Thursday, March 7, 2024

Almeda Lucretia Lumbard 1842-1911

Is this possibly the sister of Joseph Lumbard, who was from Danville & came to visit?? In reading this, I always thought it meant that Josiah Lumbard had a sister in Danville, but now that I have re read it many times, and found Almeda, I think it might mean Joseph had a sister?


Almeda Lucretia Lumbard
Daughter of Joseph Lumbard & Sarah Ritter
Born 18 Nov 1842
Died 10 Sep 1911
Married
Kimber C. Ent
Son Of
Born
Died

Children:
Edith V. Ent M. Fred Holmes
Edwin H. Ent


1860 Almeda is a Teacher, living with the Andrews family:

Sarah's death certificate lists Sarah Ritter as her mother, so find out who the E. Ritter, Age 79, is in this census...

Name: A L Lumbard
Age: 18
Birth Year: abt 1842
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Bloom, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Post Office: Bloomsburg
Family Number: 499
Household Members:
Name Age
M Andrews 47
S A Andrews 37
A L Lumbard 18
E E Andrews 13
A A Andrews 10
A E Andrews 11/12

E Ritter 79

1867 - Almeda "Houseknect" married Kimber C. Ent

A. Lucretia & Kimber Ent - these are not common names.  Either Almeda's last name is a mistake, she married once before, or this is not the same couple. But I find it VERY unlikely this is not the same couple, since it's the only Kimber Ent we find in the census, and the ages make it clear they are the one and the same...

Another researcher has that Almeda married Christian Houseknecht August 11 1862.  Christian enlisted in the civil war July 29 1863, and died November 2 1863. 




Name: A Lucretia Houseknecht
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 19 Sep 1867
Marriage Place: Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse Name: Kimber C Ent
Denomination: Methodist

Organization Name: Wesley United Methodist Church


1868- Daughter Edith V. Ent is born

Name Almeda Lumbard
Gender Female
Birth Place Pennsylvania
Spouse Kimber Ent
Child Edwin Hartman Ent
Almeda Lumbard - True
Household Members
Name Age
Edwin Hartman Ent
Almeda Lumbard
Kimber Ent

Elsie



1870 - 
Name Almeda Ent
Age in 1870 26
Birth Year abt 1844
Birthplace Pennsylvania
Home in 1870 Bloomsburg West Ward, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Race White
Gender Female
Post Office Bloomsburg
Household Members
Name Age
Kimber Ent 26
Almeda Ent 26
Edith Ent 1

1872 - Son Edwin Hartman Ent is born
He was the assistant postmaster

EDWIN H ENT assistant postmaster at Bloomsburg Pa was born in that city Sept 22 1872 son of Kimber C Ent John Ent his grandfather was a successful bridge contractor and builder and lived at Light Street where he died and is buried He was twice married and by his first wife had three children Zetta Kate and Kimber C Later he married second Elizabeth Philpot by whom he also had three children Dora Roscoe and Annie Kimber C Ent son of John Ent was born at Light Street Columbia Co Pa in 1842 and in young manhood became a clerk in the Iron dale Furnace store near Bloomsburg but later went on the road as a traveling salesman for a queensware and china house of Philadelphia living however at Bloomsburg where he died in 1898 He married Almeda L Lumbard who died Sept 10 191 1 and both are buried in Rosemont cemetery at Bloomsburg Kimber C Ent and his wife had two children Edith who is the wife of Frederick Holmes teller of the First National Bank of Bloomsburg and Edwin H Edwin H Ent went to the public high and normal schools of Bloomsburg and after leaving school commenced working being engaged in the carpet mill and tube works In 1898 he was appointed a letter carrier at Bloomsburg After holding this position for four and a half years on Aug 1 1902 he was made assistant postmaster of the office at Bloomsburg which position he still fills In 1896 Mr Ent was united in mariage with Elsie West a daughter of John F West of Weatherly Pa Mr and Mrs Ent are the parents of one daughter Editha W who was born in 1905 Mr Ent belongs to Washington Lodge No 265 F & AM Bloomsburg Chapter No 218 RAM Crusade Com mandery No 12 KT and Caldwell Consistory A musician he belongs to the consistory choir The Methodist Church holds his membership and he is serving that body as steward Politically he is a Republican and has done yeoman service for his party As a public official and private citizen Mr Ent has demonstrated his worth and stands high in his community. - Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties ... 


