The Procuniar\ier Chronicle
Volume III Issue IV January 1998
David’s Corner ...
I want to let you know that the newsletter will go on for another five issues. The following family sent in their contribution for the next series of the Newsletter: Pat Lamb; Mary Rohrer; Helen Seefeldt; Berenice Colen; Judy Miller; George Procuniar; Corey Procuniar, Holly Reynolds; Kathryn Keegan; Robert Procuniar; Ezra Basom; Nettie Cowman and Judith Bockhorn!
The Procuniar\ier Chronicle is now on the Internet!! Effective October 3, 1997 I published our very own Procuniar\ier - Bragunier Family History Web Site!!! For those of you who have access to the Internet ...... Set your browser to http:\home.att.net/~d.procuniar (now http://www.infinet.com/~dpro) I have included a lot of our family research on our web site that was published in my Journal back in 1991. However a lot of the information has been updated before being placed on our web site. All past and future Procuniar\ier Chronicle’s will be accessible on our web site. HOWEVER no pictures will be included with the web site versions of the past or current newsletters. You will have to subscribe to the newsletter to receive a printed issue with pictures etc. There is a selection on our home page called "Current Family News" that will be updated regularly with what ever is happening with the Procuniar\ier Clan. The "Thumbnail Biographies" selection has a lot of information about our family. You need to know a little about where your great grandfather or grandmother fits into the family in order to select your lineage!
Hopefully I can find a Family Tree program set up on our web site where you can find your nearest ancestor which will enable you to navigate throughout our web site. Later I plan on adding a Query Page that will enable anyone to search our Family Tree to see if their surname is listed etc. All those Procuniar\ier Clan aged between 10 and 90 need to become computer literate, purchase a computer and get on line through the Internet so we can communicate with each other and watch our family grow.
NEW Email and Web Site contacts: ..... Ezra Basom (my 5C2R) contacted me for the first time via email and sent us his family research which I placed into our Genealogy Database. Ezra is from the Peter Proccunier JR lineage. ..[the Proccunier spelling comes from Peter JR’s family bible] Peter JR; Henry SR; Henry JR; Thomas Henry; Florence Procunier; Mary Lou Theil; Jeffery Basom; Ezra Basom. Ezra has his own web page .... go to the Procuniar\ier Home page and select Other Family Links, then select Ezra’s hyperlink. To get back to the Procuniar\ier home page just click your "Back To" button or whatever your browser needs to go back one page.
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I saw the name Dr. James D. Procunier on an Internet page last week while surfing the web, so I sent James email asking him if he was the same J. D. Procunier I had in my genealogy database. Here is Jame’s answer .......
Hello cousin!
Your information is absolutely correct. You have reached my Agriculture Canada (Federal Gov.) E-mail address. My work address is:
Dr. James D. Procunier
AAFC - Agriculture Canada
195 Dafoe Road
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 2M9, Canada
Hope this helps ... James D. Procunier END
(Jame’s lineage is James, James Albert, James Adams, George Neal, Adam, Peter Proccunier JR, Peter Brockunier SR)
Another new family contact was Glenn Geisheimer (my 5C2R). Glen found my web site listing and contacted me after visiting my web site. Glenn says ...I've just been to your site but couldn't find any "family tree" type listings. Could you point me in the right direction? Here are my ancestors back from me:
Glenn Geisheimer ... me
Ethel Frielinghaus ... mother
Ethel Nichols ... grandmother
Mary Elizabeth Boward ... great-grandmother
William W. Boward g... g-grandfather
William Denton Boward ... ggg-grandfather
Jacob Boward ... gggg-grandfather
Margaret Brockunier ... ggggg-grandmother
Peter Brockunier ... gggggg-grandfather
John Nicholas Peconier ... ggggggg-grandfather
Is this John Nicholas Peconier the John Nicholas Peconier Jr. referred to on your web page? If so then his father was John Nicholas Peconier Sr. who
arrived in Philadelphia in September 1740. Am I correct? I'm confused over all the spellings.
