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Calvin I. Kephart to Horace Kephart, August 22, 1923, page 1

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Calvin I. Kephart to Horace Kephart, August 22, 1923, page 1

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Calvin I. Kephart to Horace Kephart, August 22, 1923, page 2

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  • 2131 1 St. N.W., Washington, D. C August 22, 1923. Dear Mr. Kephart: Inclosed are two memoranda concerning the Gebhardt, Weissel and Drach families, the latter two being in my mother's line. Can you translate them without difficulty? While your interest will lie principally in the Gebhardt item, the others may afford sufficient general interest to justify the time and effort you may spend on them. Three of us, Judge K. , Walter D. of Los Angeles, and I, have each guaranteed from #100 to ^200 tintti for prosecuting the European search down to and including the immigrants and their children. Am expecting Attorney Geo. W. K. , of Sioux City, to join us, but have not yet received his response. Thus results are assured if they are there to be had. Since the report from the Darmstadt portion of the Odenwald, I have not had any reports, but Mr. Lang is having a Eaden genealogist undertake search of the Eaden portion of the Odenwald. Here is where our results should be< obtained, in line with tradition of several lines that their ancestors came from Eaden. These traditions developed alter I began the original search, or should have started here first. Judge Kephart is now actively engaged on his line, and I believe we have definitely clarified it as far as the direct male line is concerned. The women's names remain to be gotten, in only one generation, however. Tha-se of the matter is usually the most difficult. If people only would state the maiden name of their wife in their will or other documents, it would save much time and effort. This is a subject in which prolonged and intensive study is essential for results. Conclusions, subsequently proved correct, have repeatedly occurred to me like a flash. One just recently clarified matters in the judge's line. Ey repeated consideration of 3bhe data you sent me, in conjunction with what I have gathered, I have succeeded in definitely clearing up all the nine stocks, so-called, in the biography of one of the bishops. D© you recall the two New Jersey Kepharts, Daniel and Andrew? One returned to Northumberland County, Pa., and the other remained at Everittstown, N.J., having married Rachel Everitt. They were the x*« eldest two sons of Andrew Kephart, of Chalfont, Pa., from 176 2 to 1777, later David Kephart, of Maryland. These were the two boys who were tories, as stated by you, and they tied to N.J. Probably in consequence of the ill-feeling engendered by this act o f his sons, Andrew changed his first name - borne by his tory son - to David, sold his property in 1777 and moved to Maryland. I have always thought it strange that David's children, as I had the list, di d no t contain any of the male family names, Andrew, David, John, Henry, etc. This explains it. It is confirmed by the fact that the eldest mentioned in his will, David. Jr., was born in 1763 (or 1762), when OVER
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  • In a letter to Horace Kephart on August 22, 1923, Calvin I. Kephart asks Kephart to translate two memorandums regarding the Gebhardt, Weissel and Drach families. Mr. Kephart discusses his genealogy research with Judge K., Walter D., and George W. K. Regarding Horace Kephart’s research on Daniel and Andrew Kephart from New Jersey, he recalls their family history. He recommends making copies of miscellaneous information about later generations and sending these documents to other libraries.

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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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