I am seeking family connections and information concerning the origins of JOHN SHOLTS, in early census also referred to as SHULTZ and SHOALTS. He was a native of Germany as far as is known, and the earliest I found him was in the Town of Barrington, Steuben County, New York, probably at least as early as 1810. He was a teacher, married to HANNA HANAN with whom he had 10 children and the family migrated to the vicinity of Eire, Penn., about 1833. At some point (prob. in the late 1830's) John went to Texas, bought land, and while returning home to get his family, he died among the Indians, sometime between 1840-1845.
The widow SHOLTS and 3 sons, J.[Joseph] B. Sholts (b. ca. 1824, N.Y., m. Harriet Miller), Elijah SHOLTS (b. 8/10/1821, Tn. of Barrington, m. Julia Anna Searles) and Henry W. Sholts (b. 1811/1812,N.Y. m. Louisa HANAN), ultimately moved on to the townships of Oregon and Rutland, Dane County, (near Madison) Wisconsin, about 1846. These circunstances suggest that ancestors of the SHOLTS family may have lived in the vacinity of TOWN of PALATINE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, N.Y., at an earlier period: 1) the accurate phonetic spelling of the family surname as it appears in Palatine Town, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, N.Y. in the 1790 census (SHOLTS=Shoults=Shoultz), 2) the repetition of similar given names appearing both in that census and in subsequent generations (John and Henry, and 3) the fact that a number of SHULTS families in the same area of Steuben County CAN trace back to the MONTGOMERY COUNTY families. However, I have been unable to make a connection.