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John Espy, b. 1779, d. 1843, (aged 64). Lovina Espy, wife, b. 1787, d. 1874, (aged 87). Anis, b. 1817, d. 1855, (aged 38). Epsy was born in Hanover, was the son of George, mar- ried Lovina Inman, daughter of Edward Inman ; lived on the middle road at or near what is now called Hanover Station on the Nanticoke branch of the Central R. R. of N. J. There he died, and about 1850 Mrs. Espy removed to her father's homestead on the River Road at or near the Buttonwood shaft, where she died. 1 do not know who "Anis" is. They had James, married Mary Miller ; Fanny, married Abram Line; Lavina, married Peter D. Miller; Mary, married John R. Line; Priseilla, married Levi M. Miller; Edward ; Jolin, married Mary Taylor.
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Ruluff Fisher (b. 1724), d. 1809, aged 85. Mary Fisher, wife, (b. 1725), d. 1830, aged 105 years, 5 months, 17 days. Jacob Fisher (son), b. 1771, d. 1852, (aged 81). Henry Fisher (son of Jacob), b. 1803, d. 1851, (aged 48). Abram Fisher (son of Henry), b. 1827, d. 1851, (aged 24). Ruluff Fisher was of Holland birth. He lived on the Middle Road or near it just north of the cross road from the Downing house to the Hanover Green. The house stood back west some thirty rods from the road. His wife, or widow, lived to be the oldest person that ever lived in Hanover, over 105 years. Their son, Jacob, built a house near the road, which still stands. He married an Adams, whose father owned the Knoch place before Knoch came there. Henry Fisher was his son; owned the hotel at South Wilkes-Barre, which he built in 1848, now, or lately, belonging to Jacob Kocher. Henry and his son, Abram, had a contract to build part of the North Branch canal in 1851, some- where near Tunkhannock. The day before a pay-day they had prepared to pay the men and had the money with them near the place where they worked. They were both murdered and robbed that night and the house where they slept was burnt with their bodies in it. The rest of the Fisher family all went west about 1854 or '5. The children of Jacob were this Henry, married Mary Smiley ; Clara, married Eleazer Marble; Susan, married Samuel Smiley ; Polly, married John Mensch ; Perry, married Rebecca Thomas; Margaret, mar- ried Joseph Steele; Jacob, married Harriet Inman; Giles, married Caroline Thomas ; Sarah, married Charles Holcomb. I think their oldest son was Elijah. I do not know who he married.
John Frederick (b. 1782), d. 1854, aged 72. Eliza, daughter of Christian Frederick, b. 1815, d. 1871, (age 56). He came with his family to Hanover from Northampton county in 1821. Ilis wife's name was Christiana Fogel. He lived in what is now called Ashley. . His children were Isaac, born 1805, married Jane Hannis; Daniel, born 1807, married Christiana Steele; Joseph, born 1810, married Lovina Saum ; Charles, born 1813, died 1886, married Susan M. Kreidler ; William, b. 1815, wife not known. Daniel is still living at Ashley, and Joseph lives in Wilkes-Barre, near the Hanover line at Newtown, both very old men. Daniel died April 18, 1894. I do not know who Eliza is if not the daughter of John Frederick and Christiana, his wife.
Emily, wife of Solomon Fairchild, b. 1836, d. 1853, (aged 17). Nothing known of these Fairchilds by me.
Cornelius Garrison, b. 1756, d. 1825, aged 68. Mary, wife of Cornelius, (b. 1758), d. 1815, aged 57. Margaret, wife of Cornelius, b. 1782. d. 1827, aged 45. [John Garrison (son of Cornelius), (b. 1784), d. 1865, aged about 81?]. Catharine Garrison, wife of John, (b, 1784), d. 1854, aged 70. Sarah Garrison (daughter of Cornelius), (b. 1791), d. 1849, aged 58. Cornelius Garrison was a French soldier in our Revolutionary War ; did not go back with the French ; married in America ; lived on the cross road between the Back Road at Sugar Notch and the Middle Road, now in Sugar Notch. His horses ran away, threw him out of the wagon going down the hill at the Preston place, forty or fifty rods south at the southern line of Ashley, and broke his neck. His children were Elizabeth, born 1782, died 1827, married John Saum ; John, married Kate Mack ; Mary, married John Robins ; Jacob, married Rachel Rimer ; Rachel, married William Stapleton ; Nancy, never married ; James, married Mary Wiggins.
