[email protected] wrote: > > Victor: > I live in Camp Hill Pa. adjacent to Lemoyne and do a lot of history work > regarding this end of Cumberland Co. My wife is s Kunkle but from the > Northampton Co. > progenitors. I would expect that you will have some response with direct > information but if you don't receive anything in the next several weeks get > back to me and I will see what I can pick up for you. I work at he > HistoricalSociety one day a week.. Good luck Bob > Rowland > > ==== KUNKEL Mailing List ==== > To send a message to everyone, send it directly to: [email protected] and put a salient message in the subject header. /////////////////////////////////////////// Hello Bob, I am searching for information on the family of John C. Kunkel who lived in the Hbg area in the first half of the 1800s. Instead of writing a completely new explanation to you, I am sending you a copy of a message I sent to Victor earlier today, before I received your message. Please consider what I have set forth about John C. Kunkel and let me know if you have any information or advice you think might help me. Thanks in advance, Nels __________________________ Quoted Message _____________ Hello Victor, I don't know what I might add to the knowledge of your Kunkel family right now, but it appears there is a very good chance we are working on the same family. I am working on John C. Kunkel, Esq., resident of the Harrisburg area in the first half of the 1800s. I would like to know if you want to compare notes and perhaps stay in touch. Here is some of the information I have collected so far. It is estimated from the age of his wife that John C. Kunkel was born about 1780-1785. About 1819 he wed Mary Zulauf, a resident of Milford Twp., (now) Juniata Co. Pa. Mary was born in Feb 1785 probably in Berks, though possibly in York Co., Pa. Mary's family moved from York Co. to (then) Mifflin Co. Pa. in May 1802, and about the same time the spelling Sulouff began to replace Zulauf as the family's name. The first child born to John and Mary Kunkel was named John C. He was born before 8/23/1820, because he was at least 21 years of age on 8/23/1841 when he signed a document connected with the probate of his grandfather Zulauf's estate. It is known from a family letter written in 1899 that at least one son of John and Mary was "born and raised" in the Harrisburg area. Mary bore three additional children (names not yet determined), presumably all in the Harrisburg area. They were minors and the court recognized their father as "guardian" of these three children when their mother died. Mary died at an early age in October 1828, and the inscription on her gravestone shows her husband's name as "John C. Cunkel, Esq." It is not known if her husband, John, remarried. There is no gravestone for John beside Mary's gravestone in Port Royal, Juniata Co. Pa. I have not yet had time to determine the names of John C. Kunkel's parents nor the place of his birth, nor have I had time to look for descendants of any of his four children. Do you have anything in your Kunkle records that will connect with my John Kunkel or his children? If not, do you see any possibility that my John C. Kunkel, Esq., or that one of his sons, might be a more distant great-grandfather of yours? I will be happy to share a lot of information on John C. Kunkel's wife, Mary Sulouff, and her ancestry, if it turns out you are her descendant. I was raised 50 miles north of Harrisburg and for many years was a professor at Gettysburg College, not far from Harrisburg, so I know the area fairly well. I am retired now in Arizona. I expect to make a trip to Pa. this coming Fall to do genealogical research and am hoping to find some helpful leads on John C. Kunkel's ancestry and descendants before I go back to Pa. Do you have any information you think might be helpful? For your information, the town of Goldsboro below Harrisburg is also shown on maps as "Etters." I don't know the history behind this unusual feature of the town's naming. Looking forward to hearing from you, Rev. Nelson R. Sulouff mailto:[email protected] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/8094/ ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/northumberland/xmisc/nels0001.txt