Descendants of Hans Lauer Lower


Book Description

After more than 15 years of research, this family can now trace their origins back to about 1600 in Germany. The immigrants arrived in 1737. Each family paragraph includes the following information when known: generation number, child number, name of descendant, dates, name of spouse, parents of spouse, residence, burial, children, and biographical notations. Some of the major surnames in the every-name index include: Batdorf, Butdorf, Dieffenbach, Fisher, Holstein, Irick, Kaser, Knoop, Lauer, Lower, Miller, Smith, Snyder, Spangler, and others. There is a wealth of information in this massive genealogy!




























The Descendants of Thomas Bays, 1798-1886


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Thomas Bays was born in Maryland 3 September 1798. His parents were John Franklin Bays and Mary Ann Knight. He married Nancy Ann Linigar (1800-1876), daughter of Isaac Linigar and Rebecca, in about 1818. They had fifteen children. Thomas died in 1886 in Niles, Michigan. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in West Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, California and Oregon.