1877-  The Ent Family is Found in the Methodist Church Records - 

Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 for A Lucretia Ent
PA - Columbia Bloomsburg Methodist Wesley United Methodist Church
Name: A Lucretia Ent
Event Type: Other
Event Date: 1877
Event Place: Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
Denomination: Methodist

Organization Name: Wesley United Methodist Church

1880 - 
In 1880, the census says Almeda's mother was born in Maine.  Could that possibly be an error and it was her father born in Maine?



Name Almeda Ent
Age 37
Birth Year abt 1843
Birthplace Pennsylvania
Home in 1880 Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Wife
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Kimber C. Ent
Father's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace Maine
Occupation Keeping House
Household Members
Name Age
Kimber C. Ent 37
Almeda Ent 37
Edith Ent 11

Edwin H. Ent 7

1900
In 1900 Almeda lists both her parents as born in Pa.  She is living with her daughter and son in law.

Name Almeda Ent
Age 37
Birth Date Nov 1842
Birthplace Pennsylvania
Home in 1900 Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania
Race White
Gender Female
Relation to Head of House Boarder
Marital Status Widowed
Father's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace Pennsylvania
Mother: number of living children 2
Mother: How many children 3
Household Members
Name Age
Fred Holmes 32
Edith Holmes 31

Almeda Ent 37

1910- Name Almeda Ent
Birthplace Pennsylvania
State PA
Age 67
Color W;W
Enumeration District 0008
Visit 0190
County Columbia, Bloomsburg
Relation Mother-in-law
Other Residents
Relation Name Age Birth Place
Head of Household Fred Homes

1911 - Almeda Died
Her death certificate lists her mother as born in PA, and her father as born in New York.



Gender Female
Race White
Age 68
Birth Date 18 Nov 1842
Birth Place Pennsylvania
Death Date 10 Sep 1911
Death Place Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
Father Joseph Lumbard
Mother Sarah Ritter
Certificate Number 83430
Almeda Lucretia Ent - 1911 - False[Almeda Lucretia Lumbard]
Household Members
Name Age
Almeda Lucretia Ent
Sarah Ritter

Joseph Lumbard


Burial - 
According to Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour Counties ... 
Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg Pa.

Suzanne Furr Adelson 11/13/26 - 12/2/15

 Second Cousin 2x Removed, Paternal, Lumbard, Line
With Clark Gable and Ava Gardner

Facebook post from Katy Kirkpatrick - 
"So there's this....
From left: Gary Cooper, my great aunt Suzanne (née Furr), Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner.
Regrettably, I don't know the exact year or location that this photo was taken. For many years my great aunt Sue worked for People magazine interviewing some of the highest-profile celebrities at the height of Hollywood's Golden Era. 
Suzanne left us on December 2nd this year and will be tremendously missed for her perennial positivity, poise, glamour, flowery language, zest for life and unabashed love for all who were near and dear to her.
Suzanne Adelson, 11/13/26 - 12/2/15"

Suzanne Furr
Daughter of Charlie & Helen Lombard (Smith) Furr
Born November 13 1926
Died December 2 2015
Married Frank Adelson

Connection:
Suzane Furr (1926 - )
is your 2nd cousin 2x removed

Joseph A. & Sarah Ethel (Scharf) Lumbard (our shared 3rd great grandparents)
Sarah Ethel (Lumbard) Smith (1879 - 1931)
Helen Lombard Smith (1901 - )
Suzanne (Furr) Adelson


1930
Suzanne H Furr
 in the 1930 United States Federal Census
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Name: Suzanne H Furr
[Sazanne H Furr]
Birth Year: abt 1927
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1930: Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Map of Home: View Map
Ward of City: 8th
Block: Market Arch 6th.
House Number in Cities or Towns: 533
Dwelling Number: 554
Family Number: 610
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: No
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charley B Furr 36
Helen L Furr 29
Ethel Jean Furr 9
Suzanne H Furr 3
Theo E Wilt 31


1940
Name: Helen S Furr
Age: 13
Estimated birth year: abt 1927
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1940: Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Front Street
House Number: 544
Inferred Residence in 1935: Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Sheet Number: 1A
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 7th grade
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles B Furr 45
Helen L Furr 38
Ethel Joan Furr 19
Helen S Furr 13




From an online Obituary/Tribute Page - In loving memory of Suzanne Adelson (affectionately known as "Mot" or "Grandma Darling"), November 13, 1926 ~ December 2, 2015. Her vibrant personality and zest for life brightened up the lives of so many. Always colorful and charismatic, she was a phenomenal woman with a heart of gold. Her beautiful spirit will never be forgotten.



