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. How
ever, I have been unable to make a connection.