This is the Court House in LaPorte, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. The population of the town is 220 people today. My grandmother Louisa Len Orlowski was born in LaPorte on March 12, 1894. She had eight brothers and sisters, Bertha Emilie, Augusta, Henry Ernest, Anna, Karl, Franz and John William. Henry Ernest " Dutch " Orlowski married Mary Elizabeth Hoffa. The Melcher family are the maternal side. Her mother was Louisa Melcher. Both families left Prussia after serving terms in the Military. My grandmother's father had two brothers, both settled in Bernice and Mildred, Pennsylvania. My grandmother Louisa or Louise married Charles William " Bill" Hatton who lived with his family on Sugar Hill in the town of Mildred. The Hatton family originally came from the Forest of Dean in Gloucester and Hereford. Sugar Hill was a small area and still is to this day. The Potter family lived just a short distance as did the Exley ( Oechsle) family. At that time the area was mostly English, Irish and German families. However many had arrived prior to the Revolutionary War and some were descendants of the Mayflower. It's hard to understand that the earlier settlers arrived in wagons, that Indians often attached. They were a part of our history as it was being made.

All three Orlowski brothers, as well as two Hattons, purchased the stained glass windows for Trinity Lutheran Church in Mildred. They, with friends, bought the land and built the Church. Charles William Haton and Louisa Lena Orlowski were the first to be married in the new church. In early 1800s the wonderful Rev. Muhlenberg visted many of these early German families.

Orlowski brothers 1890, Dushore, PA. Left to right Franz, Ludwig and Heinrich, my great-grandfather.

Louisa Lena Orowski ( Orlousky) Hatton and Ernest Arthur Hatton Sr., aks 2nd.

My aunt Edna Mae Hatton marrie Richard Erhardt.

Graphic design is from family ring. Eagle with Keys, St. Peter.

All three served in the Prussian Army before coming to the United States. The Melcher family as well. The early Melchers were said to have owned a brewery in Berlin. I knew Wilhelm Melcher, my great-grandfather's brother. I never knew my great-grandfather Ernst.t.