Logan County, Ohio is just north of Champaign County..
Frederick County, Virginia was formed in 1743 from Orange County. Old Frederick County included all or part of four counties in present-day Virginia: Shenandoah, Clarke, Warren, and Frederick, as well as five in present-day West Virginia: Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan.
In 1607 the London Company established Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.
Barbara Kibler Pence was born about 1762 in a part of Frederick County, Virginia that is now Page County. Her parents were Henry and Mary Kibler.
She married Lewis Pence on April 15, 1782 in Shenandoah (now Page) County, Virginia. Lewis was born in 1754 in Frederick (now Page) County, Virginia.
Lewis and his father, Jacob, both served in Captain Michael Reader's company in the Revolutionary War.
Barbara and Lewis' children included:
Susannah Pence Myers (1782, married George Meyers),
Jacob Pence (1783),
Elizabeth Pence Buracker Hower (1783, married Adam Buracker and John Hower),
Barbara Pence Phillips (1787, married Jonah Phillips),
Martin D. Pence (1791, married Elizabeth Corder),
Mary Pence Nunn Long (1793, married John Nunn and John Long),
Henry Pence (1794, married Elizabeth Mouser),
Ann Amelia Pence Blouse (1795, married Johannes Blouse),
Catherine Pence Bailer (1799, married Jonathan Baylor), Adam Pence (1802, married Mary Printz daughter of Adam Printz and Eve Buracker), and
Lewis Pence (1804, married Savilla Norman).
Lewis and Barbara, conveyed all but about two acres of their to Jacob’s son, Emanuel Pence, in 1800 and on September 14, 1819 they sold 350 acres of land in Shenandoah County to John Garber for $6,553 and another 168 acres to Charles Beazley for $3,780.
The family moved to Champaign County by October 19, 1820. They had enough money to purchase 702 acres of land from his cousin, John Pence, son of Henry for $12,680. They built a log house when they arrived.
Barbara died in September, 1825 in Champaign County, Ohio. Lewis died in 1832 in Champaign County, Ohio. He is buried in Nettle Creek Cemetery in Champaign County, Ohio.
Shenandoah County, Virginia was established in 1772. It was originally Dunmore County.
In 1831 Page County, Virginia was
created from
Rockingham
and
Shenandoah
Counties. Originally it was part of Frederick County.
The Henry Kibler Homestead
photo taken about 1926
a few miles east of Luray, Virginia
Champaign County, Ohio was created March 1, 1805 from Greene and Franklin counties. On March 1, 1817 the present boundaries were established when Logan and Clark counties were formed. An 1800 census counted 100 settlers.
Many settlers in the Shenandoah Valley were Germans from Pennsylvania called the "Shenandoah Deitsch."
