2nd Lt. Rev. War 1777-1782 with the Associators of County of Northhampton Militia under Capt. John Moritz, 2nd Battalion, 4th Co. and fought in the Battle of Brandywine (Pa.)
- Gov't. marker - Pioneer Cem./Old Mt. Carmel Cem./Salem Cem. is directly across the road from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in a pasture on the hill (Private Property with a bull on premises). Permission needed!!! Old cem., said to have abt. 50 burials but only 5 markers remained in 1997.
h/o Mary Margaret Troxell 1744-1829 bur. Pioneer Cem., also.
Source: Troxel Trails by Richard M. Troxel, currently out of print
!Source: Ancestral File Database, downloaded 9-29-94
[Watring's.FTW] Abraham was a shoemaker in Whitehall Twp., Lehigh Co., Pa.
He Moved to Maryland in 1782, he lived in Hagerstown in 1783
Then by 1787 (bgt. land--cs) they moved to Aurora, Preston Co., WV.. (in 1788--cs)
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According to Jacob Carpenter Find a Grave contributor # 46947313 in reference to the headstone for Abraham Wootring, SR., the headstone is incorrect in that Abraham should be listed as Abraham Wotring III instead of Abraham Wootring Sr. He references a book by Raymond Martin Bell about the Wotring - Woodring Family of Pennsylvania. I then changed this memorial according to his requests but now he has changed his mind.
As of June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is again requesting the name on this memorial be changed to John Abraham Wotring with no explanation. Since the headstone reads Abraham Wootring, Sr. then according to Find A Grave rules, the memorial should be as the headstone states with an explanation of any other information in the bio section. I have tried to accommodate Jacob Carpenter's requests and feel that with the changes he keeps requesting that I should note these in the bio section as such.
It should be noted that Jacob entered the following flower on May 25, 2019 in the memorial for Abraham Wootring as follows:
Sacred to the memory of 2Lt. Abraham Wotring III.
Left by Felton-Wotring-Hauser-White Descendants on 25 May 2019
The Headstone bears the spelling WOOTRING: however the current spelling of the last name is now WOTRING, but since the headstone reads Wootring I will use that spelling even though now the family uses the spelling of Wotring and have included that in parenthesis (Wotring)! Additionally Jacob Carpenter FAG Contributor 46947313 has now changed his mind yet again on what the name of the ancestor should be. The local pronunciation in Horse Shoe Run, WV is Wootring, but most family members pronounce it Watring while at the same time spelling it Wotring. (John) Abraham Wootring, (now spelled Wotring) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the son of Abraham Wotring who arrived at Philadelphia in 1733 (see more information below). Jacob Carpenter also request that this Abraham Wotring be named Abraham Wotring III, but the headstone reads Sr. so I am returning to that name for now since it is on the headstone. In June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is requesting I change the name on the memorial to read "John Abraham Wotring"; however, I will include his requests in the bio section, according to Find A Grave guidelines I should return to the name on the headstone.
Suggested reading: Bell, Raymond Martin. "The Wotring-Woodring Family of Pennsylvania." Privately Printed; Washington, Pennsylvania; 1968. P. 13.
From Contributor: Jacob Carpenter (46947313) • [email protected]
His first name more than likely was John as is tradition, but I have not used it above, but am only using Abraham as engraved on the headstone with the name (John) in parenthesis as such.
JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING married MARY MARGARET (Trachsel) TROXELL in 1766. Mary Margaret Troxell was born October 25, 1744 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania the daughter of PETER TRACHSEL TROXELL and JULIANA FRAUDHUEGER.
MILITARY SERVICE: According to Militia Act of the State Of Pennsylvania Abraham Wotring was in the military service May 1781 as a part of 2nd Battlion of Militia in the county of Northampton, 4th Company commanded by Cpt. John Moritz as 2nd Lt. Abraham Wotring, Sr.
Abraham and his wife like many of the early pioneers are buried in the Aurora Pioneer Cemetery which is located on a hill on what is or was the Dale Stemple farm. This was the original cemetery where all early burials were made. The farm and cemetery are located on the west side of the road to Terra Alta, about 1/3 miles north of Highway 50. With the exception of a few new monuments, most of the old headstones have disappeared and the remaining ones are broken and unreadable.
