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Continued from page 5 3.- Berks country wills- for .Iacob Yoder, Will made 2/14/1843, proved 7/23/1844. 4.- Lancaster County Wills, ,fohannes Sh:rllenberger, written 1812, filed l8l,l. 5.- Lancaster County Wills, ,f ohn Rupp, written 1783, filed 178,1. 6.- The Three Zus Brothers of 1742 Paul V. Hostetler, , page 6 7.- lbid, page 63-63 (Blanks land was later taken over by his son-inlaw Joseph Hochstetler in 1770 when Blank moved to Salisbury Twp, in Llncaster County.)(NOTE: Another interesting point about these families is that one Peter Zimmerman, believed son-in-law of Christian Deppen of Heidelberg twp., Anglicized his name to Peter Carpenter and moved to NC in the mid 1700s ...along with a nrrmber of Swiss immigrants of Mennonite connections. This southern movement is one which is familiar to Yoders, and the reason we have a Conrad Yoder line of descent throughout North Carolina lnd the South today. At the same time two of Conrad's sons nroved to Clark County, lN--- Kauffmanns, Carpenters and others also nroved there from North Carolina.) 8. - Berks County recorder of deeds, Deed Book 27 ptge 276 dated 22 March 1763 9,- Pennsylvania Archives, Tax Lists. 10.- Berks County Wills, Jacob Yoder- 26 Jnn 18l5 Will book 7-369, and Estate settlement, 1815. ll.- Berks County Recorder ofDeeds, Prtcnt Il-12 page 599- 20 I{lr 1815. 12.- Berks County Reg. of Wills, Barbnra Yoder- l5 Sep 1822 Admin Book 8-472, and Inventory. 13.- AAMG- family MS3292- page327. ,14.- Pennsvlvania German Pioneers..., by Strassbtrrger, ed' Wm. John Hinke (Norristown,Pa.; Pa. German Society, l9J4) '15.- @, 1971 bY Karl 'loder and Ottmar Jotter. 16.- AAMG page 215. 17.- The Three Zug (Zook) Brothers... , page 203. 18.- fi.gcherches Hist@ par (--harles Mathiot and Roger Boigeol, 1969, YODER ARCHIVES UPDATE!-32 new Files and growth in size from 2.7 mb to 4. I mbl--Thanks to the help of Diana Peterson, Tim Conrad, Dave Yoder, Fred Haines, Marli Yoder, Richard B. Yoder, Dorothy Coffman. New files include: Yoder Censuses from 1860 & 1880 Pa' 1880 Ind.; Yoder Newsletter text from lssues l-28; Cemetery records from Howerters & Medina County; a new file of French Joder research; n variety of Oley related records; and translated text from the European research of Karl Joder and Ottmar Jotter. Download these FREE from our homepnge, or order disk: Chris Yoder'203 Lrkeshire Rd. Battle Creek. MI 49015 ($6-three disks set) tinued from page one *{8{xss{axx**{*{*t{**{x{*t*{*t{*f He writes of Melchior's son Jacob: " Jacob had taken a great interest in getting up subscriptions to rebuild St. Peter's or Seiber's church, near Globe Mills. He subscribed and paid $12 for material for the church. In a few years he left there with his family, and moved to Greene county, in the southwestern portion of the State. He had nine children- John, William, George, Elizabeth, Daniel, Joseph, Malan, Lindsay and Jacob. The descendants of these sons are scattered over Greene and Washington counties. John, the oldest son, went to Ohio; William also went there. One of his sons married Elizabeth Marsteller, The descendants in Greene and Washington counties, of Jacob Yoder, numbered about 40; and these have married and increased in number considerably." MELCHIOR YODER NOTES: The George Yoder notes on Nlelchior are a bit confusing, and suspect in several respects, but provide an interesting bit of "oral tradition" which seems based in part on his correspondence with family members, "l have a history of Freesburg charge in my possession. That charge is composed of six churches and all are Union churches which were built *xx over a hundred years ago. The constitution for the government of the different congregations is a joint one. In this history lfind some Yoder's had taken a very conspicusous part. I find that Melchor Yotter (Yoder) had two brothers named Jacob and Daniel, and a sister named Eve, who left Switzerland and landed at Philadelphia and seftled in Montgomery county. One of them settled at a place called Drop, where he erected a factory of some kind, which he afterwards sold and went to Northumberland county. "About 1765 Melchor Yoder, Sen., in Snyder county bought a large tract of land on a creek that extended several miles. About 1799 Melchor and John Yoder, Peter Godshalk and Samuel Moyer were elected Trustees to solicit subscriptions to rebuild St.Peter's or Seibers church and a school house which was the custom in those days in Pennsylvania. 