I just re-read what I sent in my introduction and found an error. The elder Enoch Beery Seitz died a few months AFTER his son, the younger Enoch Beery Seitz, was born. My brain must have been going the wrong way through the tree. -- Karl Seitz

I am your listowner, Carol Swinehart. Thought I would take the time to introduce myself as I suggested that all of you do. I have been researching in Fairfield County, Ohio for 19 years on my husband's families of *Swinehart, *Spohn, *Anspach, *Zartman, *Bogenreiff, Betz, **Foltz, **Homrighouser/Houser and **Quickel, Binkley$ came to this area from PA*, VA**, MD$ via WVA and the Betz family directly from Eichtersheim, Baden-Wuertemberg. Thus, I am quite familiar with the Fairfield County records and may be able to help you with general research questions. I am most interested in perserving the church records of Fairfield County so that we can find those elusive ancestors. If you know of any church records that need to be copied, translated, or microfilmed I am always interested in the names of contact people- please let me know. Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com Listowner of Fairfield County, Ohio Mailing List at: OHFAIRFI-L@rootsweb.com Stop by the Fairfield County, Ohio Genweb page at: http://www.greenapple.com/~ksmith

The instructions for this new mailing list ask that I introduce myself to however many of you were quicker than I was in signing up. So here goes. Some of my ancestors lived in Fairfield County from 1805 or a couple years earlier until 1866. It is probable that I still have distant cousins in the area. The first of my ancestors to come to Fairfield County were Lewis Seitz (1763-c.1822), his wife Anna Beery (1768-1831) and several of their children, including my great-great grandfather, Daniel Seitz (1791-1864). More children were born in Fairfield County. They came from Virginia with other members of what became the Pleasant Run Baptist Church. About the same time, four of Lewis' sisters and their husbands moved to Fairfield County from York County, Penn. Anna Beery is not the only Beery from which I am descended. Her cousin Isaac Beery (1777-1851) came to Fairfield County from Virginia in 1806 with his brother George (1773-1856). Other siblings and their father, Nicholas Jr. (1739-1812), came about the same time or slightly later with their families. Along the way, Isaac and George met the Cradlebaugh sisters, Mary (Polly) (1784-1850) and Catharine (1789-1870), whom they married. In fact, Lewis Seitz performed the marriage of Isaac and Polly shortly after their arrival. George and Catharine married in 1811. John (c.1750-1839) and Dorthea Cradlebaugh apparently followed their daughters from western Pennsylvania and settled in Fairfield County within a few years of the Seitz and Beery families. Daniel Seitz married Catherine Beery (1808-1904), daughter of Isaac and Catharine, in 1832. It was his second marriage. The first was to Elizabeth Hite. After Daniel died in 1864. In 1866, his widow and at least two of their sons, George (1841-1945, yes, 104 years) and my great-grandfather Enoch (1846-1883) moved to Greenville, Ohio in Darke County. Enoch Beery Seitz died in Kirksville, Mo., a few months before my grandfather, also named Enoch Beery Seitz, was born. The younger Enoch (1883-1940)lived in several places during his life, as did my father, Kerlin McCullough Seitz (1916-1985). This brings the Seitz line down to myself born in 1943 and a resident of Birmingham, Ala. the past 33 years and my son born in 1971 and currently living in Huntsville, Ala. If anybody wants further information on this line, please contact me. -- Karl Seitz

Searching for Jacob and Sarah HOFFMAN HAMILTON, Christian & Susannah HAMILTON SMITH, SMART, SHOUP, ROCKEY, PUGH.

Looking for additional information on the GIERHART line who settled into Greenfield Township abt the year 1800. Mark Gierhart -- ****************************************************** Mark D. Gierhart ---- Amateur Radio Call - KE8MB The Gierhart Family Inn [ A Genealogy Research Site ] http://alpha.wcoil.com/~markg The Allen Co., Ohio Genealogy Page http://alpha.wcoil.com/~markg/allenco/main.html ******************************************************

test Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com ------------------------------------- I still cannot help thinking of people without a sense of history as orphans. Deprived of the feeling of kinship with a larger whole and wider self, and unable to fix their position on the map of time, they don't know that the story in the old books is also their own. Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's

test Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com ------------------------------------- I still cannot help thinking of people without a sense of history as orphans. Deprived of the feeling of kinship with a larger whole and wider self, and unable to fix their position on the map of time, they don't know that the story in the old books is also their own. Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's

test Carol Swinehart cshart@greenapple.com ------------------------------------- I still cannot help thinking of people without a sense of history as orphans. Deprived of the feeling of kinship with a larger whole and wider self, and unable to fix their position on the map of time, they don't know that the story in the old books is also their own. Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's