For the new member. Dan ---------- > From: Carol99@aol.com > To: BROADWATER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BROADWATER-L] Re: A Broadwater Family - Post 3 of 3 > Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 6:36 PM > > >From booklet "A Sketch of the Broadwater Family and Its Connections" > written by Amos Broadwater 1891. > > Pages 7,8) Amos writes, "My sons all married farmers' daughrters and my > daughters all married farmers' sons. My sons and daughters are all living in > Garrett County at present. William lives on the old homestead on Savage river > and is doing very well. John and Amos live on what is called Pea Ridge and own > good farms for mountain farms, and are doing very well for farmers. Jefferson, > Peter, Stephen and Eli all live about one mile from me. All own farms and are > living in the settlement near New Germany. Jefferson Green and Peter Bittinger > live on what is called the Glades, at Meadow Mountain. Peter Bittinger is > recommended for being the best worker in that region of the country. Simeon > Green lives about three miles from Lonaconing on a farm owned by the company, > and he is doing very well. Jacob Blocher lives in the backwoods settlement. He > commenced a new farm and is doing well. David lives on the home place and is > well to do." > > Page 8) Amos writes, "I will now give you a small sketch of my grandmother > Broadwater, who moved from Loudoun County to Allegany County about the year > 1809, and settled on a piece of land called Beatice Plains, and joining lands > of Peter Colmer, about three miles from George's creek. There she lived till > the day of her death. There was no record of her age, but it is supposed by > other people that she was about one hundred years old. She was buried at the > Corbis burial ground where her daughter and son lie." > > Page 16) Amos writes, "My father died at his own residence at Savage river in > the year 1859, aged eighty-one years. Mother survived him eighteen years. She > died in the 19th day of December 1877, at the age of ninety-one years, three > months, and nine days. They are both buried at the farm home, now owned and > occupied by his grandson William B. Broadwater." > "I will close by saying what a change it has been since I first settled > here sixty-five years ago, when there were no roads except a path to the > National road, and no houses. The first house built in Wolf Swamp lived Adam > Spiker who married Annie Reckner. The first settler in New Germany was William > Weitzell. This county was mostly all in woods when I first came here, but the > most of it is improved, the early settlers who lived around here are all > gone." > > Page 14-16 > "I will give the reader a few names of people who moved from Loudoun County > to Allegany County: John Michael and wife, William, his brother, George Smarr, > Jim Parris and George Layman." > > *note: Amos does not give the death of his grandfather Cornelius Broadwater > anywhere in the booklet.