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