Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 30

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1090


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ing he makes a specialty of dairving. Mr. Dunkel- berger is a progressive man and has taken con- siderable interest and part in various affairs af- fecting the welfare of the community, was post- master at Yordy for about five years, until the office was discontinued upon the establishment of the rural free delivery, and is a director in two telephone companies. He is a niember of the M. E. Church, in which he has likewise beeu ac- tive, serving upon the building committee when the new church was erected, in 1905. He has always been liberal in his support of religious work and enterprises. Fraternally he is a thirty-second-de- gree Mason, belonging to Elysburg Lodge, No. 414, F. & A. M., Bloomsburg Lodge of Perfection and Bloomsburg Consistory.


Mr. Dunkelberger married Martha Chamber- lin, daughter of Isaac Chamberlin, and they have six children: Alverta M .. wife of D. A. Beck : Mary C., wife of Harry Robinson; George A .: Susan G., wife of H. L. Beck: Herbert H .: and L. Anabel, who graduated from the Bloomsburg State normal school in 1910.


GEORGE A. DUNKELBERGER. son of Tobias, was born July 18, 1882, in Shamokin, and was quite young when his parents settled at the home in Shamokin township where he was reared. He at- tended the local schools, and later was a student for two years at the Millersville State normal school. in Lancaster county. Returning home he assisted his father until his marriage, after which he lived for two years upon the farm at Seven Points owned by his father. In 1908 he bought the old Swank farm, near the upper M. E. Clmireh, where he follows agricultural pursuits, also carrying on a daily milk business, his route being to Trevorton. He is a director of the Irish Valley & Seven Points Telephone Company. Mr. Dunkelberger is an estimable young man, an active member of and worker in the Methodist Church, where he has served as president of the Epworth League and superintendent of the Junior League.


George Dunkelberger, son of John. was born March 10, 1810, in the Mahantango Valley, and was a lifelong farmer. Moving to what was then Shamokin (now Rockefeller) township, he settled near Seven Points, where he bought a farm of 160 acres on which he spent the remainder of his life, dying there Jan. 6, 1884. He is buried at Seven Points. His wife. Catharine Rebuck. dauglı- ter of John, was born in 1816, and died Oct. 1, .1895. They had children as follows: Susan, who is in Oklahoma ; Jonathan, deceased : George, liv- ing in Michigan; Catharine, of Sunbury: Eliza- In 1905 Mr. Dunkelberger married Hannah R. Sober, daughter of Isaac and Abigail ( Furman ) Sober, and they have three children : Verna May. Oscar Wallace and Tobias Henry. beth, of Shamokin: Tobias ; Mary, living at Sun- bury ; Henry W .: and Harriet, living in Sunbury. TOBIAS DUNKELBERGER, son of George, is a well known farmer of Shamokin township, where he The Sober family came to America fromn Ger- was born, near Seven Points, Dec. 4. 1851. Ile many, and Samuel Sober, Sr., the founder of the attended the local schools and remained with his family in this section, was a native of New Jer- sev. He came thence to Pennsylvania, settling in Shamokin township shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war, and purchased a tract of land containing about seven Imindred acres; where the Sober brothers at one time resided. His wife. who maiden name was Moore, was a resident of Shamokin township. and their children were As follows: John : Michael M., born March 12, 1801. who died Nov. 26, 1820 (his wife. Maria, died Sept. 2. 1863. aged fifty-two years) : Susan, who married Morris Smith; Alexander ; Isaac, born is father until he reached the age of nineteen years, after which he was associated with his brother Jonathan for five years, engaged in butchering. He then spent two years upon the homestead again, after which he went to Shamokin and entered the milk business, in which he continued four years. He then bought the old Wilkinson homestead of seventy-six acres in Shamokin township, to which he added until he now has two hundred acres in the one tract, as well as another farm of 145 acres in the same township. In addition to general farm-


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1814, who died in 1882 (his wife Mary, born in was during the time the "Molly Maguires" made 1817, died in 1896) ; and Aaron. Samnel Sober, the father of this family, died about 1820.


