APPLEBACH, WINFIELD SCOTT (1886-1979)

WINFIELD SCOTT APPLEBACH:

Per the Journal of Lancaster County Historical Society, Vol. 76 1972  (pg. 127)

 Winfield Applebach, known as Scottie to his friends, worked as a second hand member of the stage crew of the Fulton Opera House in 1909.  Now 78, he can identify and explain the set up of the theater and give a clear picture of the back stage operations.

Scottie says, "We had the finest shows in the East. I tell my wife...people known as actors today could not even walk in the back door of the Fulton Opera House."

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Before marrying Eva Moyer, he was married to Mabel Overly.  Below is the marriage license:

Source: Personal Collection

According to the marriage license of Eva Moyer and Scott, he and Mabel divorced in 1911 on grounds of desertion. Scott always said he had no children, however I found a birth certificate for a daughter born to him and Mabel.

Source: Ancestry

In the 1910 census, Mabel and Catherine are living with her parents.  As yet, I have not continued the search to see what happened to Catherine. They are living on Locust Street and are line number 42 and 43.

Source: Ancestry

According to the Veteran Burial Index - Lancaster County Archives  Winfield Scott Applebach was a WWI vet who died on May 20, 1979 and is buried in Millersville Mennonite Cemetery.

APPLEBACH, SCOTT & TAYLOR (80TH BIRTHDAY)

 APPLEBACH, Scott & Taylor

From the Lancaster newspaper in 1966:

Source: my personal collection

Yes, they are identical twins.  Both boys were named after military generals from the 1800's and they generally went by their middle names.  Please note that Taylor used his first name as his middle initial (which should be Z) and he had 6 living children - not 6 daughters.

APPLEBACH, VARGE RICHARD (1920-1992)

VARGE RICHARD APPLEBACH: He was born 11/12/1920 in Lancaster, PA and died 11/5/1992 in Beaumont, TX. He died of cancer. He joined the US Army in 1936 and served in the Pacific theater until 1945. He married Marjorie L. Goza 10/19/1947.  They had 2 sons, John and Richard. He retired an WO4 in approx. 1976.

He was the son of Taylor Z. and Jennie C. (Stover) Applebach. He was the first of his adult siblings to die. His funeral was on 11/7/1992 at the Kelley-Watkins Chapel and he is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Beaumont, TX.

The above photo was taken in Nov. 1985 in Hawaii on vacation with his wife Margie.

APPLEBACH, VARGE RICHARD (1920-1992)

VARGE R.APPLEBACH: This photo was taken of Warrant Officer Applebach during annual practice at Ft. Sill, OK on 6/20/1954. He is shown receiving orders via radio.

Varge was the oldest son of Taylor and Jennie Applebach.  He apparently went in the US Army at age 16 by getting his uncle, Winfield S. Applebach (his father's identical twin), to sign his enlistment papers when his parents refused to do so. He enlisted in 1936, and retired 40 years later.

APPPLEBACH, SCOTT & EVA (MOYER) - 65TH ANNIVERSARY

SCOTT & EVA (MOYER) APPLEBACH:

Winfield Scott APPLEBACH "Scott" was the identical twin of my grandfather Zachary or Zacharias Taylor APPLEBACH. They were well known around Lancaster, PA.  Their notoriety came from several things:

• an unusual last name
• they were identical twins who apparently spent much of their younger years in mischief and petty crime
• known for being not good husbands
• Scot was a well known bartender and bouncer, and by many accounts worked most of the downtown area Lancaster bars prior to his retirement
• Both Scott and Taylor were in the Lancaster newspaper in their later years for human interest stories 

Here is an interesting article about Scott and Eva that was printed Aug. 31, 1977 - they were noting 65 years of marriage. 

Source: Personal Collection

Here is the marriage license.  He was 25 and already divorced for desertion of first wife.  Eva had never been married.

Source: A personal trip to the Lancaster County courthouse

And here is a fancy marriage certificate from my personal collection:

Scott and Eva died within just a few months of each other.  Here are their obits.  Grandma Garner always made sure I got clippings of anything to do with family from the area newspapers.

Source: my personal collection

They are buried in Millersville Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster County, PA. The photo is from Find A Grave - they are memorials #58415213 and #58415245. 

YOST, ANNA ELIZABETH (1855 - 1925)

According to the family Bible of Henry Yost:

Henry Yost (Jr.) was born in Lancaster, PA on 07 May 1826 and died on 20 August 1913.  He married Barbara Caskey on Nov. 14, 1854 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, PA.

Barbara Caskey was born in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, PA on 10 March 1829  and died 13 September 1870 (age 41 years, 6 months, and 3 days) - probably of a complication with the birth of Catherine. Her mother has been listed as Barbara Brimmer (b. 1793 and d. 03 October 1854), however this is probably a family member or family friend who raised her.  The family story is that her parents died and she was raised by someone else. Find a Grave connects her to a James Caskey.

Henry and Barbara's known children were:

Child:	Birth	Death	Spouse
Anna Elizabeth Yost	02 Sept. 1855	1925	John M. Ressler
Benjamin Franklin Yost	29 April 1857
Emma Yost	13 Jan. 1859	17 Jan. 1964
Henry Yost	11 June 1861
Amanda Yost	11 Dec. 1863		John Arment
Christian Yost	18 Sept. 1866
Aaron Yost	23 Sept. 1868	26 Sept. 1969
Catharine Yost	03 Sept. 1870

  Source: Henry Yost's Bible


Henry Yost (Jr.) married a second time to Matilda Mary Miller of West Lampeter Township, Lancaster, PA on 10 October 1878 by the pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, PA. No children are mentioned.

The death certificate below is from Ancestry.com. The person who signed as giving the information was Estella  (daughter of John and Anna Ressler).

RESSLER/ROSSLER

RESSLER/ROSSLER:

According to a letter that was written by William Breidenthall of Emmaus, PA in June 1963 he was doing some research on the Ressler/Rossler family and was able to establish that Christian M. Ressler (a brother of my great-great-grandfather John M. Ressler who was born 5/1841) was the son of Daniel Ressler (born 3/24/1802 died 12/18/1901) who was the grandson of Johann Henrich Rossler that arrived in Philadelphia on Sept. 12, 1750.  No ship name is mentioned in the letter, nor the source for the ship information.

 According to the letter mentioned above, Mary Metzler was the daughter of John H. Metzler (b. 1775) and Mary Bradley.  This Mary Bradley was the daughter of Henry Bradley (b. 1745) and Esther Shelley - will continue research.

According to the booklet," The John M. Ressler Family" the Daniel Ressler mentioned above was born 24 March 1802.  He married Mary Metzler on 12 Dec. 1833 (1814 - 1889) and died on 18 Dec. 1901.  Both he and Mary were buried at the Strasburg Mennonite Cemetery.

According to the above booklet, Daniel and Mary had 10 known children:

Child:	Birth	Death	Spouse
Hetty Ressler	06 Oct. 1834	11 Oct. 1900	Single
Amos M. Ressler	07 April 1836	28 March 1862
Barbara Ressler	06 Nov. 1837	05 Feb.1889	Jacob Funk Andrews
Henry Ressler	04 August 1839	08 Feb. 1925	Annie Lefever
Christian M. Ressler	10 May 1841	13 April 1915	Lizzie Miller
Martin Ressler	18 Dec. 1843	01 Oct. 1847
Maria Ressler	06 July 1846	16 Sept. 1926
Susan Ressler	14 March 1848	22 Feb. 1923
John M. Ressler	28 Nov. 1850	31 March 1925	Anne E. Yost
Emma Ressler	15 Aug. 1853	23 March 1873