John Webster Gillingham was born in 1857 in Chester, New Hampshire. He moved first to Mitchell, South Dakota, and then to western Washington, settling in Springdale, Washington about 1890. Descendants and relatives lived in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Minnesota and elswhere.

William Diehl immigrated from Germany (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1738, and settled in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He moved later to Lincoln (now Catawba) County, North Carolina, and married twice. Descendant "Enoch M. Rogers first settled in Ellendale township, Alexander county, North Carolina. About the year 1890 he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and with his entire family removed to Manassa, Colorado, a Mormon community,...

Chiefly ancestors and descendants of Paul Raymond Moyer and his wife Catherine Foote Moyer. Paul Raymond Moyer was born 21 February 1898 to John Linnington and Eva Bither Moyer. He married Catherine Foote, daughter of William D. and Mary Catherine Hughes Foote. Catherine Foote Moyer is a descendant of Richard Foote I (b. 1632), son of John Foote of Cardenham in Cornwell, and Hester Hayward, daughter of Nicholas Hayward. Richard and Hester were...

"Since 1191, Uolricus and Cuno de Gravinsried are the first mentioned of record, both by given and surname. The village of Grafenried, near Bern, is the first ancestral home of the family in Switzerland, and as early as the thirteenth century they were most numerous in that locality."--p. 18. Christopher (VI) deGraffenried was the first of the family to settle permanently in America. He married Barbara Tempest (née Needham) in 1714 at Charleston,...

John Frederick Kirshof (d.ca.1830), probably the son of a German immigrant, married widow Catherine (Wacker) Bowman in 1782 in Shenandoah County, Virginia and (after her death) married Barbara Koontz in 1795. Descendants lived in Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Colorado, Maryland, West Virginia, Iowa, Tennessee, Deleware, Texas and elsewhere.

John Hannum (d.1730), a Quaker, immigrated from England to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and married Margery Southery before 1697. " ... She died about 1742, and it is the prevailing belief in the family that they were both buried at St. Johns Church, Concord [twp., Chester Co., Pennsylvania].'--P. 5. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky, New Jersey, Deleware, Virginia,...