Jay F. STEMPLE has placed a large granite monument in the cemetery which is dedicated to the pioneers who were buried there "from 1787 through 1845." There is also a newer Revolutionary marker for Abraham Wootring (Wotring) commemorating his Revolutionary War service and a newer military marker for Thomas RINEHART, commemorating his Revolutionary War service as well.
This cemetery is unfenced and unprotected so cattle and deer may graze around the stones which probably helps keep the cemetery from becoming overgrown, but has also contributed to many of the older stones being broken off at the base. It is located across the road from the newer Aurora Cemetery. Sadly, when asked about it's location many locals seem unaware of it's whereabouts!
NOTE: Like many other immigrant families, the family name of Wotring is spelled in numerous ways including but not limited to Vautrin, Woodring, Wootring, Watring, Woottring and Wotring.
ABRAHAM WOTRING (Last name also spelled as Wootring as shown on his headstone) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1745 (some other records show 1748) the son of Abraham Wotring.
His father, Abraham Wotring and his wife, Anna Mertz arrived to the New World on the ship RICHARD AND ELIZABETH that landed at Philadelphia on September 28, 1733 from Alsace, France. John Abraham Wotring was the youngest child of sixteen children born to Abraham Wotring. Some records indicate that Anna Mertz died in 1741 which would be some 7 years before John Abraham was born. Not sure of the name of his birth mother. At his father's death in 1752, only eight of his father's sixteen children were still living.
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Abraham and Mary Margaret Troxell's marriage was blessed with at least nine children. All their children were born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania except the last son who was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. It may have been from Hagerstown that the family bravely set out to join Rev. John Stough in 1787 or 1788 in their covered wagon to help establish a new German settlement in the high plateau of the Allegheny Mountains in the western part of what was then Virginia at Carmel now Aurora.
Abraham and Mary Margaret's marriage was blessed with at least nine children (there may be more):
1.)JOHN NICHOLAS WOTRING, b. April 06, 1767, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; dod 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, WV; m. MARGARET, 1789; b. 1768; dod Unknown.
2.)PETER WOODRING, b. 1768, Whitehall, Northhampton Co., PA; d. January 1852, Bordley, Union Co., KY.
3.)JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING, JR, b. January 09, 1770, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, VA.
4.)CATHARINE ELIZABETH WOTRING, b. March 03, 1772, Whitehall, PA; d. Aft. 1834, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
5.)JOHN DANIEL WOTRING, b. January 09, 1774, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. December 25, 1844, Williams Twp., Northhampton, PA.
6.)DANIEL F. WOTRING, b. June 28, 1776, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. April 15, 1839, Aurora, Preston Co., WV.
7.)MARY SUSANNA WOTRING, b. June 18, 1778, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; dod Unknown; m. ALEXANDER BINGAMON; dod Unknown.
8.)WILLIAM Francis WOTRING, b. 1780, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. September 25, 1848,Shelby, Orleans County, NY.
9.)JACOB WOTRING, b. May 08, 1783, Hagerstown, Washington, MD; d. after September 15, 1850, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
Both Abraham and his wife Mary Margaret are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Aurora, Preston County, (West) Virginia.
****************************************************∼PIONEER CEMETERY Aurora, [Preston Co.] WV:
This cemetery was evidentally used by the earilest residents of the Aurora area. It is presently located on a high knoll about 1/4 mile behind the barn on the farm of Dale Stemple. His farm is at the end of the dirt lane which is across the paved road from the present Aurora Cemetery and Church. The Pioneer Cemetery is a square area about 100 by 100 feet. All the older stones have either been broken off at the base or were just temporary stones of a soft type. Only several rows of stone "stubs" exist, with a few pieces of slab laying nearby. One slab has several indentifiable letters. The only existing stones that are legible are several newer ones. They read as follows, left to right, when looking away from the barn.
1. WORTING John 1846 - 1924
Joseph 1859 - 1935
2. Pioneer Cemetery. This monument is dedicated to the early settlers buried here about 1787 - 1845. Presented by Jay F. Stemple 1974.
