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GATHERING at the IRA HELTON home in 1901
Elizabeth Penner   Sex: Female
Birth Date 1747
Death Date  1800 Virginia 
Father   Born:  
Mother   Born:  
Spouse: Adam Sr. Runner   Sex: Male
Birth Date 1731 Cecil Co. MD Colony d.1795 Wythe County Virginia Colon 
Death Date 1795 Wythe County Virginia Colony 
Father Mathias Lauffer Runner Born: 1725 Died:
Mother Catherine ? Born: 1738
Adam Sr. Runner Notes: Adam Runners estate was appraised .
Feb 15 1796 in Wythe County VA. 17 82 Montomery County,
Virginia Land Tax List - Acerage 210, Value 65, tax 1 3

More about Adam Runner Sr.
He was mentioned in a lawsuit in Wythe County Superior court Chancery Pleas and the following children were named:
Adam,
Jacob,
Catherine who married Peter Smith and moved to KY,
Elizabeth who married John Runyon,
Margaret who married John Smith,
Susannah who married Robert Curry (1792),
Mary who married John George Schroeder,
and Lovis who married Joseph Honaker first and after his death married Benjamin Jonaes and moved west.

(Lawsuit Smith V Fugate, Wythe County Superior Court Chancery Pleas, Bk 5 beginning P 669,
Montgomery county Marriges) Adam Sr. is thought by many to be a son of Gottlieb Lauffer who came from Germany to Maryland in the 1700s.
The book EARLY ADVENTURES OF THE WESTERN WATERS, VOL II, by Mary Kegley p age 397 discusses Adam Runner living in Drapers Valley as early as 1786, on 230 acres of land on Macks Run.
(Mongomery County Deed Book A, P402) Records indicate that he was definitely living in Wythe County Virginia in 1751 when his first child, Adam Runner, Jr. was born. Adam Sr. and his wife (name unknown) had a total of eight children.

Some say he was born in Germany.
Some speculate that Adam Runner, Sr. was the son of a German immigrant, Gottlieb Lauffer, who came to the US in the early 1700s and settled in Maryland.
Based on the information I have been able to locate to date, there is no record or other evidence that connects Adam Runner, Sr. to the Lauffer clan, which immigrated to America from the German State of Baden Wuertemberg. 
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