LELANDTIGER@aol.com wrote: > > I was wondering if I could have your assistance. You mentioned Helen > Eshenaur's name to me one time and also Fern Eshenower as possible persons to > contact regarding the Eshenauer,Eshenower, Eshenaur, Eshenour family history. > > I have made written contacts to both, and neither respond. You know some > people will not respond to strangers; do you know these persons well enough > to talk with them and encourage them to help with my search? When I was > working on my Mother's family tree down in Worcester and Wicomico Counties, > Md.(near Ocean City area) they didn't take to strangers, but once I mentioned > people they knew, it was a shoo-in for me, and they were then receptive and > furnished me with loads of information on the Pruitt lines. My contact and I > put together a Pruitt reunion where 189 Pruitt families members came out of > the woodwork! They all had the same surname, had lived in the same community, > played together and went to school together but didn't know that they were > related or how until we showed them..Hard to believe but it was true... > > I have an obituary for a Jacob Ira Eshenower(1947) where it showed Samuel > Eshenower as one of the sons. Samuel Eshenower is the husband of Fern > Eshenower of Middletown. Maybe because we spell our last name differently > than they do, they don't feel like there is no connection. > > All these Eshenour(Eshenaur,Eshenauer,Eshenower, Eschenauer) families come > from either Christian, Leonard, or Casper. Has to, it just makes sense. I > have put together most of my information from Luther Reily Kelker's book, > History of Dauphin County, Vol.III. > > I have received a computer printout from Mr. Shanabaugh at Oberlin Cem. and > Mr. Lee Pickel at Middletown Cem.(he still uses index cards!) of all burials > of the above surnames. I am gradually putting those names together with what > I believe matches the names listed in Kelker's book. If I have any doubt, I > continue my search. > > Would appreciate any assistance you can render. Maybe the above ladies will > give you the information and you can send it to me? Surely they have family > information listed in old Family Bibles..The Eshenauers were large families > and religious people from what I have gathered and know from first hand > experience of being in this family for 36 yrs. > > This is a plea for help or intervention..Would appreciate your assistance.. > > Betty L. Eshenour > 17621 Buehler Rd. > Olney, Md. 20832 I'll do what I can, including giving this message to Helen next time she comes into McDonald's after her weekly hair-dresser appointment. .....Just had a nice, long conversation with Fern who mentioned your letter. Since she couldn't contribute a thing, she didn't reply. However, all of Sam's family are buried in the Oberlin Churchville Cemetery with a large obelisk near the entrance marking some grave sites. Farther down the hill are a lot more Eshenowers, and that's ALL she knows about her husband's family. She did elaborate, also, on the three major families in the greater Oberlin area, with different surname spellings, none of whom are DIRECTLY related to each other. Want pictures from the Churchville/Oberlin cemetery? -- Regards with regrets to Netscape6 users (what a mess!) CHARLES EARL FIES -- Fies Family Fotos <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/> BABB - HARTMAN <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Babbs.html> DAUPHIN CO. CEMETERIES <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/DauphinCo.html> ERNST-GRUBER <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Ernsts.html> FIES/FEES Family History Research Site <http://www.fies-fees.org> Forgotten Cemeteries <http://home.att.net/~charliefies/Forgotten.html> FRASCELLA -- <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Frascella.html> HARTMAN <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Hartman.html> SCHLEGEL-PETERS <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/EarlPete.html> SNYDER-JONES <http://home.att.net/~chasfies/ermafies.html> SWARTZ / SCHWARTZ <http://home.att.net/~charliefies/Swartz.html> WIELAND-YOUNG-STONER<http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Wealands.html> ZIMMERMAN - Berks Co PA<http://home.att.net/~chasfies/Zimmerman.html>