Marriage of Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger

My constant battle to clean out my overfull inbox yielded fun stuff yesterday.  I was looking at messages that were sent to me by family search.....hints about members of my family tree.  Lo and behold one of the messages contained links to original documents found in Obersteinbach Bas Rine France.  These documents contain dates of marriage for Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger as well as death information for Georges and name parents for both.  I have added the information to my private tree on my computer as well as my public trees on Ancestry and MyHeritage.  I am putting the links below so that you can look at them as well.  Please get in touch with me if you know more about any of these people.

On the map below you will see Obersteinbach truly on the border of France and Germany.  No wonder one has to look at the history and geography books to know which country claimed them in any given year.  It is just north of Strasbourg.

Marriage of Barbe Schweickart and Georges Hornberger:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYN-9BWV?treeref=G3Q7-QKM&cid=rom-email 

"France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912", , FamilySearch(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYN-9BW8 : Tue Mar 05 03:30:34 UTC 2024), Entry for Georges Hornberger and Fréderic Hornberger, 2 Feb 1863.

This document names parents for Georges as Frederic Hornberger and Anne Marie Wenberger.  And parents for Barbe as Dorothée Koelhoeffer and Frederic Schweickart

Death of Georges Hornberger:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CST3-94L3?view=index&personArk=/ark:/61903/1:1:6FYX-VY5H&action=view&cc=4116416

"Obersteinbach, Bas-Rhin, France records," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CST3-94L3?view=index : Dec 1, 2024), image 243 of 473; . 008322038

This document gives death date as  21 Jul 1870.  Georges was only 43

New mtDNA match

I received an e-mail from FTDNA today telling me of a new mtDNA match.  And it happened that my day was not busy with anything pressing.  So I decided to look...And after looking a bit, I decided to write a blog post about my mtDNA matches.  I have seven matches.  I am not sure how people feel about their names being posted on the internet, so I printed out the list and I have numbered the matches and will refer to them by number.

I have written a blog post or two about my mtDNA in the past and I'll put the links here in case you have interest:

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2013/05/trip-to-blue-ash-ohio-in-april-2013.html

Everyone's mtDNA comes from their mother whether you are male or female.  The Males do not pass on their mtDNA.  Only mothers pass their mtDNA to their children.  And quite honestly I know less about my mom's mother's female ancestors than almost anyone in my tree...so this is a fairly interesting project.

Number 1, 2, and 3 are my closest matches with a genetic distance of 1.  #1 has listed Mary Ann Butcher b. 182? and d. 1902.  I opened Ancestry to try to put together a "quick and dirty" tree for Mary Ann Butcher.  Believe it or not there are several Mary Ann Butchers who died in 1902.  I chose the Mary Ann Butcher who was born in 1821 in Lancaster Co PA and died in Indiana in 1902.  Mary Ann's mother is said to be Anna Mariah Gruber in several of the trees connected to this person.  Anna Mariah Gruber is said to have been born in 1783 in Basel Switzerland.  This makes sense to me as my mother's mother line goes back Clara Margaret Hornberger Sammons>Maggie Schmitt Hornberger>Margarite Rauch Schmitt.

Margarite Rauch Schmitt says in the 1900 census that she was born in Germany, her father was born in Switzerland, and her mother was born in Germany.  However, I believe that the family was living in the Alsace Lorraine area that was sometimes in Germany and sometimes in France before the move to our shores.  

So it is the next generation earlier than Margarite Rauch Schmitt that is my earliest know female ancestor on this line:  Magdalena Baumert.  Her husband was born in Switzerland.  Magdalena and her husband Abraham Rauch married in 1826 in Strasburg, Alsace France.  I do not have documentation for most of this.   However, it is of great interest that the place of birth for Magdalena's husband, Abraham Rauch is said to be Mittloedi, Glarus Switzerland.  And here is a map of the geography that includes Anna Maria Gruber's birth place in 1783 in Basel Switzerland and the place of Abraham's birth.  I do not have a birth place for Magdalena....did they know each other in Switzerland?  Did Abraham move to Alsace  before they met?  

