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On Mud Run, near the recently abandoned Shawnee Indian village of Pickewe, Samuel Shellabarger was born in a log cabin on December 10, 1817. It was in the middle of an endless Ohio forest, a world away from civilization. Indians said a bird could fly from the Ohio River to Lake Erie never having to land on the ground. Mud Run was so deep into the forest that it seemed unlikely that anyone lost there could in a single lifetime win national fame and fortune. There were clues in Samuel Shellabargers early years that suggest he might surely rise above this wilderness. Shellabargers inspiration for a new America was a religious belief that "God had created of one blood all the peoples of the eart...
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Martin Shellabarger (1819-1894), son of Ephraim and Rebecca Winget Shellabarger, was born in Madriver Township, Clark County, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Sheller (823-1912). Descendants lived in Colorado, Ohio, Washington, California, and elsewhere. Ancestry traced to the following families: Hans Heinrich Schellenberg who married Barbara Gutherz in 1605 in Bülach, Canton Zürich, Switzerland; Hans Bär, born ca. 1545 in Hausen Parish, Canton Zürich; John Winget, (ca. 1625-1687) was born in England and died in Dover, Stafford County, New Hampshire; Peter Billow (ca. 1785-ca. 1860) of Perry County, Pennsylvania; Alexander Drummond (1744-ca. 1800), born in Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and died in Huntington County, Pennsylvania; Kimball Farr (ca. 1799-1861), born in New Hampshire, died in Ohio; Christianus Servas, born ca. 1664 in Sagendorf, Germany, immigrated to New York in 1726; Adam Sheller (1789-1883) of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Clark County, Ohio; and other related families.
This directory of family associations, based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, offers contact information on some 6,000 family associations in the US. The directory is useful for those engaging in genealogical research or planning family reunions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Excerpt from A History of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1727-1819): Part XXIX of a Narrative and Critical History Prepared at the Request of the Pennsylvania-German History In 1849, the Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff published in his Kirchenfreund, Vol. II, a series of three articles on the History of the German Church in America, in which he traced the origin and growth of the Reformed and Ln theran churches through three successive periods.vi Preface. But the man who may well be called the father of Re formed history in America was the Rev. Dr. Henry Har baugh. He not only secured the manuscripts and docu ments of Dr. Mayer for the use of the church and added t...