0n this list I find John Yoder, Peter Yoder,Jacob and Henry Yoder and Melchior Yoder, Jr. "Melchor Yoder, Sen., came to Northumberland county with his wife, Anna, in 1649 (sic) and bought 103 acres of land from Judah Roberts. His children were Melchor, John Peter and Abraham. John married Catherine Hart. Their children were Nancy, who married a Mr. Woodland; Elizabeth, who married George Shack, and Samuel, who married Sarah Helbish. John Yoder died 0ct.20th, 1832. Peter lives in the old homestead. Melchor Yoder, Sen., was the father of Melchor, Jr., George Shack, who married Elizabeth, came in possession of the upper part of the farm. "The sister, Eve, who came with them, married a man named Longacre and remained Montgomery county. So did Jacob and Daniel. Some of their descendants live in Lancaster county." CHARLES T.YODER ANCESTRY CONFIRMED In YNL l8 we presented a detailed article on Maj, Charles T, Yoder, an individual who did significant research on the Yoder family at the end of the last century. Strangely enough, his own ancestry was not known to his descendants. His research notes were said to have been given to one Howard Yoder, son of William L. Yoder of Mahanoy City, Pa. This Howard Yoder is now confirmed as being a cousin of Charles T. and his coding within the Oley Yost line is OY,l24l: "Here is what William L. Yoder, of Matatawny City, says....., "He further states his father came to Schuylkill county over 60 years ago. He had four sons---Charles, Joseph, William and James.- and three daughters. Two died young. The oldest married John S. Weber. Charles and James are dead. The later died childless at the age of 68. The oldest brother, Charles, died in Pittsburg, leaving four children- Hamilton (dead), Charles, a lawyer, and Lorenzo, a sucessfull merchant at Piftsburg, who is said to be a millionaire." GEORGE YODER OF VENANGO COT]NTY One of the "incidental" Yoders hanging out in the Pennsylvania census lists has been a George Yoder of Venango County, Pa. This fellow died d 3/12/1872 age 7ly 5m lld rnd was a farmer. The father of William L. Yoder was Daniel Yoder b. .Irrl.l5,l789 who married Feb.22,l8l5 to [lnit T,iiRbsa. \]illiam writes of his father's siblings: ".....He had two brothers --George and Beniamin-- and three sisters. They migrated to different parts of the country; George to Orange countyr Pa., Benjamin to Columbia county, Pa, one sister to Snyder county, Pa., who had married a Mr. Mench; one married a Mr. Strohn and went to Columbia county, and the youngest sister married and went to ohio." What does this tell us There is no Oranse Corntv, PA, btrt a handwritten version of the word "Venango" could easily have been interpreted as "Orange" by a subsequent typist of the notes....there is no other Pennsylvania county name which approximates this word. This seems verv likelv, nnd fits this George into one of the places previous suspected for him.... As A son of OY42- Peter Yoder who married Ann (Nancy) Oyster. This Peter died intestate and his probate record dated,lan.lS18 showed him leaving a farm of 156 acres in Pike Twp, Berks County. Peter is known to have been a farmer, merchant & hotel keeper.
**************************qUefies*************************** The YNL will publish Yoder related inqrriries or exchanges at no charge. Please linrit as possible to inclutle a full retttrn irddress. All inquiries are checkcd against ortr records to see if we c'ln help too' lf you receive added info, ;rlelse share it with the YNt- for our files' Send to: Chris Yoder, 203 Lakeshire Rd', Battle (lreek'Nli '19015 Clare YODER m. Mercedes DETANDT, daughter of l,orris (llara (LERNIINEAtIX), of Belgium. Her parents enrigrated to Phila' PA about 1897. Theirfirst child Albert. b.c1903, I think, so Mercedes was probablv born after that. Clare and Nlercedes had 2 dau. that I believe are still living in Johnstown, PA: Alice and Nlabel YODER. One other thing that might help is that Clnre wlls decapitated in a coRl mining accident, in Nanty Glo or Johnstown.(Dona Avery, Ii I I i;.T:ll:::i l.ll'; J:lr.';. l: .t.t.t... * * * * * * * * * * Worrld like to cornmunicate with :lnyone rvho has knowledge of Yoders and Kauffrnans who lived in Shnron Center, lowa (near Kalona) in the years 1850-1910, or who knows about the general history of thtt area' 3; I I :[l : I iill; I I ] 11 .1 I ; 3*$i I I ; i.l l.' ;'; I li; :;^.T]1' .... 1 My g-g grrndfather ,foseph came to lllinois in the mid-1860's to Forrest, lt in {-ivingston eou$ty nld he di€d in 1888-' tuc-ef his soss nanred Joseph wrs nry g-grandfather born approx 185'l died in dec l9l5 married Lena Yancey from Beltbrt area of New York' she died in 1932. One of their sons my grandfather Wesley wns born in 1888 in lll::;.i."iIk)33iT;I;9;3."J.i1;.":'ill';lf .f il11********* Looking for the parents of Johannes ".fohn" 'foder b' 26 March 1795 in Alsace Lorraine, France who md Marl Schmtrcker b' abt 1800' Johndied26AprlSTsrrndharlfivechi|dren.Anyinformationwould The time has come when I must pass on to younger researchers a problem that has troubled me for over fifty years. When I was young we had information from Reuben Yoder (YR2337a) about our Christian Yoder family, coded under YR2J in Amish and Amish-Mennonite Genealosies (p.a95). He had the names and birth years of the fifteen children and spouses for some of them. The name of the oldest on he gave as Fanny (surely pronounced Franey in her day) , born 1753, and he knew nothing at all about her. The second one was Barbara, born 1756, and he said she married Christian Troyer. Ever since then I have tried to find out where these sisters lived and whom they married. First I began to study the Troyers and discovered that Christian Troyer had gone {o Canatla. As soon as