, 1 m 30-40; 2 f und 5, 1 f 15-20, 1 f 30-40. (? 1 f 15-20= Sarah Craig, age 16.)

Note 2

Census 1850, Sept 19: IN, Whitley Co., No Twp Listed, p.485; Ancestry.com Image 65; Dwelling 466, group 480:
David Clapp 45, m, millright $700, b-NC
Catherine, 46, f, NJ (probably Bergen Co.)
William, 16, m, millright, b-OH, -1-
Mary I., 14, f, b-OH, -1-
Martin N, 12, m, b-OH
John, 9, m, b-OH
Dorothea E., 7, f, b-IN, -1-
Milton G., 4, m, b-IN
George, 2, m, b-IN
Sarah A. Craig, 26, f, b-OH

[NI2416] Reported to have the 'home' place.

[NI2455] Note 1

A total of 14 persons were on the ship James Goodwill, with David Crockett as ship's master which sailed out of Rotterdam then landed in Philadelphia on September 27, 1727. He signed the "Declaration of Freedom" upon arrival in Philadelphia.

All but one Klapp is named on the ship's roster. That one has to be an infant born after April, 1727, when the last church entry was made in Weisenheim, because it would have been completely out of the question for a previous birth to occur without a church christening, and the church records have been checked for data everywhere they lived. Jost and Margaretha were too old to have more children in Pennsylvania, so this has to be all of their children.


Tobias is descended from George Valentine Clapp (Jurg Valentin) and Barbara is descended from John Ludwig Clapp Johann Lugwig). George and John were brothers born in Germany who came with their parents John Joseph (Johann Jost) and their wives on the ship James Goodwill to Philadelphia in 1727. They settled in the Oley Valley north of Philadelphia for a few years, then moved to better land in North Carolina about 1745.

Note 2

Lived in Isthe, Hesse, Germany. In 1704/05 moved to Weisenheim am Berg, a small town west of Mannheim in the Rhineland Palatinate (Pfalz). Emigrated to America, arriving Philadelphia 27 Sep 1727 aboard the ship James Goodwill. Settled in Oley Twp, Berks Co., PA. Much of the information on the Clapp family was taken from "Albright, Clapp, Burk Families" by Joseph H Vance.

[NI2484] 1820 Ohio Census - Preble County lists
Barbara Clapp
2 males 0-2 years old
1 male 16-18
1 male 18-26
2 females 10-16 years old
1 female 27-45
2 individuals in Agriculture

1830 Ohio Census - Preble County lists
Barbara Clapp
1 male under 5
1 male 15-20
2 males 20-30
1 female under 5
1 female 20-30
1 female 50-60

[NI2485] Note 1

Came with his father Johann Jost and his brother John Ludwig on ship James Goodwill from Rotterdam to Philadelphia on 27 Sep 1727. Came to North Carolina in 1745.

Note 2

Valantine Clap noted as a Land owner in the "Pre 1800 land owners of Guiolford County NC". Section D6, 1763, McCulloh Grant along the Alamance Creek.

[NI2514] Baptism witnesses:
J. Heinrich Hahn
Paul Franz Heuer
Wilhelm Meyer

[NI2515] From Hannelore Falkenberg (Griep) - Notes after trip to Germany in the summer of 2000:

My grandmother also had another sister - Anne Meyer, who married Matthias. In World War I, she was drafted to work as a streetcar conductor when her husband was drafted. They later had a very nice pub/restaurant at the turn-around station of the streetcar. It was a nice area bordering on fields, a little forest, and good for Sunday walks. We could not find her birth register.

[NI2516] Susan's parents were probably William Sebastian and Louisa Strother. In 1850 Warren and Susan were living a few houses away from William Sebastian in Grayson Co., KY. They moved to Rockport, Spencer So, IN about 1854 where a
number of their children were born. Sometime after 1868 they moved to Missouri. He was a constituent member of the Pleasant Home Christian Church which was organized 1884 in Dallas Co.

From Yvonne Warner email dated 6/2000

[NI2550] Note 1

John Ludwig Sr. (Born 1711) left a will in 1768, placing his wife Margaret in charge of administering his estate. Ludwig specified that each and every of his children was to have an equal share. Margaret dutifully listed each share given to each head of household in the settlement and therefore defined her family group.

Note 2

Served in the American Revolution under Capt William Albright, as well as under his brother Lt Jacob Clapp. Fought in the battle of Guilford Courthouse.

Note 3
Brick Church Baptism Records

69
Born
John Clapp one child baptized and named Barbara. Sponsors were Jacob Clapp and wife, Barbara.

[NI2569] Note 1:

Barbara is not listed as a daughter of Elizabeth and William Helton in the Melchor Engle Book

Note 2:
Hi Jeff,
I noticed on Ancestry.com on your page for Barbara Ellen Helton, that you show a note saying she is not listed as a daughter of Elzabeth and William Helton in the Melchor Engle Book.