158 km is almost a 100 miles....But still what ever the truth we do know that our maternal lines started out in the same area of the world.  

OK....Match #2.  Earliest known ancestor is Rosine Fischer 1887, Caroline Wurth 1842, Beihingen.  The first tree I looked at on Ancestry with these clues had a tree owner who had done a great deal of research and collected many sources and he took this tree back to Margretha Bunttenschuch who married Petter Dreer.  If this person's research is correct this line live in Baden-Wurttemberg, Deutschland for many generations.

Oh, that is very interesting....guess where that is?  It is inside the red dotted lines below.

Some of the surnames in this tree after  Margaretha Bunttenschuch are Jorg, Betz, Seitz, Dublin, Herker, Strenger, Walter, Beuttenmuller, Hettich,  

So it would seem likely that my Magdalena Baumert was born somewhere near Strasbourg and her husband moved from Switzerland to marry her in Strasbourg

OK match #3 has not earliest female ancestor and her tree is not helpful.

Match #4 Has earliest ancestor Bertha Hirsch, 1893-1979.  The Bertha that fits our story best has a slightly different birth date:  

 

Bertha was very pretty.  

Born about 120 miles from Strasbourg.  The surnames with this tree are Drumm and Schug

Match #5 has earliest ancestor of Martin Sayes b.1813 d 1896.  Match #5 has a pretty decent tree, so I was able to go back his female line to Earliest female Adele Mayeaux b. c 1846 and died 1923 in Effie LA.  I could find nothing much about the earlier females on Ancestry except that Adele's mother was Mary Bordelon.

Match #6. Match #6's tree showed these to be the earliest females that could have passed down their mtDNA to him.

Match #7  No tree and no earliest female ancestor. 
 

I filed the paper that has names of the matches for each number in the cubby in my office labelled DNA.  I might look to see if I can find any of these people via autosomal DNA

Migrations from NC to Ohio and Indiana

 My research Winter/Spring 2024 culminated in the talk that I gave at the Hollingsworth gathering in Ohio about what I believed to be the migration path of the Quaker families from Bush River MM to the Miami river valley in the first decade of the 1800s.  

Joe sent me a link to a site this morning that has more information about these migration routes.  The one that he sent me actually went another direction.  It left Chatham County, NC and traveled up through Randolph County to Cane Creek MM in NC.  The quaker families that traveled via wagon train in 1815 took a different route than the one I described in June.  They traveled to Lost Creek MM in Jefferson Co TN.  

I didn't want to lose this link so I am posting it here:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/family/Journey.html

This link connects to an actual diary and also other migrations.  

Passions

 I don't usually put things on my public blogs about who I am.  But this morning there was an article written by Melissa Kirsch about the fact that she is a lapsed Tennis fan.  While I have never been much of a professional tennis fan, I understood the fact that she had given up a passion.  My husband was an enthusiastic golfer and so at our house we followed golf rather than tennis as well as Marshall University's football team.  However, I have to admit both of these passions belonged to my husband .....not to me.

But I liked what Melissa said and wanted to capture it:

If we define ourselves by who and what we love, and I think we should, then it’s valuable to love as many things as we can, to accumulate enthusiasms and lean into them, to hold onto passions when we discover them and not let them fall away. This way, our identities become rich, multidimensional, expansive. ....

                                                                                                                        María Jesús Contreras

I love her illustration.  It reminds me of my days in the stands with my husband.  Clearly this woman is not paying very close attention to the match going on....that would have been me at a football or basketball game.  

