Helen King, Edwin King, and Walter Hawk put together a wonderful history of their ancestors back to the emigration of John Gerradt Luckenbach from Germany in 1704.
The HathiTrust has a scanned copy online, but the sequence relevant to Guy Howard Lookabaugh and his children Guy Jim and Ann is here in PDF form and duplicated below.
From Descendants of John Gerradt Luckenbach and Conrad Hawk, Compiled by Helen H. King, Erwin M. King, D. Walter Hawk, 1958, Manufactured by Riffle Photography, Warren, OH.
The First Generation
JOHN GERRADT LUCKENBACH (1690-1758)
John Gerradt Luckenbach, the emigrant ancestor of the family, was a native of Winckelbach, near Hachenburg, Nassau, Germany. He arrived with his family at Philadelphia on the ship Samuel and Elizabeth, from Rotterdam, on September 30, 1704. Appearing under his name on the ship’s list of male passengers were those of his two sons – Johan Adam, 27 and Johan Heinrich, 18. His age was given as 50.
His decision to leave Germany was undoubtedly timed with the accession of Frederick the Great to the throne, who immediately began preparations for wars of attrition, including the invasion of Silesia. The first twenty-four years of his life had already been spend on a constant battleground (the boundary between Germany and France, 1688-1697, concluded in the Peace of Westphalia, and the War of the Spanish Succession, 1703-1714, concluded by the Peace of Baden).
Probably forseeing nothing better for the future and having two sons of military age, he moved his family to Pennsylvania where there was peace, religious tolerance, and plenty.
He settled in the western part of Lancaster County, now York County, in the townships of Dover and Paradise. His first land record appearing in the county records is the transfer of 190 acres in Dover and Paradise Townships “To Henry Lookinbaugh, son of the aforesaid John Gerradt.” His will was probated in 1758, in which he left his estate to his wife and second son, John Henry. His reason for cutting off his older son, John Adam, the school master, is obscure. Perhaps it was because John Adam married a girl of the Moravian faith, moved to Berks County, and was buried in the old Moravian Cemetry at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1785.
It is interesting to note that the first evidence of the corruption of the spelling of the name, LUCKENBACH, begins with his land records.
The Second Generation
JOHN HEINRICH LUCKENBACH (1722-1810)
John Heinrich Luckenbach lived his entire life in York County, Pennsylvania, where he paid taxes on lands held in Hellam, Dover, Paradise, and Heidelbert Townships.
He and his wife, Anna Elizabeth, had five children, Johan Heinrich, Johan Adam, Maria Barbara, Johan Peter, and Elizabeth. Some time before his death, he transferred the bulk of his estate to his son, Johan Heinrich, with the stipulation that he should keep his parenets “in the manner in which they are accustomed.” His will was probated in York County in 1810. He died in 1810, Heidelberg Township.
The Third Generation
JOHN ADAM LUCKENBACH (1761-)
Johan Adam Luckenbach was born April 5, 1761, at Kreutz Creek Charge, Hellam Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
The birth of two sons are recorded to him and his wife, Anna Maria, in Germany Township, York County: Henry and Peter, born August 7, 1790. The family use of “Johan Henrich” and “Johan Peter” was not observed in this entry.
In 1781, he enlisted in Germany Township as a private under Captain Abraham Furrey of Colonel Adam Wintrolt’s battalion. A certificate of debt #12,672 for ten pounds, ten pence was issued to him. The cancelled certificate is now in the Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania State Library.
Some time before 1800 he moved his family to the Emmitsburg District, Frederick County, Maryland, and his name appears in the 1800 census of that place:
ADAM LOOKABAUGH
1m, 45 or over
2m, 10 to 16
1m, under 10
1 fe, 45 or over
2 fe, 10 to 1
1 fe, under 10
Adam’s age bracket, however, was incorrect, as he was only 39. The two males, 10 to 16, coincide with the ages of Henry and Peter, whose births are recorded in York County.
He purchased his land through two transactions in a tract formerly surveyed as “Carolina” in 1763 – “East side of Friend’s Creek, in the lock of the mountain.” The mountain referred to is South Mountain. The dates of the two purchases were December 16, 1800 and February 16, 1801. Between December 1806 and January 1808, he sold his holdings in “Carolina” for 572 pounds.
Anna Maria, his wife, was entered as “Mary, his wife.” The surname, Luckenbach, was spelled variously as Lukinbaugh, Lukebaugh, Lykenbach, Lookenbaugh, Lookebaugh, and Lookabaugh.
The Fourth Generation
PETER LOOKABAUGH (1790-1898)
Peter Lookabaugh was one of the earliest pioneers in Allegheny Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He arrived in 1829 from Emmitsburg District, Frederick County, Maryland. He built his log cabin in a rugged wilderness.
