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Archival and Manuscript Collections Finding Aid

ACCESSION No.: HRHS- 85

COLLECTION TITLE: Surname Files

DATES: Various

SIZE: 3 boxes

DONOR: Priscilla Blosser-Rainey, Hilda May, Phil Stone, Nancy & Irvin Hess, HRHS

library surname files and various other donors

PROCESSED: Processed 01/28/2016

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Surname files from the HRHS genealogical library and from various donors. Consists of

genealogy information, receipts, correspondence, etc.

SCOPE AND CONTENT:

This is an artificially created collection from documents removed from surname files in

the HRHS genealogical library. Photocopies of many of these documents are in the

surname files in the library. There are also documents donated by various other donors.

COLLECTION INVENTORY:

Box 1:

A: Ambler, Anderson, Arehart, Armentrout, Armstrong

B: Baker, Bazzle, Bear, Blakemore, Bichard, Blosser, Boggins, Bognl, Boring, Bond,

Bowcock, Bowman, Braithwaite, Branner, Breneman, Brown, Brunk, Bryan, Burgess,

Buckner, Burkholder, Byrd

C: Castor/Custer, Cherrholmes, Chrisman, Clarkson, Clatterbuck, Clem, Cline, Clutters,

Coffman, Compton, Comer, Conard, Conrad/Stevenson, Converse, Cootes, Corin,

Cravens, Crawford, Craybill, Crider, Cupp

D: Davis, Dengler, Dixon, Dorman, Downs, Dovel, Dillard, Dold

E: Earman, Effinger, Emswiler, Eversole

F: Fallis, Firebaugh, Fishback, Fisher, Flory, Forrer, Fries, Funk, Funkhouser, Furr,

G: Gay, Garber, Gillett, Gilmer, Gillmor, Good, Grubb, Glover, Glyn, Grady, Graham

H: Haas, Hall, Harshbarger, Harnsberger, Hammen, Hanna, Hanks, Harris, Harrison,

Hartman, Hedrick, Henkel, Hensley, Higginbotham, Hill, Hinton, Hirsch, Hirzel,

Hofman, Hoffman, Hollinger, Hoover, Hopkins, Houk, Hutchinson, Hudlow

I: Imes, Innes-Randolph, Irvine, Irwin

J: Jeffreys, Jennings

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K: Kavanaugh, Kaylor, Keagy, Kelly, Kemper, Kiblinger, Kite, Kiser/Kizer, Kratzer

L: Lambert, Layman, Landis, Lincoln, Long, Love

M. Mace, Maloney, Mapis, Marshall, Martz, Mason, Matheny, Matthai, Matthau,

Mauzy, May, McFall, McGahey, McLaughlin, Messerly, Miller, Monger, Morrison,

Moss, Mott, Moyerhoeffer, Musselman, Moses, Myers

N: Naill, Neilson, Naked Creek Church survey

O: O’Ferrall

P: Palmer, Patterson, Pence, Pennybacker, Perrine, Phillips, Powel, Pringle, Pugh

R: Rains, Randolph, Rhodes, Ritchie, Rodgers, Roller, Roudabush, Rutherford

S: Sager, Sahey, Samuels, Saunders, Scholl, Shaffer, Shank, Shanklin, Shaver, Sheets,

Sheffer, Shelton, Shifflett, Showalter, Shue, Shull, Sibert, Sigler, Simmons, Sims,

Smallwood, Smith, Sparks, Speck, Spitzer, Sprinkle, Steigel, Sterling, Stirewalt, Stout,

Stover, Sumption, Switzer

T: Terrell, Tinsley, Thompson, Trobaugh,

U: Usher

V: Varner

W: Walker, Wampler, Ware, Warren, Washington, Watson-Wentworth, Wayland, Weast,

Weese, Weaver, Wheelbarger, Whitmore, Whitsel, Wikle, Wine, Winfield, Wise, Wisner,

Witz, Wolverton, Wren, Wright

Z: Zimmerman, Zirkle

Other Collections with Genealogical information:

HRHS-1 Flavia Converse Collection

HRHS-5.1 Forrer Family Papers

HRHS-7 Coffman Family Papers

HRHS-8 Stiegel Family Paper

HRHS-9 Samuel Simmons Family Bible Record

HRHS-19 Robert Alley Collection (Funkhouser Family)

HRHS-27 Firebaugh Family Collection

HRHS-29 John F. Lewis Collection

HRHS-34 Booker Family Coat-of-Arms

HRHS-44 Oarbaugh Family Bible Collection

HRHS-47 Moore Family Records

HRHS-51 Moyers-Funk-Mayhue Family Bible Record

HRHS-56 Peachy Harrison Letters

HRHS-57 Walter Eye Collection (Cowger, Crummett, Eckard, Eye, Hoover, Huffman,

Mitchell, Moyers, Propst, Rexrode, Shrader, Simmons, Sinnet, Sweckers,

Pitsenbarger, Puffenbarger, Waggy

HRHS-75 Early Family bible Record

HRHS-78 Martz Family bible Record

HRHS-81 Joseph Good Family Collection

HRHS-88 J. Houston Harrison Papers

HRHS-90 Litton-Simmons Family Records

HRHS-95 John A. Sites Family Bible Record

HRHS-99 Samuel Angus Firebaugh Diary Collection

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HRHS-100 Kiser/Keyser Family Records (Kiser, Kyger, Keyser, Eberth/Hofheim/Ried,

Berry/Biery, Kite, Strohl/Strole, Coiner/Coyner,\/Keinadt/Kiser, Spotts/Spatz,

Kisling/Kautz,

HRHS-107 Varner Family Papers

HRHS-109 Trumbo Family Genealogical Charts

HRHS-112 Dorothy Thomas Collection (Thomas, Payne)

HRHS-113 Roadcap/Rothgeb Family Collection

HRHS-119 Acker Diaries

HRHS-122 Russell Armentrout Papers (Armentrout, Bryan, Earbaugh, Finnegan, Frymoyer)

HRHS-124 J. J. Bowman Diary Collection, 1874-1878

HRHS-126 John B. Sheets Civil War Diary

HRHS-127 Peter Bernhart Fraktur Collection (Shenck, Long)

HRHS-130 John L. Hopkins Collection

HRHS-138 Joseph Funk Man of Letters Collection

HRHS-140 Switzer Collection (Switzer, Omohundro, Richardson, Roller, Davis)

HRHS-146 Sniteman Family Bible Collection

HRHS-148 John Stewart Collection (Germans in the Valley)

HRHS-149 Craun Family Papers

HRHS-151 J. Robert Swank Collection: Shaffer, Acker, Beery, Donovan, Driver, Funk,

Ralston, Showalter, Swank, Weller, Baxter, , Conard, Saufley, Haugh,

Genealogy charts for Singers Glen families: Acker/Ocker/Aucker,

Showalter/Swank/Ralston/Hopkins/Dove, Rodeffer/Showalter, Beery,

Heatwole/Showalter/Swank, Driver/Acker/Zimmerman, Ralston/Berry, Cromer,

Trissell/Showalter, Landes/Miller, Ralston/Deavers, Swank, Craun/Swank

HRHS-157 Frieden’s Church Collection

HRHS-160 Siever Family Genealogy Collection

HRHS-165 William Campbell Family Collection (printer’s copy of book)

HRHS-167 Hooke Family Papers Collection

HRHS-173 Descendants of Johannes Ries/Reese Collection (printer’s copy of book)

Storage Room: Hooke Family Genealogy Binders

Sheffer Family Genealogy Binders (10)