Elmer J. PATTERSON was born on 24 Oct 1883 in Warmington, OH. He died on 17 Oct 1966 in Youngstown, OH. He married Elisabeth B. KOONTZ on 14 May 1913 in Massillon, OH.
Elisabeth B. KOONTZ [Parents] was born on 16 Feb 1884 in Stark Co, OH. She died on 25 Feb 1931 in Massillon, OH. She was buried in Massillon, OH / Massillon City Cemetery. She married Elmer J. PATTERSON on 14 May 1913 in Massillon, OH.
Harrison P. ROHR [Parents] was born on 4 Oct 1869 in Stark Co, OH. He married ELiza J. EMICK on 10 Dec 1902 in Stark Co, OH.
ELiza J. EMICK was born in Apr 1870 in Orrville, OH. She married Harrison P. ROHR on 10 Dec 1902 in Stark Co, OH.
John Henry WACHTER [Parents] was born on 27 Jun 1903 in Toledo, OH. He died on 6 Mar 1997 in Coronado, CA. He was buried in Saugerties-on Hudson, NY / Trinity Cemetery. He married Evelyn Ardelle SIDMAN on 10 Nov 1945 in Brooklyn, NY.
Obituary from The Westfield (NJ) Leader newspaper: JOHN HENRY WACHTER, 93, RETIRED ATTORNEY LIVED IN TOWN 40 YEARS - John Henry Wachter, 93, of Coronado, California, formerly of Westfield, died Thursday, March 6 in his home. Born on June 27, 1903 in Toledo, Ohio, Mr. Wachter lived in Westfield from 1950 to 1990. He graduated from Brown University, Harvard School of Business Administration and New York University Law School. He was admitted to the New York State Bar Association in 1935. From 1927 to 1942, Mr. Wachter had been employed by the Chase National Bank in New York City, eventually heading up the Trust Accounting Department. During World War II, he graduated from Officer Candidate School at Camp Lee, Virginia in 1943 and served in the Quartermaster Corps attached to the United States Air Force. He was discharged in November 1945. From 1945 to 1971, Mr. Wachter was a lawyer with the Wall Street law firm that eventually became Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander, where he specialized in estates and taxes. During his years in Westfield, Mr. Wachter seved many terms as an Elder in The Presbyterian Church in Westfield, with responsibility for the worship program under the ministries of Dr. Fredreick Christian and Reverend Richard Smith. For 26 years he was treasurer of the Westfield Chapter, Sons of the Americam Revolution, and after his retirement in 1971, was Historian of the Old Guard. He also was a member of the Genealogical Society of Westfield, the Republican Conservative Action Club of Union County, and Secretary of the Board of Managers of the Central Branch YMCA of Brooklyn, New York. Surviving are his wife of 51 years, Mrs. Evelyn wachter of Coronado; a son, Professor Kenneth W. Wachter of Berkely, California, and a daughter, Mrs Lucy Freeman of Coronado. Burial took place on Saturday, March 15 in the family plot at Trinity Cemetery in Saugerties, Ulster COunty, New York. Contributions in Mr. Wachter's memories may be sent to the Westfield Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, care of Robert P. Vivian, 827 Lamberts Mill Road or The Presbyterian Church, 140 Mountain Avenue in Westfield.
Evelyn Ardelle SIDMAN was born on 3 Jul 1910 in Brooklyn, NY. She died on 15 Apr 2008 in Coronado, CA. She was buried in Saugerties-on Hudson, NY / Trinity Cemetery. She married John Henry WACHTER on 10 Nov 1945 in Brooklyn, NY.
