Author: Virginia Lee Simms Toney

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Published: 1988

Total Pages: 348

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The immigrant ancestor of this family was Johannes Reuter (1806-1881), born in Staufenberg, Germany, a third child of (Johannes) Christoph Reuter and Elisabeth Gimple. He married Maria Catharina Geissler (1809-1886) in 1833. She was a daughter of Heinrich Geissler of Staufenberg and his wife, Anna Maria Hammerle. This family immi- grated to America in 1851. Johannes (John) died in Wheeling, West Virginia, Maria (Mary), his wife, is buried in Wetzel County, West Virginia. They had eight children. They used surname Reuter and Riter. Descendants live in West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.