Alexander Sober, son of Samuel, Sr., was born in 1807 on the homestead in Shamokin township, Northumberland county, was a farmer throughout life, and inherited a portion of the homestead farm. living and dying in Shamokin township. His death occurred in December, 1869. His wife, Mary . Foy, also born in 180; (probably in Rockefeller township), survived him many years, continuing to live in her native place until her death, in 1895. Mr. Sober was a quiet and industrious citizen and farmer, highly esteemed by his neighbors. Twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, were born to him and his worthy wife, namely: Samuel, who is deceased; Beulah, deceased; Uriah, living in Shamokin ; Morris : Aaron : William A., deceased : Isaac; Salathiel, deceased ; Alexander Jordan, de- ceased : Mary A., who married Frank Hummel : Susanna, who married Jared Neidig ; and Joseph, living in Sunbury.


Isaac Sober, son of Alexander, born Nov. 28, 1837, followed farming and threshing throughout his active years. He resides in Shamokin town- ship. By his marriage to Abigail Furman the following children were born: Lillie B. married Charles Sehrader: Florence A. married . Grant Smith ; Mary R. and Susan E. died young; Amos V. is living in California ; John F. lives at home : George R. is a resident of Sunbury; Atwood lives in Baltimore; Katie. L. married Harvey Wynn ; Alvin A. lives in Iowa ; Hannah R. married George A. Dunkelberger.


Daniel Furman, grandfather of Mrs. Isaae So- ber, lived in Shamokin township. Northumberland county, and followed farming. He married Rebec- ca Moore, and they had the following children : Moore, who was drowned: Annie, who married Bevv Taylor and (second) George Campbell; Lovina, who married Christ Yordy; Rachel, who married Peter Kreiger: Abigail, who died young : William, who died in Shamokin township: John. and Samuel, who died in Shamokin township.


John Eurman, son of Daniel, followed farming, and died in Shamokin township. He married Ann H. Riche, daughter of Moses Riche, and they had the following children : Moore, M. Riche, Rebecca, Catharine, Hannah, Abigail ( Mrs. Isaac Sober) and Elizabeth J.


times so exciting in that section. He was next engaged in farming on the old homestead for his father for some tine, and he subsequently located at Weigh Scales, where he farmed for ten years. On April 15, 1890, he bought the old homestead, ninety-six acres of good land, which formerly be- longed to Benneville Keim, of Reading, Pa. He is now suceessfully engaged in farming and truck- ing. Mr. Dunkelberger has attended the Shamokin markets sinee 1871, and is as thoroughly familiar with the marketing of produce as with its cultiva- tion. He is an industrious, respected citizen, and has served as overseer of the poor in his district for the past twenty-three years. He is a Democrat in politics, .a member of the United Evangelical Church, has been a member of the P. O. S. of A. since 1878, and also belongs to the Brotherhood of Ameriea.


Mr. Dunkelberger married Elizabeth Reed. daughter of Amos Reed, and they have had a fam- ilv of eight children, namely : Mabel, who married Webster Lot and has one son, Fain : Charles, a resi- dent of Shamokin, who married Susan Bebrent and has four children, Adelina, Carl. Mabel and Eman- nel; Howard, of Snydertown. who married Mary Hawk; Viola: Emma; Charlotte; Arthula, and Leon.


Anos Reed, father of Mrs. Henry W. Dunkel- berger, was born Jan. 10, 1820. in Little Mahanoy township, son of Leonard and Elizabeth ( Dunkel- berger) Reed. His father, who was a native of Berks county, Pa., came to Northumberland county with his parents at an early period, the family settling along Plum cheek, in what is now Roeke- feller township. Leonard Reed was a mason by trade. He was a Lutheran in religious faith. Of his six children, we have record of three: Solo- mon, Elizabeth (wife of Abraham Shaeffer) and Amos. In 1846 Amos Reed married Rebecca Fago- lv, daughter of Jonathan Fagely, and she died in 1852, the mother of three children: Emanuel, of Towa: Mary, wife of Newton Furman, of Williams- port, and Maggie, wife of Andrew Wilson, of Rockefeller township. Mr. Reed's second marriage was to Sarah Swinehart, by whom he had six chil- dren : Elizabeth. Mrs. Henry W. Dunkelberger : Harriet, wife of Inther Ellis, of Washington. P. (. : Charlotte, of Nebraska ; Jemima, wife of Henry Miller, of Rockefeller township : Coleman, of Iowa. and Ira, of Idaho. For his third wife Mr. Reed married Susanna Trion, widow of Abraham Reitz.


