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Note for: Nehemiah B. Fredenburg(h), DEC 1822 - 19 NOV 1903
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Individual Note: The Medford Mail
November 27, 1903
City Happenings
Nehemiah Fredenburg died at his home near Big Butte, on Thursday of last week. Burial took place on Saturday. Mr. Fredenburg was seventy years of age and has been a resident of Jackson county for many years.
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Note for: Flora Evelyn Fredenburg, 6 MAY 1854 - 10 AUG 1925
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Individual Note: Southern Coos County American
August 13, 1925
Died - Mrs. Flora E. (Fredenburg) Brack, a resident of this section since 1872, died on the Brack homestead on the Middle Fork Monday. Burial on the old home place beside her husband. Flora E. Fredenburg was born May 6, 1854 in Indiana. In her early youth her family moved to Missouri and after a short residence there came to Oregon, settling first in the Grand Round Valley, then later at Brownsville for a short time. Jan. 23, 1870 she married Phillip Brack and then came to Coos county and took up a homestead, which place she made her home thereafter. Leaves 8 children: Daniel N., Los Angeles; W. H., Portland; Mrs. Susie Norton, Bandon; Mrs. A. O. Taylor, Mapleton, Ore.; Thomas, Elmer and Cass and Mrs. Sam Ocheltree, Myrtle Point. Also 2 brothers, Henry and Eli Fredenburg and a sister, Mrs. Mary Higginbotham, Wash.
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Note for: Philip C. Brack, SEP 1828 - 20 APR 1910
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Individual Note: Myrtle Point Enterprise
April 22, 1910
Died - Philip Brack, who would have been 82 years of age next September died at his home on the Middle Fork, April 20, 1910. The funeral was held yesterday and was conducted by Rev. Thos. Barklow. In the death of Philip Brack of the Middle Fork another of the county pioneers have passed away, he having been one of the 2 survivors of the wreck of the Schooner Lincoln which went ashore near the Coos Bay bar in Jan. 1852. The other and now sole survivor of the wreck is Harry H. Baldwin who was at a North Bend hospital the last heard of by Myrtle Point friends. The Lincoln was carrying 35 U. S. Dragoons under the command of Lieutenant Stanton when she was wrecked. After the wreck the soldiers and sailors secured provisions from the boat and from the Indians who were curious about the strange white men. They remained on Coos bay for more than a month then left for Port Orford, which was their destination, joining comrads there, who had given them up as drowned. Mr. Brack remained in Port Orford for 2 years as a dragoon and was in the fight at Big Bend on the Rogue River in which Capt. Tichnor took part. He afterwards came to the Coquille valley locating on the homestead which was his home at the time of his death. Mr. Brack was born in Germany in Sept. 1828. His wife's maiden name was Flora Fredenberg. There are 7 children, 2 sons and 5 daughters: William H., Daniel N., Mahhalia, Susannah R., Mary E., Emma V. and Margaret C.
"Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties"
by Orvil Dodge
BRACK, Phillip was born in Germany Sept. 1828, and came to Coos Co. in June 1852, and settled on the Middle fork of the Coquille river. His wife's maiden name was Flora Fredenberg, born May 6, 1854, and their children's names are: William H., born April 30, 1871; Daniel N., Sept. 28, 1873; Mahhalia, Nov. 12, 1875; Suzannah B., Aug. 18, 1877; Mary E., May 7, 1880; Emma V., Sept. 29, 1890; Margaret C., March 26, 1893. He was on the schooner Lincoln the account of which will be found on another page, when she was cast ashore.
"A Century of Coos and Curry" by Emil R. Peterson and Alfred Powers
BRACK, Phillip, b. Germany 1828; to Coos 1852; member First U. S. Dragoons on schooner "Captain Lincoln," wrecked just north of Coos Bay entrance January 1852. With others, made way overland to Port Orford. When mustered out two years later, he settled on Middle Fork of the Coquille. Married Florence Fredenburg. Children: William H., Daniel N., Mahhalia, Suzannah B., Mary E., Emma V., Margaret C.
