My Grandfather Ray Cook Smith's Ancestors

Bushong, Fravel, Hamman, Hottel, Keller

My Shenandoah County, Virginia Ancestors

My grandfather's mother's ancestors had settled in Shenandoah County, Virginia in the 1700's.  My great grandmother Cora Lee Hamman descends from two of Johannes 'John' Hottel's children.   My great-great grandfather, George Christopher Hamman descends from John Hottel's son Johann Georg.  My great-great grandmother, Kate J. Fravel descends from Johannes 'John' Hottel's daughter, Anna Barbara Hottel, who married George Keller.   

Descendants of Johannes Hottel

Generation No. 1

JOHANNES HOTTEL was born Abt. 1685 in Europe. He married (1) ELIZABETH. He married (2) MARIA MARGARETHA June 23, 1728 in Meckenheim, daughter of JOHANNES STEPH.

Children of JOHANNES HOTTEL and ELIZABETH are:

2 i. ANNA BARBARA HOTTEL, b. December 02, 1713.
ii. JOHANN CARL HOTTEL, b. Abt. October 25, 1718.
3 iii. JOHANN GEORG HOTTEL, b. April 04, 1722, Alscheim, Rhineland-Pfalz.
iv. CATHARINA ELISABETHA HOTTEL, b. November 25, 1725.

Generation No. 2

2. ANNA BARBARA² HOTTEL (Johannes¹⁾ was born December 02, 1713. She married GEORGE KELLER.

Children of ANNA BARBARA HOTTEL and GEORGE KELLER are:

i. GEORGE³ KELLER
ii. ANNA KELLER, married HENRY FRAVEL, son of ISAAC FRAVEL.
iii. JOHN KELLER
iv. ELIZABETH KELLER
v. MARGARET KELLER
vi. JACOB KELLER
vii. HENRY KELLER
viii. BARBARA KELLER

3. JOHANN GEORG² HOTTEL (JOHANNES¹) was born April 04, 1722 in Alscheim, Rhineland-Pfalz.

Children of JOHANN GEORG HOTTEL are:

i. JOHN³ HOTTEL, b. 1746, Mt. Olive, Shenandoah County, VA
ii. HENRY HOTTEL, b 1748
iii. ELIZABETH HOTTEL, b. 1750
iv. JOHN JACOB HOTTEL, b. January 20, 1751/52, near Mt. Olive, Shenandoah County, VA
v. DAVID HOTTEL, b. 1753
vi. GEORGE HOTTEL, b. 1754
vii. DOROTHY HOTTEL, b. 1755
viii. DANIEL HOTTEL, b. 1756
ix. ANNA HOTTEL, b 1757, Mt. Olive, VA; d. August 10, 1834, North Bristol, Trumbell County, OH. ANNA HOTTEL married JACOB HAMMAN, April 12, 1774, in Virginia, son of JOHANN HAMMANN and ANNA CLAMM.

Favorite Links:

The Hottel-Keller Memorial Inc.

Shenandoah County Virginia GenWeb

My information is from:

From the Rhine to the Shenandoah Vol. Two by Daniel W. Bly - Gateway Press, Inc.; The Rinkers of Virginia, Their Neighbors & Kin and The Shenandoah Valley by Daniel Warrick Burruss, II, Copyright 1993, Printed by Commercial Press received from Shenandoah Historical Society; History of the Descendants of John Hottel, Rev. W. D. Huddle, B.S. & Lulu May Huddle, 1992; Civil War Military Records for George Christopher Hamman; Index of Shenandoah County Marriages, 1850-1882 received from the Shenandoah County Hitorical Society; Obituary for Catherine Jane Fravel Hamman, Shenandoah Hearld, Friday April 6, 1906; Marriages, Sheandoah County Virginia, 1850 - 1882 by Duane L. Borden & Jeanette Conner Ritenour; Eighteenth Century Swiss & German Pioneer Families in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and Their European Origins, Volume Two, Artz, Beidler-Beydler, Copp, Darting, Funkhouser, Grandstaff, Hamman, Neff, Sonner, Stickley, Stockslager by Daniel W. Bly, Gateway Press, Inc. copies received from the Shenandoah County Historical Society; Marriages, Sheandoah County Virginia, 1882 - 1915 by Duane L. Borden & Jeanette Conner Ritenour; 'Someone You Knew' by Judith Stickley, copies received from Shenandoah Historical Society.Death Certificates for Joseph A. Smith, Malissa Potts Smith Cooke, Ray Cook Smith; Marriage Record for Joseph A. Smith & Cora Hamman; Obituaries for Ray Cook Smith, Cora Hamman Smith, Joseph H. Smith, Joseph A. Smith, Malissa Potts Smith Cooke; 1920 Census for Marion, Ohio.