E. Wesley Altizer, about 1918, on Chestnut Ridge, Montgomery Co., VA
Who We Are
Emera Altizer was born Emmerich Althauser in 1749, in
Dutchess Co., New York, to German immigrants Johann Peter Althauser and
Elisabetha Christiana Laucks. As a young man, Emera traveled south to Lancaster
Co., PA where (according to family tradition) he worked as a cobbler for a
Michael Pitzer. He married Pitzer's daughter Anna Marie in July, 1773 at
Hagarstown, MD. Emera moved to Montgomery Co. VA shortly after his
marriage and lived there until his death in 1819. He is buried in the Altizer
Cemetery on Chestnut Ridge in Montgomery Co. Emera was father to eight children
(six boys and two girls) and those of us who bear the name Altizer, or have an
Altizer in our ancestral line, all descend from this one man who lived through
the last half of the 18th century.
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