She was married to Thomas Rieger Elwell Private.

He was married to Dorothy Behl Private.

She was married to John Strickler WFT Est. 1794-1823. ^(13781)

She was married to Christian Gramlich WFT Est. 1801-1825.^{(8) (9921)}

He was married to Donna Gayle Marx Private. Children were: Doug Kaiser, Karin Kaiser.

He was married to Rosina Furch WFT Est. 1812-1855. Children were: George Kalbfleisch, Rosina Kalbfleisch.

She was married to John Wendler in Oct 1854 in Collinsville, Madison Co, Illinois. Children were: Infant Wendler, John Wendler, Rosina Wendler, Mary Wendler, Henry Wendler, Anna Wendler, George Wendler.

She was married to John Robert ("Jack") Chandler Private. Children were: Jennifer Brooke Chandler .

He was married to Argos Caroline Lolmaugh WFT Est. 1855-1881.

He was married to Ida May Lolmaugh WFT Est. 1881-1914. Children were: 1 Child Kamp, 2 Child Kamp, 3 Child Kamp, 4 Child Kamp, 5 Child Kamp, 6 Child Kamp, 7 Child Kamp, 8 Child Kamp, 9 Child Kamp.

She was married to Charles Curtis King on 13 Sep 1899 in Fulton Co., PA.^{(8) (13786)}

She was married to Georg Gottwaldt on 2 Sep 1638 in Celle, Hannover, Prussia. Children were: Anna Magdalena Gottwaldt .

He was married to Mary Kunz Private.

He was married to Beulah Jed Briggs WFT Est. 1906-1941. Children were: John Briggs Kantner, Peggy Joan Kantner.

She was married to Henry Allen Langdon on 24 Mar 1880.

She was married to Philipp Muhlum on 12 Oct 1790 in Bensheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. Children were: Philipp Muhlum, Maria Anna Muhlum, Catherine Muhlum, Philipp Jacob Muhlum.

She Private-Begin Private.⁽⁶⁰⁾ She was divorced from Ronald Everett Jones Private. ⁽⁶⁰⁾ Children were: Ronda Jones, Linda Diane Jones.

She was married to Anders Jensen WFT Est. 1806-1839.

She was married to Billy McPherson Private. Children were: William McPherson, Bryan McPherson.

She was married to Michael Ritchey WFT Est. 1799-1825.^{(8) (13789)}

He was married to Sarah Ritchey WFT Est. 1873-1901.^{(8) (13792)}

She was married to Charles Casper Kettering on 9 Feb 1898 in Kittanning, PA. ^(13795) Children were: William Casper Kettering , Helen Mae Kettering, Zelda Pearl Kettering.

He was married to Gayle Jillson Private. Children were: Jeffrey Scott Karow, James Kevin Karow, Joseph Patrick Karow.

She was married to *Thomas Smith WFT Est. 1705-1739. From "History of Old Chester, From 1719 to 1869", by Benjamin Chase:

Thomas Smith was among the 24 persons admitted as proprietors of Chester November 20, 1720. "Of the proprietors who were allowed 'settlery for ye first year'... only two of them were actual settlers - Samuel Ingalls and Thomas Smith - and Smith might not then have resided in town. The proprietors had voted, January 11, 1721, 'That each Propr that does not settle shall pay ten shillings per year during three years, the whole to be Divided yearly among those that settles.' The proprietors would build a house and break up a piece of ground, and would be entitled to the money. This settlement money, amounting to twelve pounds, is charged by the receiver or treasurer as having been paid to Samuel Ingalls in 1723. There is another list, 'For ye 2d & Third year,' of eighteen, all but Ingalls and Smith non-residents." In 1723, Thomas Smith was among those who were allowed 10 shillings for settlement. (pp.27-28)

"Lt. Thomas Smith is sais to have come from Hampton to Chester, though born in Ireland. Among several families of Smiths in Hampton, the names of the other grantees are not found. Benjamin, Samuel and Thomas Smith were cut off from Haverhill [Massachusetts] by the settlement of the province line in 1741. Thomas and Benjamin were paid settlement money in Chester, and were probably Haverhill Peak men." (p.47)

"Lt. Thomas Smith was a grantee [of Chester, New Hampshire], having been admitted by the committee, Nov. 20, 1720, in the place of Richard Swain. It is said that he came from Ireland to Hampton, but his name is not found on Hampton records. He came early to Chester; was a lot-layer in 1725, and selectman in 1728. It is said that he married a sister of John Karr, Sen. He settled on II.L. No. 150. His name appears frequently on the records as Lt. Thomas Smith. In March, 1762, he sold to Gideon Rowel of Amesbury, and moved to New Boston. The Rowel heirs conveyed to Nathaniel Sleeper. John Picket and Thomas Haselton have since owned it.

