John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 62

The closing of the last note mentioned that three-quarters of the Garr/Gaars were descendants of Anna Barbara Schön.  A quick survey of the Germanna families discloses at least the following families can also trace some lines back to her.

All of the Blankenbakers.  (There was a son Henry Schlucter of Anna Barbara, but whether he left descendants is unknown.)  All of the Fleshmans.  All of the Fishers.  Three quarters of the Garrs.  Because so many of the Finks family married Garrs, Fishers and Blankenbakers, the Finks family has a good number of Schön descendants.  Anyone who has a Michael Kaifer ancestor is a descendant of Anna Barbara.  All of the Thomases are descendants.  This means that all of the John Michael Smith, Jr., descendants are included also.  Many, maybe over half, of the Barlow descendants are Schön descendants.

Hans Jacob Broyles married Mary Catherine Fleshman.
John Clore marrried Dorothy Kaifer.
Adam Cook married Barbara Fleshman.
Nicholas Crigler married Margaret Kaifer.
Peter Fleshman probably married Barbara Tanner.
Jacob Holtzclaw, the son of the immigrant, married Susannah Thomas.

Since the immigrant Railsback married Elizabeth Thomas, all of the Railsbacks are included.

Christian (or Christopher) Reiner married Elizabeth Fleshman.
PERHAPS Mary Tanner married John Thomas.

At least two-thirds of the Utz family married Schön descendants and the other third is an unknown.

The Waylands are extremely well represented.  Two lines of the Peter Weaver family come down through Anna Barbara.  The line of John Zimmerman includes Ursula Blankenbaker.

These ties are in the early generations.  In the later generations there were many ties to other families.  Still, the descendants tended to hang together and to remember their common ancestry.  We will take a look shortly at an example.