Angie and I have continued to spend a little time here and there looking up some of our family history. Here’s a few highlights we’re putting next to a new European map we’re using to outline where our family lived before coming to the United States.
Tom Sloan & Marjorie Pelser Married in Indiana, 1965
Marjorie Pelsor Sloan
Pelsor + Roof + Gibbs + Wills + Jeffreys & Suter + Matthews + Gorden + McElwee + Cooper
- Settled in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania (1800’s or earlier)
Grimm/Crim & Caretrout
- Germany -> Virginia (mid-1700’s)
Poage + Prestin/Renick + Crawford + Douglas
- Scots-Irish -> Virginia (mid-1700’s)
- Presbyterian ministers, Farmers, others of educated working class
- moved to the fertile, sparsely settled Northern Ireland in the 1600’s
- George Poage was a Captain with the Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, serving in the Clover Lick and Warwick’s Forts.
Thomas Sloan
Sloan
- Ireland -> Pennsylvania (early 1700’s)
- James Sloan was born in Pennsylvania 1756 & served in the Revolutionary War
Oesch & Denny & Wuthrick
- Switzerland -> Ohio (Mid-1800’s)
Eric Wolske & Helga Henkalman Married in Michigan, 1963
Henkelman + Mantei + Rösler + Meyer + Weidmann
- Germany -> Volhynia (1800’s)
- Martha Henkelman, born in Volhynia 1894, left the Lutheran church & traveled with Church of God evangelists, leading music
- Volhynia -> Poland (1940)
- Poland -> Germany (1945)
Wolske + Tepper + Kublick + Schuttke + Begalke
- Germany + Eastern Europe + Sweden -> Volhynia (1800’s)
- Volhynia -> Michigan (Early 1900’s)
Volhynia Deutsch Exile
- Wolske/Henkelman families where exiled to Siberia July 1915
- Amelia Kublick, Eric Wolske’s grandmother, and one daughter died on train to Siberia
- Aurelie Krebbs Henkelman, Helga Henkelman Wolske’s sister, was born in Siberia 1917
- Exile ended as part of March 1917 Russian revolution and the new government’s declaration of human rights
- Unlike many Volhynia Deutsch, the Wolske/Kublick and Henkelman families were able to return to Volhynia to reclaim their homes & farms.