Ashland County Chapter Officers for 2023
Pictured left to right: Linda Fulk, Treasurer – Barb Renneker, Senior Trustee – Carolyn Amstutz, Corresponding Secretary (see Barb Hart below) – Tammy Pelton, President – Tom Neel, Intermediate Trustee – Marjorie Yetzer, Junior Trustee.
Biographies
Tammy Sloan Pelton (President), was born and raised in Ashland, Ohio. She and husband Kevin raised their 3 daughters in the northern part of Ashland County in the Mapleton School District where she served on many committees and boards, including six years with the Mapleton School Board.
Tammy Sloan Pelton (President), was born and raised in Ashland, Ohio. She and husband Kevin raised their three daughters in the northern part of Ashland County in the Mapleton School District where she served on many committees and boards, including six years with the Mapleton School Board.
Tammy’s interest in genealogy began in 2017. Her passion is creating special family events and passing along her heritage finds to her family. Events have included a 30 Sloan member charter bus trip to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Ashland County Cemetery Walks, and Family reunions with as many as 115 in attendance. She has been very successful managing and using Family Facebook groups to reconnect distant family members.
Surnames she researches are Sloan, Keefer, Swope, Pelton, Hetsler and Abbott.
Tammy is serving her first position within the Ashland County Chapter and open to fresh ideas, criticism, and advice.
Linda Fulk (Treasurer), a native and current resident of Ashland County, graduated from Mapleton High School. After attending business school for two years, she worked in accounting for local industries for 46 years until her retirement
Her husband is, Charles Fulk, from Savannah, Ohio. He and Linda married 45 years ago.
Linda has been doing genealogical research for over ten years. Ashland County ancestors she is researching are: Warnes, Etzwiler, Horn, Boley, Fulk, and Ferguson.
This is Linda’s fifth year as Treasurer and she has volunteered over five years in the Genealogical Library of the Ashland County Public Library. She is a member of the Ohio Genealogical Society and enjoys visiting their facility in Bellville, Ohio, to do research.
Her maternal grandmother died when Linda’s mother was 12 years old. She did not know much about that side of her family so it has been exciting uncovering several of those relatives.
She and Charlie enjoy sleuthing at cemeteries to find relatives.
Barb Hart replaced Carolyn Amstutz (Corresponding Secretary) mid-term.
Barbara Hart was born and raised in Ashland County, Ohio and is a 1955 graduate of Ashland High School. She was always more interested in history than other subjects. Barb was a proud factory worker for over 43 years. After an early retirement in 1996, she became interested in genealogy and was “addicted” quickly
Barb served as the Ashland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society Vice-President in 2010 and 2011 and President in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
She faithfully records and writes abstracts of the Ashland Times-Gazette newspaper obituaries daily and shares them with the RB Hayes website: https://www.rbhayes.org/main/ohio-obituary-index/. Surnames Barb researches are: Hart, Roberts, Smith, McCready, Yeater and Coffman for starters.
Barb Renneker (Senior Trustee), was born in Massillon, Stark County, Ohio. After graduating from Ashland College, she was hired to teach at Taft Elementary School in Ashland and retired after teaching 35 years in that building. During that time she met and married her husband Carl.
Barb’s dive into genealogy occurred in January 2017 after her mother received a phone call advising her that she might have mineral rights to a property in Belmont County, Ohio. While she knew that she had ancestors living there, she knew little else.
While her family has not become oil barons, Barb is still adding to the genealogical work her Mother began in the 1980’s. On this journey, she has met many wonderful people who have shared a multitude of fascinating stories.
Barb has served as a Trustee of the Chapter for the past 3 years.
Tom Neel (Intermediate Trustee), a New London, Huron County, Ohio native and resident, began his genealogy venture in 1969 working on a Cub Scout project.
Ashland County surnames include Hubler, Reed, Richey, Tanner, Grove, Patterson, and Neel.
Tom enjoys the research part of the hobby and drafting any findings into a well-written story or timeline.
He is the retired Director of the Ohio Genealogical Society (1984-2021) and has served in the Ashland Chapter OGS as – President (1985-1986, 1998-1999, 2015-2016), Vice President (1983-1984, 1994-1995), Recording Secretary (1989-1990), Corresponding Secretary (1987), Trustee (2013-2014, 2022-2023), and Pastfinder Editor (2003-2010).
Marge Yetzer (Junior Trustee), was born in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, and raised on a farm near Jeromesville. Her parents are Leland Schuck and Dorothy Simmers. She attended graduate school to become a speech therapist. She and her husband, now deceased, have two children and four grandchildren.
Marge and her sister, Virginia Schuck, wrote two ancestral books, Schuck and Simmers, and a book about Some One Room School House records. All books are available at the Ohio Genealogical Society and ACCOGS libraries.
Marge served as Lineage Chairperson of the Chapter.
But the most important part of her life, is her relationship with Jesus Christ. Marge is an active member of St. Edward Parish where she is on the parish council, attends two Bible studies, and works on various ministries.
Terry Haun’s journey into Genealogy started when she was 19. It was mainly a solo journey until a few years ago, when her daughter began doing genealogy Mother-Daughter trips.
After retirement, Terry joined the Ashland Chapter of OGS. These days Genealogy is foremost on her mind. She loves the “thrill of the hunt”, finding the “clues” and making sense of them. Becoming the Newsletter Editor of our Chapter was surprising for her. She started out offering to help type and became Editor in 2011. It has been quite an education in an area that she never thought she could accomplish.
Terry’s early Ohio ancestors were in Franklin, Fairfield, Perry, Holmes, Wayne and Coshocton Counties. Her husband’s lines were Ashland, Holmes, and Wayne Counties. She was able to have her husband inducted in the Ashland Century Families for three of his ancestors. Terry was able to induct five of her own ancestors into Allen County, Indiana Pioneers.
Terry is researching surnames ALSPACH, BROWN, BUTLER, CRIDER, CRIST, DeVORE, EMRICK, FEIGHNER, FOGWELL, GARLITZ, GOOD, KYSER, NETTLETON, NICODEMUS, REAM for her line. For her husband she is researching ADAMS, BROWN, DITCH, DOYLE, FINLEY, HAUN, KNEE, MARTIN, MUNDORF, McCORMICK, McCULLOCH, MYERS, PEIGHT, SCOTT.
Ginny Feiber (Librarian), is an Ashland County native and resident. She began doing genealogy in 2012 when she saw an advertisement in the Ashland Times Gazette about a genealogy meeting for beginners at the Ashland Public Library. Some Ashland County surnames she is researching are Warnes, Feiber and McConnell. She enjoys researching, “It’s like putting together a puzzle.”
Ginny served as a trustee for Ashland Chapter OGS from 2016-2018. In 2017 she volunteered to help in the genealogy library and is now librarian.
She graduated from Mapleton High School and Wooster Business School. She worked for 49 years in accounting for two Ashland area businesses.
