Just found this had to share! Kinda cool.... tidewater news - Wakefield - Sedley BY MERLE MONAHAN/CONTRIBUTING WRITER merlemonah@aol.com WAKEFIELD—The 17th annual reunion of the William Albert and Nancy Drake Cobb Blythe descendants drew nearly 50 people, including 96-year-old Frances Holt and 82-year-old granddaughter, Margaret Simms. “We had a pretty good crowd,” said Simms, who organizes the annual event. “But there are a lot more of us out there. When we started the reunions this second time, the attendance was greater.” Simms and a Blythe great-grandson, Earl Blythe, came up with the idea of the reunions following the dedication of a grave marker for their grandparents. “The family cemetery had begun to look pretty bad, so we cleaned it up and ordered a gravestone for our grandparents’ graves,” Simms said. “Our grandfather, a Civil War soldier, had been captured and imprisoned during the war, so the government provided a CW marker for him.” Simms said they polled the family after the ceremony and it was decided to start having an annual reunion. “This was 17 years ago, and we’ve had one each year since,” she said. The head of the Blythe clan, William Albert Blythe, returned home to Sedley in about 1866 after his imprisonment at Camp Lookout, Md., and married Nancy Drake Cobb. The couple had 16 children, raising 10. The whereabouts of the other six, who died in infancy, are not known, according to Earl Blythe. He serves as master of ceremonies and handles announcements, including the family history and recognition of older guests attending the reunions. For several years, Holt has been one of the oldest members; this year she was the oldest. Simms, the second oldest, has always arranged the banquet, down to decorations for tables. An antique lover, she made an arrangement of old-time butter making equipment for each table this year. Then Simms made butter by shaking whipping cream in a jar until it turned to butter, the way her mother did. After 45 minutes of shaking, the butter was made. Simms then served it with rolls to guests.

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My grandmother is not actually buried here but her husband is above her. he had a plaque placed at his feet. She was cremated.

Since I have been on my grandmother has passed away. That has brought me back into studying the family tree. I am determined to figure out her husbands blood lines!! I hope to take a trip soon with my mother down to her ancestors neck of the woods this fall. Should be an interesting trip.

This is my step-fathers parents. His mother died at a young age and his father is still around as you can see in the picture. I am still trying to gather a lot of information on his family. They lived around Southern Md most of their lives so it is just a process of weeding out who is related and who isn't....

Have not written in a long time. I have been on the hunt for any and everything I can find! tried to scan this picture in the other day but it would not work so I took a picture

I wish I had a better view of this!

Something Old

Found this in a box that was sent to my sister full of ancestry info. Walter Ferrenberg is an ancestry as well as Mr. Heins. Mr Heins is who we received the box of information on. Apparently he was a well received pastor and farmer. I will post more items as I scan them. This was just to good to pass up!! As you can see it is in excellent condidtion! Expecially since it was written in 1917!

 

Jacob Setzer, immigrant

Family tradition says that Jacob Setzer arrived in Philadelphia, P.A. with his brother Michael on 26 Sep 1753. They sailed to the new world from Rotterdam, Holland, on the ship BROTHERS.

Supposedly Michael 'went west', and Jacob south.

Jacob was a physician. He settled on land belonging to Conrad Bovey (also spelled Bovy, Povey, Poovey, etc.) near the present day town of Newton and eventually married Conrad's daughter Mary Magdalene.

On 10 Dec 1766, Conrad deeded Jacob 196 1/2 acres of land.

Jacob and Mary had 3 boys and the family attended the old Saint Pauls Lutheran Church in the Clark's Creek area, which I believe was in between the present day towns of Newton and Maiden. There were many Pennsylvania Dutch in the area. The original building, a log structure, was known as 'The Dutch Meeting House'. It was struck by lightning and a new church was built in 1757. In 1822 this 'new' church was disassembled and a newer one constructed, using in part logs from the dismantled building.

The newest church had board siding and homemade nails. There were different sections for men, women, children and slaves to sit.

There are many Setzers and Pooveys buried in the cemetery.

I don't know when Jacob died. His widow married Conrad Mingus and had more children. Jacob and Mary Setzer's son Adam Setzer was in the army in 1781 (Revolutionary war), with his step-father Conrad Mingus, so Jacob must have died prior to 1781.