Misc Research:


Kathleen Lumbard "The Swedish Nightingale" 1901-2007

 Heather's Great Grand Aunt (Sister to her great grandfather) Paternal Line



Anna Kathleen "Kitty" Lumbard
Born February 15 1901
Died July 9 2007
Married
1st William Hoffman
Son of John K. & Harriet Hoffman
Born Abt 1893
Died abt 1942
2nd William Dempsey
Son of
Born
Died 1973


Time Line:

1901 Kathleen was born
15 Feb
Pennsylvania

1908 Photo of the Lumbard Family



(Photo Belonged to Kathleen)

The children of George Meade Lumbard & Anna Keller were - 
Joseph Keller Lumbard 1896 – 
Kathleen Lumbard 1901 – 2007
George Washington Lumbard 1905 – 1983
Robert Kurtz Lumbard 1907 – 1911

George Meade Lumbard was my 2nd great grandfather.  My great grandfather was the son of him & his second wife, Beulah Simms.

1910 - Residence
Age: 9
Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania, USA
Age: 9; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter

Name: Anna K Lumbard
Age in 1910: 9
Birth Year: abt 1901
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1910: Selinsgrove, Snyder, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: George M Lumbard
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's name: Beulah L Lumbard
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
George M Lumbard 35
Beulah L Lumbard 27
[21] 
Keller S Lumbard 13
Anna K Lumbard 9
George W Lumbard 5
Robert L Lumbard 3
William H Heppard 8

1910 - Occupation
After
Age: 9
“I went to work before and after school in the silk mill,” she said. “We had a humble home. There was nothing rich about it; it was poor.”


The Silk Mill in 1906
Silk Mill 1911

1919 - Marriage to Marshall S Hoffman
Age: 18
Pennsylvania
In about 1919, at the young age of 18, Dempsey married her first husband, Marshall Hoffman, and moved with him to New Jersey. The marriage lasted about 23 years, until Hoffman passed away from tuberculosis.

Name: Kathleen Lumbard
Gender: Female
Spouse: Marshall S Hoffman
Spouse Gender: Male
Marriage Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage Year: 1919
Marriage License Number: 406181

Digital GSU Number: 4141769

1920
Age: 19
Philadelphia Ward 36, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Age: 20; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Name: Kathleen Hoffman
Age: 20
Birth Year: abt 1900
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1920: Philadelphia Ward 36, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Street: Wackerli Street
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Marshall Hoffman
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: None
Attended School: No
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Marshall Hoffman 27
Kathleen Hoffman 20



1920 - Occupation
After
Age: 19
New Jersey, USA
worked at a nightclub selling cigarettes and, more impressively, as an attractive coloratura soprano dubbed the “Swedish Nightingale.”


About Frankie Conway and the Tavern on Black Horse Pike - 
FRANKIE CONWAY was born Nicola Iacovelli in Italy on November 3, 1900. He began fighting professionally in Philadelphia in late 1914 or early 1915, and fought over 200 bouts before losing his eyesight to a ring injury. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he operated a soft-drink saloon in Camden. After a great deal of legal wrangling, in the late 1930s Frankie Conway obtained a liquor license in Westmont (Haddon Township), New Jersey and operated a bar there at 110 West Cuthbert Boulevard for over 20 years. Frankie Conway's bar in Westmont is still open, and has been known for many years as Fischer's. Frankie Conway is often confused with another fighter who fought out of New York under the same name at about the same time whose real name was Frank Ferris. onway passed away in 1960. - http://www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenSports-FrankieConway.htm




1930 - Residence
Age: 29
Upper Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA
Age: 28; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Name: Kathlene Hoffman
Birth Year: abt 1902
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Homemaker?: Yes
Home in 1930: Upper Darby, Delaware, Pennsylvania
Map of Home: View Map
Street address: Aberdeen Rd
House Number in Cities or Towns: 6952
Dwelling Number: 321
Family Number: 334
Age at First Marriage: 18
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Able to Speak English: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Marshall Hoffman 38
Kathlene Hoffman 28


