1. Correspondence dated September 22, 1969,
signed by Lorraine Sponseller (Mrs. Charles Sponseller), obtained
from Antoinette Waughtel Sorenson of Tacoma, Washington, August,
1995.
2. Henry S. Dotterer, The Dotterer
Family, Philadelphia: 1903.
3. Information received from Natalie Jayne
Seiwell (kiana@ix.netcom.com) via the internet on February 23,
1998.
4. "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from
German-Speaking Lands to North America, Volume I: The Northern
Kraichgau", by Annette Kunselman Burgert, Breinigsville,
Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania German Society, 1983. Published by
Kutztown Publishing Company, Kutztown, PA.
5. Data compiled by Ethel Close Buckey (1815
Park Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland), genealogist, and a Troxell
descendant, and presented to the line of Peter Troxell, the Emigrant,
July, 1936, at Rocky Ridge, Maryland.
6. "Adams County Church Records of the 18th
Century", Family Line Publications.
7. Burial records of St. John's Lutheran
churchyard, Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania; obtained from
the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road,
Lancaster, PA 17602.
8. "Chancery Books of Carroll County, Maryland,
Volumes 1-20, 1837-1873", abstracted by Virginia D. Stenley, pub. by
Family Line Publications, Westminster, Maryland, 1994.
9. "Tombstone Inscriptions from St. Mary's
Cemetery (Old Section), Silver Run, MD with everyname index",
compiled August 1987 by Wendy Bish and Larry Bolin, pub. by The South
Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 1824, York,
PA 17405. Special Publication Number 50, October1992.
10. PA IGI March 1992
11. Last will and testament of Michael
Dotterer dated October 10, 1783.
12. Carroll County Genealogical Society,
comp., "Carroll County Cemeteries, Volume Five: Part One
North-Central", Westminster, Maryland: 1999.
13. Data compiled by John A. Mehring of 28
Tree Top Trail, Fairfield, Pennsylvania 17320-8237 and sent to the
writer by Mr. Mehring, May 1997.
14. Information received from Dick Ott of
Maryland (DickOtt@aol.com) over the internet on July 14, 1997.
15. Nellie (Woods) Whedon, "The German
Bohne-Bohn-Boon-Boone Family, Descendatns of Johann Diel Bohne of
Maryland 1711-1764", 1945 (updated in October 1997 by Richard H.
Ott).
16. "Maryland German Church Records, Vol. 7,
Saint Mary's Church, Silver Run, Carroll County, Lutheran Records
1784-1863, Reformed Records 1812-1866", Translated and edited by
Frederick S. Weiser, Noodle Doosey Press, Manchester, Maryland, 1987,
p. 83.
17. "George Dodrer", administration papers
dated March 10, 1863, Carroll County, Maryland courthouse.
Photocopies in the possession of the writer.
18. "Death notice of George Dottro", Hanover
Citizen, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 20,
1862. Photocopy in possesion of the writer.
19. "Maryland German Church Records, Vol. 7,
Saint Mary's Church, Silver Run, Carroll County", translated and
edited by Frederick S. Weiser, Noodle Doosey Press, Manchester,
Maryland.
20. Records of St. Mary's Lutheran Church,
Silver Run, Carroll County, Maryland.
21. Caretaker's Records of St. Mary's Cemetery
(New Section), Silver Run, Maryland; Hanover Public Library, Hanover,
York County, Pennsylvania.
22. Carroll County Public Library, comp.,
"Carroll County, Maryland Marriage Licenses, 1837-1899", (Wesminster,
MD: Carroll County Genealogical Society, Inc., 1995).
23. Inscriptions from St. Mary's Cemetery,
Mayberry Road, Silver Run, Carroll County, Maryland, taken from "The
Democratic Advocate", a local newspaper, printed December 21,
1889.
