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When my grandmother was very old and her memory was dim, she told me "that man" on the wagon train called her "Little Miss Tote Pack and Carrie". She would say nothing more about it. I believe her statement marked the beginning of my interest in our family history. Now, many years later, I have embarked upon the quest to find my ancestors. This cannot yet be called a genealogy page. The current list of ancestors is not very long and some are not concretely verified.
Sources will be listed on each individual surname page. Internet sources are also listed below as links.
Since this page is actually part of a musical Web site, I decided to add background music. You will find a mixture of folk, Celtic and classical music on these pages. Be warned! Some of it gets a bit lively!
Our parents:
JOHN HERBERT HOBBS and VASHTI FERNE KOONTZ
Paternal Ancestors
TREE
LEE SCHOOL PIC, MADISON CO., IL, 1911
Grandparents:
HERBERT ELMER
HOBBS and MABEL GRACE MOORE
Great Grandparents:
WILLIAM F. HOBBS and REBECCA JANE HOCKETT
HENRY CLAY MOORE and MARY ALICE WILSON
G.G. Grandparents:
HARBARD (HARBERT, HERBERT) HOBBS and RUTHA SAVAGE
JOHN WILLIAM HOCKETT and ANN SHAFFER
MERRIMAN MOORE and MARTHA JANE SULLENS
JAMES
WILSON and SOPHIA
GELLY
G.G.G. Grandparents:
PETER SHAFFER and REBECCA........
JOHN JELLY/GELLY and ALICE GILMORE
JOHN WILSON and MARGARET BROWN
WHALEY MOORE and MARY POLLY WOOD
G.G.G.G. Grandparents:
JOHN DANIEL SHAFFER and MARY MAGDALENA KOBESSON
THOMAS MOORE SR. and NANCY ANN WHALEY
SAMUEL WOOD JR. and NAOMI RENFRO
Maternal Ancestors
TREE
The Wagon Train to Illinois
Grandparents:
JOHN PHILIP
KOONTZ and BERTHA CAROLINE CARTER
Great Grandparents:
ANDREW JACKSON KOONTZ and JULIA ANN
KIBLER
JOHN CARTER and FRANCES CATHERINE
KIBLER
G.G. Grandparents:
DAVID B. KOONTZ and CATHARINE FOLTZ/FULTZ
GEORGE KIBLER and JOSIE EVE STROLE (STRAUL)
JAMES CARTER and MARGUERITE REFFETT
G.G.G. Grandparents:
ISAAC NEWTON KOONTZ and SUSANNAH KIBLINGER
PHILIP FULTZ and MARY PERKEPINE (PERKEPILE)
ADAM KIBLER and BARBARA PENCE
CHRISTIAN MARTIN STROLE (STRAUL) and ELIZABETH KISER
G.G.G.G. Grandparents:
"ELDER" JOHN KOONTZ and ELIZABETH BAKER
DANIEL KIBLINGER and CATHARINE......
JOHANNES FOLTZ(FULTZ, VOLTZ) and CATHERINE.....
HENRY KIBLER and MARY.......
LEWIS OR JACOB PENCE and BARBARA.....
MICHAEL KISER and MARY LINGLE
PETER STROHL and MARGRETHA SEYBEL
CHRISTIAN BERCKEBEIL and CATHARINA DIEHLIN (DIEHL)
Note:
Christian and Catharina were the parents of Mary Perkepine.
The name was spelled several ways before it was eventually shortened to "Purkey".
Some Interesting Links
The Hobbs/Koontz genes have produced a champion!
Click here to see!
Kay's Genealogy Home Page
Many THANKS to Kay for her help with the Hockett and Shaffer lines!
Illinois Trails: History & Genealogy of Jasper County, Illinois
Look for references to the Kibler and Koontz families, especially in the Newton Press articles.
Ancestors of L.D. Stockton
This is the site where I found the Kibler information
Page County, Virginia
Here you will find several references to our ancestors
in Page County.
Michael and Mary Kiser of Virginia
This is a detailed and well-documented genealogy of the Kiser descendants - including our family!
The Purkey Family Homepage
On the first page of this site there is very interesting story about the ancestors of Mary (Perkepine) and why they came to America.
E-Mail
For genealogy communications only. This is not the same E-mail address as the one on my main site.
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The background music is "Music for the Royal Fireworks" by George Frideric Handel,
a German composer who was a contemporary of our earliest Colonial ancestors.
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