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- Moved to North Carolina by 1763. Purchased 250 acres on Lyles Creek,North Carolina 14, December 1778. They were members of St Paul's LutheranChurch.
The story of how the Shook, Volpreght, Eigner and Yount families came toNorth Carolina was a common one. Land had become scarce in Pennsylvania,and more and more expensive. After the Indians were finally held at bayby the English victories in the French and Indian War which ending in1763 many of the settlers of the east coast began to imagine the moreopen territories nad opportunities to the west and south of Pennsylvania.By 1765, a wave of emigrants had befun to move down the trail known asthe Great Wagon Road. Many of these were the sons of the originalimmigrants. This "road", more like a network of rough trails than ahighway in those days stretched from Pennsylvania to the newly openedreaches of the frontier along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountainsin the Carolinas and Georgia. Here the governors of those states hoped tobuild a buffer of settlers against any future incursions of the NativeAmericans, and to do so offered land at spectacularly low prices and oneasy terms to those willing to move with their families to the frontier.
"Hans" Schuck and his wife must have found the promise of this enticing,so sometime in the mid to late 1760s they and thier big family joinedwith his sister's families, the Eigners and the Volpredghts to travel tothese lands. In his 1767 will their father was fair with his childrenwith the exception of Rosina Barbara to whom he left one shilling if sheclaimed it. Apparently he was peeved at her.
In the fashion of such pioneers of the time they probably left walking,with a small two wheeled cart pulled by a pair of oxen carrying preciousfew possessions. From Philadelphia westward to Wright's Ferry on theSusquehanna then southward down the Cumberland Valey to cross the PotomacRiver at William's Ferry (Williamsport MD), then into Virginia theytraveled. From there the pioneers traveled down the Shenandoah Valleypast Winchester, a smallfrontier outpost and on through the previouslysettled Irish settlements of Augusta Co. At the present sight of Roanoke,VA at the intersection with the Chiswel Road to Kentucky the familiesturned to the southeast and traveled along the Roanoke River then over tothe Dan near modern Danville, VA.
The Wagon Road led them into North Carolina and on to the friendlyGermanic colony of the Moravians at Wachovia (now Winston-Salem NC).Moving on across the Yadkin they were now in the area of the "new lands".While some travelers went on to the frontiers further south this groupdetermined to leave the road here and move upriver at the Catawba towardthe foot of the Blue Ridge. Here they took up land on Lyle's Creek, northof today's Conover, NC and settled.
Here on Lyle's Creek the Schucks, Eigners and Volpreghts (Fulbright) andYounts found "elbow room" and they freedom to raise their large familiesas they saw fit. They were members of the St. Paul's Lutheran Church,then know as South Fork, and later were founders of Bethel LutheranChurch in today's northern Catawba County.
# Birth: 11 MAR 1724 in Mosbach, Palatinate, Germany
# Death: 29 JUL 1814 in Burke County, North Carolina
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1724 - Abt 1813 (89 years)
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