Paternal Line – Page 2 – A Pennsylvania Dutch Genealogy

Michael Frantz (1789-1865) 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

Kris Hocker on 2 Feb 2017

I’ve written before about Michael’s parentage, but not very much about him. Michael Frantz Jr. was born 22 May 1789 in Paxton Township, Dauphin County.¹ He was the fourth child and second son of Michael and Veronica “Fannie” (Nissley) Frantz. He died in Upper Swatara Township on 5 June 1865 and was buried in the Churchville cemetery in Oberlin.²

On 19 March 1812, he married Elizabeth Neidig, daughter John and Mary (Bear?) Neidig³ who owned land adjoining his father’s. She was born 10 April 1790 and died 3 December 1821.⁴ She was buried in the graveyard on their property. After her death, Michael married Elizabeth Walter, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Stauffer?) Walter.⁵ She was born 20 October 1800 in Rapho Township and died 15 Sep 1882 in Swatara Township.⁶ Her family moved north into Swatara Township sometime between 1807⁷ and 1810.⁸

When Michael’s father died in 1797, his uncle Jacob Frantz was named as guardian of him, his brother John, and sister Veronica.⁹ His uncle Christian Frantz served as guardian of his older sisters Elizabeth and Mary. His uncles Christian Frantz and Jacob Nissley were the administrators of the estate.¹⁰ His brother John died before 1807 and sister Veronica likely died prior to 19 May 1810.¹¹ Michael served as the head of household in the 1810 census.¹²

On 19 April 1810, Michael purchased his father’s farm from his sisters for $2,000. It adjoined the Susquehanna River and lands of Jacob Nissley (likely his cousin), Jacob Eagley, John Neidig, and Henry Hagey.¹³ He farmed this land until his death in 1865. Michael was a member of the United Brethren Church. His ancestors—and likely his parents—were Mennonites.

Children of Michael and Elizabeth (Neidig) Frantz, born in Swatara Township:

Mary Frantz was born 28 November 1818. She married John Raysor.
Elizabeth Frantz was born sometime between 1812 and 1821. She married John Miller.

Children of Michael and Elizabeth (Walter) Frantz, born in Swatara Township:

Samuel Frantz was born 21 July 1825 and died 4 November 1908 in Mount Pleasant, Isabella County, Michigan. He married Catherine Hershey in 1847.
Anna Frantz was born 13 Sep 1828 and died 3 February 1918 in Harrisburg. She married Levi Hocker on 6 February 1851.
Michael Andrew Frantz was born 15 January 1830 and died 26 May 1917 in North Manheim Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He married Barbara Anne Rush on 14 January 1861.
Fannie Frantz was born 10 May 1833 and died 16 November 1916 in Harrisburg. She married Abraham Hursh by January 1854.
Jacob W. Frantz was born 13 Jun 1835 and died 12 May 1906 in Florence, Marion County, Kansas. He married Emma Loveland about 1884.
John H. Frantz was born 21 January 1840 and died in 1904 in Florence, Marion County, Kansas.
Margaret “Maggie” Frantz was born 6 November 1837 and died sometime after 28 April 1910. She married Abraham Shirk after 8 June 1880.
Sarah Frantz was born 10 February 1842 and died 11 January 1851. She was buried in Churchville Cemetery.
Christian G. Frantz was born 8 March 1845 and died 13 March 1906 in the Dauphin County Alms House. He was a teacher and musician.

This post is part of a blogging challenge entitled 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Crow of No Story Too Small in 2014. Participants were to write about one ancestor every week. I’m revisiting this challenge for 2017. This is my fifth 52 Ancestors post, part of week four.

How Many Interfamily Marriages Are in Your Database?

Kris Hocker on 8 Dec 2016

How many interfamily marriages do you have in your genealogy database? I currently have 79 couples. Just an interesting fun fact, right?

Not so fast. Interfamily marriage is defined as marriage between people with common ancestors, aka cousin marriage, and this is how pedigree collapse occurs.

Pedigree Collapse

What is pedigree collapse, you ask. If you count your ancestors, you should theoretically double the number for each generation you go back. Two parents. Four grandparents. Eight great-grandparents. And so on.

However, if you actually look at your family tree, the deeper you go, the less likely this calculation is to be valid.

Why?

Before too many generations, your number of many-times great-grandparents would exceed the number of all people living at that time.

So, what actually happened? Interfamily marriages.

One expert estimates that nearly 80 percent of all marriages in the past occurred between first or second cousins.¹ This means that the spouses’ ancestors appear in their descendants’ family trees multiple times. So, there are actually fewer ancestors than expected based on the simple calculation referenced above. Instead of an ever-expanding pedigree, you get points where the pedigree has collapsed.

I’ve seen this in action on both sides of my family tree. On my father’s side, I’m descended from Andrew Walker Sr. and his wife Catharine Margaret Fetzer three times through their children: John and his wife Mary Lucas, Catherine and her husband George Walker, and Mary Ann and her husband John Mayes. I am allegedly descended from Johann Michael Haudesheldt and his wife Maria Dorothea Seitel through two of their sons: Lawrence and Michael.

On my mother’s side of the family, I’m descended from Johann Michael Klein Sr. and his second wife Maria Catharina Kuntz twice through their daughter Maria Magdalena and her husband Conrad Brey, and their son Johann Jacob and his wife Eva Elisabetha Heilig. I’m descended from David Yeakel and his wife Susanna Heydrick through sons Johannes Henrich and his wife Susanna Heydrick,² and Jeremias and his wife who was a Wolf. In fact, Jeremias serves as a point of collapse, too, because I descend through two of his daughters: Charlotte who married Andrew Schultz, and Catharine who married Conrad Wolf.

Maternal line pedigree points of collapse

Yeakel and Heydrick (Heidrig) appear elsewhere in my pedigree with Rosina Yeakel, daughter of Balthasar and Regina (John) Yeakel, wife of Rev. Christopher Schultz, and Anna Heidrig who was the wife of Melchior Krauss, whose grandson Balthasar Krauss married Susanna Yeakel, daughter of Johannes Henrich and his wife Susanna Heydrick. It’s likely that if I were to trace these families back through Germany, I’d find additional points of collapse.

These are just the families I’ve found in my direct ancestry. Collateral lines have additional cousin marriages. And then there are those relations who are yet unproven. For instance, I have “Hartzel” and “Hertzel” ancestors who were said to be brothers. How many more points of collapse will I find as I go further back?

Why is This Important?

That interesting fun fact is actually useful in your research. Related families often moved and settled together. Cousin marriages one or two generations on were not uncommon. From our perspective, working backward through our family lines, these marriages may not appear to be cousin marriages. Our ancestors may or may not have known they were cousins, but we don’t. It’s only after we get back another generation or two that we finally make the connection and see the relationships.

It may not even be your line that reveals the relationship. So, if you’re stuck, researching those around your brickwall—friends, siblings, neighbors, associates—may be more help than you think. Check out the in-laws, too. Who knows, they may just be family.

Skepticism: Wherefore Art Thou?

Kris Hocker on 12 Mar 2016

A healthy dose of skepticism can be a valuable tool in genealogy. It’s important to examine each record critically. It’s a lesson I’ve just had cause to remember, again.

I was looking at the record in my Reunion database for my ancestor Daniel Boileau and I found the following:

Daniel Boileau came to Milesburg from Huntingdon County to make flour-barrels at the Milesburg grist-mill. He and his father-in-law Mr. Robertson, had fought side by side in the Revolutionary war as soldiers in the French army. Boileau settled eventually on a bit of land south of Milesburg, and died there in 1840. In front of the old log house that was his home at that place stands a hickory-tree that he planted with his own hands upon the occasion of Gen. Jackson’s first campaign for the Presidency. ¹

“He and his father-in-law Mr. Robertson, had fought side by side in the Revolutionary war as soldiers in the French army.”

I also have Daniel’s death date as 28 November 1840. At that time he was 69 years old, placing his birth about 1771.² The 1840 census for Spring Township, Centre County confirms this.³ His age, 60-70, places his birth between 1770 and 1780. This would make him about 12 years old at the end of the war.