3. JACOB WAGNER, PA Calvary, Revolutionary War, 1750 - 1834
4. ABRAHAM WORTING, SR., Northampton Militia, 1745 -1809
THOMAS RINEHART, Maryland Militia, Revolutionary War, 7-19-1741 to 3-13-1833
- Gov't. marker - Pioneer Cem./Old Mt. Carmel Cem./Salem Cem. is directly across the road from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in a pasture on the hill (Private Property with a bull on premises). Permission needed!!! Old cem., said to have abt. 50 burials but only 5 markers remained in 1997.
h/o Mary Margaret Troxell 1744-1829 bur. Pioneer Cem., also.
Source: Troxel Trails by Richard M. Troxel, currently out of print
!Source: Ancestral File Database, downloaded 9-29-94
[Watring's.FTW] Abraham was a shoemaker in Whitehall Twp., Lehigh Co., Pa.
He Moved to Maryland in 1782, he lived in Hagerstown in 1783
Then by 1787 (bgt. land--cs) they moved to Aurora, Preston Co., WV.. (in 1788--cs)
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According to Jacob Carpenter Find a Grave contributor # 46947313 in reference to the headstone for Abraham Wootring, SR., the headstone is incorrect in that Abraham should be listed as Abraham Wotring III instead of Abraham Wootring Sr. He references a book by Raymond Martin Bell about the Wotring - Woodring Family of Pennsylvania. I then changed this memorial according to his requests but now he has changed his mind.
As of June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is again requesting the name on this memorial be changed to John Abraham Wotring with no explanation. Since the headstone reads Abraham Wootring, Sr. then according to Find A Grave rules, the memorial should be as the headstone states with an explanation of any other information in the bio section. I have tried to accommodate Jacob Carpenter's requests and feel that with the changes he keeps requesting that I should note these in the bio section as such.
It should be noted that Jacob entered the following flower on May 25, 2019 in the memorial for Abraham Wootring as follows:
Sacred to the memory of 2Lt. Abraham Wotring III.
Left by Felton-Wotring-Hauser-White Descendants on 25 May 2019
The Headstone bears the spelling WOOTRING: however the current spelling of the last name is now WOTRING, but since the headstone reads Wootring I will use that spelling even though now the family uses the spelling of Wotring and have included that in parenthesis (Wotring)! Additionally Jacob Carpenter FAG Contributor 46947313 has now changed his mind yet again on what the name of the ancestor should be. The local pronunciation in Horse Shoe Run, WV is Wootring, but most family members pronounce it Watring while at the same time spelling it Wotring. (John) Abraham Wootring, (now spelled Wotring) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the son of Abraham Wotring who arrived at Philadelphia in 1733 (see more information below). Jacob Carpenter also request that this Abraham Wotring be named Abraham Wotring III, but the headstone reads Sr. so I am returning to that name for now since it is on the headstone. In June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is requesting I change the name on the memorial to read "John Abraham Wotring"; however, I will include his requests in the bio section, according to Find A Grave guidelines I should return to the name on the headstone.
Suggested reading: Bell, Raymond Martin. "The Wotring-Woodring Family of Pennsylvania." Privately Printed; Washington, Pennsylvania; 1968. P. 13.
From Contributor: Jacob Carpenter (46947313) • [email protected]
His first name more than likely was John as is tradition, but I have not used it above, but am only using Abraham as engraved on the headstone with the name (John) in parenthesis as such.
JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING married MARY MARGARET (Trachsel) TROXELL in 1766. Mary Margaret Troxell was born October 25, 1744 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania the daughter of PETER TRACHSEL TROXELL and JULIANA FRAUDHUEGER.
MILITARY SERVICE: According to Militia Act of the State Of Pennsylvania Abraham Wotring was in the military service May 1781 as a part of 2nd Battlion of Militia in the county of Northampton, 4th Company commanded by Cpt. John Moritz as 2nd Lt. Abraham Wotring, Sr.
Abraham and his wife like many of the early pioneers are buried in the Aurora Pioneer Cemetery which is located on a hill on what is or was the Dale Stemple farm. This was the original cemetery where all early burials were made. The farm and cemetery are located on the west side of the road to Terra Alta, about 1/3 miles north of Highway 50. With the exception of a few new monuments, most of the old headstones have disappeared and the remaining ones are broken and unreadable.
Jay F. STEMPLE has placed a large granite monument in the cemetery which is dedicated to the pioneers who were buried there "from 1787 through 1845." There is also a newer Revolutionary marker for Abraham Wootring (Wotring) commemorating his Revolutionary War service and a newer military marker for Thomas RINEHART, commemorating his Revolutionary War service as well.
