This is taken from The Catawba Co. Heritage Book. No. 353 p. 237 J. Theobold Hunsucker (1744-1822), called Devault by his German speaking family and neighbors, was born in Rauweiller, formerly of Alsace-Loraine but now part of the Department of Bas-Rhin, France. He arrived in the American Colonies 15 September 1748 aboard the *Two Brothers* ship with his parents, Johannes Hunsinger (1728-1800_ and Maria Bierson. Johannes settled in the predominately German Reformed community of Heidelberg Township in Northampton County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania, soon acquiring lands on three sides of the Heidelberg church which he helped to build. In the father's will probated 17 December 1800 Johann is named as the oldest son, Dewalt *who had gone to Carolina.* Family legend tells us that he had gone to North Carolina in 1773, settling on a land grant on Lyle's Creek near present day Conover. His oldest son Wilhelm had been born in Pennsylvania in 1771 to him and his wife Susanna Madalena Neff. The family became members of St. John's Lutheran Church as they built their home and prepared the land for crops the family continued to grow. Devault fathered fifteen children: Wilhelm (1710-1851) married Margaret Whittenburg; May married John Grunt; Christian (1773-1878) married Catherine Whittenberg; Susanna (1775-1857) married William Drum; Jacob married Sally Elizabeth Killian; Sarah (1779-1859) married first John Radar and second Simon Haas: Mollie (1780-1843) married Adam Grunt; Chaterina (1781 - ) married first Peter Little, Jr. and second Absolom Goble; Joseph (1783-1874) married Polly Yount; John married first one of the Smith girls and second Polly Sigmon; Eve (1787-1818) was the first wife of Jacob Little,Sr., Theobold died at 18 unmarried; Mary Margaret (Peggy) (1791-1876) married Joseph Isenhour; Elizabeth married Fred Bollinger and Barbara the youngest (1795-1823) was the first wife of John Moser, Sr., moved to Tennessee. There had been confusion in recent generations about the maiden name of Devault's wife Susan Madalene. In the 1928 booklet put out by Jonas Hunsucker and Thomas Hunsucker it was given to Susan Magdalene Ardney and so it has been recorded by many family genealogist since that time. However, Georgia Rowe Arlowe, a descendant of Mary Margaret (Peggy) and Joseph Isenhour acquired a baptismal certificate, called a TAUFSCHEIN in the German in which it is written, drawn for Peggy at the time of her baptism. In it her father is named as Johann Theobold Hunsicker and her mother as Susanna Madalene, "iene geborne Neflin." This translates into English as "born a Neff" with IN at the end of the name being the feminine ending of the surname. So we are listing Johann's wife as Susanna Madalene Neff not Ardney. In this will Devault stipulated that his land should be divided equally among his heirs and we have copies of deed which were provided for each parcel. Although the divisions were relatively equal they were not all the same and the value put on the land by the commissioners was not equal: JOY continued