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JosephThompson Painter was born in Pennsylvania to William Painter and Martha Torton. He was the seventh of nine children born to his parents. His sister, Sarah Painter Reynolds is our direct ancestor. She married Henry Reynolds. Among the many accomplishments of Joseph Painter there are these: Served three years for the Union in the Civil […]
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This is Mohawk Village in Coshocton County, Ohio as of 2005. It is in this place that we find the site of the original Mohawk Methodist Church and its churchyard burial ground. This cemetery is the final resting place of direct ancestor William Pancake, his wife Mary Crawford and several of their descendants.
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William Pancake was born near Harrisburg in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to Johann George Pfannekuchen and his wife Anna. He was the oldest of seven children born to his parents. His father changed his name to George Pancake and went by that surname from the late 1700s forward. Direct ancestor William was always known by the […]
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It was the obituary for our ancestor William Pancake in 1867 that told us where he was buried. The first Methodist Church in Jefferson Township was built on this spot in Warsaw, Ohio. Our ancestors were among the founding members of the church. Soon, a graveyard was plotted and grew up around the church. By […]
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William and Mary Crawford Pancake married in Ohio in 1818. They affiliated with the first of the churches in the area which was Methodist. As this compiled History of Warsaw, Ohio indicates, “Mr. and Mrs. Pancake” were among the first members.
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Johann Pfannekuchen was born in Prussia. Today it is known as Germany. He emigrated to America where he married and settled in Pennsylvania. He is our direct ancestor. His son Johann George Pannekuchen was the first ancestor in this line to Americanize his name to Pancake. By the time our ancestor William was born in […]
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Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William […]
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When all was said and done, we found much information about our ancestor Jerome Timothy Watrous, his wife Mary June Reynolds and their children Henry, Sarah Rebecca and adopted daughter Mary Ellen Byrnes. The one piece of their later life migration that has eluded us in a reference in Jerome’s obituary to a few years […]