This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oberholtzer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3dB.2ACI/1563.4763.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Jacob Oberholtzer came to Ohio in 1803. He only lived a little ways from the church. The foundation is still in the ground where Jacobs monument is centered within. I will have to get my records out and refresh all. I worked on it for sometime and of course run up against a blank wall when I could not find where Jacob`s dad came from and since have found out that supposedly he was born in Bucks County. I knew he came from there but my Grandfather always said that two of the brothers came from Switzerland. He thought that there may have been three but said for sure there were two. My Grandfather was born in 1883 and came down through Isaac the thirteenth child of Jacob and Elizabeth. The next to the youngest child married a Richards and is buried just a mile and a half south of my residence. I live in Delta, Ohio. Jacob would have been my great, great great grandfather. My mother was an Oberholtzer. Do you know Wilmer Swope? He will provide you with more info as h! e goes to the Medway Mennonite church. Be interesting to find out more if you have it. Wilmer came from Elizabeth Crumbacher, the first child of Jacob. I do have a hard bound copy of Elisha Loomis book also. If you can add anymore to this it would be interesting. One fact you may not know is that the spring that Jacob used for water is still running at the present.