France entered the war in February 1778 with the Treaty of Alliance. At that time, Daniel was six or seven years old. I have a very hard time seeing a boy that young being allowed to join the French army. He would have only been ten years old at the time of the Battle of Yorktown where General Cornwallis surrendered in 1781.

Granted young boys (and occasionally girls) served in historic armies. But at the time the armies were most active in the north—where one would assume Daniel would have served since that’s where he ended up—he would have been exceptionally young to have been a soldier. Not impossible, but not very likely either.

Skepticism Found

Looking at that quote now, I’m surprised I just added it to the database without a qualification. I find it unlikely to be the absolute truth. But it’s possible that it contains parts of the truth.

First, there could have been a Daniel Boileau—perhaps a relative, perhaps even his father—who served in the Revolutionary War. Different people with the same name are confused for each other all the time. And it’s not uncommon for fathers and sons of the same name to be reduced to one person. Adding several hundred years to the problem, only makes it harder to differentiate between people.⁴

In this scenario, I’m less certain of the French army connection, unless the soldier eventually brought his family over from France. If they were already here, wouldn’t he have just served with the colonials?

Alternatively, perhaps Daniel and his father-in-law fought together in a different war. At the time of the War of 1812, Daniel would have been about 41 years old. Not the age of the average soldier—especially if his father-in-law fought beside him—but not outside the realm of possible. The planting of a hickory tree in honor of Andrew Jackson’s first presidential campaign seems to indicate some strong feelings for the man who played a pivotal role in the War of 1812.⁵

Regardless, I apparently need to give my inner skeptic more of a free reign when researching my ancestors.

Update: William H. Hocker & the Aetna Explosives Co.

Kris Hocker on 3 Nov 2014

I was finally able to review Harrisburg city directories to see when my great grandfather was living in the city. I hoped that they would narrow the window for his possible employment at the Aetna Explosives Company in Mt. Union, Pennsylvania. It didn’t narrow the timeframe nearly as much as I was hoping it would.

William H. and Isobel A. Hocker were living at 35 N. 18th Street in 1915.¹ The directory does not give a date of publishing beyond the year, but Jun 8, 1915 is stamped on the table of contents, indicating that it was published before this date. By the time the 1916 city directory was compiled, William and family were no longer living in Harrisburg.² Nor were they listed in the 1917 city directory.³

So, sometime between the birth of his first child in May and the compiling/publishing of the 1916 Harrisburg city directory, Will was likely hired to work at the Aetna explosives plant. Unless, of course, he worked somewhere else outside Harrisburg first.

This timeline means that he very likely could have been working at the Aetna Explosives Plant in Mt. Union at the time of the 21 Sep 1916 explosion. He doesn’t reappear in the Harrisburg city directory until 1918—which has Jul 19, 1918 stamped on the table of contents.⁴ He was most likely back in Harrisburg before that date.

Unfortunately, we still don’t know which explosion the family story refers to.

52 Ancestors: Isabella (Smith) Hocker (1893-1962)

Kris Hocker on 25 Aug 2014

William and Eliza Craig (Bonnington) Smith came to Pennsylvania from Edinburgh, Scotland about 1890, leaving their eldest two children with Eliza’s parents Peter and Elizabeth (Buchanan) Bonnington in Scotland until they were settled in Harrisburg.¹ William became a United States citizen on 12 January 1893.²

My great grandmother, Isabella “Isabel” (Aiken) Smith, was born Tuesday, 4 April 1893 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.³ She was the third daughter and fifth Smith child. He older brother William was the first child born in the United States. He was born 28 March 1892.⁴ Her youngest brother, Robert Thomas Alexander Smith was born 7 April 1899.⁵

The family lived on Zarker Street in Harrisburg. William owned and operated an ice house on Howard Street.⁶ Given the proximity between the two, it’s likely that the family home was behind their business.

When Isabella was eleven years old, her father died of pneumonia on Thursday, 23 February 1905.⁷ He was fifty-three years old. Eliza was suddenly responsible for a family of five children, aged from nineteen to four years of age. I’m sure it was a difficult time for them all.

Isabella Smith and the telephone girls

Eliza remarried on 1 August 1908 in Harrisburg to Robert Owens Cochrane, an Irishman.⁸ He was a clerk for a steel company. In 1910, the family was living at 1934 Forster Street in Susquehanna Township, just outside the Harrisburg city limits.⁹ James and William were not with the family—James, I believe, died in 1905, but I don’t know where Willie was at this time. Isabella’s older sister, Bess, was working as a sales lady and Isabella was working as a telephone operator. By the time Isabella was nineteen, her hair had turned white from typhoid fever—which she had twice.¹⁰

William and Isabella (Smith) Hocker

On Tuesday, 13 October 1914, at age 21, Isabella married at Harrisburg, William “Will” Howard Hocker.¹¹ The youngest son of Albert Curtin and Lillian Ainsley (Leedy) Hocker, formerly of Harrisburg, Will was born Sunday, 17 August 1890 in Swatara Township.¹²

Will was a carpenter and general contractor for most of his life. At one point, however, he worked as a millwright at Aetna Explosives Company in Newton Hamilton on the Juniata River in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.¹³ My grandfather told the story that one day his father had gone home for lunch, leaving his men at work at the mill. While he was at home, there was a terrible explosion. Grandpa said his father blamed himself for not being there to watch over his men.

Will and Isabella had five children:

Isabella Bonnington Hocker was born 20 May 1915 and died 13 July 2006. Bonnie married Harold McGowan Ruder on 25 April 1940 at Olivet Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg.
William Howard Hocker Jr. was born on 1 September 1918 and died 17 January 2008. He married my grandmother on 25 September 1941.
Anna Louise Hocker was born 10 September 1919 and died 23 September 1963. She married 14 August 1942 Willard Clair Hoover in Alexandria, Louisiana.
Betty Jean Hocker was born 3 November 1923 and died 6 March 2014. She married William Osbourne Wingeard Jr. 24 April 1953 at Epworth Methodist Church in Harrisburg.
Meriam “Mims” Elizabeth Hocker was born 20 September 1929 in Harrisburg and died 15 September 1999. She married January 1949 in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Isabella’s mother, Eliza Craig (Bonnington) Smith Cochrane, died Friday, 18 October 1946 in Philadelphia.¹⁴ Her second husband had passed away more the twenty years before. Eliza was buried in Paxtang Cemetery, Paxtang Borough, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

Isabella Aiken (Smith) Hocker

Isabella died Saturday, 21 July 1962 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was buried in the Paxtang Cemetery on Tuesday, 24 July 1962.¹⁵ She was survived by her husband, five children, and fourteen grandchildren.¹⁶At the time of her death, she was a member of Epworth Methodist Church and taught in the church’s beginning department.

Will passed away Wednesday, 22 March 1967 and was buried Saturday, 25 March 1967, also in Paxtang Cemetery.¹⁷ He was survived by his son, three daughters, and fourteen grandchildren.¹⁸ He, too, was a member of Epworth Methodist Church. He was also a member and trustee of the local carpenter’s union and the Harrisburg Hunters and Anglers Association.

This post is part of an ongoing, blogging challenge entitled 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Crow of No Story Too Small. Participants must write about one ancestor every week. This is my twenty-first 52 Ancestors post and part of week thirty-four.

Friday Find: Christian Hoover’s Farm

Kris Hocker on 8 Aug 2014

Quehanna Hoover Road Trail

Thanks to the sleuthing of some family members on the ground in Pennsylvania, I believe we finally know where Christian Hoover’s farm was located.

If you remember from my previous post—Where Did My Christian Hoover Live?—I’d determined that his farm was originally part of the Dodge Lands, tract #5404. A map that I located seemed to indicate that this would have placed his farm near Twelvemile Run. Not too far from the stream, a road named “Hoover road” (previously Driftwood Pike) bears north off the Quehanna Highway toward Driftwood. I’ve been thinking that his farm was somewhere in this area off Hoover road.