John Garringer (b. 1785), d. 1836, aged 51. Mary Garringer, his wife, (b. 1787), d. 1868, aged 81. Daniel Garringer (son, b. 1826), d. 1858, aged 32. The Garringers came
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to Hanover in 1810 from Northampton county, Pa .; lived on the River Road below -- south of-the Red Tavern. His wife was Mary Magdalene Hess, They had Charles, born 1805, died 1888, married Elizabeth Leuder ; Levi, born 1806, married Katy Reynard ; Thomas, born 1807, never married ; Eliza, born 1809, died :350, married John Andrew or Andrus; Jesse, born 1812, died 1891, married Sarah Croop: John G., born 1814; Mary, born 1817, married John Klinker; David, born 1819; Susan, born 1822, married John Sut- ton; Isaac, born 1824; Daniel, born 1826, died 1858: Lucinda, born 1828, married Wil- liam King; Aaron, born 1830, married - Coolbaugh. Charles died in Nanticoke, and Jesse in Wilkes-Barre.
Henry George, b. 1797, d. 1849. aged 52. Catharine, wife of Henry George, b. ISO1, d. 1878, aged 77. Isaiah George, b. 1831, d. 1875, (aged 44). Henry George was of Ger- man descent ; settled in Nanticoke when he was a young man ; supposed to have come from Northampton county, Pa .; married Catharine Kocher, and died in Nanticoke. They had Elizabeth, married S. T. P'uterbaugh ; William, born 1822, died 1890, married Ann Croop; Hiram, married Amanda Gruver ; Susan, married, first, Daniel Lazarus; second, A. M. Jefferies ; John, married Serlina Robins ; Adelaide, married Augustus Nybil ; Sam- uel, married, first, Martha Vandermark; second, Hattie Totten, and died in 1890; Jose- phine, married Dr. William G. Robinson ; Isaiah, born 1831, died 1875.
Amos G. Herrick, b. (1794), d. 1862, aged 68. Ruth, wife of Amos Herrick, (b. 1794), d. 1853, aged 59. Amos Herrick was of New England descent ; his wife a daughter of Nathan Wade. They had Mary, Edward, Elizabeth, Daniel, Nathan, killed in battle in 1864 during the rebellion ; Amos. The family lived in Hanover till 1860, when they re- moved to Newport township.
John Hoover, b. 1782, d. 1868, (aged 84). Sarah, wife of John Hoover, (b. 1785), d. 1857, aged 72., John Hoover was of German or Holland descent ; came to Hanover from New Jersey about 1790; married Sarah Sims. He had a brother, Henry, married Hannah Burgess; and Michael, married Asenath Burgess; and a sister, Hannah, married Silas Wig- gins. His children were Polly, married John Rummage; Henry, married Elizabeth Sidmore; John; Michael, married Betsey Ann Custerd; Eliza, married Samuel Keithline; Jacob, mar- ried Susan Sorber. All gone west except Jacob.
