[54972] The unverified file M687-5VN in familysearch.org offers: "George Bowden was born in 1842, in Surry, Hancock, Maine, United States. He married Mary E. Mc Caslin in 1873, in Penobscot, Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters."
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[37250] This person is from the unverified Yarbrough Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2014.
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[16271] Mercy m. 28 Oct 1731 Jonathan Longfellow.
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[55397] Ruby is daughter of George W. Day (1852-1936) & Mary Abigail Morse (1861-1911).
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[39894] The unverified Gilmore Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2015 offers: "When Anne Fleming was born on October 30, 1705, in New Kent, Virginia, her father, Charles, was 45 and her mother, Susanna, was 42. She married Josias Payne and they had 30 children together. She then married George Penn and they had seven children together. She died on December 19, 1785, in Goochland [Co.], Virginia, having lived a long life of 80 years." See Find A Grave memorial 11294358 for different dates, etc. for Anne.
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[24159] Her information and that of her ancestry is from Assuna Caso's site on Ancestry World Tree in 2004. Also see http://www.haskellfamilyhistory.com.
[37958] This person is from the unverified Smilie Family Tree in Ancestry.com in 2014 which states William m. 1462 Constance Wickersley. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levett.
[54064] The unverified file KLGL-J8X in familysearch.org offers: "When Robert Merchant Jr. was born on 28 March 1831, in Little Deer Isle . . . . his father, Robert Merchant, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Betsy Alley, was 21. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Elizabeth Beal. He lived in Jonesport, Washington, Maine, United States in 1860. He died on 26 May 1903, in Beals, Washington, Maine, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Beals, Washington, Maine, United States.
[15626] Reliance is the daughter of Elkanah Paine and Reliance Young. A reply to query on ancestry.com: "According to research I have just done in various volumes of the 'Mayflower Descendant' of which I have a CD Reliance Paine, born and baptized in Truro, Mass. on February 10, 1739/40 was the daughter of Elkanah Paine and wife, Reliance Young. They were married March 10, 1719/20. Reliance (Young) Paine died June 122,1757 in her 58th year. Reliance Young was the daughter of Henry and Sarah Young born March 8, 1699/70. Henry Young died and Sarah then married Jonathan Sparrow. There is conjecture as to whether or not her family was Snow. - Chester Files" Elkanah Paine is son of Thomas Paine (b. 1656 in Truro, MA) and Hannah Shaw (b. 1662 in Plymouth, MA). Ancestry.com offers: "Paine Name Meaning - English (mainly Kent and Sussex): from the Middle English personal name Pain(e), Payn(e) (Old French Paien, from Latin Paganus), introduced to Britain by the Normans. The Latin name is a derivative of pagus outlying village, and meant at first a person who lived in the country (as opposed to Urbanus city dweller), then a civilian as opposed to a soldier, and eventually a heathen (one not enrolled in the army of Christ). This remained a popular name throughout the Middle Ages, but it died out in the 16th century."
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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PACENTRE/2011-04 contains this:
Regarding The Rev. Mr. Martin Albert Smith as per Justin Houser's comments, which I repeat below in their entirety for the convenience of anyone who wants to understand the context of my response:
b. 22 Nov 1822 near New Bloomfield [now] Perry Co. PA -- d. 13 March 1891, Nazareth PA; bur. Reformed Church cemetery, Nazareth, also known as "St. John's Union Cemetery." He was the youngest son of Benjamin Smith of Perry County and Elizabeth Albert (b. 17 July 1795, Adams Co PA) Married 21 March 1854 to Mary Jane Meyer (1 Nov 1835, Boalsburg area - 3 Dec 1877, Nazareth PA, dau of George Meyer (1 March 1806, Campbelltown, Lebanon Co PA - 15 Feb 1889, Boalsburg] and Anna (Fox, orig. "Fuchs") Meyer (24 Feb 1806 -- 21 March 1874, Boalsburg).
This Mary Jane Meyer's parents moved to from Lebanon county to Centre Co well after other Meyer relatives had moved to Centre Co, including:1. various descendants of Jacob Meyer, who moved from Lebanon County to the "Bridle Path Inn" NW of (now) Freeburg, (now) Snyder County PA. NONE of Jacob's descendants remained in the area where Jacob settled, most of them coming to Centre Co. Author Henry Meyer (_Genealogy of the Meyer Family_, 1890) descends from this family line.