However, my relatives discovered the Hoover Farm Wildlife Viewing area (seen in Google Map below).

Looking at it on the map. It’s just to the south of the Hoover road turnoff and near Twelvemile Run. It looks like I wasn’t too far off on my estimated location.

Quehanna Hoover Farm Blind

The farm is apparently now part of Pennsylvania’s Quehanna Wildlife Area. There is a viewing blind on the property, where visitors can watch wildlife feeding in the farm’s fields and feeding plots.

Christian L. Hoover died on 1 October 1887. His heirs—adult children Reuben, Samuel, Simon, George, and minor child Eva, and widow Mary Ann (Conaway) Hoover—sold his property to George Boak, in trust for the Wildwood Company, in 1889.¹ It eventually became part of the Curtiss-Wright property by the 1920s or 30s.² The state purchased the land from Curtiss-Wright in 1967.³

I obviously never knew my 3x great grandfather. But since his descendants have such a keen appreciation for the outdoors, I think he’d appreciate the use the state has found for what was once his land.

Now if I could only find his family in the 1870 and 1880 census!

Photo Credit:
Photo 1: “Quehanna Hoover Road Trail” by Ruhrfisch (talk) – photographed it myself. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Photo 2: “Quehanna Hoover Farm Blind” by Ruhrfisch (talk) – photographed, stitched, and cropped it myself, originally two horizontal photos.This panoramic image was created with Autostitch. Stitched images may differ from reality. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Will: John Frantz (Manor), 1787

Kris Hocker on 30 Jul 2014

John Frantz of Manor Township wrote his last will and testament on 3 March 1786 when he was “old but of sound understanding & memory.” It was proven on 10 February 1787 when letters testamentary were issued to his “friend” Jacob Brubaker and “son” Jacob Frantz, his executors.

John Frantz, Dec’d
In the Name of God Amen.
I John Frantz of Mannor Township in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania Farmer being old but of sound understanding & memory (God by thanked) and calling to mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die I therefore do hereby make my last will and Testament
First I recommend my soul into the Hands of the Almighty God who gave it and my Body to be interred in hopes of a glorious resurrection through the merits of my Redeemer Jesus Christ and as to my Worldly Estate I give and bequeath the same in manner following
First It is my Will that all my just Debts shall be paid out of my Estate
Item I bequeath unto my four sons viz John Christian Jacob and Michael their Heirs & assigns to each of their Heirs & assigns the same of Five hundred Pounds of Good money which each of them has received already in the lands which they have got of me
Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth her heirs and assigns the sum of five hundred and seventy Pounds in good money in gold or silver coin which my hereafter named Executors shall pay to her as soon as it can be made up out of my estate as her own property and that on account of my having given to my sons their lands something under price
Item I further order that if when my said Daughter Elizabeth has received her sum of money then the remainder of my estate shall be divided into equal shares to my children which I hereby name viz John Christian Jacob Michael and Elizabeth and each of them shall have as much as the other and none more than the other
Item I make constitute and appoint my Friend Jacob Brubacker and my son Jacob Frantz to be my whole & sole Executors of this my Last will and Testament making hereby null and void all my former wills & Testaments declaring this and no other to be my Last will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal the third day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six
sealed signed & pronounced by the said John Frantz as his last will
& testament in the presence of us Jacob Kilheffer John Kilheffer

John Frantz (seal)

Lancaster County to wit On the tenth Day of February Anno Domini 1787 Before me the subscriber Personally appeared Jacob Killhefer and John Killhefer the two subscribing witnesses to the within Instrument of writing and on their solemn affirmation according to Law did Declare affirm and say that they were present and saw and heard John Frantz the Testator within named sign seal Publish pronounce and Declare the within writing as and for his Last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of sound and well disposing mind memory and understanding to the best of their Knowledge observation and Belief James Jacks Regr.
Be it remembered that on the Tenth day of February Anno 1787 the Last will and Testament of John Frantz late of Mannor Township Yeoman Deceased was proved in Due form of Law and Letters Testamentary thereon were granted unto Jacob Brubaker and Jacob Frantz the Executors in the said will named they having first been duly qualified well and truly to administer the estate of the said deceased and especially to exhibit a true and perfect Inventory thereof into the Registers Office at Lancaster within one month from the Date and to to render a just and true account of their administration on said Estate within one year or when thereof Lawfully required given under the seal of said office P me James Jacks Regr.¹

Based on this last will & testament and the deeds mentioned in previous Frantz articles, Hans and Catharine Frantz of Manor Township had five surviving children (in order listed in will):

John Frantz (of Warwick), married Elizabeth Hostetter[?]
Christian Frantz (of Manheim), married Mary (___)
Jacob Frantz (of Manor & Lampeter), married Barbara Hostetter [?], married 2nd Maria (___)
Michael Frantz (of Londonderry and Lower Paxton), married Fannie Nissley
Elizabeth Frantz

52 Ancestors: Jacob C. Walker (1833-1915)

Kris Hocker on 8 Jul 2014

Jacob Walker was born 3 November 1833 in Runville, Boggs Township, Centre County.¹ He died 24 July 1915 of “parenchymatous nephritis” in Centre Hall, aged 81 years, 8 months and 21 days. He was buried 27 Jul 1915 in the Reformed and Lutheran cemetery in Centre Hall. According to his obituary, he was the son of George and Ellen Walker.² However, I believe Jacob was the son of George and his first wife, Catharine.³

Jacob was a farmer and made his home in Pine Glen, Burnside Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. In 1854,⁴ he married Mary Eckley, daughter of John D. and Catharine (Walker) Eckley.⁵ Mary was born 8 July 1836, quite likely in Boggs Township, and died 18 July 1911 in Centre Hall of breast cancer. She was buried with her husband in the Reformed and Lutheran cemetery in Centre Hall.

Jacob and Mary had 10 children:

Susanna Walker (1856-1910) married Nicholas Vallimont
Victoria Walker (1858-1938) married Samuel T. Hoover
Henrietta Walker (1860-1862)
Benner Walker (1861-?) married Viola “Ollie” White
Jackson S. Walker (1863-1947) married Mary (___)
Simon C. Walker (1864-aft 1920) married Emma Bell (___)
Nancy Jane Walker (1867-1906) married Henry Lee Borger
Lucy Walker (1868-?) married John Eisele
William Walker (1872-aft 1930) married Hattie Malone
Ada Bell Walker (1874-1892)

Jacob and Mary (Eckley) Walker are my 3x great grandparents.

This post is part of an ongoing, blogging challenge entitled 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Crow of No Story Too Small. Participants must write about one ancestor every week. This is my seventeenth 52 Ancestors post and part of week twenty-seven.

52 Ancestors: Anna (Frantz) Hocker (1827-1918)

Kris Hocker on 24 Jun 2014

Anna (Frantz) Hocker, widow of Levi Hocker, died on 3 February 1918 in Pennsylvania.¹ Her death certificate began my research into her family.

What did I learn from this death certificate?

Anna died at 102 Tuscarora Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Anna was a widow.
Anna was born 13 September 1828.
Anna was 90 years, 3 months and 20 days old when she died.
Anna died 3 February 1918.
Anna died from a cerebral hemorrhage of 13 days duration.
Anna was born in Pennsylvania.
Anna’s father was named Michael Frantz.
Michael was born in Pennsylvania.
Anna’s mother was named Eliza Walters.
Eliza was born in Pennsylvania.
Anna was buried in Oberlin Cemetery on 7 February 1918.

Some of the information in this record is likely to be more reliable than the rest. Since this is her death record, information regarding her death was completed at or about the time of her death. If you look at #15 on the certificate, you will see that it was filed on 6 February 1918, 3 days after her death by D.H. Ellinger, the local registrar. This information is more likely to be accurate than secondhand information like her birth date. That’s not to say the secondhand data isn’t correct, just that it must be verified through other records.