HENRY W. DUNKELBERGER, son of George and Catharine ( Rebuck) Dunkelberger, was born on his present farm in Shamokin township Feb. 25, Mr. Reed died in 1889 and is buried at the Wolf's 1856. He obtained his education in the public Cross Road church, He was a member of the Lutheran Church, which he served as elder and deacon, and in politics he was a Republican. sehools and was engaged with his father on the farm until he reached the age of twenty-one years. when he went to Michigan. After farming. in that State for eighteen months he returned to his old WILLIAM G. SHOOP, of Danville, Pa .. one of the leading business men of that place and of the surrounding territory, was born in Danville, only home and learned the trade of butcher at Locust Dale, following this business for three years; it


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son of Gidcou M. and Amelia ( Gearhart) Shoop, trustee of the hospital for the care of the insane the former of whom was for years one of the fore- most citizens of this part of Pennsylvania.


George Shoop, grandfather of William G. Shoop, was born Jan. 1, 1:83,. in Cumberland county, Pa., son of John Shoop. He married Elizabeth Cockley, who was born in Dauphin coun- ty April 30, 1783, and she died July 21, 1832, in Sunbury, Pa., Mr. Shoop surviving until June 21, 1849. They were the parents of seven children, born as follows: Mary Ann. Ang. 30, 1804 (born in Cumberland county) ; John, Sept. 10, 1807 (born in Sunbury) ; Amelia, March 30, 1810 (born in Sunbury) ; George, Jr., June 14, 1813; Jere- miah, Oct. 1. 1815 (died April 19, 1847) : Sarah, Aug. 24, 1818 (died Oct. 26, 1818) ; Gideon M., Jan. 23, 1821.


Gideon M. Shoop attended public school at Sun- bury until thirteen years of age, when he went to Franklin county, Pa., to learn the art of making French buhr millstones, at which he was employed for two years. When fifteen he went to Cumber- land county, where he followed his trade for some time, until ready to establish himself in business. ' 1896. In 1841 he came to Danville as collecting agent for several stage lines, and in that capacity per- formed the duty of sorting and distributing the mail. In 1846 he rented the "Brady Hotel," which he repaired and improved, added another story and changed the name to the "Montour House," by which nanie it is still known. After eighteen months in the hotel business he sold out and went into the mercantile business, in which he was engaged for several years. On April 11, 1849, he was appointed postmaster of Dan- . ville, serving as such until Nov. 26, 1852. In 1850, when Montour county was formed out of Columbia, Mr. Shoop and Dr. Frick were the prime movers in the formation of the new county, and in- strumental in its erection. For over thirty years he served as a director of the Danville National Bank, and he was influential in the promotion of various industries in Danville, was a director of the Dan- ville Nail & Manufacturing Company, of the Dan- ville Bridge Company, and of a number of similar concerns. Mr. Shoop became interested in the lumber business as opportunity offered, purchasing . several tracts of timberland in Montour and ad- joining counties, cutting the timber and building a number of sawmills in which to prepare the lum- ber for market. When wood grew scarce in his own . locality he turned his attention to the South, where he acquired large interests. This was his last busi- ness. One of Mr. Shoop's pet enterprises was the Danville high school. of which he was one of the foremost advocates from the time the project was first broached. If there was one of his achieve- ments which he valued above others it was un- doubtedly what he accomplished in this direction. For fourteen years previous to his death he was a


at Danville. In political sentiment he was a stanch Republican, and influential in his locality, but not an office seeker; socially he was identified with Danville Lodge, No. 224, F. &. A. M., and with the Royal Arch chapter. He was a prominent member of St. Paul's Methodist Church, which he served faithfully as president of the board of trus- tees, steward and teacher in the Sunday school, and his interest extended to the denomination at large. In 1880 he was elected a lay delegate to the Central Pennsylvania Conference, and the same year was elected by the Conference to the General Conference which met at Cincinnati, Ohio. His death occurred March 20, 1909.


