History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. V. 1, Pt. 2, Part 16

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885, ed; Hungerford, Austin N., joint ed; Everts, Peck & Richards, Philadelphia, pub
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts, Peck & Richards
Number of Pages: 912


USA > Pennsylvania > Union County > History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, embraced in the counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. V. 1, Pt. 2 > Part 16
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The congregation consists of about one him- dred and twenty-five communicants, with Jacob


Mohler and William Howe, their elders, and (. S. Myers, S. J. Swigart, Andrew Spanogle, John M. Mohler, Albert Steinbarger and S. G. Rupert, ministers,-Elder Jacob Mohler being the oldest in office; the others follow in the order named. The deacons are Moses Price, " Henry Suyder, Samuel Richard, Daniel Zook, Jacob Howe, Jacob Showalter and Jacob Richard.


The Spring Run congregation embraces the western part of the county, including MeVey town, with their central place of worship in their meeting-house on Spring Run, two and a half miles north of MeVeytown Station, Penn- sylvania Railroad, and consists of about three hundred communicants, with P. S. Myers, of McVeytown, as their elder, and Abram My- ers, Samuel Musser, George HI. Swigart, R. T. Myers and J. A. Myers, their ministers; Henry Swigart, Joseph Dunmire, Adam Ru- pert, M. F. 11. Kinsel, Jolm Yoder, Jacob Miller and John C. Swigart, deacons.


These two congregations are sub-divisions of what was the Lewistown District or congrega- tion, which was divided September 23, 1865.


The original Lewistown District embraces a part of Centre County, where the present Lew- istown congregation still have regular appoint- ments ; a part of Huntingdon County (Stone Valley), which has been ceded to the Hunting- don congregation ; and all of Mifflin County, except Wayne township and the south western part of Bratton township, which belonged to the Aughwiek congregation, to which the whole of the Lewistown Distriet belonged and from which it was separated about 1800. After the sub-division of the Lewistown Distriet into the present districts, the Aughwiek District, by ar- rangement, ceded her territory in Mifflin County to the Spring Run congregation.


Of the earliest history of the Brethren in the Lewistown District but little is known. Their work can be traced to about the time of the Revolutionary War. The field seems to have been first worked by Henry Nearhoof, of Anghwick, and Peter Shellenberger, of Lost Creek. The first resident ministers were Jacob Kinsel, who settled near the present site of the Spring Run Church ; Joseph Rothrock, who lived four miles


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northeast of Lewistown ; and John Hanawalt, one mile cast of Mount Union. The last named was probably the first speaker in the English language among the Brethren in this region. lle was an excellent man, decidedly original in his habits and manner, but not a fluent speaker, and died at the age of sixty-two in the year 1827.


Joseph Rothrock was a son of John Roth- rock, who came from Northampton County be- fore the Revolutionary War and bought the claim of one Kishler, four miles northeast of Lewistown, where Joseph resided until his death, at an advanced age. He was an able German preacher and a noble example of Christian pi- cty. He was a minister for many years and probably the first resident bishop in the dis- triet. His son Abraham succeeded him in the ministry and bishoprie, but afterwards moved to Kansas. Abraham was succeeded by Joseph Rothroek Hanawalt, who presided over the congregation in 1865, when the district was di- vided into its present congregations ; he retained the oversight of both congregations for some years, when he was relieved of the care of the Lewistown charge by the ordination of Jacob Moller.


Joseph R. Hanawalt was an able speaker in the English language and a mission worker of untiring zeal. He was elected to the ministry September 25, 1845, and some years previous to this the church had decided to have one- half of the devotional exercises condueted in the English language, whereupon the member-


ship began to increase and prominent families became connected with the church, many of whom could understand no German, and thus the German wore ont and the English devotions increased until about 1845, the year in which Joseph R. Hanawalt was elected, when the whole services were conducted in the English lan- guage.


The congregation at this time had no meet- ing-honses and the membership was largely scattered over the county. An arrangement was made for all the members that had suitable honses for meeting to open them for regular stated preaching ; there being twenty places of- fered at various points over the congregation,


the meetings were arranged in rotation, so that the appointments at each place were twenty weeks apart. The membership grew rapidly until, in 1858, the congregation having become too large to be entertained in private dwellings, many having been removed to the school-houses, the church concluded to build houses for wor- ship. They decided to build two houses, one in the castern part and the other in the western. Accordingly, in 1859 they built the present two large and substantial houses now known as Spring Run Church and Dry Valley Church.


Joseph R. Hanawalt was heard to say, abont this time, that when he first became a member of the church there were but thirty-five men- bers and but six of this number living, while at this time there are about three hundred mem- bers.