Elijah Inman (b. 1718), d. 1804, aged 86. Susan Inman (wife, b. 1821), d. 1809, aged 88. Richard Inman (son, b. 1751), d. 1831, aged 80. John Inman (son, b. 1758), d. 1804, aged 46. Edward Inman (son), b. Nov. 23, 1763, d. Oct: 20, 1848, aged 84-10-27. Jerusha Inman (daughter), b. Feb. 10, 1766, d. Oct. 1, 1848, aged 80-7-21. 'Nathan In- man, son of Edward, (b. 1805), d. 1835, aged 32. Elizabeth (Inman) Stiles, b. 1801, d. 1851, (aged 50). Elijah Inman was of New England birth ; was among the first settlers in Hanover and lived at Buttonwood on the west side of Solomon's creek ; had seven sons. Four were in the Wyoming battle and massacre, July 3, 1778; two were killed ; one died soon after from his exposure there, and one that was not in the battle was killed near home the same year. One-Richard-did not reach the battlefield, having fallen out on the way to it from the fort, but he shot and killed the Indian that was trying to kill Rufus Bennett in the flight from the defeat. Elijah's sons were Elijah, killed : Israel, killed ; David, died from exposure and over heating: Isaac, killed near home the same winter, 1778; Richard escaped, married Hannah Spencer ; John ; Edward, married Jerusha Dilley. Richard had a large family -- Israel, Isaac, Caleb, Richard, Walter, John, Parry, Mary,
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Susan and Margaret. John, son of Elijah, married ; had Hiram and Richard. Edward, son of Elijah, married Jerusha Dilley and had Lovina, married John Espy; Jemima, mar- ried John Turner; Susan, married John Whitney; Jerusha, married William Jackson; John E., married Mary Hannis ; Elizabeth, married Stiles.
Samuel Jameson, b. 1777, d. 1843, aged 65. Hannah Jameson (wife), d. 1851. The Jameson family came to Hanover from Connecticut in 1776, and settled in Nanticoke. The eldest son, John, b. 1749, came in 1773 to Hanover; married Abigail Alden; was in the Wyoming massacre, but escaped death then, to be murdered by the Indians in the road at the Hanover Green cemetery in 1782. He was the father of this Samuel. He had brothers and sisters-Mary; William, b. 1751, was in the battle and massacre at Wyoming, July 3, 1778, and eacaped but was killed by the Indians in Careytown in the same year, after the massacre; Robert, b. 1755, killed in the massacre; Elizabeth; Rosanna, married Elisha Harvey; Samuel; Hannah; Joseph ; Alexander, born about 1761, married Elizabeth Stew- art, daughter of Captain Lazarus; Agnes; Benjamin ; Samuel, born 1777, son of John, mar- ried Hannah Ilunlock and had Maria, born 1805 ; Eliza, born 1803 ; Ann, born 1806, mar- ried Anderson Dana and had two daughters who died without issue.
Conrad Knoch, b. 1759, d. 1828, aged 68. Conrad Knoch, Jr., (son), b. 1788, d. 1817, aged 29. Elizabeth Knoch (daughter), b. 1793, d. 1818, aged 25. Johannes Knoch (son), b. 1796, d. 1799, (aged 3). Peter Knoch (son), b. 1800, d. 1821, aged 21. Knoch came to Hanover about 1812. His wife died about 1835, the last of her family, and as I have no inscription I think there is no tombstone to her grave. According to their own story they were too poor in Germany to be permitted to marry, so they both applied to a ship's captain to carry them to America and sell them there for their passage. He did so, and when he sold them at public auction to the man who would take them for the shortest time and pay the cost of their passage he told the bidders he would like to sell both to one man, as they wished to marry. And so it was done, and they were married and worked out their pay. And afterwards they were so industrious and saving that they became "well- to-do" in the land ; but their children all died with consumption. I believe there was a daughter or a son that married, had a child and died, and the child died in infancy, so the redemptioner's property went to his heirs in Germany. My mother said when they came to Hanover they had the finest team of horses, and wagon,she had ever seen.
Daniel Kreidler, (b. 1771), d. 1855, aged 84. George Kreidler, (b. 1776), d. 1855, aged 79. Margaret Kreidler, wife of George, d. 1856. Jonas Kreidler, (son of George), (b. 1803), d. 1828, aged 25. Daniel and George Kreidler, brothers, came to Hanover from Northampton county, Pa , in 1823, Daniel's wife was Catharine Hartzell, and George's was Margaret Hartzell. They both settled on Solomon's creek, where Ashley now is, and there they lived and died. Daniel's children were Elizabeth, married George Engle; Dan- iel, born 18co. married Margaret Boyer ; Thomas, born 1802, married Mary Dill ; Mary, born 1805; married Charles Hay; Rachel, born 1809, married Williston Preston ; Susan M., born 1812, married Charles Frederick ; Lovina, born 1818, married Simon Rinehimer. George had Margaret, married Henry Stroh ; John, married Christiana Ransom; Catha- rine, married Nicholas Landmesser; Arthur; Hannah, married, first, Burton Downing; second. Rueben Keyser ; Daniel, married Mary Haas.
