Includes descendants of John Starkey (Johannes Sterchi) (1815-1884), son of Peter Sterchi and Elizabeth Zingrich. Johannes was born in Matten, Berne Canton, Switzerland. He immigrated to Ohio and married Barbara Heim (1825-1891). She was born in Wilderswyl, Canton Berne, Switzerland, daughter of Henry and Barbara (Borter) Heim and had immigrated to Ohio with her family in 1833. Descendants lived in Ohio and elsewhere. Includes Stuckey and related...

Family history and genealogial information about the descendants of Pierre (Peter) Eicher who was born ca. 1796 in France. He married Elizabeth Graber ca. 1825. Elizabeth died ca. 1829 and Pierre married Mary Goldsmith ca. 1830. They immigrated to America ca. 1849 and settled in Fulton Co., Ohio. Mary died 4 May 1863 and Pierre married Anna Stauffer Witmer (widow of Daniel Witmer) ca. 1867. Pierre died ca. 1874 in Daviess Co., Indiana and was the...

Francis Myrick (ca. 1675-ca. 1740) was born in Virginia. His son, Francis, moved to Bertie County, North Carolina by 1735. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and elsewhere.

George W. Smith was born 25 May 1802 in East Tennessee. His parents were John Smith (b. 1743) and Mary Coffee (b. 1761). He married Mary Hicks (1804-1864), daughter of Misbach Hicks, in 1823. They had ten children. He died in 1877 in Henderson, Texas. Their daughter, Sindrelle (1837-1892), married Franklin Elias Heath. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Texas, Oklahoma and California. Includes Hobbs, Hunsucker, Masten and related families.

Hosea Smith's grandfather, Joseph Smith (ca. 1712-1780), was one of the settlers of Perquimans County, North Carolina. His father, John Smith (1745-1797) married 1) Lovey Hosea, daughter of Abraham Hosea and 2) Mary Simons. Hosea Smith, son of John and Lovey Smith, was born in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, in 1773. He married Huldah Harrell Wilson, daughter of Silas and Mary Harrell and widow of Jonathan Wilson, in 1795 in Perquimans County,...

Benjamin Adhem Fox was born 23 February 1873. His parents were James Wilson Fox and Mariah Ruble. He married Caroline Louella Boettner in 1899. They had one daughter and lived in Salem Township, Monroe County, Ohio. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ireland, Switzerland and elsewhere. .

John H. Russell (parents unkown) was born ca. 1817 in South Carolina. He married Matilda Cross on Dec. 2, 1839 in Haywood Co., North Carolina. She was the daughter of William and Rebecca Cross. John and Matilda were the parents of six children, and later settled in Cocke Co., Tennessee. Their son William N. Russell and his second wife, Mary Elnora Winton are the ancestors of Richard E. Russell. William N. left Tennessee and settled in Shelby Co.,...

Martin Shaffner (1787-1870), married Sarah E. Fleischer. They had nine children and lived in Lyken's Valley, Pennsylvania. He married Ann Eve Wert and they had three children. He married Susanna Bair in Ohio. They had nine children.

Andre Sommer was born ca. 1700 at Lützelflüh or Sumiswald, Canton Bern, Switzerland. He was an Anabaptist and farmer at Lambermoulin, later known of Bambois, in the Pincipality of Salm, France, as early as 1750. He was the father of five children born ca. 1725-ca. 1740. A number of his descendants immigrated to the United States in the 1800s. Descendants, especially descendants of his son, Joseph Sommer (ca. 1736-1781), lived in France, Ohio,...