an elongated column of family trees
covering an extensive string of webpages
 

compiled and edited by P. S. Ehrlich
 


 

          Introduction
 

ONE:  VAN METRES / VAN METERS

        under reconstruction
 

 TWO:  BURNS(ES) AND HEDGES(ES)

 B-1    The First of the Burnses
                ● Not Oor Rabbie
                ● Time-Honored vs. Comprehensive
                ● Opequon Creek
                ● William Sr. and Jo(h)anna
                ● The First Generation
                ● A Note on Consanguinity

 B-2    The Early Hedgeses
                ● The Migrating Paterfamilias
                ● Marylanders
                ● 1738: On to the Opequon
                ● Solomon and Rebecca
                ● Joshua and Elizabeth
                ● Jonas and Agnes
                ● Ruth and Abraham
                ● Some Robinsons and Tabbs

 B-3    The Second of the Burnses
               
● William Jr. and Magdalena
                ● Lany's Family
                ● The Evanses
                   
● The Second
Generation
                   
● Opequon Creek in 1810
                   
●
A Parting Glance

 B-4    William III and Creative Jane
                ● The Third of the Burnses
                ● The Marshalls
                ● The Baneses
                ● The Stretchers
                ● Medway and New Carlisle
                ● The Third Generation

 B-5    The Ohio Hedgeses
                ● Almost Impassable
                ● Children of Second Cousins
                ● Alexander and Ellen
               
● The Aunties
                ● The Earsoms and Saxbes (Saxbys)

 B-6    Jacob, Margaret, and the Dixons
                ● Dry Goods
                ● The Fourth Generation
                ● The Dixons of Cumberland County
                ● The Dixons of South Main Street
                ● Will Dixon: Indirect Lighting
                ● Stones from the Brook

 B-7    "Her Smile Incensed Him"
                ● Elliott and Minnie
                ● The Time of His Troubles
                ● Emma Combs: Fate of a Candy Wrapper
                ● The Ponderous Thud of the Huge Prison Gates
                ● Elusive Elliott
 

 THREE:  PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH (AND SWISS)

 P-1    Andrew Snyder, Aged 112 Years
                ● How Swiss Became Dutch
                ● Passage from Switzerland
                ● About Intercourse (PA)
                ● "The Secret of the Old Mill"
                ● Continental Soldier
                ● The Mill and Magdalena
                ● Barbara and the Children
                ● His Daughter Catharine
                ● His Son John
                ● (Very) Old Age

 P-2    Mary Ann and the W(e)ikels
                ● Bound Out
                ● Going by Wikel
                ● Westward to Amanda
                ● Louisa and the Sinkeys
                ● William and Eleanor
                ● On to Atlanta (IL): John and Priscilla
                ● Bumps on the Head: M.C. and the Burrowses
                ● Cornelia and the Hinmans
                ● Centenarian
                ● Sterling Qualities

 P-3    Samuel and Leah
                ● Where Did They Marry?
                ● Comrade Wikel
                ● Henry and Rachel
                ● Mary Elizabeth and the McChesneys
                ● Josephine, Irene, and the Long-Lost Yeazells
                ● S.A. and Emily
                ● Class Poet: Howard Henry
                ● Multiple Middletowns

 P-4    Leah's Upps
                ● George and Lydia
                ● George Jr.
                ● Samuel
                ● Jesse
                ● Daniel
                ● Henry
                ● Abraham (Abram)
                ● Catherine
                ● Susannah
                ● John Peter

 P-5    Upp from Ob
                ● Ultimately Opp?
                ● A Few Notes About York County, PA
                ● Johann Peter and Maria Catherine
                ● A Few Notes About Southwestern Germany
                ● The House of Heintz/Hoens
                ● Just Plain Peter and Maria Catharina
                ● (Johann or Philip?) Jacob and (Anna or Maria?) Catharina
                ● The House of Knor(t)zer
                ● Georg Christoph & Company
                ● Balthasar's Last Testament
 

 FOUR:  THERE'S LOTS OF GOOD SMITHS IN THE SEA

 S-1    Susannah's Family
               
● Smith Starts with See
                ● From Delaware to Ohio
                ● The Laffertys
                ● The Barrs
                ● The Blairs and Matthewses
                ● The Browns
                ● The Tassos
                ● Mary's Testimonial
                ● A Leaf That Shall Not Fade: Susannah and Her Sampler

 S-1A    Josiah's Family
                    ● Smith vs. Smith: Josiah over Peter (and Jerome)
                    ● The Benevolent Father of All
                   
●
Jersey Boys
                    ● Sarah and the Severs
                    ● Garret the Gatekeeper
                   
● Jesse Jr.
                   
