Section
D
James
& Sarah (Smith) Egbert
Stories,
Photographs & Information
From History of the Egbert family by Norman D. Egbert,
in the hands of Margie Egbert Goller, Columbus OH, dau. of
Norman D. Egbert II
Dear Friends and Relatives,
I will commence this record of
the descendents of Uriah and David Egbert, by giving you something of
interest concerning the older fenerations of our branch of the Egbert
tribe in America, for most of which I am inbebted to Dr. Seneca Egbert
of 4814 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA to whom our thanks are due
for the certainty that our record is correct back to the earliest
settler. He has a large amount of data to draw upon, concerning the
tribe, and I sincerely hope he may be able sometime in the future to
publish it as a history. It would certainly be very interesting to us
who carry the "blod" and if persuaded it would be no mean recital of
our country's progress for we seem to have furnished our quota of
soldieers, jurists, legislators, doctors and ministers.
Quotation from Dr. Egbert's
letter of April 14, 1912.
"I was more than surprised and
delighted, last evening to receive your ....[words blurred]...
contribution of data, relating to your immediate family and hasten to
send my thanks for them all. I had forgotten what I sent to your son a
couple years ago, and that I had established the connection between you
and the earliest of the family in the country. Your Grand Uncle David's
letter seems to settle the question without a doubt. Your data will not
only help me to fill out the chart of your Great Great Grandfather
John, but will also help me to trace the migrations of various members
of James' family from New Jersey through Pennsylvania to Ohio. I
am sending you herewith a chart of the earlier generations, so far as I
have them, and hope to be able to tell you more about the ancestors of
Tunis, the father of seven sons and four daughters.
I also send you another sheet,
that will give you the names of about 150 of your immediate relatives,
descendants of your Great Grandfather's brothers John and Paul.
Extract from letter to William
H. Egbert dated Oct. 25, 1910.
Going back to your great- great-
grandfather John, it is certain that his father was James Egbert born
Jan. 10, 1695 lived on Staten Island, married the first time Catherine
Deny born Dec. 6, 1695, and who was the mother of John. This James
Egbert was probably the son of Tunis Egbert of Staten Island and he
probably the son of Govert Egbert who came over from Holland or Germany
with his brother Barent in 1660 or 1665. Govert was registered as
a "taxable" in Elizabeth, New Jersey in1685 being put down as a
"Dutchman."
This letter of my Grand Uncle
david mentioned above, was probably the last letter he worte, and was
to his brother Uriah. He died very shortly after it was written. He
mentions various members of their brothers' families, especially those
of Johan and [bluured]. Also "Old Uncle John and John Jr.," and is of
value in establishing our line of [blurred]. I have the original
and several photographic copies.
James Egbert, the son of
John Egbert and Martha ---? was born in Readington, New Jersey,
May 20, 1759, married Sarah Smith, born March 19, 1754. She was his
[blurred] and morthe of all his children. They removed from Readington,
NJJ to [blurred] Co., Penna. about 1794, setlling about 12 miles from
Sunbury in the district of Montour Co. Here Sarah Smith Egbert died,
exact date not known, probably [blurred]. Soon after his mother's
death, in 1814, Uriah and his brother David [blurred] later to
Franklin Co., Ohio and in 1823 to Seneca Co.
Soon after they came to Seneca
Co. their father James and second wife, cameto them. Here he died. Mrs.
Park's account of the event is, "Grandfather took a heavy cold, the
"cold plague" - pneumonia set in, and he died about 1824 or 1825. There
being no undertaker, lumber of sawmill here at that time, Father
cut down an oak that would split well, cut it off the right length,
split it into planks, mortised them together, filled the cracks with
beeswax and buried Grandfather on the line between the farms, half on
the land belinging to David and half on that of Uriah."
This place of barial is on the
center line, north and south, of the northeast quarter of Section 14 in
clinton Township, and is on a knoll just north of Morrison Creek, a few
rods from the bank. A few trees and bushes are there and nearby. There
are impressions from which other bodies have been removed. The west
side is the land once owned by David, now known as the Coler farm.
Referring to the chart at the beginning of thsi record you will see
that John Egbert, born June 2o, 1722, who married Martha, was the
father of Catherine, John, Elizabeth, Mary, James, Sarah, Nicholas,
Tunis D., Paul, and Jacob. When I have finished this record, we
will know something of the families and descendants of John, James, and
Paul. Of Nicholas, Tunis D. and Jacob and their descendants, there
seemed to be nothing positively known.
This seems also to be the case
with the females of that family. I am sorry that this is so and hope
Dr. Egbert will be successful in tracing t hem all, and I think he will
be for he traces his line descent tfrom Tunis Egbert of Staten Island
through Abraham, a brother of James, born Jan. 10, 1695 (our ancestor_.
Further it would appear that his great grandfather William, bpt. Oct.
16, 1753, and my great grandfather James, bpt. May 20, 1759, were
second cousins.
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Walter
Raymond Egbert and family
Mel Egbert & Brothers
Cora
Belle (Egbert) Smith
Albert
E. Egbert & Mel Egbert
photo taken
4/17/1998
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A
Letter from Nuevo Hotel,
Penex y Aneros, D.A. Guadalajara, Jal.,
Mexico,
2/12/1955