Anna died at 102 Tuscarora Street, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

In this case, Anna died at the same address as that of the record’s informant: H. Hershey Hocker, who turns out to be Anna’s son. According to an article about her 88th birthday celebration, Anna had made her home with her son for several years.² As early as 1910, Hershey, Anna and Sarah, Hershey’s wife, were all living at 102 Tuscarora.³

The house was still standing as of June 2011 and can be seen on the “street view” at Google Maps.

Anna was a widow.

Her husband Levi Hocker had died 31 October 1876.⁴

Anna was born 13 September 1828.

According to her death certificate, Anna was born 13 September 1828. Her gravestone indicates that she was born in 1827. Two newspaper articles were written—one each for her 88th and 89th birthdays in 1915 and 1916, placing birth in 1827.⁵ Her age in census records is consistent with a late 1827 birthday. The 1900 census states she was born in September 1827.⁶ So, Hershey was only off by one year on his mother’s date of birth.

Anna was born in Pennsylvania.

Census records consistently state that Anna was born in Pennsylvania.

Anna’s father was named Michael Frantz; Michael was born in Pennsylvania.

According to the History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania by Luther Reily Kelker, “Anna, [wife of] Levi Hocker, deceased” was the daughter of Michael Frantz and his second wife Elizabeth Walters.⁷ Michael Frantz was born to Michael Frantz and Feronica Nissley in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania⁸ on 24 May 1789 [calculated] and died 5 June 1865.⁹ His death occurred four days before Anna gave birth to her youngest surviving son, Herbert Hershey Hocker.¹⁰ While, Hershey may not have known his maternal grandfather, I’m fairly certain he knew of him. Especially because…

Anna’s mother was named Elizabeth Walters.

In 1880, an Elizabeth Frantz, “mother,” was living in Anna Hocker’s household with Anna and some of her children—Francis Michael, Curtin, Maggie and Hershey—as was Maggie Frantz, “sister.”¹¹ Hershey was 14 years old at that time, so he certainly knew—and remembered—his maternal grandmother and Aunt Maggie.

Elizabeth’s gravestone in Churchville cemetery names her as “Elizabeth Walters wife of Michael Frantz.”¹²

Eliza was born in Pennsylvania.

Per the 1880 census, Elizabeth and her parents were all born in Pennsylvania.

All in all, Hershey only made a minor error in the information he provided for his mother’s death certificate and this information led me to additional information on Anna and her parents.

Summary

Anna Frantz, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth (Walters) Frantz, was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania—most likely on her father’s property near Oberlin. She married Levi Hocker on 6 February 1851 and the couple settled in Swatara Township where Levi was a farmer. Levi died in 1876, but Anna survived to the age of 90, dieing 3 February 1918 at her son Hershey’s home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Anna and Levi had 9 children:

Benjamin Franklin Hocker (1852-1919)
Francis Michael Hocker (1854-1919)
Mary Elizabeth Hocker Farnsler (1855-1939)
Emma L. Hocker Brinser (1857-1942)
George Warren Hocker (1858-1868)
Albert Curtin Hocker (1860-1940)
Margaret A. Hocker Hughes (1863-1957)
Herbert Hershey Hocker (1865-1946)
John Edward Hocker (1869-1873)

Anna and Levi were my 3x great grandparents.

This post is part of an ongoing, blogging challenge entitled 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, created by Amy Crow of No Story Too Small. Participants must write about one ancestor every week. This is my fifteenth 52 Ancestors post and part of week twenty-five.

Surname Saturday: My Ahnentafel List

Kris Hocker on 3 May 2014

I don’t believe I actually have a full list of my direct ancestors anywhere on my site. So, for Surname Saturday, I thought I’d do an ahnentafel report of my ancestral lines as I have them in my family database.

What’s an ahnentafel report? Here’s a definition from the Encyclopedia of Genealogy:

Ahnentafel: “Ahnentafel is a German word that literally translates as ‘ancestor table’. It is a list of all known ancestors of an individual and includes the full name of each ancestor as well as dates and places of birth, marriage, and death whenever possible.”¹

My Ahnentafel

Please consider this unproven information, unless otherwise documented on this site. There are sections where I’m still working on connections between generations. And since it’s unproven, I will be making revisions to this page, adding, deleting, etc.

I’ve added a line break between paternal and maternal lines to help distinguish between the two.

1. Me

Generation Two

2. Dad
3. Mom

Generation Three (Grandparents)

4. William H. Hocker Jr. (1918-2008)
5. Ruth Olive (Hoover) Hocker (1920-2016)

6. Russell R. Gruelich (1910-1999)
7. Mildred E. Wieder (1912-2002)

Generation Four (GG)

8. William H. Hocker Sr. (1890-1967)
9. Isabella Aitken Smith (1893-1962)
10. Clyde Leroy Hoover (1886-1972)
11. Nora Malinda Houdeshell (1891-1965)

12. Elmer Calvin Greulich (1880-1947)
13. Lillian Witmer Snyder (1879-1949)
14. Edwin J. Wieder (1880-1960)
15. Mary Catharine Waage (1877-1970)

Generation Five (2nd GG)

16. Albert Curtin Hocker (1860-1940)
17. Lillian Ainsley Leedy (1861-1942)
18. William Smith (1851-1905)
19. Eliza Craig Bonnington (1866-1946)
20. Samuel Thomas Hoover (1857-1930)
21. Victoria Walker (1859-1938)
22. George W. Houdeshell (1868-1941)
23. Lovina Caroline Force (1872-1964)

24. Karl “Charles” Phillip Greulich (1838-1904)
25. Caroline Krauss Wolf (1945-1915)
26. Henry Deischer Snyder (1859-1931)
27. Saraphine Kline Witmer (1861-1938)
28. Emanuel John Wieder (1855-1929)
29. Alavesta Esther Dillinger (1857-1923)
30. Dr. Charles Theodore Waage (1827-1921)
31. Lydia S. Eshbach (1845-1910)

Generation Six (3rd GG)

32. Levi Hocker (1824-1876)
33. Anna Frantz (1828-1918)
34. Samuel Krehl Leedy (1829-1912)
35. Sarah Parsons (1833-c1920)
36. James Smith (1812-1856)
37. Isabella Aitken (1816-1856)
38. Peter Purvis Bonnington (c1844-1891)
39. Elizabeth Buchanan (c1844-1928)
40. Christian Hoover (c1825-1887)
41. Caroline Kinnard (c1830-1877)
42. Jacob C. Walker (1833-1915)
43. Mary M. Eckley (1836-1911)
44. James Benjamin Houdeshell (1842-1926)
45. Phoebe Mayes (1846-1921)
46. Jefferson Force (1833-1910)
47. Susan Mulhollan (1841-1917)

48. George Philip Greulich (1784-1855)
49. Anna Margaretha Wurzel (1797-1854)
50. Joel Wolf (1810-1895)
51. Elizabeth Krauss (1814-1900)
52. Joseph Snyder (1826-1895)
53. Judith Deysher (1830-1906)
54. Edward Jones Witmer (1833-1912)
55. Lydia Amanda Kline (1836-1926)
56. Saulus Wieder (1813-1888)
57. Anna Mechling (1815-1907)
58. William Dillinger (1825-1896)
59. Helena Person (1829-1894)
60. Rev. Caius Frederic “Guy Frederick” Sophus Waage (1797-1884)
61. Angelina Garber (1806-1897)
62. Henry Moyer Eshbach (1807-1872)
63. Catherine Lydia Bobb (1808-1859)

Generation Seven (4th GG)

