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Here is a currently working link for Blackfoot Cemetery listings
Names in common with my family/DNA cousins and ancestors resting here are: Allen, Burnett, Carter, Collins, Daugherty, Dyer, Green, Miller, Nixon, O’Neal, Pancake, Richardson, Riddle, Skinner, Smith, Thompson.
Pancake in particular stands out. Being uncommon, and a family name I had not investigated. Walter Frank Pancake 1864 Columbus IN – 1952 Vincennes IN married to my 2xgreat aunt Minnie Rosezillah Coppock 1869-1964
I was searching records for my Lance a few months back and found a man named Peter Pancake. Because it is uncommon, it stood out to me also. I can’t recall which county exactly, but it was on the south western border of PA I believe. There was a family of Lances I was trying to connect with my Peter Lance (spoken Blackfoot lines) of Beaver PA, and happened to run across the name…I wish I could remember more of the info details. It may have been on genweb but I’m not positive.
Pancake seems to be another anglicized German name – originally Pfannkuchen.
I am seeing these Pancake lines coming out of PA. Mine supposedly comes out of VA, but there is no source or documentation for Isaac Pancake 1791-1860 to confirm this. Two wives are listed; Rhoda Patton 1803-1880 – listed as born in NC with no source, and Micha LeMasters – with sources listing their marriage 1821 in Bartholomew IN. LeMasters is another Blackfoot Cemetery name – so it seems very likely that my Pancake line is related to the one from the Blackfoot Cemetery.
Is your Peter Pancake 1779-1861 of Dauphin PA who married Elizabeth Stannfer? This line appears to have stayed in PA until about 1900 and then moved west to CA and OR.
I’m not sure Marc, it may be the same Peter Pancake. I just happened upon him as I was looking for my Peter Lance and other Lances of possible relation-migrations to Beaver and Washington counties. If I recall correctly, the county was on the southern border of PA, west of center (and a closer possibility of Lance migration to Washington and Beaver counties or I don’t think I would have bothered searching it). It likely bordered VA, or was close to it (I was using a map to focus on counties close to Washington and Beaver so I assume that’s why the area stands out in my memory). I have not come across the name in my lines, so I continued looking for the Lance I was searching for.
I’m sorry I cant recall the exact county, date, or the source, but I’m still thinking because of the layout it was possibly Genweb. I just recall I was going through various records-lists of county inhabitants, and so went through everyone’s name searching for the Lance that was also in the county. Your post here, is only the second time I have ever seen the name Pancake other than the time I was referring to. Growing up with an uncommon name myself, and it being the first time I had seen the name, it stuck with me.
Interesting to me is how I was searching one of my spoken Blackfoot line surnames when I first saw the name of Pancake, the fact that it stuck with me, and now I see it for the second time here as probable Blackfoot descendant.
Hope you find your man, sorry my vague recollections don’t give you more to go on. It does seem to me that the Peter Pancake I saw was closer to VA than Dauphine for what its worth.
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