Daniel Riggenbach was born in 1860 in Illinois. He married Katherine Sauder (1864-1929) in 1883 in Greenwood Co., Kansas. Daniel died in 1931 in Paulding Co., Ohio. Traces ancestors and descendants of Daniel. Descendants live in Ohio, Illinois, Colorado, Indiana, and elsewhere in the United States.

George Peter Knecht, the son of Peter Knecht and Anna Barbara, was born about 1702 in Reihane, Germany. He married (1) Anna Eva Lampel, the daughter of Georg Michael Lampel, on 19 August 1726. They had four children. He married (2) Anna Christina Hertzel on 22 June 1736, in Pennsylvania. She was born to Hans Heinrich Hertzel and Anna Barbara Umberger on 20 December 1705 in Reihen, Germany. They had four children. George died 27 March 1773 in Lower...

(George) Peter Getz (1803-1873) was born in Bonfeld-Wurtemburg, Germany. He married Eva Katherine Kres (1802-1867), daughter of Johann Gottlob and Johanna Elizabeth Strasner Kres, in 1829. They had six children, 1830-1859. The five oldest children immigrated to the United States, 1854-1859, and settled in Illinois. Peter and his wife immigrated in 1859 with their youngest child and made their home with their daughter, Katherine Koch, at Dillan, Illinois....

George Peter Knecht (1702-1773), son of Peter and Anna Barbara Knecht, married Anna Eva Lampel in 1726, and in 1732 immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia. They settled at Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. After the death of his first wife, he married Anna Christina Hertzel in 1736. Descendants and relatives lived chiefly in Pennsylvania, with some in New York, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and family history...

William Powell Lear (1902-1978) was the son of Reuben Marion Lear (1878- 1955) and Gertrude Elizabeth Powell (1883/4-1934) of Hannibal, Marion, Missouri. His father Reuben, was the son of John William Lear and Mary Elizabeth Atkins (sometimes written as Adkins). They lived in both Macon and Marion counties, Missouri. John William Lear's parents were Jesse M. Lear and Nancy Fagan of Miller Twp., Marion County, Mo. Jesse (b.1817) was born in Bourbon...

Frederick William Beitzel, Sr. was born 9 December 1825 near Diedenshausen, Prussia. His parents were Johannes Beitzel, Sr. and Catharina Elizabeth Weiler. He emigrated in 1852. He married Annie Elizabeth Ankney (1835-1902) 27 May 1855. They had fifteen children. He died 4 December 1911 in Auburn Township, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Arizona.

Ambrose Boots was born in Sussex County, England in about 1770. His parents were James Boots and Mary Ranger. He married his second wife, Elizabeth Bull, widow of Edward Sharp and mother of one daughter, 25 November 1809 in Ewhurst, Sussex. They had three sons, John, Edmund and Samuel. They emigrated in 1830 and settled in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.