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Family to celebrate 200 years in Ohio




GLENFORD – The Jacob Mechling family will celebrate 200 years in Ohio July 29 – 31.

All Macklin, Mechin and Mechling family descendants are invited to the Glenford celebration to renew old friendships and make new friends. Perry and Fairfield counties have more Machlin, Mechlin and Mechling family descendants than anywhere else in the United States.

The migration from Pennsylvania to Ohio around 1800 includes the family names of Macklin and Mechling. The reunions will focus on Jacob Mechling/Dewalt/Theobold who purchased 640 acres in 1808 in Hopewell Township in what was then Fairfield County. In 1815, he purchased additional land and in 1816 moved to Hopewell Township.

On March 1, 1818, Perry County was formed from Fairfield, Muskingum and Washington counties. When Jacob died in 1831, he owned over 1,700 acres in Perry County. Descendants will visit the land Jacob and his family settled and farmed, visit the churches where they worshipped and walk the cemeteries where the Mechings and Machlins were buried. A new tombstone in memory of Jacob and his wife, Anna Maria will be dedicated.

For more information email Paul at snowyoak@windstream.net or Marily at oaktrees1@windstream.net



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