Descendants of Johanne Peter Apgard a/k/a Antget Generation No. 1 1. JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET was born 1714 in Palentine area of German States, and died Unknown in Between Cokesbury and Lebanon NJ in Hunterdon County. He married UNKNOWN AS YET Bef. 1736 in German states. Notes for JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A ANTGET: The Apgar Family The Apgar family arrived in New Jersey on the same ship (HOPE) bringing the Alpaughs in 1734. Although many differing stories seemed to have arisen concerning the ancestors of the Apgars, it is clear from several sources that Johanne Peter arrived in New Jersey on the same ship with their friends the Alpaughs. Another Apgar, John Adam arrive in 1749. He is the assumed brother of Johanne Peter. These families were part of the Palatine immigration from Germany. The Apgars trace their family history to the Lombardy region between Spain and Switzerland which might explain the dark hair and eyes common in many of the descendants of the Jones/Gately family as intermarriage with Italian or Roman people was a possibility. They are, however, primarily of German descent and were part of the misplaced people caught between warring factions in Europe and were Lutheran Protestants persecuted because of their religion when the religion of their home was Catholic. JOHANNES PETER APGARD a/k/a Johannes Peter Antiger, b. 1714 is the assumed patriarch of the Apgars in New Jersey. He came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on board the ship "Hope." The ship's captain was Daniel Riedt. It docked on the 23rd of September 1734. According to the captain's list, there were one hundred and twenty-seven passengers on board, seventy-four of whom were men over sixteen years of age. Of these, seventy-four men, only forty-nine took the Oath of Allegiance on arrival. (Keep in mind that it was against the religion of many of these immigrants to swear oaths, including the Quakers of Pennsylvania who were offering asylum to persecuted religious groups from Germany.) Wives and children became citizens of the colony automatically because of the oath taken by their husbands and fathers. An except from the Minutes of the Provincial Council, printed in Colonial Records Volume III, page 570, states "at the courthouse of Philadelphia, September 23, 1734, 49 Palatines, who with their families, making in all 127 persons, were imported in the Ship Hope, Daniel Reed, Master from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, as by clearance thence, were this day qualified as usual." A person by the name of Johan Adam Ebert supposedly arrived in Philadelphia in 1749. A search of the lists of immigrants from the Palatinate region of Germany reveals no less than seventy- seven adult Eberts who came to America, not counting their families. To select just one of these Eberts and attempt to trace his very own descendants, and not confuse them with the other seventy-six seems to be impossible. By 1749, Johan Ebert would have had a family of at least six sons and one daughter if he were the father of the Apgar family. No family was with him upon his arrival however. TAKEN FROM EARLY GERMANS OF NEW JERSEY - - by Chambers 1895 At the 180th anniversary of the Settlement of New Jersey by the Germans, 1713-1893; a Joseph Apgar was on the General Committee. As the Germans were predominately a religious people the book located many people by their churches. In Alexandria Township, Hunterdon County worshipped the German Reform families of which an Apgar is listed. One family of Apgar is also listed in the neighborhood of Lebanon. These records were before 1760. There was a Hans Peter Apgar who was an officer in the High Dutch Reformed Congregation in Lebanon township, in June 1788. P. 160. The Presbyterian Church of Lower Valley, Hunterdon Co. had listed a Caroline Apgar when church was legally organized May 7, 1872. A George Apgar and a Rachel Apgar are also listed as members. P. 163. John Adam Apgar was probably the first of the family in this country. His name was originally Ebener and he came from the borders of Lombardy, in Italy. His oldest son, Herbert, was probably the father of George who occupied lot 13 of 268 acres and of Peter, who lived upon lot 17 of 219 acres. These lands were located in what was known as the Union Tract situated in Bethlehem and Lebanon townships, Hunterdon