Just thought you might want to know, it is because her mother was not Elizabeth Engle, but Elizabeth Osborn. And the father was William Helton, but a different one from the one you have listed.

I have death certificates for both Barbara and her sister Jemima, that show parents as William Helton and Lizzie Osborn. Both William and Lizzie were dead by 1853, because the Helton children, Barbara, Jemima and Ephraim were put under guardianship to Jesse Osborn in 1853 in Harlan KY

Barbara is my husbands gr gr grandmother, that is why I have the cert.

According to a cemetery record in Knox Co. Elizabeth Engle and her William Helton are buried together, he died 1863, so it looks like there is another William Helton floating around. Quite a mixup with three of them all in the nearly same time period.

Just thought you would be interested.
Lorraine Davies
[email protected]

[NI2571] Note 1

Brick Church Baptism Records
33
Born October 17, 1772
Barney Clapp Sr. and wife Anna Philipina, one child baptized and named David. Sponsors were John Clapp and Anna Martret Strader. November 7, 1772.

[NI2626] Note 1
Brick Church NC Baptism Records
40
Born May, 27, 177_
Jacob Clapp, son of Ludwig, and wife, Barbara one daughter baptized and Named Barbara. Sponsors were Daniel May and wife, Barbara.

[NI2629] John Clapp of Orange Co.:
d- 13 Dec 1813 Orange County Estate records [Does this date go with the other 12-11-1812 with one being death and the other probate?]
lived on Beaver Creek, Orange Co.

[Elmo said on page 60" 7-21 CLAPP, John Phillip Jr., b. 1-8-1753, d. 12-11-1812; m. 12-11-1777, Foust, Judith, b. 8-1-1754, d. 12-2-1823. Judy's will dated 3-22-1823, Hillsboro, North Carolina." Elmo's numbers 21- 71,72,73,and 74 match the children's data below.]

m Judith Foust


Ch 1: Catherine Clapp; b- Aug 12, 1780, d- Dec 12, 1857
M: Marriage bond 13 Apr 1798
Sp: John Hobbs b- May 4, 1772; d- 9 Sep 1846
Catherine sold her share of her father's estate to her brother John.
[The birth was recorded at the Brick Church in record 100: "Born October 12, 1780, John Clapp one daughter baptized and named Catherina. Sponsors were Philip Faust and wife."] [Month of birth is different.]
[On the 1790 census, she would have been 1 female.]
[On the 1800 census she would have been with her husband.]


Ch 2: Sophia Clapp; b- 7 Mar 1786;
M: 18 Feb 1806
Sp: Jacob Foust; b- 16 Sep 1782
[On the 1790 census she would have been 1 female.]
[On the 1800 census she would have been female 10-16]
[On the 1810 census she would have been with her husband.]
??????[The birth was recorded at the Brick Church in record 101: "Born March 7, 1786, John Clapp one daughter baptized and named Sophia. Sponsors were Ludwig Clapp. She died June 11, 178_."]

Ch 3: John Clapp; b- Nov 8, 1788; d- Aug 16, 1861
M: 9 May 1808
Sp: Jenny Shoffner; b- Oct 22, 1788; d- 18 Feb 1855
[On the 1790 he would have been 1 male under 16.]
[On the 1800 he would have been 1 male 10-16]
[On the 1810 census, he would have been recently married. He is probably on page 806, Orange Co., listed as "John Jr.", with 1 male 26-45 (himself), 1 female to 10 (dau age 1), and 1 female 16-26 (wife Jenny) ]

Ch 4: Barbara Clapp
Sp: John Powell
Brick Church record #69 states,"Born John Clapp one child baptized and named Barbara. Sponsors were Jacob Clapp and wife, Barbara.

[On the 1790 census, there is no match in Guilford. He may be in Orange without census, but facts not known.]
[On the 1800 census, "John Clap" is the only Clapp in Orange County, and he is on page 553:
Listed are 1 male 10-16 (son John), 1 male 45 up (himself), 1 female to 10 (dau Barbara), 1 female 16-26 (dau Sophia), and 1 female 45 and up (wife Judith).]
[On the 1810 census, Orange Co. page 957, is "Jno." With 1 male 45 and up (himself), and 1 female 45 and up (wife Judith). Nearby is John Hobbs with 1 male under 10, 1 male 26-45, 2 females under 10, 1 female 10-16, and 1 female 26-45 (Catherine).

