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From: "Robert D. Harter" <>
Subject: RE: Baker and other families, (including Onkst) Shenandoah Co. VA
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:15:30 -0400


>(I trace my ancestry to three of the
>family names: Funk, Funkhouser, and Brubeck, and the brother of one
>of my ancestor married Apollonia BEcker named above). [My only "regrets"
>are that my Freed ancestors in Shenandoah County, VA, did not remain long
>enough (moved to Washington/Green Counties, TN) to have descendants
>remaining in the Shenandoah County so that Dan could search that family as
>well!!]]

I am in more or less the same situation. My 3G grandparents, David and
Anna (SHERFY) ONKST appear to have gone with the group migrating to TN. I
have been trying to figure out where the ONKST name came from, as it seems
to be rather unique. Here is an off-the-wall idea: is it possible that
the origin of the name was FUNK???? -probably not, but who knows!

bob

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