

March 1874, Somerfield, PA, gives "a short account of some of the familiesĬomprising the Methodist Episcopal Church in the territory now embraced inĪddison and Confluence Circit Pittsburgh Conference" Methodist Church Records, according to a book written 18 His son William,īorn in 1779, farmed on the homestead until his Settlers of this township and improved the land on which

"Conrad Silbaugh, a native of Germany, was one

Location with a commanding view to the north and eastĬOUNTY, PA, (date unk.) p 572, contains the following entry. The land next to the church, where the original farm was located, can Later, son William was instrumental inīuilding a Methodist Church on the property. The buildings were originally right on Turkeyfoot Road, though none of the original structures remain. In addition to the farm, a school wasĮventually built for all the children. On a high saddle, flanked by even higher elevations on both sides. Conrad's farm was mostly on the north side of Turkeyfoot Road, situated Purchased land near William Tissue in Turkeyfoot Twp., south of the Casselman Great majority retained that spelling to this day. Variations (either intentionally or, at times I suspect, by mistake), but the "SILBAUGH", as did both sons, William and Philip. Only for the two umlauts “a” and “o”, probably ruling out this spelling as aīy the time Conrad died, however, the records all spelled the name (We also find names beginning with SEL., but the “e” was a substitue Which we find on the warrant map of his final land transaction in 1786.įrom the book on German emigration to colonial America we learn thatĭuring this period the letters “i” and “y” were interchangeable‑‑SYL.Īnd SIL. Show this transition from “SYLBACH”, to “SYLBAUCH, and eventually “SYLBAUGH”, Part of a census taker and that he is probably from the western Rhine region)Ĭommon to Anglicize foreign names, and the German. He died before in Addison Twp, SomersetĬo, PA and was buried in Addison Twp, Somerset Co, PA.īIRTH: b 1740, Prussia (I believe the place to be an error on the