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Note for: Willem Isaacsen van Vredenburgh, ABT 1636 - 19 OCT 1664
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Individual Note: Willem Isaacszen Vredenburgh arrived in New Amsterdam in May 1658 aboard the de Vergulde Bever (Gilded Beaver). He was a soldier in the service of the Dutch West India Company. He was discharged in 1661 and in 1664 married the daughter of Barent Jacobszen (Cool) and Marritie Leenderts. For a time he lived under the walls of Fort William Hendrick and the new fortification of New Orange. About 1677 he moved to Esopus (Wiltwyck) (Kingston) New Amsterdam. He was the founder of the Vredenburgh/Vredenburg families in the United States and so far is the only ancestor that can be found.
He took the oath of allegiance on Sept 1, 1689 to the English crown at Kingston, New York.
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Note for: Jan Broersen Decker, ABT 1630 - BET 1681 AND 1722
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Individual Note: My records show that Broer Decker was the child of Jan Decker and first wife Heyltje Jacobs. This information from Carol van Buren, RD#1, Horton Rd.
Westtown, NY 10998 (9/28/81)
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Note for: George Wild, 10 JAN 1761 - 15 DEC 1829
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Individual Note: This story was related to and written for us, (the children of Margaret Myers North) by Catherine Myers who died February 12, 1897. She was a great aunt to you Hoffeditz children and an aunt to me, your mother, (Ursu la Cotta North Hoffeditz) who was a daughter of Margaret Myers North, and she a sister of Catherine Myers. This same story was also related to us during our childhood days by mother, the fact having occurred during the early history of her mother's people.
Our Grandfather's name was George Wild, spelled with a "d" both in English and German. Get some German to give you the pronunciation; it could have been very easily corrupted into "Wilt". He was born in the State of New Jersey and was an only son. He was a miller by trade and was employed in Mr. Albert's mill where he became acquainted with grandmother. When he had saved money enough, he bought land at the head of Green Spring, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he put up the stone house and barn on the old family homestead.
From an old marriage certificate we learn that Anna Barbara Albertine was married to John Albert, our great-grandfather. To this union were born eleven children, ten daughters and one son. The son died in early youth. Two of the daughters married brothers by the name of Smith, two more married brothers by the name of Cope, John and Peter, one married Peter Tritt, one a Zumbro, one a Brubaker, one a Starry, the third was our grandmother, and there was one whose history has been lost through the passing of time.
From what we can learn of our early ancestors they must have been French Huguenots, and came to this country to escape religious persecution. They only brought their large family Bible with them. They chose to suffer hardship and privations in a new country with people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures and comforts of homeland with people of corrupted religious dispositions.
During the early history of Pennsylvania, there lived in Shamokin, (a town near Philadelphia) a family by the name of Long. These people were our ancestors, we are sure, but through the passing of time the exact lineage has been lost. The main facts of the story are true, they having been handed down from one to the other as new generations came and took the places of those who gradually passed into the great beyond. This family of Longs must have been great-grandparents of my mother's mother, which would take us back for six generations.
THE STORY
One day Mr. Long, the father of the Long household, took some grain to the mill to have it ground into flour. He was away from the home the best p art of the day, as in those days it was customary to wait at the mill until the wheat was ground and then take the flour along home. During the father's absence from the Long homestead, an uncle and several cousins came to visit them. While the members of the Long household were talking to this uncle and the cousins, the watchdog came into the house. The grandmother, who made her home with the Longs, noticed something unusual abo ut the dog's actions and remarked: "what makes the dog come in?" She put the dog out, but before long, he came in again, and whilst in the act of putting him out the second time. Happened to glance towards the woods where she saw the Indians coming towards the house. "Oh ", she exclaimed, "the Indians are coming", and then immediately began to close up the house. When the Indians saw that they had been discovered they came on wi th a rush, but the grandmother had seen them in time and by the time they got there the house was all closed up.
There were two guns in the house that were put to good use that day. The cousins loaded while the uncle fired from an upstairs window or some ot her opening in the wall. The uncle killed two Indians and wounded or crippled others. During the course of the battle the Indians watched and discovered the point from which the firing came, then taking aim, they concentrated their fire upon that window, and finally succeeded in shooting the unc le in the mouth. (The story goes that the uncle was bullet proof and could not have been killed by being hit in any other part of the body. This, however, is a part of the story that no one has ever vouched for.)
After the uncle's death, the cousins used the guns as long as the ammunition held out, after which the Indians closed in on the house and broke open one of the doors. When this took place the family retreated into some of the back rooms. Two of the girls crept under a bed in one of the side rooms. While under there a little dog crawled under with them. The girls were afraid that the dog would bark or cry, and thus reveal their hiding place, but he did not. When the Indians came into that room they looked under the bed but did not see the girls. They set fire to the bed, however, before leaving the room. After the Indians went out one of the girls crept out and with a bucket of water, which was near, put out the fire and quickly crawled back to her hiding place. About this time one of the cousins who had her young baby with her, thought she would make a desperate attempt to escape by jumping out a back window and make a run for the woods, but when she got the window open it was only to look into the face of a big Indian who was on watch at this point. This Indian laughed at her and she quickly closed the heavy shutter again.
A part of the family was in another back room, the grandmother with them. She had a hatchet in her hand. One of the boys said, "let me have the hatchet and I will take up a board in the floor, then we can all get down into the cellar." The grandmother gave him the hatchet but she said, "You must give it to me again. I have nothing else to defend myself with. I will be the last one to go down into the cellar." While the others were going down through the opening they had made in the floor, an Indian broke in a panel of a door and stuck his head through the hold. The grandmother promptly struck him a heavy blow on the head with the hatchet, and he fell dead with his head and upper part of his body hanging through the door. Another Indian pulled the dead Indian's body out of the opening in the door and stuck his head in, only to meet a similar fate, in less time than it takes to tell it. This caused the Indians to abandon the door for a while and also gave the grandmother time to let herself down into the cellar and to pull the floorboard back into place again. After they were all together down in the cellar, our great-grandmother, then a little girl of ten years of age, (Anna Barbara Albertine) was going to cry, the grandmother took Anna's head and held it under her arm to stifle the sound of her crying, and said, "Don't cry, dear, we will all die together."
While all this excitement and the fighting was going on at the Long homestead, the soldiers at the fort, one and a half miles away, heard the firing of the guns and suspicious that someone was in trouble, the commanders aid, "It must be at the Longs", and he ordered two companies of soldiers to go at once to the rescue. The captain of the first company of soldiers ordered his men to march in order, but the captain of the second company fearing that the parties in danger would all be killed before they could be reached, gave the command: "Best man foremost". Two brothers in his company being good runners arrived at Longs in a comparatively short space of time, one about fifty yards ahead of the other. The Indians were then carrying a big log with which to break in the cellar door. The first soldier to arrive on the scene fired at the Indians and killed one, but in the return fire from the Indians he himself was killed. By this time the other soldiers were in sight, and when the Indians saw them coming they quickly gathered up their dead and hurried away. It is said that it is a custom for Indians to carry off their dead so that their dead cannot be counted.
After the soldiers all got to the house, they called to the Longs telling them that the Indians had gone and that they should open the doors and some out. At first, the Longs thought that it was only the Indians trying to deceive them and they would not come out. Finally they were convinced and came out, after which they decided to gather their necessary goods together and go to the fort, which they did, driving their cattle with them where they remained until the Indians left the neighborhood.
It is believed that the Indians did not intend murder on this trip only to take prisoners, but as resistance was offered by the Longs they became desperate unintentionally. The Longs suffered the loss of the uncle and a hired man who was surprised and killed while topping turnips in an out-kitchen. They scalped the hired man and took his scalp with them when they hurried away.
(Note: From other references we think the year was 1756 and it may have been the home of Nicholas Long or DeLong)
Transcribed by Chuck Knorr
Great grandson of Ursula Cotta "North" Hoffeditz
From an email by Dorothy Fitzpatrick
, November 12, 2005
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Note for: Johann Nicholas Lang, 17 OCT 1700 - ABT 1787 Index
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On September 1, 1736, Nickel Lang and his family arrived at the port of Philadelphia on the ship "Harle" after a long journey from their previous home in Waldmohr, which is located in what is now Kreis Kusel, Germany. Along with them came Nickel's half sister Anna Catharina Jocobi and her husband Valentin Neu. Both families settled in Tulpehocken, Berks Co., PA. where they are listed by Rev. Richards as being of the first settlers in 1729. Nickel Lang was listed as 34 years old when he arrived in America.
At the Courthouse of Philadelphia, September 1st, 1736. One hundred fifty one Foreigners from the Palatine & other places, who, with their families, making in all three hundred eighty eight Persons, were imported here in the ship Harle, of London, Ralph Harle, Master, from Rotterdam but last from Cowels, as by Clearance thence, were this day qualified as usual.
The Palatines who's names are underwritten ... did this take & subscribe the Oaths to the Government.
Aboard the Harle that day was one Nickel Lang, with his six young children, for the village of Waldmohr, Germany. Records in far away Waldmohr indicate that at the time of their departure Nickel Lang's wife Elizabetha, whose maiden name was Blum, had accompanied the family together with Nickel's sister and her husband Valentine Neu. Both Nickel and Valentine were able to sign their names in full. Elizabetha "Blum" may have died on the trip to America as she was not listed upon arrival. Upon arrival, Maria Langin (Lang) age 33 was listed as the wife of Nickel Lang. It is highly likely he remarried while in route to America.
Both Nickel Lang and Valentine Neu settled near Fort Northkill along the Blue Mountains near Northkill Creek. They were neighbors, and as early as 1750 worshipped at the Zion Blue Mountain Church, near present-day Straustown in Upper Tulpehocken Township, PA.
Nicholas Lang and Valentine Neu are listed by Rupp as being part of the earliest settlers of the township of Tulpehocken when it was recognized as a division, having been part of Lancaster County in 1729.
On November 4th 1756, the home of Nickel Lang was attacked by Indians. This is the Indian Attack that has been handed down through the family of Anna Barbara Lang, who married John Albert. She was one of the children in the attack and her great granddaughter, Catherine "Kate" Myers, is credited with writing down the story. The story is also recorded in the PA. Archives by a report dated Thursday November 1st 1756 from Lient. Samuel Humphries to Col. Weiser.
From Charles Knorr, by email, December 29, 2005 (chasknorr@@msn.com)
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Note for: Seymour Sigler, MAY 1875 - 30 SEP 1902 Index
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Notes for SEYMOUR SIGLER:
Gravestone Transcription: Tis hard to break the tender cord when love has bound the heart. Tis hard, so hard to speak the words, "must we forever part?"
More About SEYMOUR SIGLER:
Burial: Brush Creek Cemetery, Brush Creek, Muskingum Co., OH
Cause of Death: Bitten by a mad (rabid) dog and died
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Note for: Lucinda Jane Dozer, APR 1856 - 10 APR 1926 Index
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Notes for LUCINDA JANE DOZER:
Obit Courtesy of the Zanesville Times Recorder, April 12, 1926
LUCINDA J. SIGLER SUMMONED FROM LIFE
Mrs. Lucinda J. Sigler, aged 70, widow of John Sigler, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Daisy Vandegriff, 813 Hughes Street, at 5:25 o'clock Sunday morning from a complication of diseases.
Her husband died at the Vandegriff home last August while the couple was visiting here. Mrs. Sigler had been visiting here a few days when she took critically ill and died Sunday morning.