64. George Hocker (1794-1873)
65. Mary Magdalena “Molly” Landis (1800-1825)
66. Michael Frantz Jr. (1789-1865)
67. Elizabeth Walters (1800-1882)
68. John Harbaugh Leedy (1797-1888)
69. Catharine Krehl (1798-1870)
70. Anthony Parsons (1793-1834)
71. Catharine Bowerman (ca 1808-bef 1842)
72. Thomas Smith (?-bef. 1856)
73. Agnes Nimmo (?-bef 1856)
74. William Aitken (c1781/2-1854)
75. Marian Brown (c1782-bef 1856)
76. William Bonnington (c1816-1885)
77. Margaret Purves (c1821-bet 1844-1847)
78. James Buchanan (c1812/22-1888)
79. Sarah Craig (c1809-bet 1851-1861)
80. Philip Hoover (1802-1882)
81. Hannah Thomas (1802-1880)
82. Thomas Kinnard (1798-c1857)
83. Maria Fisher (c1808-c1865)
84. George M. Walker (1805-1891)
85. Catharine Walker (1808-c1846)
86. John D. Eckley (c1807-1890)
87. Catharine Walker (c1818-1846)
88. Adam Howdyshell (c1787/91-aft 1880)
89. Mary Sine (c1800/02-bef 1880)
90. John Mayes Jr. (c1814-1895)
91. Mary Ann Walker (1811-1888)
92. Unknown Force (?-bef. 1850)
93. Unknown (?-bef 1850)
94. John Mulhollan (1800-1860)
95. Emily Boileau (1805-1842)

96. Johan Adam Greulich (1751-1808)
97. Maria Katharine Wilhelm (1758-1832)
98. Johann Georg Wurzel
99. Anna Elizabeth Zimmerman
100. Jacob Wolf (1787-1868)
101. Magdalena Brey (1788-1852)
102. George Krauss (1783-1844)
103. Christina Schultz (1787-1877)
104. Henry Schneider (1792-1860)
105. Sarah Wissler (1799-1852)
106. Peter Deischer (1793-1861)
107. Anna Maria Trump (1791-1874)
108. John Witmer (1811-1885)
109. Rachel Jones (1809-1897)
110. Philip Kline (1799-1877)
111. Lydia Markley (1806-1890)
112. Johan Adam Wieder (1782-1858)
113. Anna Christina Strassburger (11 Dec 1785-26 Jan 1823)
114. John Jarret Mechling (1778-1856)
115. Anna Margaret Oberley (1776-1866)
116. William Dillinger (1793-1854)
117. Elizabeth Diess (1805-1883)
118. Abraham Person (1797-1876)
119. Esther Schneider (1801-1867)
120. Claus Heinrich Waage (?-ca 1811)
121. Catharina Dorothea Hoffmeister
122. Benjamin Garber (1769-1818)
123. Hannah Reiner (1774-aft 1860)
124. Christian Eshbach (1766-1838)
125. Veronica Francis Moyer (1777-1838)
126. Daniel Bobb (1780-1866)
127. Anna Margaret Herb (1783-1865)

Generation Eight (5th GG)

128. Johan Adam Hacker (1764-c1821)
129. Sophia Maria [Hershey?] (1769-c1739)
130. Henry Landis Jr. (1764-1824)
131. Catharine Baum (?-bef 1823)
132. Michael Frantz (c1742-c1797)
133. Feronica “Fannie” Nissley (1759-1813
134. Jacob Walters (bef 1775-1840)
135. Anna [Stauffer?] (1775-1845)
136. Samuel Leedy (c1773-c1833)
137. Catharine (___) (c1774-bef 1820)
138. Johan Michael Krehl (1763-1818)
139. Wilhelmina Stehley (c1780-1853)
140. James Parsons
141. Elizabeth [Steele?]
152. Robert Bonnington (c1780-1821)
153. Agnes Inglis (c1794-bet 1851-1857)
156. John Buchanan (?-bef 1851)
157. Mary Irvine/Erwin (c1795-bet 1851-1861)
160. Christian Hoover (1776-1850)
161. Maria Barbara Harmon (1773-1870)
162. John Thomas (c1766-c1839)
163. Margaretta Mackin (?_bef 1839)
164. Thomas Kinnard (c1770-aft 1830)
165. Ann “Nancy” Lee (c1775-?)
~~166. William Fisher~~
~~167. Elizabeth Rambach~~
168. Jacob Walker (c1770-1833)
169. Margaret McElwain (c1770-aft 1833)
170. Andrew Walker (1769-1857) [also #182, #348]
171. Catharine Margaret Fetzer (1775-1850) [also #183, #349]
172. Unknown Eckley
173. Unknown
174. John Walker (ca 1769-1864)
175. Mary Lucas (1799-ca 1802)
176. Laurence Howdershell (c1759-aft 1850)
177. Susanna Rader (c1761-?)
178. Adam Sine
179. Catharina Howdershell (c1783-?)
180. John Mayes (c1786-1851)
181. Elizabeth (___) (c1784-aft 1850)
182. Andrew Walker [also #170]
183. Catherine Margaret Fetzer [see #171]
188. Rudolph Mulhollan (c1776/80-1855)
189. Mary Werham (c1770-1844)
190. Daniel Boileau (1772-1840)
191. Mary [Robertson?] (1775-1863)

192. Hans Adam Greulich (1721-1797)
193. Anna Elisabeth Gerich (1728-1758)
200. Conrad Wolf (c1760-?)
201. Catharina Yeakel (1761-?)
202. Conrad Brey (1740-1827)
203. Maria Magdalena Klein (1749-1834)
204. Balthasar Krauss (1743-1805)
205. Susanna Yeakel (1744-1820)
206. Andrew Schultz (1753-1802)
207. Charlotte Yeakel (1750-1825)
208. Jacob Schneider (c1756/65-c1829)
209. Catharina Nuss (c1776/84-aft 1829)
210. Godfried Wißler (c1757-c1829)
211. Eva Catharina Weiss (1759-aft fall 1815)
212. Daniel Deischer (c1758-bet 1810-1820)
213. Catharine Rein (c1756/65-aft 1810)
214. Johann Adam Trump (1758-1828)
215. Barbara (___) (1759-1816)
216. Jacob Witmer (1786-1861)
217. Susanna Baum (1789-1867)
218. Henry Jones (1776-1854)
219. Martha Bartleson (?-bef 1830)
220. Johan Jacob Kline (1754-1847)
221. Eva Elisabetha Heilig (1762-1846)
222. Daniel Markley (ca 1775-1823)
223. Hannah Hertzel (1777-1852)
224. Johan Adam Wieder Jr. (1750-1825)
225. Christina Dut (1757-1836)
226. Johan Andreas Strassburger (1754-1825)
227. Eva Yeager (1754-1835)
228. Thomas Mechling (1751-1785)
229. Katharine Welsh/Walsh (1754-1830)
230. John Oberley (1746-1805)
231. Elizabetha Uhler (1751-1831)
232. Johan Henry Dillinger (1767-1939)
233. Anna Maria Ochs (c1776-aft 1850)
234. Jacob Diess (1779-1862)
235. Maria Eva Ortt (1784-1864)
236. Unknown Person
237. Unknown
238. Jacob Schneider (1778-1860)
239. Anna Maria Shaffer (1780-1863)
244. Benedict Garber (1732-1817)
245. Dorothea Loreht (1733-1807)
246. Unknown Reiner
247. Unknown
248. Christian Eshbach (1737-1809)
249. Catharine Stauffer (1743-1789)
250. Christian Moyer/Meyer (1755-1826)
251. Anna Frances Bauer (1757-1809)
252. Daniel Bobb (1747-1833)
253. Maria Catharine Gilbert (1755-1840)
254. Abraham Herb (?-c1813)
255. Anna Sibilla Fuchs (1757-1848)

Generation Nine (6th GG)