John Clapp of Orange:
Born1790180018101820
John Sr.Jan 1753Male over 161 male 45 up1 male 45 up
John JrNov 1788Male under 161 male 10-16Head 26-45
Wife JudithAug 1754Female1 female 45 up1 female 45 up
BarbaraAbt 1778Female
CatherineOct 1780FemaleMarried to HobbsMarried to Hobbs
SophiaMar 1786Female1 female 16-26Married to Foust

[NI2644] Note 1:

She was born April 11, 1844 at 3 a.m., an illegitamat girl (as per notes in register). She was legally accepted on February 12, 1852 and her last name from then on was Soltau.

She was baptised April 19, 1844, witnesses were:

Hermann Helms
Anne Margaretha Heuer
Anna Rebecca Busch

[NI2681] Note 1

John Philip Clapp noted on the "Pre 1800 land owners of Guilford County NC" , purchased or willed land in 1784.

[NI2694] Note 1

Brick Church Baptism Records
33
Born October 17, 1772 Barney Clapp Sr. and wife Anna Philipina, one child baptized and named David. Sponsors were John Clapp and Anna Martret Strader. November 7, 1772.

[NI2708] Born at 2pm
Baptism Jan 30, 1870 in O)chsenwerder
Witnessed by:
Marg. Maria Soltau
Anna Lohmann

[NI2709] Baptism Witnessed by:
Georg Ferdinand Soltau
Einrich Meyer
Mathilde Helene Froemming
Peter Chistopher Wilkens

Pastor: Coller, Pancratius church in Ochsenwerder, Germany

[NI2747] Note 1

Brick Church Records, Guilford NC
20
Born December 21, 1773
Jacob Clapp and wife one child baptized the 9th of January 1774. Sponsors were John Phillip Faust and his wife Catharina. The child's name was Anna Catharina Clapp.

Note 2
Brick Church Records, Guildford NC
40
Born May, 27, 177_
Jacob Clapp, son of Ludwig, and wife, Barbara one daughter baptized and Named Barbara. Sponsors were Daniel May and wife, Barbara.

Note 3
Brick Church Records, Guilford NC
60
Born January 29, 1775
Jacob Clapp and his wife, Anna Barbara, one child baptized March 12, 1775 and named John. Sponsors were ____ Clapp and Judith Faust.

[NI2792] Phillis has David down as the son of Jane Godown and James Sullivan.

[NI2793] Mary is not listed in the Melchor Engle book

[NI2803] Note 1:

A George Engle is noted on the 1800 map of Guilford County section D6 along the Alamance Creek, and a George Engle Mill along the same creek. 1783 North Carolina State Grant.

[NI2832] Note 1

Much of the information on the descendants of Johannes Albrecht
(Albright) was taken from "Albright, Clapp, Burk Families" by Joseph H Vance.

[NI2878] Note 1
Brick Church Baptism records (Sponsor)

Note 1
Brick Church Baptism records - witness
88
Born November 26, 1782
John Clapp one daughter baptized April 20, 1783 and named Judith. Sponsors
were Barney Clapp and son of ___ Clapp and lawful wife, Judith Faust. (Judith, wife of Barney Clapp).

[NI3133] May be Margaret (See Watkins Family Tree LLherstory)

[NI3177] Note 1

689. Catherine, born Abt. 1690; died in Lancaster, PA.

Notes for Catherine:
Catherine married John Michael Beyerle , her son's father-in-law after the death of her first husband.


Children of unknown Engle and Catherine are:
i. Anna Susanna Engle.
344 ii. Melchor Engle, born Abt. 1720 in Palatinate, Germany; died February 1760 in Fredrick County, Virginia; married Mary Magdalena Beyerle Abt. 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


Land Records of Burk and Lancaster County Pennsylvania 1682-1825
Beyerle, Catherine
Date: May 16, 1754 Residence: Lancaster Co.
Land Record ID: 41524
Description: Mortgagor's wife Book-Page: D-177
Property: 80 acres on east side of Conestoga Creek.
Remarks: MORTGAGE.

[NF0005] Had a farm - around WW I started near Rocky Ford Colorado. Raised watermelon. Sold the farm after WW I ended. Land prices shot up during the war, but after the war the land prices dropped down and he gave the farm up and moved to Oregon. Picture of Glenn B. in the back of the Ford pickup as an infant/child was in Rocky Ford to transport melons.

[NF0012] Both buried at Whitehorse, Oklahoma

[NF0013] Lived in Greensburg until 1893

[NF0046] Lived in Colorado - at least through the 1940 - 1950's. William Engle (Grandfather of Glenn B. Engle) had a farm possibly outside or around Rocky Ford (Possible). Ernest took the farm over after William Engle died.

[NF0048] 1926 - 1927 Lived Janesville Ca. Had an old Collie which would lay on the fender of the Model T when they visited Glenn Engle. Clyde was a trapper for the government.

