Wow, what a bonus. Thanks for the maiden name of Rebecca. We have been wondering what it was. The people buried in the Woods/Myers Cemetery are mostly related in some way. A few of the relations are buried in other cemeteries though. Every time we go to the cemetery we are sick at heart to see how it has deteriorated. One of Russell's cousins, Bob Good did clean it one time long ago, but it is now back in terrible shape. It is just too big a job for one person. Maybe if we form a committee and do it in the dead of winter we could get the job done. We do not know any of the living descendants except our family but we know they have to be out there. Anyone want to help? Just a bit of history: Rebecca and Emanuel Rinehart's daughter Adah C. Rhinehart married in Shenandoah County to Simeon Woods the 27 August 1867. Simeon Woods was the son of Ephraim Woods and first wife Dorothy Rhodes. Ephraim's second wife was Elizabeth Bushong, widow of Jacob Bushong. Her maiden name was McInturff. Ephriam Woods bought a home with land in 1849 (we believe is now referred to as the James Spitzer Home since he was the last to own it in the 1900s) and is on the same road as the Soloquily School House, going up the mountain north. It is now abandoned and used for storage by Franwood farms. The home was built circa 1793 was originally owned by Abraham Bird and wife May. It is a wonder it is still standing but it was well build. In 1886 Ephraim Woods owns 227 acres on Smith Creek Road some of which belonged to widow Elizabeth Bushong when she married him and brought the land into the marriage. We have shown his Will on our Boschong List. Simeon Woods actually married twice: M/1: 6 November 1855 to Margaret Foltz, d/o John Foltz and Mary Margaret Catharine Pence M/2: 27 August 1867 to Adah C. Rhinehart, d/o Emanuel Rhinehart and Rebecca Trook John Foltz and Mary Margaret Catharine Pence were the parents of my husband Russell's great great grandfather Uriah Foltz. Uriah Foltz married Anna Hoover d/o William Hoover and Mary Margaret Sheetz. They lived in Rockbridge County but after Uriah's death in 1857, Anna moved with her children back to Smith Creek Road in Shenandoah County. Then Anna and her unmarried daughter Catharine moved into New Market on Waters Street in her later years. Uriah Foltz is buried in the the old section of Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery on the Lee Highway about a quarter mile north of Steele's Tavern and Anna is who died in 1904 is buried at Cedar Grove Church Cemetery. The home in Rockbridge County has been restored and is on the Historic Registry. It is a neat old house very similar to the Battlefield home at New Market. Two of Uriah Foltz's brothers married Shavers. His brother John Walton Foltz married Mary Jane Shaver and his brother Jacob married Rachel Ellen Shaver. We would love to have a picture of Elizabeth McInturff Bushong Woods if there is every one found! Gloria and Russell Bushong ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Thanks for all of the info. We live in Indiana but come to Shenandoah at least once a year - Sep this year. We are going to drive by all the places that you mentioned. I am sure that Rebecca went by the maiden name of Druck as most of the daughters of Nicholas Druck did. The girls were all married by the time the sons changed the name to Trook or Drook. Adah C. Rinehart was also married before she married Simeon Woods. She first married, 1857, John Kingree 1820 - 1858. He was the son of John and Elizabeth (Kerlin) Kingree. Adah & John had one son, John Franklin Kingree, born born in 1858. John (the son) married Virginia Woods in 1892. I saw an interesting item in "The History of Rockingham County". May, 1868 Simeon Woods planted a large tract of grapes near New Market. Thanks again for all of the data ------ Carole Trook-Hacker ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Pine Forge > Wow, what a bonus. Thanks for the maiden name of Rebecca. We have been > wondering what it was. The people buried in the Woods/Myers Cemetery are > mostly > related in some way. A few of the relations are buried in other cemeteries > though. Every time we go to the cemetery we are sick at heart to see how > it has > deteriorated. > > One of Russell's cousins, Bob Good did clean it one time long ago, but it > is > now back in terrible shape. It is just too big a job for one person. Maybe > if > we form a committee and do it in the dead of winter we could get the job > done. We do not know any of the living descendants except our family but > we > know they have to be out there. Anyone want to help? > > Just a bit of history: > > Rebecca and Emanuel Rinehart's daughter Adah C. Rhinehart married in > Shenandoah County to Simeon Woods the 27 August 1867. Simeon Woods was the > son of > Ephraim Woods and first wife Dorothy Rhodes. Ephraim's second wife was > Elizabeth Bushong, widow of Jacob Bushong. Her maiden name was McInturff. > Ephriam > Woods bought a home with land in 1849 (we believe is now referred to as > the > James Spitzer Home since he was the last to own it in the 1900s) and is > on the > same road as the Soloquily School House, going up the mountain north. It > is now > abandoned and used for storage by Franwood farms. The home was built > circa > 1793 was originally owned by Abraham Bird and wife May. It is a wonder it > is > still standing but it was well build. > In 1886 Ephraim Woods owns 227 acres on Smith Creek Road some of which > belonged to widow Elizabeth Bushong when she married him and brought the > land into > the marriage. We have shown his Will on our Boschong List. > > Simeon Woods actually married twice: > M/1: 6 November 1855 to Margaret Foltz, d/o John Foltz and Mary Margaret > Catharine Pence > M/2: 27 August 1867 to Adah C. Rhinehart, d/o Emanuel Rhinehart and > Rebecca > Trook > > John Foltz and Mary Margaret Catharine Pence were the parents of my > husband > Russell's great great grandfather Uriah Foltz. Uriah Foltz married Anna > Hoover d/o William Hoover and Mary Margaret Sheetz. They lived in > Rockbridge > County but after Uriah's death in 1857, Anna moved with her children back > to Smith > Creek Road in Shenandoah County. Then Anna and her unmarried daughter > Catharine moved into New Market on Waters Street in her later years. > Uriah Foltz is > buried in the the old section of Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery > on > the Lee Highway about a quarter mile north of Steele's Tavern and Anna is > who > died in 1904 is buried at Cedar Grove Church Cemetery. The home in > Rockbridge County has been restored and is on the Historic Registry. It > is a neat old > house very similar to the Battlefield home at New Market. > > Two of Uriah Foltz's brothers married Shavers. His brother John Walton > Foltz > married Mary Jane Shaver and his brother Jacob married Rachel Ellen > Shaver. > > We would love to have a picture of Elizabeth McInturff Bushong Woods if > there is every one found! > > Gloria and Russell Bushong > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > 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

Forgot to ask you how the Good family connects because you mentioned Bob Good. George Druck/Trook (brother to Rebecca) married (second marriage) abt 1840/42 Mary Gochenour. When George died Mary married 1863 John W. Good. John was 64 years old and the son of Samuel and Dorothy Good. Any connection? Carole ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Pine Forge > Wow, what a bonus. Thanks for the maiden name of Rebecca. We have been > wondering what it was. The people buried in the Woods/Myers Cemetery are > mostly > related in some way. A few of the relations are buried in other cemeteries > though. Every time we go to the cemetery we are sick at heart to see how > it has > deteriorated. > > One of Russell's cousins, Bob Good did clean it one time long ago, but it > is > now back in terrible shape. It is just too big a job for one person. Maybe > if > we form a committee and do it in the dead of winter we could get the job > done. We do not know any of the living descendants except our family but > we > know they have to be out there. Anyone want to help? > > Just a bit of history: > > Rebecca and Emanuel Rinehart's daughter Adah C. Rhinehart married in > Shenandoah County to Simeon Woods the 27 August 1867. Simeon Woods was the > son of > Ephraim Woods and first wife Dorothy Rhodes. Ephraim's second wife was > Elizabeth Bushong, widow of Jacob Bushong. Her maiden name was McInturff. > Ephriam > Woods bought a home with land in 1849 (we believe is now referred to as > the > James Spitzer Home since he was the last to own it in the 1900s) and is > on the > same road as the Soloquily School House, going up the mountain north. It > is now > abandoned and used for storage by Franwood farms. The home was built > circa > 1793 was originally owned by Abraham Bird and wife May. It is a wonder it > is > still standing but it was well build. > In 1886 Ephraim Woods owns 227 acres on Smith Creek Road some of which > belonged to widow Elizabeth Bushong when she married him and brought the > land into > the marriage. We have shown his Will on our Boschong List. > > Simeon Woods actually married twice: > M/1: 6 November 1855 to Margaret Foltz, d/o John Foltz and Mary Margaret > Catharine Pence > M/2: 27 August 1867 to Adah C. Rhinehart, d/o Emanuel Rhinehart and > Rebecca > Trook > > John Foltz and Mary Margaret Catharine Pence were the parents of my > husband > Russell's great great grandfather Uriah Foltz. Uriah Foltz married Anna > Hoover d/o