This page shows 8 generations of Latshaws starting with Hans Lötscher and ending with the wife of Henry Harrison Cooper.  Each numbered item below is a subsequent generation.

All of this information was taken from the Latshaw Family Journal.  This journal describes their religious persecution for being of the Anabaptis and Mennonite beliefs.

  1. Hans Lötscher, who was born in Latterbach near Erlenbach, Canton of Bern, Switzerland in 1601. He wrote a hymn of 41 stanzas entitled "Ein schön new geistlich Lied." and died about 1673.  He married he married Anna Kammerer on January 21, 1632/33 Erlenbach, Switzerland.  She was the daughter of  Marti Kammer and Margret Witwer and she was born in Latterbach, Bern, Switzerland about 1611.

    They had 7 children and the oldest was Hans Lotscher.

  2.  Hans Lotscher was born in June 1634 in Erlenbach, Switzerland and died between 1715 - 1734 in Germany.  He was baptized on June 29, 1634 in Latterbach, Switzerland.

    A child of Hans Lotscher was Hans Heinrich Lotschar.

  3. Hans Heinrich Lotschar was born about 1665 - 1666 in Latterbach, Bern, Switzerland, and died 1747 in Kuhborncheshof, Palatine, Germany. 

    His first marriage was to Anna Maria in about 1695. She was born between 1665 - 1680 and died in about 1759 in Kuhbornascheshof, Palatine, Germany.

    His second marriage was to Maria Margarethe between 1680 - 1685 in Germany. She was born about 1665 in Switzerland, and died in 1695 in Kuhbornascheshof, Palatine, Germany.

    Hans Heinrich Lotschar and Anna Maria had 10 children and the oldest was Peter Joseph Lotschar.

  4. Peter Joseph Lattschar was born in 1699 in Latterbach, Bern, Switzerland.  He came to America in 1722 aboard the "Marlborough" and settled first in Germantown, later moved to York County, Pennsylvania.  He died on December 8, 1760 in Reading Township, York County, Pennsylvania.

    He married Mary (?) about 1728. She was born about 1710 in Europe and died on December 8, 1760 in York County, Pennsylvania.

    They had 7 children and the 6th child was John Christian Latshaw.
  5. John Christian Latshaw was born in 1747 in Pennsylvania and died in  1785, Bladen Co., North Carolina. He married Mary Magdalena Busser 1782, daughter of Henry Busser. She was born February 2, 1758 in Little York, Pennsylvania, and died on October 26, 1830.

    They had 5 children and the oldest was John Christian Latshaw
  6. John Christian Latshaw was born on December 12, 1783, Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland and died in Peoria, Illinois. He married Mary Dennison on February 18, 1810 in Emmitsburge, Frederick County, Maryland.  She was the daughter of Andrew Denison and Ann Barclay. She was born on September 24, 1792 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1869.   They had 12 children and William Denison Latshaw was the oldest.
  7. William Denison Latshaw was born February 7, 1811 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, and died on August 4, 1876 in Paris, Edgtar County, Illinois. He married Harriet Scribner Chapman on April 12, 1846 in Charleston, Coles County, Illinois.  She was the daughter of Thomas Chapman and Abigail Jackson. She was born on  December 31, 1825 in Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, and died May 7, 1902 in Pueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado.  They had 10 children and their third child was Elizabeth Colquit Latshaw.

  8. Elizabeth Colquit Latshaw who was born on April 17, 1850 in Charleston, Coles County, Illinois on April 17, 1850 and died on November 14, 1916 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.  She married Henry Harrison Cooper on August 26, 1875 in Hot Springs Arkansas

 

Source: 

  1. A Latshaw Family Journal - Compiled by Gary D. Smith