Co. P. 165-166. Unionville, or Parker, includes the hilly section between German Valley and Fox Hill. The Bowlsby Tract of 2,365 acres was taken up in February 1765 by Thomas Bowlsby. Part of this 1,652 acres had been surveyed 29th of October 1714 for Samuel Barker, of this a Jeremiah Apgar owned 90 acres. P. 194. In the settlement of Smithfield (in Tewksbury Township) later called New Germantown, a Frederick Apgar is listed as owning the property formerly owned by the church called the church farm. P. 221-223 Spruce Run was a first part of the congregation of New Germantown. Mount Bethel was organized in 1840 as a Lutheran Church of which a Peter C. Apgar was a trustee. P. 618-624. Churches of Flanders - Methodist Episcopal. Flanders is one of the oldest fortresses of the Methodism, It was about 1783 when they began to sound their trumpets. Listed as on an appointment list in 1877 is a George F. Apgar. P. 638-639 A Benj. Apgar, 2nd N.J. Cav. is listed in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chester Lodge No. 209 I.O.O.F Listed as members - Edgar Apgar, Samuel Apgar, Joseph P. Apgar, Peter L. Apgar, H.S. Apgar and David Apgar. German Valley Encampment No. 41 I.O.O.F. Listed as members - Frank F.Apgar, Samuel Apgar and Joseph Apgar. Knights of Pythias Evening Star Lodge No. 147 Listed as members - a John Apgar. Apcar - Page 141 Hugh Asfagard 1061 witnessed the foundation charter of Bolbec Abbey (Neustria Pia, 402). Apegard was near Dieppe and Bolec. Richard Affagard witnessed the foundation charter of Combe Abbey, Warwick (Mon. i. 882) and Masillia de Apegard possessed part of Corsham and Culington, Leicester,t. Henry II (Ib. ii.605) Ralph de Apegart in Normandy, 1180-95 Mrs. Lambert de Apengart, 1198 (Ib.), Ralph le Appelgart in England, c. 1272, RH. Taken from: The Norman People - 1874 Henry S. King & Co. 65 Cornhill & 12 Patternoster Row, London In one letter of information it was stated, "I don't believe anyone really knows where the Apgars originally came from but they have been around for a number of years." The same source claims that most Apgars bear a pretty good record. Another source claims the geneology of the Apgar family has a bearing on the early history of Hunterdon County in New Jersey. There is a book "The Early Germans of New Jersey" by Chambers written in 1895 that has an Apgar geneology in it. One source says the Apgars came over on the ship "Hope" from Germany. The family had moved over the Alps from Italy in 1734. There was also a Flomerfelt on the passenger list. Another informer says a John Adam Ebert came from the Swiss borders of Lombardy, Italy perhaps in 1749. Casper Apgar of west of Cokesbury stated that his grandfather was Glasgow Apgar, who came from Germany about 1760. Some contend that we came from Germany, Armenia, Holland, Italy or Prussia -- take your pick. The country Armenia has come up at least three times. One reason is the ending of the name with ar. Prussia comes up because of trhe many first names being Frederick Charles Apgar's mother stated that all Apgars had come from abroad and setttled in Pittsburg, Penn. The surrogate at Flemington Court House said all Apgars in Flemington are of German descent. An Elmer Apgar said there had been two brothers come here from Holland. One went to north Jersey and one to south Jersey. The name Apker or Apgar has had many spellings. According to some sources the name originally was Ebgert and then Ebchner. Other Spellings were Afgar, Aplar, Appar, Apgard, Apagar and Opgar. The Apgars in New Jersey use the spelling Apgar. They were descendants of a John Adam Ebert whose name was signed by the clerk to the Oath of Allegiance about 1749. There was a Peter Apgar who came to Wisconsin. Evidently he changed the spelling to Apker. All the family descendants from Peter Apker use the Apker spelling. There seems to be a question as to how many Apgars came to America. First I had believed that there was one Apgar who came to America. Therefore, all Apgars were descendants from this one, John Adam Apgar. Another source claims there were two Apgar brothers who came to America. One of these took up land in north New Jersey and one in south New Jersey. One of these did not ever marry so all Apgars would still be descendants of only one man. Still onother informer states that at one time they had the family traced to three brothers who were on the same ship from Germany about two hundred years ago. SEE HERBERT APGAR NOTES FOR CONTINUATION: Children of JOHANNE ANTGET and UNKNOWN YET are: 2. i. HERBERT2 APGAR, b. 1736, Lived East of Cokesbury, NJ; d. 1800, Flemington, NJ. ii. JOHN PETER APGAR, b. 1739. iii. CATHERINE APGAR, b. 1743. iv. HEINRICH APGAR, b. 1745. 3. v. JACOB APGAR, b. July 18, 1746, Huntertown County, NJ; d. May 06, 1814, Huntertown County, NJ. vi. PETER APGAR, b. 1747. vii. WILLIAM APGAR, b. 1752. viii. FREDERICK APGAR, b. 1753. 4. ix. CONRAD APGAR, b. 1755, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Revolutionary War Soldier; d. Abt. 1840, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. x. GEORGE APGAR, b. 1760. Generation No. 2 2. HERBERT2 APGAR (JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born 1736 in Lived East of Cokesbury, NJ, and died 1800 in Flemington, NJ. He married ANNE // Bef. 1756 in Lebanon, NJ. Child of HERBERT APGAR and ANNE // is: 5. i. ELSE CATHERINE3 APGAR?, b. 1769, Lebanon, NJ; d. July 19, 1857, Lebanon, NJ. 3. JACOB2 APGAR (JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born July 18, 1746 in Huntertown County, NJ, and died May 06, 1814 in Huntertown County, NJ. He married (1) GERTRUDE (?) Bef. 1770 in New Jersey. He married (2) HANNAH CHARITY PICKLE Bef. 1783 in Lebanon, NJ or Cokesbury, daughter of CONRAD PICKLE. Notes for JACOB APGAR: Johanne Peter Apgar had eleven children. Please see the family charts for lists of all known children. This sixth child born was Jacob and the tenth child born was Conrad who was born in 1755. Jacob Apgar, Sr., son of Johanne Peter Antgent, was born July 18, 1746 in New Jersey and died on May 6, 1814. He married Hannah Charity Pickle (German Spelling was Bickle) daughter of Conrad Pickle born 20 March 1754 and died July 21, 1846. Jacob and his wife are buried at Lebanon, N.J. Jacob was a yeoman and blacksmith. He owned the farm where Cole Alpaugh farmed 1/2 mile Northwest of Cokesbury. This might be how Charity met Mathias as they may have been neighbors. Jacob, Sr.'s will was probated on 21 April 1814. Real and Personal property to be divided equally between the 12 children after the death of his widow. His Executors were his sons Frederick and Conrad. Inventory of his estate was valued at $6,808.59, a wealthy man for the time. He had fourteen children so the estate was divided into fourteen shares. Jacob, Jr.'s share of the estate would be about $570. A lot of money when many people earned less than $100 per year. Children of JACOB APGAR and GERTRUDE (?) are: i. ANNE3 APGAR, b. 1770. ii. FREDRICK APGAR, b. 1772. iii. CATHERINE APGAR, b. February 02, 1774. 6. iv. CONRAD APGAR, b. April 03, 1776, Huntertown County, NJ; d. March 21, 1836, Near Cokesbury, NJ in Hunterton County. v. NICHOLAS APGAR, b. October 09, 1778. vi. SOPHIA APGAR, b. 1780. Children of JACOB APGAR and HANNAH PICKLE are: vii. MATHIAS3 APGAR, b. 1783. viii. SALLIE APGAR, b. June 16, 1785. ix. EFFIE ELIZABETH APGAR, b. December 26, 1787. x. JOHN CASPER APGAR, b. April 06, 1790. 7. xi. JACOB APGAR, b. April 06, 1794, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; d. Abt. 1855, Sycamore Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. xii. ADAM J. (CHAWDY) APGAR, b. 1797. 4. CONRAD2 APGAR (JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born 1755 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Revolutionary War Soldier, and died Abt. 1840 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He married (1) CHARITY SUTTON, daughter of JOHN SUTTON and ELIZABETH ABEL. He married (2) MARY FARLEY Bef. 1777 in Alexandria, New Jersey. Notes for CONRAD APGAR: Revolutionary War Veteran. Served in New Jersey Line. Conrad was the only member of the Apgar family to fight in the Revolutionary War. The others were married and had families at the time. Men were usually exempted from service who had families to support, but they did serve in the local militia and they were not loyalists as they signed oaths of allegiance to the revolutionary government. Conrad was born 3 January, 1755 and died November 2, 1839 or March 1, 1839. He married twice, first to Mary Farley, b. 1753 and died 1790, daughter of Meindurt Farley and Barbara Van Dieren. Second, he married Charity Sutton, born 1768 and died February 20, 1845 the daughter of John Sutton and Elizabeth Abel. The Sutton family would later immigrate with the