This cemetery is unfenced and unprotected so cattle and deer may graze around the stones which probably helps keep the cemetery from becoming overgrown, but has also contributed to many of the older stones being broken off at the base. It is located across the road from the newer Aurora Cemetery. Sadly, when asked about it's location many locals seem unaware of it's whereabouts!
NOTE: Like many other immigrant families, the family name of Wotring is spelled in numerous ways including but not limited to Vautrin, Woodring, Wootring, Watring, Woottring and Wotring.
ABRAHAM WOTRING (Last name also spelled as Wootring as shown on his headstone) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1745 (some other records show 1748) the son of Abraham Wotring.
His father, Abraham Wotring and his wife, Anna Mertz arrived to the New World on the ship RICHARD AND ELIZABETH that landed at Philadelphia on September 28, 1733 from Alsace, France. John Abraham Wotring was the youngest child of sixteen children born to Abraham Wotring. Some records indicate that Anna Mertz died in 1741 which would be some 7 years before John Abraham was born. Not sure of the name of his birth mother. At his father's death in 1752, only eight of his father's sixteen children were still living.
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Abraham and Mary Margaret Troxell's marriage was blessed with at least nine children. All their children were born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania except the last son who was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. It may have been from Hagerstown that the family bravely set out to join Rev. John Stough in 1787 or 1788 in their covered wagon to help establish a new German settlement in the high plateau of the Allegheny Mountains in the western part of what was then Virginia at Carmel now Aurora.
Abraham and Mary Margaret's marriage was blessed with at least nine children (there may be more):
1.)JOHN NICHOLAS WOTRING, b. April 06, 1767, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; dod 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, WV; m. MARGARET, 1789; b. 1768; dod Unknown.
2.)PETER WOODRING, b. 1768, Whitehall, Northhampton Co., PA; d. January 1852, Bordley, Union Co., KY.
3.)JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING, JR, b. January 09, 1770, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, VA.
4.)CATHARINE ELIZABETH WOTRING, b. March 03, 1772, Whitehall, PA; d. Aft. 1834, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
5.)JOHN DANIEL WOTRING, b. January 09, 1774, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. December 25, 1844, Williams Twp., Northhampton, PA.
6.)DANIEL F. WOTRING, b. June 28, 1776, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. April 15, 1839, Aurora, Preston Co., WV.
7.)MARY SUSANNA WOTRING, b. June 18, 1778, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; dod Unknown; m. ALEXANDER BINGAMON; dod Unknown.
8.)WILLIAM Francis WOTRING, b. 1780, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. September 25, 1848,Shelby, Orleans County, NY.
9.)JACOB WOTRING, b. May 08, 1783, Hagerstown, Washington, MD; d. after September 15, 1850, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
Both Abraham and his wife Mary Margaret are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Aurora, Preston County, (West) Virginia.
****************************************************∼PIONEER CEMETERY Aurora, [Preston Co.] WV:
This cemetery was evidentally used by the earilest residents of the Aurora area. It is presently located on a high knoll about 1/4 mile behind the barn on the farm of Dale Stemple. His farm is at the end of the dirt lane which is across the paved road from the present Aurora Cemetery and Church. The Pioneer Cemetery is a square area about 100 by 100 feet. All the older stones have either been broken off at the base or were just temporary stones of a soft type. Only several rows of stone "stubs" exist, with a few pieces of slab laying nearby. One slab has several indentifiable letters. The only existing stones that are legible are several newer ones. They read as follows, left to right, when looking away from the barn.
1. WORTING John 1846 - 1924
Joseph 1859 - 1935
2. Pioneer Cemetery. This monument is dedicated to the early settlers buried here about 1787 - 1845. Presented by Jay F. Stemple 1974.
3. JACOB WAGNER, PA Calvary, Revolutionary War, 1750 - 1834
4. ABRAHAM WORTING, SR., Northampton Militia, 1745 -1809
THOMAS RINEHART, Maryland Militia, Revolutionary War, 7-19-1741 to 3-13-1833
2nd Lt. Rev. War 1777-1782 with the Associators of County of Northhampton Militia under Capt. John Moritz, 2nd Battalion, 4th Co. and fought in the Battle of Brandywine (Pa.)
