Members of this family spell their name as both "BacH" and "BacK"
The Bach (Back) FAMILY BOOK
The Bach (Back) FAMILY BOOK
The Bach (Back) FAMILY BOOK
If you have an ancestor with the last name of Bach, or Back, who lived in southeastern Kentucky, then you descend from the family of the famous musician, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
Johann Sebastian Bach had a cousin named Johann Christoph Bach, and his grandson, Johann Heinrich Bach (1709-1789), sailed to America, in 1740. He settled in southern Virginia, near the Robinson River, and he simplified the spelling of his name to be, John Henry Back. He had three sons: John Back (1738-1794); Henry Back (1740-1809); and Joseph Back (1745-1819).
Joseph Back (1745-1819) married Elizabeth Hoffman-Maggard (1755-1826), around 1772. They had four children: Joseph Back Jr. (1773-1802); John Back (1774-1854); Mary Back (1777-1807); and Henry Back (1785-1871). In 1791, the family migrated to southeastern Kentucky, and they founded the Bach (Back) family there. They first settled along Quicksand Creek, in what is now Breathitt County. But they later moved to some land near the Cumberland River, in what is now Harlan County, around 1796.
Joseph's wife Elizabeth died in 1826, and she was buried near the Cumberland River. The Maggard Cemetery was soon created, around her grave, because she had been raised by the Maggard family. However, her gravestone was illegally removed from the cemetery, in 1988, by "The Back-Bach Genealogical Society." They erected a new gravestone over her remains, but it described her sister-in-law, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746). That woman was married to Joseph's brother, Henry Back (1740-1809), but she had actually died in Rockingham County, Virginia, back in 1813, and she was buried there, on her son Aaron Back's land.
"The Back-Bach Genealogical Society" deliberately created that fake gravestone for Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746), in order to "prove" their fraudulent genealogy. They first claimed that Henry Back (1740-1809) was a son of Harman Back. (He wasn't.) Then they claimed that, after Henry died, his 64-year-old widow, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746), suddenly moved over 400 miles, through the dense wilderness, to southeastern Kentucky and founded the Bach (Back) family there. (She didn't, so they erected that fake gravestone for her, to make it look like she did.)
They also claimed that Henry Back (1740-1809) and his wife Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746) were the parents of John Back (1774-1854), Mary Back (1777-1807), and Henry Back (1785-1871), by simply inscribing their names on the back of the fake gravestone. (Of course, they weren't their children.)
The fraudulent genealogy of Harman Back supposedly being the ancestor of the Bach (Back) family in southeastern Kentucky has been around since the 1990s, even though there is not one piece of evidence whatsoever to support it. In contrast, there is a significant amount of evidence to support the actual genealogy.
This book provides the actual genealogy of the Bach (Back) family from southeastern Kentucky. If you descend from this family, you need to get this book, for yourself, and also for your children, in order to preserve the truth.
ISBN #978-0-9891687-8-6
The book is coil-bound, and it includes an Index
$40 (includes free shipping)
TILDEN BACH'S BOOK
The Bach (Back) FAMILY BOOK
The Bach (Back) FAMILY BOOK
Before Tilden Bach passed away, in 2009, he provided us with the rights to sell his books. This book is one of several books that were published, in the early 2000s, which presented the actual genealogy of the Bach (Back) family in southeastern Kentucky.
Around 2002, Karen Back Simmons, who is a descendant of the Bach (Back) family in southeastern Kentucky, commented online that she knew the genealogy that Tilden had documented in his books was correct, because he presented proof of it. She also wrote how "sad" she was, when she found out that Harman Back was definitely not her ancestor. However, when she later wanted to join DAR, she pretended that Harman Back was her ancestor, just so she could join, and she also created her fraudulent "DNA Project," in order to "prove" that she descends from Harman Back.
Karen brazenly shows a screenshot from page 7b of Tilden's book, about Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746), on her bizarre "family genealogy website," which is in violation of our copyright. But she deliberately cut off the last four lines of it, because Tilden had correctly written that, after Elizabeth's husband Henry died, she moved to Rockingham County, Virginia, with her son Aaron, and her sister Margaret; she never moved to Kentucky.
Karen cut off those lines because the fraudulent genealogy of Harman Back claims that Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746) moved to southeastern Kentucky, after her husband Henry died, and that she founded the Bach (Back) family there. That cropped screenshot is just one way that Karen "hijacks" proof of the actual genealogy of the Bach (Back) family from southeastern Kentucky, and then turns it into so-called "proof" of the fraudulent genealogy of Harman Back. But she does something, a little bit different, with the land deeds for Elizabeth Pennington Back (1795-1855).