Apgars to Hamilton and Clermont County. One of their descendants would have a road named after him in Mt. Washington! Conrad Apgar was confirmed in the Alexandria Reformed Church on 6 August 1775. He is buried in the first Reformed Church Cemetery of Lebanon, NJ. The headstone is located next to that of his brother Herbert's first wife Anne. Wayne W. Apgar, a descendant of Conrad's requested a stone marking Conrad's grave for his service in the Revolutionary War. By Conrad's first marriage, he had seven children, one of whom as named Mindert after Mary Farley's father. This Mindert would immigrate to Hamilton County, Ohio and own large pieces of land that today represent parts of Kenwood Shopping Center, Indian Hill and Sycamore Township! By Conrad's second marriage to Charity Sutton were born seven children. (Please see the family charts for complete families of Conrad and others) The first child of their marriage was Hannah who was born in 1793 and who married her first cousin, the son of Conrad's brother Jacob, Jacob Apgar, Jr. Children of CONRAD APGAR and CHARITY SUTTON are: 8. i. HANNAH CHAIRITY3 APGAR, b. 1793, Foxenburg, Hunterdon County, NJ; d. Aft. 1850, Hamilton County Ohio. ii. ELIZABETH APGAR, b. 1794. iii. JACOB C. APGAR, b. 1797. iv. AARON APGAR, b. 1797. v. ANN APGAR, b. 1798. vi. CATHERINE APGAR, b. 1800. vii. CONRAD APGAR, JR., b. 1804. Children of CONRAD APGAR and MARY FARLEY are: viii. JOHN3 APGAR, b. 1778. ix. CHARLES APGAR, b. 1780. x. BARBARA APGAR, b. 1783. xi. MARY E. APGAR, b. 1784. xii. MINDERT APGAR, b. 1785, Alexandria, New Jersey; d. Symmes Township, Hamilton or Clermont County Ohio; m. EVA FLOMERFELT. Notes for MINDERT APGAR: Immigrated to Hamilton County, Ohio in early 1800's. xiii. SARAH APGAR, b. Abt. 1787. xiv. JOSUA APGAR, b. 1790. Generation No. 3 5. ELSE CATHERINE3 APGAR? (HERBERT2 APGAR, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born 1769 in Lebanon, NJ, and died July 19, 1857 in Lebanon, NJ. She married JOHN L. ALPAUGH Bef. 1791 in Lebanon, NJ, son of JOHN ALPOUGH and ELIZABETH EICK. Children of ELSE APGAR? and JOHN ALPAUGH are: i. JOHN4 ALPAUGH, JR., b. 1799. ii. ELIZABETH ALPAUGH, b. 1802. iii. GEORGE ALPAUGH, b. Abt. 1805. iv. NICHOLAS ALPAUGH, b. 1810. v. EFFIE ALPAUGH, b. Abt. 1812. 6. CONRAD3 APGAR (JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born April 03, 1776 in Huntertown County, NJ, and died March 21, 1836 in Near Cokesbury, NJ in Hunterton County. He married ELIZABETH CRAMER. More About CONRAD APGAR: Fact 3: 1810, Helped build the Methodist Church in Cokesbury and was a Charter Member Fact 4: His tombstone says he was a member of the church for 26 years. Found: Was known by the nickname "Long Coon" because he was long and thin. Found 2: Owned a 400 acre farm. Child of CONRAD APGAR and ELIZABETH CRAMER is: 9. i. CHARITY H.4 APGAR, b. November 28, 1798, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; d. Aft. 1850, Appears in 1850 Census with husband William and son Conrad, age 52. 7. JACOB3 APGAR (JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born April 06, 1794 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and died Abt. 1855 in Sycamore Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. He married HANNAH CHAIRITY APGAR Abt. 1812 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, daughter of CONRAD APGAR and CHARITY SUTTON. Notes for JACOB APGAR: Jacob, Jr. was the eleventh son of Jacob, Sr. and was born April 6, 1794. This is the Jacob that married Hannah Apgar (daughter of Conrad, Sr.) about 1812. Three lots of land were recorded as having been bought on the same day for Frederick, Nicholas, and Jacob Apgar, under the guidance of their father, Jacob Apgar, Sr. These were hilltop farms in Foxenburg, overlooking the present town of Califon, Jew Jersey. Two of the farms were productive, but the one bought for Jacob revealed too many rocks when the trees were cleared for farming. With a wife and small children to support, young Jacob was faced with the year without a summer, 1816 when there were frosts every month throughout the summer. Because of these adverses, Jacob lost his farm and became a laborer on other farms. When he received his one-twelfth share of his father's estate, he sold the land and moved to Sycamore Township, Hamilton County Ohio where land was much cheaper as well as much better for farming. He did not, however immigrate until about 1833, the same time that Charity Apgar Alpaugh's husband died. It is pretty certain that Charity moved west with Jacob as women certainly did not travel west alone even in 1833 and pretty certain that she was his daughter and the wife of Mathias Alpaugh. Children of JACOB APGAR and HANNAH APGAR are: i. MATHIAS4 APGAR, b. 1813. 