- Gov't. marker - Pioneer Cem./Old Mt. Carmel Cem./Salem Cem. is directly across the road from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in a pasture on the hill (Private Property with a bull on premises). Permission needed!!! Old cem., said to have abt. 50 burials but only 5 markers remained in 1997.
h/o Mary Margaret Troxell 1744-1829 bur. Pioneer Cem., also.
Source: Troxel Trails by Richard M. Troxel, currently out of print
!Source: Ancestral File Database, downloaded 9-29-94
[Watring's.FTW] Abraham was a shoemaker in Whitehall Twp., Lehigh Co., Pa.
He Moved to Maryland in 1782, he lived in Hagerstown in 1783
Then by 1787 (bgt. land--cs) they moved to Aurora, Preston Co., WV.. (in 1788--cs)
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According to Jacob Carpenter Find a Grave contributor # 46947313 in reference to the headstone for Abraham Wootring, SR., the headstone is incorrect in that Abraham should be listed as Abraham Wotring III instead of Abraham Wootring Sr. He references a book by Raymond Martin Bell about the Wotring - Woodring Family of Pennsylvania. I then changed this memorial according to his requests but now he has changed his mind.
As of June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is again requesting the name on this memorial be changed to John Abraham Wotring with no explanation. Since the headstone reads Abraham Wootring, Sr. then according to Find A Grave rules, the memorial should be as the headstone states with an explanation of any other information in the bio section. I have tried to accommodate Jacob Carpenter's requests and feel that with the changes he keeps requesting that I should note these in the bio section as such.
It should be noted that Jacob entered the following flower on May 25, 2019 in the memorial for Abraham Wootring as follows:
Sacred to the memory of 2Lt. Abraham Wotring III.
Left by Felton-Wotring-Hauser-White Descendants on 25 May 2019
The Headstone bears the spelling WOOTRING: however the current spelling of the last name is now WOTRING, but since the headstone reads Wootring I will use that spelling even though now the family uses the spelling of Wotring and have included that in parenthesis (Wotring)! Additionally Jacob Carpenter FAG Contributor 46947313 has now changed his mind yet again on what the name of the ancestor should be. The local pronunciation in Horse Shoe Run, WV is Wootring, but most family members pronounce it Watring while at the same time spelling it Wotring. (John) Abraham Wootring, (now spelled Wotring) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the son of Abraham Wotring who arrived at Philadelphia in 1733 (see more information below). Jacob Carpenter also request that this Abraham Wotring be named Abraham Wotring III, but the headstone reads Sr. so I am returning to that name for now since it is on the headstone. In June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is requesting I change the name on the memorial to read "John Abraham Wotring"; however, I will include his requests in the bio section, according to Find A Grave guidelines I should return to the name on the headstone.
Suggested reading: Bell, Raymond Martin. "The Wotring-Woodring Family of Pennsylvania." Privately Printed; Washington, Pennsylvania; 1968. P. 13.
From Contributor: Jacob Carpenter (46947313) • [email protected]
His first name more than likely was John as is tradition, but I have not used it above, but am only using Abraham as engraved on the headstone with the name (John) in parenthesis as such.
JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING married MARY MARGARET (Trachsel) TROXELL in 1766. Mary Margaret Troxell was born October 25, 1744 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania the daughter of PETER TRACHSEL TROXELL and JULIANA FRAUDHUEGER.
MILITARY SERVICE: According to Militia Act of the State Of Pennsylvania Abraham Wotring was in the military service May 1781 as a part of 2nd Battlion of Militia in the county of Northampton, 4th Company commanded by Cpt. John Moritz as 2nd Lt. Abraham Wotring, Sr.
Abraham and his wife like many of the early pioneers are buried in the Aurora Pioneer Cemetery which is located on a hill on what is or was the Dale Stemple farm. This was the original cemetery where all early burials were made. The farm and cemetery are located on the west side of the road to Terra Alta, about 1/3 miles north of Highway 50. With the exception of a few new monuments, most of the old headstones have disappeared and the remaining ones are broken and unreadable.