As Tilden wrote, on page 9-12 of his book, before Elizabeth Pennington married Lewis Back, in 1812, she had an affair with Andrew Cope, in 1809, who was married. She gave birth to his baby, in 1810. He and his family quickly left Kentucky, but before he left, he told Elizabeth that she and the baby could live on his land. In fact, his name is on the 1815 Tax List as owning the land that she lived on. In 1823, Andrew returned to Kentucky and he gifted that land to her. He even stated in the deed that he was, "held and firmly bound to Elizabeth Back." In other words, giving her that land was his way of apologizing for getting her pregnant. And in 1831, she deeded that land to her husband Lewis Back.
However, Karen claims that the Elizabeth in those two deeds was Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746), and that, in 1831, she deeded the land to her son Lewis! (Of course, Karen can't explain why Andrew Cope allegedly gifted the land to Elizabeth Hoffman Back, in 1823!) Karen continues to claim that the 1831 deed is "proof" that Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746) moved to southeastern Kentucky, even though she knows full well that there is solid proof that Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746) moved to Rockingham County, Virginia, with her son Aaron, after her husband Henry died. That's because Elizabeth is listed with her son Aaron, on the 1810-1812 tax lists in Rockingham County, as "Aaron Back and mother." But, Karen simply claims that isn't her!
It's shocking how Karen "hijacks" actual proof of her own family's genealogy, and twists it around to suit her fraudulent genealogy. It's also shocking what she has done to Tilden's brilliant research.
Tilden's book will be available for sale very soon.
DR. Wilgus Bach's BOOK
DR. Wilgus Bach's BOOK
DR. Wilgus Bach's BOOK
In the early 1900s, Dr. Wilgus Bach was the highly-respected historian for the Bach (Back) family, in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Dr. Bach interviewed many elderly people, about their ancestors, and he made notes about what they told him. He compiled his notes into this "Manuscript of Families."
After Dr. Bach died, his widow later donated his book to the Kentucky Historical Society. Sadly, shortly after that, a member of "The Back-Bach Genealogical Society" went to that facility, and he got hold of Dr. Bach's book. While that man sat all alone, in the archives, he removed numerous pages from the book that documented the actual history of the Bach (Back) family. He also used an ink pen, and a bottle of "White-out," to change Dr. Bach's research about the Bach (Back) family, to include Harman Back. He even inserted a page of the fraudulent genealogy about Harman Back, which he had written himself, into Dr. Bach's book. That shows just how aggressive all of these people are, who support that fraudulent genealogy of Harman Back.
In addition to the section about the Bach (Back) family, the book also contains Dr. Bach's genealogical information about 62 other families in Breathitt County, Kentucky: Adams, Banks, Blair, Boggs, Bowman, Breeding, Byrd, Calhoun, Campbell, Carpenter, Caudill, Chambers, Cockrill, Combs, Cooper, Cope, Craft, Crawford, Davis, Deaton, Eversole, Fields, Frazier, Fugate, Gabbard, Gibbs, Haddix, Hagins, Hargis, Hensley, Hogg, Holbrook, Holliday, Hollon, Hounshell, Howard, Hudson, Hurst, Kash, Landrum, Landsaw, Lovely, Maggard, Miller, Murphy, Noble, Reynolds, Roberts, Robertson (Robinson), Rose, Russell, Short, Smith, South, Stacy, Stamper, Strong, Swango, Terry, Turner, Tutt, and Williams.
The book is on a DVD
$20 (includes free shipping)
THE BACH FAMILY BIBLE
DR. Wilgus Bach's BOOK
DR. Wilgus Bach's BOOK
In 1762, Johann Heinrich Bach (aka John Henry Back), who was the immigrant in this Bach (Back) family, and who had settled in southern Virginia, bought an old Bible (actually a Catechism) from his cousin, Johann Christian Bach, who still lived back in Europe. Johann Christian Bach was the son of Johann Sebastian Bach, and he had inherited many of his father's books.
In late 1787, John Henry Back wrote down, in his Bible, the names and dates of birth of five of his family members who were at his cabin one day: his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Hoffman Back (b. 7-13-1746), who was married to his son Henry Back (1740-1809), and their infant son Lewis Back (b. 10-14-1787); and three of the four children of his son Joseph Back (1745-1819) and his wife Elizabeth Hoffman-Maggard Back: John Back (b. 11-19-1774), Mary Back (b. 11-1-1777), and Henry Back (b. 2-6-1785).
Because Elizabeth Hoffman Back's name and date of birth (b. 7-13-1746) were written into this old Bible, which was owned by John Henry Back, that is absolute proof that she had married into his family, and not into the family of Harman Back, who lived 25 miles away, up in Little Fork.
In 1791, when John Henry Back's son Joseph Back (1745-1819), his wife Elizabeth Hoffman-Maggard Back, and their four children, migrated to southeastern Kentucky, they took that Bible with them. Over the next 120 years (until 1911), many other family members recorded their names and dates of birth into that Bible as well.
The Bach Family Bible provides additional proof of the actual genealogy of the Bach (Back) family from southeastern Kentucky. It's also fascinating to see the handwriting of your ancestors.
The book is on a DVD
$20 (includes free shipping)