The Home Page of Kenneth A. GraybealUpdated August 4, 2009 |
13606 SE 3rd Place Bellevue, WA 98005-3737 United States graybealk@juno.com |
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| The names Graybeal, Graybill, Krehbiel, Greble, Crabel and other similar variations were originally Krahenbuhl. The family came from the Emmenthal valley in Switzerland (parishes of Grosshochstetten and Zaziwil about fifteen miles southeast of Bern) and had to emigrate from there in the early 1670s down the Rhine River because of religious persecution, remaining for a time in the Palatinate in Germany before coming to America. Most of their people were Anabaptists and Mennonites. They migrated to Lancaster County in Pennsylvania during the early part of the eighteenth century at the invitation of William Penn who was looking for good farmers to exploit the lands of Penn's Woods with the promise of religious freedom. In 1780, during the American War for Independence, John Graybill, Sr., migrated with his wife and children southwest up the Shenandoah valley to Botetourt County, Virginia and settled against the western slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 1834 two of their grandchildren, first cousins Andrew and Mary Graybill (their fathers were brothers), my great-grandparents, migrated as newlyweds to Huntsville in Logan County, Ohio. In the early 1850s they changed the spelling of their surname to Graybeal, reason unknown. Soon after returning home from serving in the Civil War their second son, John M Graybeal, my grandfather, married a Huntsville neighbor, Isabella Collins. After three of their children were born they migrated to Christian County, Illinois, where two more children were born, and then they made their final move to Raymore in Cass County, Missouri, where the rest of their children were born and raised. At the start of the 20th century their second son, John B Graybeal, my father, migrated to the Pacific Northwest and was soon followed by his younger brother and sister, Curtis and Lola. John B and Lola were railroad station agents/telegraphers. The Edgberts trace back to Lewis County in upper New York state in the late-18th century. Frank W Edgbert, my maternal great-grandfather, migrated with his parents to Grundy County, Illinois in the mid-19th century. After serving in the Civil War he married Delia Sharp in 1875. They moved to Pulaski County in Indiana where most of their children were born, and then moved to Arcadia in Mason County in Washington Territory with his family and mother, Almira, on an immigrant train from Chicago in 1889, just before Washington became a state. In the midwest Frank was a farmer, but out west he initially traded with the Indians, operated a general store, served as postmaster and also became involved in the fishing and lumber industries. Ulrick and Rachel Julson immigrated from Norway in 1848 as newlyweds. In Norway their names were Ulrick Juelson Hoverud and Ragnild Seversdatter Boe. They settled in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin until 1864 when they moved to Greene County, Wisconsin where they lived until 1873. After a three-year stint in Postville, Iowa, they moved to Grand Meadow in Mower County, Minnesota. A son, Sever Julson, my maternal grandfather, migrated to the state of Washington in the early 1890's, became involved in the lumber industry with Frank Edgbert, and married his oldest daughter, Olive. My father married Sever and Olive's oldest daughter, Doretta, who was an elementary school teacher. Until late in the nineteenth century all of my ancestors were farmers with an occasional minister. My family lines include: Graybeal, Graybill, Grebil, Krehbiel, Krahenbuhl, Julson, Juelson, Hoverud, Edgbert, Collins, Mahan, Klein, Cline, Sharp and Watson. |
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