I'm glad you have the death certificate that definitively ties Martin Luther ENTLER to Shepherdstown. There is a branch of the ENTLERs in Maryland (perhaps that's one of the reasons we've previously corresponded) that may or may not be tied to the Shepherdstown ENTLERs. There's also a Martin ENTLER from New York who is likely a more-recent immigrant and not tied to the Shepherdstown ENTLERs.

There is another branch of ENTLERs in Chico Co. CA that I've been trying to tie to the Shepherdstown ENTLERs. One of those is named Samuel Luther (Lute) ENTLER--but he was born in 1854 and is supposed to be one of 2 brothers who moved to CA also from Shepherdstown.

I still don't have much more on your ENTLERs unfortunately. My gut tells me that the 1860 census record is your ENTLERs. I could see someone named Laura Mae being nicknamed Lillie, and the dates line up correctly as well. I'm keeping track of all the various "clues" on the various ENTLER lines. Ocassionally I get just one more piece of a puzzle and I can connect the dots. I'm not there yet with your Martin Luther.

Sometimes I wish I lived closer to the east coast (I live in Oregon)--I would like to spend several days in Shepherdstown just tracing down and documenting once and for all, all these various ENTLERs. I have a "migration" map I've been building for all the various ENTLERs, but it's rather complex and still very incomplete.

I plan on starting an ENTLER web page where I can post and track all the various ENTLER lines, just haven't gotten there yet as I was working fulltime and going to school fulltime. Perhaps now is the time.