1940- Residence
1 Apr
Age: 39
268 Sayrs ave, Camden, New Jersey, Camden, New Jersey, United States
Age: 39; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife

Name: Kathleen Hoffman
Respondent: Yes
Age: 39
Estimated birth year: abt 1901
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Haddon, Camden, New Jersey
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Howell Avenue
House Number: 10
Inferred Residence in 1935: Haddon, Camden, New Jersey
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 6B
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 7th grade
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Marshall Hoffman 47
Kathleen Hoffman 39

Wallace Snow 63 (listed as a lodger)

1943 - Residence
Age: 42
268 Sayrs ave, Camden, New Jersey, Camden, New Jersey, United States

Name: Kathleen Hoffman
Gender: Female
Residence Year: 1940
Street address: 268 Sayrs av
Residence Place: Camden, New Jersey, USA
Spouse: Marshall Hoffman

Publication Title: Camden, New Jersey, City Directory, 1940

1943 (after) Marriage to William Dempsey
Age: 42
After her first husband died, Kitty soon remarried William Dempsey and moved from New Jersey to Florida

1986 - residence
Age: 85
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Name: Kathleen Dempsey
Birth Date: 15 Feb 1901
Address: 4856 SW 22nd Te, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33312 (1986)


2007 Interviewed for her 106th Birthday:

Kathleen “Kitty” Dempsey, a self-described “old rascal,” has no advice about how to live a long life, though it’s information nearly everyone tries to extract from her. “They always ask me that … [and] I don’t know,” she said in a recent interview. Whatever she’s done seems to work, however, because Dempsey turns 106 years old Thrusday, Feb. 15.
After spending her life in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida, the centenarian currently lives at the Susan Bailis Assisted Living Center on Massachusetts Avenue near the border of the South End. In more than a century on this earth she’s had careers as a silk mill worker, a housekeeper and a popular coloratura soprano nightclub singer. Now, the 106-year-old finds herself enjoying her late years in Boston, what she considers the easiest years of her life.
“My earliest memories are not very nice,” Dempsey admitted. She was born on Feb. 15, 1901 in Selinsgrove, Pa. to George and Laura Lumbard, one of nine children (though four of her siblings came from her father’s second marriage). At the early age of six or seven, young Kathleen, who everyone called and continues to call Kitty, was struck with tragedy when her mother died. In the wake of her mother’s death, Kitty’s father “kept his kids together the best he could,” said Dempsey, but for the young girl, life turned hard. One of the oldest among her siblings, Kitty cared for her younger brothers and sisters and was sent to work at an early age. “I went to work before and after school in the silk mill,” she said. “We had a humble home. There was nothing rich about it; it was poor.”
Dempsey never made it to college, though Selinsgrove is home to Susquehanna University. “God, no,” she said, when asked if she attended college. “I didn’t even start high school.” Dempsey stayed in school until about the eighth grade and said, “I’m an old lady and I don’t have too much brain.” In truth, the sharp-tongued 106-year-old may lack formal education, but she isn’t short on brains.
In about 1919, at the young age of 18, Dempsey married her first husband, Marshall Hoffman, and moved with him to New Jersey. The marriage lasted about 23 years, until Hoffman passed away from tuberculosis.
Some of Dempsey’s most vivid memories come from her time in New Jersey, where she worked at a nightclub selling cigarettes and, more impressively, as an attractive coloratura soprano dubbed the “Swedish Nightingale.”
“I had quite a voice,” Dempsey admitted, adding that she had a solid group of fans. “I used to sing to the tables. People wanted me to sing to them, and they tipped me well.
“I had a job, and it was good money,” she said of her stint as a singer, though due to everything getting more expensive over time, “today they’d sneeze on” the $75 a week she made at the nightclub.
After her first husband died, Kitty soon remarried William Dempsey and moved from New Jersey to Florida, where she lived until last year. When her second husband died, after 29 years of marriage, Kitty lived alone in a mobile home, quietly working in the homemaking business and sometimes making headlines.
Elaine and Robin Sheets, who first met Dempsey about 30 years ago in Florida and have remained friends ever since — Robin’s mother lived in a nearby mobile home — note that Dempsey’s feisty attitude sometimes surfaced. About 30 years ago, when Dempsey was in the prime of youth in her mid 70s, she found a stray dog and took the dog into her home, which was against the rules of the mobile home community. After arguments about the dog, management tried to kick Dempsey out of the community, but she didn’t budge. Not surprisingly, the matter became a great story for the local newspapers, and in the end Dempsey prevailed and got to keep her dog. Elaine Sheets noted that Depmsey has always loved animals.
Into old age, Dempsey remained involved in her civic association and her church choir. Only recently — about six or seven years ago — did she stop participating in her local crime watch group.
Living to be so old has its disadvantages, and over time Dempsey’s friends and supporters passed away or moved away. Unable to live in a Florida mobile home alone at the age of 105, Dempsey moved to the Susan Bailis Center last year, where she’s close to Elaine and Robin Sheets (Elaine is a native South Ender).
“She’s very strong willed, very independent,” said Elaine about Dempsey, adding that the centenarian sometimes describes herself as “ornery” and says things like, “I’m so tough a pick axe wouldn’t even kill me.”
“I didn’t have a good life; I had a life that was loving,” Dempsey said recently. Perhaps her tough life — seeing her mother and two husbands die, working hard every day — tempered her, like metal, into something durable that was destined to stick around. Dempsey explains her longevity in more philosophical terms, saying, “God didn’t want me; the Devil didn’t want me, so I just wandered around.”
Asked if the world has changed for the better or the worse, Dempsey responded only about her own life here in Boston, saying, “I think that I’m living better than I ever have. I have an easier life. What I attribute it to, I don’t know.
“Age doesn’t bother me a whole lot,” she said. Asked to provide advice to younger generations she said, “I always say work hard, because I had to work hard all my life.”
Dempsey’s feisty personality has made her a minor celebrity at the Susan Bailis Center where, during her recent interview with South End News, more than one resident asked her to lunch.
Emily Sato, assistant social programs director at the Susan Bailis Center, said all the residents know Dempsey. “She’s a smart aleck,” Sato said. At 106, Dempsey gets around remarkably well with the help of a walker, but, noted Sato, “She’s very feisty. [Sometimes] she’ll throw down her walker and start walking by herself.”
For Dempsey’s 106th birthday party, held Feb. 15, the Susan Bailis Center planned an event for residents and friends that includes food, drinks and a performer. It was supposed to be a surprise party, but it’s difficult to surprise someone who’s been around, both in terms of years and experience, as long as Dempsey. “I don’t think I’m supposed to know it, but I do know it,” she said.

