Some Ancestors of the Baughman Family in America Tracing back twelve generations from Switzerland through Virginia, &c., growing along with the nation, across its heartland Paperback - 1994

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table of contents Der Wandersmann...... i A Foreword...... ii Tracing the Family Name...... iii chapter i: A Family Chronology...... 3 chapter ii: The Historical Context...... 17 chapter iii: Items of Interest Relating to the Bachmann & Baughman Names...... 53 Lyrics to a Few Favorite Folk Songs...... 112 chapter iv: A Few Conclusions...... 121 chapter v: Family Tree...... 124 Family Groupings...... 125 Reference Tables & Maps...... 137 A Chart of Descendants...... 138 A Directory of Important Sources & Organizations...... 151 bibliography and a guide to footnoted sources...... 156 index...... 161 illustrations The Author's Handprint...... frontispiece The Coat of Arms for the Bachmann Family in Canton Zürich, Switzerland...... iv An Anabaptist Farmer from the Rhineland...... 3 A German Mapmaker's View of the World...... 16 Some Baughman Signatures...... 50 Wädenswil Castle in Canton Zürich...... 52 The Execution of an Anabaptist Couple in 1554...... 54 A Mid-Sized British Merchant Ship from the Early 18th Century...... 56 Ur-Bogen Markings Often Found on Early Germanic Tombstones...... 65 Pages from Henkel's ABC Book...... 68 Early Baptists in Missouri Perform a Footwashing Ceremony...... 70 A View of the Crooked Creek Valley in Northwestern Arkansas, 1857...... 74 The Symbol of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows...... 105 A Ford Motor Company Business Card in Japanese...... 108 A Conestoga Wagon...... 112 A German Pioneer Following Tracks Through the Wilderness...... 115 A Settler Clearing the Land Around His Cabin...... 117 Our First Baughman Remembered...... 120 A Family Tree...... 124 The Pfalz am Kaub on the Rhine River...... 171 maps Emigration From Europe Along the Rhine River...... 141 The Baughman Family's Route Through America...... 142 Holman's Creek in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia...... 143 The Course of the James River in Botetourt County, Virginia...... 144 The Jones Cove Valley in Sevier County, Tennessee...... 145 A Settlement on Marble Creek in Southeastern Missouri...... 146 The Crooked Creek Valley in Northwestern Arkansas...... 147 The Course of the White River in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri...... 148 Two Historic Military Campaigns in the South...... 150