Tenwalde Family of Putnam County, Ohio
Augustine and Seffernick Family Roots
Joseph Wavra Family
Edward Acton Family
Richard Mills Family
The Mat(t)hews Family
Henry Schwoll Family
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Steffan-Schumacher-Hempker Families
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Tenwalde Family of Putnam County, Ohio, by Dorothy Acton
John Henry Tenwalde and his mother Agatha (born in Holland) came to Glandorf, Ohio, in 1835. He married Maria Kneiper and they had three children: Theresa (Mrs. Anton Unverferth), Henry (married to Katherine Steffan), and Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry Siefker). The families owned land near Glandorf, Ottawa, and Kalida, Ohio. Some early surnames in the family were Warnecke, Siebeneck, Meyers, Radabaugh, Omler, Schwoll, Beck, Augustine, Korte, Honigfort, Cameron, Molesworth, Roebke, Bockrath, Klausing, Fruchey, Patton, Daley, Stans, Zeller, Westbeld, Grundstein, Kurber, Brinkman, Hamel, Halker, Dunham, Shinaberry, Langhals, Schroeder, Lammers, Kahle, Niese, Morman, and Kleman.
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Augustine and Seffernick Family Roots by Dorothy Acton and William Seffernick, Seattle.
Anna (Dassinger) Augustine, widow with four children, and Peter Seffernick, widower whose first wife was Verona Wilheimer, left with five children, lived in a German village called Nitzkydorf in what now is Romania. This village had begun in 1786 when Empress Maria Theresa (Hapsburg) sent Germans from the Black Forest area to settle her faraway lands. Those early settlers have come to be called the Danube-Swabians (because they traveled the Danube River to their new home). The Dassinger family was one of the first to settle, coming from a village called Dettingen on Main (river) near the present-day Frankfurt. Anna and Peter married and came to America in 1897, settling in Delphos, Ohio. Anna and Peter had three children. Peter Seffernick's children: Joe, Peter, Louis, Christine (Ricker), John. Anna Augustine's children: Lena (Boerger), Tony, Anna (Shue), George. Peter and Anna Seffernick's children: Charles, Theresa (Fuerst), Verona "Fronie" (Saum). Some early surnames were Rode, Vernier, Beaustead, Stauffer, Beck, Sefernick, Siefker, Klausing, Krawiec, Rimatzki, Malenfant, Klodowski, Skuse, Sefernik, Czerwinski, Lowrey, Revard, Ekhardt, Bentoski, Guertin, Perez, Robison, Ward, Ricker, Hesseling, Wilkensen, Dahling, Klaus, Kincaid, Hurley, Uhlenhake, Harmon, Allemeier, Pendergast, Gilles, Krebs, Fuerst, Saum, Boerger, Shue.
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Joseph Wavra, son of Paul and Julia (Kovarovic-ova) Vavra, grew up in Kuty, Czechoslovakia (a village across the Danube from Vienna). Came to America about 1900, worked in coal mines of Pennsylvania, farmed in Kansas, and eventually bought a farm in Gladwin, Michigan. Married in 1906 to Katherine Balint, whose native village was Kosice, Slovakia, near the Hungarian border. Joseph and Katherine had three children: Michael, Julia (Mrs. Raymond Augustine), and Margaret (Mrs. Clarence Augustine). Wavras were related to the Boxey (Bakshi) Family. Unpublished, but copies exist among Augustine and Michael Wavra family members around Midland and Gladwin, Michigan.
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Edward Acton, from northern Ireland to St. Louis, MO, about 1850. Settled in an Irish section of St. Louis called "Kerry Patch." Married Jane Oakes in 1853 and had 3 children, Edward, George, and Frances Anne. Divorced in 1882, married Mary Harmon, and had a son William. Some early surnames are Pfeiffer, Reichenbach, Repking, Wesselschmidt, Adkins, Lildenbusch, Huss, Pyle, Brown, Houston, Atkins, Thompson, Helm, Burgess, Mills, Matthews, Sprague, Walker, Losse, Smith, Pope, Childers, Shelton, Davies. Unpublished, but copies exist in Richard Acton family.
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Richard Mills, born in Wales 1852, went to St. Louis, MO, about 1873. Married Lucia Matthews Hill, and had 4 children: Byron, Gertrude (Acton), Richard, and Llewellyn. Some early surnames are Powell, Hill, Matthews, Acton, Smart, Bralich, Bartolomew, Walker, Sprague, Foresti. Unpublished, but copies exist in Richard Acton family.
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The Mat(t)hews Family. by John R. Boots, Jr., aided by Anne Murray Montgomery
Traces the Mathews family from the 1400's in Llandaff, Wales, to Augusta County, Virginia. This book is over 800 pages long and contains far too many surnames for this summary. The Matthews family joined the Mills name in St. Louis, Mo, in 1889.
Find this book at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Library reference no. is 929.273 M432b and 929.273 M422bj
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Henry Schwoll, by Dorothy Acton, Clara Morman, Rosemary Langhals, Clara Slutz.
Henry Schwoll came from Prussia to Cincinnati by 1854 and was married and starting a family in Ottoville, OH, by 1860. He married Katherine Beck and had seven children: Catherine (Huttinger), Mary (Verhoff), Henry, Louisa (Bockrath,) Anna (Tenwalde), Anton, and Bernard. Some early surnames were Neuhasel, Justinger, Thompson, Kramer, Miller, Laudick, Bellmann, Schroeder, Kuhlman, Horstman, Selhorst, Meyers, Rosengarten, Smith, Lammers, Schnipke, Turnwald, Niemeyer, Unterbrink, Siefker, Wehri, Luman, Michel, Morman, Maag, Ellerbrock, Bellinghausen, Fortner, Rampe, Fortman, Sarta, Korte. Published only as a booklet. Find it at the Putnam County Library in Ottawa, OH.
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Theodore Langhals Family, collected by Rosemary Langhals. This family line also appears in the The Tenwalde Family of Putnam Co, OH but a separate booklet should be found at the Putnam Co Lib in Ottawa, OH.

Henry Siefker Family. Henry's ancestor is Joseph Siefker born about 1810 in Hanover, Germany, and died 1878 in Ottawa, OH. Some early surnames are Tenwalde, Slarman, Selhorst, Gross, Kahle, Kuhlman, Gerten, Meyer, Goecke, Rampe, Recker, Merritte, Drummelsmith, Lucke, Vogelpohl, Averesch, Saum, Underbrink. Henry's family is included in the Tenwalde Family of Putnam Co., OH, but I do have a few pages about Joseph Siefker.

Johannes Heinrich Rode by Marilyn Austin Rode. Henry Rode married Catherine Mertin in 1851, lived in Dayton and Delphos, OH, and had 10 children between 1854 and 1876. Some early surnames are Sefernik, Adams, Vernier, Boustead, Chila, Tucker, Stauffer. I have a copy of part of this book and may be able to direct you to a family source.

Theodore Korte Family by Marie Korte. Theodore Korte married Catherine Henke 1854 in Glandorf, OH. They had 5 children: John Henry, Mary (Goedde,) Ignatius, Anthony, Philomina (Schimtz). Some early surnames are Kruse, Buddlemeyer, Grubenhoff, I have a copy of this book and may be able to direct you to a family source.

Steffen/Steffan Family of Ohio. I have a considerable amount of research on family branches that did not relate to mine. If you are searching for a Steffen/Steffan I may be able to direct you to family members who have done work on the family lines.