10. ii. CHARITY H. APGAR, b. 1814, Cokesbury, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; d. Bef. April 09, 1844, Clermont County, Ohio. iii. CONRAD APGAR, b. 1815. iv. LYDIA APGAR, b. 1817. v. CATHERINE APGAR, b. 1818. vi. HARMON APGAR, b. 1820. vii. DAUGHTER APGAR, b. 1822. viii. PETER APGAR, b. 1823. ix. MANNING F. APGAR, b. 1824. x. JAMES APGAR, b. 1833. xi. SUSAN APGAR, b. 1833. xii. ANN ELIZABETH APGAR, b. 1834. xiii. MINARD APGAR, b. 1836. 8. HANNAH CHAIRITY3 APGAR (CONRAD2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born 1793 in Foxenburg, Hunterdon County, NJ, and died Aft. 1850 in Hamilton County Ohio. She married JACOB APGAR Abt. 1812 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, son of JACOB APGAR and HANNAH PICKLE. Notes for JACOB APGAR: Jacob, Jr. was the eleventh son of Jacob, Sr. and was born April 6, 1794. This is the Jacob that married Hannah Apgar (daughter of Conrad, Sr.) about 1812. Three lots of land were recorded as having been bought on the same day for Frederick, Nicholas, and Jacob Apgar, under the guidance of their father, Jacob Apgar, Sr. These were hilltop farms in Foxenburg, overlooking the present town of Califon, Jew Jersey. Two of the farms were productive, but the one bought for Jacob revealed too many rocks when the trees were cleared for farming. With a wife and small children to support, young Jacob was faced with the year without a summer, 1816 when there were frosts every month throughout the summer. Because of these adverses, Jacob lost his farm and became a laborer on other farms. When he received his one-twelfth share of his father's estate, he sold the land and moved to Sycamore Township, Hamilton County Ohio where land was much cheaper as well as much better for farming. He did not, however immigrate until about 1833, the same time that Charity Apgar Alpaugh's husband died. It is pretty certain that Charity moved west with Jacob as women certainly did not travel west alone even in 1833 and pretty certain that she was his daughter and the wife of Mathias Alpaugh. Children of HANNAH APGAR and JACOB APGAR are: i. MATHIAS4 APGAR, b. 1813. 10. ii. CHARITY H. APGAR, b. 1814, Cokesbury, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; d. Bef. April 09, 1844, Clermont County, Ohio. iii. CONRAD APGAR, b. 1815. iv. LYDIA APGAR, b. 1817. v. CATHERINE APGAR, b. 1818. vi. HARMON APGAR, b. 1820. vii. DAUGHTER APGAR, b. 1822. viii. PETER APGAR, b. 1823. ix. MANNING F. APGAR, b. 1824. x. JAMES APGAR, b. 1833. xi. SUSAN APGAR, b. 1833. xii. ANN ELIZABETH APGAR, b. 1834. xiii. MINARD APGAR, b. 1836. Generation No. 4 9. CHARITY H.4 APGAR (CONRAD3, JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born November 28, 1798 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and died Aft. 1850 in Appears in 1850 Census with husband William and son Conrad, age 52. She married WILLIAM ALPAUGH Abt. 1818 in Huntertown County, NJ, son of MATHIAS ALPAUGH and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN. Child of CHARITY APGAR and WILLIAM ALPAUGH is: i. CONRAD5 ALPAUGH, b. November 04, 1819; m. MARY SUTTON. 10. CHARITY H.4 APGAR (JACOB3, JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born 1814 in Cokesbury, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and died Bef. April 09, 1844 in Clermont County, Ohio. She married (1) MATHIAS ALPAUGH December 24, 1831 in Huntertown County, NJ, son of MATHIAS ALPAUGH and ELISABETH RHINEHART. She married (2) NICOLAS TIGER March 17, 1836 in Hamilton County Ohio (2nd Marriage). Notes for CHARITY H. APGAR: the 1850 Census for Ohio and there, on the page, clearly listed and spelled just like the Hunterdon County name was the name "Catherine Alpaugh" Sycamore Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. Keep in mind that Sycamore Township was "next door" to Columbia Township and a meeting of Catherine and John had become far more probable. Was it possible? Was this Catherine the future wife of John Bulmer. Immediately I requested and copied the page from microfilm. Catherine Alpaugh was