● Branch Hill
                   
● Farewell to Goshen

 S-1B    Susannah and Josiah's Children
                    ● Their Three (?) Sons
                   
● And One Niece: Mary and the Coates
                   
● Jerome and the Texas Smiths
                   
● Doctor Lucian
                   
● Rings Down the Ages

 S-2    Alonzo and Ellen
                ● "Alonso and Ella"
                    ● Paintersville
                    ● Their Six Children
                    ● Mingo, Urbana, and Oak Dale
                    ● One of God's Quiet Noblemen
                    ● The Joy of His Life

 S-3    Five of Their Children
               
● Hal the Dentist
                ● M.L. the Doctor
                ● Sam and Clarence
                ● Leanna
                ● M.L.'s Letters

 S-4    Herbert Gustavus and His Wives
               
● Gus and Debbie
                ● Mila Kathryn (not "Hilda Maria")
                ● The Gilded Age
                ● D. F. Callison: Travelling Agent
                ● The Grass Widow and the Attorney at Law
                ● A Record in Memoriam
                ● Earl and Hettie
                ● Ora and Mame
                ● Cora and the Kirchwehms
                ● "Alleged Crookedness"
                ● Kansas City MO and Grandfatherhood Back in Ohio

 S-5    The First Aunt Mellie

 S-6    To Be Frank

 S-7    The Waterhouses
               
● House by the Water
                ● Woolgathering
                ● Joshua of Yorkshire
                ● Elizabeth's Inghams
                ● Joshua and Elizabeth's Children
                ● Hezekiah and Sophia
                ● Unfortunate James and Mysterious Mary
                ● Hezekiah "Junior" and Mayview, Missouri
                ● Hezekiah and Lucinda's Children
                ● Who Was Harvey Coons?
                ● James W., Fannie Sue, and KCMO  

 S-8    The Houxes

 S-9    Back to Boone: The Bullards and Majors       
   

 FIVE:  ACH DU LIEBER LUDEKE

 L-1    The Wuechners
               
● A Few More Notes About Southwestern Germany
                ● A Few Notes About Hamilton, OH
               
● Michael: Hubs and Spokes
                ● Elizabeth/Catherine: Miller, Not Koeppendoerfer
                ● The Schwabs: "Beer That Made Milwaukee Jealous"
                ● The Bosches: From City Hall to Hotels
                ● The Wichners/Weuchners/Miechners
                ● Three Obscurities
                ● Aunt Marie Martin
                ● Aunt Maggie Latterner: Complication of Affections
                ● Aunt Sophie Stepp
                ● Aunt Annie Koeppendoerfer: Tante Anna
                ● "A Unique Conversation"

 L-2    The Schneiders
               
● The First of the Schneiders: Adam and Wife (or Wives)
                ● Sergeant Moritz
                ● Christina Ka--
                ● From Fairfield to Vine Street
                ● Sweet Annaline?
                ● Christine's Will and Barbara's $5 Bequest
               
● John: Sudden Death in Indianapolis
                ● Aunt Rose Hecker
                ● Aunt Helen Brennan
                ● Leonard and the Last of the ...Snyders

 L-3    The Ludekes
               
● "Little Famous Wolves" of Hanover
                ● Louis and Sophia
                ● From Bremen on the Bark Alfred?
                ● The Whittikinds/Whitlikinds/Wittekinds
                ● The Ludikers/Leiderchers (and Lizzie)
                ● Private "Lutiger": Drum and Fife
                ● August and Louise: Ich Liebe Dich
                ● Carrie: To What Is Our World Drifting?
               
● Aunt Irma
                ● Lida Belle and the Charleses
                ● Aunt Frieda
                ● Uncle Bob: The Cheerful Performer
                ● Uncle Ed (and Louis)
                ● Willie and His Albums
                ● Louise and the Eisels
                ● Rachel and the Petersons 

 L-4    Ada Ick
               
● Birthdate(s)
                ● Vague Snippets
                ● A Dreadful Experience
               
● Every Precaution
               
● Grandma's House
                ● Grandma's Workweek
                ● The Great Flood
                ● The Stepmother
                ● "My Parents"

 L-5    Ick Grows Up and Goes to Miami (of Ohio)
               
● Merry Little School Chums
                ● Role Models
                ● An Event of World Importance
                ● Flapper Days
                ● "How Can Job Turn Jester?"
                ● Why Social Work
                ● Miami Years
               
● The Happiest Graduate
               
● The Right Decision?

 L-6    Social Worker, Wife & Mother
               
● Unravel the Knots of Daily Life
                ● Casebook
                ● Cupid's Darts
                ● Devoted to Her Family
                ● Motherhood Times Three
                ● Home on College

 L-7    Smitty's Memoirs
               
● Call Me Smitty
                ● Leaves, Twigs, and Branches from Our Family Tree
                ● Autobiography
                ● Snippets, Bits and Pieces

 L-8    Smitty's Letters

               

        Sources

        Picture Sitemap

        Ada Louise Ludeke Smith Tribute Page

        Book Cover


                   


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