GREETINGS, ALL I have stumbled across a marriage between John Folkerth and Margaret Huey as part of my Folkerth researches. In October, 2000, Steve Koons of Kettering, OH, sent me six pages from old bibles that he had found in the Local History room of the Dayton, OH, main library. Four of the pages were in two-column format and the other two were highly illustrated pages of family records, with the entries in the center of the page. The records pages in the two-column format appear to be the family bible of John Folkerth, first mayor of Dayton, and his wife, Peggy Huey. The other two pages appear to be from the bible of Albert Russell / Russel Huey Folkerth ( son of John and Peggy ) and his wife Ann Green. I collaborated with other Folkerth researchers to transcribe these pages … verbatim … errors and all … using the punctuation as we found it, with periods often missing. The bible pages contain the name of John Folkerth’s mother. Her name appears to have been written originally as Pamelia but then the first letter was changed to read Camelia. So, John’s mother was Pamelia or Camelia Rafesnider. This is interesting and puzzling at the same time, since the will of John’s father, Christopher, names his wife as Margaret. Were Pamelia / Camelia and Margaret the same person ? Or, was Margaret a later wife of Christopher ? One thing appears to be very wrong in the recorded information. John certainly did NOT come to Montgomery County in 1779, when he was 5 years old, as his father is found in Chester County, PA, from about 1770 to about 1787 as a witness to wills. It is possible that the last two digits of the date were transposed by the scribe, so that the date should have read 1797. More information is needed. The information from the John Folkerth – Peggy Huey family bible follows, transcribed as faithfully as possible, errors and all; MARRIAGES; John Folkerth and Peggy Huey were married June the 6th1804 BIRTHS; John Folkerth Senior was born March the 11th 1774 Peggy Huey was born May the 16th 1775 Births of their children - Louisa Folkerth was born July the 6th 1805 - Albert Russell Huey Folkerth was born November the 17th 1806 - Rebecca Folkerth was born March the 5th 1809 - Christopher Folkerth was born January the 16th 1811 - John Folkerth was born June the 13th 1813 - Margaret Folkerth was born May 3, 1816 - Alexander Hamilton Folkerth was born May 18th 1820 DEATHS John Folkerth Jun died April 19th 1817. Christopher Folkerth died June 4th 1843 Alexander H. Folkerth Died April 24th 1849 John Folkerth senior Died January 5th, 1862 Peggy Folkerth died March 21st 1865 Then, recorded on an addition page of ‘Deaths’ we find the following bits of family history; - John Folkerth son of PCamelia Rafesnider & Christopher Folkerth ( of German Birth ) was born in Chester County Pennsyl March 11th1774. He came to Dayton, Montgomery Co Ohio March 21st 1779 where he lived untill his death 1862 he was a man of great physical strenght & rigorous intelect. He held the office of Magistrate in the town of his adoption during a period of 52 years. - Peggy Folkerth daughter of Agnes Elliot & Robert Huey was born May 16th 1775 on an entailed plantation owned by the family under the English Law near Church Town Pennsylvania. Her early years were spent near Martinsburg Virg. From there she imigrated to Kentucky and then again to Ohio in the year 1801. She was mar’d to John Folkerth in 1804 with whom she lived 58 years. - Robert Huey was born near Churchtown Pensyl 1750 & died near Chambersburg Montgomery Co Ohio Sept 1827, his wife Agnes Huey who was his senior five years died in Montgomery Co & was buried in Dayton October 1804. This is the end of the Folkerth – Huey bible transcription. I’ll put more Huey info in another message. DICK FOLKERTH Dallas, Texas