256. Johan Adam Hacker (1727-1782)
257. Maria Elisabetha Weidman (1733-aft 1790)
260. Henry Landis (1736-1785)
261. Anna Poorman (1745-1818)
262. Johann Philip Baum (ca 1718-ca 1793)
263. Anna Barbara Klem (?-ca 1821)
264. Johannes “Hans” Frantz (bef 1721-1787)
265. Catharine (___)
266. John Nissley (c1722-1789)
267. Maria Seegrist/Sechrist (c1720-c1784)
268. Jacob Walter (ca 1718-ca 1798)
272. Jacob Leedy (1738-1806)
273. Elizabeth Hauff
276. Michael Krehl (c1737-1788)
277. Margaret (___)
278. Jacob Stehley (?-1793)
279. Elizabeth (Kettering?) (?-aft 1800) [maybe 2nd wife?]
282. ?? Anthony Steel
283. ?? Mary (___) Steel
284. Johannes Bowerman (1761-1835)
285. Anna Elizabeth (___) Bowerman
286. Peter Schott (1762-1833)
287. Catharina Magdalena Fritz (1769-1855)
320. George Hoover (c1730/40-1813)
321. Eva Elizabetha (___) (?-aft 1790)
322. Christian Harmon
323. Christina Magdalena Lenhart
324. Garret Thomas (1732-ca 1797)
325. Maria Magdalena (___) (?-aft Jun 1803)
328. Jacob Kinnard (ca 1740-?)
330. Capt. James Lee (1747-1790)
331. Susanna Winemore (?-1790)
~~332. Adam Fisher~~
~~333. Margaret Meckler Hankey/Hanke~~
342. Andrew Fetzer (?-1804) [also #366]
343. Magdalena Dotterer (1748-1804) [also #367]
348. Andrew Walker [also #170]
349. Catherine Margaret Fetzer [also #171]
350. Charles Lucas (1768-1854)
351. Nancy McCalmont
352. Johann Michael Howdershell (1729-1813) [also #716]
353. Maria Dorothea Seitel [also #717]
354. Adam Rader (1725-1783)
355. Mary Margaret Zimmerman (1727-1795)
356. Unknown Sine
357. Unknown
358. Michael Houdeshell (1760-1832)
359. Barbara Rader (1766-?)
360. Thomas Mayes (1753-1827)
366. Andrew Fetzer [also #342]
367. Magdalena Dotterer [also #343]

384. Georg Greulich
386. Hans Philipp Gerich (1692-1737)
387. Maria Catharina Jacob (1699-1754)
400. Johan Conrad Wolf
401. [Maria Elisabetha?]
402. Jeremias Yeakel (1713-1763) [also #414]
403. Unknown Wolf [also #415]
404. Johann Georg Brey (1712-ca 1793)
405. Maria Catharina (___) (?-ca 1791)
406. Johan Michael Klein (1716-1798) [also #440]
407. Anna Maria Catharina Kuntz (1730-1786) [also #441]
408. Balthasar Krauss (1706-1774)
409. Susanna Hoffman (1708-1791)
410. Johannes Heinrich Yeakel (1708-1781)
411. Susanna Heydrick (1710-1793)
412. Rev. Christopher Schultz (1718-1789)
413. Rosina Yeakel (1721-1800)
414. Jeremias Yeakel [see #402]
415. Unknown Wolf [see #403]
416. Elias Schneider (1733-1779)
417. Anna Maria Nuss (1740-aft 1782)
418. Conrad Nuss (1743-1808)
419. Anna Margaretha Roeder (1745-?)
420. Jacob Wisler (ca 1725-ca 1806)
421. Esther (___)
422. Hans Erhardt Weiss (c1722-1777)
423. Susanna Huth (c1727-aft 1782)
424. Jacob Deischer (c1730-1804)
425. Anna Siegfried (ca 1735-c1803)
426. ?? Rein
427. ?? (___) Rein
428. Johann Adam Trump (1722-ca 1802)
429. Anna Maria Weitzel (ca 1733-ca 1794)
432. Jacob Witmer
434. Michael Baum
435. Catharine (___)
436. Edward Jones (1737-1823)
437. Rachel Lewis (1748-1826)
440. Johan Michael Klein [also #406]
441. Anna Maria Catharina Kuntz [see #407]
442. George Heilig (1732-1796)
443. Elisabetha Barbara [Mueller?]
446. Jacob Hertzel (ca 1734-1807)
447. Catharine Hartzell (aft 1732-?)
448. Johan Adam Wieder (1721-1798)
449. Anna Margaretha (___) (c1723-?) or Maria Wayet?
450. Johann George Dut (1723-1790)
451. Barbara (___)
452. Johan Andreas Strassburger (1716-?)
453. Catherina Rosina Kolb (?-1771)
454. John Jäger (1721-1796)
455. Eva Elizabeth Schneider (1728-1804)
456. Theobald Mechling (bef 1728-1765)
457. Anna Elisabeth Lauer
458. Johannes Wilhelm Welsh (1719-1805)
459. Maria Elizabetha Neighbor [Nachbar]
460. Johan Rudolph Oberley (1712-c1780)
461. Margaretha (___) Oberley
462. Valentine Uhler (1714-1768)
463. Maria Magdalena (___) Uhler
464. John Georg Dillinger (bef 1740-aft 1787)
465. Eva Christina (___) Dillinger
466. Mathias Ochs Jr. (c1743-aft 1790)
467. Anna Rosina Schwenk (1751-1778)
468. Peter Deiss (1753-1786)
469. Elizabeth Stahlnecker (1757-1835)
470. Johannes Ortt (1749-1798)
471. Maria Rosina Fischer (1750-1839)
476. David Schneider (bef 1757-1785)
477. Esther (___) Schneider
478. ? William Shaeffer (?-1807)
479. ? Magdalena (___) Shaeffer
488. Henry Garber (c1700-1740/1)
489. Anna Catharine (___) Garber
498. Daniel Stauffer (1697-aft 1763) [see #1010]
499. Maria Catherine Merckel [see #1011]
500. Rev. Peter Moyer (1723-1793)
501. ? Magdalena Clemmer
502. Michael Bauer (1718-1784)
503. Veronica Landis (1733-1823)
504. Johan Conrad Bobb (c1715-1760)
505. Elizabeth Stauffer (c1715-1774)
506. Johan Bernhard Gilbert (c1730-1798)
507. Maria Elizabeth Meyer
508. Abraham Herb (1719-1779)
509. Gertraut (___) Herb
510. Johan Adam Fuchs (1716-1797)
511. Anna Margaretha [Roemelt?]

Generation Ten (7th GG)

512. Christoph Hacker (1697-c1775)
513. Anna Margaretha Jock (1696-c1773)
514. Martin Weidman (1712-c1768)
515. Anna Margaretha Still (1703-aft 1766)
520. Felix Landis Jr. (1708-1770)
521. Catharine Loban (1708-c1747)
522. Stephen Poorman (1714-ca 1782)
523. Anna (___) Poorman
532. Hans Nissley (bef 1676-bef 1747)
533. ? Feronica Good
534. Michael Sechrist (1695-1750)
535. Anna (___) Sechrist
544. Johannes Marte Lidi (c1715-1761)
545. Maria Elizabeth (___) Lidi
556. Ulrich Stehley (1700-1766)
557. Anna (___) Stehley (ca 1705-1771)
572. Ludwig Schott (1712-1788)
573. Anna Barbara Laur[in?] (1734-1795)
574. George Henry Fritz
575. Elizabeth (___) Fritz
640. Michael Huber (bef 1714-1789)
644. ??Johann Georg Harmon
645. ?? Catharina Schuler
646. ?? Johann Peter Lenhart (1708-1774)
647. ?? Maria Margaretha (___)
660. John Lees (1721-1776)
662. Philip Winemore (1714-1783)
663. Anna Barbara Jantzen (1718-1810)
~~664. Adam Fisher~~
686. Matthias Dotterer (1717-?) [also #1398]
687. Anna Catharine Roth (1710-?) [also #1399]
698. Andrew Fetzer [also #342]
699. Magdalena Dotterer [also #343]
700. Benedict Lucas (1733-1826)
701. Mary McKibben
704. Hans Michael Haudenschild [also #1432]
705. Anna Margaretha Ruch [also #1433]
706. John Seitel [also #1434]
707. Barbara Dreher [also #1435]
708. Johann Adam Rader (1706-1773) [also #2872]
709. Anna Barbara Bender (1708-1773) [also #2873]
716. Johan Michael Howdershell [see #352]
717. Maria Dorothea Seitel [see #353]
718. Adam Rader
719. Clara Riddle
734. Mathias Dotterer [also #686]
735. Anna Catharina Roth [also #687]