2007 Kitty Died, age 106.
9 Jul
Age: 106

Name: Kathleen Dempsey
Last Residence:
02155 Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts
BORN: 15 Feb 1901
Died: 9 Jul 2007

State (Year) SSN issued: New Jersey (Before 1951)


Burial
2007
New Jersey, USA
Beside her husband William

Research:

"Recently I came into possession of Kathleen Lumbards family pictures and some correspondence about her family, she is right now 105 years old, 99% blind, and in a retirement facility located in sunrise florida. She is known as Kathleen Dempsey, or "Miss Kitty" to her friends. There is no doubt, after viewing pictures of her father, that he is closely related to Joseph Asher Lumbard, possibly his son. Kathleen was born on Feb 15 1901, and says her younger brother whom I assume would be Robert Lumbard 1907 - 1911 d: 09 Sep 1911 on your family tree, died at 4 years old of consumption." 
Susan Bailis Assisted Living Center, Boston MA

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Rothermel Line To Carl Sulouff




Our Rothermel Line Immigrated to America from Germany in 1725
Look for the book: Rothermel families in America by Meiser, Joseph A., 1921-; Rothermel Family Association

Peter Rothermal 
Married
Anna Elisabeth Weber 

Married 
Julyianna Stempel 1726-1795

Catherine Rothermal 1745 – 1802
Married

Married
Margaret Elizabeth Pontius 1780-1860

Married
Sarah Fertig 1807 – 1878

Susanna Brouse
Married

married
Mary Cordelia Smith 1850-1906

Dora Edna GEISE (1879-1939)
married


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MISC - Not Necessarily Related, Rothermal Research:
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ACCORDING TO THE ARCHIVIST AT THE STUTTGART FAMILY ARCHIVES CENTRE, THE ROTHERMELS OF HÖRLEBACH MAY HAVE BEEN RELATED TO ALL THE OTHER ROTHERMELS IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS - MOST ROTHERMELS IN GERMANY WERE LIVING IN BADEN WURTTEMBURG WHICH WAS A FARMING AREA.