The history of this area of N.C. is a little hard to follow. To the best of my knowledge, it became part of Rowan County in 1753 (about the time Jacob arrived), then Burke County in 1777, Lincoln County in 1779, and Catawba County in 1842. So, without knowing for sure what year Jacob died, I can not say whether he died in Rowan, Burke, or Lincoln County. Some people will even say it was Catawba County, since it is presently in Catawba County.

Setzer Family

The Setzer family is of German origin and came to America on Ship "Brothers", with Capt. Willim Muir, from Rotterdam. George Tobias Setzer landed at Philadelphia, PA., September 14, 1751. Michael Setzer and Jacob Setzer, age 21, were on Ship Brothers and landed in America, September 26, 1753. Reference for this is Penn German Pioneers by Strassburger and Hinke, Vol. 1, pages 551, 553, and 554 and also Rupps Thirty Thousand Immigrant page 312. This drawing is on file with the Library of Australia. Ship "Brothers" was decommissioned in Australia

I plan on taking a trip down to Va this summer to do more hands on research of my grandmothers side of the family. They are all from South Hampton, Va. I hope this will prove worth the trip! I will try to keep up on my post with my findings. I have been very busy lately so I have not been able to put much time into my research.

Another Obit

Mary Elizabeth Deeters of Williamsburg RD 2, died at 7:55 a.m. today in her home. Mrs Deeters was born at Curryville, Pa March 14, 1889, a daughter of Felix and Annie (Frederick ) Showalter. She was married to Perry Deeters Dec 25, 1907 at Oreminea by the Rev John H. Brumbaugh, Mrs Deeters was a member of the church of God of Williamsburg. Surviving are her husband, six children , Mrs Phyllis L. Hatch, Mrs Hazel T. Sayers and Edgar E. of Williamsburg RD2; Mrs Mabel E. Patterson and Clarence W. of Ganister and Gerald E at home; two sisters, Mrs Clara Haney and Mrs Nannie Hoover of Williamsburg; one brother William A Showalter of Williamsburg ; 15 grandchildren and 13 Great grandchildren. Friends will be received at the home after 1 pm Sunday
date penciled on paper 7-11-1959

Obit.

Obituary of Josephine M. (Gutshall) Patterson, Altoona (PA) Mirror, 13 Jan 2009,
"June 15, 1927 - Jan. 10, 2009
Josephine M. (Gutshall) Patterson, 81, Hastings, formerly of Altoona, died Saturday at Golden LivingCenter-HAIDA Manor, Hastings. Before her brief stay at Golden LivingCenter-HAIDA Manor, Josephine resided with her granddaughter, Josephine Ruckinger and her husband, Jeff, of Blandburg, where the three of them looked forward to the yearly vacations that they took together.
She was born in Mount Union, the only child of the late John R. and Beulah J. (Hamman) Gutshall. She married Robert F. Patterson Nov. 17, 1945, at Fifteenth Street Methodist Church. He died Dec. 13, 1999.
Surviving are children: Carol Skinner, Susan Showalter and Virginia Cruse, all of Altoona, Roberta Frew of Ashville, Jocie Williams of Blandburg and John Patterson of Mapleton Depot; numerous grandchildren, stepgrandchildren and great-grandchildren; and a very close cousin, Virginia Kough. She also is survived by special caregivers: Judy Harris, Anna Mae Michaels and Sandy Schirf, who provided loving care.
Friends will be received from 6 to 8 p.m. today, Jan. 13, 2009, at Leslie E. Axe Funeral Home and noon to the 1 p.m. time of funeral service Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009, at Axe & Santella Family Chapel, 1534 Fourth St., Altoona, with Pastor Bernard Bookhammer officiating. Interment at Alto Reste Park Cemetery.
In memory of Josephine, contributions may be made to the Central Pennsylvania Humane Society."

Konrad Kramm, (later known as Coonrad; Conrad; Kramp and Crump): Hessian soldier

Ok I think this will do for now. Enjoy reading. I think this is the best story so far.

