John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 455

[You should assume that this will be the last note until next week. I have not been feeling well this week with a very sore throat. What energy I have will be devoted to getting out the November issue of Beyond Germanna . Today, I thought we might look at what this issue contains.]

Robert Selig is the lead author with a story on George Daniel Flohr. Mr. Flohr was a German in a French regiment which was fighting for the Americans in the Revolution. Not all of the Germans in the Revolution were on the side of the British. After the war, Mr. Flohr returned to America and studied theology under the Rev. William Carpenter at Hebron Lutheran Church. Following this, he served several churches in southwest Virginia until he died in 1826.
Mary C. Paget has a note on Michael Klug and Elizabeth Fisher which fills in some of the gaps in the Klug history. The Elizabeth Fisher who is the wife of Michael is a mystery. That she was a Fisher is not solid information, being based on a note found in the archive of South Carolina, but it may be another piece in unraveling the Fisher family.
Craig Kilby corrects two erroneous genealogies, the Aylor and the Sparks, both corrections at a very early date.
I wrote a note on communication among the Germans. We know that they were not living in isolation from each other and that hey were remarkably well informed. Some of the information in the article comes from Fogelman's " Hopeful Journeys ". His illustrations are drawn from Schwaigern, the home of many Germanna people.
In my article I include a drawing of a plot of about 112 parcels of ground in the Madison, Virginia, area. The area covered is about fifteen miles north and south, from the Hughes River in the north, to the Rucker patent in the south. The technique of producing this was different as it relied almost exclusively on DeedMapper software.
Nancy Moyers Dodge has a small correction to an earlier article.
Mary Doyle Johnson has a few paragraphs on Elizabeth Crutcher Weakley McNamara whom many of you will better recognize as Libby.
Finally, the issue closes with the Surname Index for Volume 10.

We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.