Bios: Peter Traxler: Southampton Twp, Cumberland Co Copyright © 1997 by Judy Thayer. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. JLYThayer@aol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. _________________________________________________________________ PETER TRAXLER Family History PETER TRAXLER b. ca 1770, prob PA, son of MICHAEL & ELIZABETH [KRAEMER?] TRAXLER md ca 1790 MARIA (parentage unk); res Southampton Twp., Cumberland Co., PA d. after 1820, poss OH Ch: SUSANNA, b. 17 Jan 1798, Cumberland Co., PA (bible & baptism records) md 6 Mar 1817 JACOB AUE (son John Henry & Cristina Barbara [Lutz] Aue) d. 14 Jul 1868, West Point Twp., Stephenson Co., IL ELIZABETH, b. ca 1802, Cumberland Co., PA md ca 1820 JOHN F. HOY (see Elizabeth [Traxler] Hoy family summary) d. after 1860, prob Manchester, Franklin Twp., Summit Co., OH As will be seen from the census records, Peter and Maria Traxler must have had a large family, but at this time, only speculations can be made about their children's names and identities. After 1820, there are a number of Traxler families (of many various spellings) in Cumberland Co., and adjacent PA counties, as well as in Stark and Summit Co.'s OH. (See 1850 & 1860 Stark and Summit Co., OH, U.S. Censuses & for more info.) Peter's grandson (and Susanna Traxler Aue's son) Harvey Aue, md Margaret Jane Smith (grdau Barbara [Traxler] Blackburn and gtgrdau of Peter Traxler of Kent Co., Ontario, Canada) and lived in Lena, IL. A distant Smith relative living in nearby Freeport, IL, recalls hearing the Traxler name, but commented, "Oh yes, but they called it Troxler." Another apparent Traxler relative of theirs (Peter) from Canada lived in Ogle Co., IL. (1781 - PETER TRAXLER, Cumberland Co., PA Militia. Pvt., 3rd Co., CPT Alexander Peebles - 2nd Class 6th Bn.; Residence ascribed: Hopewell Twp. Class Roll dtd 11 Aug 1781. Certificate fr PA Hist & Museum Com. This Peter couldn't be the son of Michael, as he wouldn't have been of age in 1781 to be enrolled in the militia.) Tax Lists, Cumberland Co., PA (Hamilton Library, Carlisle, PA) and PA Archives, Vol. 20, 3rd Series, "Supply Rates" (*=Orig.Tax Lists) 1781 - p. 436 TRAXLO, Peter Hopewell Twp. 100 @, 1 H, 2 C 1782 - p. 592 " Peter " " 100 @, 2 H, 2 C 1783 - (*) TRAXLER, Peter Shippensburg 2 H, 1 C 1786 - (*) TRAXLOW, Peter(md) Hopewell Twp 2 H, 2 C 1799 - (*) TRAXLER, Peter Southampton Twp (Shippensburg) 2 H, 2 C 1802 - (*) TRAXLER, Peter " " w/livestock 1805 - (*) TREXLER, Peter " " 2 C 1808 - (*) TRAXLER, Peter " " 3 H, 1 C 1811 - (*) TRAXLER, Peter " " 4 H, 2 C 1795 - 27 Apr - PETER TRAXLER w/Veronica VOGT bpt sp Johannes KrSmer, son of Peter KrSmer & Maria (Possibly a cousin, as Peter Traxler's mother was Eliz. KrSmer.) Fr: Baptism Record, Associate Reform Chuch, Shippensburg, PA 1798 - SUSANNA TRAXLER, b. 17 Jan 1798, bpt 25 Feb 1798 dau of Peter and Maria TRAXLER; bpt sp: Christian DREISE & Christiana Birth date fr her dau Elizabeth [Aue] Frager's family bible BptRec from Associate Reform Church, Shippensburg, PA. 1800 - 1800 U.S. Census, Southampton Twp., Cumberland Co., PA (Shippensburg) TREXLER, Peter w: M: 1:-10; 1:-16; 2:-26; 1:-45 F: 2:-10; 1:-16; 1:26-45; 1:45-60 1802 - ELIZABETH TRAXLER, b. ca 1802 (fr: U.S. Censuses); d. after 1860 (dau of Peter; known to be sis of Susanna abv) md ca 1820 JOHN HOY; res in Ohio near Susanna & family (see: ELIZABETH TRAXLER HOY fam summary) 1812 - PETER TRAXLER, named by father, Michael, of Huntingdon Co., PA, as co-executor (w/bro Conrad and John Blair) of Michael's will. (Peter declined to serve.) (fr: Will Bk 2, p. 241, Huntingdon Co., Juniata, PA) 1816 - SUSANNA TRAXLER md 6 Mar 1816 JACOB AUE, both of Cumberland Co., PA (Fr: Natl Archive record of Susanna's disposition in her application for pension as dependent mother of Samuel Aue, d. 1863; also newspaper item, Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA; see Jacob Aue Fam Summary.) 1818 - 14 Oct, PETER TRAXLER, of Southampton Twp., Cumberland Co., PA, one of the executors of the will of (his father) MICHAEL TRAXLER, dec'd, declined to serve; signed his name in German. (fr: Probate, Michael Traxler's estate, Will Bk 2, p. 241, Huntingdon Co., PA) 1820 - 1820 U.S. Census, Southampton Twp., Cumberland Co., PA (p. 56) PETER TRAXLER, in agriculture w: M: 1:-10; 2:-16; 2:-26; 1:-45; 1:+45 F: 2:-10; 2:-16; 1:-26; 1:-45 As can be seen, starting with the first records cited above, there were two Peter Traxlers. The Peter Traxler of the military records and early tax records was contemporary with Michael Traxler.