24. Virginia D. Stenley, abs., "Chancery Books
of Carroll County Maryland, Volumes 21-40, 1873-1889", (Westminster,
Maryland: Family Lines Publications, 1996)
25. Information received from Richard (Dick)
Ott, 4208 Elsa Terrace, Baltimore, Maryland 21211; 410-366-2808;
(DickOtt@aol.com).
26. Maryland IGI, March 1992
27. 1850 U. S. Census
28. "Death notice of George Duttera", Hanover
Citizen, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 14,
1878. Photocopy in possession of the writer.
29. "PA death certificate of Minnie Lawyer
Blettner", File No. 79214, Registered No. 165, certfied copy number
030746, Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records. Certified copy in the
possession of the writer.
30. Information from obituary of Mary M.
Lawyer in the Record Herald of Hanover, York Co., PA on Thursday,
March 16, 1916.
31. Information received from Roger Blettner,
October 1995.
32. "Obituary of Eli M. Dutterer", Hanover
Evening Sun, Thursday, December 16, 1926. Photocopy in the possession
of the writer.
33. "Death certificate of Susannah
(Flickinger) Duterer", Maryland State Archives, Annaplis, Maryland,
MSA No. S1178. Certified copy in the possession of the writer.
34. "Administration account of George Dodrer,
Jr.", March 4, 1879, Carroll County, Maryland courthouse. Photocopies
in the possession of the writer.
35. "Obituary of John T. Dutterer", Hanover
Evening Sun, Tuesday, December 2, 1930. Photocopy in the possession
of the writer.
36. Information received from Jennifer
Schacht, 2705 Trails End Drive, Bentonville, AR 72712, via mail,
March 1997.
37. Marriage records of St. Mary's Church,
Silver Run, Carroll County, Maryland.
38. Carroll County Genealogical Society,
comp., "Carroll County Cemeteries, Volume Five: Part Two
North-Central", Westminster, Maryland: 1999.
39. Carroll County Genealogical Society,
comp., "Carroll County Cemeteries, Volume Four: Northeast",
(Westminster, MD: Carroll County Genealogical Society, 1995).
40. Information from gravestone in St. Mary's
Union Cemetery, Silver Run, Carroll County, Maryland.
41. Information received from Margaret
Blettner, April 1995.
42. "Administration papers for the estate of
John Lawyer", Carroll County courthouse, Carroll County, Maryland.
Photocopy of original in the possession of the writer.
43. "Death certificiate of Ezra M. Lawyer",
Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, Maryland, MSA No. C3. Certified
copy in the possession of the writer.
44. Ohio IGI, March 1992.
45. Records of St. Mary's Lutheran Church,
Silver Run, Carroll County, Maryland.
46. "PA death certificate of Charles Clayton
Blettner", File No. 101616, Registered No. 216, certified number
030743, Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records. Certified copy in the
possession of the writer.
47. Information from Mrs. Martha (Schaeffer)
Herting received July 16, 1994. Much of this information was compiled
by her father, Carl Schaeffer.
48. Information from obituary of Minnie Lawyer
Blettner in The Evening Sun, Hanover, York Co., PA on Thursday,
August 29, 1940. Copy in possession of the writer.
49. Information from gravestone in Mt. Olivet
Cemetery in Hanover, York, Co., PA.
50. "Will of John H. Bletner", March 5, 1910,
Will Book YY No. 25; page 203, Will No. 114. Copy located at Adams
County Historical Society, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
Photocopy of typescript of will in possession of the writer.
51. Information received from Martha Schaeffer
Herting.
52. Personal knowledge of the writer.
53. 1923 Directory of Hanover, York Co.,
PA.
54. Information from obituary of Cora Miller
Blettner in the Evening Sun of Hanover, York Co., PA on Thursday,
January 28, 1982. Copy in possession of the writer.
55. Information received from Jeanne Blettner
Herr, June 1995.
56. Obituary of Mrs. Francis (Helen) J. Will.
Original in the possession of the writer.
57. Personal notebook kept by Mary (Blettner)
Rudisill. Copy in the possession of the writer.