Thanks
Glenn G. Geisheimer glenng@castle.net
Researching the following:
Geisheimer*Graessle*Noach*Stockinger*Thoma
Frielinghaus*Nichols*Bittel*Boward*Kershner END
**Glenn’s next email message .....
Hello David, It certainly looks as if we are cousins. I've been back to your site and am quite impressed with the information there. I haven't even gotten to straightening out my paperwork, let alone setting up a web page. Thank you for the address of Dwayne Pretzer. I will contact him by snail mail to share information on the Boward line with him. There are quite a few holes/questions that I have. I received my Boward information from another source. As you could see from my brief lineage, the Procuniar/Brockunier line is my maternal grandmother’s family. My paternal grandmother and grandfather were German as well as my maternal grandfather. So three quarters of me is from Germany and the other quarter comes through the Maryland Connection. All of the German side is relatively small. The Maryland side has some rather large families that have been in the United States for over two centuries. Some of the names are Nichols, Boward, and Kershner. I have received a 250 page loose leaf book on the Nichols surname from Betty Cooper in Maryland. She was unable to shed any light on Athalia Kershner. Would you happen to have any? Before I forget the other surnames from the Maryland area are, Buhrman, Fessler, Rhorer and Waggoner. How would you like me to send you the information, GED or FTW files? And how much information do you want, from Mary Boward to now or do you want some Geisheimer and Frielinghuas information? Going back to the different spellings of Geisheimer and Frielinghaus. Since both families came in the mid 1800's there have been no spelling differences in those names BUT ( :) ) some of the others have had slight changes in them. I live in Iselin, New Jersey. It's in Woodbridge Township, which is right above Perth Amboy (near NYC). I was born September 21, 1951. If you have seen any Geisheimers in Ohio they are from a part of Poland that was once Prussia. I've been trying to find a link between our family and theirs. There is also another branch of the Geisheimer family that came from Rumania. I have been able to trace them back (from piecing together other peoples work) to the same part of Germany that my branch came from. I hope everything went well with the moving. Glenn G. Geisheimerglenng@castle.net
It's a small world and it keeps getting smaller. END
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Another E-Mail contact: ... (my 5C2R) Glenn Tomlinson gtomlinson@globalstrat.com 401-895 Kennedy Rd, Scarborough ON, M1K 2E9
CANADA. I found out about your web site through the "Long Point Settler's Journal" and read it with great interest. Margretha Procunier is my 5x great grandmother. I stumbled upon her surname while using the Ancestral File (Mormons). I cannot recall whether I entered "Procuniar", "Bragonier" etc... Unfortunately, I did not document the source. I am much more diligent when it comes to my "direct" ancestral line.
Margretha married Henrich or Henry Baumwart about Sept. 1776. Their children are well documented in the records of the Reformed Church of Hagerstown, Maryland. (these church records take liberty with the Baumwart surname as it is listed under several different spellings eg. Bawath, Bawot, Bawat, Baumwart etc...). Bob Boward (416E 2nd St; DIXON IL 61021, USA) has done extensive work on the Boward/Baumwart family tree. He sent me a gedcom file on the family. As far as I can tell, Margretha Procunier was the granddaughter of John Nicolas Peconier or Peckoner SR and was the daughter of Peter Bragonier or Procunier SR. She was born in 1759 in Maryland. She married Henrich Baumwart in 1776. Margretha emigrated with her husband to Norfolk County, Upper Canada around 1800. Her brother Peter followed in 1803. (source: "An 1805 Census of Norfolk County Upper Canada" by Robert Metro) I trace my ancestry through their son Friderich or Frederick Baumwart who was born June 13, 1790. I hope I have been of some assistance. E-mail me if you have any further questions. Glenn Tomlinson.
*Procuniar\ier Clan on the Move!!
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Roy & Roberta (Procunier) Swenson wrote to say they are really enjoying retirement. The Swensons have planned for their retirement long in advance. They picked out a beautiful building lot at Priest Lake (Priest River Idaho 83856) and built a beautiful "A Frame" vacation home surrounded by hundreds of trees. The picture below is their home in the mountains that was taken this past summer: Continued page 203 ..