On Dec. 2, 1846, Mr. Shoop married Amelia Gearhart, daughter of William and Sarah (Boone) Gearhart, both members of prominent old families of this region more particularly mentioned later in this article, and to them were born four chil- dren : Clarence and Jeremiah, twins, who died in infancy; William G., and George, who died at the age of five years. Mrs. Shoop died Oct. 17,


William G. Shoop, son of Gideon M. and Amelia (Gearhart) Shoop, was given educational advan- tages in his youth, and upon commencing the earnest business of life became associated with his father. He has continued the sawmill successfully to the present time, maintaining the high reputa- tion established by his father in a long and prosper- ous career. He has worthily worn a name which has been identified with the most progressive in- terests of this portion of the State for many years. and has managed all his interests with an ability which entitles him to rank among the most sub- stantial men of the vicinity.


On Dec. 2, 1906, Mr. Shoop married Mary Einma Robertson. of Galesburg, Ill., daughter of John and Mary ( Wallace) Robertson. formerly of Cumberland county, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Shoop re- side in the beautiful stone mansion at the corner of East Market and Ferry streets, Danville. They attend the Presbyterian Church.


William Gearhart, grandfather of Mrs. Gidcon M. Shoop, came to Northumberland county, Pa .. in 1790 with his brother Capt. Jacob Gearhart. William taking up the land between Kipp's run and the stream that enters the river above River- side. Both had married in New Jersey, from which State they moved to this. region, William (proh- ably the elder) marrying Eleanor De Knight. They were the parents of seven children : William. Tobias. Aaron. Jacob, Elizabeth (Mrs. Amens ). Mary (Mrs. Lamberson) and Ann (Mrs. Amens) .


William Gearhart, son of William and Eleanor Gearhart, died in 1847. He married Saralı Boone. and they had five children, born as follows: May- berry. in 1813; Eleanor. in 1814: Harriet, in 1815: Julia Ann, in 1818; Amelia, in 1821.


