BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF RALPH GARNER

I found this on Ancestry over the weekend:

MUSSELMAN PHOTOS - We could use some help identifying these folks......

Here are 3 photos that were supplied by R. Schneider.  All have to do with Ben F. and Anna (Mosser/Musser) Musselman, however, they are barely labeled and we would like to share in hopes that someone out there has more information. I have labeled what is known.

If you look close at the two photos above, there are some repeat faces.  Any help identifying people would be wonderful.

According to the marriage license of Ben and Anna on Jan. 25, 1853, Ben Musselman's parents were David and Elizabeth (Brestly) Musselman. Can anyone confirm exactly who these people and where this photo is of????

June 29, 2018: The above photo that is thought to be Ben Musselman's parents is probably actually a brother and his wife.  I have done a little poking around in records looking for Ben's parents and it is starting to look like they both died in the 1840's, which would mean the above type of photo would not have been available at that time - however, it could easily be available in the 1880 - 1900 era.

JUNE 1923 GARNER REUNION

Location: Mechanic's Grove, Lancaster County, PA in June 1923

(Thanks to Ron Schneider for sharing his memories and photos)

Ron has a large panoramic photo taken at this reunion.  He has labeled everyone he is sure of, and the rest are "unknown".  In order to fit the pic here, I had to break it into 3 parts.  Please click on it to enlarge each section to read the labels. The photo starts with the top photo, then the center, then the last section.

Charles and Elizabeth (Musselman) Garner in the top section had 9 (known) children who survived to adulthood - they are all accounted for in the photo. According to the death certificate for Charles' brother Albert, he also lived in Lancaster County so I have to think some of the unknown in this photo are his family.  Charles and Albert's parents and most of the family were in York County, where they moved from as young men.

I have to admit curiosity about the very young unnamed girl in the center section who is obviously pregnant. Does anybody out there have any ideas about the unnamed people in this photo??

In 1923 my grandfather, Ralph Garner, would have been 16 or 17 so maybe one of the teenage boys in this photo is him, but he isn't labeled. 

JOHN & MARY GARNER

The parents of Charles Jacob Garner (1863 - 1943) have been a really tough case to work on.  There are so many John and Mary Garners in and around York and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania that I really needed a large block of time to look for them.  There were tons of documents to go through and alot of conflicting information.

So after several days of concentrating only on John and Mary, I think I have at least the basic information that I am comfortable sharing and feel that I am working on the right couple. For many years, the only for sure document I had was the 1880 census in York Co., PA simply because Charles Garner was on it, and all his info was close enough to consider a match.  I grew up being told that he was the only one of his family that settled in Lancaster County, but after considerable searching have found at least one other sibling that died and is buried in Lancaster County.

Let's start with Charles as we are on firm ground here:

Charles Jacob Garner was born in York County, PA in 1863 to John and Mary (Greenawalt) Garner.  There is no clear evidence as to how or exactly when he moved to the neighboring county of Lancaster.  I have seen lists and "family trees" saying that he was the oldest with anywhere from 9 - 16 siblings.  Based on his parents marriage date of July 1862 (a suggested date on one of the trees, I found no proof so far), Charles being born in March of 1863 would make him the oldest.

Charles married Elizabeth Musselman and they had 9 (known) children who lived to adulthood - this photo was taken in 1923 at a family reunion.  The reunion was held in Mechanic Grove (which is in Lancaster Co) which made no sense to me unless either his family traveled a long way for the reunion from York County, or as I now know, he actually had at least one other sibling in Lancaster County. The below photo is of Charles, Elizabeth, and their 9 adult children:

So this photo below hung in my grandparents bedroom for the many years I was growing up - it was said to be the only photo of Charles as a young man.  Besides his parents, I have no idea who is who in the photo.  I hope someone out there can help with this:

Here is Charles Jacob Garner's death certificate:

Here is John Garner's (Charles father) death certificate:

His death certificate confirms a family story that John's father was Jacob Garner and that he was born in Germany. There is a Mary Garner in the same cemetery as John & Mary Garner whose dates could be reasonable to be the mother of John, but I have nothing yet to back up this thought, other than another family story was that John's mom was a Mary or Maria.  Right now, I do not know Jacob's birth or death date, and do not have a burial place for him.

Here are the gravestones of John and Mary Garner (source: Find A Grave).  I still have not found her death certificate or a marriage license.

Here John and Mary are in the 1910 census.  They are lines 62 and 63.

8/14/2017: My aunt gave me the below photo when I was in Lancaster last week and it is, I am guessing, circa 1910. I labeled the 3 people I was sure of in the photo, but the other labels are my aunt's.

SO MUCH FOR JIM APPLEBACH'S CAR 1962

James Applebach talked about this particular car many years later.  I think it must have been his favorite.  Unfortunately, the car had an accident in 1962 and so much for that car. Apparently there were no serious injuries to the folks involved. It was a red Studebaker.

1/12/2019:
I am still going thru the piles of letters I inherited and I found this letter from mom to Uncle Jerry describing the accident. So in mom's own words:

The letter goes on with getting a new car because the frame was bent on the Studebaker and ordering seat belts to be put into the new car.  Then onto other news and questions........

PAUL APPLEBACH

Paul Applebach was the son of Taylor Z. and Jennie (Stover) Applebach.

These are just some items I have on him.

Source: Ancestry

1953 - US Navy Cruise Book for USS Minotaur - Paul is in top row (see list of names at left). Source: personal collection

Source: Find A Grave

Source: Personal Collection

ABRAHAM & TAYLOR APPLEBACH ADDRESSES IN DOCUMENTS (Part 2)

1935	211 E. Chestnut	Lancaster Directory
1939	219 W. Chestnut	Lancaster Directory
1941	220 E. Lemon	Lancaster Directory
1942	220 E. Lemon	WWII draft card
1946	RR 2, Conestoga	Lancaster Directory
1948	RR 2, Conestoga	Lancaster Directory
1952	RR 2, Conestoga	Lancaster Directory
1954	RR 2, Conestoga	Lancaster Directory
1955	205 W. Chestnut	Lancaster Directory
1956	21 N. Mary St.	Taylor’s delayed birth cert
1957	21 N. Mary St.	Lancaster Directory
1958 (Taylor & Jennie address)	21 N. Mary St.	Lancaster Directory
1970	440 N. Queen	“Famous Name Twins” article 28 Oct. 1970
1972	716 N. Shippen	“Happy Hours Club” article 14 Sept. 1972
1978 (Taylor)	138 E. Chestnut	Obit

1. Taylor married Maggie Dostman in Lancaster 18 March 1905 – both underage and fathers had to sign consent. Divorced on grounds of desertion in 1908

2. Taylor married Mamie Groff in Lancaster 31 March 1909 – Mamie’s mother signed consent. They divorced in 1920.

3. Taylor married Jennie C. Stover in Harrisburg, PA 14 August 1920 – on license states he has never been married. Jennie died in 1962, he did not remarry.

08/12/2017: 

I was in Lancaster last week and was able to spend a lot of time walking around looking at the areas listed above.  In 1935, the Applebach family lived at 211 E. Chestnut and here is what it looks like now: 

Taylor's address when he died was 138 E. Chestnut, and this is what it looks like now.  I spoke to the elderly man on the porch and he said he had lived there a "long time" and it had always been apartments:

These 2 addresses are in the immediate area of Musser Park, I am standing at the corner of Lime and Chestnut.  My father and his family had no doubt walked on the same sidewalks I was walking on, maybe the kids even played in Musser Park:

ABRAHAM & TAYLOR APPLEBACH ADDRESSES IN DOCUMENTS (Part 1)

YEAR	ADDRESS	NOTES
1870	Bethlehem Twp., Northampton, PA	Abraham living with Sam Shimer household – per federal census
1872	Lancaster, PA	Per marriage license to Elizabeth Little
1873	105 Market	Lancaster Directory
1877	Bds. at Eagle Hotel, Lancaster	Lancaster Directory
1879	105 Market	Lancaster Directory
1884	434 Water St.	Lancaster Directory
1888    (Taylor born 1886)	552 N. Shippen	Lancaster Directory
1889	761 N. Lime	Barn fire news article
1890	20 W. New	Lancaster Directory
1892	117 Beaver	Lancaster Directory
1897	421 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1898	421 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1899	434 N. Water	Lancaster Directory
1900	Ward 9	1900 Census
1905	424 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1907 (Taylor’s address – wife              Maggie living at            266 W. Strawberry)	424 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1909	424 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1910	Ward 9	1910 Census
1911	424 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1912	424 Concord	Abraham’s death cert
1913	431 N. Mary	Lancaster Directory
1916	431 N. Mary	Lancaster Directory
1917	431 N. Mary	WWI draft card and Lancaster Directory
1923	225 W. King	Lancaster Directory
1925	227 Concord	Lancaster Directory
1927	425 Marion	Lancaster Directory
1929	519 Church	Lancaster Directory
1931	519 Church	Lancaster Directory
1933  (James born June 1933)	211 E. Chestnut	Lancaster Directory