Cane Creek Dispute involving Charity Cook, Charity Wright and Herman Husband

 In the midst of my early September "busyness" Joe sent me the following paragraph.  I did not want to loose the several thoughts that I would like to look at when I have a bit more spare time:

   Charity Cook (m. Brock) just below them is of interest to me.  Her mother Charity Wright was of convicted (not the right word but it will do) of having pre-marital sex in 1761 Cane Creek, North Carolina and that started a fury among the Quakers that became known as the the Cane Creek Dispute. A couple of results were that Charity's mother Rachel Wright, a Quaker minister, and Herman Husband were both Disowned and that caused very serious rift in the North Carolina Quaker community. Many supporters of Herman, including both my Day and Jones families, then left Cane Creek and went to Georgia and formed a new Quaker colony at Wrightsborough in 1767.   Herman would continue as a Non-Quaker in North Carolina until he provoked the Battle of Alamance in 1771.  He escaped that and returned to Pennsylvania and there he would later provoke the Whisky Rebellion.

   Joe

Campbell/Hays/Handley in Borden grant in 1739

 I was chatting with Elaine today about her Campbell family and the fact that she might join a lineage society with her connection to this family line.  I worked on my Campbell family several years ago and I believe it very likely that Elaine and I are cousins of some sort from our connections to the Campbells.  

Several months ago our DAR chapter had a member die who had held many offices in our chapter.  But always her passion had been genealogy.  Her name was Barbara Rutledge.  I attended the funeral with several of the women who had been in the chapter with Barbara.  Her daughter asked us if we would help her with her promise to her mother to find a good place to house her research and I agreed to take this responsibility.  I had lots of fun looking at Barbara's research.  She had had a very amazing genealogy life.  Her maiden name was McClure and I was able to find a woman in Ohio who was a member of the Allen County genealogical society and promised to make Barbara's research available in the location.  Barbara's McClure's live in that area for at least two or three generations.

But then I found I wished that I had known Barbara in the years she was doing research!  I figured out that her ancestor lived next door to my own ancestor in 1739 on the Beverley Patent in Virginia.  What might we have learned if we had worked together on this neighborhood?

You can see my own ancestor, Patrick Campbell (colored in pink) while her ancestor, Finley McClure is colored in Yellow. 

 The book The Campbell Clan In Virginia which I viewed at the DAR library in DC says that Patrick's wife was Delilah Thompson.  And that the couple had four sons and three daughters. This source is

Historical Sketches of the Campbell, Pilcher and Kindred Families: Including the Bowen, Russell, Owen, Grant, Goodwin, Amis, Carothers, Hope, Taliaferro, and Powell Families (Classic Reprint) by Margaret Campbell Pilcher.  The author names two of the daughter's and gives family information about them.  She does not name Grissell, but the fact that Grissell's grandmother Campbell was also named Grissell assures me that indeed she was a daughter of Patrick Campbell.  

Ms Pilcher names the children of Patrick as:  Son, William , son, Charles who served in the French and Indian Wars between 1742 and 1752 (Charles is the father of the William Campbell who led patriot forces at Kings Mountain)  and James who is named in road orders.  Daughters are Mary who married William Christian and Martha who married William Edmonson.  Grissell is not named in the book even though Ms Pilcher says there were three daughters.  Grissell married John Handley and I descend through their daughter Margaret who married William Clendenin.

Baptisms in the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

 Kim reached out to me last week about some Baptism records she wanted for proofs for a supplemental she is preparing papers for for the DAR.  She had found the locked key above the records on Family Search and traveled to the Barboursville library to see if she could access these records in our library.  I was very happy to hear that Family search had sent her to our library.  However, the records still were not accessible from the affiliate library.  So the librarians there gave her my number.

I am always excited to learn something new!  Family Search suggested that the images were available on the Find My Past site.  And indeed they are right there.  These images are held by the Pennsylvania Historical Society who I assume have entered into an agreement with Find My Past.  So below are the images that I found for Kim.  You will have to manipulate them to read as they are too hard to read when I add them to the site in a smaller format.