Obituary from a local Saugerties, NY newspaper: Mrs. John H. Wachter, born Evelyn Sidman, died 15 April 2008 in Coronado, CA. Burial services will be held on Thursday, 24 April 2008 at Trinity Cemetery in Saugerties-on-Hudson. An active contributor to the preservation of Saugerties local history, she was a descendant through her grandmother, Eva L. Schoonmaker, of the original Dutch settlers of Saugerties. (Eva Schoonmaker was born and married in the original 1726 Schoonmaker homestead still standing on Main Street). Mrs. Wachter's great-grandfather John Simmons, as Manager of the Ulster Iron Works from 1828 to 1863, helped lay the foundation for Saugerties' industrial prosperity in the Nineteenth Century. The home of Mrs. Wachter's grandfather, Ovid T. Simmons, originally known as the "Mansion House" and later as Hill Crest on Barclay Heights, was a Saugerties landmark for over a hundred years. The main building survives as the headquarters of the Knights of Columbus. The history of the Mansion House which Mrs. Wachter authored in 1996 may be consulted in the Saugerties Public Library. John Simmons' papers were abstracted by Jean Wrolsen and published serially in the Old Dutch Post-Star in 1990 and the surviving Ulster Iron Works records were presented by Mrs. Wachter to the Manuscript Collections of the New York State Library in Albany. The husband of the deceased, John H. Wachter, passed away on 6 March 1997 at age 93 and is interred in the Simmons Plot in Trinity Cemetery, where Mrs. Wachter will be laid to rest beside him. Their two children, Professor Kenneth W. Wachter, of Berkeley, CA, and Lucy Wachter Freeman (Mrs. John T. Freeman) of Coronado, CA, are the sole survivors. Born in Brooklyn, NY, on 3 July 1910 as Evelyn Ardelle Sidman, Mrs. Wachter was the only child of Edward A. Sidman and his wife Emma Simmons. Throughout her girlhood, Mrs. Wachter and her mother visited her grandmother at Hill Crest during the summer months, joined by her father over weekends. In winter she attended school in Brooklyn, graduating from The Packer Collegiate Institute in 1928. On Mrs. Simmons' death in 1937, her property was inherited by her sole surviving child, Mrs. Sidman, who, sadly, also died less than two years later. Hill Crest then passed to Mrs. Wachter, who devoted her efforts to taking good care of her heritage, aided by the unfailing help of the late Elmer Newkirk, Sr., of Valley Street, a figure whom many older residents of the town will remember with affection. In 1930 Mrs. Wachter graduated from Wellesley College and in the spring of 1931 con onore from the International Centre at the Villa Collina Ridente in Florence, Italy. On her return to Brooklyn, in mid-1931, she found the Great Depression well under way. She had become fluent in French and Italian, and from 1938 to 1942 she worked in the Foreign Publicity Department of Universal Pictures in Rockefeller Center, New York. She wrote and edited publicity releases for the foreign market, often based on private interviews held with movie personalities. Mrs. Wachter's marriage to then Lt. John Henry Wachter of Brooklyn took place on 10 November 1945 at the First Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn where the couple had met prior to World War II. Lt. Wachter had received his honorable discharge from military service at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, the previous month. After living on Brooklyn Heights for five years and after the births of their two children, Kenneth and Lucy, they bought a house in Westfield, NJ, which became their home for 40 years until, in April 1990, they left the East Coast for California. During the 1950s, when their children were small, the family pattern of summer residence in Saugerties began again. Mrs. Wachter and the children enjoyed the charms of Hill Crest while pater familias, pursuing his legal career at a law firm in New York, could only be present only for weekends and vacations. The family was joined at Hill Crest by Mrs. Dorothy S. Coleman and her daughters of Washington, D.C., later noted authorities on antique dolls and costumes, harking back perhaps to hours spent among the dusty trunks of antique clothes and playthings in the Hill Crest attic. Such separation of the family for most of the summer weekdays became so distasteful that Mrs. Wachter reluctantly decided to sell her Saugerties properties including Hill Crest and its acreage. Following the sale in 1954, the John Hiltons conducted an auction of the contents of the house, many of which were antiques. Thereafter, Mr. and Mrs. Wachter made periodic pilgrimages to Saugerties and to Trinity Cemetery until they moved to California. Mrs. Wachter was a member of the Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy, the Saugerties Historical Society, and the Ulster County Genealogical Society. In New Jersey, she was a member of The Presbyterian Church in Westfield and active in PTAs, the Westfield Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, the College Women's Club, the Women's Club of Westfield, the Westfield Women's Republican Club, and the Republican Conservative Action Club of Union County. She also belonged to the Society of Mayflower Descendants, having uncovered three Mayflower ancestors on her father's line, and served numerous terms on its Board of Assistants. Soon after its founding, she joined the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge on the service of Peter Van Etten. Under the nom de plume of "E. Sidman Wachter" she was political columnist for the Rahway, NJ, "News Record" for ten years. With deep roots in Saugerties, through her Schoonmaker, Fiero, and Trumpbour ancestry, Mrs. Wachter took pride in them all. She devoted much time and effort to genealogical research, including Mr. Wachter's forebears along with her own, and set herself to tracing her father's Sidman ancestry. The result was a 563-page genealogy published in 1981 entitled "Sidman-Sidnam Families of Upstate New York" in hard cover. It is now accessible on the world-wide web. She also authored four monographs on unrelated Sidman families and published several articles in genealogical journals.
