Hello All, This weekend I had the priviledge of speaking with a Spangler researcher from the Berks Co, PA List. He posted a great story and having one of my own, I sent it to him. He came back to me this afternoon with a couple people he found in his database. I will post them here for you, along with his story. I am not researching this family. Please read the last line in Jack's post. Debra The children in this family have not been listed since it is possile they are living. Spangler, Richard married Unknown, Lucy Children Female, (1) Spangler married Steele Male, (2) Spangler Male, (3) Spangler This family probably lived in Tazwell Co., VA [sic] This family DID live in Tazewell Co, VA. This was my grandmother, my mother, and 3 of her sister's house; growing up in the 40's & 50's.The Spanglers rented it from my grandmother and Lucy died there. >From The Star, Jeffersonville, Indiana, Tuesday, December 19, 1903 PREFERRED POVERTY AND EXILE WITH THE WOMAN HE LOVED RATHER THAN RICHES STORY TOLD BY DESCENDANT NOTED GATHERING OF THE SPANGLER FAMILY TO OBSERVE THE ANNIVERSARY Away back in the dim days of long ago somewhere between the years 1700 and 1782, a young man in Wurttemberg, Germany, named Wm. Spangler or Spengler, of high birth loved a maiden devoid of blue blood and golden guineas. So earnest was his love that when his father told him he should give up the damsel or be disinherited he promptly wedded her and set sail for America where rich and poor, high and low, are in equal standing. The happy couple found a resting place in Virginia. This was before Revolutionary days, for we find them coming to Kentucky and settling on Goose Creek in the year 1782, when young David, their only son, was nine years old. Kentucky at that time was a part of Virginia, as attested by the old deed to the Kentucky estate. This was ten years before Kentucky became a separate Territory, and the deed was signed by Benjamin Harrison, Esq., governor of the commonwealth of Virginia and "grandfather of his grandson". The children of this worthy couple were one son David and four daughters, whose names came down to us as Kathy Peckinpaugh, Polly Noon, Betsy Condit and Peggy Crum. Wm. Spangler died early and his widow afterward married a Tory named Abbott. They subsequently moved to a farm near Bethlehem, Ind., and were the parents of five sons, of whom we have lost all trace. David never affiliated with his Tory stepfather. At the age of twenty-one he had a most notable adventure, having been captured by the Indians on Christmas Eve, remaining with them till June, when he made his escape and walked home to Kentucky. David, being the only son, inherited the entire estate of his father according to the law of that day, his mother receiving a stated proportion of the products during her life. She made a visit to this farm, riding horseback from Bethlehem when past 80 years old, to receive her yearly stipend, about the year 1843. David and Maggie Koons, being children of ten and twelve, walked over before breakfast to see their great-grand-mother. David,. having received the estate, tried to do the fair thing by his sisters, acting the part of father to them until marriage and then setting up the husbands in farming. In 1802 one thousand acres of the Kentucky estate were exchanged for a similar tract in Clark County, Indiana. comprising the farms now owned by P. H. Bottorff, Sam'l Lentz., S. P. Lewman, Mrs. Sallie Koons, Mr., Isaac Koons, Sam'l Crum, the Ross place and the Spangler farm, which last is the original old homestead. The farm of P. H. Bottorff was sold to John Grissamore for a wagon and four horses. The farm of 100 acres now owned by Sam'l Crum was sold to David's brother-in-law, Mathias Crum, for $100, which was the price of one year's work in getting out the logs for his (Spangler's) house. The house in which David and his wife, Elizabeth, with their three small children, William, Simon and Polly, ate their first meal on Christmas, 1803, just 100 years ago Friday. This house was two and & half stories, of hewed ash and walnut logs forty feet long and weather-boarded. It contained one immense room and two smaller bed-rooms on the first floor, two large rooms on second door, the kitchen being also of hewed log and separated from the main house by a floored and covered passage. The window and door facings were finished in heavy walnut moldings, a deep chair-board of solid cherry finished the walls. The mantle-tree was solid cherry, six feet high, and profusely ornamented in honey-comb work. Elizabeth Derische, who became the wife of David, was also his first cousin. She had one sister, Esther Postlethwaite, and three half-sisters, Polly Carr, Nancy Carr and Sarah Bowman. No brothers. After David and