Lybarger linkages : official newsletter of the Lybarger Memorial Association
(Periodical)

Semi-Annual

Semiannual.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan 1985) -

Editor: Lee H. Lybarger & Jean L. Smith.

Published: West Trenton, New Jersey; Delaware, Ohio.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (6 Dec. 2005).

Some numbering and date errors.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Lybarger (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Germany, Ireland, and Scotland. In the 1730s, some immigrated to Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. During the late 1700s, some settled in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, and then moved to Knox County, Ohio in the early 1800s. Some focus is on descendants of immigrants Nicholaus Leyenberger (1739), and Johann Adam Leberger and his wife, Barbara (1732). One descendant, Henry Lyberger used his Wills Creek home as meeting house for the Wills Creek Church (Lutheran) in 1805. This served their congregation in the Madley and Wills Creek area of Bedford County, Pennsylvania until 1813. In 1883, a new church house was built on land donated by David Lybarger, near Madley, which was known as the Lybarger Lutheran Church. Today it is known as the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. This historic church was built in 1883, and is now owned and maintained by the Lybarger Memorial Association. Other Lybargers lived in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. Many served in the military, died, and were buried in the Netherlands, Washington D.C., and Virginia. Later descendants also lived in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario (Canada), and in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and elsewhere.

The Lybarger Memorial Association existed in the 1920s and 1930s, but became defunct during the Great Depression. In August 1984, the Association was revived and incorporated at Trenton, New Jersey. In 1995, their headquarters was moved to Delaware, Ohio. Reunions are mainly held in the Lybarger Lutheran Church at Madley, Pennsylvania. The members include Lybarger (and all variant spellings) and their allied families throughout the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. For more information, see their Web site.