There was a  third image for the third child born to George Rumbaugh and his wife Anna but I had put it in the trash and it is too hard to figure out.  

But I wanted to add the following for my own information.  Almost certainly these images are from the baptisms in the 

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. This church is still located in Elizabethtown, PA as the address on their website is: 75 East High Street, Elizabethtown, PA 17022

Here is a screen shot from my blog that shows that this location makes excellent sense for where George Rumbaugh would have been living in the 1780s 

hmmmmm.....I could not get the screen shot to download to this blog post....I give up.  Here is the URL for the original map from which I took the screenshot.  It is a VERY wonderful map of Lancaster County's Townships.

http://www.usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/lancas/usgs/

Sammons and Revolutionary War

 My cousin, Hank, who did yDNA testing for me many years ago for our mutual Sammons line, sent me a text today asking for information and suggesting he has a friend who wants to prove Revolutionary service if it exists for our line.  First I spiffed up my Ancestry tree a little bit and then sent a link to Hank.  Then I decided to address this question since I am spending crazy amounts of time proving other people's patriots.

The Roland Salmons who is our ancestor was born in 1750 and died in 1819, so he is an excellent possibility for being a patriot.  And indeed my notes say that he took the oath of allegiance in Henry County, Virginia in 1777.  He was also listed on the tax records in 1782 at Henry County, Virginia.  And he is listed in Abercrombie and Slatten Virginia Revolutionary War Public Claims, Vol2, p514 for providing bacon and supplies to the troops for which he was paid.

Roland would have been married to his first wife Elizabeth at when he signed the oath of allegiance.  He would have had young children in his home as it seems these first children were born in the 1700s.  As far as I know Roland did not actually fight in the war.  But these three things would qualify Roland/Rowland Salmons/Sammons as a patriot for the DAR or SAR.  I looked on the DAR site and he does not seem to have ever had a member prove his service which seems VERY surprising because he certainly has a great many descendants.  Perhaps I should get someone else to look for me to be sure I am not overlooking anything.

Next I looked for John Salmons (father of Rowland).  He seems to have been proven as a patriot for the SAR for his service as a private in the war in Duchess County, NY.  Again I can not find anyone who has joined the DAR as a descendant of John Salmons.  

All very interesting!  Going to work on this a bit more.   Oh, wait the information on the SAR site gave me the idea to take the s off the end of Salmon....and John does show up!  And Rowland shows up as well with that spelling....it didn't make any sense that they had never been proven before....And it is beyond interesting that John Salmon was in Duchess County, NY before he moved to Cumberland County, VA.  I have some more digging to do!  Below is a screen shot of application on the SAR site:

Maryland genealogy

An e-mail was in by inbox from a company selling genealogy books.  The add read that Robert Barnes was the foremost genealogist of Maryland genealogy in the latter part of the 20th century.  Since I have Genealogy research still to do in Maryland, I thought I would write myself a note to look for this author via world cat when the time comes to work on My Sprigg and related lines.

 

Fleming County, Kentucky

Below map shows where Fleming county is located (it is outlined in Red)  I live in Huntington, WV....why have I never visited this place?  It is an easy drive on I64!  You will have to manipulate the big map to see location of Fleming County between Huntington, WV and Lexington KY

 My 4-gr-grandfather, James Hawkins, died in Fleming County, Kentucky in 1834.  I was 40 years finding the relationship with this man.  I know a lot about the Hawkins side of the family who settled in Fleming County,  But I know very little about the Ross side.  James Hawkins married a woman with maiden name of Ross....probably in Stafford County....c. 1790.  I have looked with no success for a marriage record for the couple.  I do not know this 4-gr-grandmother's first name.  But I do know that almost certainly her father was William Ross,  The reason I know this is that James Hawkins pays the personal property tax for Wm Ross in 1798.  William is ailing as he dies c. 1800.  I have given support to this information:  James and his Ross wife name my ancestor Thomas Ross Hawkins when he is born c.1797 and they almost certainly they gave all of their sons the Ross middle name as they all appear on Ancestry as John R. Hawkins, William R. Hawkins, and James R. Hawkins in trees of descendants.  James is the only Hawkins found in Stafford County in the time period, so it is almost certain that he moved there after his marriage to his Ross wife.  And the most telling piece of support is my 50 plus dna matches to all of James' children.  And these matches are on magic Chromosome #13 on the segment that I have identified as having come from John and Elizabeth Butler Hawkins.  I am very convinced of the validity of this connection! 