George Kocher, (b. 1769), d. 1850, aged 81. Elizabeth, his wife, (b. 1779), d. 1850, aged 71. The first Kocher was the father of this George, and his name was George. He came
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to Hanover about 1805 with a grown up family. His oldest son was the above George, married Elizabeth Rothermel; Henry; Mary, married Conrad Rinehimer; Sarah, married Philip Gross; Betsey, married -- Teeter. Henry lived in Hanover till about 1838, when he returned to Northampton county, from which they came. George, born 1769, had John, married Catharine Teeter; George, Jr., married Euphemia Crisman ; Peter, married Eliza - --; Mary, married John Ash ; Rose Ann, married Truman Decker ; Lydia, married Samuel H. Puterbaugh ; Susan, married Samuel II. Puterbaugh after her sister's death, and second, after Puterbaugh died, married Silas Alexander; Catharine, born 1801, died 1878, married Henry George. I do not have these in the order of birth.
Valentine Kizer, (b. 1769), d. 1847, aged 78. Anna Kizer (his wife), b. 1768, d. 1841, aged 73. Samuel Kizer, son, (b. 1817), d. 1839, aged 22. There is a puzzle herc. Anna is called his wife on the tombstone, and yet Catharine Salome Saum was his wife, and she died in 1859, as their private register says. There is a mistake I cannot account for. Valentine had a son Christian, married Teena Merwine; John, married Frances Merwine ; Charles, married Sally Gress ; Peter.
Reuben Kizer, (b. 1815), d. 1872, aged 57. Hannah, wife of Reuben, b. 1818, d. 1879, aged 61. Reuben was the son of Christian, married Hannah Kreidler, widow of Burton Downing. Downing died in 1841, leaving one son, John C. Downing, now of the State of Washington, born in 1841.
Andrew Lee (b. 1739), d. 1821, aged 82. Priscilla Lee (wife), b. 1751, d. 1815, aged 64. Col. Washington Lee (son), b. 1786, d. 1871 aged 85. James S. Lee (son), b. 1789, d. 1851, aged 61. Andrew Lee (son of James), b. 1815, d. 1881, (aged 67). Catharine Campbell (b. 1752), d. 1836, aged 84. Capt. Andrew Lee was a Revolutionary soldier; native of Lancaster county, Pa., (now Dauphin county); married Priscilla Espy, widow of James Stewart ; came to Hanover to live in 1804, though he owned land here many years before that ; lived and died in Nanticoke. His son, Washington Lee, born 1786, married Eliza- beth Campbell (perhaps daughter of the above Catharine) and died without issue. James S., another son, married Martha Campbell. They had Andrew, born 1815, died 1882, mar- ried Sarah Jane Buckhout ; Priscilla, born 1819, married Ziba Bennett; Washington, born 1821, died 1883, married Emily Thomas; Margaret, born 1823, died 1866, married Dr. James F. Doolittle ; Mary, born 1829, died 1853, married Lewis C. Paine.
Conrad Lion, b. 1731, d. 1815, aged 84. Clarissa Lion (b. 1740), d. 1817, aged 77. Henry Line (b. 1783), d. 1849, aged 66. Anna Line (wife), b. 1787, d. 1862, aged 75. James Line (b. 1809), d. 1846, aged 37. Fanny, wife of Abram Line, b. 1813, d. 18446, aged 67. The Lines were of Holland descent and came to Hanover from New Jersey before the Revo- lutionary War; settled in Nanticoke. Conrad Line had Peter; John, married - Harrison ; Adrian; Conrad ; Lena, married Nathaniel Worden; Henry, married Anna Sliker. Henry and Anna had Margaret, born 1807, married Samuel Pell ; James, married Catharine Mill ; Abram, married Fanny Espy ; Elizabeth, married George Mill; Martha, married John Fairchild ; Julia Ann, married James Beatty ; Henry, married Eliza Ann Robins ; Maria. married Jacob S. Robins ; Catharine, married Daniel Raisley ; Samuel, married Emma E. Butts.