Adopted one of Del Lindsay & Susan Ann's children after Susan Ann died.

[NF0061] Note 1

Notation on Family Group sheet of marriage date of 1867, Iowa.

[NF0073] Ancestry.com Arkansas Marriages to 1850 [database on-line].
Spouse 1: Kincaid, Cyntha
Spouse 2: Smithson, B.H.
Marriage Date: 21 Jun 1831
Arkansas, Pulaski County

[NF0464] Marriage information from Albert W. Godown research papers via Richard Godown. The 1830 Federal Census for Franklin County, Ohio (Norwich Township) shows John Godown Jr. had 4 sons between 5 and 21 years old, but no daughters. No other Godown's appear in this census. The 1840 Census lists one daughter and two sons between 15 and 30 years. No first names were given on either census, indicating there were other children which I have no record. John and Letitia emigrated to Franklin County, Ohio before 1820, while it was part of the Northwest Territory. They moved during a period when the cooling effect of the volcanic eruption of Tambora in Indonesia caused "the year summer never came". The winter of 1817-18 became known as one of the most severe on record in the midwest.

[NF0499] She was married to Martin Christopher Rintelmann (son of Christoph Rintleman and Ann Dorthy) on 12 Aug 1783 in Rowan County, NC. Martin Christopher Rintleman was born on 25 Dec 1761 in Rowan County, NC. He died on 4 Sep 1841 in Washington County, AR. He went west about 1830. In 1832, applied for a pension for services as private, North Carolina line. His claim was allowed.

[NF0511] He was married to Russena Rosser in 1751. Russena Rosser (1) died in Mecklenburg County, NC. She was buried in Furrer graveyard near Georgeville, NC. Some sources spell her last name as Roffer.

[NF0588] He was married to Rhoda Stallings (daughter of John Stallings Jr. and Martha Anderson) on 12 Nov 1802 in Cabarrus County, NC. Rhoda Stallings was born in 1783 in Edgecombe, NC. She died on 11 Dec 1858 in Cabarrus County, NC. She was buried in Near Georgeville, NC. On her stone is the following: "I don This In Memory of Mother, P.S. Furr." On her marriage bond her name is spelled "Rody Tallence."

[NF0590] He was married to Mary Stutts (daughter of Jacob Stutts and Elizabeth) in 1774. Mary Stutts was born in 1757. Dorothy McDaniel shows as 1763. She died on 15 Oct 1848 in Cabarrus County, NC. Dorothy McDaniel shows as 1808. She was buried in Albert Widenhouse Farm, near Georgeville, NC. Cabarrus County, NC Will Book 1, page 22 (LDS#466, 184)

[NS21441] Family Tree Notes on the descendants of Jacob Hansen and Lusie Larson. The notes were taken from records written in beautiful script by Hogen Jacobsen who is the father of Martin Rudolf Jacobson who married Julia Shei and who ishere with us today. Julia celebrated her 90th birthday on June 2, 1979. Congratulations Julia! The children of Rudolf and Julia are : John Hogen who died in action in World War II on March 12, 1944, Richard, Kenneth, Earl, and Ralph. otice as you read that the name Jacobson was spelled Jacobsen in Norway. ogen spelled all thier names and his own that way. Alsonotice how first names have been repeated in one generation or passed down from generation to generatiion. For example: Hogen, Albert, Rudolf, Richard, Flora (Florance), Marie (Mary), Karen, Krestine (Christine, Kristen), Sofie (Sophie), Louise, etc.

[NS21442] Very Good

[NS23261] Excellent

[NS24331] This information is from Willam Bloyd-Bloyed of Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, and Green County, Kentucky and His Descendants by Edna
Bloyd Nichols and Caroline Geraldine Simpson.

More is availiable, but I didn't know how interested you might be in
going back on the Bloyd line. If you or a family researcher is
interested, we would love to have you on the Bloyd list (which is so
quiet as to be comatose, but people are always very helpful when
somebody has questions to ask.)
To subscribe to the Bloyd list, send an Email to
[email protected]
Leave the subject line blank
Put Subscribe in the message area.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Sunni Bloyd

[NS24631] Excellent

[NS21231] Compilation of notes from Linda Hileman, Emogene Conrade, the Melchor Engle Book and Dallas County Archives

[NS19481] [email protected]. Messages and Updates from Charlie B. Dodds and online posting of his information. Original source was the Randleman, Rendleman, Rintleman book, updated at reunions, and with further research by Charlie.
See:

Ohio Co. WVGenweb - http://hostville.com/wvoh
Union Co. ILGenweb - http://hostville.com/ilun

[NS19482] Excellent

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