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   Dear reader the information shown is from letters, notes, newspaper clippings and stories passed on from one family member to another over the years. My grand parents and their children always wanted to put everything know about our family together for the new members to know of the past connections. But like all good ideas and deeds, somehow it never got done. I decided that this needed to be completed with as much information that I have at hand before it became lost forever.

O’CONNOR ~ CONNOR(S) ~ CONNER

By Esther B. Conner & Sarah M. Conner 1985

New World  1734 -2004

Ireland to America

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   Our Great Great Grandmother Conner was 1/2 Native American (not clear as to which tribe, but believed to have been Delaware or a sub tribe like the Lenape), I never knew this until 1980 when Aunt Sarah Conner told me, while talking about the different family members.

   On my mother’s side of the family, Grandmother Boyer's mother, our Great Grandmother Imler was 1/2 Lenni Lenape ( Delaware ). Her mother was taken from Potter County in the mid 1800's.  Several books have been written about this and her escape to return home, found in Pennsylvania Historical Society records.  This was not unusual in the early years of settling the country, even in the East.

Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon Edward S. Curtis 1915.

[ Conner Collection Photo ]

BOYER FAMILY

By Esther B. Conner & Ada N. Boyer 1992

New World  1740 -2003

Holland to America

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   In the early 1740’s Frederick J.  and Emma A. Boyer journeyed to this country from Germany - Holland, bringing money, gold and other valuables in a cedar chest, (the cedar chest with shipping labels we still have in the family - the contents long gone).

G. G. G. Grandmother (Mehrkem) (Fletcher) Boyer

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Farmer's Almanac May 1840.