Christian Lueder (b. 1769), d. 1832, aged 63. Mary M. Lueder (wife, b. 1776), d. 1852, aged 76. Lueder was a German by birth : married Mary Magdalene Ryswick in North- ampton county, Pa. They had John, married Margaret Vandermark ; Frederick, married
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Mary Vandermark ; Augustus, married Rose Ann Lutzey ; Christian F., married Hannah Lutzey ; Hannah K., married Jesse Dilley; Elizabeth, married Charles Garringer ; Har- riet, married Rufus Bennett, Jr .; Julia, married John Askam ; Lydia, married Archibald Smiley ; Mary, married Equilla Deeter. Mrs. Dilley died in Wilkes-Barre. She was the mother of Anning, Urban, Sylvester, Butler and Monroe Dilley. Garringer died in Nan- ticoke. Christian F. died in Hanover.
George Lazarus, b. 1761, d. 18.44, aged 83. Mary (his wife), b. 1777, d. 1861, aged 84. Lazarus was of German descent ; born in Northampton county, Pa .; married Mary Hart- zell ; removed to Hanover at Buttonwood in 18:8. They had john, born 1796, died 1879, married Polly Drake : Elizabeth, born 1,98, married Benjamin Stocker; Catharine, born 1800, died 1888, married Fritz Deterick ; Sarah, born. 1804, died 1892, married John Blanchard ; George, born 1809, died 1882, married Margaret Barber ; Mary, born 1812, married Asahel B. Blodgett; Thomas, bern 1816, died 1888, married Rachel Miller. Thomas died in Hanover at the old homestead; has a fine monument in Hanover Green cemetery. John died in Wilkes-Barre. Catharine died in Wilkes-Barre, and all Wilkes- Barreans know her son, Miller H. Deterick, who was so many years the street car conductor to Kingston. George died in Pittston, Pa .; Sarah died at Port Blanchard ; Mary still lives at Buttonwood, but she and her deceased husband have a fine monument in Hollenback cemetery.
George Learn, b. Aug. 21, 1781, d. Sept. 1, 1850, aged 69. Simon Learn (b. 1804), d. 1839, aged 35. Mary E. Learn, daughter of Charles, d. 1848, aged 1. George . Learn was of German descent ; born in Northampton county, Pa .; came to Hanover in 1810. His children were Simon ; Levi, married Sarah Sterling; Louisa; Lee, married Hannah Hart- zell; Heller, married Catharine Stucker; George P., married Naomi Keller; Michael; Charles ; Adam, married Mary Line; William; Lydia, married William Askam ; Mary Ann, married - Gress. He lived on the Back Road when I was a little child on the farm that afterwards belonged to Col. H. B. Wright, now part of Warrior Run mines. He died on the River Road in Hanover close to the present Pennsylvania railroad, formerly where the canal crossed the road. Ilis son, George P., lived there after him till about 1864, when he removed to a farm he bought a mile or so below Berwick, Pa. I do not know the name of Charles' wife.
Adam Laubaugh (b. 1778), d. 1853, aged 75. Catharine (his wife, b. 1782), d. 1853, aged 71. I know nothing about these.
Adam Lape, b. 1810, d. 1847, (aged 37). Adam Lape was of German descent; born in Newport township, Pa .; married Elizabeth Croop ; had Harriet, married Dr. Harry Hakes ; William ; Andrew ; Alvin, married Amelia James; Francis S .; Dr. Allen A., married Frances E. Line, widow of William Lueder, and died 1884; Clara J. These all lived ir Nanticoke except that Dr. Hakes lives in Wilkes-Barre.
John Mill (b. 1730), d. 1814, aged 84. John Mill, Jr., (b. 1765), d. 1840, aged 75. Peter Mill (b. 1800), d. 1871, aged 71. Wife of Peter Mill (b. 1800), d. 1848, aged 48. The Mills came to Hanover previous to 1796, as I learn from my grandfather's account books. The first John's wife is not known. The second John's wife was Catharine Klinker. It is not known whether the first John had any other family than John, Jr. They all lived in Nanticoke. John, Jr., had Mary, born 1797, d. 1890 in Wilkes. Barre, married Henry An- heuser; Peter, born 1800, married, first wife's name not known ; second wife, Mary Keith-
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line; George, died 1888, married Elizabeth Line ; Solomon, married Mary Line; John, married Eliza Line; Catharine, married James Line. . Peter died in Nanticoke, Mary in Wilkes-Barre. The others went west many years ago.
George Peter Minnich, b. 1764. d. 1826, aged 61. Elizabeth Minnich (wife), b. 1752, d. 1824, aged 72. Henry Minnich, b. Aug. 10, 1785, d. 1845, aged 60. Anna Elizabeth (wife of Henry), b. 1781, d, 1828, aged 47. Jonas Minnich (son of Henry), b. 1822, d. 1828 (aged 6). William Henry, son of Henry, b. 1808, d. 1831, aged 23. Abram Minnich, son of Henry, b. ISIS, d. 1880. aged 62. Mary Ann, wife of Abram, b. 1819, d. 1864, aged 45. George Peter, said to have been born in Germany, came to"America when twenty years of age, settled in Northampton county, Pa .; married Elizabeth Rockel; came to Hanover about 1810; settled on the River Road north of the Dundee shaft. They had Henry, born in Northampton county, married Anna Elizabeth Knaus; Sarah, married Luthridge Knaus ; Elizabeth, born 1786, died 1821, married Henry Mack; Susan, married Jacob Rummage, Jr .; Catharine, married Conrad Rummage ; Polly, married Henry Ash. Henry bought the homestead of the heirs and lived there Had Peter, married Katy Ann Downs; Julia, married Peter Andrew (or Andrus); Anthony, married Susan Young ; Daniel, born 1814, died 1890, married Julia Ann Kocher ; John, born 1817, married Julia --; Abram, mar- ried Mary Ann Husselton ; David, married Catharine Lester. They all went west more than fifty years ago, except Daniel and Abram. Perhaps John went in 1852 or '3. Eliza- beth, wife of Henry Mack (or Mock, as he was called here), was a daughter of George Peter Minnich. She was born 1786, died 1821. He married a second wife, and soon after traded his farm here to John Robinson for a farm in Susquehanna county, Pa., and removed there. His second wife was called, I think, Abby Bennett, but she was not of any Bennett family about here.
Barnet Miller, b. 1787, d. 1854, (aged 67). Mary Miller (wife of), b. 1795, d. 1872, (aged 77). Barnet Miller was of German descent ; came to Hanover about 1834; settled on the River Road below the Dundee shaft. They had Nancy, died 1893, married Reuben Down- ing; Mary, married James Espy ; Peter D., married Lovina Espy ; Levi, married Priscilla Espy ; Andrew ; - - - ., the youngest daughter, (name not remembered), lived with her mother on corner of Middle Road and the Ashley cross road ; there she married and there the mother died.
John George Nagle, b. 1746, d. 1823, aged 77. Katy Nagle, wife of John George, (b. 1756), d. 1817, aged 61. Christian Nagle, b. 1781, d. 1857, (aged 76). Sarah Steckel (wife of Christian), b. 1789, d. 1871, (aged 8:). John Nagle, b. 1793, d. 1875, (aged 82). Susan (Rymer, wife of John), b. 1795, d. 1869, (aged 74). Joseph Nagle (son of John), b. 1830, d. 1831, aged 1. John Nagle, Jr., (son of John), b. 1825, d. 185i, (aged 26). Clarence, son of George M. Nagle, b: 1861, d. 1861. Nagle was of German descent ; came to Hanover about 1813 with a grown up family. They had Frederick ; Christian, married Sarah Steckel ; Maria, married Christian Burrier ; Elizabeth, married James Sterling; Catharine, married Isaac Derhammer ; Mary; John, married Susan Rimer. John Nagle died in Wilkes-Barre. Christian had Rebecca, married Elijah Edgerton ; William, married Lydia Ann Downing ; Reuben, married Jane Davis; Daniel, married Sarah Stroh ; Sarah, mar- ried Peter Petty ; George, married Mary Rinehimer ; Charles, born 1828, died 1891, mar- ried Mary Ann Custerd ; Eliza, married William Watt. John, born 1793, had Ephraim, married Sarah Edmonds ; George M., married Sarah J. Fowler. Christian Nagle or Der-
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hammer owned the place on the Middle Road, where the Roman Catholic "Hanover ceme- tery" now is.