Surviving her are two sons, E. A. Sigler of Montana; J. F. Sigler of Crosswell Michigan; three sisters, Mrs. F. G. Ross of Cannelville; Mrs. J. F. Cook of Chicago; Mrs. Vandegriff of the home. The body will be taken to Coleman Michigan, leaving here at 9:22 am Tuesday.
More About LUCINDA JANE DOZER:
Burial: Coleman MI
Census: 1870, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Brush Creek
Census2: 1900, Michigan, Midland Co., Warren Twp.
Census3: 1920, Michigan, Midland Co., Warren Twp
Source:
More About JOHN SIGLER and LUCINDA DOZER:
Marriage: October 17, 1874, Muskingum Co., OH
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Note for: Nancy Jane Barringer, ABT 1837 - BEF 1888 Index
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Notes for NANCY JANE BARRINGER:
1870, also living with Nancy and Henry is Martha Achauer, age 11
Nancy's death date:
A deed dated 1892, listed a widowed henry selling lots 7 & 8 in Harrison Twp.; also, Frederick, Nancy's father, died in 1888 and left his estate to his children . .and Nancy's children. Deed records from 1890 and 1891 show each of Frederick's living children and Nancy's children, selling their shares of Frederick's estate to Mason for various amounts.
We are sure that Nancy is deceased by 1892 and reasonably sure, based on the contents of the deeds of the children & grandchildren, that Nancy died before her father.
More About NANCY JANE BARRINGER:
Census: 1850, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Harrison Twp., pge 43
Census2: 1870, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Brush Creek
Census3: 1880, Ohio, Muskingum Co., Taylorsville, pg 91A
Source: LDS Website www.familysearch.com
Source2:
Marriage Notes for GEORGE SIGLER and NANCY BARRINGER:
To note here: After checking for Elgar marriages, I went to find the husband's names and found both Mary and Martha were married as "Sigler" not "Elgar". On Mary's second marriage license, she lists both her parents as George Sigler and Nancy Borrger. On both lady's obits (Martha's own, Mary's children's) Martha's parents are Henry Elgar and Nancy Barringer; Mary's children Herman and Florence both list their parents as Charles and Mary Elgar Vandegriff.
Since the date of birth, November 8, 1868, is only 5 months past the time of Nancy and Henry's marriage, we believe that the twins were conceived before Nancy married, but the question remains as their actual parentage . . .
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Husband one, Solomon dozer, III was killed in the civil war and is buried in the Dozer cemetery, Brush Creek twp., Muskingum Co OH. An affair (it appears) ensued with George Sigler (the brother of the sigler who married Nancy's daughter, Dozer). When George wouldn't marry Nancy, her father married her off to Henry Elgar, a widowed german fellow with 5 children of his own.
The twins are the daughters of George Sigler and Nancy Jane Barringer, but they were born after Nancy married Henry. Nancy had 3 or 4 more children AFTER her marriage to Henry.
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Note for: John Frederick Sigler, ABT 1878 - Index
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More About JOHN FREDERICK SIGLER:
Census: 1910, Michigan, Wayne Co, Detroit, Ed 62
Census2: 1920, Michigan, Wayne Co, Detroit, Ed 514
Occupation: 1910, Laborer in an Arts Foundry
Occupation2: Street Car Driver
Residence: April 1926, Crosswell MI
Source:
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Note for: Edward Authur Sigler, 20 JUL 1883 - 24 APR 1963 Index
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More About EDWARD ARTHUR SIGLER:
Census: 1910, Montana, Park Co, ED 196
Census2: 1920, Montana, Park Co, ED 81
Occupation: 1910, Railroad Fireman
Residence: April 1926, Montana
Source:
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Note for: Henry Elgar, - Index
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When George Sigler wouldn't marry Nancy, her father married her off to Henry Elgar, a widowed german fellow with 5 children of his own.
The twins are the daughters of George Sigler and Nancy Jane Barringer, but they were born after Nancy married Henry. Nancy had 3 or 4 more children AFTER her marriage to Henry.
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Note for: Pauline Corzilius, 1963 - 1981 Index
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Died of Cancer