772. Hans Jacob Gerich (1652-1724)
773. Magdalena Zimmerman (1646-1724)
774. Hans Jorg Jacob (1660-1739)
775. Maria Eva Seyfridt (1669-1737)
804. David Yeakel (c1659-?) [also #820, #828]
805. Susanna Heydrick [also #821, #829]
812. Johann Jacob Klein (c1690-?) [also #880]
813. Anna Catharine (___) (c1692-?) [also #881]
814. Johan Jacob Kuntz (1692-1754) [also #882]
815. Anna Margaret Pfalsgraff [also #883]
816. Melchoir Krauss (?-1733)
817. Anna Heidrig (c1675-1755)
818. George Hoffman
819. Barbara Seipt
820. David Yeakel [also #804, 828]
821. Susanna Heydrick [see #805, 829]
822. Melchoir Heydrick
823. Barbara (___)
824. Melchoir Schultz (?-1734)
825. Susanna Kriebel (?-1732)
826. Balthasar Yeakel (?-1738)
827. Regina John (?-1747)
828. David Yeakel [also #804, 820]
829. Susanna Heydrick [also #805, 821]
832. Johann Conrad Schneider (1699-1759)
833. Eva Catharina Betz (1701-1779)
834. Jacob Nuss (1716-1757) [see #836]
835. Anna Maria Reiher (1712-?) [see #836]
836. Jacob Nuss (1716-1757) [see #834]
837. Anna Maria Reiher (1712-?) [see #835]
838. Johann Michael Roeder (1714-1789)
839. Maria Susanna Zimmerman (1712-1749)
840. Jacob Wißler (1695-1752)
841. Magdalena (___) (ca 1698-1784)
844. Johann Georg Weiß (ca 1701-1743)
845. Maria Anna Catharina Klein
846. Johannes Huth (c1680-1759)
847. Maria Anna Sähm
848. Johannes Deischer (c1684-c1761)
849. Anna Barbara (___) (c1684-ca 1761)
850. Johannes Siegfried (1690-1747)
851. Anna Elisabetha Seves (1697-1767)
856. Johannes Adam Trump (1695-1732)
857. Ursula Ossell (1692-1760)
858. Johann Jacob Wetzel (1695-1774)
872. John Jones (1716-1758)
873. Mary West (1715-1815)
874. Henry Lewis (?-1797)
875. Margaret James (?-1798)
880. Johann Jacob Klein [also #812]
881. Anna Catharine (___) [also #813]
882. Johan Jacob Kuntz [also #814]
883. Anna Margaret Pfalsgraff [also #815]
884. Johann Heinrich Heilig (c1700-1775)
885. Susanna Rittenhouse (1698-1769)
886. Georg Müller
892. Ulrich Hertzel (1705-1771)
893. Anna Margaret (___) Hertzel
894. Jorg Henrich Hertzel (1715-1784)
895. Margaretha (___) Hertzel
900. David Dut (c1700-?)
901. Catharine Muller (c1697-?)
904. Johan Ulrich Strassburger
905. Maria Elisabeth Flicken
910. Johann Adam Schneider (ca 1696-ca 1746)
911. Anna Elisabetha Klein
914. Johann Peter Lauer (ca 1680-1754)
915. Anna Margaretha (___) (ca 1680-aft 1754)
918. Leonard Neighbor [Nachbar]
928. Henrich William Dillinger (c1680-bef 1728) [also #1870]
932. Matthias Ochs (bef 1700-?)
933. Anna Maria (___)
934. Johann Martin Schwenk
935. Anna Maria Dillinger
938. George Stahlnecker (c1718-1786)
939. Anna Maria Elisabetha Ohlwein (c1726-?)
940. [Johannes Ortt? (?-1785)]
941. [Sabina (___)?]
942. Christian Fischer (?-1779)
943. Maria Magdalena Gebbhardt
952. Jacob Schneider (?–bef 18 May 1785)
953. Maria (___) Schneider
976. [Jacob Gerber?]
996. Johannes “Hans” Stauffer (1655-1740) [also #2020]
997. Kinget Kungold Hiestand (1658-?) [also #2021]
~~998. Johann Christian Merckel (ca 1678-1766)~~
998. Balthsara Merckle (1660-?) [see #2022]
999. Anna Catharina [Bender?] (?-bef 1749)
999. Veronica (___) ??
999. Elisabetha (___) Merckle ?? [see #2023]
1004. Hans Bauer (1670-bef. 1749)
1005. Anna Willener (1677-?)
1006. Johannes Landis (1690-1747)
1007. Ann Musselman (1695-1748)
1010. Daniel Stauffer [also #498]
1011. Catherine [Merckel?] [also #499]
1012. Johann Jurg Gilbert (1698-ca 1753)
1013. Anna Elisabetha Gruber
1014. Frederick Meyer
1015. Julianna Catharine (___)
1016. Jacob Fuchs
1017. Maria Catharina (___)

Generation Eleven (8th GG)

1024. Johan Stephen Hacker (c1646-1702)
1025. Anna Maria (___)
1026. Hans Theobald Jock (1659-1708)
1027. Margaretha Hausser/Häusler (1669-1715)
1028. Matthias Martin Weidman (1677-1743)
1029. Anna Catharina Scholl (1678-1723)
1030. Heinrich Still
1031. Anna Barbara Munck (1664-1706)
1040. Felix Landis (c1677-1739)
1041. Rosina Weltner (?-aft 1739)
1044. Johann Georg Böhrman (ca 1665-ca 1746)
1064. Hans Nüssli
1065. Anna Bär (1639-?)
1068. Bartholomew Sechrist
1069. Barbara (___)
1372. Johann Michael Dotterer (1682-1756) [also #1468, #2796]
1373. Margaretha (___) [also #1469, #2786]
1398. Matthias Dotterer [also #686]
1399. Anna Catharina Roth [also #687]
1416. Johann Adam Roeder (1669-1721) [also, #1676, 5744]
1417. Anna Katharine Tauber (1670-1751) [also #1677, #5745]
1418. Mathias Bender (ca 1678-1744) [also #5746]
1419. Anna Catharina [Voltz?] (ca 1690-1764) [also #5747]
1432. Hans Michael Haudenschild [also #704]
1433. Anna Margaretha Ruch [also #705]
1434. John Seitel [also #706]
1435. Barbara Dreiher [also #707]
1436. Mathias Rader (1726-1789)
1437. Jessie Bender (ca 1728-1815)
1438. [Cornelius Riddle?]
1439. [Ingabo Allen?]
1468. Johannes Michael Dotterer [also #1372, #2796]
1469. Margaretha (___) [also #1373, #2787