I have talked with Karen Carty about the Ross family.  I am not sure that I understand all that she has told me.  I hope to get it sorted out.  But one thing of great interest is that there seems to have been a birth incident between the Ross and Calvert family.  Other surnames to look for in Fleming County besides.  

This blog post is a place to look at the families who moved from Stafford County, Virginia to Fleming County, KY after 1820 (I find James Hawkins in census in Stafford County that year) and before 1834 when James Hawkins dies in Fleming County.  I am looking for the FAN club of this family.  

What made me start this project today?  I have a new dna match on Ancestry who has surname Calvert.  We have a good match of 19cM.  This man's tree shows his earliest know ancestor on his Calvert line to be:

Prince William County adjoins Stafford County just to the north.  And Rowan County. Kentucky adjoins Fleming County to the south east as you can see by the above map.

However, according to the tree of my dna match on Ancestry, William B. Calvert's wife died in 1851 in Fleming County, KY, so likely they were living in Fleming County before her death.  Her name was Hester Elizabeth Rigdon and her father was James Rigdon.  James Rigdon also died in Fleming County.  He died there in 1835.  

 

So we now have surnames of Rigdon, Calvert, Hawkins living in Fleming County.  I would add Ross to the list as I know that at least one of James' first wife's siblings accompanied the group.  I just double checked and it was brother Benjamin Ross who died in Fleming county after 1830.  

I found a few books of interest:

This book by Wade Cooper is available at the Boyd County Library very close to my home.  

And an amazing atlas that I want to look at better.  It is on-line at:

https://kycarter.com/maps/1884_Fleming_Bath_map/1884_Fleming_Bath.htm

The closest place where I can look at the atlas is the Fleming County Public library.

Nantucket research ideas

 This morning, a message came across my computer from Genealogy Bank.  It is a link to a blog post by Melissa Davenport Berry about the founders of Nantucket.  Melissa includes ideas for further research.  As I have time I will add my own ideas here.  

https://blog.genealogybank.com/scions-of-nantucket-founders-part-1.html

Washtub and Potato Hole Woodsons

Following a hint from Ancestry I was able to add a maiden name for the wife of Obadiah Woodson to my children's tree.  The hint led to getting in touch with Ancestry member karenjlewis.  Karen shared a great story to add to this Woodson family line from https://virginiahistory.org/exhibitions/taking-aim 

A massive 7-foot, 4-inch English long fowler often referred to as the “Woodson” musket. According to family tradition, the oldest part of the musket (dating to the mid-1600s) was used by Lt. Col. Thomas Ligon, who helped Sara Woodson defend her Prince George County home during the Third Anglo-Powhatan War. Many Woodson descendants refer to themselves as “potato hole” or “washtub” Woodsons based on their relationship to Sara Woodson’s sons—John (10 years old) and Robert (12 years old). During the skirmish, John was reportedly hidden under a washtub and Robert in a “potato hole” (cellar). Many well-known figures in U.S. history are related to the Woodson family including Dolly Madison (first lady of the United States) and Jesse Woodson James.

 If I eventually adopt John and Sarah Winston Woodson into the tree of my husband and children here are sources I found on Ancestry to look at:

And here is information about Sarah found on find a grave:

Sara was born around 1600 in Devonshire, England. She may have been the daughter of Isaac Winston and Mary Dabney. However the surname and ancestry of Sara seem to be a matter of some dispute.

