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FOOTNOTES
1. During a recent visit by the author to the old walled city of
Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, it was interesting to see the word ‘‘Rector”
carved in stone over the facade of the main entrance of the ancient
“city hall’? — the most important building of the town.
2. Following a personal visit to the Musen-Siegen area by our
son and -daughter-in-law, Frederic and Anneliese, in September,
1973, and in conjunction with considerable research on the part of
the Burgermeister of Musen and the County Genealogist, the
following controversial facts were unequivocally delineated: (25)
(26).
a. The ancestral cradle of our immediate branch of the
Rector family was Truppbach (now a suburb of Seigen) and not
either Musen or Siegen as many of the contemporary genealogists
of the family have erroneously stated.
b. Johannes Jacob Richter (sometimes known as Hans
Richter), our ancestral patriarch, was born and baptized in Truppbach in 1674. He married Elizabeth Haeger, eldest daughter of
Pastor Henrich Haeger, on February 17, 1711 in Truppbach. He
did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Phil Fishback as frequently
stated.
c. The Rector family was definitely one of the famous original families of the twelve that went to Virginia in the year 1714.
Pastor Haeger arrived in Virginia shortly after the twelve original
Museners.* He was founder of the Presbyterian (first Germanreformed) church in America and a motivating force of the colony.
3. It is surprising that in Virginia, the land of the cavaliers, the
first settled, and in many respects the most English of Englands
colonies in America, there was seated as early as 1714 this organized German colony — born of religious and economic troubles in
Germany, and was the forerunner of a numerous and virile element of her population.
4. Lola James Kolker moved to Nevada City, California where
she married Fred Worth on December 22, 1925 at the home of
G. J. Rector. They purchased the National Hotel from the Rector
family and operated it until the death of Fred Worth some years
later. Lola then returned to Missouri where she died. She had one
daughter, Phyllis, a resident of San Jose, California.
5. William Stark of Louisiana, Missouri, noted horticulturist
and founder of the famous Stark Nurseries that developed the
*Sometimes called Siegerlanders.