Hi,
I am looking for families associated with the Eyler family and or Sprenkle family in Gettysburg, PA during the Civil War. Supposily, this family had a farm where the battle took place, or close enough to recieve bullets thru their home.
Do any of these names sound familiar?
George Washington Eyler
Margaret Lucinda Sprankle Eyler
William J. Sprenkle
Elizabeth Sprenkle
If so, please reply,
Dawn

I have relatives in my line, William J Sprenkle died 27 Oct 1863 Adams County PA married to Elizabeth Gough Sprenkle died 11 Oct 1878, Adams County, PA. My line is their son Isaiah Sprenkle, then his daughter Gertrude Landis (Sprenkle) Schaller, then my gr grandfather Byron Sprenkle Schaller, then his son Harold C. Schaller, Waynesboro, PA.

My Great Grandmother Sarah Ellen Sprenkle of Adams Countyy Pennsylvania at the time of the battle of Gettysburg lived on a farm in Maryland. Sarah Ellen Sprenkle Teach b abt 1847 in Adams County, PA died 1929. She married William Wesley Teach, b 1848 d 1896, in Illinois.

When Sarah Sprenkle was 16, her family, father John Sprenkle and Mother Eliza lived on the Mason-Dixon Line near Emmitsburg, Maryland on their family farm. She told Her granddaughter, Marion Maves, the following Civil War Story: (from Charles Teach family history) Paraphrased:

"General Lee's army after their defeat at Gettysburg in 1863 retreated through Maryland through the South. The hungry rebel soldiers marched on a path going past the Sprenkle Farm. Sarah Ellen remembered that the Confederate Soldiers stopped at her home, very hungry. They came in, took raw bread from the oven that she was baking, and devoured it ravenously." - end quote from "Dee