There, the Earlyines and the William Sivert family established a home in the Sand Hill District of Marshall County, approximately where the Earlywine Cemetery is located today. ![]() ![]() They also became friends with fellow German pioneers John and Mary (Bonnet) Wetzel Sr., who had settled there in 1770, about 14 miles inland from the Ohio River, and whose sons Lewis and John were widely known as fearless Indian fighters. They went on to produce nine more children - John Erlewine,Īt some point in time, the Earlywines pushed further west to the wilderness region of the Ohio River communities of Wheeling and Moundsville, VA, the boundary of the frontier with Native Americans. Sadly, Eva Catherine is believed to have died in the year 1784, the year she gave birth to their youngest child, and also the year that Abraham's eldest child from the second marriage was born.Įvidence suggests that within a few months, Abraham married his second wife, Catherine Sailor ( ? - ? ) in about 1784. Research by others suggests that Abraham and Eva Catherine produced five children - Frederick Erlewine,ĭavid Erlewine, Mary Carmichael and Jacob Erlewine. On April 19, 1767, he is believed to have been united in holy wedlock with Eva Catherine Glasser ( ? - ? ). When he was about age 20, Abraham not only emigrated to the English American colonies but then went to York (later Lancaster) County, PA and became married. ![]() While this needs to be confirmed, research by others has provided this information and it's the best we have for now until proven with precision. Abraham Earlywine - a pioneer settler of the rough and bloody Ohio River Valley of Virginia in the late 1770s - may have been born in Friedrichsthal, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany in about 1747.
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