“…a tract of land containing one hundred acres more or less at one dollar and fifty cents per acre in Allegheny Township, Armstrong County, State of Pennsylvania. Sd Peter Luckenbaugh is to pay unto Matthew Donley fifty dollars in hand, one colt twenty five dollars and cattle to the amount of twenty five dollars more which makes the hand money and on the last day of March on or before 1830 Luckebaugh is to pay sd Donley twenty five dollars and the residue is to be paid in three equal annual payments…Attest, George Duphorn.”
In 1833, he bought an adjoining piece of land, a part of the “Parnassas” tract, surveyed in 1784, which he purchased from Isaac Vanhorne “At one dollar and fifty cents an acre, estimated to contain one hundred and eleven acres, more or less.” Here he raised his family of eleven children and spent the remainder of his life.
Although Peter cleared some land for crops, his chief pursuit was hunting and trapping, which furnished ready cash and an ample supply of squirrel, venison, and “partridge” meat for his large family. Many stories have sifted down through his descendants pointing to his skill as a woodsman. There is the story of his before-breakfast catch in the nearby Kiskiminitas River, a catfish trailing from the pole over his shoulder and dragging behind him on the path! The pot simmering on the hearth held the evening meat of squirrel, shot from his own doorstep.
Completely cut off from the outside world, his life as a pioneer in western Pennsylvania was in rugged contrast to the relative life of ease of the earliest settler along the eastern seaboard, who had occasional access to merchandise from abroad, such as glass, tools, medicines, and bolts of cotton and woolen goods. Whatever he or his family needed, his ingenuity, skill, and hard work had to produce. He tanned deer skins for his leather, cultivated flax for his wife’s spinning wheel, melted tallow for candle molds, and gathered and dried herbs and roots for fever and infections.
He was born in August 7, 1790, Germany Township, York County, Pennsylvania, the son of Adam Luckenbach and Anna Maria, his wife, his birth having been recorded in the German-Lutheran Church Records of York County. At an early age he moved with his family to the Emmitsburg District, Frederick County, Maryland. He passed his boyhood on his father’s land in the fields on the slopes of South Mountain and Antietam.
He, with his brother, Henry, enlisted at nearby Gettysburg during the War of 1812 when Maryland was threatened with English invasion. They were both enrolled as privates, 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 7th Company, 124th Regiment, Adams County, Pennsylvania.
On March 6, 1821, Peter “Luckeybaugh” obtained a license to marry Evaline Loy in Frederick County, Maryland. She was the presumed daughter of George Loy, whose lands adjoined those of Adam Luckenbach in the “Carolina” tract. The Loy family were presumed to have been Hugenots, who escaped to Germany from France.
In 1829, they and their young sound, Adam, turned their faces to the northwest and started on the trek over the Allegheny Mountains in a covered wagon to a new home on frontier land in Pennsylvania. The last words of Peter’s mother, as they said goodbye, have been passed down through succeeding generations – “You will forget your parents, but never forget your God.”
They apparently did not travel alone, as the names of Maryland neighbors appear in the land records of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania – Henry Eiler and George Duphorne. George Duphorne witnessed Peter’s land contract with Matthew Donley in 1829.
He was of great physical strength and stamina, living to be a very old man. His descendants tell of his playing his violin with the lion’s head scroll and clogging at the celebration of his last birthday, in 1898.
His will was probated in 1898, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Highfields Cemetery, Armstrong County.
His name appears as “Peter Luckenbach” on an old map of early homesteads in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Later generations have consistently spelled the surname, “Lookabaugh”.
Children:
- Adam
- Mary Ann
- Elizabeth
- Jane
- Margaret
- Peter, Jr.
- Elijah
- Martha
- Harriet
- Julia Ann
- Emma
The Fifth Generation
ELIJAH E. LOOKABAUGH (2/7/1836 – 1911)
Buried in Watonga Cemetery, Watonga, OK
First Wife: Susanna Kinnard (1842 – 1862)
Buried in Int. Brick Church Cemetery, Armstrong Co., PA
Child: Mary Ada
Second Wife: Emily Kinnard (1841 – 1885)
Buried in Int. Atchison, Kansas
Children: Ira Holmes
Ida Mae
Frank Howard
Edwin Harmes
Harry Clive
Third Wife: Elizabeth Carter (1857 – ?)
Buried in Int. Anderson Co., Texas
Children: Eva Grace
Peter Ray
Hope
Mark Loy
Faith
E. E. Lookabaugh was born on their farm in Armstrong Co., PA, a tract of land which his farther had purchased after coming from Emmitsburg, MD. He attended rural school and helped on the farm.
He loved to hunt and as game was plentiful, he became an expert marksman. Graduated from and taught several terms at the Leechburg Academy.
In 1861 he married Susanna Kincaid, daughter of Isaac Kincaid of Cochran Mills, Armstrong Co., PA. A daughter of Isaac Kinnard of Cochran Mills, Armstrong Co., PA. A daughter, Mary Ada, was born in 1862, the mother passed away a week after the birth.