Jay F. STEMPLE has placed a large granite monument in the cemetery which is dedicated to the pioneers who were buried there "from 1787 through 1845." There is also a newer Revolutionary marker for Abraham Wootring (Wotring) commemorating his Revolutionary War service and a newer military marker for Thomas RINEHART, commemorating his Revolutionary War service as well.
This cemetery is unfenced and unprotected so cattle and deer may graze around the stones which probably helps keep the cemetery from becoming overgrown, but has also contributed to many of the older stones being broken off at the base. It is located across the road from the newer Aurora Cemetery. Sadly, when asked about it's location many locals seem unaware of it's whereabouts!
NOTE: Like many other immigrant families, the family name of Wotring is spelled in numerous ways including but not limited to Vautrin, Woodring, Wootring, Watring, Woottring and Wotring.
ABRAHAM WOTRING (Last name also spelled as Wootring as shown on his headstone) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1745 (some other records show 1748) the son of Abraham Wotring.
His father, Abraham Wotring and his wife, Anna Mertz arrived to the New World on the ship RICHARD AND ELIZABETH that landed at Philadelphia on September 28, 1733 from Alsace, France. John Abraham Wotring was the youngest child of sixteen children born to Abraham Wotring. Some records indicate that Anna Mertz died in 1741 which would be some 7 years before John Abraham was born. Not sure of the name of his birth mother. At his father's death in 1752, only eight of his father's sixteen children were still living.
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Abraham and Mary Margaret Troxell's marriage was blessed with at least nine children. All their children were born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania except the last son who was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. It may have been from Hagerstown that the family bravely set out to join Rev. John Stough in 1787 or 1788 in their covered wagon to help establish a new German settlement in the high plateau of the Allegheny Mountains in the western part of what was then Virginia at Carmel now Aurora.
Abraham and Mary Margaret's marriage was blessed with at least nine children (there may be more):
1.)JOHN NICHOLAS WOTRING, b. April 06, 1767, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; dod 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, WV; m. MARGARET, 1789; b. 1768; dod Unknown.
2.)PETER WOODRING, b. 1768, Whitehall, Northhampton Co., PA; d. January 1852, Bordley, Union Co., KY.
3.)JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING, JR, b. January 09, 1770, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, VA.
4.)CATHARINE ELIZABETH WOTRING, b. March 03, 1772, Whitehall, PA; d. Aft. 1834, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
5.)JOHN DANIEL WOTRING, b. January 09, 1774, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. December 25, 1844, Williams Twp., Northhampton, PA.
6.)DANIEL F. WOTRING, b. June 28, 1776, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. April 15, 1839, Aurora, Preston Co., WV.
7.)MARY SUSANNA WOTRING, b. June 18, 1778, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; dod Unknown; m. ALEXANDER BINGAMON; dod Unknown.
8.)WILLIAM Francis WOTRING, b. 1780, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. September 25, 1848,Shelby, Orleans County, NY.
9.)JACOB WOTRING, b. May 08, 1783, Hagerstown, Washington, MD; d. after September 15, 1850, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
Both Abraham and his wife Mary Margaret are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Aurora, Preston County, (West) Virginia.
****************************************************∼PIONEER CEMETERY Aurora, [Preston Co.] WV:
This cemetery was evidentally used by the earilest residents of the Aurora area. It is presently located on a high knoll about 1/4 mile behind the barn on the farm of Dale Stemple. His farm is at the end of the dirt lane which is across the paved road from the present Aurora Cemetery and Church. The Pioneer Cemetery is a square area about 100 by 100 feet. All the older stones have either been broken off at the base or were just temporary stones of a soft type. Only several rows of stone "stubs" exist, with a few pieces of slab laying nearby. One slab has several indentifiable letters. The only existing stones that are legible are several newer ones. They read as follows, left to right, when looking away from the barn.
1. WORTING John 1846 - 1924
Joseph 1859 - 1935
2. Pioneer Cemetery. This monument is dedicated to the early settlers buried here about 1787 - 1845. Presented by Jay F. Stemple 1974.
3. JACOB WAGNER, PA Calvary, Revolutionary War, 1750 - 1834
4. ABRAHAM WORTING, SR., Northampton Militia, 1745 -1809
THOMAS RINEHART, Maryland Militia, Revolutionary War, 7-19-1741 to 3-13-1833
- Gov't. marker - Pioneer Cem./Old Mt. Carmel Cem./Salem Cem. is directly across the road from St. Paul's Lutheran Church in a pasture on the hill (Private Property with a bull on premises). Permission needed!!! Old cem., said to have abt. 50 burials but only 5 markers remained in 1997.
h/o Mary Margaret Troxell 1744-1829 bur. Pioneer Cem., also.
