MIDDLETON FAMILY HISTORY

 MENNONITES OF SINGERS GLEN, VIRGINIA
(Sibyl Hoover Middleton was the great-granddaughter of the Mennonite Barbara Funk of Singers Glen, Virginia.)

Swiss and German Origins of the Mennonites of Singers Glen, VA

Mennonite Ancestors of Barbara Funk (1812-1850) of Singers Glen, VA
A 5-Generation Pedigree Chart

Barbara Funk of Singers Glen, VA: Her Funk Family Ancestry

Mennonite Bishop Henry Rhodes (1747-1827) of Rockingham County, VA

Elizabeth Brenneman (1758-1835) of Rockingham Co. VA

A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers,
published by Reverend A. J. Fretz in 1899. The book includes biographical sketches of Joseph Funk and other descendants of the Bishop who settled in Singers Glen, Virginia. George Howver and Sarah Palsel are named in the book, along with their children and grandchildren.  Sibyl Hoover is mentioned on page 297 of the book.

Jacob Showalter (Abt. 1710-1773) of Northampton Co. PA: Patriarch of the Showalters of Rockingham County, VA

THE HOWVERS AND PAULSELS FROM SINGERS GLEN, VIRGINIA

Sarah Ellen (Paulsel) Howver: Matriarch of a Family with the Wanderlust Gene
Sarah was the maternal grandmother of Sibyl Hoover Middleton

Sarah Ellen Paulsel: Roots in the Shenandoah Valley of Northern Virginia
A Pedigree Chart

Uncle James Howver: The Gold Rush and a Lost Claim
(James was the son of Sarah Ellen Howver and the uncle of Sibyl Hoover Middleton)

John Howver of Rockingham County, Virginia: Last Will and Testament (1865)

Marshall Howver: American Dentist Caught in the Throes of WWI and the Russian Revolution (Marshall was the son of Sarah Ellen Howver and the uncle of Sibyl Hoover Middleton)

Henry Parrett of Virginia: His Life,His Last Will and Testament

FAMILY TIES TO SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY NEW NETHERLAND
(Ancestors of Sibyl Hoover Middleton)

Mary Cole Wintermote (1835-1914) of Darke County, Ohio: (paternal grandmother of Sibyl Hoover Middleton) Her obituary and a brief biographical sketch

Jane Cole Wintermote of Darke County, Ohio: (mother of Mary Cole Wintermote) Her obituary and a brief biographical sketch

Barent Jacobsen Cool: Seventeenth-Century Citizen of New Amsterdam

Sibyl Hoover Middleton: Family Ties to Barent Jacobsen Cool (A Relationship Chart)

Juriaen Westvaal (Westfall): Seventeenth-Century Dutch Farmer and Settler of New Netherland

Sibyl Hoover Middleton : Family ties to Juriaen Westvaal (Westfall) (A Relationship Chart)

Louis DuBois of Seventeenth-Century New Netherland: Walloon Founder of New Paltz, New York

Sibyl Hoover Middleton: Family Ties to Louis DuBois (A Relationship Chart)

ENGLISH ROOTS OF JOHN EASTERBROOK
WHO SETTLED IN OHIO

Tracing the English Ancestry of John Easterbrook who Settled in Ohio after the War of 1812
(John Easterbrook's service in the War of 1812 told below.)

PROFILES OF THOSE WHO SERVED IN WAR

The Revolutionary War Record of Lawrence Bathurst of Centre County, Pennsylvania
(Ancestor of Oscar Ray Middleton)

Henry Parrett of Shenandoah County, Virginia: Soldier in the American Revolution
(Ancestor of Sibyl Hoover Middleton)

Mennonite Preacher Henry Funk of Pennsylvania and Virginia: His Service in the American Revolution
(Ancestor of Sibyl Hoover Middleton)

George Philip Wintermute of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania: British Loyalist in the American Revolution
(Ancestor of Sibyl Hoover Middleton)

John Easterbrook and the War of 1812: British Soldier, American Soldier
He was both! (Paternal great-great grandfather of Oscar Ray Middleton)  The story was revised in 2017 with new information.

William H. Cackley of Pocahontas County, Virginia, War of 1812
(Maternal great-grandfather of Oscar Ray Middleton)

Ferdinand Hoover of Darke Co, Ohio, Civil War 
(Paternal grandfather of Sibyl Hoover, Ferdinand was born in Germany, enlisted in the Union Army, and was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga.)

George Howver (1835-1916) of Singers Glen, Virginia, Civil War 
(Maternal grandfather of Sibyl Hoover, George served in the 7th Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army. He was captured and held for a year and a half in Union prisons.)

Col. William S. Middleton of Gibson City, IL: Service in WWII and in the Korean War
(Son of Oscar Ray and Sibyl Middleton)

Ann Middleton, American Red Cross, South Pacific, World War II
(Daughter of Oscar Ray and Sibyl Middleton)