Where were they from?

 A short family tree branch:

Me

My mom, Georgiana Beismer O'Dell

My maternal grandmother, Margaret Eleanor Wormuth Beismer

Her father, Thomas James Wormuth

His father, Joseph Wormuth

His father, Peter Wormuth

There are several Peter Wormuths, including this Peter's son.  Our Peter lived in Sullivan County, NY.  Family lore is that Peter Wormuth and Harriet Barecolt were the parents of Joseph, Stephen, John and Peter, Jr.  Joseph's death record clearly shows his mother as Harriet Barecolt.  However, there is no documentation, other than that, that she ever existed.  It's most likely that her maiden name is misspelled and sounds like Barecolt; there are many possibilities.  It's also most likely that she was buried in the Wormuth family cemetery where the headstones are missing.

Peter married Grace Deighton in 1849.  They had several children together.  

Peter, sr. is a brick wall; I can't get further back than him.  Peter is the furthest back in my branch of the family.  He was born around 1788.  Various censuses show him born in different places, mostly just New York.  The 1855 Census shows him born in Montgomery County.  There were definitely Wormuths and variant spellings who lived in Montgomery County and pre-dated my branch of the family, but definite, concrete connection between the families has not yet been established.

Les Wormuth and I have been working on just that.

My plan is to get up to Montgomery County this year to see what I can find.  Several historical organizations there have records of various kinds.

Also, my plan is to get to the Wormuth cemetery in Callicoon and try to find out what happened to the headstones - if there were any; it's occurred to me that there may not have been.  If there were headstones, where are they?  If we can find them, they may tell us some things.

I have not been able to find records for Stephen, John and Peter, Jr. that tell us their mother's name.  There is a possibility that Peter, Sr. was married to a Mary who might be one of their mothers.

So far, I don't know exactly where my Peter, Sr. was born.  If he was born in in Montgomery County, which Peter was he and who was his father.  At that point we might be able to continue the research back to where the family came from.

More work to be done.