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