I was able to do so, I went to Toronto to find out about his wife and family. Descendants there told me he had married Elizabeth Becker but they could soon see that she had been too young to be the mother of his otder children. On the other hand we could find no evidence that the first wife was named Barbara. When Eber Cockley from the Somerset Historical Society inquired about this Barbara, I reported whnt Reuben had written but said I could not prove it either way. Nevertheless word got to Canada, and Troyer literature since has claimed Barbara as Christian Troyer's lirst wife. A number of years later an inqrriry came from a Mr. Forney in Nebraska, asking what I knew about theimncestress Bnrbara Yoder, born 1756, who had married Joseph Forneyl I immediately sought evidence but could get no further information. At about the same time Dr. Hugh Gingerich had found a record in Somerset County, showing that one lsaac Nliller had married a Bartrara and by the time the estate was seltled in 1802 she had married Joseph Forney. Her lbur daughters and their htrsbands were named and I ****************x*x*************************************xxx Albert Yoder (June 23, 1856 - September 12, l9l5) who married m1' great-grelt aunt Margaret Frye (1873-1963). T'hey are btrried together rvith their son Albert G. Yoder (1900-1971) in the llt. (larrnel PA (Protestant) cemetery. Denise Wells, D.f LWellsra)aol.cont Am interested to note the possibility of relations still living in Nlcl-ean County, lL. Does anyone know of Yoders from the line of Jonathln.l. Yoder (YR127322) living in the area Thanksl .lonathan l-' \'oder' 701 N Nebraska Ave. Nforton, Il, 61550-1715' email- DoctorY ldaol.com ******************************************************** Search for my husband's ggrandmother, Caroline Yoder' She was born l3 Nov 1859 in Berks Co. PA to Joseph S. Yoder alld Anna BLOCH/BLOCK. She married John Frederich Drumheiser, 2 .fune 1879 in Shamokin, Northumberland, PA. She died in Shamokin ll .luly 1938. Gryphon" * * * * * * * * * * * * x * * * * * * * * r! *j&!!!k * x * * * * * * * * * e q * * tj tj!l! x * * * * * * * * * * * * I am looking for a (older) gentleman named Albert Yoder,who resided in Mnnhattan New York City in t947. Last known place of residence was Long lslnnd, N.Y. It is also believed that he might have been in the arnretl forces. He might also hRve been known by nickname Steve' lf yor lrave nny infornratidn regaidirlg this person, please respond. I( is very intportant. Thank you Virginia llkhan,47-30 59th Street, Woodside NY, I 1377,S0LAZfa)aol.com ******************************************************** Was Barbara YODER wife of Joseph FORNEY ,foseph Forne-v b. c1747 PA d. 1802 Elklick Twp, Somerset Co, PA + Barbara l'oder b. 1756 m. bef 1774 d. . Reply to: Kay Wilson,Bremerton WA tlSA ,kwwilsonra)silverlink.net; and Carol Miller,P.O. Box 551,(lreen yi:i'xi.11t.11.t;t.'1.!t.T,:'i:r1"3J."1'*'*o*n*'I***** be apprciated. X.Xlward' PO Box '10758,Errgene.Ore 97404 *************************************************************************************************************** noticed with special interest that the only son was named Christian' 50 Year-OId Yoder Challenges It seemed quite clear that this Barbara was not the mother of the by Rachel Kreider Forney children. I assume that both families were then connected with the Church of the Brethren but I could find no further information. lts seemed. however. that this claim seems as good as the Canadian. Reuben Yoder was a sharp and astute man. Where did he get the idea of a Troyer-Yoder marriage in that family There was reason to pursue this matter further. I could not lind nearly as much about Christian Troyer in Canada as about his colorftrl brother John, who married a Sophronia (variation of Franey, which in Switzerland is written as Verena and it has a number of other variants--Frohnia, Fronica, Frances, Fanny-- This Sophronia was born in t753 and they named their dnughter Barbara! However, the Canadian Troyers say her name was Sophronia Reichenbach. | first found this in a slim little volume when one could still browse through the stacks in the Toronto Historical Library, but when I went back to "weigh the source" and get any other kind of evidence of a Franey Reichenbach, I could not find anything helpful. Dr. Gingerich' who knows more about the genealogy of the those first Amish families in America than anyone else I know, could not find any place in the Rickenbacher/Reichenbach outlines where she seemed to belong. There was another Troyer-Reichenbach marriage---Corrld the two have become confused I expect the younger "eager beavers" in genenlogy, some nol even interested in Yoder research, to discover the priman' sources that can shed light on the problem. Can someone prove. one way or the other. that Franie Yoder, born 1753, married John Troyer nnd that Barbara Yoder, born 1756, married lsaac Miller and then Joseph Forney Mrs. Kreider. co-author of the Classic AAMG--the nation's premiere genealogical work on the Amish generations through 1850. 7
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