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Srackengast/Burgess/Griffin families in MD, VA, OH and MI

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Re: Srackengast/Burgess/Griffin families in MD, VA, OH and MI

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 1:23PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 25 Mar 2011 5:27PM GMT
Surnames: Srackengast, Snider, Burgess, Griffin, Loop, Thomas, Stover
I know more about Rebecca's family than I do about Joel or Joseph Burgess, too. I still have some "holes" to fill in about them, so I'll tell you what I know... and what I don't and maybe we can help each other out.
Well.... as far back as I can go is this:
Daniel Srackangast (born June 5, 1765) was from Maryland (don't know if he was born there, but he was "from" there.
He married Mary Snider (born 1768, don't know day or month) also from Maryland on Jan 30, 1795 in Frederick VA, which is close to DC. They raised a family in Botetourt VA, close to the mountains which became part of WV in 1854. Sometime before the 1850 Census, Daniel and Mary moved with at least some of the children to Preble Co OH. Daniel Srackangast died in Preble Co OH sometime before the 1850 census (date not known) and is buried in Backbone Cemetery in Preble CO OH. There was a Srackangast stone in the cemetery at one time. The land is now private property. Mary died sometime after the 1870 Census at which time she was 92. It's believed she was buried with her husband.
I've found marriage records for some of their children, but maybe there are some I haven't found. Here's what I have on Daniel and Mary Snider Srackengast's children:
ELIZABETH born 1795 in VA married John Loop on Mar 2, 1813 in Botetourt VA. They later moved to OH. I only know of one child... Joseph Loop, who is buried next to his parents, there may be several others. Elizabeth, Joseph and John are buried in Preble Co OH. Elizabeth died Feb 5, 1889.
JOSEPH born Dec 18, 1798 in VA married Susannah Thompson (don't have a date, but probably around 1824). She bore him 3 children: John W born 1825, Sarah Margaret born 1829, and Joseph born 1832. Susannah died in 1835. Then Joseph married Elizabeth Foland (don't know that date either... suspect it's around 1840) She bore him 5 children: Absolom Painter born 1842, Rebecca born 1844, David born 1846, Francis Asberry born 1848 and Christina born 1853. Joseph also married a Nancy Benefiel, but I have no date on that marriage. Joseph died Oct 14, 1864 and is buried in Perkinsville IN. I don't know when Joseph moved his family to IN, but it must have been before the 1850 Census because he is not in OH at that time.
SOPHIA (don't have a birthdate... suspect it's around 1800) married John Thomas on Feb 28, 1823. I haven't been able to track down any children for Sophia and John Thomas, nor where they lived nor anything about a date or place of death.
REBECCA (don't know birthdate, suspect around 1803?) married Joel Burgess in either Jan 16, 1822 or Dec 19, 1824 in Botetourt VA (Do you suppose that maybe they had to wait till one of them was "of age" to get married? That thought just occurred to me.) Anyways, the only child I know about is Martha Burgess, born Jun 9, 1830 in VA, married Wm Griffin on Jan 4, 1848 in Preble Co OH, and raised a family with him in Butler Co OH, including my GGrandfather George B Griffin. Martha and Wm Griffin moved from Butler Co OH to Berrien Co MI in 1865 on land granted to him by the government for the service of his grandfather in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Martha Burgess Griffin and Wm Griffin are buried in Berrien Co MI, but I've no idea where Rebecca and Joel Burgess are buried.
GEORGE born 1807 in VA married Eliza Ann Kelly Mar 3, 1833 in Preble Co OH. Eliza bore him one son, Francis born 1834. Eliza died in 1834 (from childbirth??) George next married Susannah Loop who bore him 7 children: Wesley born 1837, John Henry born 1839, Mary born 1841, George Washington born 1842, Sarah born 1845, Simon born 1846 and Susan Jane born 1848. Don't know what happened to Susannah (death or divorce) but George next married Asenath Ann Gard Aug 15, 1854 in Preble, then they moved the family to Berrien Co MI. Asenath bore George 5 more children...all in MI: Olive born 1858, Ezra born 1860, Warren born 1863, James born 1865, and Daniel born 1869 who died in 1870. George died Aug 2, 1886 and is buried in Berrien MI, but I haven't found the cemetery yet.
CHRISTINA born 1809? in VA married Wm. B Stover on Sep 1, 1829 in Botetourt VA. They had (according to the 1850 census) the following children: Mary M born 1832, James H born 1833, Wm J Stover born 1835, Nancy E born 1837, Sarah I born 1838, Eliza F born 1840, Charles E born 1843, Ann J born 1845, Harriet V born 1846, and Daniel born 1848. The census also noted that Wm Stover was a carpenter and that he owned 6 slaves: a male 25, a female 23, a male 22, a female 20, a male 5 and a male 4.
Then there is a puzzlement.... another male Srockengast who lived in Preble Co OH right next door to George (in the 1850 census, George is household #629 and this Srockengast is household number #628), but nobody can make out the first name. It's too faint and has some blotches over it. To me, it looks like a big fancy "S" then a "k" or "h" then an "o" or "a" then an "l". It isn't Joseph, because the birthdate given is 1808 and Joseph is 1798 and he's probably in IN already by 1850. Also, the children are different. This "questionable" Srockengast's wife is an Elizabeth, born 1811 in Maryland. No length of marriage is given in the 1850 census, but the children are these: Mary born 1837, David born 1839, Ann born 1841, Lurton (probably Linton) born 1843 and Lewis born 1848. By the ages of both parents, 42 and 39, they're old enough to have had children who may have already left home (married) by the time of the 1850 census so there may be other children I haven't found. Do you know anything about this Srackengast? What the name might be? It's one big fancy capitol letter, possible another tall letter next to it, then space for another letter that isn't there, and the top part of maybe an "o" or "a" and ending in an "l". I've thought of many possibilities... Dan'l, Sam'l, Noel, Joel, Carl, Abel??? Tis a puzzlement! I've tried running down the children and haven't been able to find this family anywhere except for the 1850 Census in Preble OH. Do you know where they might have gone and what happened to them??
Also, I just found another Srackengast married in Preble OH...a Mary Srackengast born 1810 married a George Hanger on Sep 13, 1830. No parents names are given for her, so don't know for sure if she's Mary and Daniel's child, but the other Mary Srackengasts are too young to be her and she's just a year younger than Christina Srockengast and I don't know of any other Srackengasts than those we are related to living in Preble OH at that time. I haven't had time yet to run down this Srackengast/Hanger connection to see where it goes.

Well, that's all I have for the time being. Still working on them and the rest of my family.
I can send you a "pic" of that 1850 Census page with the mystery named Srackengast, if you want to take a stab at figuring it out for yourself if I can have you email addy... or I can go back and look up the URL for it, if I can find it. Most of the info that I was able to dig up so far is through the Mormon Church's search engine... familysearch.org and then there are some cemetery sites that list family names and give dates, etc and then ancestry.com itself.
Well, hope we can help each other out with the rest of the story.




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