Elizabeth moved into their new house, "The babies kept coming and coming So cunning and fat and small, Until of brothers and sisters There were just ten in all." William and Simon and Polly, Alfred, Elizabeth, Lucinda and Ann, Lewis and Sarah and James. Jas. was born in 1822, and being the youngest, it fell to his lot to look after his widowed mother, his father having died at the age of 49, before James was 2 years old; and his brother having heard the westward Ho! William, Simon, Alfred and Lewis all went to Illinois to make their fortune. The sisters however, all married and settled on the parental estate, afterward selling and moving elsewhere, but never out of the county. Elizabeth married David Epler, only lived a few years and left one son, David, who went to California in his early manhood, and was henceforth lost to all his relatives. Elizabeth's remains lie beside her parents in the little cemetery on the old Spangler farm. Of the ten children only Polly left descendants, but her step-daughters, Lydia and Susan, have taken their places in our hearts as true cousins, Mrs. Susan Croaker representing this branch of the family on this occasion. Ten times the eternal gates have swung open to take in the sons and daughter of David and Elizabeth--eight times to let pass the sons and daughters-in-law. Today there remains among us but two of all that twenty. Clarissa Spangler, aged 87. wife of James, and Fielding Coombs, the husband of Sarah Spangler, aged 84. Their heads are blossoming white but with firm health and sunny hearts we may hope to have their company yet many happy days. Of the grand-children, thirty are still living. Twenty two have joined the ranks of those beyond. There are several children of the fifth generation. Descendants of this family reside in many states of the Union; beginning in Indiana they have branched out to Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, California, Washington, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, and Kansas. In the year 1861 James built a substantial brick dwelling on the hill just north of the old home of his father, where he and all his children had been born. Here he lived until December 20, 1882, whence he passed with a radiant hope to his mansion in heaven. Here still resides his widow and three daughters, Harriet E., Eliza K., and Bertrude A. Spangler, and his son, David. The eldest son, Dr. C. L. Spangler, is a practicing physician in Louisville, Ky. Here was celebrated the centennial anniversary, the beginning of the family history in Indiana. A feast commemorate with the generous hearts of the house of Spangler was spread in two rooms of this house and all the substantial and dainty viands that could be accumulated were served. The last course, consisting of Turkish cream, was sent by L. C. Spangler, of Seattle, Washington, a descendant who could not be present. The house decorations and the favors were of holly from Seattle, Washington, and mistletoe gathered on the old homestead. The second and third generations were seated at one table, the fourth and fifth at the other. They lingered long over the bountiful spread, finishing with tea and coffee made on the same old crane upon which the Christmas dinner was cooked a hundred years before. After dinner the company assembled in the parlor, where interesting stories of different members of the family were told. A short history of the Spangler family was written and read by Miss Berttude A. Spangler, of Utica, Indiana. Mrs. Susan, Crooker, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, then read the poem, "Fifty Years Ago". The interesting story of David Spangler's captivity with the Indians was told by his grandson and successor, David Spangler, of Utica, Indiana. Guests present at the Spangler anniversary: Mrs. Susan Rutledge Crooker, Jeffersonville, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Koons, Utica, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Long and son, Charlestown, Ind.; Mrs. Sarah Koons, Miss Eva Koons, Mr. Middleton Koons, Utica, Ind.; Mrs. Ora Nicholson Merrill, Louisville, Ky.; Misses Nettie, Mayme and Pearl Nicholson, Messrs. Madison and Larkin Nicholson, Louisville, Ky.; Mrs. Chas R. Luster, West Plains, Mo.; Mr. L· Augustus Spangler, Geo. L. Spangler, and Miss Kathryn E. Spangler, of Clinton, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. C. Columbus Coombs and daughter, Miss Emma, and son, Fielding, Utica, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Raab, Howard Park, Ind.; Mr. Norval Naylor, Danville, Ill.; Dr. C. L. Spangler, Louisville, Ky.; Rev. W. B. Grimes, Utica, Ind. [sic] This family lived in Falls Mills, Tazewell Co, VA. Jack Spangler Ellicott City, MD M. J. Spangler jspang@erols.com