With the help of Roberta, I was able to do a nice spread of the Procunier\Swenson clan on page 7 through 13 of Vol I Issue III April 1992. As you can see in the pictures they are a beautiful and happy family! But in the three years that have passed since then has brought a big change to the family. Norris Procunier (look on page 10) has passed on. Thomas Croson has gone into a nursing home and his wife Thelma is living in an apartment. Roberta says her grandchildren keep growing up so fast. Grandson Curtis Haynes is still in the Airforce and was scheduled to go to Saudi, but broke his arm so that has been postponed. Curtis’ sister, Crystal, will graduate from High School this coming spring. Crystal is 6’-1" and loves to play volleyball. (see a picture of Crystal on page 159) Crystal is not one to lay around and watch TV every evening. She works two part time jobs, one at Denny’s as a hostess, and the other at Nordstroms. Both Curtis & Crystal are the children of Linda (Swenson) Haynes. Roberta’s son David has three children of his own. Christopher is a junior in high school is already 6’-3" and growing. Breanna is busy being a teenager and plays the Violin!! Little Corey is interested in mechanical things and loves his animals. Roberta went on to write that she and husband Roy ride around the country in their big fifth-wheel R\V. They normally winter at the La Paz County Park, in Parker, Arizona.
They usually leave Priest Lake in December and travel around in the fifth-wheel until they return to Priest Lake in March. SEE the picture of their winter home on the back page (205) of this issue taken in January of 1996. As you can see the snow is several feet deep, with snow drifts piled up to the roof overhang. Roy’s favorite hobby is flying radio controlled model airplanes and reading anything to do with history!
*New Family Arrival ......... Sandra (Wetz) Haskins the daughter of Wanda (Procuniar) & John Wetz, gave birth to her daughter on September 20th, 1997. Sandy and husband Keith named her Sarah Taylor Haskins weighing in at 6 lbs. 9 ounces & 19 1/2 inches. Below left is a picture of Sarah at three months! (my 1C1R) DCP 1/15/98
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May A. Procuniar Macbeth deceased aged 94
May Arbutus Procuniar was the daughter of Samuel A. Procuniar and Myrtle Forest Swarner. May's parents were living with her grandparents, Jacob & Mary Catharine Procuniar on Valley Street when she was born. May was showered with love from all the Procuniar Clan who resided at Jacob's home there on Valley Pike. May had three uncles, one aunt, both grandparents and her parents that showered her with love and affection her first year living with her grandparents. In 1904 May, along with her parents and older brother Earl moved to 430 N. Daller Street in Dayton, Ohio, where her younger brother Robert was born in 1905. In 1909 Samuel uprooted again and moved to 816 Wellmeier Avenue in Dayton. May was listed in the Dayton City Directory as working in sales 1923, and as a Stenographer in 1924 & 1925. At the age of 23 May married John Leonard Macbeth on January 28, 1927. Together they had two children, Jacquelyn June (Macbeth) Paxson and Judith Barbara (Macbeth) Bockhorn. Daughter Jackie married James Edward Paxson SR They have five children 3 boys and 2 girls. Daughter Judy married Terry Lee Bockhorn SR. They have eight children 5 girls and 3 boys. While doing leg work on a Journal, I visited May on several occasions at her home, and even though she was in great pain from arthritis, she was as pleasant and as beautiful as I had anticipated. She has a razor sharp memory and in answering my questions about our family, she was always very direct and forward with her answers, but she never beat around the bush so to speak. I admire her immensely and May has my utmost love and respect. Hat's off to you May, you're a great lady!
May went to live in a nursing home in Kettering, Ohio in the early 1990's, after falling and breaking her hip in her home where she lived alone. She continued to live at the nursing home until her recent death on September 13, 1997 at the age of 94. The entire Procuniar family was saddened by May's passing. At 94 years 4 months & 12 days she is the oldest Procuniar that I have in my family history! May leaves two living daughters and many many grandchildren and great grandchildren! May was buried at the Calvary Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. May's middle name "Arbutus" according to Webster's Dictionary means: "The Strawberry Tree". The generic name of an evergreen tree or shrub, with bright red or yellow berries; a trailing plant, the trailing Arbutus, with fragrant pink flowers! It is obvious that some warm thought went into picking her middle name! DCP 1/98
Current family events sent in by Judy (Macbeth) Bockhorn. Judy is the daughter of John Leonard & May Arbutus (Procuniar) Macbeth. Judy's father John started the John L. Macbeth Insurance Company and was very successful at it. John and his family were very active at the University of Dayton in their earlier years. John's grandson John Macbeth Paxson was a star basketball player for the Chicago "BULLS". But professional basketball did not just enter into the family when Judy's nephew John Paxson came along. His father James Edward Paxson played for the University of Dayton Flyers in the 1950's, then later for the Cincinnati Royals. Judy's husband of 37 years Terry Lee Bockhorn also played for the University of Dayton Flyers as did his brother. The Bockhorn name was well known here in the Dayton and surrounding areas. Terry is an Engineer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Judy works for the University of Dayton Law School Admissions and lives a quiet life here in Kettering, Ohio.
