Hi Em,
You asked if we are related in any way. Maybe and yes? First there is a James Garfield Eaches, who married Emily Elizabeth Ahner (Arner). According to Joe Erner, author of the Arner website she is out of a line from my gggg grandfather Hans Ulrich Arner but not in my direct line of descent. I don't have James Garfield Eaches parents, would you have that info.
Emily Elizabeth Arner is a dau. of Franklin A. Ahner/Arner and Louisa Campbell. One of my McDaniel family descendants married into the Campbells but that in not my direct line either.
Richard Allen Eaches, son of James Garfield and Emily Arner married Evelyn A. Straussberger. She is a daughter of Samuel M. Straussberger and Amelia Berger. Now things get tricky, Samuel M. Straussberger is a son of Joseph Albert Straussberger and Maude C. Haney. Maude C. is a daugher of Washington I. Haney and Emma Moyer, Washington I. Haney is a son of Lewis Haney and first wife Sophia Edgar, (another wandering shred of Irish? origins said to be from Columbia Co. PA, lots of Edgars, Edgers etc. there but no finding any record of her parents. And I have her birth and death dates and maiden name and location of where she "came from" from her 1852 burial record...BUT CAN'T FIND HER PARENTS!)
So Lewis is my direct ancestor, gg grandfather, so I am obviously related by blood to at least some of the Eaches in Carbon, but not a direct descendant of the Eaches...I don't think. Unless there is a connection way back in the mist of time in Ireland? Likely since we all get back to the same 2/4/6 etc. original uprights.
I guess you could say I'm your cousin's?? cousin's?? cousin?
When I tell people my great grandfather, Henry Arner, wife Harriet Haney, sister of Washington I. Haney, was born 213 years ago, they think I'm crazy. In my DAR application on another line, Klase, I had to write an explanatory note because at first they had a hard time believing that I had so few generations back to the Patriot. Same thing, Henry b. 1795, married twice, Harriet was his second, she was 21 when they married in 1856, my grandmother was born 1867. The math is astounding. ;o)
Have you done any on site research in Chester County? I may just get down there, (about 4 hours away from here) next summer and scrounge around to see if I can find anything. The Haneys were to my knowledge Evangelical Lutherans or Reformed, if Lutheran, which it seems likely, those records are difficult to find.
I found Amos W. E. Haney, (s/o Lewis and Violetta Eaches) in Steubenville Ohio. Not exactly him but his widow and children. Have you tried that direction in your searches for Eaches? And how would you be related to Richard Allen Eaches if you are?
Judy (
judyd@shenhgts.net)...