58. Information from obituary of John L.
Blettner in the Evening Sun of Hanover, York Co., PA on Tuesday,
September 25, 1979. Copy in possession of the writer.
59. Information received from Phyllis Blettner
Masenheimer on 1/31/95.
60. "PA death certificate of John C.
Rudisill", certified copy number 030720, Pennsylvania Division of
Vital Records. Certified copy in the possession of the writer.
61. "Birth record of Mary Blettner", Records
of the Orphan's Court of the County of York, State of Pennsylvania,
Registry of Births No. 3. Certified copy in the possession of the
writer.
62. Church records of Grace Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Two Taverns, Mt. Joy Township, Adams County,
Pennsylvania, 1888-1959. Copies of records in possession of the
writer.
63. Card from funeral service of John C.
Rudisill. Copy in the possession of the writer.
64. "The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania,
1742-1800, a Critical and Lengendary History of the Ephrata Cloister
and the Dunkers", by Julius Friedrich Sachse, Vol 2, p. 488.
65. Inscriptions of Mt. Olivet Cemetery,
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; Hanover Public Library, Hanover.
Copies of pages in the possession of the writer.
66. Obituary of Richard C. Blettner which
appeared in the Hanover Evening Sun, Hanover, York County,
Pennsylvania. Original in possession of the writer.
67. Obituary of Roger D. Blettner, Hanover
Evening Sun, SAturday, August 17, 1996. Original in the possession of
the writer.
68. "Obituary of Mabel (Gillenwater)
Blettner", Hanover Evening Sun, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.
Original in possession of the writer.
69. "The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania,
1742-1800, a Critical and Lengendary History of the Ephrata Cloister
and the Dunkers",by Julius Friedrich Sachse, Vol 2, p. 506.
70. Information from obituary of infant
Blettner in the Evening Sun of Hanover, York Co., PA on Tuesday,
February 17, 1948. Copy in possession of the writer.
71. Information received from Roger and Mabel
Blettner, January 1995.
72. Information from obituary of Ezra M.
Lawyer, which appeared in the Hanover Evening Sun of Hanover, York
Co., PA on Wednesday, February, 13, 1929. Copy in the possession of
the writer.
73. 1880 Maryland census in Carroll County
Volume 10, Enumeration District 50, Sheet 6, Line 46, Election
District 3.
74. 1910 U.S. Census
75. Memorial record from Claude Lawyer's
funeral service, October 21, 1943. Original in possession of the
writer.
76. Obituary of Minnie E. (Schaeffer) Lawyer,
copy in the possession of the writer.
77. Information received from Ned Little.
78. Death records of St. Mary's Church, Silver
Run, Carroll County, Maryland.
79. Information received from Charles Appler,
10417 New Bedford Ct SE, Lehigh Acres, FL 33936-7253.
80. Obituary of Nevin O. Lawyer, October 15,
1995, in The Evening Sun. Original in the possession of the
writer.
81. "Obituary of George W. Dutterer", Hanover
Evening Sun, Tuesday, March 28, 1933. Photocopy in the possession of
the writer.
82. "Maryland German Church Records, Vol. 7,
Saint Mary's Church, Silver Run, Carroll County, Lutheran Records
1784-1863, Reformed Records 1812-1866", Translated and edited by
Frederick S. Weiser, Noodle Doosey Press, Manchester, Maryland,
1987.
83. IGI 4/30/94
84. Church records of St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
85. Information received from Barbara M.
George of 2517 Longview Drive, Estes Park, Colorado, on July 11,
1996. Copies in the possession of the writer.
86. Ancestral file dated July 15, 1989, by
Phyllis L. Gerrick, 225 South Rancho Street, Ridgecrest, California,
93555, (619)375-2634.
87. Ray D. Schwartz, "The Andrew Schwartz
Family 1744-1985", (self-published, 1985).
88. Church records of Redeemer Reformed
Church, Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
89. Obituary of Merle Sheely, which appeared
in the September 24, 1999 edition of the Hanover Evening Sun,
Hanover, Pennsylvania.