living with the family of Jacob Apgar, age 56, his wife, Hannah, age 57, their children, Mannin F. age 26, Susan age 17, James 17, Elizabeth age 16, Minard Apgar, age 14. Minard and Susan were born in Ohio. All the other children, including Catherine Alpaugh were born in New Jersey. Now that I had found a woman whose age, name and location all pointed to a marriage of Catherine Alpaugh to John Bulmer sometime between 1850 and 1854 (keeping in mind that the Bulmer's oldest son William was born in 1854), I began an intensive search for marriage, land or other records of any families named Apgar and Alpaugh in Hamilton and Clermont Counties. Very helpful in this search was a book that claimed to be the complete record of the Apgar Family and all known descendants. A search of this book revealed that a Jacob J. Apgar had immigrated to Ohio sometime around 1833, following other family members west when he went broke and lost his Farm in New Jersey. Listed both in the book and on the Family Tree Maker CD's was the name Charity Apgar. This Charity was supposed to have married a William Alpaugh in 1818. She had one child by William, a son named Conrad, named after her father, Conrad Apgar a son of Jacob Apgar, Sr., the father of the Jacob living in Hamilton County. William supposedly died before 1831 when Charity supposedly married his brother, Mathias Alpaugh in 1831. Charity was born in 1798, William in 1796. and Mathias in 1811! Mathias would have been 13 years younger than Charity. The text was pretty definite about Charity though. It stated she had two children by Mathias, a daughter named Else C. (Catherine) Alpaugh, and Hannah M.(Mariah) Alpaugh, both born in 1833 and perhaps twins. (Twins appear over and over in the Apgar/Alpaugh line and appeared in the Jones Gately marriage as well..) Charity had then gone west with her supposed brother Jacob after Mathias' death and had married Nicholas Tiger who was a farmer in Clermont County (Loveland area) who was also from Hunterdon County and whose family had married into the Apgar and Alpaugh families. By Nicholas she had another daughter who was named Harriet. Nicholas had died in 1841. Charity had then died in 1843 leaving four orphans. Everything seemed to fit. This book was complete and clear about the three marriages and the family relationship seemed clear. But...as stated before, in genealogy nothing is certain. In the same book, the line of William Alpaugh (supposed first husband of Charity) stated that Williams Alpaugh married Charity, daughter of Conrad (III), had a son named Conrad, and that they were buried in the New Lebanon Cemetery! A quick look at the census records of 1850 revealed that the Charity who married William was definitely still alive in 1850 and married to William and the mother of Conrad who was living with them! This just proves again, that one cannot accept other people's research as accurate. People who do this research do not always have the records available and as it was difficult to figure out which of the many Apgar families the Charity who married Mathias belonged to they simply stuck her with the Charity who married William. Anyone taking the time to look up the census record would have seen immediately that this Charity did not go west and marry Nicholas Tiger in 1836. If Jacob Apgar's sister Charity did not go west with her daughters Else Catherine and Hannah Mariah, who was it who married Mathias and then moved west to marry Nicholas Tiger? A process of elimination began where every daughter of the generation born from 1800 to 1820 was checked and finally something seemed to fit. Jacob Apgar and his wife Hannah Apgar had a daughter born in 1814 which the text did not name. They also had a daughter born in 1822 named Charity. No further mention was made of this daughter. I believe that this record, like the other, has confused these two names and there was one daughter born 1814 whose name was Charlotte or Charity, but she was called Charity which is a very common name in this Apgar family due to Charity Sutton, the wife of Conrad, father of Hannah Apgar who married Jacob, Jr.. Cincinnati marriage records listed the marriage of Charlotte Allpaugh to Nicholas Tiger on April 17, 1836. (Charlotte could simply have come about by abbreviating Charity to Ch and be a transcription error, or her name might have been Charlotte and she was called Charity). A