During the American Revolutionary War, about 1/4th of the British forces who fought in America were German soldiers. King George III of England (who himself was of the House of Hanover and therefore German royalty), paid 150,000 English pounds for 30,067 German mercenaries, who were under the command of the Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen. The men themselves came from different areas of Germany, but the majority were from the state of Hesse, and eventually all of them became known as Hessians.
These soldiers were not mercenaries as we think of the term today. The officers were probably career soldiers, but the main body of troops were mostly conscripts; debtors, small-time criminals and everyday men who were forced into service. Pay was low and sometimes consisted only of the food that the soldier ate. England paid the same amount for a German soldier that she did for a British soldier, but the pay for a German soldier went into the coffers of the local royalty which had hired out the man.
On August 15th, 1776, the first contingent of Hessian soldiers, some 18,000 strong, arrived in the New World via Staten Island. Although they were generally not professional soldiers and contained their fair share of characters, Hessian Units were noted for their fine discipline, military prowness and almost inhumane feats. Keep in mind that the Revolutionary War was fought with propaganda as well as firearms. The Hessians were reputed to be incredable fighting machines (whether warrented or not), and the colonists, themselves ill-clothed, ill-armed, ill-discplined and brimming with local prejudices and jealousies, held them in awe.
Hessian soldiers played an important part in the entire war.
Their first engagement was the Battle of Brookland, also called the Battle of Long Island, on August the 27th. Nine Thousand Hessians joined with 21,000 of the King's men and fought 11,000 troops (which was about a third) of the Continental army in what became the largest battle of the war.
It was also notable on several other accounts.
It was the first battle that the new U.S. Army ever fought and the first major battle of the war. The British captured New York City and held it til the end of the Revolution! So close did General Washington come to losing all of his soldiers on the island that his only hope of survival, (and that looked impossible!), was a full retreat.
Then the British, probably waiting for Washington to do the inevitable and surrender, paused the attack. A thick fog fell over the island. The rest of N.Y. was as clear as a bell, but because of the fog on Long Island, neither the Britsh army nor her navy could see General Washington's troops, who by this time numbered only 9,000, cross the river and make good their escape.
It took 13 hours to remove all of the troops and their ammunition, supplies and equipment. About 30 minutes after the last of it reached the far shore, the fog lifted.
General Washington was considered a hero for this miraculous escape, but morale in the fledgling country nose-dived and entire companies of soldiers deserted.
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The Battle of Trenton
General Washington retreated through New Jersey. In December he crossed the Delaware River and entered Pennsylvania. It was a bitterly cold winter, and the British pulled back to N.Y.City, leaving Hessians to guard various areas.
Three quarters of the American Army was gone due to illness and desertion. General Washington expected to lose alot of his remaining soldiers at the end of the year because their enlistment was up. In desperation, he decided to attack the Hessians garrisoned at Tenton, N.J. What happened next is depicted in the famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware during a terrible snow storm, on Christmas. He divided the troops into 3 sections. One section was unable to cross the Delaware. Another arrived after the battle was over. Washington's group surprised the Hessians early on the morning of the 26th, and after a brief fight, took about 900 prisoners, along with weapons, ammo and greatly needed supplies.
The unexpected victory made the Americans realize that the Hessians were human, after all, which greatly helped morale.
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The Americans actively tried to convince the Hessian soldiers to stop fighting for the British, or, even better, to fight for the Americans. It is said that they offered a land grant to Hessians who deserted. They pointed out that the Americas had a large population of Germans and that the Hessians would fit right in.
In a seemingly unrelated matter, the young Hessian soldiers were quite impressed with the American custom of 'bundling'. Winters in the new world were quite cold, and homes were hard to heat. In New England, a bucket of water placed next to the fire during the evening could be frozen solid by morning. Bundling was a manner of courtship in which the couple, fully clothed, would lie down in bed under the covers and have an oppurtunity to talk and get to know one another. Sometimes a board was placed between the two, and sometimes the female was placed in a 'chastity bag'. Often the girl's parents stayed in the room. Soldiers figured that any country that encouraged this sort of courtship couldn't be all bad!
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The Siege of Charleston
At the end of 1779, the British decided to take the war into the southern colonies.
Hessian General Wilhelm von Knyphausen was left in command of N.Y., while Sir Henry Clinton and Gen. Cornwallis met Lord Rawdon in Savannah. They marched on Charleston and laid siege to the city in March of 1780. American General Benjamin Lincoln (unlike General Washington), was unable to pull off any miracles, and ended up surrendering unconditionally. On the 12th of May, 1780, he led his 5,000 troops out of the city and into the hands of their British captors.
For the Americans, it was the biggest loss of troops in the entire war. It left the Carolina's without a Continental Army, and things looked very bleak indeed for the young country.
After the surrender the higher American officers were eventually traded for British P.O.W.s and the rest of the American army was kept a good while in Charleston harbor on prison ships. Conditions on the ships were not the best, and there was alot of sickness.
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When the war was over, 17,300 Hessians returned to Germany. Roughly 1,200 had been killed in action. 6,300 died from accidents or sickness, and about 5,000 remained in North America, where they made new lives for themselves.
The British government paid Germany for the loss of the troops that didn't make it back to the Fatherland.
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What does this have to do with the Crumps in North Carolina?
Konrad Kramm was born in Hess, Germany, and arrived in America in 1776 as a Hessian soldier; a Grenadier, to be exact. On Dec. 26th, 1776, he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Trenton, N.J. At a later date he was exchanged, and went with the British to Georgia. At Ebenezer, G.A., he deserted his army and went to an American camp a Purysburg. There he obtained a permit to go from GA to Mecklenburg, N.C., which he did, arriving there in the spring of 1779. (The present day city of Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County). On the muster roll of April, 1779, he is listed as a deserter.
Early in 1780 he enlisted with the colonials as a substitute for one John Burger (Barger). He was in Colonel Alexander Lillington's regiment and served under Captain Gabriel Enoch. Pvt. Kramm was at the siege of Charleston and was one of the 5,000 troops who surrended to the British on May 12th, 1780. Taken to N.Y. as a prisoner, tradition says that he escaped after a while and traveled through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and finally North Carolina, reaching Mecklenburg right before Christmas in 1781. The Files of German Military Men show him as being arrested and returned to Regt. in May, 1780, and being released from arrest in Nov. 1780.
By the early 1800s Conrad Crump (as he eventually became known), was raising a family in Burke (now Caldwell) County. He applied for his Revolutionary War pension in 1832, at the age of 79, and was allotted $46.66 per year.
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More on the Crump Family