Sara married Dr. John Woodson about 1619 in Dorsetshire, England and the couple sailed on the ship "George" for Virginia on 29 Jan 1619 arriving in Jamestown 16 April 1619. The ship George sailed from England and landed nearly a year before the more famous ship, the Mayflower, came to Plymouth's shore.

Dr. Woodson was MD Oxford University; 1604. Dr and Sarah Woodson came in the capacity of surgeon to a company of soldiers who were sent over for the protection of the colonist against the Indians.

Children:

John Woodson b. 1632

Robert Woodson Sr. b.1634

 

Barbara Rutledge's research

Barbara Rutledge died in February of this year.  Barbara was the registrar of the Buford Chapter of the DAR when I submitted my papers.  She probably held every office during her time in Buford.  She was a founding member of KYOWVA genealogical society.  And she most certainly wrote her own obituary because it listed many of her genealogical accomplishments.  

Pat and Sally wanted to go to the funeral and had doubts about driving there (both ladies are in their 90s).  So I agreed to take them.  And Sandee Peck showed up on her own.  So there were four of us at the funeral to represent Buford Chapter.  It was one of those decisions made that made me very glad!

Barbara's daughter met us and  told us that Barbara had asked that her DAR pins be returned to the DAR and that her research not be trashed.  That she wanted it to be given to someone who would use it.  Of course, I agreed to take everything.  Her daughter and son-in-law said they did not want it back!  And I knew that I had saved files and piles from the trash.  It has been a big job going through it and finding the right place to take it.  But I have had fun with it.

Last Saturday night I was brain dead by evening.  Pat, Joline, and Jane and I had gone to Charlie Botts' visitation and then straight to the DAR meeting at Woodlands.  And I had hauled some of Barbara Rutledge's stuff to the meeting.  I decided I didn't have enough brain power to do much of anything, but I could go through a few more piles of Barbara's "stuff" to sort out trash and items that should go back to the family whether they want it or not. 

Barbara had in one of her boxes a couple of maps.  They were of The Beverley patent.  And I decided to take them back into my office with me.  I have seen this map many times.  I know where to find it on the internet.  I can not tell you why I took it with me.

Dar's Patriot

Today I am digging out of my rabbit holes that I fell into over the weekend  after an incredibly busy Monday.  I had saved a map of Poughkeepsie from Dar's ancestor's whereabouts during the Revolution. The area outlined on the map in red dotted line is Orange County, NY (Poughkeepsie is in Dutchess County)  My own ancestors were in Orange County and served during the Revolution from that county.   

 I am doing no more than this this morning but I didn't want to loose this thought.  Could our ancestors have served together?  What were the patriots doing?  Would they have known each other?  

My Cooley family had originally been in Connecticut along the coast that you see on the map between Stamford and Bridgeport.  My Carey family could possibly have come from NY city to Orange County.  I am very unclear about this.....need a bit of research to get it figured.  Quit on this for the day

Dar's European roots

My buddy, Dar, has roots both in Colonial America and also in the area I am going to describe below.  Over the weekend we found a Patriot for Dar.  I can find her tree by using darkaso on Ancestry.   It is her McIver side of her family that goes back to a man named James Rhyndress who was living in Dutchess County NY during the Revolution.  It is likely that he fought with my own ancestors who were living in next door county:  Orange.  

It is Dar's Seltsam side that show ancestors who go back to the area that I am going to show below.  Katharina Gottert Straki ancestors lived for at least two and maybe three generations in Hatzfeld, Hungary.

In looking for a map which would show the location I found a PDF that has great information:

https://www.zichydorfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hatzfeld-FB-History.pdf

A quick synopsis of the information on this site says that archaeological findings point to a settlement on this site as early as the bronze age.  In 1332-1337 it was documented as Chumbul and as was true for all of the Banat it belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.  The community was completely destroyed during the Turkish conquest.  It was then vacant land leased to various cattle herders to pasture their herds.