search of the indexes of Clermont County Wills, Estates, and Guardianships from 1800 to 1851 revealed a Will of Charity Tiger written on November 1843 and probated on April 9, 1844 as well as an Estate dated 9 April 1814 (sic) (almost certainly an error!). Nicholas' estate was probated November of 1841. A guardian was appointed for Nicholas Tiger in August of 1841 when Nicholas, Sr died. The name Charity Tiger was also given as Charity Apgar in the index as both names were used in the Will and Estate. Catherine Alpaugh was taken in by Jacob, her maternal grandfather. She lived with him until her marriage to John Bulmer which probably occurred around 1852. Her sister Hannah Mariah was taken in by one of Jacobs sons who lived in Clermont County. Who were the ancestors of Catherine Alpaugh? Who were these families with the strange names. Luckily for our family, extensive research has occurred on these families and the record, although it disagrees in some particulars is, overall, fairly consistent. See Morris Alpaugh for further history... More About NICOLAS TIGER: Fact 3: The child Harriett Tiger is credited to Nicholas. Fact 4: Charity was 40 when she married Nicholas. Found: Nicholas Tiger is from another immigrant New Jesey German family. Found 2: Nicholas was evidently 76 years old when he married Charity but died in 1841. Children of CHARITY APGAR and MATHIAS ALPAUGH are: 11. i. CATHERINE (ELSEY)5 ALPAUGH, b. January 29, 1833, New Jersey, lived on Montgomery Road near Lafayette in 1873.; d. November 16, 1920, Hamilton County Ohio, Death Certificate 69864 of Hamilton. 12. ii. HANNAH MARIAH ALPAUGH, b. January 29, 1833, Supposedly Ohio, but probably New Jersey; d. Unknown, Ohio probably. Child of CHARITY APGAR and NICOLAS TIGER is: iii. HARRIETT5 TIGER, b. 1837. Generation No. 5 11. CATHERINE (ELSEY)5 ALPAUGH (CHARITY H.4 APGAR, JACOB3, JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born January 29, 1833 in New Jersey, lived on Montgomery Road near Lafayette in 1873., and died November 16, 1920 in Hamilton County Ohio, Death Certificate 69864 of Hamilton. She married JOHN BULMER Bef. 1854 in Ohio, no record of marriage found., son of GOODWILL ?BULMER and MARY GILLINGS. Notes for CATHERINE (ELSEY) ALPAUGH: Catherine Bulmer's real name was Else Catherine Alpaugh. She was the daughter of Charity (aka Charlotte) Apgar and Mathias Alpaugh who were both decendants of the Palantine immigration from Germany to Pennsylvania in 1734. Her ancestors traveled by boat from Rotterdam, Holland to escape persecution of Protestants in the German Pallantine area. No proof has yet been found to clearly identify her as the wife of John Bulmer, but the piling up of many minor details has led me to enter her as the best possible candidate found as yet. In 1850, John Bulmer was living and working for a farmer in Columbia Township, which at that time encompassed Mariemont, Fairfax, and Kennedy Heights. He was working with and for people from New Jersey. Catherine was living in Sycamore Township on a farm rented by her grandfather Jacob Apgar and Hannah, his wife. Catherine Alpaugh is the only person of that name living in the Hamilton County area in 1850. There are some kinfolk of hers living farther north in Ohio, but none in this area except herself. The name is the closest found in the census index to the name assigned to her by family memebers. "Aw Paw." Catherine's family were the earliest settlers of Hunterdon County, New Jersey. They immigrated, with the Apgar family and about 40 other families from Germany in 1734 and were settled in a new area in northern New Jersey by fellow Germans living in Germantown, PA. The Quaker founders of Pennsylvania allowed religious freedom to all immigrants and this group of German Reform Protestants was allowed to immigrate and settle free of the constraints on religion so common in many countries in those days. Although Catherine is not, evidently, of Native American descent there is much to be proud of in her background and the pioneer stock which she represents. Her family is also the oldest American family of the Jones/Gately family. Her death certificate, filed in Hamilton County, number 69864, Registered No. 5826 states her father's name was Mathias Alpaugh and proves this relationship. Mathias married a Charity Apgar in December 1831. The death certificate gives her birth date as January 29, 1832, but it