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 Hello
and Welcome to my Family History web site.
My name is James
Obenchain and I just recently (in the past 5 yrs) began my quest
to discover my family's ancestry and this web site is new and under
'construction' (2005). I have always wanted to pay tribute to
my ancestors and to thank them in some way for being the strong
people they were. I hope that I can instill in others to take an
interest in this at an earlier age while they can still talk to some
of their older relatives. I want to thank everyone that has helped
me to get as far as I have with my work and hope that I can be of
some help to others. I am pretty fortunate that both these of lines
settled into the same area of Kentucky in the early 1800's and most
of them probably knew each other and in some instances came to
Kentucky together.
 I
was born May 26 1939 at home near Fordsville, KY, Ohio County,
Kentucky. I was the first child of Arthur Obenchain and
Gertie Wilson (pictured in this paragraph). My father was an
oil field worker. We lived there until I was 8 years old when
we moved to Glasgow, KY. We lived there until the oil boom in
Muhlenberg County in 1955 moved us to Greenville, KY.
I graduated high school
there at Greenville High School in 1959, I then went to school at
Nasdville Auto Diesel College and graduated in 1960 but never worked
as a mechanic.
I Worked at a local
factory until drafted into the army in 1963 and went to basic
training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In the battery of tests that I took
I qualified as a machinist and was sent to New Cumberland Army Depot
for 22 months as a machinist. After getting out of the army in 1965
I got a job in a machine shop and in 1974 got a job as a tool & die
maker at York division of Borg Warner where I met my future wife,
Linda Stewart. We dated from July until December 1974 when we
were married. We have a daughter that has been married 8 years this
December and have three grandchildren, two boys and one girl.
I worked at York until 1991 when the plant closed I then worked at a
local machine shop until 1999 when I started work at Dana Corp as a
tool maker where I worked until I retired in November 2004 after 45
years as a machinist. I was working in a Dana plant that made
automobile parts, which is coincidental as my ancestors that came
here from Germany in the 1750's were wagon makers.
If I can be of any
assistance to you in your research with respect to any of our mutual
ancestors, or their collateral lines, I would more than happy to
discuss it with you. My e-mail address is below.
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