Dear Ms. Agnes Bell Yount: Thanks so much for your reply (and for the new Glattfelder family info)! -- how privileged you are to live in Western Maryland, one of the most beautiful places on Earth! JJSJ James J. S. Johnson (husband of Sherry A. Johnson) copy: SHERRY ----- Original Message ----- From: "Agnes B Yount" <alby6@juno.com> To: <GLATTFELDER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:24 PM Subject: Re: Reply: [Glattfelder Families] FamilyHart Database Update > Received the article and have enjoyed reading it. Very much > appreciate your sharing the information with family members. > My descent is from the sister, Elizabeth Rhyne, of your wife's > Johan Rudolf Glattfelder. Elizabeth and Jacob Rhyne probably moved to NC > in the fall of 1763; he acquired land there in the spring of 1764. > Elizabeth's brothers lived pehaps 75 miles away in Rowan County, in the > area now in Davidson County. > Sherry's George Clodfelter moved over to old Lincoln County (now > divided into Lincoln, Catawba, Gaston, and the eastern half of > Cleveland). I regret I have no information about his wife. His children > mostly married into German families in the area: Lutz, Wilfong, Deal, > Schrum, but children John and Frances married into the > Abernathy/Abernethy family (a quite large family in the eastern area of > the county). > In general, the German-speaking families in NC were from either > Switzerland or from the upper Rhine area of Germany. > A fairly new finding is that the husband of George's oldest > granddaughter, George Rinck, was the son of Johan Frantz Rinck, a Hessian > soldier who found his way to Catawba County. My husband descends from > his comrade Hessian soldier, Henry Dagenhardt, who came to Rowan/Davidson > County and then to Catawba. > The Abernethy descendants of George Clodfelter mostly stayed in > Lincoln/Gaston County. A curious result is that some of them married > descendants of Jacob and Elizabeth Rhyne. I have to wonder if these knew > of the distant relationship. That didn't get passed down in the larger > Rhyne family. > Around 1990 Rhyne researchers and Dr. Charles Glatfelder > established that Jacob Rhyne's wife Elizabeth was a Glattfelder, daughter > of Johan Peter. Fortunately we were able to attend the 1993 Reunion, > celebrating 250 years in America. We were present this year also. > Many Rhyne descendants remain in Gaston/Lincoln County and > surrounding areas. I read the Gaston Gazette on-line each morning, and > send the relevant obits to the Hartmans for the > midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart database. There are several obits > each week of Rhyne descendants or their spouses. Yesterday I sent an > obit of a Clodfelter/Abernathy descendant. > You may know that the Cloninger family who settled in Hughes > Springs, Cass Co., Texas, descends from Jacob and Elizabeth Rhyne, > through their oldest daughter, Maria Magdalena, who married Adam > Cloninger. They, and also I, descend from son Adam, Jr., although I have > never met any of this family. > We live in Allegany County in western Maryland, not far from many > descendants of Solomon Glattfelder/Glotfelty, the first cousin of Johan > Rudolf and his sister Elizabeth. > Agnes Bell Yount > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:57:13 -0500 "James J S Johnson" > <profjjsj@comcast.net> writes: >> If you provide me with a mailing address, I'll mail you an article (9 >> pages) >> on one branch of the Glattfelder / Clodfelter lineage (descending >> from Hans >> Rudolph Glattfelter, the 12-year-old immigrant from Glattfelden, >> Switzerland) that descended into East Texas, via North Carolina. >> >> JJSJ >> (James J. S. Johnson, PhD, DASc) >> Certified Paternity Establishment Entity >> and >> Master Faculty, LeTourneau University