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Descendants of Elizabeth Prugh

Generation No. 1

1. ELIZABETH⁴ PRUGH (CONRAD³, JACOB², HANS JACOB¹) was born February 02, 1776 in Trappe, Montgomery Co., PA, and died March 24, 1850 in Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH. She married LAWRENCE SCHILL 1793 in Maryland. He was born 1767 in Frederick, MD, and died November 05, 1827 in Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH.

Notes for ELIZABETH PRUGH:
Trappe, PA
Dayton, OH
Beavertown Cemetery
Name:Shell, Elizabeth
Age:78
Year:1850
County:Montgomery
Township:Unknown Townships
State:Ohio
Birth State:PA
Cause of Death:PALSY
Page:0
Month:MAR

If you are going to Maryland and plan to research in Carroll County I would suggest that your first stop be the Public Library on Main Street in Westminster, which has an excellent genealogy room.

In fact it might be a good idea to write the President of the Carroll County Genealogical Society and ask for suggestions in finding your Schells.

Maria Gilligan
President
Carroll County Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 1752
Westminster, MD 21158

The progenitor of the Prugh family in Maryland is Conrad Bruch/Brucher/Brook, he and his wife Lucia Maria Finkbeiner are buried in St. Luke's (Winters) Lutheran Church in New Windsor, Carroll County.

While Conrad and Lucia's names have been at the mercy of English speakers Lucia's name on her tombstone is spelled Prugh.

Regarding your Schells I quote from "Prugh Genealogy 1705-1973" by Robert N. Feicht page vi:"Let us consider Elizabeth, shown in TABLE I to have been born "about" 1778, and who married Larry Schell and migrated to Montgomery County, Ohio, having among her children a son, Joseph. Inquiries among genealogy-minded Schells in Montgomery County have been fruitless. But in Montgomery County's Beaverton Cemetery, in close proximity to a number of Prugh graves, stand the gravestones of Lawrence Schell, his wife Elizabeth, and a Joseph Shill. While Lawrence Schell's stone is almost totally illegible, Elizabeth's marker recites that she died March 24, 1850, aged 77 years, 1 month, 22 days, which is to say she was born February 2, 1773. That can be construed as about 1778.

There are Prughs buried all over Carroll County, I would suggest reading the cemetery books in the Westminster Library.

As far as I know my mother-in-law, Martha Hollus Prugh, was the last Maryland born Prugh when she passed away in 1983.

Good luck.

Notes for LAWRENCE SCHILL:
First recorded and confirmed record I have of Lawrence Shill is his tax record from Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1816. Also some property that was exchanged in 1816. His birth date is an estimate from the date listed on his grave stone, in Beavertown Cemetery in Kettering Ohio. Located just outside of Dayton. The Immigration record that was found has not been confirmed if it is indeed our Lawrence. Census reports in 1800 show that there were immigrants living in the household. That would mean he was not born in America. It list three. But no names are given. His will states Elizabeth had a son Joseph who he would provide for. My guess is that Elizabeth, Joseph and Laurence were in immigrants. Unless they had a servant living in the home.

Laurence Schell found in:

Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s
Place: Frederick Co., MD Year: 1797
Primary immigrant: Schell, Laurence
Permanent entry number: 2133273
Accession number: 7932434
Source publication code: 1180
Source publication page number: 80
Source publication: CLARK, RAYMOND B., JR. "Frederick Coun ty, Maryland, Naturalizations, 1785-1799." In The Marylan d & Delaware Genealogist. Vol. 6:1 (Jan. 1965), pp. 16-18 ; vol. 6:2 (Apr. 1965), pp. 37-39; vol. 6:3 (July 1965), pp . 58-59; vol. 6:4 (Oct. 1965), pp. 80-81.
Source: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index

Dayton, OH
Birth date estimate. Took date from cemetery records as to his
age at the time of his burial
Will for Lawrence Schill located at Dayton Public Library . Dated Sept 12, 1827 and recorded Dec 8, 1827. Copy in posession of Caryn Shill

Children of ELIZABETH PRUGH and LAWRENCE SCHILL are:

2.	i.	JOSEPH⁵ SHILL, b. 1789; d. December 14, 1857.
3.	ii.	JACOB SHILL, b. 1798, MD; d. August 13, 1867, Prob. Jasper Co., IA.
4.	iii.	CATHERINE SHILL, b. December 30, 1798, Trappe, Montgomery Co., PA; d. July 11, 1886, Covington, Ohio.
5.	iv.	LAWRENCE SHILL, b. 1802.
6.	v.	ELIZABETH SHILL, b. May 26, 1802, Montgomery Co., OH; d. March 17, 1896, Kettering, OH.
7.	vi.	HENRY SHILL, b. November 15, 1803, PA; d. January 26, 1886, Lafayette In.
8.	vii.	MARY LAVINA SHILL, b. February 22, 1807, Montgomery Co, OH; d. May 19, 1886, Lafayette, IN.
	viii.	REBECCA SHILL, b. 1812; m. MERTON.

Notes for REBECCA SHILL:
Trappe, Montgomery Co, PA

Notes for MERTON:
Alias Morton The surname from Joseph Shill's microfilmed w ill is very difficult to read.

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