Elizabeth Latshaw

  Noted events in her life were:

• Religion: Mennonite.

• Childhood: was spent growing up in a well to do Mennonite family: Harmony Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.

• Sister: Joseph Latshaw who moved to Cortland, Nebraska and lived with Ziegler Barkey. ² Elizabeth would visit her brother and Barkey relatives in Cortland, Nebraska. Joseph Latshaw's son Earl married Inez Stanley, Belle Stanley's sister. Belle Stanley was Frank (Francis) Stanley's wife.

• Surname Spelling. ^{67,74,75,76,77} The surname, Latschaw was often spelled Latschar, Lachat, Lorsch, Lortscher, Latschaw, Lotshaw, Leutscher, Lotscher. It is derived from Lotscher from Latterbach near Erlenbach in the Simmental, canton of Bern, Switzerland. Hans Lotscher, who lived in the 1600's, was the first known Anabaptist. Three of

his children, Hans, Melchior and Anna were brought before the government officials in Bern for their Anabaptist beliefs and were imprisoned. After four years in prison, they were sentenced to gulley service. Once their sentence was fulfilled they returned to claim their inheritance from their father who had died, but the government of Bern refused them. Hans immigrated to the Upper Alsace to a town called Maasmunster. His brother Abraham immigrated to Holland in 1711, where the name was changed to Leutscher.

The original ancestor of the Latshaw family was Hans Heinrich Latschar who was born in Simmenthal, Bern, Switzerland. He died in 1747. He was a Mennonite, who fled for his faith out of the Simmenthal (Simmen Valley) in the Canton Bern, Switzerland, by way of the Alsatian cathedral (Masmunster) in 1715 into the Palatinate, originally cultivated the land with his wife and children and built the Hof (landed estate.) He is the original ancestor of the widely branched Zipp Lattschar (Latschar, Latscha) family, who lived on the estate for 250 years, and still occupies it as well as many other parts of the Palatinate and of the German Confederation. Two sons of the immigrant immigrated to Pennsylvania as early as 1728 and 1741. The family spread out from Pennsylvania through out the United States and into Canada

Elizabeth married Rev. Henry Barkey, son of Abraham Barkey and Catherine Borneman, in 1833. (Rev. Henry Barkey was born on 14 Feb 1810 in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, died on 18 Nov 1889 in Irwin Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Church of God Cemetery, Barkeyville, Venango, Pennsylvania, USA.)

  Marriage Notes:

Elizabeth Latshaw was born May 1816 in Harmony, Berks County, Pa She died June 17, 1905 in Barkeyville, Venango County, Pennsylvania She is buried in the Barkeyville Cemetery in Venango, County, Pennsylvania Her father was John Latshaw, Jr and her mother was Anna Nancy Ziegler John was born December 11, 1787 in Bally, Berks County, Pennsylvania, He died September 15, 1863 in Barkeyville, Venango County, Pennsylvania buried at Log Cabin church Cemetery Barkeyville.

HANS HEINRICH (LATSCHAR) LATSHAW was born in Simmenthal, Bern, Switzerland, and died 1747. From "Latschar Genealogy" by Victoria Martin Herr, Historian of Christian Latschar Family: Hans Heinrich Lattschar, a Mennonite, who fled for his faith out of the Simmenthal (Simmen Valley) in the Canton Bern, Switzerland, by way of the Alsatian cathedral (Masmunster) in 1715 into the Palatinate, originally cultivated the land with his wife and children and built the Hof (landed estate.) He is the original ancestor of the widely branched Zipp Lattschar (Latschar, Latscha) family, who lived on the estate for 250 years, and still occupies it as well as many other parts of the Palatinate and of the German Confederation. Two sons of the immigrant emigrated to Pennsylvania as early as 1728 and 1741. From there the family spread out, even to Canada, and in later years more families moved to the USA from Kuhborncheshof (near Kaiserslautern.)

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