Re: SPRAKER, Johann Christopher
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In reply to:
SPRAKER, Johann Christopher
10/19/00
John Christopher (Stophel) came to Wythe County about 1782 by way of North Carolina, where he had married.There is a very good book available on the family by Clifford Canfield.He has traced the family to the vicinity of Sulzfeld, Germany, on the Swiss/German border.The family were blacksmiths by profession (our first recorded ancestor Jakob Sprecher was known as "der alte Schmied--the old smith)