1544. Hans Gerich
1546. Hans Zimmerman
1550. Hans Philipp Seyfridt
1551. Maria Zimmerman
1628. Johann Georg Kuntz (1658-1710) [also #1764]
1629. Anna Catharine Müller (1658-?) [also #1765]
1630. Johann Jacob Pfalsgraff [also #1766]
1631. Margaretha (___) [also #1767]
1634. Melchior Heidrig
1649. Anna (___) Schultz
1650. Casper Kriebel
1664. Johann Conrad Schneider (1679-?)
1665. Catharina (___) Schneider
1666. Johann Sebastian Betz (1663-1733)
1667. Maria Margaretha Barbara Langer [Loinger] (1666-1716)
1670. Johann Michael Reiher (1686-1772) [see #1674]
1671. Anna Maria Seeland (?-1742) [see #1675]
1674. Johann Michael Reiher (1686-1772) [see #1670]
1675. Anna Maria Seeland (?-1742) [see #1671]
1676. Johann Adam Roeder [also #1416, #5744]
1677. Anna Katharine Tauber [also #1417, #5745]
1678. Andreas Zimmerman (1680-1733)
1679. Anna Elisabetha Müller (1672-1740)
1692. Johannes Huth
1693. Hans Jacob Sähm
1716. Conrad Weitzel
1717. Margaretha (___) Weitzel
1744. [?] Jones (?-bef 1727)
1745. Margaret Clayton (?-ca 1727)
1746. Nathaniel West (ca 1683-1749)
1747. Elizabeth (___) West
1748. Morris Lewis
1749. Dorothy (___) Lewis
1750. William James (ca 1692-bef 1778)
1751. Mary Evans (?-1765)
1764. Johann Georg Kuntz [also #1628]
1765. Anna Catharine Müller [also #1629]
1766. Johann Jacob Pfalsgraff [also #1630]
1767. Margaretha (___) Pfalsgraff [also #1631]
1770. Nicholas Rittenhouse (1666-1734)
1771. Wilhelmina Pietre Dewees (1673-1737)
1784. Clemens Hirtzel (1659-1707)
1785. Anna Sinter (1664-1738)
1788. Paulus Hirtzel (1677-1745)
1789. Anna Catharina Wagner
1868. Peter Schwenk (1690-1753)
1869. Anna Barbara (___) Schwenk
1870. Heinrich William Dillinger (ca 1680-bef 1770) [also #928]
1886. Justina (___) Gebbhart
1904. Heinrich Schneider (aka Taylor)
1905. Elizabeth (___) Schneider
1992. Hans Stauffer [see #4040]
1993. Madlena Neuenschwander [see #4041]
1994. Hans Hiestand [see #4042]
1995. Regula Aeshmann [see #4043]
1996. Jürg Merckle [see #4044]
1997. Eva Moser [see #4045]
~~1998. Johannes [Bender?]~~
2012. Jacob Landis (1667-1730)
2013. Anna Witmer
2014. Michael Musselman (1674-1726)
2020. Johannes “Hans” Stauffer [also #996]
2021. Kinget Kungold Hiestand [also #997]
2022. Balthasar Merckle (1660-?) [see #998]
2023. Elisabetha (___) Merckle [see #999]
2024. Johann Jacob Gilbert (?-1744)

Generation Twelve (9th GG)

2052. Hans Andreas Jock (1627-1693)
2054. Andrew Häuszler (c1630-?)
2056. Hans Peter Weidman (c1648-1692)
2057. Elisabetha Cammerer (1653-1704)
2058. Johann Matthaeus Scholl (1636-1682)
2059. Eva Meinzer (c1640-1692)
2062. Christoph Munck
2063. Anna Christina Weidman (c1642-aft 1686)
2080. Hans Jakob Landis [?] [also #4024]
2130. Oswald Bär (bef 1614-aft 1679)
2131. Elisabeth Lamprecht (ca 1617-ca 1662)
2744. Hans Dotterer (1649-1686) [also #2936]
2745. Anna Simoes [also #2937]
2786. Johannes Michael Dotterer [also #1372, #1468]
2787. Margaretha (___) [also #1373, #1469]
2832. Johann Adam Rader (1645-1722) [also 3352]
2833. Anna Maria Bender (1644-1723) [also #3353]
2872. Johann Adam Rader (1706-1773) [also #708, 3351]
2873. Anna Barbara Bender (1708-1773) [also #709, 3352]
2936. Hans Dotterer (1649-1686) [also #2744]
2937. Anna Simoes [also #2745]

3332. Hans Wolfgang Betz (1636-1694)
3333. Anna Ursula Heittelin (1640-?)
3334. Johann Leonhardt Langer [Loinger]
3340. Johann Michel Reyer [see #3348]
3341. Anna Catharine (___) Reyer [see #3349]
3342. Deitrich Seeland [see #3350]
3343. Amalia Maria (___) Seeland [see #3351]
3348. Johann Michael Reyer [see #3340]
3349. Anna Catharine (___) Reyer [see #3341]
3350. Dietrich Seeland [see #3342]
3351. Amalia Maria (___) Seeland [see #3343]
3352. Johann Adam Rader [also #2832]
3353. Anna Maria Bender [also #2833]
3356. Georg Zimmerman
3358. Hans Wolff Müller
3359. Catharine (___)
3490. Richard Clayton [Cleaton] (1645-1705)
3491. Elizabetha Bennett (1647-?)
3492. Nathaniel West Jr. (1648-1697)
3493. Elizabeth Dungan (1666-1699)
3500. John James
3501. Elizabeth (__) James
3540. Willem Rittenhouse (1644-1708)
3541. Gertruid Kersten Pieters (1646-1708)
3568. Heinrich Hirzel (1619-1663) [see also #7152]
3569. Maria Steiner (1625-?) [see also #7153]
3570. Hans Sinter
3571. Margaretha Nayer
3576. Johann Heinrich Hirtzel (1652-1716)
3577. Margaretha Rudi (1649-1694)
3578. Georg Wagner
3984. Christian Stauffer [see #8080]
3985. Adelheid Opliger [see #8081]
3986. Michel Neuenschwander [see #8082]
3987. Verena Haslibach [see #8083]
4024. Hans Jakob Landis [also #2080]
4040. Hans Stauffer [see #1992]
4041. Madlena Neuenschwander [see #1993]
4042. Hans Hiestand [see #1994]
4043. Regula Aeshmann [see #1995]
4044. Jürg Merckle [see #1996]
4045. Eva Moser [see #1997]

Generation Thirteen (10th GG)

4112. Hans Weidman (c1618—1664-1674) [also #4127]
4113. Anna Margaretha (___) (1617-aft 1675) [also #4128]
4114. Antoni Cammerer (c1626-1689)
4115. Anna Sidonia (___) (?-1703)
4116. Jost Scholl (c1610-1662)
4117. Barbara Dieterich (c1614-1684)
4118. Johann Andreas Meinzer (c1595-1674)
4119. Margaretha (___) (c1603-1663)
4126. Hans Weidman [also #4112]
4127. Anna Margaretha (___) [also #4113]
4260. Hans Bär (ca 1570-1617)
4261. Anna Biedermann (ca 1575-1618)
4262. Felix Lamprecht
4263. Barbara Meili
5592. Hans Dotterer [also #2744]
5593. Anna Simoes [also #2745]
5744. Johann Adam Roeder [also #1676]
5745. Anna Katharine Tauber [also #1677]
5746. Mathias Bender [also #1418]
5747. Anna Catharina [Voltz?] [also #1419]

6664. George Betz (1595-1674)
6665. Eva Ottilia Schweicker (1590-1666)
6666. George Heittelin
6982. Edward Bennett (1616-1667)
6983. Anna Tillsley (1624-1674)
6984. Nathaniel West (?-1658)
6986. Rev. Thomas Dungan (1634/35-1687)
6987. Elizabeth Weaver (1647-1697)
7144. Jacob Hirzel (1580-1634)[see also #14304]
7145. Madalen Keller (1581-?) [see also #14305]
7152. Heinrich Hirzel (1619-1663) [see also #3568]
7153. Maria Steiner (1625-?) [see also #3569]
8080. Christian Stauffer
8081. Adelheid Opliger
8082. Michel Neuenschwander
8083. Verena Haslibach

Generation Fourteen (11th GG)

8520. Hans Bär (ca 1545-bef 1614)
8521. Kathrina Huber (ca 1549-1622)
11488. Johann Adam Roeder [also #2832]
11489. Anna Maria Bender [also #2833]

13328. Hans Betz
13330. Casper Schweicker
13966. John Tilsley (1590-1640)
13967. Elinor (___) Tilsley (1592-1663)
13968. Matthew West (ca 1598-ca 1676)
13972. William Dungan (ca 1600-1636)
13973. Francis Latham (1608/9-1677)
13974. Clement Weaver (1625-1683)
13975. Mary Freeborn (1626-?)
14304. Jacob Hirzel (1580-1634)[see also #7144]
14305. Madalen Keller (1581-?) [see also #7145]

Generation Fifteen (12th GG)

[none]

27932. Ralph Tillsley (?-1602)
27944. ? Thomas Dungan (?-1604)
27945. ? Mary (___)
27946. Lewis Latham (?-1655)
27947. Elizabeth (___) Latham
27948. Clement Weaver (1591-1683)
27949. Rebecca Holbrook (1597-1635)
27950. William Freeborn (1594-1670)
27951. Mary Wilson (ca 1601-1670)

Generation Sixteen (13th GG)