In 1766 the town of Hatzfeld was colonized with families from various regions of the German Reich:  Alsace, Lorraine, Sarrland, Luxembourg, Baden, the Palatinate and from Franconia along the Rhine and Main Rivers.  There were 402 houses, a church, rectory, school and tavern in Hatzfeld which was the largest settlement in the Banat lowlands.

https://www.zichydorfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hatzfeld-FB-History.pdf

The rest of the article is of great interest, but I will not copy more at this time.

So where was the Banat?  and where was Hatzfeld?  On the below map it is the community labeled Jimbola that is in the very middle and just above Timisoara.

And where is the Banat?  

There is a great site with maps and history at:

https://folkdancefootnotes.org/culture/ethnicity-history-geography/banat-region-romania-serbia-hungary/

And the below map is taken from that site:

Basically what Dar told me is that her folklore in her family is that they were in a German community living in the Banat before the move to American shores, so her family history in that area would have begun in 1776.  Just about the time of the American revolution.  

My own research has shown that the Thirty Years War began in 1618 and led to 96 years of sporadic fighting that left the Palatinate of Germany decimated.  This was a deciding factor in the founding of our country and I have ancestors who fit into this category of having left the Palatinate to settle here. This settlement of our shores would have continued until the Revolutionary war when immigration pretty much stopped....perhaps this is why these people moved east instead of west?  This would be interesting to research.

Dar's people lived in the Banat until a move to Michigan to work in a chemical plant.  I need to get Dar to fill in this time period for me....from her tree it would seem that it would have been late 1800s or early 1900s as the generation that made the move were born in Hungary in 1858-1867 and died in Michigan in 1914 and 1942.  The name of the town in Michigan where this couple lived until death was Wyandotte.  I found an article that announces the fact that Wyandotte Chemical Corporation was acquired in 1969 by BASF.  

An early figure was Captain John Baptiste Ford, who used the salt to create soda ash, which in turn was used to create plate glass. In 1893, he created Michigan Alkali Company, which created baking soda, soda ash, and lye. The company, later renamed Wyandotte Chemicals Co., went on to create a variety of soaps and cleaners, eventually becoming part of BASF and expanding into the BASF industrial complex.

This almost had to have been what bought Dar's ancestors to our shores....

John Slater

Last year while I was recovering from Knee replacement I chatted with a lady who is a dna match to me.  I can find her Ancestry identifier and e-mail address in my Reunion data base as descendant of Marion Slater who was the son of Daniel Chapman Slater.  Her name is Pam.  I am copying some of her information from her Ancestry tree this morning and looking at past correspondence.  And I found a huge phooey.  I had sent her this note:

 I do not know if I ever sent her the note nor do I know what I was looking at when I saw this marriage record.  Nor do I know if this John Slater would be our mutual ancestor or a false lead.  But I wanted to put this information somewhere.  And this would have been more than a 100 years before our John Slater was born c. 1799 in York, England.  Still it is possible that our John Slater was a Quaker when he left England for Pennsylvania.  

Wallace family

Last year I realized that George Selden Wallace who was the author of several excellent books on the history of Huntington, WV (where I live) is descended from the Wallace family that accompanied William Woods and George McNeely and their families on the move from Pennsylvania to what is now Albemarle County, Virginia after 1732 and before 1736.  And then I realized that George Selden Wallace had written a book about his Wallace family and that the book was available in the special collections at the downtown Cabell County library.  

Michael Woods' sister, Elizabeth had married Peter Wallace in Ireland.  It is this family that accompanied Michael Woods and the McNeely family down the great wagon road.  I think that Peter was deceased.  But I need to double check this.

I took some photos of some of the pages of George Selden Wallace's book and will put them here:

There follows several pages of later descendants, but there did not seem to be more clues in this book for our McNeely family.  Actually I just found another page.  I will go back and look at this book one more time.