Re: Ludwig Houser, b 1746 Sunbury ,PA d. Starke Co., OH
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Re: Ludwig Houser, b 1746 Sunbury ,PA d. Starke Co., OH
Robert Shaffer 9/08/08
I don't think I can add much more to that except what I stated before.My line stems from the John Eutsler/Elizabeth Zinn (John son of Jacob).Their children were Mary, John, Leticia, Clarinda, Charles, Enos and William.William may have died from a gunshot wound he received in Red Rock Iowa in a fight (called the murder in Red Rock) where Leticia's husband was murdered.
I have a letter from my gg-grandfather, John B. Long, to his grandson, Robbie Conklin, that talks about Enos.Robbie was dying of rheumatic fever and John is telling him to get his pony, run around and jump on it and yell that he is Enos Eutsler the second.I don't know what all that's about, maybe Enos was a cowboy or something.This was in 1908.It's a rather touching letter and you can tell how much he loves his grandson.Robbie died in Oct/Nov of that year.My dad told me that J.B. took it pretty hard.
Clarinda's first husband died and she married a Noah Snook who was a neighbor at one time of John B. Long.I have a letter from him and they had moved to Dore, North Dakota.
Seems that a lot of the Eutsler's moved there as in a letter from Clarinda she talks about Charlie being there (and she's not to happy about it because he's a drinker and she doesn't like it.) Also John Eutsler and his son Warren may have been there for awile.Warren has a condition which he died from young, sounded like he couldn't walk, but somehow they ended up in Yuma, Az in a rooming house.
I don't know much about my own gg-grandmother, Mary, though. I probably have a picture of her and just don't know it.
I believe I have a picture of Daniel H. Long and his family.It is a tin type photo, and has an oler man, two younger men, a young woman and a younger girl.It fits the profile of Daniel with Elizabeth, John, either Isaac or Joseph (or the Rhodes young man if he went to Iowa) and the younger girl could be M.L. Long (Margaret Lucretia).There's another picture of one of the young men in the picture with a woman ---this could be my gg-grandma or Harreit Reese Long I suppose.
Still bugged about Robert.
Anyway let me know if something jives or if you come up with something else.We must be cousins of sorts, maybe 3rd or 4th???
Karol