As we look at the Anspaughs as our ancestors, we need to consider one aspect. The knowledge we have of Grandpa Anspaugh, Fred Anspaugh, is that he was adopted. In the 1910 census, he was listed as Benjamin Franklin Anspaugh’s grandson, and in the 1920 census, Fred was listed as a son. That is all we would know about him, but thanks to DNA testing, we can learn more. Apparently, Benjamin Anspaugh’s daughter, Margaret Anspaugh, was married for a short time to Walter Horace Lyons, but the marriage was annulled. With that information and DNA, we can see that I have matching DNA with the Lyon family. William John Lyon was born around 1555 in London, England. His descendant, also named William Lyon, was born around 1620 in London, England, and then moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts, at age 14 on the ship Hopewell. William’s descendant, Walter Horace Lyons, had a brief marriage with Margaret Anspaugh in 1907. Grandpa Fred Lee Anspaugh was born on January 26, 1908, in Altona, Michigan.
Back to the Anspaugh line. Hans Jacob Anspach (Anspach being the spelling at the time) was born on November 26, 1640, in Frankfurt, Germany. Hans Anspach had a son and named him Johannas Balthasar Anspach, who was born on August 26, 1683, in Frankfurt, Germany.
Johannas moved to New York in 1710 and later moved to Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania, in 1723. Johannas married Anna Marie Rieth from Germany, and they had Johannas Anspach on September 26, 1721. Johannas Anspach married Anna Elizabeth Fischer.
Johannas and Anna’s grandson, Benjamin B. Anspaugh, born on August 16, 1783, was the first recording of the Anspach name being spelled Anspaugh. Benjamin B. Anspaugh moved to Perry, Ohio, where his son Jacob W. Anspaugh was born in 1819.
Jacob’s son, Benjamin Franklin Anspaugh, born on January 18, 1850, moved to Michigan, where his daughter Margaret was born in June of 1884.
Margaret had a brief marriage with Walter Horace (Harry) Lyons, according to my DNA matches. From that brief marriage, my grandfather Fred Lee Anspaugh (taking on the adopted and mother’s name) was born. Fred Lee Anspaugh, born in Michigan on January 26, 1908, married Pauline Elizabeth Austin.
It would be interesting for me to learn how Grammie (Pauline Austin, born in Sanford, Maine) met Grandpa (Fred Anspaugh, born in Michigan). They married in Ohio, and their daughter Pauline Elizabeth Anspaugh (my mom), born on May 28, 1930, was born in Detroit, Michigan.
During the 1947 Fire in Maine, when the men were all fighting the wildfire and the ladies were bringing the men food and water, my Dad (James Edward Andrews Jr., born in 1923) met my mom (Pauline Elizabeth Anspaugh), and they were married in 1948. James Edward Andrews Jr. was an only child, and he and Pauline (mom) had 10 children: James Andrews III, Fred Andrews, Dennis Andrews, Jennie Andrews, George Andrews, William Andrews, Richard Andrews, Eddie Andrews, Andrew Andrews, and me, Benjamin Andrews.
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