Posted By:	Patricia Shirock
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	Subject:	Re: Shellhammers of Berwick, Hemlock, Centre, Briar Creek Twps.
	Post Date:	May 28, 2008 at 10:01:49
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/pa/columbia/messages/459.html
	Forum:	Columbia County, PA Genealogy Forum
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Robert, I'm not sure if you mean more specific about who is buried at Zion's or what exactly I'm looking for. Who was your wife descended from? I am descended from Philip Jacob Shellhammer. He had several sons, some of whom moved up into Luzerne and Columbia Counties. Philip had a daughter, Elizabeth Barbara, married to George Cunfer of West Penn Twp. There is a very strong tradition in her descendants that she was part Indian. And I have a theory about that which you may also have read online. I have been trying to contact descendants of her brothers (without any luck so far) to see if there is such a tradition in their families. Patricia