Lois, I was reading your note here and saw the name, Beulah Miller, do you know who her parents are? My ggrandmother is a Miller and am curious if she is in that line of Miller's. Thanks for any help that you can give me. Cathy McGrath ----- Original Message ----- From: <TRPLUS@aol.com> To: <MDGARRET-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:50 PM Subject: [MDGARRET] Hetrick Cem & GG Hetrick grandparents (b. abt 1800-1810) > In a message dated 10/27/2003 8:20:12 AM Pacific Standard Time, > SHUPE@citcom.net writes: > > > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/bedford/cemeteries/hetrick-cem.txt > > > Carolyn, > > Thanks so much for sending this cemetary information. Looks like there are > some clues here--a mix of Michael Hetrick's family and my g-grandfather, Conrad > Hetrick's family. > > Still have not found my gg grandfather's name or when he came to America. > Only information I have is some information on my gg grandmother Katherina ? (b. > 1808) > > I'm still looking for information re Conrad's younger brother John Hetrick, > b. 1840, and wife Laura Kimmet Hetrick. > > Son of John Hetrick, John Calvin Hetrick was married to a Samantha. > > I saw a Samantha or two in the Hetrick Cem info. > > I'm floundering in email (still over 118) . . . just responding/reading > special ones. > > There was so much I wasn't able to cover while in MD--Isabel flooded out that > part of Rt 495 near Jennings that I wanted to explore, but I did get lots of > pictures and some new information. Didn't get any pictures of the family farms > or land, but did a drive-by the residences on Legeer Road. Preston was > driving too fast though as we headed to Mary and Bill Beitzel's and I wasn't able to > keep up with comparing the line up in the early census with the old > homeplaces. Of course many that I was interested in were gone, but was able to piece > more together on the way back with Leora's knowledge of the area. > > I did see the turn in of the lane where Peter G. and Lydia Slabaugh Stark > lived. It was located on the same side of the road and between the new Emmanuel > Lutheran Church and the Hetrick farmhouse on Maynardier Ridge just across the > street from the Bittinger Cemetery. > > My cousin Doris Knox (still living at the farmhouse) said it's all different > back there, none of the old homestead is left--the current owner raises/trains > horses for the Amish in that area, so we didn't venture back there. > > I did manage to get a picture of the old barn out of the Hetrick photo album. > It wasn't the exact picture I remembered seeing 10 years ago that I got it on > the camcorder, but it will do. > > Got lots of shots of the pioneer graves on Ord Street in Salisbury -- you > probably saw my response to the Lois Hedrick obit where I documented that stuff. > > I will be making up notebooks with maps and photos I collected on (1) > Hershbergers, (2) Slabaughs, (3) Snyders, (4) Early Hetricks (i.e. Katherina > Eisfeller also spelled Catherine Icefeller) and some new information about her Hetrick > husband that came to America to start a fur trading business, came through > Canada to WV, and married an Iroquois woman, (5) Upholds (Conrad's wife's > family), (6) Livingoods (7) Beeghleys (8) and related Faidley and Glotfelty > connections and will continue to concentrate on those surnames. > > I was shown the land where Martin Hetrick's daughter Martha (and hubby Jim > Germanus Stark) lived on Legeer. The census sheet I have shows Rebecca > Mosser/Musser with Martin Hetrick's three children living next door (so to speak) and > the Liningers were above that (closer to PA/Allegany Co. line at that time). > Many of the places were located in clearings some distance off the road. It > appears the census taker went back and forth across Legeer to do the census. This > was determined with Leora Beitzel's help who came along with my cousin Margie > Brenneman and us to tour the area and visit Mary and Bill Beitzel. > > Mary Beitzel's sister Beulah Miller (never married) is also working on the > family history. She's the source of information on my g-g grandfather Hetrick > (the one connected to the Iroquois women). > > Connie's friend Maxine Buckel lives in "The Old Cheese House" that my uncle > Roy called his childhood home. We happened to run into them on our journey--got > more pictures of their place. Maxine said a Snyder family lived there before > she owned it. I would like to find out which Snyder family that was. Maybe a > deed of sale is available on the Garrett site. > > Heading north a few yards from the corner of Rock Lodge and 495 where Leora > Beitzel lives to a little lane on the right behind Brenneman's Store we believe > could have possibly been the location of the first home of my grandparents > Melchoir and Elizabeth Slabaugh Hetrick. We didn't venture down the lane > however. It was private property and even if we did happen to go there, there was > nothing to really confirm that Melchoir and Lizzie had in fact lived there in the > early 1890s, unless whoever lives there now might know something. Guess that > will have to wait for another visit. > > I did find out that there was another barn in existence before the barn we > knew as kids visiting in the 1940s-50s located across the road from the > farmhouse (in the pasture near where the new garage/shed sits now) also another house > existed on the property nearer to Maynardier Ridge road but just a matter of > yards from the existing farmhouse. Was told that grandma used to walk down to > the pond a short distance away. The pond is just downhill a few yards from the > existing farmhouse. > > The picture I have of the supposed Martin and Dianna Musser Hetrick's home in > the mid 1850 to early 1860's was a gun club located in PA. I saw pictures > with a sign with the name of the gun club on it while visiting Mary and Bill > Beitzel. It appeared to be the place where Hetrick Reunions were held many years > ago. I wasn't able to determine if it was actually Martin and Diana's home > though. Dianna died in 1863. Would probably have to get a deed of sale or > transfer. Another piece of the puzzle. > > My gggrandfather Hetrick still eludes me. His and Katherina's last son Martin > was born in 1842. > > Anna Mary Hetrick (Conrad's sister) said she came to America "with her family > as a young girl." > > I suspect that Katherina Hetrick Eisfeller (b. 1808) brought her family to > America sometime between 1842-1846 after first marrying Jacob Eisfeller. > > The 1850 census shows John and Charles living with the Beeghleys (they were 9 > and 8, respectively). Martin was b. 1842 and would have been abt 8 years old > in 1850; Anna Mary (b. 1830) would have been 20. That's why I believe the > Hetricks came over shortly after Martin was born or by the time he was about 4-5 > years old. The other Hetrick children were: John Calvin (b. 1840), Charles (b. > 1842). Conrad (b. 1827) did not come to America at this time. > > There was a letter written by an adult John Hetrick to Conrad in 1846, > complaining to Conrad about his not writting back. > > The last letter we have that was written by Conrad's mother (to him in > Germany) was in 1856 -- still haven't received the translation. > > We know that Martin was in MD by the time he was 14 (in 1855-56). That's when > he fathered his first son Jonas Hetrick (with Diana Mussor/Mosser). > > Conrad and Anna Maria "Nancy" Uphold Hetrick were in MD by 1860--the birth of > their first child, Charles Conrad Hetrick. > > Katherina and Jacob were listed in the Grantsville Census in 1870 (in their > sixties). > > Anyway . . . there are some dates here that might give us some clues in > piecing this family together. > > That's the summary of what I have thus far. Now with this summarized, I can > compare it to the cemetery information and find more links. I will search WV > for my gg grandfather Hetrick as time permits or unless someone such as you > unearths some more clues for me. Preston County, WV may be a good place to check. > Seems I have a lot of ancestoral connections to that area. > > Lois Hetrick Stewart > > > ==== MDGARRET Mailing List ==== > If you need help with this list, make sure to email the list administrator, Carol Hepburn, at chepburn@cox.net. >