Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-07-01
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The 'Hufier''-a Remarkable Family.

Mr.. EDIToR:-Jacob Huffer, the first,
we are not sure, was born in Pennsylvania
or Germany. After the Revolution, in
which he was soldier, he found a home
about three miles north of the village OF
Mt. Solon, and in the bounds of one Of the
oldest Lutheran congregations in this coun-
ty, Emanuel" of which Jacob. Rheim-
menschneider and Philip Moyerheifer, in
the beginning of this century, were pastors.
The latter, a talented, fine-looking man,
was a candidate for Congress.
Here, he had three sons, Jacob, Henry,
and SAM, and one daughter, Catharine,
Mrs. Jonas Michael. Jacob, the second,
find enrolled on Capt. James Kinks roll,
with James Huffner and one hundred and
forty-four others of his neighbors, the
largest number ip any company from the
county in the war of 1872 He married
Susan, daughter of Jacob Karricoff, a
son of one of the Hessians, captured at
Saratoga. Here, it is proper to say, that
great many of our worthiest and most re-
spectacle citizens of German descent, all
over the United States, are descendants of
these prisoners. Many of them were sent
to Staunton and Charlottesville, and had
we time, we could give you an interesting
chapter, illustrative of their bravery and
fidelity as soldiers on our side before the
close of the Revolution. The descendants
of Jacob Karricoff (as with the Coyners,
the K and G are both used are now numer-
GUS here, in West Virginia and in the
West. The student, sEugene Russell
Carricoff," of Highland county, who took
the highest honors at Washington and Lee
at the session just closed, is one.
Jacob Huffer and Susan Karricoff had
Johns Jacob (the third), Abram,# Samu-
ell Barbara Ann (Mrs. Christian Daggy),
Henry, Catherine (Mrs. Martin Teaford),
David, Daniel,* Alexander, Elizabeth
(single), Susan (do.), Sally (do.), Eliza
(Alrs. Jacob Harman), and Margaret (sin-
gle), fifteen, and what is very astonishing,
all living, although those marked thus
were in the Confederate army. John, the
oldest, four years our junior, married Han
nah, the youngest of large family of
children of Daniel Shaffer, the old gun
smith Of North River Gap, plump, rosy
checked, pretty, and they have ten chill
dren, as we believe, all living. Her brother
William (gunsmith) is now over so years
old. John Hufer, as a young man, left the
paternal roof and found home with the late
Jacob Kinney Sillings, ON Moffett's Branch,
named after the genial old Jacob Kinney,
successor to John Madison as County Clerk.
Mr.. Sillings had no children, and, at his
death, left his estate to John and his fam
lily. He owns, besides, the farm of the
late VIM. H. Thompson, for many years
the worthy elder of Union church, connect
ed with which, as we believe, are some of
John Hdffer's family. An interesting little
volume could be made up of what we re-
call of the German families of Emanuel
church congregation, the. Daggys, Huff
ners, Michaels, Rusmisells, Shulls, Spitlers,
Sheets, Simmonses, Swansons, Shues, San
dys, Switzers, Stanforths, Nebergauls, Bit
ties, Bears, Currys, Cromers, banners,
Fairburns, Meyers, Nairs, McNairs, LAM
berts, Hesses, Myners, and many, many
others. OCCASIONAL.