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From: "Suzi W Smith" <>
Subject: Surname: West
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:40:36 -0700
References: <B0007188545@mpmail6.accesstoledo.com>


Perhaps the "West" surname was shortened from "Westover".
----- Original Message -----
From: "CR" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 7:04 AM
Subject: RE: [PAFRANKL] where did they go in 1860?


> I'm descended from the Benedicts as well (Elizabeth Benedict married
Abraham
> Knepper). Elizabeth was the daughter of Peter Benedict and had the
> following siblings:
>
> JOHN BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1761.
> iii. ABRAHAM BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1763.
> iv. JACOB BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1765.
> v. DANIEL BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1767.
> vi. PETER BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1769.
> vii. CHRISTINA BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1771.
> viii. MARY BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1773.
> ix. SUSANNA BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1775.
> x. CATHERINE BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1777.
> xi. BARBARA BENEDICT, b. Abt. 1779.
>
> Notes for BARBARA BENEDICT:
> Husband
> Daniel Stover, Rev.
> Born: 1757 - Franklin County, Pennsylvania
> Marr: -
> Died: OCT 1822 - near Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
> Father: William Stover
> Mother: Eva Elisabetha Suss
> Other Spouses:
>
> Wife
> Barbara Benedict
> Born: -
> Died: AFT 1829 - near Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
> Father:
> Mother:
> Other Spouses:
>
> Children
> 1. John Stover
> Born: 2 SEP 1787 - Franklin County, Pennsylvania
> Marr: - Mary Deardorff
> Died: 25 JAN 1859 -
>
> 2. Elizabeth Stover
> Born: ABT 1795 -
> Marr: - Abraham Deardorff
> Died: UNKNOWN -
>
> Are these your Deardorffs?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Deardorff [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 8:52 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] where did they go in 1860?
>
> Well, I think I'm going to throw my 2 cents worth in here. My lines
(mainly
> Deardorff and Benedict) were in the Brethren Church. The Brethren, seeing
> that there was an expansion to the West, wanted their church involved,
too.
>
> "The German Baptists united Home Mission actives with the westward
expansion
> of the nation in the period before and following the Civil War. Like many
> other congregations in Pennsylvania, the Upper Conewago membership was
> involved in the expansion of the church into the western lands".
> Brethren Heritage Along the Big Conewago, Elmer Q. Gleim, Center Square
> Press, 1991, p. 78
>
> Mr.Gleim goes on to tell of York Co families that traveled to Ill. to open
> churches. Many of my Deardorff's and Benedicts moved west... and I
believe
> this is one reason. But let's not forget "Manifest Destiny" The whole
> country was exploding west at this time. Free land and gold in
California.
> A man could make a new start.
>
> This makes it really hard for us. I've had quite a bit of luck finding
> people through GenWeb. If I know where they went, say from an obituary of
a
> brother, then I put a query on that states GenWeb. We can only just keep
> trying.
>
> Beth Ann Deardorff
>
>
>

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