Mary Ann Kaylor has added a note about the WebSite. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ann Kaylor" <makaylor@npwt.net> To: <KAYLOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [KAYLOR-L] fw: KA[H]LERs in Manhiem PA > Just an added note here about this site. It is well worth the effort to > read this manuscript at the URL below. I found it so very interesting and > hopeful, for awhile, that we might have a connection. I chuckled at one > paragraph in particular that referred to "bundling" before a marriage was > solemnized. So there are many reference to the traditions and the way > people lived in the various time eras. > > As always, contact Norm Steffen if you have any information pertinent to > this lineage at "nsteffen@olg.com" > > Mary Ann > > At 10:02 AM 07/31/2000 -0700, you wrote: > > The message below contains quite a lot of information, as well as > > the URL for a WebSite. The family is not mine, but it might be yours. > > > > Leslie KOHLER > >{Ggrandaughter-in-law of Christian F. KOEHLER (d 1906 MO)} > > > >-------- Original Message -------- > >To: PALANCAS-L@rootsweb.com > >Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:47:18 -0400 > >From: "Norm Steffen" <nsteffen@olg.com> > >Subject: [PALANCAS-L] KA(H)LERS in Manhiem PA > > > > > >Hi Pennsylvania folks. > > > >I have been trying to track down info about my GGGG Grandfather Herni > >KA(H)LER/KEHLER.and his family in the late 1700's and early 1800's. > > > >My good fortune is that I have two family histories written by Henri's > >great grandson, Samuel P. Kaler. One dated 1887 the other 1899. > >If you care to browse the earlier one you can find it at > > http://www.kneller.com/WhitleyIN/ > > > >My bad fortune is that the facts he offers are uh. um.. a bit confused > >(and maybe embellished) in a few areas.. like who Henry married. I hope > >Henry had it right.:-) > > > >Also I doubt that Henri was General Nathaniel Greens #1 man as I can't > >find him in any of Greene's bios. Nor have I found him in any of the DAR > >info I can lay my hands on. > > > >But.never fear.according to Samuel.. > > > >In the 1887 manuscript > > > >"His wife Jane Hammond was a blooming Quaker lass of 18 and like her > >husband, an orphan. They were married at Mr. Leeden's house in > >Baltimore, on the evening of February 16, 1788 by Rev. Gutschalf, pastor > >of the First Lutheran Church of that city." > > > >And. > > > >"Within a few days after their marriage Henry set out for the interior > >of the country in search of a home, for he had saved a few hundred dollars, > >as near as we can ascertain, about five hundred dollars. He journeyed to > >Monheim township, York county, Pennsylvania, and purchased 68 acres of > >land, quite well improved and paid for it in cash $450.00 in gold, which he > >carried along sowed up in his nether garment." > > > >And. > > > >"His ashes sleep in the old church yard in Monheim Township. The spot, > >says Mr. Clark, is faintly marked by a crumbling sandstone, placed there > >away back in the forties, by some one, he knows not who." > > > >In the 1899 manuscript: > > > >"Gen. Greene secured him employment with a man in Baltimore named > >Leedon, where he worked and lived economically until 1788 when he > >married Catherine Frien, who was a domestic in Mr. Leedon's family. > >This marriage was solemnized by Rev Gutschaff and thereafter, on the > >advice of the officiating clergyman he wrote his name Kahler" > > > >And. > > > >"Within a few days after the marriage he went to Monheim township, York > >County, Pennsylvania and bout sixty-eight acres of land paying for it > >$240 in gold." (Hey.he got a break on the price.:-) > > > >And. > > > >"Henry Kahler is buried at St. Paul's Evangelical Church near Green > >Burr, about three miles from Logantown, Clinton County, Pennsylvania". > > > >Well to make a long story even longer I had been looking in York County > >and finding NADA. Then, while making motel reservations to take my > >daughter to a horse show I thought was in Hershey, I discovered that the > >motel was in Manhiem, Lancaster County, PA. Owww, my head hurts.too > >many Manhiems. > > > > I think I have learned that in SE PA there are Manhiems a bunch and the > >counties have been re-arranged a couple of times. > > > >If any of this makes any sense to anyone I sure would appreciate a > >pointer in the right direction. > > > >Sincerely, > >Norm Steffen