90. Jacob Mehrling Holdcraft, "Names in Stone,
75,000 Cemetery Inscriptions from Frederick County, Maryland",
(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985).
91. "Rauenzahner to Routson, A Family on the
Move", by John P. Dern and M. Marjorie Waidner, Picton Press, Camden,
Maine.
92. "Bauersachs Family History and
Chronology", by Dr. U.S.G. Bowersox, Longmont, Colorado, December,
1841, pub. by the Press of The Longmont Ledger, Longmont,
Colorado.
93. Information from Bowersox microfilm at
FHC, 1995.
94. "Johann Bauersachs Update"/[Tom &
Jan Bowersox] (on microfilm at the LDS FHC, film no. 1035615,
item 7), published by the Bauersachs Genealogical Society, Des
Plaines, IL, 1981?, copyright 1975.
95. Information from Dave Schubert, Box 451,
Pomona, NJ 08240; (schubert@jerseyscape.net); 1997.
96. Robert Stover, "Abstracts from the
Republican Compiler Adams County, Pennsylvania 1831-1851", Volume II,
(Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1976).
97. Update of Bowersox genealogy from Charles
Appler.
98. Church Records of the German Reformed and
Evangelical Lutheran Congregations at St. Mark's Church (White
Church), Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Copies of records in
possession of the writer.
99. Information compiled by the late Earl
Stockslager Rudisill, circa 1956. Copy in the possession of the
writer.
100. Burial records of Grace Church cemetery,
Mt. Joy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania; obtained from the
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2215 Millstream Road,
Lancaster, PA 17602.
101. Edward L. Rudisill, "The Rudisill
Genealogy", (Elverson, PA: Olde Springfield Shoppe, 1995).
102. Records of St. James Lutheran Church,
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
103. Church records of Mt. Joy Lutheran
Church, Mt. Joy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
104. Data compiled by Earl Rudisill in
1959.
105. Calvin E. Schildknect, ed., "Monocacy
and Catoctin, Some Settlers of Western Maryland and Adjacent
Pennsylvania and Their Descendants 1725-1988", Vol. II, (Westminster,
Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1989).
106. Edward L. Weikert, Jr., "History of the
Weikert Family, 1735-1930", 1930.
107. Charles R. Appler, "Snyder-Bowersox
Family Outline".
108. Gravestone in cemetery at St. Luke's
Reformed Church, New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, viewed by
John and Barbara Rudisill of Worton, Maryland, 1996.
109. Cemetery records of the Adams County
Historical Society, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Photocopy
in possession of the writer.
110. Obituary of Charles L. Millhimes, which
appeared in "The York Daily Record" (York, York County, Pennsylvania)
on March 16, 1994.
111. Charles R. Appler, "Appler-Harner
Notes".
112. "Our Name's The Game", South Central
Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc., Vol. 25, No. 2, September
1999.
113. George R. Prowell, "History of York
County Pennsylvania", Volume 2, (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co.,
1907).
114. Cemetery records of Krider's (St.
Benjamin's) Cemetery on Krider's Church Road near Westminster,
Carroll County, Maryland, as taken on October 25, 1889, and published
in "The Democratic Advocate", a local newspaper, on February 1,
1890.
115. "Genealogical Abstract of York County,
Pennsylvania, Marriage Registration Book 1852-1855, with surname
index", Special publication number 28, July, 1984, published by The
South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc.
116. Inscriptions of Runnymeade Cemetery,
Baust Church Road, near Uniontown, Carroll County, Maryland. Obtained
from the Historical Society of Carroll County, Maryland, and
transcribed by Robert M. Barnes on 29 September 1987.
117. Record of the Marriages of St. Matthew's
Congregation, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania, as recorded in
volume III of the church records.
118. 1860 U. S. Census
119. "The Flickinger Family History,
including the Flickinger Families in the United States of America",
by Robert Elliott Flickinger. Success Composition and Printing Co.,
Des Moines, Iowa, 1927.
