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John Jacob Pflieger apparently used his middle name, and is usually referred to as Jacob Pflieger. There is disagreement between two sources regarding children. Children according to Michael C. Gulden are: George Pflieger (twin) Jacob Pflieger (twin) Maria Pflieger Adam S. Pflieger John Frederick Pflieger Sarah Pflieger Alexander Washington Pflieger Emanuel Pflieger Henry Pflieger Children according to Historical Sketch of the Goodykoontz Families in Virginia and U.S. by Wells Goodykoontz, chapter on Phlegar family written by Eula Willis Bell with contributions by Margaret E. Pflieger are: Mary Pflieger John Pflieger Michael Pflieger Samuel Pflieger Emanuel Pflieger Henry Pflieger Adam S. Pflieger Jacob Pflieger Martin Pflieger Alexander Washington Pflieger. A comparison follows: Michael Gulden Eula Willis Bell George ?? Jacob Jacob Marie Mary Adam S. Adam S. John Frederick John Sarah ?? Alexander W. Alexander W. Emanuel Emanuel Henry Henry ?? Michael ?? Samuel ?? Martin It is possible that George could have been George Michael, but this has not been confirmed. It is currently unknown if Michael, Samuel and Martin are incorrectly linked to John Jacob and Catherine by the Goodykoontz book. Information from Historical Society of York County source 430 2901 researched by David R. Stephenson III and Michael Gulden The following is from an e-mail recieved by Melonie Crain on 7/13/2001 There was contact among the sons of Frederick (Rev. War soldier): his son Jacob (your ancestral line, I think) loaned money to his brother George in Floyd (then Montgomery Co.) Va to buy the land on which George and his family settled. About the 1830s, one of Abraham's boys was rather sickly; and so Abraham decided to send him to a spa in New York. That boy boarded a horse-drawn stage coach and headed north, stopping overnight in--of all places--York Pennsylvania. The boy wrote back to Dad, telling him that Uncle Jacob wasn't too well and that Martin Ebert was still there. The boy might have mentioned others (my memory can be selective), but isn't that incredible? If the Ebert family isn't familiar to you, Martin Ebert was a close friend of the family, and it seems as though there was a corresponding Martin Ebert for each generation! One early Martin Ebert and his wife picked up stakes and went to Old Salem North Carolina; I have extensive records on them in the Moravian settlement there. Another interesting cross-over is with the York folk-artist and chronicler Lewis Miller: not only did Lewis sketch a picture of your Jacob as a blacksmith and one of Martin Ebert in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in the late 1790s, but Lewis in later life frequently travelled to Christiansburg, VA, close to where the Floyd Co. Phlegars lived. |