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From: Sheri Krichbaum <>
Subject: Dauphin County Research
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:41:22 -0500


Hello Fellow Listers,
My name is Sheri Christner Krichbaum I descend from the Myers family. I
am a school bus driver and have a Friday off in October, and I want to
come and try to find a hole in our brick wall.

I am researching Peter and Margaret Myers. Peter was from Dauphin
County, it states on his enlistment papers from the Civil War that he
was from "Dolphin, Pa". He was born around 1833, as he was 29 in 1862
the year he enlisted. His sister Margaret was born 10/26/1826, she
married John William Wolf 8/4/1842 in Cumberland County. She and John
moved to Preble County, Ohio, and Peter went with them, and there he met
Saloma (Sarah Ann) Dillman, and they married 9/17/1854, and came to
Wabash County Indiana to live on 10 acres of land that Saloma's father
John Dillman gave them. Saloma remained a widow and lived there in
their log cabin, until her death 8/4/1934, at the age of almost 105.
They had five children, Susan Catherine, John Elliver, Mary Ann, Elijah
Lincoln, and Jacob Arthur.

We do not know the names of Peter and Margaret's parents, we know that
shortly after Peter died (killed in the siege of Atlanta in 1864) that
Margaret wrote Peter's widow Saloma, that she had "written Mother,
Brother and Sister still in Pennsylvania, that Peter had died and to
mourn him". In all the correspondence that we have there is NEVER any
mention of the names of the family other than that. One family member
says that there could have been siblings John, George, and Dacilla. I
do not have any evidence to support that.

I was wondering if anyone can tell me a good place to stay, I am going
to get up very early on that Friday and drive out, I hope to be able to
find something out, and then drive back to Indiana on Saturday. Even if
I don't find out anything I will at least been to the area my GG
Grandfather was born. Any tips on a good place to start or where to
look would be appreciated. I hope to be prepared as best I can, so I
can spend the maximum time trying to find my GGG Grandparents.

Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sheri
Christner Krichbaum, Warsaw, Indiana.

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