Dr. Karl E. Moyer, My ancestors Michael Hartman and Elizabeth Decker were married 19Mar1829 at Jonestown, Zion Evangelical Lutheran right there near your town of Lebanon. They then migrated down to Snyder County (then Union) for a while (I recall they were in the census of 1850 but am not sure about 1840) they then migrated in 1857 to Buckeye Twnshp, Cedarville. In 1905 they moved to Freeport. He was a shoemaker and farmer. Mine became members of the Christian Reformed Church in Stephenson Co. I do have one Moyer on file, but they were recent marriages in Beavertown, Snyder Co with a Ritter relative (still alive) who is related on my Etzler line. Probably just concidence that they both moved from Snyder to Cedarville? There are similarities enough to explore if your John and my Michael were brothers? But it appears neither one of us has gone far enough back to make a connection at this point with this common name. As far as Franklin Hartman, I have an excellent potential on him. Michael Hartman's son Washington had a son named Franklin, and the time frame and location near Cedarville match. The fact that your Franklin named his son Jay Washington is probably a very strong indicator of a match. There is a local cousin of mine in Stephenson County who is descended from the Michael/Washington line, but I do not know if she had any additional info on Franklin (son of Washington). I have been trying to pin down the parents of Michael and Elizabeth for quite some time, perhaps you have run across the names in your local research? I would be interested in soliciting some assistance from someone back there since my success has been limited. I got bogged down with all the Berks Co. Hartman's and never could get past it. I was to the local historical society there in Lebanon, and found there to be many potential Hartmans. But the fact that they were Lutheran helps in isolating them from the Catholic potentials (didn't know they were Lutherans when I was there). Speaking of Centre County, my Frybarger and Ault lines came from Greggs Twnshp, Centre County, and also settled near Orangeville, so it appears there were alot of migrations from Centre/Snyder/Union to Stephenson during that timeframe. Hope this helped, Kent Gossman Here is a quick run down of two generations: Descendants of MICHAEL HARTMAN 1 MICHAEL HARTMAN b: October 21, 1806 in LEBANON, PA d: November 17, 1883 in BUCKEYE TWNSHP, STEPHENSON CO., ILL .. +ELIZABETH DECKER b: November 03, 1808 in BERKS CO., PA d: August 14, 1886 ......... 2 MAGDALENE (Molly) HARTMAN b: January 05, 1830 in PENNSYLVANIA d: April 15, 1857 in BEAVER TWNSHP, SNYDER CO., PA ............. +FRANKLIN ETZLER b: April 10, 1826 in SNYDER CO., PA d: January 31, 1858 in ONECO TWNSHP, STEPHENSON CO., ILL .................... 3 SARAH E. ETZLER b: in PENNSYLVANIA ........................ +SILAS WAGNER .................... 3 HOWARD ETZLER b: in PENNSYLVANIA d: in STEPHENSON CO., ILL .................... 3 WILLIAM WILSON ETZLER b: May 11, 1849 in SNYDER CO., PA d: February 23, 1908 in WINSLOW TWNSHP, STEPHENSON CO., ILL ........................ +ADDIE ELIZABETH BOLENDER b: January 02, 1856 in BUCKEYE TWNSHP, STEPHENSON CO., d: June 26, 1942 in WINSLOW TWNSHP, STEPHENSON CO., ILL .................... 3 BENJAMIN M. ETZLER b: September 21, 1853 in SNYDER CO., PA ........................ +Carrie S. Excell d: September 24, 1926 in Kirkland, WA .................... *2nd Wife of BENJAMIN M. ETZLER: ........................ +JENNIE CORWIN .................... 3 MARY JANE (JANE) ETZLER b: October 13, 1855 in UNION COUNTY, PA d: February 16, 1903 in MERCY HOSPITAL, DES MOINES, IOWA ........................ +HENRY (CALVIN) AULT FRYBARGER b: February 19, 1852 in ORANGEVILLE, STEPHENSO CO, ILL d: July 26, 1930 in HURON, BEADLE CO, SD ......... 2 MARY ANN HARTMAN b: 1832 d: June 08, 1891 ............. +WILLIAM ROBENOLD RUBENDALL ......... 2 ELIZABETH HARTMAN b: October 25, 1834 d: February 10, 1883 in ROCK GROVE TWSHP ............. +WILLIAM WILSON ETZLER ......... *2nd Husband of ELIZABETH HARTMAN: ............. +JACOB R. YOUNG ......... 2 WASHINGTON D. HARTMAN b: October 22, 1837 d: March 24, 1914 in ORANGEVILLE, STEPHENSON CO., ILL ............. +CAROLINE EPLEY .................... 3 ANNA ETZLER ........................ +HENRY FLUEGEL .................... 3 Frank Hartman .................... 3 Perry Hartman .................... 3 Harvey Hartman .................... 3 Wilson Hartman .................... 3 MATRONA G. HARTMAN b: June 30, 1870 d: July 20, 1871 in STEPHENSON CO., ILL ......... 2 FRANKLIN HARTMAN b: 1839 d: April 06, 1862 in CIVIL WAR, FORT DONELSON ......... 2 REBECCA HARTMAN b: 1841 d: August 14, 1888 ............. +WILLOUGHBY BEAR ----- Original Message ----- From: <ILSTEPHE-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <ILSTEPHE-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 10:22 PM Subject: ILSTEPHE-D Digest V00 #36