must have been 1833 as Charity did not marry Mathias until December, 1831. She was probably almost 88, but not yet 88. Not until her birthday in January would she turn 88. No mother's name is given and the birthplace of parents is unreadable. More About CATHERINE (ELSEY) ALPAUGH: Cause of Death: Arterial Schlerosis Fact 3: 1860, Living with Husband John Bulmer and children, Deer Creek Fact 4: 1874, Living on Montgomery and Lafayette Avenue. Fact 6: Catherine's family lived in close proximity to several of the Bulmer's in NJ Fact 7: including the family of David Bulmer whose children were born in England as was Fact 8: John Bulmer. Found: Supposed to have been Native American, not clearly demonstrated in any way. Found 2: 1850, on Census living with Jacob Apgar, her maternal uncle Medical Information: died of cerebral hemorage or a stroke in today's terms at the age of 87. She lived the long life of the Apgar family. The Alpaugh's didn't live as long. Occupation: Housewife Notes for JOHN BULMER: John Bulmer was an immigrant born in Scarborough, England. His death notice of September 11, 1865 gave no details on his life other than he was born in Scarborough, England. They also showed his age as 44. He was employed by Joseph Whittaker who ran a slaughterhouse on Deer Creek. Deer Creek was one of the nastiest parts of Cincinnati as the slaughterhouses dumped the blood and remains of their business into the creek. It was also called "Bloody Creek." The Cincinnati Directory nor the Census of 1860 notes where he lives, only that he worked for Whittaker. He might be at Spring Grove as there was no announcement of Church services. In 1850 he was living in Columbia Township, but not with family. It is doubtful we can learn much more of John Bulmer without searching in Yorkshire, England where threre are many, many John Bulmers. More About JOHN BULMER: Occupation: Laborer, slaughterhouse Children of CATHERINE ALPAUGH and JOHN BULMER are: i. WILLIAM6 BULMER, b. 1854, Ohio; m. ANNA MCHUGH, February 16, 1874, Cincinnati, Ohio. More About ANNA MCHUGH: Occupation: Housewife ii. ELIZABETH BULMER, b. 1856, Ohio; m. MICHAEL CARROL, January 29, 1874, Cincinnati, Ohio. More About ELIZABETH BULMER: Occupation: Child of John and Catherine More About MICHAEL CARROL: Occupation: Unknown 13. iii. EMMA A. BULMER, b. March 1856, Cincinnati, Ohio; d. January 01, 1929, Cincinnati, Ohio. iv. LILLY BULMER, b. 1859, Cincinnati, Ohio. More About LILLY BULMER: Occupation: Child of John and Catherine v. CLARA BULMER, b. 1861. vi. JOHN BULMER, JR., b. 1864. 12. HANNAH MARIAH5 ALPAUGH (CHARITY H.4 APGAR, JACOB3, JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born January 29, 1833 in Supposedly Ohio, but probably New Jersey, and died Unknown in Ohio probably. She married JOHN RANDALL. Children of HANNAH ALPAUGH and JOHN RANDALL are: i. ANDREW6 RANDALL, b. 1852. ii. WILLIAM RANDALL, b. 1858. Generation No. 6 13. EMMA A.6 BULMER (CATHERINE (ELSEY)5 ALPAUGH, CHARITY H.4 APGAR, JACOB3, JACOB2, JOHANNE PETER APGARD A/K/A1 ANTGET) was born March 1856 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died January 01, 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She married BERNARD ROBERT GATELY January 31, 1877 in Cincinnati, son of BERNARD GATELY and MARY GATELY. More About EMMA A. BULMER: Occupation: Child of John and Catherine More About BERNARD ROBERT GATELY: Occupation: Various Children of EMMA BULMER and BERNARD GATELY are: i. ANNA7 GATELY, b. March 1879, Cincinnati, Ohio; d. February 05, 1943, Cincinnati, Ohio at Daughter Rose's house; m. ABRAHAM JONES, Bef. 1903, Cincinnati, Ohio. More About ANNA GATELY: Found 2: 1910, Cincinnati with Husband Abraham Occupation: Worked at the Woman's exchange More About ABRAHAM JONES: Occupation: Iron molder, Forman Crane ii. CLARA GATELY, b. December 1880, Cincinnati, Ohio; d. February 23, 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio living at Hamilton Cty Home. iii. BERNARD GATELY, JR., b. February 1883, Cincinnati; d. Aft. 1920, Cincinnati; m. NELLIE KLUSMAN, Unknown, Cincinnati. iv. ELIZABETH G. GATELY, b. February 1887, Cincinnati, Ohio; d. May 08, 1965, Cincinnati, living 1590 Crestwood Ave.; m. WEGHORST. v. EMMA GATELY, b. April 1889. vi. JULIA GATELY, b. July 13, 1891, Cincinnati, OH; d. May 25, 1977, Cincinnati; m. JOSEPH MULLIGAN. vii. LEO GATELY, b. December 08, 1896, Cincinnati; m. MAY ELLA FREESE.