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The Boones, Mrs. Gideon M. Shoop's maternal His wife's name was Catharine. (6) Benja- ancestors, descended from George Boone (1), who min, born July 16, 1106, died Oct. 14, 1162. In 1226, at Abington, Pa ... he married (first) Ann Farmer, and they were the parents of John. and Susanna. There were five children by the second marriage, Mary, Benjamin, James. Samuel (whose daughter married Hezekiah Pancoast) and Dinah, who married Benjamin Tallman, son of William and Ann ( Lincoln) Tallman-Benjamin being their only child who reached maturity and left descendants. Ann ( Lin- colu), his mother, was the sister of Sarah Lin- coln, wife of William Boone, and they were dangh- ters of Mordecai Lincoln, whose will was probated in 1436. Mordecai Lincoln married .( second) Mary Robinson, and Sarah and Ann were their children : there was also a posthumous son, Abram. Among the sons of his first marriage was John. who had a son Abraham, who was the father of Thomas Lincoln, who married Nancy Hanks and became the father of Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States. William and Ann ( Lincoln) Tallman moved to Virginia, where they died. Benjamin and Dinah (Boone) Tallman also moved to Virginia, but about 1805-10 they settled in Ohio, where he died about 1820 and she about 1824. (7) James, born July 18, 1:09. died Sept. 1, 1785. He married Mary Foulke and (second) Anna Griffiths, and by his wife Mary had fourteen children. One of his sons, James, became an as- tronomer; he wrote the Boone manuscript from which much of the material used in this article is taken. The eldest child, Ann. married Abram Lincoln, posthumous child of Mordecai Lincoln. who died in 1735-36. Mordecai Lincoln, son of Abram and Ann (Boone) Lincoln, married Julia Mayberry, sister of Margaret Mayberry, who was the wife of George Boone. son of William and Sarah Boone. Margaret Lincoln, only child of Mordecai and Julia (Mayberry) Lincoln who reached maturity, married a Mr. Barto. lived in England. His son, George (2), was born in the city of Exeter, Devonshire, England, and died at the age of sixty years. By trade he was a blacksmith. He married Sarah Uppey, who lived to the age of eighty, and to their union was born George Boone (3), whose birth occurred in 1666 at the village of Stoak, near Exeter. He married Mary Manbridge, who was born in 1669, daughter of John and Mary ( Milton ) Manbridge, and died in 1740, in her seventy-second year. George Boone (3) and his wife arrived in Philadelphia Oct. 10. 1717, spent some time at Abington, Pa., then two years at North Wales, eventually moving to Oley township, Berks county, where they settled. War- rants for 400 acres of land there issued to him, dated 1218, are on record. The original home- stead is now owned by Morris DeTurk. This George Boone died in Berks county July 27. 1747. He left eight children, fifty-two grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren, all of whom excepting Sarah and Squire remained and died in Exeter township, Berks county, as the records of the Exeter Friends burying ground show. We have the following record of the children born to George Boone (3) and his wife Mary ( Manbridge) : (1) George (4), born July 13, 1690, died Nov. 20, 1753: He was a teacher by profession, served as magistrate, and was a man of great prominence in the community. On July 31, 1713, he married De- borah Howell, who died Jan. 26, 1752. (2) Sarah, born Feb. 18, 1691(?), married Jacob Stover. They moved to Virginia and later to Kentucky. (3) Squire, born Nov. 25, 1696, died in 1764 in North Carolina, whither he moved in 1750. About 1745 he erected what was then the largest barn in Berks county, a stone structure which remained standing until 1825, when it was torn down by Mr. DeTurk, who needed a larger building. The masonry was found to be perfect, and the walls had to be blasted to pieces in spite of the fact that they George Boone (4), born July 13, 1690, married Deborah Howell. and they had a family of ten chil- dren, born as follows: George (5). May 3, 1:13, who died Sept. 30, 1737: Mary. Feb. 10, 1:16: Hannah. July 20, 1218: Deborah. Dec. 18, 1:20; Dinah, Oct. 18, 1:22 : Wm., Sept. 18, 1:24: Josiah, Jan. 6, 1726; Jeremiah, Jan. 16. 1:29: Abigail, Ang. 9, 1732; Hezekiah, March 22, 1:34. had stood for over one hundred and thirty years. In 1750 Mr. Boone sold his farm to Mr. DeTurk, and it has since remained in the latter's family. Squire Boone married Sarah Morgan, an aunt of Gen. Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary tame, and they were the parents of eleven children, nine of whom lived to the ages of between eighty-three and ninety-one years, one of this family being Daniel Boone, the famous Kentnekv pioneer. An- other was Hawkins Boone, who built Fort Boone, at the mouth of Warrior Run. ( +) Mary. boru Sept. 23, 1699, died Jan. 16. 1774. She married John Webb, and they were the parents of eleven children, of whom Samuel moved to Columbia


William Boone, son of George (4), born Sept. 18. 1:24. died in 1771. His will, signed May 23. 1768, and probated Dec. 6. 1:11. provides for the following: To daughter Abigail. wife of Adin Pancoast, 40 pounds : to repair the Exeter bury- ing ground : to daughter Mary, 100 pounds at age of twenty years: to son Mordecai 50 pounds be- county. Pa., settling near Espy. His daughter. fore division. The remainder of the estate was Mary married Mordecai Lincoln, brother of Abra- to be divided equally among the sons, who were ham, and son of Mordecai. who died in 1:35-36. to be put to trades. On March 26. 1248. William (5) Joseph, born April 5, 1904. died Jan. 30, 1716. Boone married Sarah Lincoln, who was born in


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January, 1221, and died April 21, 1810. The


