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by author notes enclosed in [brackets]. Over the past 71 years, corrections and
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or starting at http://members.home.net/jimpool/. TOMBAUGH HISTORY 1728 - 1930 by
Reno G Tombaugh [page 1] Introduction Over a century ago five of the children of the Washington County, Pennsylvania pioneer, George Tombaugh, migrated from the home in Washington County Pa., to the then West. These five children were followed by a sixth of George Tombaugh's children in the year 1837, leaving but one of the seven children of George and Elizabeth Tombaugh in Pennsylvania. As time passed communication between the descendants of those members of the families who had moved westward and their eastern kindred remaining in Pennsylvania gradually was abandoned until there was practically no acquaintance between them. I was in the winter of 1912-13 that the chief compiler of this work met Mrs. Rosalie Ewing at Cambridge, Ohio, she being a granddaughter of Sarah (Tombaugh) Myers. From her he learned much of the history of those of the early Tombaugh families who had located in Ohio and also he received from Mrs. Ewing a copy of certain traditions respecting early Tombaugh history which had been related by Amanda (Myers) Wurtz, a daughter of Sarah (Tombaugh) Myers, to Mrs. Alice Dean, a granddaughter of Sarah (Tombaugh) Myers, and committed to writing by Mrs. Dean. These traditions with other traditions related about the early Tombaughs to the writer by his father, John Tombaugh, son of the Pennsylvania Matthias Tombaugh, were the means which led the writer to locate the historical records of the colonial Tombaughs at Harrisburgh, Pa., and at Lancaster, Pa. All these traditions were obscure but their very obscurity was evidence of the existence of a considerable period of time in our early history past the time of the Washington County pioneer George Tombaugh which had been, until this research, as far in the past as our authentic history, other than obscure traditions extended. The knowledge that we were of Pennsylvania German stock and the discovery in the archives of the Revolution of a Tombaugh, to us a stranger, by name of Frederick Tombaugh of York County, Pa., indicated that the place most likely to yield results in finding the early records of our people would be in Southeastern Pennsylvania. These records of the colonial Tombaughs were eventually located at Lancaster, Pa. Nor has the name been found in colonial times in any other State than Pennsylvania and only in the Southeastern part of that State. However, it was before these interesting records were found that at a reunion . . . [line(s) missing] [page 2] The above mentioned reunion was the result of a desire of John M. Tombaugh and his wife, Alice, to honor their guests: Dr. L. H. Tombaugh and his wife of Waukegan, Ill., a brother of John M. Tombaugh, and Mrs. Mildred Mann and her husband, William A. Mann, of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Mann being a daughter of John M. and Alice Tombaugh. After the appointment of the writer to prepare a Tombaugh history, it was first contemplated to write only a history of the Pennsylvania Matthias Tombaugh group with reviews of the related families. But more extensive research indicated the desirability of a history of the entire family in America, so far as the facts were procurable. This project had reached such progress by the time of the 200th anniversary reunion of the family on August 18, 1928, at the "Haw Bottom tract" of George Tombaugh, owned by one of his great-grandsons, W. Scott Tombaugh of Somerset Township, Washington County, Pa., that the completion of the work was assured. The reunion was attended by representatives of six of the seven family divisions descended from George Tombaugh the pioneer, with the result that an acquaintance was again formed between the different branches of the family. The authorities most largely consulted in preparing this work are Rupp's 30,000 Names, U.S. Census, Pennsylvania Archives, reports thereon by H. H. Shenk, Archivist; Lancaster, Pa. The abstracts from these made by Miss Lottie Bausman, Genealogist. An article in Crumrine's History of Washington County, Pa. Records of Washington County, Pa., Court House, both these latter by Attorney Byron E. Tombaugh. Brumbaugh's Early Maryland Records. Prof. T. C. Tarr of Princeton University. Family records in Bibles. Transcripts on headstones, and many family records. [page 3] Chapter I. Early in the preparation of this work it was learned that the spelling of our name Tombaugh was not found among the names listed in works on family names in Germany or Holland. This led to the conclusion that the name was anglisized of some other name and various conjectures were made as to what name Tombaugh was derived from. . . . [Extractions of significant text follow on next pages.] |
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"Reno Tombaugh", the date, "1930", the publisher, "Tombaugh
Publishing House", or the Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number,
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