Source for the other children of George and Ruanna Motter: (A History of Washington County, Maryland: From the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time, Including a History of Hagerstown, Volume 2, Part 1; Thomas John Chew Williams, Jan 1906, Higginson Book Company)

Page 762: “George W. S. Line was educated in the common schools, and brought up on a farm. He began the management of his own affairs at the age 32 years, having worked for his father from the time he reached his majority until then, and holding in payment for his services a note of $1100. He was married December 25, 1884, to Martha A., daughter of George and Ruanna (Huffer) Motter. They went to housekeeping on the "Hillsdale Farm,” which was their home from 1885 to 1904. In the latter year they removed to a property in Keedysville, which Mr. Line had purchased for cash.”

Page 762: “Mrs. Line's father, Mr. George Motter, was born January 26, 1828, a son of William Motter, born October 22, 1796, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Nicodemus, born March 16, 1808.”

Page 762: “George Motter, born in 1828, is living in Sterling , Rice County, Kansas. His children are as follows: Celia, deceased, who married W. S. Huffmaster, of Keedysville District; William, who lives in Ohio; Elizabeth, who married the Rev. Lewis Fahrney, a German Baptist minister; Mary; John Luther, who owns and lives upon a large orange plantation in California; Emma K.; Martha A. (Mrs. George W. S. Line); Charles, a confectioner of Keedysville; Ettie, who married Samuel McGonigal, a prosperous stock raiser and large land owner of Nickerson, Kan. Mrs. George Motter died when her daughter (afterwards Mrs. Line) was about eight years of age; the little girl then lived with her uncle and aunt , Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Thomas, respected citizens of Boonsboro, Mrs. Thomas being her mother's sister. A relic very highly prized by the family of Mr. George W. S. Line is the old family Bible, printed in 1826, which once belonged to William Motter, and is now the property of George W. Line's daughter, Miss Leila May Line, who is the great-granddaughter of William Motter.”

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