Four brothers arrived in New York from Holland, via Dover England in ~ 1684. Three of the brothers went west and descendants settled in and around Mount Gilead, Ohio. The fourth brother ventured futher west into the wilderness and was never heard from again. Washington Vanatta (Vanator) served in the Civil War and then ran a hotel/livery in Marengo, Ohio until 1900. He died in 1904 and is buried along with many relatives in Bryn Zion cemetery in Mount Gilead. Washington's son Scott moved to Colorado in 1917. Scott and his son Henry Clay owned the Fern Cliff ranch in Allenspark until 1938. At that time, Clay, his wife Gladys Turner Vanatta and their two sons John and Ed moved down from the mountains and settled in Hygiene, Colorado.

Michael Ray Vanatta
8171 Hygiene Road
Longmont, CO 80503
United States
vmvntt@aol.com

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