I am adding stories bit by bit. I have ran across many. Some are a bit confusing.

When Conrad Crump applied for his Revolutionary War pension in 1832, he listed his age as 79. That would mean he was born in 1753.
Oma Clark, in a book on the Crump family which was, I believe, informally published around 2001 or 2002, says that one of her in-laws married a German woman who was born in the same area as Conrad Crump. This in-law researched the Crump Family and eventually hired a professional genealogist by the name of Erich Botte (spelled with a .. over the o), to continue the research.
Searching through church records, they couldn't find a Conrad Crump (Kramm) who was born in 1753. They did, however, find a Johann Conradt Kramm who was born in Burguffeln on March 20, 1757.
The following information comes from Oma Clark:
Family names were entered into the Church Books the way they sounded to the person who was doing the writting. Therefore, Kramm, Kramme, Kram, Cramm, Cramme and Gram are all the same family. Conradt was the old way of spelling Conrad (which is also spelled Konrad).
Johann Conradt Kramm was born 20 Mar 1757 at about 2 p.m. in Burguffeln, and christened 25 Mar 1757 in Burguffeln. "Die Eintragungen in den Militarunterlagen bzw. in den Unterlagen des Hessischen Staatsarchivs in Marburg beruhen offensichtlich auf eined Hor-order Ubertragungsfehler." In short, he went with the Hessian Soldiers to America.
His father was Johann Henrich Kramm, a farmer and a magistrate, b. 1722 in Burguffeln, d. 1794 (age 72 years, 5 months and 13 days), in Burguffeln.
His mother was Martha Elisabeth Hold (also spelled Holden), b. 1727 in Westuffeln, d. after 1770 in ?. She was born out of wedlock to the Hold (Holden) family.
His Godfather was Johann Conradt Butterweck, from Westuffeln, who was the brother-in-law of Johann Heinrich Kramm.
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Everything that I have in this family tree for the ancestry of Johann Henrich Kramm and his wife, Martha Elisabeth Holden Kramm, comes from Oma Clark.

This family is WAY TO CLOSE!!!

So I know I have not posted in a while. I have not had a lot of time to put into my ancestry. Lately I came accross some new family info. While imputting it into the ancestry web site I came accross a few stories. I thought I would share just in case someone else happens to be looking for the same people. This is making my record research rather difficult as I now have to figure out who is who. At least someone has already figured out the connections between people!
Enjoy! it gets confusing I promise.