Joseph R. Hanawalt was a nephew of John Hanawalt, and died in the year 1877 at the age of sixty-seven. He was succeeded in the bish- oprie of the Spring Run Church by Peter S. Myers, the present incumbent.


It is but due to say that a large drainage from this district has gone to make up the nu- merous churches in many of the Western States.


And several prominent and useful ministers of the Brethren labored in these districts at var- ious times, who are not mentioned in the above account.


Henry Snyder, a very promising speaker, was suddenly cut off by fever in 1827, having been in the ministry but a few years.


David Eshleman was called to the ministry in 1836 and soon removed to Clarion County, Pa.


John Spanogle moved into the district about 1845 and labored about four years, when he returned to the Aughwiek congregation from whence he came.


Adam Young was elected to the ministry in 1859 and in a few years moved to White Coun- ty, Ind.


Reuben Myers was called to the ministry in 1849 and labored until 1863, when death called him home. Ile was an able preacher and had married Henry Snyder's daughter. She soon followed him in death.


Achibald Vandyke was elected to the minis-


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try in 1859 and labored with considerable sue- cess until 1868, when hesmoved to Nebraska.


S. %. Sharp and Samuel Myers, Jr., were elected in 1862 and in a few years moved to


In 1865 George Ilanawalt and John Price were called to the ministry. Price never la- bored much in his office and died in 1871.


George Hanawalt, who was a son of Joseph R. Hanawalt, labored with success until 1879, when he moved to Cambria County, Pa.


John S. Hanawalt, a brother of George, was elected in 1873. Hle was an able speaker, and died in 1873. W. J. Swigart was elected in 1876 at Spring Run, and soon moved to ITun- tingdon, Pa. These were all residents of Mif- flin County and members of the one or the other of these two districts.


The oldest and first settlers of the Brethren in the county were Susannah and Mary Rothrock. They were twin-sisters, and married George and Jobn Hanawalt (brothers). They were danghters of George Rothroek and cousins of Elder Joseph Rothrock, noticed above. Su- sannah was the mother of Joseph R. Hanawalt. They married and came to this country very young, about 1786. Susannah was baptized about 1794, and is believed to have been the first person baptized by the Brethren in the county. She lived to the age of eighty-two, and died in 1854.


Jacob Kinsel probably came here about the same time, and soon after Peter Fike settled in the neighborhood and subsequently Samuel Myers and Elizabeth, his wife, came from Lost Creek, she being a daughter of Peter Shellen- berger, mentioned above. These and probably a few others formed the first community of the Brethren.


The church has been aided and strengthened all these years by others who were not men- tioned above and who were not ministers. There has been zeal among the deacons and lay members worthy of note.


Joseph Kinsel, a son of Jacob and father of Mr. F. II. Kinsel, served faithfully as a deacon for many years and died in 185 1.


Sammel Myers, spoken of above and father of Eller P. S. Myers, Samuel Myers, Jr., and


R. T. Myers, ministers, was a zealous worker and supporter of the church ; his house was ever open for the worship of God and a home for the Brethren. He served in the office of deacon from 1818 until he was relieved by death, about 1878.


Christian Swigart, father of S. J. Swigart, W. J. Swigart and J. C. Swigart, mentioned above, although blind for many years, has always kept his Father's Kingdom in view, and has encouraged others more fortunate to attain a high degree of holiness.


John Rupert, father of S. G. Rupert, men- tioned above, moved into the congregation from Aughwick in 1854, and was elected to the office of deacon in 1857. He was a faithful wateli- man and zealous worker for Christ and His cause, and was taken to his reward in 1881.


Henry Hertzler who lived in Bratton town- ship, gave his whole heart to the church and made it his meat and his drink to do his Father's will, and was taken home at an ad- vanced age in about 1879.


These, with many others who put their shoul- ders to the wheel, their hands to the plow and kept moving onward, have been instruments in the hands of God to promulgate His cause and glorify His name by bringing many souls from nature's darkness to Him who is the marvelous light.


. These congregations belong to what is known as the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which comprises all the churches from the summit of the Allegheny Mountains on the west to the Susquehanna River on the east.


EARLY SETTLERS OF DERRY .- The valley of the Kishacoquillas attracted the attention of emigrants who were searching for land as soon as this section was open for settlement. One of the carliest along the Kishacoquillas Creek, south of Jack's Mountain, was Everhart Mar- tin, whose first warrant was dated April 2, 1755. Ile afterwards took ont warrants for other tracts, a large part of which came into possession of the Freedom Iron Company many years ago, and isnow owned by the Logan Iron and Steel Company. He left it by will to his son Christopher and daughter Prudence. This land lay along the creek a short distance below


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the mountain. It is not known that Everhart Martin lived on the place. His son Christopher created a saw-mill on the ereck opposite Yeager- lown and sold the property in 1795; the mill passed, in 1796, to James Mayes. In the assess- ment roll of Derry township for 1772, on record at Carlisle, Samuel Holliday and Abraham San- ford are the only- persons assessed on grist- mills. Holliday was on the Juniata, at Mc Vey- lown, and Sanford was on the Kishacoquillas Creek, in the Narrows. He resided at the place, and in the deed he gave to Malcolm Andre, May 12, 1796, he describes it as being the traet ou which "I now reside," adjoining lands of James Mayes, which was part of the Everhart Martin tract, and William Brown, Esq., which was above the Narrows and known as Brown's Mills.' It was also described as being at the lower side of the Narrows, inelud- iug both the east and west sides of the creek, in all fifty acres, with the grist-mill, dwelling-house and other improvements. At this time he moved to Potter township.


HIe retained a part of his original traet (which was warranted October 12, 1772), as on the 30th of September, 1800, he sold a small tract at the same place to Jacob Steely, which Sanford had improved in 1776. At the place Lazarus Steely had run an oil-mill from 1798, which in 1825 was still there, and had been abandoned but a year or two previous. The stone house now used as a boarding-house was in 1825 used as a tavern, and was kept by Adam Greer. It is in Brown township, and now used as a boarding-house by William Mann & Co. The property on which the mill was situated was sold by Malcolm Andre, December 10, 1802, to Henry Long, who was a siekle-maker, and in 1803 is assessed on a sickle-factory and as a sickle-maker. He continued the manufacture until March 31, 1815, when he sold the property to William Brown, Esq. The grist-mill is not


!Abraham Sanford made application to the land-Office February 23, 1767, for three hundred aeres of land in lack township (now Turbett). At the same time he appears as a renter of n griet-mill and the only one in the county of Juniata. To whom it belonged is not known, nor its loca- tion. le says in one of his deeds that he made his im- provement in Jack's Narrows in 1770.


mentioned in the deed from Long to Brown, and it probably was abandoned under the ownership of hong, who turned the mill into a sickle-far- tory. Mr. Long retired at that time to Dry Valley, where he purchased a tract of land con- taining four hundred aeres, and where he lived, and died in 18 13, aged sixty-seven, leaving one son and two daughters. John H. Long, the son, about. 1829, settled at Lewistown as a merchant. Mary, a daughter, became the wife of Thomas Reed. Eliza, the youngest daughter, married James McGinnis Martin, son of Samuel Martin. Henry Long was buried in the burial-ground of the Little Valley Presbyterian Church, at Kel- lyville. The farm is now owned by Johnson Sigler and the heirs of J. M. Martin.


James George eame to Mifflin County in 1812, from Virginia, and settled in the Narrows, and soon after engaged in the manufacture of guns. He afterward took as a partner JJonas Spangler. George died in Lewistown abont 1818 or 1819. Iron from Freedom Forge was used for the manufacture of gun-barrels.


Ulrich Steely had taken up one hundred acres of land in 1788 on the south side of Jaek's Mountain, and in 1798 Lazarus Steely was assessed on an oil-mill. Jacob Steely bought of Abraham Sanford a small part of the original Sanford tract, which part was in- proved in 1776. The grist-mill of San- ford, later the sickle-factory of Henry Long, is a stone building, now owned by William Mann & Co., and is used as a grinding-shop, a part of the axe-factory. It is in Derry township, the line passing just above it. William Creighton eame to Freedom Forge in 1825, and says the oil-mill was then there unused, and that Adam Greer kept tavern in the stone house, now a boarding-house. It has a date-stone bearing the figures 1794, and was doubtless the homestead of Abraham Sanford. It is in Brown township.


Matthew and George Kelly, brothers, took out a warrant for one hundred and fifty-six aeres of land in the south end of Dry Valley about 1773, which was patented October 1, 1776. George conveyed his interest to Mat- thew, December 20, 1788, and moved West. Matthew, by his will, left this farm to John,


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Moses and Naney (Framptou). The two last sold their interest to John, Angnst 19, 1802, who the same day sold the fract to Henry Burkholder, whose sister Susanna was the wife of Moses Kelly. He lived upon the farm till his death. He had thirteen children, of whom Matilda, the oldest, became Mrs. Henry Book. They settled first at Little Valley, and later near Yeagertown, where he still resides. John settled in Decatur ; Joseph first in Lewistown, and later in Decatur. Elizabeth (Mrs. John Adams) and Anna (Mrs. John Williams, of Derry township) were danghters.


Jolm Alexander, the eldest son of Hugh Alexander, who settled permanently in Sher- man's Valley in 1758, was born during the troublous times, 1755-56, and it is uncertain whether he was born in Nottingham, Chester County, or in Sherman's Valley (now Perry County). He married Margaret Clark. Jomm Alexander in his youth was one who responded to the call for aid to the country in the time of the Revolution, and participated in the battle of Trenton. Soon after this event he was called home by the illness of his father, who died shortly after, in March, 1777. He re- mained at home until about 1787, when he, with his wife and children-Frances, Hugh aud Samuel-removed to Little Valley (Derry township). At this place he purchased of Christopher Martin a large tract of land, part of which had been taken up by his father, Everhart Martin, in 1755. This traet is now owned by several persons. John Alexander was one of the founders of the Little Valley Presby- terian Church, and was a ruling elder until his death. He lived on the tract he purchased in 1787, a quiet and prosperous farmer, until his death, November 23, 1816, aged about sixty years. He was buried in the churchyard of the old East Kishacoquillas Church. Ilis widow survived him and died in November, 1830, aud was buried by her husband. Of their children, Frances, the eldest, became the wife of Samuel Milroy in 1803 and died in 1806. Her husband, in 1810, removed to Kon- tucky, and in 1814 to Tudiana Territory (now Washington County, Ind.). He was a member of the first Constitutional Convention to form


a constitution of the State and filled many im- portant publie positions, and died in 1815, aged sixty-four years.


Hugh Alexander, the oldest son of John and Margeret, in 1806, married Elizabeth, the daughter of Colonel Alexander Brown, whose wife, Jane, was a daughter of James Alexander, the first of the name who settled in this valley. After the marriage of Hugh they settled on a part of the lands in the Kishacoquillas Valley, on part of which afterwards the seminary was erected, and which land was given to Mrs. Alexander by her father. Here they lived and died surrounded by a large family. He was for forty years an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and died October 16, 1868, aged eighty-seven years. His wife survived him and died Feb- ruary 22, 1871, aged eighty-three years. They had eleven children, several of whom are living ou the homestead and in the vicinity.


Samuel Edmiston Alexander, the second son of John, was born in what is (now Madison township, Perry County) Sherman's Valley January 17, 1785. He was named after his maternal grandfather, Dr. Samuel Edmiston, of Chester County, Pa. In his youth he learned the trade of a carpenter. Ou the 28th of December 1809, he married a cousin, Mary, the daughter of James Alexander, of West Kishacoquillas, and settled in Derry township, on a portion of his father's tract, which was then mostly a forest. This he cleared and made a valuable farm. He was also an elder in the church, as were his ancestors for two or three generations, and was also elected an associate judge of Mifflin Conn- ty. They were the parents of fifteen children, who have settled in different parts of the coun- try, a number of them in their native township, of whom John E. graduated at Jefferson College in 1839, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary and prepared for the ministry. Hle was licensed in the Huntingdon Presbytery in 1812, and entered the ministry of the Presby- terian Church.


James 11., one of the sons, settled on " Fruit- land Farm," a part of his grandfather's original tract, where he still resides.


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acoquillas Seminary from 1856-58. He stud- ied theology and graduated at Princeton Semi- mary in 1861 and entered the ministry. He was agent of the Christian Commission at the battle-field of Antietam. In 1864 he founded the Classical Institute of Columbia, Pa., of which he remained principal until 1874, when he retired to a farm near Culpeper, Va.


Thomas Clark Alexander, the third son of John and Margaret, was born in Little Valley in 1799. He settled on the Fruitland Farm, a portion of his father's tract now ocenpied by James HT. Alexander. In 1831 he removed to East Kishacoquillas Valley to a farm he had purchased of J. and J. Milliken, where he re- mained until he retired from active life. Ilis children settled in different parts of the county, and in 1856 he moved to Ohio, where some of them had settled, and where he died in 1858.


George Rothrock, the first of the family of that name, took out a warrant for a traet of land June 9, 1773, and later took up other lands, amounting in all to two hundred acres, for which he received a patent April 7, 1775. They were situated in Ferguson's Valley, where now the' Albrights reside. His brother Philip built, upon the place, in 1798, a tannery, which he conducted ntil 1802, when he purchased land und built a tannery at Kellyville, and lived there till his death, in 1851. Jonathan, another brother, located land at Logan, on the Kishaco- quillas Creek, and built there a saw-mill. A portion of his land belongs to the Logan Steel and Iron Company. He was a member of the State Legislature at an early day. Ilis son George was a miller, and was for many years at. Thompsontown, Juniata County.


John Rothrock, a son of George, the first "ettler, purchased the farm of his father April 26, 1826, and March 25, 1828, he sold it to George Albright. The tannery was continued by the Albrights until 1816, when it was bought by Sammuel Aurand, who continued it many year's. It was later run by Henry Kane, and is now abandoned.


Abraham Labaugh came to this county about 1780, and located three hundred acres of land about three miles east of Logan, part of which is now owned by heirs of J. McGinnis Martin.


Ilis danghter married Philip Rothrock, who set- tled at Kellyville. Dr. Abraham Rothrock, a son, relates that his mother used to tell him of their i journey from Carlisle to this county when she was a child. She, with her sister, were put in a chaff-bag, one on either side of the horse, and were so brought over the mountains. She died in 1858, aged eighty-one years, and is buried by the side of her husband in the Presbyterian graveyard at Kellyville.


Rachel Harrison warranted in 1767 three hundred aeres near the Martin tract, and on the west side of the creek. Robert Means settled on the place, and a part of his tract became in later years part of the Isaac Price farm. The Harrison traet is mostly absorbed in the Logan Iron and Steel Company's lands,


Robert Means emigrated from Ireland, and, with his family, first settled in Bucks County, Pa., from whenec he removed, in 1770, to Derry township, Mifflin County, and erected a log house, which is still standing, on ground now owned by his grandson, Robert A. Means. This land was at that time purchased from in- dividuals who held it by what was known as the "squatter's right," Mr. Means having reached his destination by a voyage up the . Juniata River in canoes, which were lashed to- gether for convenience. He warranted two hun- dred acres of land May 1, 1773, and in 1789 and 1795 warranted other lands; part of it lay along Jack's Mountain.


His children were John, born in 1744; Margaret, in 1748 ; Robert, November 2, 1750; James, in 1753; Jane, in 1755; Joseph, in 1760; Mary, in 1763; George, in 1764; Nancy, in 1766 ; and William, in 1769.


Robert Means was married to a Miss Kelly. Both were members of the Lewistown Presby- terian Church, which they aided in building, and both are interred in the old burial-place on the farm of John Means. The ground originally purchased by Robert Means, Sr., embraced four farms, including the homestead of ninety- six acres inherited by his son, Robert Means, who was born near Newtown, in Bucks County, and accompanied his parents on their emigra- tion to Mifflin County, where he devoted his life to farming pursuits.


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Ile married, on the B1st of May, 1791, Han- 1836, married to Matthew B. Taylor, of Brown township ; Sammel Albert, in 1837, a farmer in White County, Ill. ; Francis Andrew, in 1839, a farmer in Derry township; Priscilla, in 1811, wife of Henry Slaymaker, a merchant of Phila- delphia ; Robert Howard, in 18-13, now resid- ing on the homestead ; Mary Ann, in 1817, wife of Dr. Owen Osler, of Philadelphia ; and Wil- liam, in 1851, a druggist in Lebanon, Pa. Mr. nah MeKre, who was of Scotch Irish descent. Their children are George, born in 1792; Margaret, wife of Philip Corbet, in 1794, who moved to Clarion County, Pa., where her death ocenred ; William, in 1796, who also settled in Clarion County on the farm located by his father; Andrew, in 1799, who never married, but continued to reside in Armagh township, where he followed the saddler's trade ; Robert | Means received but meagre advantages of edu-


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Anderson, August 8, 1801; Nancy, in 1804, , cation, and was carly accustomed to lend his wife of John McClure, who died in Clarion services in the work connected with the farm. On the death of his father he succeeded to the homestead property, then embracing ninety-six acres, which now includes fifty additional aeres of arable land, About forty years since he re- built and greatly improved the residence which he has since occupied. In politics Mr. Means is a Democrat, but not a strong party man, and was a warm supporter of the Union during the late war, his son Samuel Albert having served during the carly period of that conflict. Both County ; Mary Ann, in 1806, who also died in Clarion Comty ; Eliza, in 1808, wife of Robert Rothrock, who removed to White County, Ind , where her death occurred ; and Hannah (Mrs. William McFarlane), still living in Lewistown, Robert. Anderson Means, on the 26th of March, 1 835, married Elizabeth B., danghtor of Samnel MeNitt, of Armagh township, who was born December 16, 1813, and died September 26, 1875. Their children are Eliza Jane, born in




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