Richard Crouse ALTIZER

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Buried:
Grave location, photo, and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=80479138

Richard married Lilly Love ALTIZER. Lilly (daughter of Thomas Akers ALTIZER and Sarah Belle (Sally) Nuckles) was born 04 Jun 1875, Tazewell Co. VA; died Jun 1957, Bishop, Tazewell Co. VA; was buried , Grassy Spur Church Cemetery, Bishop, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 82FF300AA3C44F5398F74A8F763FC711B980

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Died:
West Virginia Vital Records
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=4686514&Type=Death

John married Sarah Ann Baldwin 03 Apr 1856, Tazewell Co. VA. Sarah was born 1838, Wyoming Co. WV; died Aft 1919. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940
Name: John Attizer
Birth Date: 1823
Birthplace: Tazewell County, Va
Age: 33
Spouse's Name: Sarah Ann Baldwin
Spouse's Birth Date: 1838
Spouse's Birthplace: Wyoming County, Va
Spouse's Age: 18
Event Date: 03 Apr 1856
Event Place: Tazewell, Virginia
Father's Name: David Attizer
Mother's Name: Susannah
Spouse's Father's Name: Abijah Baldwin
Spouse's Mother's Name: Katy
Marital Status: Widowed
Spouse's Marital Status: Single
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01695-4
System Origin: Virginia-EASy
GS Film number: 34214
Reference ID: Page 4 Line 21

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• _UID: 09748DE492BA419AB4859BD05DE69DB8517D

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Tazewell Co. Death Register, page 7, line 307, shows David (Reilly) Altizer died 26 Sept 1854 at Dividing Ridge of dropsy. 2nd page states unknown parentage, married, farmer, reported by son-in-law John Christian.

David married Susan SLUSHER Abt 1809, Montgomery Co. VA. Susan (daughter of Christopher Schlosser and Eva Jane Hancock) was born Abt 1786, Maryland; died Aft 1860, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: E039BA448A4D4069B4E59A2382AD036C8B9E

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Info on her parents are from the Pane-Joyce Genealogy
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr24/rr24_086.html#P52967

However, the Altizer Family site has her last name as possibly Sadler.

http://www.altizerfamily.com/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I1623&tree=tree1

Some other sources have her listed as Susan Slusher Brewster. So it is not confirmed if she is descended from or even related to the Slusher family of Floyd Co. VA who are the descendants of Christopher Slusher. So proceed with caution in using this information on her possible parentage as there is no documentation or proof at this point.

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• _UID: C0DA07B47ED9432C965F29E06CF627BB5DEB

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Original name was von Althauser.

Information from Jay Altizer. Please check his site for all things Altizer!

http://www.altizerfamily.com

Emera Altizer was born Emmerich Althauser in 1749, in Dutchess Co., New York, to German immigrants Johann Peter Althauser and Elisabetha Christiana Laucks. As a young man, Emera traveled south to Lancaster Co., PA where (according to family tradition) he worked as a cobbler for a Michael Pitzer. He married Pitzer's daughter Anna Marie in July, 1773 at Hagarstown, MD. Shortly after his marriage Emera moved to Montgomery Co. VA and lived there until his death in 1819. He is buried in the Altizer Cemetery on Chestnut Ridge in Montgomery Co. Emera was father to eight children (six boys and two girls) and those of us who bear the name Altizer, or have an Altizer in our ancestral line, all descend from this one man who lived through the last half of the 18th century.

The children of Emera Altizer were John, Emera Jr., Nancy, Elias, David Riley, William Alexander, Elizabeth and Jonas. Each of these children had rather large families and Emera became grandfather to approximately 70 grandchildren. Of the Altizer male children: John, Emery Jr. and Jonas lived their lives in the Montgomery Co and Floyd Co area. Jonas inherited the Altizer homeplace on condition that he care for his mother until her death. Elias, David, and William left Montgomery Co. about 1810, and headed west for the newly opened Indiana Territory. David settled in Tazewell Co, near what is now Cedar Bluff (supposedly because one of his children got sick) while the other two young men went on to settle in the southwest corner of Indiana (later Illinois). As for the two Altizer girls, Nancy married Adam Akers and Elizabeth married George Reed, and they both stayed in the Montgomery Co. area and raised their families there.

The largest concentration of the Altizer clan is in and around the Tazewell Co., VA area, and most of these members are descended from David Riley, and of those, the majority are descended from his son William. The children of Elias and William Alexander apparently had the same wander gene as their fathers, following the westerly migrations and creating branches of the family in Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Missouri, Wisconsin, Texas, California and other areas. Of course, in the post WWII automotive age, every branch of the family has become mobile and scattered all over the country. And today there are probably as many Altizers in Florida as in Virginia.

Emera could neither read nor write so the revised spelling of his name was probably from some notary or census taker who spelled it as he heard it. The German name Althauser has an umlaut over the a, making the pronunciation something like "Althoiser" In the 1810 census his first name is spelled Emeriah, and a few records exist that spell the last name "Althiser". There are other variations of the Althauser name but none of those have been traced to Emera, yet everyone I've met who spells the name "Altizer" or ?Alltizer? can trace their lineage directly to Emera. We are today recording eleven generations of his descendants. From telephone records and other sources I have seen, I estimate there are some 4000 people living who bear the name and, if my grasp of math and genetic traits is correct, there could be over 1 million other descendents of Emera Altizer.




Christened:
Source: Pane-Joyce Genealogy
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr21/rr21_134.html#P36978

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=1979246&GRid=42630127&

Emera married Anna Marie Pitzer Jul 1773, Hagerstown, MD. Anna (daughter of Michael Pitzer and Sophia Charlotte Bashore) was born 15 Feb 1756, New Holland, Lancaster County, PA; died 25 Aug 1850, Montgomery Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 7380692F396C417BA3720B98BA14DE75C5C3

Notes:

Some researchers have her name as Mary Miller dob ca 1759. However Jay Alitzer at http://www.altizerfamily.com has provided the information I use.

In Jul 1773 Emmerich married Anna Maria Pitzer, daughter of Michael Pitzer (20 Feb 1733/4-17 May 1822) & Sophia Carlotta Baishore (24 Mar 1739/40-ca 1789), at Hagerstown, MD. Born on 15 Feb 1756 at Lancaster, PA. Baptized on 25 Apr 1756 at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Holland. Anna Maria died at Montgomery Co., VA, on 25 Aug 1850.

Also see Payne-Joyce website:
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr21/rr21_134.html#P36978

Notes:

Source: Pane-Joyce Genealogy for DOB and DOD

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr24/rr24_086.html#P52967

Original spelling of name was Schlosser.

Some years after his service in the Revolutionary War as Private First Class in Captain Stone's Company of the Second Battalion of the Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Militia, Christopher migrated down the valley of Virginia to Montgomery County (from which Floyd County was formed 1831).

By 1803 Christopher and his family settled on 600 acres in what is now Floyd County. He owned over 1600 acres by the time of his death, Dec. 11, 1845.

Christopher married Eva Jane Hancock 1775, Lebanon, Lancaster Co. PA . Eva was born 1758, Pennsylvania; died 1838, Floyd Co. VA. [Group Sheet]