120. T.J.C. Williams and Folger McKinsey,
"History of Frederick County, Maryland", Vol. 2, (reprint of the
original edition of 1910), Regional Publishing Company, Baltimore,
1979.
121. Claude J. Rahn, "The Yingling
Genealogy", (Vero Beach, Florida: privately published, 1958).
122. Book unknown - page entitled "Families
of Crawford County, Ohio". Copies in possession of the writer.
123. Typescript compiled by Marion E.
Sponseller, 4018 Ogema Avenue, Flint, Michigan 48507, dated October
1975. Photocopy in the possession of the writer.
124. Information obtained from Antoinette
Waughtel Sorenson of Tacoma, Washington, August, 1995.
125. Gloria L. Aughenbaugh, comp., "Gone to
Ohio...Logan, Mahoning, Stark and Trumbull Counties From Pennsylvania
Counties: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster and York",
(York, Pennsylvania: South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society,
Inc., Special Publication Number 54, January 1996).
126. Undated correspondence, signed by
Lorraine Sponseller (Mrs. Charles Sponseller), obtained from
Antoinette Waughtel Sorenson of Tacoma, Washington, August, 1995.
127. Exerpt from "History of Stark County,
Ohio. 1881". Excerpted by C. E. Bowman, 1801 Foraker Avenue, Findlay,
Ohio in 1984. Copy of excerpt in possession of the writer.
128. Frederick S. Weiser, ed., "Maryland
German Church Records, Vol. 8", (Westminster, Maryland: Historical
Society of Carroll County, 1994).
129. Exerpt from "History of Seneca County,
Ohio. 1886". Excerpted by C. E. Bowman, 1801 Foraker Avenue, Findlay,
Ohio in 1984. Copy of excerpt in possession of the writer.
130. C. E. Bowman, comp., "Sponseller
Families in Ohio and Indiana", (Findlay, Ohio: C. E. Bowman,
1984).
131. Records of Christ Reformed Church, near
Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
132. "Defiance County, Ohio, History Told in
Pictures and Words of living memory", compiled by Professor Eugene R.
Andrews and Lorraine L. Andrews, Project Directors, assisted by
Defiance County Genealogical Society and Defiance Public Library.
133. Information from Defiance County Records
Center, 510 Court Street, Defiance, Ohio 43512, obtained by
Antoinette Waughtel Sorenson, dated April 26, 1995.
134. Family group sheet compiled by Mrs. W.
C. Dixson, 520-A North Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, California 94596,
on 12 August 1986. Photocopy in the possession of the writer.
135. Personal knowledge of Gervis and Gladys
Sponseller of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.
136. Exerpt from "History of Columbiana
County, Ohio". Excerpted by C. E. Bowman, 1801 Foraker Avenue,
Findlay, Ohio in 1984. Copy of excerpt in possession of the
writer.
137. "Abstracts of Adams County Pennsylvania
Wills, 1800-1826", by Kevin J. Greenholt, pub. by Family Line
Publications, 1988, p. 13.
138. Randy J. Miller, "Abstracts of Adams
County, Pennsylvania Wills (1826-1850)", (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
Adams County Historical Society, 1996).
139. Klaus Stopp, "The Printed Birth and
Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans", Volume 2,
Pennsylvania: Carlisle-Hanover, (Mainz/ Germany and East Berlin
PA/USA: 1997).
140. Records of Flohr's Church, McKnighttown,
Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
141. Records of Mt. Carmel Cemetery,
Littlestown, Adams County, Pensylvania.
142. "Genealogical Abstracts of Adams County,
Pennsylvania, Birth, Marriage and Death Registrations, 1852-1855,
with surname index", published by The South Central Pennsylvania
Genealogical Society, Inc., York, PA, Special Publication Number 32,
January/April 1986.
143. Records of Emanuel Reformed Church,
Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania.
144. Information received from Paul Radwanski
(ronrad@epix.net) via email on September 24, 1995.