| Bayonet | 13 Oct 2009 8:26 a.m. PST |
While I was in Virgina, I heard a lecture about the battle of Cross Keys. There was a mention of artillery positioned by the Armintrout house… So Bill, you got any ancestors from near Winchester, Virginia? It's probably just a coincidence but you never know… |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 13 Oct 2009 1:02 p.m. PST |
My branch of the family (Armintrout) traces back to what would become West Virginia, and the genealogical trail grows cold. (My branch moved to Ohio, Iowa, and then Oregon.) However, I'm fairly certain we tie in with the larger Armentrout clan of Virginia and Pennsylvania, all descended from one German widow and her children. |
| Steve Hazuka | 13 Oct 2009 7:15 p.m. PST |
"all descended from one German widow and her children" the wording of that that sounds like…..Lot and his daughters. |
| capncarp | 14 Oct 2009 3:15 a.m. PST |
tabletopwarrior on 13 Oct 2009 7:15 p.m. PST said <"all descended from one German widow and her children" the wording of that that sounds like…..Lot and his daughters.> No offense to Bill, but if you knew south-central PA, you might not be too far off. The family trees tend to resemble grapevines. And there's the old line about why the prospective groom rejected the Pennsyltucky virgin: "..well, if she's not good enough fer her brothers…." Eccch. But so it goes. |
| Procopius | 14 Oct 2009 7:12 a.m. PST |
the Editor ---My branch of the family (Armintrout) traces back to what would become West Virginia, and the genealogical trail grows cold.--- Have you tried the Mormons Bill, they have good family tree sources, I hear.  Cheers, Glynn |
 gaiusrabirius  | 14 Oct 2009 8:59 a.m. PST |
Interesting. My ggggg-grandmother was Margaret Armentrout (sometimes spelled as "Ermentrout"). Margaret was married to my ggggg-grandfather Christian Kyger (b. 1748). Christian Kyger's Virginia homestead farm was passed down to his son John Peter Kyger (my gggg-grandfather) and his grandson Robert Kyger (my ggg-grandfather). Robert's son Jacob Albert Simon Kyger, my gg-grandfather, joined the Confederate Chrisman's Boy Company at the very end of the war. This Armentrout/Kyger homestead was located near where the Battle of Cross Keys was fought in 1862. Family lore says the Union marched right by the adjoining road. Locating this Cross Keys homestead is on my "to do" list. |
| Steve Hazuka | 14 Oct 2009 3:03 p.m. PST |
"Interesting. My ggggg-grandmother was Margaret Armentrout (sometimes spelled as "Ermentrout")." LOL I thought you were typing with a stutter! |
| The Jim Jones Cocktail Hour | 14 Oct 2009 5:15 p.m. PST |
Any relation to the Ermintrude [sic] that featured on the Magic Roundabout? I liked her, she was rather endearing as a character if somewhat obtuse in nature. |
| Mal Wright | 14 Oct 2009 10:03 p.m. PST |
I once had a cat called Ermintrude. Lovely pussy cat too. |
