Book Description
Descendants and some ancestors of Christian Schontz (1776-1862), son of John Schantz. He was born in Lancaster Co., Pa. He married abt. 1801 (1) Mary Margaret Hoover (1787-1839), daughter of Ulrich Hoover. He married (2) Elizabeth Betsey Graffius, daughter of John Graffius and Miss Coryell. Christian migrated from Lancaster County to Huntingdon County, Pa. in the late 1790s. He had seven children with his first wife. He is a great-grandson of the early Mennonite immigrant, Christian Tschantz (ca. 1695-1741), who immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 from Switzerland. Descendants live in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Includes other unrelated Shontz families from Lancaster County in the early 1700s.