Analysis:Is George Teater John George Dieter?

Confusion with John George Dieter [28 June 2010]

The George Teater who settled in Garrard County is sometimes identified as the same person as a John George Teter who lived on Operquon Creek in Virginia prior to c1768. User:Pariss has spent considerable time and effort exploring whether John George Teter is in fact the same person as George Teater of Garrard county. Moved from Person talk:George Teater (1) to a separate analysis article by Q 07:27, 28 June 2010 (EDT)

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There appears to be mass confusion due to the book The Teater family of Kentucky. This book was published around 1972 authors Patsy Benton, Glen Teater, Howard Curry Teater. We should realize this book was written before the arrival of the internet. At the time information and budgets were limited in regards to Teter surname research. The book appears to have used information which was very old by pro Joseph Kellogg who only presumed that there was a German Dunker named Jorig Fetter who arrived in Pa on the Ship Allen connected to George Teater He also guessed this may have been the George Teater of Garrad Kentucky this individual applied himself as John George Teter and lived in German section or came to the German Section of the Opequon 1738 39. He had a son baptized by the Rev. Stover named John George Teter a week or so after birth in the year 1739.

At the time of the book 1972 The authors were not aware that the headstones of George Teater and his wife Sarah maiden name Pearis Parris had been buried under several inchs of mud for a 150 years. One of the authors of the book stumbled in the mud in the old Teater farm graveyard and found the real headstone of George Teater. The stone shows George Teater was born in the year 1736. Inscribed as 79 yrs old died 1815. Makes his birth 1736 Therefore he was not Johan George Dieter Teter born and baptized in the year 1739. The authors were also unaware that the grandchildren of the real John George Dieter had already published their own book decades before the the Teater family of Kentucky book was published.

The Deter Family History A Genealogy of Johan George Dieter by Eunice Dieter.

Johann Georg Dieder, b. March 9, 1739, baptized April 29, 1739, m. Mari Catherine.

Children:

Johannes Diter, b. March 26, 1769, baptized April 9, 1769;

Anna Marie Diether, b. April 17, 1771, baptized May 5, 1771;

Elisabetha Diter, b. June 22, 1773, baptized October 3, 1773;

Johann Georg Dieder, b. December 12, 1775, baptized January 5, 1776 in Delbehaden township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Source- "The Deter Family History, A Genealogy, Beginning with Johann Georg Dieder, Born in 1739.".

John George Dieter was a German Dunker, the son of Jorig Fetter of Berks County, Pa.

The following needs workThe George Teater who came from Washington Co Va and settled in Garrard Kentucky was born in 1736. Was Scotch Irish a Military Man a meat eater a Negro slaver with no documented German friends in laws or German associates. He did however purchase land in the the south Irish colony of the Crab Creek creek tract from a Alpine person. He is named in the History of Fort Wayne Indiana by his own Grandchildren as Scotch Irish. He is also named as a Scotch Irish Presbyterian by Governor David Campbell by his statement the he came to Washington Co before the German Teeters, who were another clan John Teeter and wife Eve Turney and their clan of french speaking Swiss the Funkhousers Turneys Fleenors. This John Teeter lived at the North Fork of the Holston 100s of miles away from where George Teater lived at the Middle fork of the Holston.

--Parris 14:59, 5 December 2008 (EST)