The German inheritance law states that when a father dies his land is divided equally between his sons, after two or three generations with numerous children sons were often left with only one small field, not enough to sustain their families, this is why many of them were forced to move on from their birth village or emigrate abroad.

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Most of the Rothermels who ever resided in Berks County PA are descended from five sons of a Jonannes Rothermel. In 1911 Abraham H Rothermel visited Wachbach but could not find any records concerning his Rothermel ancestors. Another visitation in 1985 failed to locate any records in Wachbach of any person named Rothermel. Although there were numerous Rothermels in Hassloch which is still situated in Baden Würtemberg.


Johannes Roth Ermel

The Rothermel family is well represented in Jordan township, where William W., Lazarus W., Manasses W. and Monoe Rothermel, all sons of the late Isaac Rothermel, reside. The Rothermels have been identified with this section of Northumberland from the beginning of the last century, when Abraham Rothermel, grandfather of the four brothers mentioned, came hither from Berks county, where his ancestors located in an early day.

This Rothermel family traces its genealogy back some four hundred years to one Johannes Rothermel, who won both fame and a name in the early wars of Germany. He was a brave soldier, and so frequently dyed his arm in the blood, of his enemies that his comrades designated him as der Roth Ermel (red sleeve), and in this way he acquired the name Rothermel .Floyd, p923, 924

"Based on Lutheran Church records in the village of Hassloch,Germany, the Rothermel families that migrated to America in the late1600's or early 1700's were the children of Johannes Roth Ermel, birthplace and parents unknown. The relationship of Johannes Roth Ermel of Hassloch with Johann Ludwig Rothermel of Biebershein, Germany has not been established."

"It should be noted that John Jacob Dreibelbis (Treibelbiss), who emigrated to the Port of Philadelphia in 1732, and whose descendants intermarried with many Rothermels in Berks County Pa., was born in Hassloch, Germany April 10, 1709. The birthdates of his five brothers ands isters also appear in the Lutheran Church records in that village as does the birthdates of the children of Johannes Rothermel. "

"Johannes Roth Ermel had three children Johannes Peter Rothermel born ca. 1686 married Maria Margaretha Brunner and secondly Anna Elizabeth Weber; Leonard Rothermel married Margaretha Zimmerman; AnnaCatharina Rothermel married Johan Theobald Fintzel on 2/15/1719."Rothermel Families in America, p. 10

How do the people in these German villages live?" That is a question we are often asked. Well, everyone knows these people to be very industrious. Most of them own a few acres of land which they farm intensively…that is, they grow at least two crops on them annually. Much of the work in the fields is done by the women, assisted by the men in their spare time. Most men have a trade or business which they operate when their services are needed by fellow citizens. We have already mentioned the bakery and bicycle business. Then there are carpenters, blacksmiths, locksmiths, tinsmiths, basket makers, weavers, butchers, taverns and other occupations.

There is a cigar factory which employs mostly girls and buys the tobacco grown by local farmers. Many of the men and youths and young women work at their trade in nearby cities, travelling on bicycles and motorcycles.

The principal crops are wheat, (grown mostly for green fodder), turnips, sugar beets, cabbage, tomatoes, cauliflower, endive and head lettuce. There are many fruit trees - apples, pears, prunes and cherries.

Baden-Württemberg may be regarded as the one German Land in which economic life is dominated by middle-class businessmen and small farmers. Although such world-famous firms as Daimler-Benz started as small workshops in Stuttgart and Mannheim, there is virtually no heavy industry in the region. On the other hand, Baden-Württemberg is the centre for highly specialized mechanical and textile industries. The lack of valuable mineral and other deposits in Baden-Württemberg forces the population to earn its livelihood by the manufacture, improvement, and finishing of goods. Baden-Württemberg produces the majority of all the clocks, watches, and custom jewelry that originate in the country. Substantial amounts of Germany's leather goods, musical instruments, medical instruments, food and agricultural produce, cigars, and hardware are also produced in Baden-Württemberg.

Almeda Lucretia Lumbard 1842-1911

Is this possibly the sister of Joseph Lumbard, who was from Danville & came to visit?? In reading this, I always thought it meant that ...