Gale, Thank you so much. Your reading, and the groupings, do fit well with some other records I've found for some of these Grubbs and Souders So far, those records lead me to believe that: Anna Krub was widow to Andrew Krubb Elizabeth Grubb was mother to Andrew Krubb Sarah Sowders (wife of John) may have been daughter of Elizabeth Grubb Andrew Grubb is likely the son of Andrew and Anna Krubb (birth year matches, but I hadn't had a first name) Hannah Grubb Faltnor was daughter of Andrew and Anna Mary Souder was wife of Joshua Souder, and possibly nee Brumbaugh John Grubb was son of Andrew and Anna Krubb Mary Ann Grubb was wife of John, maiden name Shafer The records that led me to look in Miami County in the first place include three letters that were transcribed and printed in "The Genealogy of the Brumbach families*" by* Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh. The first of these letters is identified as coming from Michael Etter and Gorg Brumbach, but the speaker seems to be the mother of Jacob, Abraham and Samuel Krob/Grubb* *of Hopewell Township, Huntingdon Co., PA. Those names and others mentioned in the letters do match those of the children of Abraham and Elizabeth (Bowers) Grubb, my fifth great grandparents. Abraham died 1814 in Hopewell. The first letter is dated May 18, 1823 and reads: "Kind greetings to you my children Jacob Krob and Abraham and Samuel and to your wives I you mother greet you with joy and love and wish you to know that I am still in good health at this time God be thanked for it Anna too Andrews wife and his children are all still in good health for the present I you mother wish to tell you that I am still with Anna and have nothing to complain of at present I wish that these few lines may find you in good health and I wish to inform you that we sent you a letter in July. I have been wondering how it happened that you did not receive it for we wrote you everything that happened to Andreas that he died and what was his illness namely fever, Michael Etter King greetings also from me Gorg Brumbach The second letter is from John Souder and Sarah Souder to Jacob Krob to "add a few lines to my Mothers letter." The third, described as having been written on the same sheet, is addressed to "George Brumbaugh Dear Brother" and signed Joshua Souder and Mary Souder. Kathleen On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:45 PM, gale honeyman <[email protected]> wrote: > Kathleen, > > >From a complete reading of the Sugar Grove Cemetery by myself and the late > Joe Bosserman in summer of 1983, in rotation: > > Annah Krub, widow M to D x B 1824 [perhaps M-mother, D x B-died and buried > 1824] > Andrew Krubb, 1822, 32 [clearly cut, perhaps died 1822, age 32] > Grubb, Elizabeth, widow of A., died July 1837 in her 77th year > John Soulders, died April 11, 1863, aged 62y 6m 1d > Sarah Sowders, wife of John, died August 4, 1840 in her 45th year > Andrew Grubb, died September 16, 1840, age 20y 9m 10d > Hannah Faltnor, wife of Jacob, died August 5, 1840, aged 18y 11m 13d [note > maiden name Grubb, 1st wife of Jacob Falknor] > David P. Reece s/o G. W. & M 1840 [s/o George & Mary (Deeter) Reese, > unrelated to rest of these folks] > J. S. [initials only] > Joshua Souder, died August 31, 1846 in his 67th year > Mary Souder, age 78y 11m 21d [note, no date of death engraved] > Catharine Grubb, wife of John, died January 23, 1850, age 24y 1m 11d > John Grubb, died February 21, 1883, aged 66y 5m 5d > Mary Ann Grubb, died May 21, 1906, aged 73y 2m > all of these surnames are as they are engraved. > > I would be most interested how these Krubb/Grubbs relate to each other and > the Souders. > > Gale > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kathleen Holder" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 7:52 PM > Subject: [BRE] Souder/Sowders, Miami County, OH > > > >I have been puzzling over the identites of two women buried In Sugar Grove > > Cemetery in Covington, Ohio. Their headstones (per photos and > > transcriptions > > on FindAGrave), read: > > > > Mary Souder > > age 45 years > > d Aug. 4, 1840 > > w/o of John > > > > Sarah Sowders > > in her 45th year > > d Aug. 4, 1840 > > w/o of John > > > > Does anyone know anything more about them? I have been trying to > determine > > if one or both women were my Grubb kin (possibly daughters of an Abraham > > and > > Elizabeth Bowers Grubb. Also so curious that both died on the same day, > at > > the same age, with husband's names so similar. > > > > Kathleen (Grubb) Holder > > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > Support Our Sponsoring Agency > The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) > For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:[email protected] > ------------------------ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >