Elisha ALTIZER

Elisha married Louisa/Louiza Holliday 08 Apr 1847, Floyd Co. VA. Louisa/Louiza was born 16 Aug 1821; died 26 Dec 1895, War, McDowell Co. WV. [Group Sheet]

John married Elizabeth Elkins 1795, Montgomery Co. VA. Elizabeth was born 1779, Floyd Co. VA; died 17 Apr 1859, Floyd Co. VA. [Group Sheet]

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Notes:

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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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: HALL, CHARLES M. "Pal-Index": A Surname Index of Eighteenth-Century Immigrants. Salt Lake City: Global Research Systems, 1979. 147pp., p 141

Name: Peter Althauser
Arrival Year: 1709-1710
Arrival Place: New York, New York
Source Publication Code: 2883
Primary Immigrant: Althauser, Peter
Annotation: Data on immigrants from France (Alsace-Lorraine), Switzerland, southern Germany, and some adjacent places, arriving between 1727 and 1775. "Palatines" was a term adopted from British merchants and the people of Philadelphia whose first contact with large

Christened:
Witnesses: Johannes Bauer [Anna Eva Bauer?s brother], Peter son of John Mees, and Leyss daughter of Jacob Honnert all of Segendorff, Germany

Source: Pane-Joyce Genealogy
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr20/rr20_206.html#P36885

Johann married Elizabeth Catherine Laucks. Elizabeth (daughter of Johann Niclaus Laucks and Anna Elisabetha Wennegar) was born 1711, West Camp, NY. [Group Sheet]

Michael married Sophia Charlotte Bashore ca 1755. Sophia was born 24 Mar 1740, New Holland, Lancaster Co., PA; died 1791, Berkley Co. VA (WV). [Group Sheet]