Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ruffner families who descended from Peter Ruffner (1713-1778) and Mary Steinman (1714-1798) and their eight children, Joseph, Benjamin (Sr.), Catherine, Peter Jr., Reuben, Tobias, Elizabeth, and Emanuel. In 1731, Peter (Sr.) left Maienfeld, Switzerland in the Upper Rhine Valley and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1739, he married Mary Steinman and moved to the Shenandoah...

James Hays was born Aug. 12, 1785 in Honiley, Warwickshire, England, and died Sept. 9, 1851 in Heth Township, Harrison County, Indiana. He married Maria Faith, daughter of Henry Faith and Elizabeth Pike, Sept 22, 1818 in Heth Township. she was born June 16, 1799 in Kentucky and died Nov. 5, 1877 in Harrison County. They had ten children. James was the son of Thomas and Martha Hays of Honiley. Descendants live in Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere....

Traces the lines of descent from six early settlers of Harrison County, Indiana, all named Cunningham: John Cunningham (born 1794), married Nancy Black; Samuel Cunningham (born 1800), married Ruth Applegate; James Cunningham (born 1804), married Nancy Myers or Moyars; James Cunningham (born 1808), married Catherine ______; John Cunningham (born 1810), married (1) Elizabeth Martin and (2) Sarah Bliss Windell; and Samuel Cunningham (born 1815), married...

Clyde Emery Hilligoss was born in Illinois in 1919. He married and was the father of three children. Information on many of his ancestral lines is given in this collection of material and correspondence. Several of these lines can be traced back to colonial America. Includes Mauck, Baumgartner, Bell, Beard, Diehl/Deal, Duffield, Frakes, Funkhouser, Hester. McRoberts , Mowery, Price, and related families.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Crabill (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Switzerland. Many were Mennonites, who escaped into the Rhine Valley, and later came to America. Some allied families came from Scotland. Focus is on (but not limited to) the descendants of John Crabill (b. 1720) who immigrated on the ship "Friendship" in 1727 to the Shenandoah Valley in Pennsylvania. John married...

Henry Fry was born in Virginia, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Kephart Fry. He married Elizabeth Monaham, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Burget Monaham. Their children were Israel, who was born in 1823, Lavina, Readus, Delilah, Barbara, Joseph, Elizabeth, James and Sophia. Other localities include Maryland and West Virginia. .

James Hays (1785-1851) was born in Warwickshire, England, son of Thomas Hays. He immigrated to the United States in 1804 with the family of William Reader and lived awhile with them in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He migrated to Harrison County, Indiana, in 1808. He married Mariah Faith (1799-1877), daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Pike Faith, in 1818 in Heth Township, Harrision County, Indiana. They had ten children, 1819-1840. Descendants listed...

John Crabill (ca.1720/1726) emigrated from Switzerland (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1727 with his parents; the only other Crabill on the passenger list was Christian Crabill. John purchased land near Toms Brook in Shenandoah County, Virginia in 1749. Descendants lived in Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestry to the 1400s in Switzerland (spelling the surname Krebiel, Kreybuehl, Krehbill, Krähenbül,...

Abraham Strickler and three of his brothers immigrated about 1700 from Switzerland to Pennsylvania, and in 1728 Abraham owned land in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and elsewhere.