Since I am sure more members have joined I thought it would be a good time to give my Acker Family lines George Acker b 01 Sep 1787 in Berks Co., PA  m Elizabeth Wellbache children:    David b 13 March 1813 d 08 Dec 1880 m Catharine b 05 OCt 1819 d 04 Dec 1895    Elizabeth b 20 May 1815 d 15 Sep 1887 * Philip b abt 1804 age listed in the 1850 census as 46 m Catherine Dreisbach their children :    1) Benneville ( Benn/Beneval/Benevel?) b abt 1835/36 (is listed in the 1910 Luzerne Co Hazle Twp census with his daughter Mahala Faust, Benneville age is 74) m  25 Dec 1857 Margaret Howell from Yorktown their children: Mahala m Joseph Faust, Gwendolin, Angeline m Isaac Williams, ** Elizabeth (my ggrandmother), Margaret, David was alive in 1952 in Philadelphia, Pa , Charles 2) Henry 3)Mary 4)David 5)Ephraim 6)Elizabeth 7)Charles *(A kind Acker member gave me this information however, I was foolish not to keep their name and information on file. They have a note written for Philip Acker and it states this. " Philip has been added as a child here because of the records of St. John's Lutheran and Reformed Church, Tamaqua, Rohn Twp. From various baptismal and sponsorship listings there is an apparent familial connection. Philip does have a son David who would apparently have been named for his brother David. His age of 46 in the 1850 Census seems inpossible though for him to be a child of George and Elizabeth perhaps a younger brother of George? " ** Elizabeth Acker b 17 Aug 1875 d 07 Sep 1952 in Bristol Twp, Bucks County, PA m 1st George Edward Smith b 06 June 1873 (s/o Charles/Christain Schmidt/Smith and Louisa they had the following children: Mary b abt 1870 m John Bolig; John; Joseph b bat 1864 m Elizabeth Sloupe?; Rudolph b April 1875 m Sadie Evans; Paul b abt 1868 m Ammie; Theresa b abt 1860 m ? Kessler; Seville b abt 1862 m Frank Loeand?) d 12 March 1904 train accident was a brakesman their children were: Benevil b 1896 d 1896; Charles Franklin b 30 Nov 1898, Edward 1899, Myrtle b 18 March 1900, ***Florence Elizabeth b 11 April 1901,  Margaret b 1903 died 1903, Lillian b1904 died 1904 married 2nd  Michael O'Connor had one child Thelma b 29 June 1911 died June 22 1974 (Thelma had dropped the O From O'Connor changing her name to Connor ) married 3rd John Fowler of Philadelphia, PA he died 1922 *** Florence Elizabeth Smith b 11 April 1901 d 05 Jan 1988 m John Paul Pedigo b 26 Oct 1897 d May 1983 children: Carol Frances b 1929 died 1995 two living children John Paul b 15 March 1933 d 07 Feb 1993 my dad (only child)   Laura Pedigo-Ingel PS Kathryn your email address is not working please email me want to see if your ever got David's Civil War records.

I have Och's Freemansburg, PA grave photos of the following: Jacob, Philip 1813, Isadora 1848, and Susanna 1814. I will email jpg attachment to whom ever may want them. Doug Strohl