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The decedents of Joseph J. Flory were (and many still are) members of the Church of the Brethren.
The Church of the Brethren was founded in 1708 in Schwarzenau. a small town on the Eder River, east of Koln, Germany.
(You can find it to the southeast of Bad Berleburg on Michhelin map 417, Central-West Germany)
When the Joseph Flory family emigrated, Schwarzenau was in the Palatine region.
I visited Schwarzenau several years ago and found a large sign board in the town square which read (in German):
“Schwarzenau was documented for the first time in the year 1059.
"Schwarzenau acquired historic meaning through the settlement of French Hugenots in the 17th and 18th centuries.
“It became a center of the radical Pietismus and in the year 1708 to the founding of the present American Church of the Brethren.”
Tradition is that the Florys were originally French Hugenots and that the original spelling was Fleury.
Some Flory genealogies list Joseph J. Flory's wife as Mary Wood or Maria Bugh, and list her place of birth as "Schwarzw".
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From all of the above, I believe that Joseph J. Flory and his family probably came from Schwarzenau and that the family probably originally was French and Hugenot.
There is a small museum on the founding of the Church of the Brethren in Schwarzenau.
Someday I hope to go there, with a German speaking guide, and try to find more information.
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