Source: Troxel Trails by Richard M. Troxel, currently out of print
!Source: Ancestral File Database, downloaded 9-29-94
[Watring's.FTW] Abraham was a shoemaker in Whitehall Twp., Lehigh Co., Pa.
He Moved to Maryland in 1782, he lived in Hagerstown in 1783
Then by 1787 (bgt. land--cs) they moved to Aurora, Preston Co., WV.. (in 1788--cs)
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According to Jacob Carpenter Find a Grave contributor # 46947313 in reference to the headstone for Abraham Wootring, SR., the headstone is incorrect in that Abraham should be listed as Abraham Wotring III instead of Abraham Wootring Sr. He references a book by Raymond Martin Bell about the Wotring - Woodring Family of Pennsylvania. I then changed this memorial according to his requests but now he has changed his mind.
As of June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is again requesting the name on this memorial be changed to John Abraham Wotring with no explanation. Since the headstone reads Abraham Wootring, Sr. then according to Find A Grave rules, the memorial should be as the headstone states with an explanation of any other information in the bio section. I have tried to accommodate Jacob Carpenter's requests and feel that with the changes he keeps requesting that I should note these in the bio section as such.
It should be noted that Jacob entered the following flower on May 25, 2019 in the memorial for Abraham Wootring as follows:
Sacred to the memory of 2Lt. Abraham Wotring III.
Left by Felton-Wotring-Hauser-White Descendants on 25 May 2019
The Headstone bears the spelling WOOTRING: however the current spelling of the last name is now WOTRING, but since the headstone reads Wootring I will use that spelling even though now the family uses the spelling of Wotring and have included that in parenthesis (Wotring)! Additionally Jacob Carpenter FAG Contributor 46947313 has now changed his mind yet again on what the name of the ancestor should be. The local pronunciation in Horse Shoe Run, WV is Wootring, but most family members pronounce it Watring while at the same time spelling it Wotring. (John) Abraham Wootring, (now spelled Wotring) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, the son of Abraham Wotring who arrived at Philadelphia in 1733 (see more information below). Jacob Carpenter also request that this Abraham Wotring be named Abraham Wotring III, but the headstone reads Sr. so I am returning to that name for now since it is on the headstone. In June 2020, Jacob Carpenter is requesting I change the name on the memorial to read "John Abraham Wotring"; however, I will include his requests in the bio section, according to Find A Grave guidelines I should return to the name on the headstone.
Suggested reading: Bell, Raymond Martin. "The Wotring-Woodring Family of Pennsylvania." Privately Printed; Washington, Pennsylvania; 1968. P. 13.
From Contributor: Jacob Carpenter (46947313) • [email protected]
His first name more than likely was John as is tradition, but I have not used it above, but am only using Abraham as engraved on the headstone with the name (John) in parenthesis as such.
JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING married MARY MARGARET (Trachsel) TROXELL in 1766. Mary Margaret Troxell was born October 25, 1744 in Egypt, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania the daughter of PETER TRACHSEL TROXELL and JULIANA FRAUDHUEGER.
MILITARY SERVICE: According to Militia Act of the State Of Pennsylvania Abraham Wotring was in the military service May 1781 as a part of 2nd Battlion of Militia in the county of Northampton, 4th Company commanded by Cpt. John Moritz as 2nd Lt. Abraham Wotring, Sr.
Abraham and his wife like many of the early pioneers are buried in the Aurora Pioneer Cemetery which is located on a hill on what is or was the Dale Stemple farm. This was the original cemetery where all early burials were made. The farm and cemetery are located on the west side of the road to Terra Alta, about 1/3 miles north of Highway 50. With the exception of a few new monuments, most of the old headstones have disappeared and the remaining ones are broken and unreadable.
Jay F. STEMPLE has placed a large granite monument in the cemetery which is dedicated to the pioneers who were buried there "from 1787 through 1845." There is also a newer Revolutionary marker for Abraham Wootring (Wotring) commemorating his Revolutionary War service and a newer military marker for Thomas RINEHART, commemorating his Revolutionary War service as well.
