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From: Sandra Jones Hall <>
Subject: Re: [STATLER] Casper Statler
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:06:08 -0800
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Hi Jack,

I am also a descendant of Casper Statler through his son John.
I have Andrew as married to Sophia Wagner who died in 1859.
According to the 1880 Census Andrew and Elonora had three children.
Loretta born 1864, Cora Born 1869, and Lulu Jenetta born 1877.
I also have that they had a son named Samuel who married Ethel Goughnour.

I have also been to the Statler Cemetery but didn't record many tombstone.
I do have a picture of Casper's but I can't read it.
A transcription I have says 18 August 1743 to 12 April 1798.
I can see my picture of Samuel's stone and it does say son of Jasper.
The transcription I have says son of Joseph.
Dates for Samuel Jan. 15, 1776 to May 17, 1860
There is another transcription online at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasomers/cemetery/sh/statler.htm

Now to the spelling
When working on genealogy, a shift of thinking about spelling really helps.
Wasn't much of a problem for me since I wasn't such a great speller.
Spelling really varies, if you look at the transcription of the cemetery
you will see Statler, Stetler and Stotler. All the same family.
CASPER is the usual German spelling. Jasper is the English translation,
in some records it is Gasper the French version.
And most puzzling it is sometime Joseph, which I believe was a guess at an English
translation. That spelling is especially associated with Casper's father-in-law
Casper Walter.
In the first Newletter I published in March 1986 page 3, I go into more detail on
spelling.
The Newsletters are on the Statler Family website under Family Documents:
http://www.jcn1.com/mabccs/

Sandy




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