Rebecca Crump (1834-1906), was the daughter of Lewis Crump (1784-1845).
She married Cicero McAmy Prestwood, who was a grandson of Mavil Clark (1767-1836). A great-granddaughter of Mavil Clark, Jane Mahuldah Clark (1847-1928), married David Crump (1850-1930), who was a great-nephew of Lewis Crump (1784-1845).
The Crump and Clark families inter-married on a number of different occasions.

Elizabeth (called Betsey) Setzer (b. 1790-99), daughter of Adam Setzer (1758-1843) and Elizabeth Arney, had a child, Mary Matilda Setzer (1817-1906), before she--Elizabeth-- married Lewis Crump. This Mary Matilda was raised by her grandparents Adam and Elizabeth Setzer and was always considered to be a Setzer. According to the Bastardry Bonds of N.C., John Boone, a sheriff in Burke County, N.C., was her father. Elizabeth (Betsy) Setzer and John Boone never married.
Elizabeth (Betsy)Setzer's brother, Jacob Setzer (1783-1861), married John Boone's sister, Jemima Boone. They did not appear to have any children of their own, but it's possible that they kept their niece, Mary Matilda Setzer (1817-1906), when she was young.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Setzer and her husband Lewis Crump had a daughter named Mary. She married Alfred Cannon. Do not confuse this Mary Crump with her half sister Mary Matilda Setzer (1817-1906), who married Madison Estes.
Adam Setzer (1758-1843) and Elizabeth Arney had a son, David Setzer (1797-1866), who married Polly Winkler. They had a daughter named Mary Matilda Setzer (1834-1911). This Mary Matilda Setzer (1834-1911) married Daniel Crump Jr. (1831-1906), and is often confused with her cousin Mary Matilda Setzer Estes (1817-1906).
Elizabeth (Betsy) Setzer Crump (b.1790-99), and David Setzer (1797-1866), had a sister, Susan Setzer, who married Daniel Crump Sr. (1797-1879). Daniel Crump Sr. was both the brother of Elizabeth's husband Lewis Crump, and the father of Daniel Crump Jr (1831-1906), who married Mary Matilda Setzer (1834-1911), daughter of David Setzer and Polly Winkler

South Hampton, Va

A clip from a great great aunts journal

Here goes, I will type this in my Great Great Aunt Sadie’s words……

(top of the page ) Was elected January 1953 and elected for second term Jan. 1957

Trace Ike Ancestors into Lykens Valley (President Dwight Eisenhower)

Lykens Valley and its inhabitants, especially those residing in the area around Millersburg and Elizabethville, are highly complimented by the recent election and inauguration of president Dwight D. Eisenhower. He is the first president whose ancestors lived in that area.

In November 1741, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Eisenhower and their family of three sons and a daughter landed at the port of Philadelphia. They were among the other immigrants who had come from the Rhineland in Europe and sailed from Holland on the Europa. Nicholas and his family immediately headed west and settled at Bethel (House of God) then in Lancaster County but now part of Lebanon Co.

It is claimed that Frederick Eisenhower, great grandfather of President Eisenhower, at one time lived at the homestead where Rufus R. Romberger and family now live. Jacob Eisenhower, the presidents grandfather, was born about four miles east of Harrisburg in 1827. After his marriage to Rebecca Matter, he moved in 1854 to the spacious 96 acre farm at the western edge of Elizabethville which he had purchased from Samuel Baker.

Jacob and his father Fredrick both belonged to the Baker River Brethren Church. In 1863 Jacob succeeded Jacob Landis as the preacher of the Lykens Valley District.

David Eisenhower the president’s father was born Sept 23, 1863. It was in 1878 that Jacob Eisenhower moved his family to Kansas. He frequently visited the Brethren in Lykens Valley and some of the older residents recall his visits and the sermons he preached. The president was born in Texas but lived as a boy in Kansas.

Six of Jacob Eisenhower’s children as well as a brother and his mother are buried on the hillside at Free Grace cemetery. It is through Annie Eisenhower that the Eisenhower tradition is perpetuated in Lykens Valley. She married Joseph Novinger and they had five children. Mrs. Sarah E. Lebo, now cherishes a personal letter from cousin Ike which he sent her while he was supreme commander of the NATO forces in Europe. A number of descendants of Rebecca Matter, the presidents grandmother, also reside in the Valley.

Census Record ~ Matter