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Idol Family History - The Story of the American Idol Family

If you have a copy of the big white book we all call "The Idol Book," you have Cousin Mattie and John L Idol, Jr. to thank for it. If you had a chance to talk with the staff of the Presbyterian Home in High Point, you would soon learn that the person who made life simpler and easier for both staff and residents was Cousin Mattie Ruth, who gave the retirement center a van and hydraulic lift to help move patients to and from High Point hospitals.

Mattie Ruth, the seventh of fourteen children born to Junius Jacob and Bessie N Clinard on a farm near High Point, has spent a lifetime working for other people. She worked on her father's farm, sweating beside her six sisters and seven brothers to tend the tobacco, peaches, and strawberries on her father's farm, a part of the original land grant of Johann Bernhardt Eitel.

Off the farm, she attended local public schools, enjoying classroom activities as well as sports. At High Point High School she played outfield on a softball team. But already she was thinking of more serious things, a career in nursing. She took her training at High Point Hospital and accepted a job there upon graduation. But other opportunities knocked. She served as a U. S. Army nurse for three years, holding a post at Walter Reed Hospital. She returned from Washington, DC, to assume duties with the Public Health Nursing Service in High Point and helped to establish the High Point Public Health Office. Her career took a different direction when she became an industrial nurse. She went to work for Melrose Hosiery Mills after leaving the Public Health Office and spent seven years in industry. Along the way, she took a few turns at private nursing, an experience which served her well when she became her mother's full time nurse.

Finally, all nursing jobs had to be turned down when a disabling back operation forced her to give up her work and to move to the Presbyterian Home in 1974. Other interesting things now engaged her attention, the first among them all the prospect of bringing out a revision of "The Idol Book."

Only six copies had been made of Pearl Idol's and Maud Idol Smith's "Descendants of Barnett and Elizabeth Idol," a work compiled in 1938 and much in demand by members of the Idol clan. Mattie Ruth undertook to add material from local and state archives and to underwrite the publication of 300 copies at a cost of $10,000. But she had meant to leave that task to her brother Wesley in Los Angeles and had parted with her copy of "The Idol Book" on the condition that he see that the book was printed. His untimely death prevented that. Yet his hope did not die with him, for Cousin Mattie now asked Wesley's widow to return the book and now sat down to prepare it for the press, drawing upon her brother Percy for help from time to time. Finally, the book appeared in 1980.

Not in the book are Mattie's recollections of her days on the farm and of the Sunday mornings when her father would call his large brood around him and have them sing hymns while he played an old pump organ. Such singing and such an instrument would not be permitted in the Primitive Baptist Church that he would later lead them to on Sunday mornings. Rupps List

From Rupps List of 30, 000 Immigrants, September 23, 1752. Ship St. Andrew, James Abercrombie, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Plymouth, England. Joh. Bernhart Eytel

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Oath Of Allegiance 1712

The oath of allegiance signed by German emigrants to Pennsylvania 1712 to Revolutionary War was as follows:

We subscribers, natives and late inhabitants of the Palatinate upon the Rhine and places adjacent, having transported ourselves and families into this Province of Pennsylvania, a colony subject to the crown of Great Britain, in hope and expectation of finding a retreat and peaceable settlement therein, do solemnly promise and engage, that we will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His present Majesty King George, the Second, and his successors, Kings of Great Britain, and will be faithful to the proprietor of this Province, and that we will demean ourselves peaceably to all His said Majesty's subjects and strictly observe and conform to the Laws of England and of this Province to the utmost of our power and the best of our understanding.

Descendants of Barnett and Elizabeth Meier Idol

Descendants of Barnett & Elizabeth Meier Idol have been located in the following states: Calif., Colo., Conn., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La. , Mass., Mich., Mo., Mont., Miss., Neb., N.H., N.C., N.Y., N.J., New Mexico, Ohio, Okla., Oregon, Pa., Tenn., Texas, Utah, Va., Wash., Wyoming, S.C., Alaska, Canada and South America.

Generation 1. Barnett Idol and Elizabeth Meier Idol.

Generation 11. Their Children:

1. Jacob 2. George 3. Mary 4. Michael 5. Adam 6. Matthias 7. Barnett, Jr. 8. Elizabeth

Generation 111. Their Grandchildren, etc. For instance: 1 2 4 would mean the fourth child of George and Grace Veal Idol. b. Born d. Died m. Married

John Bernhart Eitel (Barnett Idol, Sr.) was born in Germany about 1735. He came from Rotterdam, Holland to England, and embarked at Plymouth for America on the ship St. Andrew, James Abercrombie, Captain, landing at Philadelphia Sept. 23, 1752. He married about 1760 in Bucks Co., Pa., Elizabeth Meier, daughter of Conrad Meier from Winkel, Parish of Bulach, Switzerland. About 1770 they moved to North Carolina. Their home was one and one half miles north east from Abbott's Creek Church, then Rowan County, now (1938) Forsyth County, N.C. Here they kept a tavern for travelers between the Wachovia settlement at Salem and Fayetteville.

The above named couple shall be termed Generation I in all the ensuing records. Barnett and Elizabeth Meier Idol are buried at Bethany Reformed Church Cemetery, Davidson County, North Carolina. Marker erected 1937. About 1790 the spelling of the name was changed from Eitel to Idol.

Generation 11. Their Children: 1. Jacob Idol, b. in Bucks Co., Pa. 11 15 1761, d. in Forsyth Co., N.C. 1 21 1851. 2. George Idol, b. in Pa., d. in Tenn. 3. Mary Idol, b. in Pa. 1 17 1764, d. Washington Co., Ind. 5 13 1854. 4. Michael Idol, b. in Pa., d. in Tenn. 5. Adam Idol, b. in Pa., d. in Tenn. about 1852. 6. Matthias Idol, b. 11 6 1773, d. in Davidson Co., N.C. 7 10 1854. 7. Barnett Idol, Jr., b. in Rowan Co., N.C. 1 17 1777, d. in Guilford Co., N.C. 9 2 1861. 8. Elizabeth Idol, b. in Rowan Co., N.C. 3 4 1780, d. in Davidson Co., N.C. 12 4 1848.

Junius Jacob Idol and Bessie N Clinard Idol


 * The original spelling of Clinard was Kleinert.