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GENEALOGIST'S SYMPTOMS: Continual complaint as to need for names, dates and places. Patient has a blank expression, sometimes deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind, except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters. Swears at mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins, and remote, desolate country areas. Makes secret night calls, hides phone bills from spouse and mumbles to self. Has strange faraway look in eyes. NO KNOWN CURE TREATMENT: Medication is useless. Disease is not fatal, but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy workshops, subscribe to genealogical magazines and be given a quiet corner in the house where he or she can be a-lone. REMARKS: The unusual nature of this disease is: the sicker the patient gets, the more he or she enjoys it! Taken from: Ancestors Unlimited Quarterly, publication of South-west Nebraska Genealogical Society of McCook, Nebraska |
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J.W. Hook's genealogy of Leonard Eller did not include the name of his wife at the time of publication in 1957. Hook later learned her name was Elizabeth Masts and this Information appears as a maginal note in some books. The information here comes from the Watauga Co., NC Heritage Book, Watauga Co. Genelogical Soc., Boone, NC. | |
MASTS ANCESTRY 414 Records show the Masts to be of German ancestry. A majority of these early ancestors Identified as being consecrated to the teachings of the word of God, suffered much for conscience sake, yet remained faithful to their belief. Because of persecution many left Germany, went to Switzerland, and later some to the Netherlands. John Mast was born in Switzerland in 1740. He, in company with an uncle, an older brother Jacob, and four sisters, sailed from Rotterdam on the ship "Brotherhood" and landed in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 3, 1750. They resided nearly ten years in the district of the Northkill Congregation of Amish Mennonites. In 1760 they were attacked by Indians and forced to seek another refuge from persecution. They settled in the beautiful Conestoga Valley between the Schuylkill River and Conestoga Creek, Barks County, Pa. Here Jacob erected a comfortable log farm house for the family. He married Magdeline Holly and they reared twelve children, He was a prominent citizen and was elected to the office of Bishop of the Mennonite Church in 1788. John. shortly after becoming twenty years old, left his brother Jacob and family to explore and hopefully find a more suitable location. After a period of wandering through lonely forests, he settled in the year 1764 in Randolph County, N.C. He was married to Barbara and they had five sons and seven daughters. John, first son, was married, wife unknown; Joseph married Eve Bowers; Jacob married; David married Nancy Ware; Steve, a bachelor; Nancy married James Curtis; Elizabeth married Leonard Eller; Hannah married, Daniel Hoover; Mary married David Hoover; Mollie married John Wagner; Catherine married Andrew Sheets; Susanna married Henry Fouts. John, Jacob, David, and some of the sisters and their husbands went to Ohio (Montgomery and Miami Counties) In 1801. Steve went to Ohio and later to Maryland where he located on land, now the City of Baltimore. Joseph, b. March 25, 1764, married Eve Bowers in May 1783. They came to Watauga County during the late 1780s and built a home on Watauga River near Valle Crucis. They had eight children: Adam married Elizabeth Cable; John married Susanna Harmon; David married Mary Shull; Jacob married Fulcher; Joel, a bachelor; Reuben married lst Nancy Weel, 2nd Jane Curtis; Noah married Elizabeth Shull; and Elizabeth married Benjamin Council. Adam moved to Southwest Va. and later to Johnson County, Tenn. David, Jacob, and Reuben moved with their families and slaves to Texas. John, b. 1786 (2nd son of Joseph), married Susanna Harmon in 1808, and they built a home on Brushy Fork Creek, Sugar Grove, N.C., where they lived and reared fourteen children. Most of these children continued to live in Watauga County and contributed substantially to the county's population and progress. These children were the fourth generation of Masts in America were, Nancy, b. 1809, married Dudley Farthing. They had thirteen children: William Judson, Susan, James Martin, John Young (Jack), | Mary White, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Harrison, Martha, Joseph, Lewis Williams, Sarah Caroline, Wiley Hill and Nancy Emeline.
David (died in infancy). Noah, b. 1812, married Elizabeth Roland and had three children Harvey, Mary and Joel. (Family moved to Missouri). Eli, b. 1813 d. 1902, married Celia Dugger. They had seven children: Sarah, Joseph Finley, Manuel Dugger, Mary Ellen, William Penn, John Calvin and Susan. Leason, b. 181 5, married Sarah Dugger and had three children Charlotte, Eli P. and Haseltine (Hester). (Family moved to Oregon). Elizabeth, b. 1817 - d. 1897, married Joseph Shull. They had eight children: Temperance Caroline, Noah, Phillip, Benjamin, John, James Melton and Mary Adeline. Mary, b. 1818 - d. 1905, married John W. Wilson and they had four children: Sarah Emeline, Hiram, John Andrew (Andy) and Susan. Charlotte, b. 1820, married Gephemiah Horton. Their family consisted of seven children: Taylor, Finley, James, Nicolas, Emma, Jane and John. (They lived in Yancey County). Melinda, b. 1822, married Jesse Gragg and had two children: William Finley and Pete. Caroline, b. 1824 - d. 1887, married Andrew Baker Mast (Andy). They had four children: William, John, David Finley and Mary. 1, Emeline, b,1826- d. 1880, married Henry Taylor and had. four children: John B., James P., Charles Davis and Thomas Hardison. Joseph Harrison, b. 1827 - d. 1915, married Clarissa P. Moore and had nine children: Sophronia Elizabeth, Andrew Jackson (Andy), Leona Angeline, Martha Victoria, John Hight, Alice Josephine (Josie), Sarah Caroline, Daniel Harrison and Joseph Carson (Pete). John Allen, b. 1829 - d. 1892, married Martha Elizabeth Moore. They had eleven children: Elizabeth (Lou), Noah Tarlton, Charlotte Caroline, Virginia Ellen, Newton Lafayette (N.L. or Newt), Julia Anna, Munsford Monroe, Mary Etta, Susan Arrena (Sue), Martha Addie and William Hardy. Finley Patterson, b. 1832 - d. 1924, married Rhoda Smith and had six children: David Charles, Mary Elizabeth, Martha E. (Mattie), John Johiel (Jack) Emma Lenoir and Lillie Olymphia. Many of the 77 grandchildren of John and Susanna Mast (5th generation) and the greats 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th generations lived or live now in Watauga County serving in various occupations and in civic and church activities. Sources: Mast, C.Z., MastFamily History, Mennonite Publishin House, Scottsdale, Pa., 911, 822 pp.; Family and Public Records. -- Grace B. Mast ARTHUR CLYDE MAST 415 "A.C.," as he was called by many, was born on a farm at Sugar Grove, N.C. on May 28, 1892, the tenth child and seventh son of thirteen children born to Noah T. and Lucinda |
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