They had the following children:
M i Kenneth Wilcox WACHTER was born on 13 Jan 1947. F ii Lucy Campbell WACHTER was born on 30 Nov 1948.
Kenneth Wilcox WACHTER [Parents] was born on 13 Jan 1947 in Brooklyn, NY. He married Bernadette BELL on 27 Aug 1982.
Bernadette BELL.Bernadette married Kenneth Wilcox WACHTER on 27 Aug 1982.
Frank O. KOONTZ [Parents] was born on 7 Sep 1875 in Stark Co, OH. He married Eva May FENTON.
Eva May FENTON was born on 20 Apr 1878 in Dallores, OH. She died on 27 Aug 1920 in Massillon, OH. She was buried in Massillon, OH / Massillon City Cemetery. She married Frank O. KOONTZ.
They had the following children:
F i Ruth M. KOONTZ was born on 12 Jun 1896. She died on 25 May 1943. M ii Albert O. KOONTZ was born in 1900 in Massillon, OH. F iii Hazel I. KOONTZ was born in 1903 in Massillon, OH. F iv Thelma L. KOONTZ was born in 1906 in Massillon, OH.
Guy C. DONEY.Guy married Ruth M. KOONTZ.
Ruth M. KOONTZ [Parents] was born on 12 Jun 1896 in Massillon, OH. She died on 25 May 1943 in Cleveland, OH. She married Guy C. DONEY.
Paul E. LONGENECKER was born on 29 Aug 1914 in Ohio. He died on 2 Jul 1996 in Maumee, OH. He married Margarette Hazel WACHTER.
Margarette Hazel WACHTER [Parents] was born on 10 Dec 1905 in Toledo, OH. She died on 14 Oct 1962 in Toledo, OH. She married Paul E. LONGENECKER.
Other marriages:BLACK, Roland Lyman
Averitt Barry SECREST was born on 16 Jun 1940 in Decatur, IL. He died on 6 Oct 1980. He was buried in Bloomington, IL / East Lawn Memorial Gardens. He married Lucy Campbell WACHTER on 22 Sep 1973 in Westfield, NJ. The marriage ended in divorce.
Lucy Campbell WACHTER [Parents] was born on 30 Nov 1948 in Brooklyn, NY. She married Averitt Barry SECREST on 22 Sep 1973 in Westfield, NJ. The marriage ended in divorce.
Other marriages:FREEMAN, John Twelves
John Twelves FREEMAN was born on 9 Feb 1940 in Seattle, WA. He died on 10 Jun 2010 in Coronado, CA. He married Lucy Campbell WACHTER in 1984.
Lucy Campbell WACHTER [Parents] was born on 30 Nov 1948 in Brooklyn, NY. She married John Twelves FREEMAN in 1984.
Other marriages:SECREST, Averitt Barry