William Hoover and Mary Margaret Sheetz. They lived in > Rockbridge > County but after Uriah's death in 1857, Anna moved with her children back > to Smith > Creek Road in Shenandoah County. Then Anna and her unmarried daughter > Catharine moved into New Market on Waters Street in her later years. > Uriah Foltz is > buried in the the old section of Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery > on > the Lee Highway about a quarter mile north of Steele's Tavern and Anna is > who > died in 1904 is buried at Cedar Grove Church Cemetery. The home in > Rockbridge County has been restored and is on the Historic Registry. It > is a neat old > house very similar to the Battlefield home at New Market. > > Two of Uriah Foltz's brothers married Shavers. His brother John Walton > Foltz > married Mary Jane Shaver and his brother Jacob married Rachel Ellen > Shaver. > > We would love to have a picture of Elizabeth McInturff Bushong Woods if > there is every one found! > > Gloria and Russell Bushong > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > ------------------------------- > 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

Gloria <[email protected]> wrote: > Simeon Woods actually married twice: > M/1: 6 November 1855 to Margaret Foltz, d/o John Foltz and Mary Margaret > Catharine Pence > M/2: 27 August 1867 to Adah C. Rhinehart, d/o Emanuel Rhinehart and > Rebecca > Trook > > John Foltz and Mary Margaret Catharine Pence were the parents of my > husband > Russell's great great grandfather Uriah Foltz. Uriah Foltz married Anna Gloria, here is what I have on Mary Margaret Pence. Perhaps you can add to it or correct it. Her father was Nicholas Pence - all I know about his origins is that he went to Shenandoah County from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, about the time of the Revolutionary War. === (MARY) MARGARET PENCE was born 17 Nov 1797 in Shenandoah County, Virginia; died 5 Nov 1874, buried Bethel Cemetery, Shenandoah County; married John Foltz 14 May 1815 in Shenandoah County (he was born 15 May 1793, died 24 Dec 1869, age 76 years, 7 months, 9 days, buried in Bethel Cemetery). === I have never encountered the name Catherine in connection with Mary Margaret but have seen her listed simply as Margaret. I assume you have her name from family information. In 1968 I visited Shenandoah County and a man named Pence lived on U.S. 11 across from what I was told was "Pence's Hill" (described in Wayland; the U.s. topo maps have Pence Hill in a different place). There is a Pence trucking company at the site now (and I think in 1968). The man named Pence - I lost the note with his first name on it but it may have been Lempel - took me down near the river and showed me what was left of the old Bethel Cemetery. Your husband's Foltz ancestors are buried there and, per Wayland, Jacob Pence was the last one to be buried there. Jacob Pence was a brother to Mary Margaret Pence and he ran the blacksmith shop on Pence's Hill (again, I believe this is from Wayland - would have to check). If you can tell me anything about Nicholas Pence I would appreciate it. Three other Pences came from Lancaster County about the same time he did - Michael, Conrad and George Philip. They all settled near Forestville on or near Holman's Creek. Nicholas did have land dealings with one or more of the others, but I do not know how the four were related. Michael, who apparently was the oldest of the four, moved with his entire family to Adams County, Ohio, where he left many descendants. His father's name was also Michael, per his marriage record to Sybilla (Isabella) Fry. The other three died in Shenandoah County, leaving wills. My own Pence ancestor was Henry Pence and he and two of his brothers had Northern Neck grants that converged 1.1 miles southeast of Marksville in what is now Page County, but was in Frederick and then Shenandoah while they lived there. Henry's two older brothers (Jacob and Lewis) died in what was then Shenandoah County in the late 1770s. Henry and most of his 17 children and practically all of his nieces and nephews moved to Champaign County, Ohio (many Page County family names still there), beginning in 1805 and until 1820. Henry had at least one other brother who settled in Shenandoah County - Adam Pence, who went before 1800 to Scott County, Kentucky. Many of his descendants went to Clay County, Missouri, in the early 1800s. Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 / Fax 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>

I am going to have to quit writing messages without checking may databases. Mary Margaret Catherine, of course, was not the daughter of Nicholas Pence, but his granddaughter and the daughter of Jacob Pence, the blacksmith of Pence's Hill. My apoligies for the confusion. Richard