In 1721, he and John Karr were taken by the Indians, an account of which I extract from Dr. Bell, N.H. His. Soc. Coll. Vol. 7, p.404:-

'Karr was about eighteen years of age, and his sister was Smith's wife. They were making brush fence to secure the cow from the Indians. They were surprised by the crack of a gun, the ball passing between them, touching Smith. The Indians sprang upon and captured them; a scuffle ensued in which Smith turned the butt of his gun with a view of sinking the lock into the head of Capt. Joe English, the leader of the Indians, but missed his aim. (The hill in New Boston, whose south end is very steep as seen from Auburn, was named for this Indian.) They were captured. They proceeded northward till night, when the keepers each managed to secure his prisoner for the night. They were not allowed to see where each other lodged. Smith's captor cut a notch in the spreading root of a beech tree, fitted in the ankle of the prisoner, then drove down a stake so as to make the foot secure, while the prisoner was lying on his back. His arms were also tied above him with the sinews of a deer. The next day they pursued their journey, the prisoners not being allowed to speak to each other. The next night Smith took special notice in which direction Karr was placed from him. He was secured as on the night previous, with the addition of having hooks put over his elbows and driven firmly into the ground.

Resolving to make his escape after his Indian was asleep (the Indian slept on the ends of the cords with which he was bound), he gradually tried the strength of his strong arms, and the hooks gave way. Then he found that the cords would give. He continued to strain upon them until he could get his thumbs under the cord that stretched across his breast. Then with that aid he raised it upon his chin, then got it into his mouth, and after a long trial, succeeded in raising it over his nose, and finally over his entire head. He might have killed the party but thought it would be murder. Leaving them to their pleasing dreams, they found a stream of water in which they traveled as far as possible to elude the dogs. At length they climbed some trees, and soon the day dawned, when they heard the alarm war-whoop of their disappointed captors, which was answered by another party on the opposite side of them. Their position was now a critical one; directly between two parties of Indians so near as to answer each other with the voice. Descending, they made their way back towards Chester, where they arrived on the evening of the third day after capture. The garrison was at Chester, not Londonderry.

The above is the relation of Dea. Thomas Smith, a grandson of Lieut. Smith, now (1852) over eighty years of age.'

John Smith was probably a brother of Lieut. Thomas, and was the first settler at the Long Meadows. In laying out Gov. Wentworth's farm of 200 acres in 1728, they began 'about 40 rods from John Smith's corner where he now dwells.' Thomas Smith deeded to him the Add. No. 51 in 1731, and something is said in the deed about his quarter or share. They had bought Brownell's right, or a part of it. John and Rachel Smith sold John Mills No. 51, in 1741. Thos. Shirley and Capt. James Silver afterwards occupied it." (pp.593-594)
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From "History of New Boston, New Hampshire", by Elliott C. Cogswell, 1864:

"Thomas Smith - He came from Chester to this town about 1734, when it was an entire wilderness, and settled where the late Hiram Lull lived, in the east part of the town. He was for some two years the only white man within the present limits of New Boston, before the grant of the town was made. It was near his farm that the Proprietors built sixty dwelling-houses, a grist and saw mill, and a meeting-house, as early as 1740. Mr. Smith is said to have built the first frame house in New Boston, and it yet stands in a state of comparatively good preservation, and constitutes a part of Widow Hiram Lull's house. Mr. Smith was once obliged to flee from his farm before he had moved his family to it, because of the presence of Indians. They had done violence to some neighbors living a few miles from him in Goffstown, and seeing traces of one or more in the vicinity of his cabin, evidently seeking an opportunity to capture him, he precipitately fled with his faithful gun, and returned not until the Indians had departed from his neighborhood. His son Samuel, in 1765, lived where the late Deacon Thomas Smith died; his son James perished with cold on the road leading from his father's to Parker's, in Goffstown. His son Reuben was in the war of the Revolution, and after the close of it he removed into the State of Maine, near the Passamaquoddy Bay." (page 349) Children were: *Samuel Smith, Deacon John Smith, James Smith, Reuben Smith.

He was married to Olive Anna Wright on 16 Aug 1889 in ELKLAND TWP, TUSCOLA CO, Michigan. Children were: Anson Karr, Floyd H Karr, Clara L Karr, Lester e Karr.

She was married to James Wright on 6 Aug 1884 in ELKLAND TWP, TUSCOLA CO, Michigan.

He Private-Begin Private.

He Private-Begin Private. Children were: Jerry Karraker, Dennis Karraker Karraker.

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