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Information on this line has been traced through church records and recorded by the Smouse Family Association.
Child of Charles Schmaus and wife unknown:
Children of Jacob Schmaus and wife unknown:
Children of Adam Schmaus and wife unknown:
Children of Daniel Schmaus and wife unknown:
Children of Adam Schmaus and wife unknown:
Child of Henry Schmaus and wife unknown:
Children of Michael Schmaus and wife unknown:
Child of Henry Schmaus and wife unknown:
Child of Charles Schmaus and Mary Beacker:
Child of John Schmaus and wife unknown:
Children of Adam Schmaus and Gretchen "Margaret" Bauer:
Children of William Schmaus and Elizabeth Staker:
Children of George Schmaus and Anna Pflug:
Children of Peter Schmaus and Mary Fleishman:
Children of Henry Schmaus and Catherine Foltz:
Notes about the father John Smouse:
John, in the company Casper Lutz, Valentine Wilt, Elias Nicholas Bender, Philip Smeltzer and Christian Miller, set sail at Bremen, Germany, for the New World as it was then called, and after a tempestuous voyage landed at Baltimore, Maryland, Sep 19, 1738.
He remained in the city of Baltimore for only a few weeks, then he went to Loudoun County, Virginia. He engaged with an old pioneer to drive team, which vocation he followed until the spring of 1740, when he began farming. He also had a team of his own carrying freight from Baltimore into the settlements in Loudoun County, Virginia. During the French and Indian War he and Christian Miller were in the employ of the Government. They were hauling supplies and helped to cut a road from Carlisle to Fort Bedford. He was present with his team when that fierce battle was fought at Bloody Run, now Everett, Pennsylvania. He was one of eighteen men who with Captain Stone rescued six prisoners that were to be burned by the Indians. On the day following that of the battle, Captain Stone being apprised of the doom awaiting the captives, called for volunteers to go at dead of night and rescue, if possible, their unfortunate comrades. Eighteen responded, and at midnight they started. Silently they marched through the forest, and when the first rosy hue of dawn appeared on the eastern horizon, with brave hearts and strong hands they dashed among the wigwams of the Indian camp and rescued their comrades, only one of the eighteen having received a slight wound.
It was at this time that John first saw the land or piece of ground in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, which he purchased in 1785. The deed for said land being dated August 24, 1785.
Notes about the mother Mary Wohlfrom:
Mary was a redemptionist, that is, she had to serve four years as servant girl to a wealthy land owner, who had paid her fare for passage from Germany to America.
Notes about John and Mary's children:
David served in the War of 1812 with his brother Michael, working as teamsters with their own teams for the government. After the war he returned to his farm in Friends Cove, Bedford Co, Pennsylvania.
George Adam owned a distillery at that time and had loaded fifteen barrels of apple jack to be taken to Baltimore when news reached him that a squad of soldiers were in the community taking every horse fit for service. His hired man, had just harnessed six horses, when the soldiers were seen coming over the bridge. Instantly he mounted the saddle horse, as it was then called, and driving the others ahead, he swam them across the river, took to the mountains, and thereby saved the horses. The apple jack never reached Baltimore, but it did reach the stomach of many a weary soldier.
Peter settled near Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland in 1791, moving from Bedford County, Pennsylvania.
Children of John Smouse and Mary Wohlfrom:
Children of George Adam Smouse and Elizabeth Koontz:
One of the children, Isaac, and Isaac's son Adam Scott ran a livery stable at Gettysburg, South Dakota in late 1880. He and his family moved in the early 1900's to North Dakota and later went to Alberta, Canada.
Children of Adam Smouse and Eva Diehl:
Children of Samuel Smouse and Harriet Thomas:
Children of Asenath Annie Smouse and Louis "Jack" Sauvago:
