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. On the occasion referred to (October. 1747) Shikellimy was quite ill. Before Weiser left Shikellimy was able to walk about "with a stick in his hand." The following March he was so far recovered as to visit Tulpehocken, and in .April, 1748, he was at Philadelphia. After this he seems to have had a relapse, for on the 18th of June in the same year the Provincial Council was in- formed that he was "sick and like to lose his eve- sight." He again recovered, however, and in the following December made a visit to Bethlehem. Sayughtowa, a younger brother of Tachnechdor- us, was the most celebrated of Shikellimy's sons. He lived at the month of the Chillisquaque creek Aug. 26. 1753, and in 1765 in Raccoon Valley. On the return trip he became ill. but reached his home with the assistance of Brother David Zeis- berger, who attended him during his sickness and administered the consolations of religion. His "In 1768 and 1769 he resided near Reedsville in daughter and Zeisberger were present when he Mifflin county, and has given his name to the spring near that place, to Logan's branch of Spring creek, in Center county, Logan's path, etc. * * died. The latter, assisted by Henry Fry, made a coffin, in which, with the possessions he had valued most highly during life. the mortal remains of In 1774 ocenrred Lord Dunmore's expedition
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against the Shawanese towns, now Point Pleasant. and died Feb. 23. 1863, aged seventy-two years. W. Va., which was the occasion of Logan's celebrat- three months, one day. They had six daughters and two sons, Eliza (Mrs. David Shipman), Har- riet (who married Sylvanus Shipman, brother of David), Lydia ( Mrs. Christian Fisher), Jane (Mrs. John Jones), Rebecca (Mrs. Sylvanus Shipman). Mary Ann (Mrs. Chambers Wynn), Isaac and Hiram. (5) George, born Sept. 3, 1785, died Feb. 9, 1812. (6) Casper lived near Sun- bnry, in Upper Augusta township. He had sons Thomas and Simon, and daughter Catharine, who married John Cooper (we have record of one daughter. Mary Cooper). (7) Catharine married William Silverwood and had sons, James, Wil- liam and Hiram, and daughters, Elizabeth (Mrs. John McPresson ), Sarah (Mrs. John Climer), Harriet (who first married Samuel Couldren) and Susannah. (who married in the West). ed speech, commencing 'I appeal to any white man to say it he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry and he gave him not meat,' which will go down to all time, whether properly or not, as a splendid outburst of Indian eloquence." "He could speak tolerable English, was a remarkably tall man- over six feet high-and well proportioned; of brave, open and manly countenance, as straight as an arrow, and apparently afraid of no one." Heckewelder, who thought him a man of superior talents, called on him in April, 1773, at his set- tlement on the Ohio below Big Beaver : the same writer says he afterward became addicted to drink- ing, and states that he was murdered in October, 1781, between his residence and Detroit. He was sitting with his blanket over his head, before a camp fire, his elbows resting on his knees, when an Indian who had taken some offense stole be- hind him and buried his tomahawk in his brains. His English name, James Logan, was conferred in honor of the distinguished Friend who was so long and prominently identified with Colonial af- fairs in Pennsylvania; he is generally known to history as "Logan, the Mingo."
SNYDER. The forerunner of the Snyders of Lower Augusta township and that section of Northumberland county settled in that region be- fore the Revolutionary war.
(I) Casper Snyder, the pioneer of the fam- ily in Northumberland county, came from Ger- many and settled here before the Revolution. He was a large land owner, having nearly one thou- sand acres, including what is now a part of the Updegrove farm, the Thomas, Peter and Adam Snyder farms, the tract now owned by Dennis H. and Newton W. Snyder, his great-grandsons, etc. He was a farmer and tavern-keeper, his tav- ern being located on the old Harrisburg and Sunbury road, where his son Peter succeeded him: in 198 he built the old briek tavern known as "Blue Ball Tavern." He and his wife, Eliza- beth Farst, are buried in the River cemetery at Fisher's Ferry, and according to the records there he was born May 2, 1745, and died Sept. 3, 1821. "Elizabeth," wife of Casper Snyder, born Feb. 5, 1754, died Aug. 12, 1823. They had the fol- lowing children: (1) John, born Nov. 29, 1776, died April 29, 1851. (?) Polly, born June 24, 1782, died March 2, 1856, married a Mr. Upde- graph and had three sons and one daughter, Isaac, Thomas, Adam and Sarah. Of these, Adam went to look after the vast fortune due the Snyders as heirs of the brother (of Elizabeth) Farst in Holland, but the connection was lost and he had no proofs to establish the claim. (3) Peter, born April 21. 1788, died Feb. 19, 1866. (4) Sarah (Sally) married John Hendershot (1790-1851),
(II) John Snyder, son of Casper, was born in Lower Augusta township Nov. 29, 1776, and there made his home, owning the farm which is now the property of Martha Gass. His holdings were very large, his property having been divided into eight farms, seven of which he gave to his children. He owned and operated a distillery, cider press and sawmill and kept several teams busy transporting goods for him between here and Philadelphia, which was the market center for grain and provisions. A prominent and in- fluential citizen of his day, he served twenty-five years as justice of the peace and held the rank of colonel in the State militia, standing at the head of the militia in his district for some years. He died April 29, 1851. His wife. Maria Mar- garet ( Fisher), known as "Peggy" (only sister of Christian Fisher), is buried in the Presbyterian cemetery. They had children as follows: George, Thomas, Elizabeth (called Betsy, married John Wynn). Peter J., John (died March 25, 1877, aged sixty-nine years, eleven months, eleven days : his wife Martha, born Dec. 23, 1808. died Jan. 11, 1862). Adam (born April 9, 1814. died Dee. 15, 1895: his wife Martha died Sept. 30, 1860, aged forty-six years, five months, ten days). and Sally (born Jan. 10, 1809, married John Ebright, and . died July 23, 1850).
(III) George Snyder, son of John. was born Sept. ?. 1801. and was a farmer by occupation, living on and owning the farm now owned by his son Solomon. He built the house and barn now standing on that property. the house in 1854. the barn in 1851. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church. He died Feb. 2, 1866. Mr. Snyder was twice married. his first wife be- ing Elizabeth Conrad, who is buried at the Stone Church at Augustaville, and by whom he had one son. John C .. now living near Omaha, Nebr. His second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Stroh .and widow of Jonathan Clark, was born Jan. 14, 1802, and died Aug. 22, 1884: she was from Lan-
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caster county: To this union were born four chil- Jacob is a resident of Rock Island, Ill .; George dren : Solomon S., Samuel, Morris and one that died young.
(IV) SOLOMON STROH SNYDER, son of George, was born May 27, 1836, and was reared on his father's farm. He learned various trades in his early life, being proficient as a carpenter, black- smith and butcher, but farming has been his main occupation. Iu 1854 he taught subscription school, receiving fifty cents a month for each pu- pil. When twenty-nine years old he married and left home, beginning farming for himself in what is now Rockefeller township, having a farm of 153 acres there, near Seven Points. Hc cultivated and lived upon that place for twenty-one years, after which he was a resident of Sunbury for two years before coming to the old homestead farm, which he has since occupied, in 1889. Eighteen years later he sold the property in Rocke- feller township. He has bought a place in Lower Augusta which comprises ninety-nine acres. His industry and intelligent labor have had their re- ward, and he has accumulated a substantial com- ·petence, having stocks in bank besides his landed property. He was one of the first stockholders associated with Henry Bower and gave him his first advice. In his more active years he showed his public spirit by various services to the com- munity, having held the offices of overseer of the poor (five years) and auditor (six years), when Lower Augusta and Rockefeller townships were one. He votes independently, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On June 4, 1865, Mr. Snyder married Rebecca Bohner, daughter of Henry and Susanna ( Kief- fer) Bohner, and they have had one son, Daniel B., who was born Nov. 4, 1866, and is engaged in farming on the homestead. He has been twice married, and has one son, William Allison. (who is married and lives in Sunbury), by his first union, to Lillie Zartman. His second marriage was to Emma Kappenhaver, and they have two sons, Solomon and Benjamin.
(IV) SAMUEL SNYDER, sou of George, was born May 2, 1838, on his father's homestead, was reared to farming, and has lived on a part of the home place all his life, the place he now lives on con- sisting of eighty-one acres at one time included in his father's farnı. He built the present barn there in the year 1862. He has served nine years as school director of Lower Augusta township, and he and his family are members of the Baptist Church, in which he has been especially active, having served as deacon, treasurer and superin- tendent of the Sunday school. He is a Deino- . Snyder was a soldier in the Civil war, serving crat in politics.
On Sept. 2. 1860, Mr. Snyder married a daugh- ter of Samuel Wynn, and in 1876 he built the house on the farm which they have since occu- pied. Four children were born to this union :
was accidentally killed in the freight yard at Sun- bury April 6, 1892, at the age of twenty-six years, four months, three days; Ella M. married George Neidig and they live in Lower Augusta: Clara E. married Horatio Snyder and they live in Low- er Augusta.
(IV) MORRIS SNYDER, son of George, was born April 12, 1845, in Lower Augusta township, where he still resides. He inherited his father's homestead, which he sold to the present owner, his brother Solomon, in 1889. In 1890 he pur- chased the farm where he now lives, a tract of 105 acres, where he has since lived and where he built the present dwelling in 1897. The farm was formerly the homestead of Sylvanus Shipman, who built the barn thereon in 1871. Mr. Snyder has made farming his principal business, but he has also given some attention to outside matters, having served twenty years as justice of the peace and settled up a number of estates. He is a Democrat in politics, and in religious connection he and his family are Baptists.
In 1867 Mr. Snyder married Naomi Shipman, and to them have been born children as follows: Harry, Sylvanus, Rebecca E., Laura J., Josephine M., Ruth, Webster V. and Elmira.
(III) Thomas Snyder, son of John and grand- son of Casper, lived on Boyle's run, in Lower Au- gusta township, owning and cultivating the place now known as the Michael Shingehrer farm. It comprised one hundred acres. Mr. Snyder married Esther Randall, who was born Feb. 25, 1806, and died April 8, 1871. He died Sept. 11, 1894, aged ninety-onc years, one month, twenty-nine days, and they are buried in the graveyard of the Augusta Baptist Church, of which both were members. Their children were as follows: Silas R. is men- tioned below : Harriet married Levi Thomas; Bar- hara married John Shipman : Martha married Elias Sternling : Jane married Elias Yerdy : Ma- tilda married William Spies, of Sunbury: Eliza- beth married Foster Ely; Sallie married William II. Swinehart.
(IV) SILAS R. SNYDER, son of Thomas, was born Oct. 24, 1834, and died Feb. 28, 1910, on the farm in Lower Augusta where he had lived for about fifteen years. It consists of 130 acres, and was formerly the David Shipman place. For six years before moving to that property he lived on the farm of his father, Thomas Snyder. He served as tax collector of his township before Rockefeller and Lower Augusta were divided. Mr. his first term as a member of Company C. 131st Pennsylvania Volunteers, and his second term with the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He held the rank of corporal. He is buried at Fisher's Ferry. In 1865 Mr. Snyder married Lydia H. Shipman,
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daughter of David and Eliza ( Hendershot) Ship- "squire" in Lower Augusta and also teaches school. man, and she still resides on the farm with her (3) Samuel G., born March 21, 1874, spent ten sister, Harriet E. Mvers. Three children were years in Shamokin, moving from there in 1898 to born to. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder: Harris E. is in the railway mail service and makes his home at Harrisburg, Pa. : O. Perry died when seventeen months old : Jessie E. married Carey E. Burns and they live at Hollowing Run, in Lower Augusta township (he is now serving as county anditor).
(III) Peter J. Snyder, son of John and grand- son of Casper, was a native of Lower Augusta township, where he spent all his life. He was a farmer throughout his aetive years, and until about ten years before his death lived on the one farm, spending his deelining days with his chil- dren. He died in June, 1893 or 1894, at the home of his son David, and was buried at the Presbyterian Church in Lower Augusta township. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith. His farm, consisting of 120 acres, is now the prop- erty of Martha M. Gass, of Sunbury. Mr. Snyder married Sarah Shipman, daughter of John and Margaret (MeKinney) Shipman, and she preceded him to the grave, dying Nov. 2, 1883, aged sev- enty-two years, one month, eighteen days. Nine children were born to them, as follows: Jacob S. died in Shamokin; Abigail married Aaron Wilke- son; Mary married Isaac Cooper; David married Martha G. Heaton; Jackson died in Trevorton with his son Charles; Malinda married James Smith; Emeline married Lafayette Wilkenson; Sarah Jane died aged sixteen years; Martha Ann married George Gass.
(IV) JACOB S. SNYDER, son of Peter J., was born May 27, 1838, in Lower Augusta township, and died at the home of his son Edward W., in Shamokin, March 4, 1909. He began to learn mill- wrighting when a boy, and followed the trade for a number of years in central Pennsylvania, building a number of mills operated by water power and helping to make a number of waterwheels; no iron was used in their construction. Later in life he took up farming, which he followed in his na- tive township for a number of years upon the old Snyder homestead, which he owned. Though a member of the Presbyterian Church. he is buried at the Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church in Rockefeller township, as is also his wife.
Herndon, where he has since been clerk at the "Hotel Wiest." He is widely known to the travel- ing public, and is not only an experienced hotel man but particularly well fitted for the business, having a genial, pleasing disposition, and a faculty of treating those whom he meets with uniform kindliness, traits which have won him many friends. (4) Elvie G. married Ed. O. Bartholo- mnew, a farmer of Rockefeller township.