This cemetery is unfenced and unprotected so cattle and deer may graze around the stones which probably helps keep the cemetery from becoming overgrown, but has also contributed to many of the older stones being broken off at the base. It is located across the road from the newer Aurora Cemetery. Sadly, when asked about it's location many locals seem unaware of it's whereabouts!
NOTE: Like many other immigrant families, the family name of Wotring is spelled in numerous ways including but not limited to Vautrin, Woodring, Wootring, Watring, Woottring and Wotring.
ABRAHAM WOTRING (Last name also spelled as Wootring as shown on his headstone) was born in Whitehall, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1745 (some other records show 1748) the son of Abraham Wotring.
His father, Abraham Wotring and his wife, Anna Mertz arrived to the New World on the ship RICHARD AND ELIZABETH that landed at Philadelphia on September 28, 1733 from Alsace, France. John Abraham Wotring was the youngest child of sixteen children born to Abraham Wotring. Some records indicate that Anna Mertz died in 1741 which would be some 7 years before John Abraham was born. Not sure of the name of his birth mother. At his father's death in 1752, only eight of his father's sixteen children were still living.
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Abraham and Mary Margaret Troxell's marriage was blessed with at least nine children. All their children were born in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania except the last son who was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. It may have been from Hagerstown that the family bravely set out to join Rev. John Stough in 1787 or 1788 in their covered wagon to help establish a new German settlement in the high plateau of the Allegheny Mountains in the western part of what was then Virginia at Carmel now Aurora.
Abraham and Mary Margaret's marriage was blessed with at least nine children (there may be more):
1.)JOHN NICHOLAS WOTRING, b. April 06, 1767, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; dod 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, WV; m. MARGARET, 1789; b. 1768; dod Unknown.
2.)PETER WOODRING, b. 1768, Whitehall, Northhampton Co., PA; d. January 1852, Bordley, Union Co., KY.
3.)JOHN ABRAHAM WOTRING, JR, b. January 09, 1770, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. 1817, Preston Co., Aurora, VA.
4.)CATHARINE ELIZABETH WOTRING, b. March 03, 1772, Whitehall, PA; d. Aft. 1834, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
5.)JOHN DANIEL WOTRING, b. January 09, 1774, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. December 25, 1844, Williams Twp., Northhampton, PA.
6.)DANIEL F. WOTRING, b. June 28, 1776, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; d. April 15, 1839, Aurora, Preston Co., WV.
7.)MARY SUSANNA WOTRING, b. June 18, 1778, Whitehall, Lehigh Co., PA; dod Unknown; m. ALEXANDER BINGAMON; dod Unknown.
8.)WILLIAM Francis WOTRING, b. 1780, Northhampton, Lehigh, PA; d. September 25, 1848,Shelby, Orleans County, NY.
9.)JACOB WOTRING, b. May 08, 1783, Hagerstown, Washington, MD; d. after September 15, 1850, Preston Co., Aurora, WV.
Both Abraham and his wife Mary Margaret are buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Aurora, Preston County, (West) Virginia.
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This cemetery was evidentally used by the earilest residents of the Aurora area. It is presently located on a high knoll about 1/4 mile behind the barn on the farm of Dale Stemple. His farm is at the end of the dirt lane which is across the paved road from the present Aurora Cemetery and Church. The Pioneer Cemetery is a square area about 100 by 100 feet. All the older stones have either been broken off at the base or were just temporary stones of a soft type. Only several rows of stone "stubs" exist, with a few pieces of slab laying nearby. One slab has several indentifiable letters. The only existing stones that are legible are several newer ones. They read as follows, left to right, when looking away from the barn.
1. WORTING John 1846 - 1924
Joseph 1859 - 1935
2. Pioneer Cemetery. This monument is dedicated to the early settlers buried here about 1787 - 1845. Presented by Jay F. Stemple 1974.
3. JACOB WAGNER, PA Calvary, Revolutionary War, 1750 - 1834
4. ABRAHAM WORTING, SR., Northampton Militia, 1745 -1809
THOMAS RINEHART, Maryland Militia, Revolutionary War, 7-19-1741 to 3-13-1833
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The headstone read Abraham Wootring, Sr.
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