John Nyhart, b. 1799, d. 1849 (aged 50). Elizabeth (wife of John), b. 1799, d. 1856, (aged 57). Nyhart was of German descent; came to Hanover about 1845 from Newport township ; was born in Monroe county, Pa. His son, Levi L., was a cripple from burns re- ceived in infancy. By industry and saving he acquired some property at Askam, where he was long a Justice of the Peace, and died in 1892, aged about 68.
Josiah Pell (b. 1734), d. 1802, aged 68(?). Elizabeth (wife of Josiah Pell), b. 1756, d. 1802, aged 46. Samuel Pell, b. 1796, d. 1872, (aged 76). Margaret (wife of Samuel), b. 1807, d. 1881, (aged 74). Josiah Pell was an Englishman by birth, as I have heard my grandfather say ; came to Hanover before the Revolutionary War with a wife and family ; had a son Josiah the same age as my grandfather, (born 1760), who was in the Hanover company in the Wyoming battle, July 3, 1778, and escaped. Josiah, senior, married a sec- ond wife, Elizabeth Jackson, of Newport township, and had Polly, born 1792, died 1860, married John James ; Samuel, married Margaret Line ; Silas, born 1800, died 1836. Polly and Samuel both died in the same house in Wilkes-Barre on South Main street. Polly had no children. Josiah Pell, Jr., went off up the Susquehanna river into New York State where so many of our Wyoming settlers went after the Revolutionary War. I have Josiah, senior, marked on my notes made in the cemetery as sixty years of age, but I am quite sure that is a mistake.
Benjamin F. Pfouts, b. 1709, d. 1874, (aged 65). Pfouts was born in Lycoming county, Pa., married Mary Frances Sively and had George S., born 1842, married, first, Emma Quick ; second, Adella Eckroth. Mrs. Pfouts is still living on the old Sively homestead in Hanover at Buttonwood, the same place settled in 1770 by Lieutenant Lazarus Stewart, Jr., who was slain in the Wyoming massacre, July 3, 1778, the grandfather of Mrs. Pfouts.
Jacob Rummage (b. 1767), d. 1835, aged 68. Jacob Rummage (b. 1792), d. 1858, aged 66. Susan Rummage (wife of Jacob), b. 1788, d. 1839, aged 51. Lazarus, son of Jacob, (b. 1813), d. 1839, aged 26. Daughter of Jacob (b. 1817), d. 1819, aged 2. Jacob, son of Jacob, (b. 1820), d. 1839, aged 19. John, son of Jacob, (b. 1821), d. 1837, aged 16. Chester, son of Jacob, (b. 1824), d. 1844, aged 20. Mary E., daughter of Jacob, (b. 1828), d. 1844, aged 16. Conrad, son of Conrad, (b. 1819), d. 1843, aged 24. Catharine, daughter of John, (b. 1821), d. 1847, aged 26. Charles Rummage, d. 1854, aged 5. The Rummages were of German descent ; came to Hanover about 1800. Their children were nearly all born before they came here. They were Conrad, born about 1790, married Katie Minnich : Jacob, born 1792, married Susan Minnich; Christine, born about 1794, died 1886, married Jacob Miller ; Polly, born 1796, married Jacob Shaffer ; Sally, born 1801, died 1851, married Joseph Rine- himer; John, born 1804, married Polly Hoover. John died in Wisconsin. Jacob, born 1792, and Susan had eight children, of whom all but two (William, married Katie Ann Burrier, and Zebulon, married Harriet A. Price), died young. Conrad, born 1819, son of Conrad, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle while hunting, in 1843. His wife was Catharine Saum.
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