lehigh co. history mary e. raker, was married alvin raker, of shamokin. children, florence, married robert swank, helen to selin weist and walter. mrs. raker died from an accident in her home, sept. 6, 1911 raker, martin, german pioneer settled in montgomery co. northumberland co. history samuel gossler gearhart, s/o maclay cool and rosanna (gossler) gearhart, was born june 13, 1857 in sunbury. on june 18, 1879 mr. gearhart married emma lucia schoch, d/o benjamin and margaret (bright) schoch of selinsgrove. childrenp; bessie s. married prof. george l. swank, a grad. of harvard. herber gossler, margaret a., and samuel g. jr., Best Wishes, Geri -----Original Message----- From: Richard Swank Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 6:51 PM To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [PABERKS] [PANORTHA] Schwenk/Swank Ron, Your fire might have got a litter bigger. There was Swank families in Northumberland Co., Pa. in the 1700 and 1800. Columbia was started in 1813 from Northumberland Co., Pa. I do have some Cem. records with Swanks in them, and I think that I have other information on the family, but need to find it. What I need from you are names of the Swank and Ransey family that first went to Ill. I might be able to connect them. I was looking for the Moore name, and did not think that the Swank family was in my family. Richard Swank ron stone wrote: > Well, geri and Richard, a little smoke at least, maybe some fire. Recall > that I have a theory that my Ramseys knew the Swanks in PA for at least some > time before GGFr Reuben Ramsey, served in the 93rd PA and later got to > Danville Illinois where he first married MARY SWANK. > As you scroll down thru this from geri, look at the 93rd .. Joe Ramsey was > the uncle of Reuben under whom he enlisted in the 93rd. Also, there is a > Swank in the 93rd. Now Joe DID resign, apparently unable to sit a horse,in > the years predating Prep. H, though he later reentered the army and ret'd a > Lt Col. Reuben served on through like the Swank fellow did. > > Thanks again geri! I will keep working on connecting the Il and PA Swanks. > ron in CA > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of geri brennan > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 7:46 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PABERKS] [PANORTHA] Schwenk/Swank > > history of lehigh co., pa. > matthew or matthias schwenk, son of john martin, was born 1762. on june 4, > 1784, he bought his father's farm in gwynedd twp. he later moved to > allentown, where he was a wheelwright. he lived thee until dec. 4, 1810 and > moved to carbon co, where he died 1813. he married elizabeth troxell and had > children, margaret married john keiper, HENRY MOVED TO OHIO, jacob, born > 1793, died 1875, martin, elizabeth, 1795-1837, marriied 1st joseph albright, > 2nd to daniel snyder john, 1797-1853, catharine 1805-1889 married jacob > geisinger > > christian swartz, was born in catasauqua in 1836 and died in allentown in > 1909. as a young man he formed a parternship wiith thomas johnson, and > opened a store in mauch chunk, carbon co. after several years he engaged > with his brother, b.f. swartz in kenton, ohio.. > > Best Wishes, Geri > > > -----Original Message----- > From: geri brennan > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:42 AM > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PABERKS] [PANORTHA] Schwenk/Swank > > columbia co., pa. > beaver twp.-civil war > henry swank, daniel swank > > 16th regt. co. g. harrison swank, s.f. shwartz > > 74th regt. co. a. wilson swank > > 93rd regt. co. b. joseph f. ramsay, resigned oct21, 1862. isaac swank, > wounded at the wilderness, va. may 5, 1865 and at petersburg, april 2, 18865 > > -snip- > > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== > [email protected] > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, [email protected] > > To search the PABERKS List Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~paberks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== [email protected] To contact the List Administrator: Rick Berkheiser, [email protected] To search the PABERKS List Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search To visit the Berks Message Board: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks To visit the Berks County, PA website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paberks/ Hosted by Nancy Freehafer ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message