Leaving the child with the grandparents, Elijah answered the call of his country and enlisted at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1862, as private in Company G of the 139th Regiment, Pa. Vol. Inf. under General Fred H. Collins. He moved to Pittsburgh and on to Washington, D.C.
They were ordered under a flag of truce to the battlefield of Bull Run where they consigned to their graves the men who had died on the battlefield. They were assigned to the 3rd Division of the 12th Corp of the Army of the Potomac, and as such took part in the following battles: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and others.
Elijah was wounded at Gettysburg and was furloughed at home for several weeks. He was at General Lee’s surrender at Appomatix Courthouse and in the Grand Review at Washington D.C. He returned to Pittsburgh and was mustered out of the service June 22, 1865. He was a member of John R. Hunter Post #123, G.A.R. In his discharge he was described as being six feet one inches tall, sandy complexion, gray eyes, and occupation when he enlisted was a teacher.
Returning from service he married Emily, a sister of his former wife. They lived at Cochran Mills, where he taught school at Brick Church and worked in his father-in-law’s Woolen Mill. Here the children Ira Harmes, Ida Mae, and Frank Howard were born. In 1871 with his family, he moved to Atchinson Co., Kansas. Then the home of the wife’s Uncle, Isaac Helfrick and of Rev. David Earhart, their former pastor and who had officiated at both marriages and at Susanna’s funeral.
He purchased land and farmed and taught school in the winter. Here the children, Edwin Harmes and Harry Clive, were born, and here their mother passed away.
Marrying Elizabeth Carter, they sold the farm and purchased another near Pardee, Kansas, where he continued to farm and teach school. The children, Eve Grace, Peter Ray and Hope were born. (also Joy and Faye)
In 1894, they sold and moved to Blair county, Oklahoma, taking up a claim in the newly opened North Canadian River basin. They rented a small house from the Arapahoe Indian Chief, who lived with his tribe in tee-pees surrounding their house. Transporting the lumber some forty miles, they built a house on their land and began farming and raising cattle. The land was very fertile and he pioneered in raising may crops, especially in alfalfa, which proved to be a most productive crop in the valley. He planted many trees around the buildings for a wind brake, mane of them he had sent from Pennsylvania. He loved flowers and many evenings he spent in his flower garden, watering them with water from a hand dug well and pumped by power supplied by a wind mill.
In 1907, the wife suffering from asthma and to get away from the cold prairie winds they sold and moved to San Antonio, Texas, where with his son, Ray, they started a grocery and feed store. However, the store business was not his line and they were soon back on the farm purchased near Palestine, but his farming days were about over as having had a tooth extracted, cancer developed in his mouth. For special treatment, he was taken back to Oklahoma to his son, Clive, near Watonga, where he passed away.
War Record
Enlisted at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1962, as private in Company G of the 139th Reg. Pa. Vol. Inf. Under Gen. Fred H. Collins. He moved to Pittsburgh and on to Washington, D.C.
They were ordered under a flag of truce to the battlefield of Bull Run where they consigned to their graves the men who had given up their all on the battlefield. They ware assigned to the 3rd Division of the 12th Corp of the Army of the Potomac, and as such took part in the following battles: Fredericksburg, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and others.
Elijah was wounded at Gettysburg and was furloughed at home for several weeks. He was at Gen. Lee’s surrender as Appomattix Court Hous and in the Grand Review at Washington D.C. He returned to Pittsburgh and was mustered out of service June 22, 1865. He was a member of John R. Hunger Post #123, G.A.R. In his discharge he was described as being six feet one inches tall, sandy complexion, gray eyes, and occupation when he enlisted was a teacher.
The Sixth Generation
FRANK HOWARD LOOKABAUGH (1870 – 1901)
Buried: Int. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Watonga, OK
Married: Kate Simms
At one year of age, Frank H. came with his parents to Kansas. He attended rural school and graduated from Holton University. Taught for several terms. Married and with a horse and wagon moved to Oklahoma, where they bought a quarter section of land that had been homesteaded in the 1892 land race. There they spend their remaining years.
Children: Frank and Guy Howard.
The Seventh Generation
GUY HOWARD LOOKABAUGH (1896-1981)
Married: Cleon May
Guy Howard received his B.S. at Okla. A&M College in 1925 and his M.S. at State University of Iowa with Majors in Health, Education & Recreation. He coached athletics at University of Kansas, Grinnell College,, and Northeast at Tahlequah, OK.
He was a member of the 36th Division Headquarters Troop during World War I, with one month of service overseas with action in the Mause-Argonne offensive. During World War II he was employed at the YMCA operating service clubs with the USO at Muskogee, OK, Fort Smith, AK, and at Oklahoma City.
In his early days, he gained much prominence in athletics, especially in football and wrestling. Chosen by Knute Rockney, he was a member of the wrestling team that represented the U.S. in the 1924 Olympics in Paris.
Children: Guy Jim and Ann.
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