Sterner Family Reunion sometime before 1928
Front: Dr. E. D. Sterner, Jesse Sterner, EA Sterner, Mary Louis, Lydia Sterner
Row 2: Jim A. Sterner, Phil Sterner, 2 unknowns, Ruth Sterner, Lydia Sterner.
Remainder unknown

This branch of the Sterner family, originated with Bernard Sterner (b.abt 1730, d.1808) in Germany and continued with Nicholas Sterner's (b.1776, d. 1851)  immigration to America in the late 1700's from Germany.   In 1799 Nicholas married Susan Myers (b. 1776, d. est. 1869) of York, PA.  Both are buried in the Manheim Union Burial Ground, Manheim Twp., York Co. PA.

The Sterner and Workman families joined in the marriage of Doris Lee Workman (b. 1916, d.1997), of Rockhill Furnace, PA, daughter of Isaac and Laura (Hallibaugh) Workman, to James Asper Sterner (b.1916, d.1988), of York, PA, son of Edward Ammon and Jessie Mae (Anstine) Sterner, on May 21, 1942.

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Our branch of the Sterner genealogy tree includes:

Bernard Sterner (b. abt 1730, d.1808) - Margaret Albright (b. abt 1728, d.1805)
  Nicholas Sterner (b.1776, d.1851) - Susan Myers (b.1776, d. est.1869)
    John Sterner (d.1800, d.1895) - Elizabeth Kessler (b.1798, d.1885)
       Jesse Sterner (b.1834, d. 1928) - Leah Deagan (b.1837, d.1889)
         Edward D. Sterner (b.1855, d. 1929) - Lydia Ann Spangler (b.1857, d.1937)
           Edward A. Sterner (b.1879, d.1951) - Jessie May Anstine (b.1882,d,1941)
              James A. Sterner (b.1916, d.1989) - Doris Lee Workman ( b.1916,d.1977)
                 Gregg Sterner - Mary Alice Cole
                    Tom Sterner - Tracey Allman

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The following narrative has been provided by Larry and June (Windle) Bare:

Nicholas Sterner, son of Bernard Sterner, was the founder of this branch of the family in America, came from Germany in 1799 and located in York county, Pennsylvania, becoming one of the early settlers of Manheim township, York County, PA where he developed a farm and where he passed the remainder of his life.

John Sterner, son of Nicholas, was born in January 1800 in Manheim township, York county in 1807.  He married Elizabeth Kessler.

Jesse Sterner, son of John, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1831(?), and passed his entire life there, making his home in Codorus township, Pennsylvania, one of the honored citizens of the county.  He devoted his active years to farming.  He married Leah Deagan, who was born in 1837 in York County daughter of George and Anne (Brenneman) Deagan; she died Dec. 7, 1880 aged fifty-two years, two months and nineteen days.  Jesse and Leah (Deagan) Sterner children are: 

Dr. Edward D (see history below)
Nathan D was a telegraph operator and resided in York
Jacob D was a successful contractor and builder in York
Priscilla (deceased) was the wife of Martin S Kase, of Jefferson borough
Estella is the wife of John Miller, and they resided with her father on the old farm in Codorus
C.D. was elected to the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1898, served two terms and returned to farming in Codorus township (he married Elizabeth Myers)
Wesley, of York, married Elizabeth Stansbauch
William D., a farmer of Codorus township, married Lydia Cornbower.

Edward D. Sterner passed his youth on the homestead farm, while he secured his rudimentary training in the village schools of Jefferson.  In 1879 he matriculated at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., where he remained a student for three years, at the end of that time beginning his preparation for the medical profession, received his degree of M.D. in 1882.  He first engaged in practice in Jefferson borough near his old home, and there continued most successfully until 1889, when in order to open a wider field of professional work, he went to York and built up a large practice, standing in high esteem as a physician and public-spirited citizen.  Fraternally he belonged to the Knights of the Golden Eagle.  He and his wife were members of the United Brethren Church.  In politics he was a Democrat, but had never been an aspirant for political preferment.  On March 3, 1874, Dr. Sterner was married to Miss Lydia Spangler, daughter of Barnhart and Susan (Asper) Spangler honored residents of Codorus Township, Pennsylvania.  She was born in Spangler's Valley, Pennsylvania, on the Gettysburg pike, Jan 21, 1857.  Their children were;

Barrie L (?) died in 1875
Margaret G. and Florence S. twins, the former dying in 1878 and the latter in 1875
Joseph Franklin, born Jan. 27, 1878
Edward Ammon, born Dec. 20, 1870
Charles Austin, born Feb. 5, 1882
Mabel Irene, born Dec. 9, 1884.
Laura A, born Jan 3, 1874  died Jan 23, 1874

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My father, James A. Sterner, (d. 1988), son of Edward Ammon Sterner, worked in government civil service in Washington, D.C. until his retirement.  My mother, Doris Lee (Workman) Sterner and my father were divorced in 1952.  My father later re-married and they had a son and a daughter who are themselves married and raising their own families.

I'm the President/CEO of Network Engineering Services and NES Domains plus I work in the medical software industry.  My son Tom is a corporate convention and show producer and is President/CEO of CME (The Corporate Meeting Experience) and Hazlet Productions.

With the joining of our two families, Mary (Mary Alice Cole from the Cole, Farmacka, and Garrett families) and I now have 4 sons, 12 grand children, 6 great-grand children; our newest great grand child, Aubrey Kate Garrett, was born in Jan 2008.  Because of my back injury and surgery in 2002, sadly to say, I've had to retire from over 18 years of semi-professional sailing.

Gregg Sterner
Dallas, TX
info@NetworkEngineeringServices.com

There are numerous people working on the intersecting families of the Sterner, Workman, Garrett, Cole and Spangler lines at this time.  We have been successful in finding several common links to each other's databases and have joined those databases into one common database.  We've also identified several separate branches of these families that, at this time, have no identifiable links.  Anyone wishing to contribute to the research to help identify these persons should contact us at:   Database Coordinator.

We invite anyone in these families or other related families to submit their database (in GED format if available) so that we can post it for all members to research.  Please send it to the Database Coordinator.  The new contribution plus the newly merged database will then be posted for all members to download.  Contributors will be sent a special link to access all contributed GED files.   Experience has shown that entering an 8 generation narrative of families and their credits and sources takes approximately 60 hours of manual entry and verification.  Please keep in mind that a GED database file is the most practical method of testing, research, and integration.  In other words, a database file saves a whole lot of time.

The most common surnames in this database (in no particular order) are : LeFevre, Menges, Workman, Kauffman, Spangler, Sterner, Hoffeditz, Ronald, Lau, Senft, Cohenour, Shapiro, Brassert, Bare and more...
 

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