Some Ancestors of the Baughman Family in America
Subtitle: tracing back twelve generations from Switzerland through Virginia, & C., growing along with the nation, across its heartland.
Edition: first edition
Series: The Bachmann and Baughman Family Historical Series, vol. I
Publisher: Shenandoah History Publishers, but inquiries should go to the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society shop, 2215 Millstream Road Lancaster, PA 17602-1499 (717) 393-9745;  Contact Jonel Ness via e-mail at shop@lmhs.org
Published: 1989
Place of publication: [Edinburg, Va.] (P. O. Box 98, Edinburg 22824)
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Bachman family.; Switzerland -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy
First sentence: They were named Germanus by the first Romans who met them, so as to say, in Latin, "children of the same parents," or more simply "from the same seed."
Description: The first of five volumes on the history of the Swiss Anabaptist family Bachmann that migrated to America beginning in 1739 and took the name Baughman.  Their settlement traces through the Virginia counties of Shenandoah and Botetourt in the 18th Century, on through Sevier County, Tennessee during the War of 1812, and into the frontier Ozark range spanning Missouri and Arkansas before statehood.

To obtain copies: Shenandoah History Publishers, but inquiries should go to the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society shop, 2215 Millstream Road Lancaster, PA 17602-1499 (717) 393-9745;  Contact Jonel Ness via e-mail at shop@lmhs.org
Notes: Table of Contents

	Der Wandersmann...... i
	A Foreword...... ii
	Tracing the Family Name...... iii

	chapter i: 	A Family Chronology...... 3
	chapter ii:  	The Historical Context...... 17
	chapter iii:  	Items of Interest Relating to the Bachmann & Baughman Names...... 53
	Lyrics to a Few Favorite Folk Songs...... 112 
	chapter iv:   A Few Conclusions...... 121 
	chapter v:  	Family Tree...... 124 
	Family Groupings...... 125 
	Reference Tables & Maps...... 137
	A Chart of Descendants...... 138				 
	A Directory of Important Sources & Organizations...... 151
	bibliography and a guide to footnoted sources...... 156
	index...... 161

	illustrations

	The Author's Handprint...... frontispiece
	The Coat of Arms for the Bachmann Family in Canton Zürich, Switzerland...... iv
	An Anabaptist Farmer from the Rhineland...... 3
	A German Mapmaker's View of the World...... 16
	Some Baughman Signatures...... 50
	Wädenswil Castle in Canton Zürich...... 52
	The Execution of an Anabaptist Couple in 1554...... 54 
	A Mid-Sized British Merchant Ship from the Early 18th Century...... 56
	Ur-Bogen Markings Often Found on Early Germanic Tombstones...... 65
	Pages from Henkel's ABC Book...... 68 
	Early Baptists in Missouri Perform a Footwashing Ceremony...... 70
	A View of the Crooked Creek Valley in Northwestern Arkansas, 1857...... 74
	The Symbol of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows...... 105
	A Ford Motor Company Business Card in Japanese...... 108
	A Conestoga Wagon...... 112
	A German Pioneer Following Tracks Through the Wilderness...... 115 
	A Settler Clearing the Land Around His Cabin...... 117
	Our First Baughman Remembered...... 120
	A Family Tree...... 124
	The Pfalz am Kaub on the Rhine River...... 171

	maps

	Emigration From Europe Along the Rhine River...... 141
	The Baughman Family's Route Through America...... 142
	Holman's Creek in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia...... 143
	The Course of the James River in Botetourt County, Virginia...... 144
	The Jones Cove Valley in Sevier County, Tennessee...... 145
	A Settlement on Marble Creek in Southeastern Missouri...... 146
	The Crooked Creek Valley in Northwestern Arkansas...... 147
	The Course of the White River in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri...... 148
	Two Historic Military Campaigns in the South...... 150