E162 news Vol. 3 No. 2

E162 news

Volume 3 Number 2
August 2000

A WORD FROM THE EDITOR
It does say "Issued Periodically" :-). Things have been somewhat hectic here at the Rocking E's Ranch which is where ye old editor puts together this "periodical". A spell in the hospital and a major lifestyle change to avoid some major surgery has taken its toll on genealogical activities. Thankfully, some calm is finally returning.

AN APOLOGY AND AN ADVERTISEMENT (Unsolicited)
As some of you have discovered, some of the links in Vol 3 No.1 did not work and some of our earlier pages have had problems with some browsers. The disadvantages of "hunt and peck" typing and the limitations of the "visited" sites color change were brought home rather dramatically when you clicked on several of the links. Hopefully this has been fixed. All of the earlier issues of the E162 News should now work OK, thanks to the use of a very useful package put out by "Net Mechanic". I used their free package first and was impressed. Then I decided to get their $35 package. It not only finds errors in your HTML, and incompatibilities with the different browsers, but "REPAIRS" them, and produces highly useful reports. It is a real winner for poor typists like me. As the cereal commercial said "Try it. You'll like it!" IF you decide to buy it AND IF enough of you use the referral form found on the last page of this newsletter, the E162 Project will get a referral fee.

A NEW LINK TO THE REVEREND
Thanks to the Internet, a High School English teacher's assignment and one of her bright students' interest in his family history, we have contact!. These combined to bring the student to our E162 Website and the Page on the Reverend Charles Eliphalet Ebersol. As a result we have recently been in touch with the Reverend's nephew, (the student's grandfather). (The Reverend had no children of his own.) The nephew has been very cordial and hopefully will help us learn more about the remarkable Reverend E.

ONLINE NEWSLETTER
As announced earlier we are using this webpage to tell people about our efforts. In addition to this issue (Vol. 3 No. 2 ), all earlier issues are available on the Newsletters Page. Printed copies of the current issue are available on request by submitting some data for the E162 Archives along with your current U. S. Postal Service mailing address. Data submitted should be about:

- Corrections to, or additions to, EV/EB data in any published documents
- Copies of documentation verifying existing data, or
- An accurate description of the location of such supporting documentation.

If the information submitted is about someone still living, only the name, date of birth and relationship will be made available to anyone else without appropriate written permission.

NEW USERS GUIDE
If you are a newcomer to this EV/EB website, to Eversole/Ebersole family history research, or to genealogy in general, you may find the following link useful. There is a link back to this spot at the end of that page.

New Users Guide

DATABASE STATUS
Over 100 new individuals have been added to the Database. There are currently 1853 Ebersoles, 1836 Eversoles, 173 Ebersols, 169 Eversulls, 56 Ebersohls, and 2 Ebersolls born with an EV/EB surname in the database plus 1245 females who have married an EV/EB male for a total of 5332 people who have used the EV/EB surname. In addition there are 1133 males who have married EV/EB females for a grand total of 6480 people in the E162 Database.

EV/EB TREASURES
A photograph of Carrie (Frey) Eversole (#6711) was scanned for our archives, thanks to Paul and Normandie Eversole who visited here in April from Kenner, LA.

2 copies of photographs, one taken in 1908 the other in 1912, showing Enos (#4448)in stores where he worked, courtesy of Peggy Taylor from Maryville, TN.

SEARCHERS SALUTE
The following individuals have provided us with new information on various EV/EB individuals. These brief acknowledgements do not begin to reflect the magnitude of these contributions. In many cases they are complete family histories replete with memos, sources and background material. Most have many more individuals in them than we add to the E162 archives since they are usually Family histories and the E162 Project is concerned primarily with individuals that have used the EV/EB surname at some point in time. Thus we both "daughter out" and "grandmother out" in order to keep the database from theoretically including everyone who ever lived. :-)

Thanks Paul and Normandie!

Thanks Gail!

Thanks Thelma and Dee!

Thanks Peggy!

