Arnest Allen Reckart & Aletha Ann Summers Reckart
Preston County, WV
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Arnest Allen Reckart is the son of George Ludwig (Lewis) Reckart and Ann E. Lewis Reckart of Preston County, West Virginia. Aletha Ann Summers Reckart is the daughter of Elisha Summers and Martha Steele Summers of Catawba, West Virginia. They were married on November 24, 1864.
Arnest served on the Union side in the Civil War in Company A, 7th Regiment, Infantry. He was wounded in his left thigh above the knee and died from complications of that war injury on August 2, 1888 at the age of 56. Grandmother Aletha died on May 2, 1917. They made their home on Reckart Mountain just above the Reckart School, located about two miles south of Cuzzart on the Cuzzart to Cranesville Road.
Children born to Arnest and Aletha were: Martha Ann Reckart, Charles Wilmington Reckart, Elisha Summers Reckart, Rheua Virginia Reckart, Jonathan Leroy Reckart, Isaac Benjamin Reckart, Andrew Allen Reckart, Sylvester Clyde Reckart, and Staley Garfield Reckart.
The first Reckart to America of this clan was Ernest Augustus Reckart from Minden, Germany and arrived at Portsmouth New Hampshire on December 1, 1777 in the company of and with General Frederick William Von Steuben. He married the lovely Elizabeth Standle of Morristown, New Jersey. The rest of the genealogy is in the Reckart Family Tree Book including some Reckart family history in Germany.
Ernest begat George Lewis, George Lewis begat Arnest Allen, Arnest Allen begat Isaac Benjamin, Isaac Benjamin begat Benjamin Clifford (Ben C.), and Ben C. begat Gary Reckart the author and collector of the official Reckart Family Tree Book.
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Gary