Judy proudly tells us that Maggie Paxson …. Daughter of Jackie Macbeth Paxson, granddaughter of May Procuniar Macbeth, is receiving a BA in Communications from the University of Dayton on December 20th. Sara Beth Bockhorn Daughter of Judy Macbeth Bockhorn, granddaughter of May Procuniar Macbeth, is receiving a BS in Biology from the University of Dayton on December 20th.
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*Other news My oldest son Kirk and his wife Julie Procuniar just purchased their first home in Marysville, Ohio. The Procuniar Clan all jumped in and helped Kirk move in over the Thanksgiving holiday. Kirk is an Assistant Engineer (Mechanical Engineer) for Honda of America, working out of Honda's Marysville Plant. Julie works at Wendy's International as a travel consultant in Columbus, Ohio.. Kirk wanted everyone to know he was just promoted to his next level as an Engineer Coordinator effective December 4, 1997. We are very proud of Kirk and wish him and his wife Julie a very long and happy marriage! Kirk will be going to Japan January 16th for a few months to gain some experience of how the Honda Corporation functions in Japan. DCP 1/98
Edwin R. Procunier
Edwin R. Procunier has written another play called "The Dark Riddle of Helen" which premiered Saturday September 23, 7pm at the Blank Performing Arts Center. See more about Edwin's other play in the Newsletter Vol. 1 Issue 6 page 26. Quote from Jane Nicolas … There is a new and exciting addition to Family Weekend this year. People will now have the opportunity to attend "The Dark Riddle of Helen" on Saturday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. outside of Blank Performing Arts Center. The event features scenes from playwrights such as Euripides and Aeschylus and scenes from a modern one act play called "The Two Sides of Darkness" by Edwin R. Procunier. Viewers will experience scenes from plays such as this from "The Two Sides of Darkness." "Love and the spoils of love, War and the spoils of war. Neither do we understand, But both have always been" All of the scenes were chosen from plays centering around the Trojan War. During the Trojan War, Helen of Troy was kidnapped and went with Paris to Troy. Agamemnon and his brother, who was married to Helen, went to Troy to get Helen back. They were sitting on the edge of the shore and couldn't set sail. The story starts out when Agamemnon was told he had to sacrifice his daughter in order to get the winds to set sail. There was a war which was caused by Helen and in the end everyone gets to hear Helen's side of the story. The name "Helen" in "The Dark Riddle of Helen" refers to Helen of Troy. The two main elements are love and war, which were a way of life during the Greek era. SEE more of Edwin on page 21 Vol. I Issue V June 1992, and page 26 Vol. I Issue VI July 1992. DCP 1/98
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Forest & Erin (Procuniar) Atkins Family
Erin Sue Procuniar, was born to the parents of Samuel Eugene Procuniar and Winifred Joyce Weldon, on November 22, 1961 in Dayton, Ohio. Forest, Erin & family are still temporary living near Seattle, Washington (Everett, WA) Forest (who works for Northrop-Grumman) was transferred from their home in Arlington, Texas to Seattle about two years ago. Forest wrote us to say that the company he worked for, called Vought but has since been bought out by Northrop-Grumman in 1995. Boeing subcontracts just about all of their major subassemblies except the wings and forward most fuselage/cockpits called section 41. N/G presently builds 747 fuselage panels/tails/doors, 757 tails,767 tails/center wing box and hopefully we'll be getting the 737 tails also. Back in 1967 Vought and Northrop separately invested their own money to help develop the 747 so as past risk sharing partners to Boeing we have "right of first refusal" on any 747 derivative program contract, as long as it retains the 747 designation! The 777 is Boeing's latest and largest twin engine airliner, 350 + passengers (747=450-500 passengers). The 777 actually started out as stretched 767 that also change so much that at the formal program launch the new 777 designation was assigned. ... Forest Atkins 8/97
Erin is content with being a house wife and raising their two adopted children, Samuel and Laura. (Read more about Erin Atkins on page 60 of The Procuniar\ier Chronicle!) Pictured below are Forest & Erin’s adopted children: Samuel Keyong who turned 11 this month, & Laura Lim Hye aged 6. (END)
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