There were also "Michael Beshores?etc. var. sp." who were cousins and lived in same area at same time, i.e. Michael H, and Michael b. 1782. They are NOT in our direct line as best we can authenticate. The one Michael on the 1876 Map isn't the Michael b. circa 1760; he died in 1842. OUR Michael, b. 1788 d. 1874, (married to Sarah Miller 1809?-d. 1860) and my great-grandfather, lived in a separate household a few yards from his son Jonathan B. If you look at all the census recrod for that dist. for yrs. 1850/1860/1870 every thing becomes a lot clearer. Yes, there was my great uncle Jonathan (b. 1852) and a great-great uncle Jonathan (b. 1826), brother to Michael M., my great-grandfather. I'm giving these dates from memory, I don't have a copy of my tree in my hand at the moment.

The Daniel "Bashor" you see on the 1876 Map I sent you is my great-great uncle, the tavern and livery stable owner. I have some stories about him written by his grandchildren. He was the "prominient landlord on the road over Blue Mtn".  I have copies of his will and estate papers.

SARAH and "Sallie" Kline are the same person. Her grave marker at the Merkey Meetinghouse even says SARAH "Sallie" Bashore. "Sallie" was her nickname.

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The first guy who decided to spell the name Beshore? << The first spelling of Beshore comes from the first census taken in the US - 1790....it is here that all Boshaars who were in the Millersburg area took the Anglicized name of Beshore....later in 1830 the name of some changed to Bashore....DGB 14 Jan 2005 >>. Some of the family who, according to Francis Bashore's work, went to TN spelled the surname that way, BASHOR. Bashor is used on the Bethel 1876 map. You'll find a BASHOR FT somewhere. There was a Bashor from NY who lived in FL and did work on the his FT. In fact he made a list of all the graves in the Merkey Cemetery in Berks County, PA, where many of our FT members are buried. He traces his FT back to Bethel Township, Berks, PA., too.

I know that Israel spelled his name Beshore and his brother Jonathan spelled his name Bashore and the third brother Elias spelled his name Boeshore. And old Michael Miller B. spelled/signed  HIS surname as "BÖSHAR". It is a rattling situation we have to tolerate. The evidence for this is in the Michael Miller B. will I sent you. I didn't send all the 'accounting" pgs etc. I'll dig them out if you want them and fwd a cc.. Trust me, all FOUR spellings appear in Michael Miller B.'s Estate Records.  It would be most, most unlikely that the will would name "my son, Jonathan exc." and have a man from another family serve as exc. In fact that would be unlawful and couldn't get through the probate without a "reassignment".  I don't care how they spell their names, as long as we have the "correct" ancester in our FT. 

The US Census records 1850, 1860 and 1870 have a different spelling for our family name on EACH census. Did the Enumerator do this on his own or did the families adopt a different spelling every 10 yrs. Anyone can make many "intitutive hypotheses", but to what end? I believe the Enumerator was a different person for each census. Maybe HE decided to write what he heard from German speaking families and called ALL 'bayshores" according to his own liking, (the enumerator). Maybe the GERMAN speakers didn't really care how the "government man" spelled their name. It is possible they were MORE a part of their German Community and weren't concerned about correct spelling used by the "englisch". :-) I have thought about the variant spellings problem and stopped after a year or so of fruitless speculation. Look at the census records and you'll see that I am relating objective truth: US Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880.
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