Hi I just found this Woodring info on a sheet with the obit of my Jacob Hicks. "Democratic Watchman" Bellefonte, Pa Friday, Nov. 17, 1905 "WOODRING FAMILY REUNION" The following family reunion notice is of a peculiar historic interest to the WOODRINGS in this County, as they and the WOTRINGS refered to below are descendants of the same family and relatives. The notices says: "An interesting reunion of the WOTRING family was held last week at Sand Spring Grove near Macungie, Pa on the old WOTRING Farm which as been in the family during about a century. In 1770 the premises was granted by the Penns to Samuel WOTRING, who built the first grist mill in this vicinity. It is beleived that he came here from France in 1732. At the recent reunion an organization was affected with R.D. WOTRING, as President. Rev. W. D. WOTRING, Reformed Pastor, at Nazareth, was appointed historian. Addresses were made by Rev. A.G. PETERS of Bethlehem, and Rev. W. H. WOTRING, of Nazareth. The reunion next year will be held in the Sand Spring Grove on Aug. 11, 1906. The names WOTRING, WATTERING, WOTTRING AND WOODRING are derived from the Alsace, Lorraine French Voiturin. In the early records of the Egypt and Union churches in Lehigh Co., the name is spelled in every possible way. The pastors generally wrote the name Phonetically, but Rev. Abraham BLUMER, Reformed minister, who could speak French and once received a call from a french Reformed church in NY always wrote it VOITURIN or VOITRIN. In German the name would be pronounced WOTTERING or WOTRING. The oldest analicized way of spelling the name is WOTRING. Thus it appears on the record of Immigrants which landed at Phila between the years 1723 and 1727." Spangler Collection - Notebook 146 pg. 134 at Bellefonte, Pa Library. Jean Corio Tampa, Fl