(IV) DAVID SNYDER, son of Peter J., was born Sept. 7, 1841, in Lower Augusta township. He was reared to farming, and followed that pursuit for some years, for fourteen years engaging in lumbering in Center county, Pa. He gave em- ployment to a number of men in that line. In March, 1875, he came to Lower Augusta town- ship, and here farmed his father's place for three years, in 1878 settling on the place in that town- ship where he passed the remainder of his days, dying there Dec. 31, 1904, aged sixty-one years, three months, twenty-four days. His widow now lives there. The place contains sixty-eight aeres, with an outlot of mountain land. Mr. Snyder made many improvements on the property which enhanced its value, remodeling the house and re- building the barn, to which he made a good-sized addition.
At the time of his death Mr. Snyder was serv- ing as school director of his township, and he had also served as overseer of the poor. But he was particularly active in church work, being a member of the Methodist Church, which he served in a number of official capacities, being class leader three or four years and Sunday school superin- tendent some years. He was always interested in the spiritual welfare of the community, and his wife, who was in hearty sympathy with him, has been a liberal contributor toward the ereetion of the new Methodist Episcopal Church, which was built in 1909. He was a Demoerat in political sentiment.
Mr. Snyder married ( first) Anna Maria Walker. who died March 6, 1869, aged twenty-four years. the mother of three children: Marietta married Jacob Snyder; Harry is an invalid: David W. lives in Union county, Pa. Mrs. Snyder is buried in Center county.
Mr. Snyder married Harriet D. Fove, daugh- ter of John and Hannah ( Keiser) Fove, of Rock- On Oct. 26, 1870. Mr. Snyder married Martha G. Heaton, daughter of Michael and Mary (Walk- er) Heaton, of Center county, and three children were also born to this union: Prof. James Wilson Snyder, now superintendent of publie schools at Slatington, Pa .. married Gertrude Mendenhall. of efeller township, who had a family of five chil- dren, namely: Catharine, Samuel, Mary, Harriet and Daniel B. John Fove was a prominent man in his day and built many of the houses in Trevor- ton. Mrs. Jacob S. Snyder died June 11, 1904, aged sixty-two years, four days. She was the Berwick, and they have one son, John M. Dr. mother of four children, namely: (1) Edward W., John H. Snyder, of Washingtonville. Monton Co., who lives in Shamokin, taught school for twenty- Pa .. married Lottie C. Bloom, of Augustaville. three years. (2) Horatio A. is a farmer and and they have two sons, Seth Scott and James
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Wilson, Jr. Ida Bell married Harry Snyder, who In 1883 he came to Rockefeller township, purehas- is office manager for a large concern in Grenloch, N. J .; they have no children.
JAMES F. HECKERT, engaged in general farming and trucking in Point township, is one of the enterprising agriculturists of his section of Northumberland county, and a native of the township in which he resides, born Feb. 9, 1855. He belongs to an old established family, being a descendant of Casper Heckert, who emigrated from Germany and was an early resident of Lower Mahanoy township. He was born in 1758, and died in 1837 in Lower Mahanov township, where he had a farm of nearly two hundred acres. Some
ing the sixty-eight acre tract (for $1,600) where he has since lived. He is a member of the Luther- an church and has served the church officially in his time. He is a remarkably well preserved man, and has a clear memory for dates and events. He speaks both English and German. To his marriage with, Esther ( Hettie) Kohl, daughter of Jolin Kohl, late of Lower Mahanoy township, were born children as follows: Alexander, of Northumber- land ; James F. ; a son that died in infancy (twin of Jaines F.) ; Urias, who died aged thirteen years ; Catharine, who keeps house for her father; John and Philip, both of whom died in boyhood; Charles, of Rockefeller township ; and Ellen, widow of this land is still in the possession of his pos- of Francis Bloom, living in Sunbury (she has a terity, who are still numerous in this county and also well represented in the Western States. He was a member of the German Reformed congrega- tion at the Stone Valley Church, where he is buried. There also is buried his wife Catharine, who was born Oct. 6, 1760, and died Dec. 6, 1828. They had children as follows: Johannes moved to a county in the western end of the State; Michael lived in Lower Mahanoy township and there died ; Solomon, who lived on a farm in Lower Mahanoy township, had two sons, Jacob and John: Fred- erick, a farmer, who lived in Lower Mahanoy township, had an only child, Katie, who died aged fifteen years ; Philip was the grandfather of James F. Heckert.
son, Claud). Mrs. Heckert died March 14, 1904, aged seventy-six years.
