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From: "Tom and Wendy Hiefield" <>
Subject: FW: HOLDER-D Digest V00 #89
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:48:52 -0700


Missed copying this to the list so will resend. w.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom and Wendy Hiefield [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 9:22 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: HOLDER-D Digest V00 #89
>
>
> Would that we did know Rue's mother - wouldn't that explain a
> lot! Sybilla Graeff was his wife, which is what Jill meant.
>
> Yes, Reu/Rue/Rem(?)'s grandson, John b. 1725 Berks Co., PA,
> joined Moravian Church in 1748. The great grandsons who went to
> North Carolina remained with that church. The great grandsons
> who went to Canada did not appear to. The great grandson from
> whom I'm descended, Jacob b. 1757 Lynn Twp., PA, m. Mary Sharp
> (b. 1767 New Jersey) 1789 Kings Co., New Brunswick, Canada. w.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Holder [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 7:26 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: Re: HOLDER-D Digest V00 #89
> >
> >
> > Jill,
> >
> > We should add to your Rue Holder line, for the benefit of new
> > researchers, that
> > we know who most all of this Holders are. This is the group
> > that ended up in
> > Stokes Co., NC associated with the Moravian Church, associated should be
> > emphasized because they were not all members.
> >
> > On my charts I show a MOR behind there name for Moravian
> > Associated line of
> > Holders.
> >
> > Also I would suspect that Sybilla GRAEFF was not from England, and spoke
> > German. When she reached this country she settled with people
> > she could talk
> > to, and this was the German association. I often wonder if Reu
> > was a nickname
> > for Reubin or something. Somewhere I picked up the fact or
> > theory that Reu was
> > a sailor, this could answer the German speaking wife.
> >
> > Elizabeth Harris is our Holder expert on this line, and might
> > share more with
> > us.
> >
> > Cousin Bill
> >
> >
> >

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