DAVID LLEWELLYN. late of Shamokin. was inother and children Mordecai, William, Mary, prominently connected with the coal mining in- George, Thomas, Jeremialı and Hezekiah. by cer- dustry in this region for many years, and was tificate members of Fairfax Meeting, Virginia, also one of the foremost citizens in various other phases of the local business development, his as- sociation with the Shamokin Banking Company and with companies which promoted various pub- lic utilities of the borough, involving services which give his name a permanent place among the val- uable residents of this section .. Oct. 30, 1726, were dismissed from Exeter ; Sarah Boone and her children Mary, William, George, Jeremiahı and Hezekiah were dismissed to Exeter Meeting by certificate later. Following is the record of the children born to William and Sarah (Lincoln) Boone: (1) Abigail was married May 28, 1161. to Adin Pancoast, who died Dec. 12, Mr. Llewellyn, who was born Nov. 20. 1825. in Caerphilly, Wales, was the eldest son of Edward and Saralı ( Harris) Llewellyn, natives of South Wales, who came to this country about 1831. The parents first settled in Carbondale, Pa., in 1836 moving to St. Clair, Schuylkill county, and in 1838 to Pottsville, in the same county, where the remainder of their lives was passed. The father, Mr. Edward Llewellyn, died in 1844, his wife sur- viving until 1866. David, Llewellyn and John were their sons, Mary and Ann, their daughters. 1822. Her death occurred May 14, 1808. She had a certificate to Fairfax Meeting and another to return to Exeter, June 28, 1297, and a third from Exeter to Catawissa, and in the last are named children as follows: William, Mary and Hezekiah. Of these, William married Vashti Cooper and their daughter Mary married James Evans Lindsey, by whom she had a son, William Lindsey. Hezekiah, born June 8, 1:89, was mar- ried March 26, 1815, to Rachel Boone, who was born May 30, 1789, daughter of Samuei Boone, David Llewellyn came to America with his par- ents and began miner's work in early life, work- ing at different branches of the business. In 1853 he located at Mount Carmel, Northumberland county, where he spent several years, engaged in the development of what became known as Bell's Tunnel. Thence he went to Locust Gap, where he was with Haas & Bowen and other firms as in- side superintendent. in 1863 coming to Sham- okin to take the position of superintendent with Haas & Fagely, coal operators. In 1869 he was ad- mitted to the firm and from that time until 1886, when he relinquished the coal business, he was one of the active figures in the local coal field. He held interests in the Cameron, Helfenstein and Big Mountain mines, and was one of the prom- inent and wealthy operators of this region. which in his progressive and enterprising spirit gained a fresh impetus and an added factor in its pros- perity. His last business operations were with E. B. Patterson, running the Big Mountain colliery. who died on Fishing creek in 1811. (2) William married Susanna Parks, of Reading, Pa., who in 1:78 had a certificate.to Pipe Creek. In 1182 their descendants founded Boonsboro, MId. (3) Mordecai. (4) Mary married Isaac Lee, Exeter Meeting, May 8. 1177. (5) Thomas died Oct. 28, 1823, in Amity township, Berks Co., Pa. He married a daughter of Richard Lee. (6) Jere- (?) Hezekiahı married Hannah Hughs, daughter of George Hughs, in Exeter township. Berks Co., Pa. He died in Catawissa township. Columbia Co., Pa .. and his will was probated April 5, 1827. The children of his first wife were: Wil- liam and George, of Schuylkill Co., Pa. : Martha, Mrs. Lewis Vastine: Ann, Mrs. J. Wolverton : and Newton, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa. : the chil- dren by the second marriage were: Milton, who died at Pottsville: Surrissa: 'Hannah: John : Judah, of Schuylkill County, Pa. : Willetts, who died in Bloomsburg, Pa. ; and Elizabeth, who died in Pottsville, Pa. (S) George, born in 1439. died in 1824. He married Hannah Hughs. and to them were born the following children: Edward, Margaret. T. Ellis, Joseph. William Ridgeway, Elizabeth, and Jeremiah. all of whom died early in life. The mother of this family died in 1:24, and Mr. Boone married (second) Margaret May- berry, of Hereford township, Berks Co., Pa., daugh- ter of Mrs. Ann Lee, wife of Richard Lee and widow of William Mayberry. By this union there were ten children, born as follows: Sarah. May 10. 1782 (married William Gearhart ) : William, Nov. 12, 1783: Ann, Aug. 21, 1785: Charles, Dee. 21. 1786; Mary, Oct. 18, 1188: George, Aug. 7. 1190 (died May 30, 1860) : Elizabeth, Ang. 23, 1193: Harriet, Nov. 22, 1995; Margaret, May 25, 1198; Rachel, Fcb. 5, 1801.




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