James F. Heckert was educated in the public schools of his native township, and was reared to farming, which he began on his own account about 1880. For several years he was a tenant farmer, in 1897 purchasing the property he now occupies and cultivates, a valuable tract of 125 acres in Point township, nicely located. It was formerly the Daniel Sterner homestead. At one time Mr. Heckert had three peach orchards. He devotes a large part of his land to garden truck, and attends the markets at Sunbury and Northumberland, where he has established an extensive trade, finding this branch of farming very profitable. Mr. Heck- ert has found time to give to the public serv-
Philip Heckert, son of Casper, born in Lower Mahanoy township Dec. 9, 1796, died March 27, ice, and has filled local office. having been su- 1872. He was a farmer and had a large farm pervisor some years and school director for six near County Line and the Stone Valley Church, years. He is a Republican in political opinion. in Lower Mahanoy township. His wife, Anna In 1880 Mr. Heckert married Orpha A. Gib- bons, daughter of Abel and Susan (Morgan) Gib- bons, late of Point township. Seven children have been born to them, namely: Abel Irwin, Philip H., Martin L., Bertha M .. Esther M .. Susan M. and Daniel K. Mr. and Mrs. Heckert were mar- ried in the Lutheran Church at Northumberland, of which they and their family are members. He is at present serving as deacon. Mary (Wert), daughter of Henry Wert (whose wife was an Enterline), a pioneer at County Line, was born June 2, 1805, and died March 16, 18SS, aged eighty-two years, ten months, fourteen days. Both are buried at Stone Valley Church, where Mr. Heckert was an official for many years. They had children : Daniel, Philip, Susanna (married Philip Techupp), Michael, Mary (married Isaac Ressler), Emanuel, Rachel (died unmarried). Casper (who was a soldier in the Civil war and died
Andrew W. Heckert, another son of Philip, was as a result of disease contracted in the service: he born near County Line, in Lower Mahanoy town- was nnmarried). Catharine (married William Lemon), Henry (who was a soldier in the Civil war), Andrew W. and Uriah (who was a soldier in the Civil war). Philip. Emanuel and Catharine are now the only survivors.
ship, and before his marriage went to Forreston, Ogle Co., Ill., where he learned the trade of car- penter. After a few years he returned to his na- tive county, in Pennsylvania, this being in 1873, from which time he lived at Dalniatia, where he
Philip Heckert, son of Philip, lives in Rocke- died. He married Mary Ressler. daughter of Sol- omon and Catharine ( Haas) Ressler, of Lower Mahanoy township, and they went West together. Their six children were born there, before their return to Pennsylvania in 1873, viz .: Aletta C., Mrs. G. E. Shaffer ; Mary M., wife of Frank Bord- ner and living in Nebraska : Susan E., unmarried :
feller township, this county. near Augustaville, where he owns a small tract of land. He is the old- est man in his township. Born Sept. 13, 1826, in Lower Mahanoy township, he was reared to farm life. In 1853 he moved to Point township, where he farmed as a tenant thirty years, and for seven years farmed the old Thomas Baumgardner farm. Carrie M., married to Joseph Reitz and living in
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Shamokin ; Ida R., who married William Dreibel- abeth (deceased), who married William Smith : bies and lives in Lower Mahauoy ; and William N., Susanna (deceased), who married William Klase; who died in infaucy. Polly, Mrs. Fry, deceased ; Angelina, who mar- ried William Smith ; and Harriet, deceased.
ADAMS. David. N. and Curtis M. Adams, brothers, have been business men of Sunbury from early manhood, the former in the painting and paper hanging business, the latter as a dealer in horse goods and shoe findings and manufacturer of harness. They are among the prosperous cit- izens of the borough, and both have served the municipality in public office.
The Adamns family has long been settled in Ralpho township, this county. Casper Adams, the first of the family in this country, was born April 25, 1755, at Langendiebach, Offenburg, Germany, and little is known of his early life. On coming to America he lived in Berks county, Pa., before coming to Northumberland county, where he was one of the earliest pioneers in Ralpho town- ship, owning several hundred acres of land there. He cleared some of his land and followed farm- ing. He died Jan. 26, 1832, and is buried at St. Peter's (the Blue) Church in Ralpho township. Casper Adams married, in Berks county, Eliza- beth Hinkle, of that county, and they had a large family, six sons and six daughters, namely : Fred- erick (1792-1853), John, Samuel, Casper, Leon- ard, Peter, Nellie (married George Startzel), Susanna (married Samuel Startzel), Elizabeth (married Gilbert Liby), Polly (married Peter Strausser), Maria (married Jacob Kreher) and Catharine (married Samuel Anspach).
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