Thanks Ann!

CONFLICTING CONNECTIONS (CCs)
This is the first of a series of articles on people whose family connections are different, depending on which published source is referenced. If you know of more of these CCs please send us some details; or better yet, send us some evidence that will help resolve the conflicts. In this issue, thanks to Vicky Farmer, we will describe some of the conflicting information we have concerning Abraham (#1953).

Rev. E's book has a Jacob A. Eversole (#2029), son of Abraham (#1953), married to a Catherine Albaugh (#2035) with a daughter, Mary Ann (#2040). Vicki found a reference to a DAR ID Number 101940 for a Miss Minnie Elizabeth Bachtel that has a Jacob Eversole married to a Catherine Albaugh with a daughter , Mary Ann. Both sources have Jacob moving to Navarre, Ohio and dying there.

However the birth and death dates, birth locations and the ages at death of both Jacob and Catherine differ in these two sources. Rev. E has Jacob's father born in 1782(with a ? mark); Jacob moving from Hagerston, MD; Jacob as one of 6 children, (only one of which shows a birth date, July 12 1812); and Jacob and Catherine both dying at age 81 and buried in Navarre.

The DAR reference has Jacob born in 1765 in Lancaster County, PA; and dying in 1848, (age83); Catherine born in 1776 and dying in 1866 (age 90).

Interesting, but not clear how useful, is the info in the Rev E book that Jacob's son, William (#2044)(22 Mar 1826-27 Aug 1894), married Mary Sponhauer(1 May 1827- 7 May 1878) on 29 Jan 1852; and the DAR reference has Jacob's daughter, Mary Ann (1812-1888), marrying Jacob Sponhour(1815-1875).

Each source appears to be internally consistent and there seems to be enough data matches to believe they are the same Jacob and Catherine; but we have no independent evidence to choose between the conflicting data. Anyone have any additional evidence?

A PROBABLE RESOLUTION OF A CONNECTION CONFLICT
The following is abstracted from communications between myself and Gail Frank Geary. Thanks to Gail, I believe we have improved the accuracy of the E162 Database.

In response to Gail questioning the relationship between John Ebersole (#1595) and Fannie Eschelman (#3160) we wrote:

" Gail: I certainly do NOT mind your question! In fact, when you are doing a one name study, as we are in the E162 Project, questioning the data is one of the most productive ways of improving its accuracy.. And in your case I think you have made a major contribution. We along with other researchers, notably the now deceased Harry Portzer, have had some questions about the children of John Ebersole (#1595) and Fannie Eschleman (#3160).

In Harry's unpublished 500+ page opus, he decided that Amos Ebersole's "Memorial" was most likely correct in stating that John and Fannie only had 4 children instead of the 7 (including Andrew (#3166) assumed by Rev. Charles Ebersole in his epic "Ebersol Families in America". Starting with your references and factoring in Davis's data from his "Emmigrants, Refugees and Prisoners", I examined the possibility that the extra children attributed to John and Fannie were in fact the offspring of John Ebersole(#5818), the son of Peter Ebersole (#5164) and Barbara Ober (#5814), and Nancy Hoerner (#5968).

Andrew, Jacob, Amie, and Peter are now assumed to be the children of John and Nancy (Annie) along with Magdalena, Barbara, Catharine, and David. The 4th child of John and Fannie, who Amos said died young, is Annie, not Amie. Eureka! Everything seems to fit better and nothing appears to conflict. In essence your belief clearly fits the data best and we will reflect that picture in our next update of the WorldConnect GEDCOM. It has already been designated as the most likely case in our E162 Database. Now if we could just get copies of some documents backing up our assumptions. Never satisfied!!

Thanks again for bringing our attention to bear on John (#5818)'s family. With over 5000 EV/EB surnames in our files it is extremely easy to see how some of our ancestral data gets mixed up. The amazing thing is what a terrific job the earlier genealogists did without benefit of copy machines, low cost photography, computers, scanners or the Internet. We are eternally indebted to them."



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