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2012.500.001 - Print
This is a framed print of a poem called "We Are the Chosen". It is about the fact that the author believes each family has a member who is called to find the ancestors and give them flesh and bones and share the information with other family members. These families have done a depth of family research and have shared it with us.
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Rg1.B10.F12 - Correspondence
This folder contains a planning document for the 2019 Pannebakker Family Association reunion. The Pannebakker family, while in Montgomery County, does have a connection to the Chester Springs community and Pannebakker and Pennypacker family members here.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B10.F19 - Advertisements/Brochures
This folder contains the brochure for the Dr. Bodo Otto Association produced by the Otto family. It gives biography of Dr. Otto and contact information. Also included is a sympathy card from the Otto family to Sandra Momyer, Moore Archivist. The family signed it at one of its annual reunions, 2019.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B11.F10 - Biography
This is research on Thomas Ruston Kennedy, son of Dr. Samuel Kennedy, Revolutionary War doctor at Yellow Springs. Dr. Donald L. Rezek did the research. Thomas was a physician like his famous father. Having served in the miiitary himself, he was to set up practice in Meadville, PA.
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RG1.B11.F3 - Correspondence
Corinne Slusser is a descendant of Zachariah Rice. She visitied HYS to share her family history and learn more about the family. Included in the folder is her geneaology and connection to Zachariah Rice who moved to Juniata County where he donated land for the Rice Church to be built. Also included a page from the history of Ogle County denoting Zachariah Rice. Rice's wife is Abigail Hartman Rice who served as a nurse at the Revolutionary War hos...
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B4.F29 - Genealogy
This is a genealogy of the Hench and Hartman families created by Stephen A. and Janeann M. Runkle for the Boyer Family Reunion. they begin the story in 1688 in Germany and continue it to the present day. They give a history of the families as they immigrated to America and settled in West Pikeland Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania. They give military records of the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars with service at theYellow Sprin...
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RG1.B5.F19 - Correspondence
This correspondence is from Walter L. Johns decendant of David John a farmer in Pikeland in the 1700's. He details a visit to sites of the original John farm, cemeteries, and research he has completed on the John family.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F14 - Biography
This folder contains biographical information on Revolutionary War physician Dr. Bodo Otto. It includes photographs of him and his second wife, images of German sites where Dr. Otto lived, worked and attended medical school, obituaries of family members, certification of surgical skills, correspondence and a general overview of Dr. Otto's career.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F15 - Correspondence
This folder contains various correspondence between the Executive Director of Historic Yellow Springs and various members of the Dr. Bodo Otto descendants. The content is about family reunions, visits from descendants, descendants seeking information, and new family information. Also included is a mailing label list of addresses of the family association.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F16 - Newsletter
This folder contains various editions of the Dr. Bodo Otto Association newsletter. Dr. Otto was a physician during the Revolutionary War and director of the Yellow Springs Hospital. His descendants maintain a very active association and continue the geneaology research which is often included in the newsletters. Articles of historical significance to the family are often included, too.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F21 - Newsletter
A collection of Dr. Bodo Otto Association newsletters is included. They describe what is happening within the Otto family. New reserach is included as well as photographs from the Otto family collections.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F7 - Newsletter
This folder contains newsletters of the Dr. Bodo Otto Association which details family history and current happenings among the descendants. It includes information on reunions as well as genealogy data. Also included is correspondence about reunions. Dr. Otto was a Revolutionary War physician and director of the Yellow Springs hospital.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B6.F9 - Genealogy
This folder contains newsletters and genealogical information from the Dr. Bodo Otto Association which details family history and current happenings among the descendants. It contains information on reunions as well as general data. Correspondence is included. Photographs of the dedication of the Revolutionary War Hospital ruins at Yellow Springs are highlighted as well as the coloring book for children produced by Patricia Otto Godwin. Dr. ...
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B7.F15 - Genealogy
This is a genealogy ot the Harold and Bessie Leeper Davis family. it begins with the Billingsley family and includes the Rice family and the Hartman family who have ties to Historic Yellow Springs and the West Pikeland community.
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RG1.B7.F22 - Genealogy
This is a biography of Zachariah Rice, born in Germany, and moving to Pikeland, PA. Husband of Abigail Hartman. It gives a genealogy of the Rice family.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B7.F4 - Research materials
This folder contains a wealth of information about the women of Yellow Springs. Researched by archivist Priscilla A. Waggoner, Ph.D., Waggoner saw these women as visionaries and called them the "Women of Vision". Women from the Revolutionary War period, the spa period, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as well as the Good News era and the current HYS period. Included is a geneaology and a map of the Pikelands. The prospect of an exhib...
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RG1.B9.F10 - Biography
Two pieces of correspondence from Nancy Teruya requesting information on her ancestors Johannes Rice who was a farmer in Chester Springs and Mercer Beeson, a soldier of the Continental Army believed to be at the Yellow Springs Revolutionary Wa Hospital.
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RG1.B9.F11 - Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence requesting information on Private Peter Francisco who served at Valley Forge and was listed as "sick in camp". No record exists that he was sent ot the Yellow Springs Hospital.
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RG2.B3.F16 - Genealogy
This is a genealogy of the Holman family detailed in photocopied clippings, charts and notes. Frederick and Margaret Holman owned and operated the Yellow Springs Spa.
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RG2.B3.F29 - Newsletter
This is a bio of PA Governor Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker. The Pennypacker family was a prominent Chester Springs family. The Great Wreck of 1877 train was carrying family members back to Chester Springs from a family reunion at Pennypacker Mills in Schwenksville, PA. This wouid become the Governor's home.
Record Type: Archive