Samuel Peters & Mary A. Swartz

by | Apr 2, 2024 | ARC, WAW

Samuel was the first born of five children of Leonard Peters and Susan Enders of Dauphin County. Both families are of German ancestry. Samuel was followed by brother John, and a sisters Margaret and Barbara. Samuel’s father, Leonard, was born and lived in Dauphin...

Margaret Bittel Gaugler

by | Apr 2, 2024 | ARC, WAW

Anna Margaret Bittel was a forceful and dynamic pioneer who, against all odds, succeeded in establishing an American family. Teenage Margaret would immigrate with family from Pfungstadt, Hesse, during an oppressive societal and religious time that forced her family to...

The Converts

by | Mar 10, 2024 | ARC, WAW

By Generation Eight, all APB ancestors were either Methodist or Lutheran, except for the Batdorf and Welkers, a Reformed family. In Generation Nine, there were 15 Lutherans, 6 Lutheran/Reformed, 4 Presbyterian, 3 Reformed, 2 Methodist, and 1 Catholic families. Of the...

Embrace

by | Dec 29, 2023 | WAW

Saturday morning you walked out my door Hopes and dreams scattered on my floor Holding our future is what I’ll do There will be no me giving up on you Let’s start something beautiful And seal it with a kiss I can hardly wait to hold you And feel your warm embrace How...

Peter Batdorf & Elizabeth Welker

by | Dec 29, 2023 | ARC, WAW

In a sense, Peter Batdorf and his wife, Elizabeth Welker, were war babies. She was born on November 23 in 1812, four months after America declared war on Great Britain beginning the War of 1812. He was born January 20, 1814, eleven months before the treaty was signed...