Moon Family of Western Pennsylvania
Moon Family of Western PennsylvaniaUpdated September 16, 2007 | Robert Gregg Moon 2120 Las Palmas Port Arthur,Texas 77642 A-United States (409)982-6223 [email protected] |
**MOHN*BOOTS*HINES*STOLL*SHWAMBERG*MARTIN*BAKER*HANNA** GEORGE MOON and his wife, Ruth Anna (MARTIN), had reached Mercer County, Pennsylvania in about 1830. By that time George was nearly 70 years old and had 12 children and several grandchildren. They moved in with their youngest son, Martin, about 2 miles west of Wolf Creek, near the already well established town of Pine Grove, later know as Grove City. Church records place GEORG and RUTH ANNA MOHN in Butler County, Pennsylvania in the early 1800's and Loudoun County, Virginia in the late 1700's. From that point, research indicates that Georg was the son of Vernor MOHN, an immigrant to Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1733 at the age of 6. Vernor arrived on the ship "Elizabeth" (sailed from Rotterdam in 1732) from Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany, with his father Johannas, mother Margaretha, younger brother Ludwig and sisters Magdalena and Maria. This MOHN family line can be traced back in Langenselbold to Richart MOHN (d. 1584). Other families on the "Elizabeth" which tie to the MOHNs on both sides of the Atlantic are Crowley/Grauel, Beighley/Buechle, and Faust. The BOOTS family, brothers John, Edmund, and Samuel left their home in Staplecross, Sussex County, England, in 1829 and settled in North Swickley Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, with their mother and a "large party". They were significant in the organization of the Concord Methodist Episcopal Church there. John and Samuel were local preachers and Edmund, an elder and teacher, all came with strong religious connections to the Wesleyans in England. Baptismal records at St. James the Great Church in Ewhurst Green (built in the 1200's) and St. Mary's Church in Rye contain records of the family back to the 1580's. During this same era, cousins and uncles of the three brothers left on their own treks to Australia, were several BOOTS ancestors can be found today. A considerable amount of information has been compiled on Edward N. BOOTS, who served two terms in the Union Army during the Civil War. Nearly 200 documents, mostly correspondence between E.N. and family and friends, have been preserved by Robert L. Moon and Ed Boots, Jr. E.N. died of starvation in Andersonville Prison Camp after his capture at the Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina. The HINES family begins with Richard from County Down, Ireland. He came to America at the time of the Revolutionary War, serving his new country from March 28, 1777 through April 1778 in the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment under Capt. Sylvanus Shaw until his death at the Battle of Red Bank (part of the Battle of Fort Mifflin) on October 22, 1777. Capt. William Humphrey took command of the regiment on that date. The Regiment spent the winter at Valley Forge with General George Washington. In return for his service, he received a grant of land in Butler County, Pennsylvania. He was blind for a number of his last years, and died at the age of 103 after falling into an open fire. The STOLLS and SHWAMBERGS arrived in the United States from Rezita, Romania (formerly Hungary) and are tied to the MOON family. Very little is known before their arrival in about 1900. |
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