2. three sons of Christopher Meyer, brother of the above Jacob Meyer: Henry to Boalsburg (buried very close to the Lutheran church there); George to Aaronsburg; and Jacob to Mühlheim (Millheim). Thus, when George and and Anna (Fox) Meyer moved to the farm between Boalsburg and the site of present-day State College, they were going where lots of relatives already lived.
This George and Anna (Fox) Meyer had seven children, the above Mary (Meyer) Smith the third, and the last of them William Calvin Meyer (1847 - 1927), whose first child Mary Elizabeth Meyer (4 Jan 1874 - 14 March 1927) married Harry Shawley, from whom came the folks who used to operate the Eutaw House at Potters Mills. This George and Anna (Fox Meyer) also had three sons, of whom Joseph Curtis Meyer (20 March 1880 - 19 Oct 1966) was a dairy farmer and operated Joe Meyer's Dairy on East Atherton Street, State College, will in business. Wiliam and Anna's last son Marion Meyer (3 June 1883 - 29 Aug 1968) owned and operated the Autoport and for some years was also State College's Cadillac motor car dealer.
My materials on Mar Jane (Meyer) Smith and husband The Rev. Martin Albert Smith are not in good order, I'm ashamed to report, but I can share at least these facts:
A. He was first licensed as a supply in Ma 1849 by the Zion Classis of the German Reformed Church at Sulphur Springs (near Carlisle) and supplied the Nittany Valley charge that summer, where he met his wife.
B. He was ordained i 1850 by the Westmorland Classis at Salem Church in (I think) Clarion PA
C. He served the Aaronsburg Charge, March 1852 - December 1856; then Hummelstown, Dauphin Co PA, Charge, Dec 1856 - Dec. 1866 (That would have included at least Hummelstown and Union Deposit in those days); then he served the Dryland Charge in and around Nazareth, consisting of Dryland Church at Hecktown, Christ or "Union" Church at Bath, and St. John's at Nazareth, 1866 - 1890. He preached quite a bit _auf Deutsch_.
Some hunches about him:
1. He attended Marshall College at Mercersburg, whose merger with Franklin College occurred only in 1853 to form Franklin & Marshall College, after he was already ordained. The denomination's theological seminary was also at Mercersburg before moving to Lancaster in 1871. THEREFORE, one might find record of him in the alumni offices of Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, or Lancaster Theological Seminary, successor schools to where he MIGHT have taken his education and training.
2. Apart from those, I would guess one would find materials from him, perhaps even the longed-for record of ministerial acts, either at a. The Library of the Historical Society of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, successor body to the German Reformed Church (later Reformed Church in the US), housed in the Schaff Library of Lancaster Theological Seminary. Call (717) 393-0654, Mondays - Wednesdays 8:30 to 4. This is a quite fine repository.
b. Perhaps in the museum and library of Northhampton County (PA) Historidal Society; see http://sigalmuseum.org.
c. Perhaps in the archives of either St. John's or Dryland United Church of Christ, Nazareth PA Go to drylanducc@juno.com
SMITH HAD NINE CHILDREN, of whom I know rather little -- and nothing of the next generation of after these children:
1. & 2. died young in 1860 of diphtheria Burial place? Likely Hummelstown.
3. Bertha Ann (2 March 1860, Hummelstown - 1948
4. Calvin Meyer Smith (18 Jan 1863, Hummelstown - 22 Dec 1935; editor of the _Pen Argyl Index_.
5. George Anselm Smith (11 March 1865, Nazareth - 17 March 1923; bur Bath PA cemetery), a druggist in Slatington PA.
6. Charles Martin Smith (1 April 1867, Hummelstown - 14 March 1923 -- a student at Lancaster Theological Seminary at the time of his father's death; an alumnus and later a pastor?
7. Mary Elizabeth (4 Se[t 1869 - Nazareth - death info not known to me. My information is not clear to me, though I have a note that she married one John f. Unangst on 1 April 1893 in Nazareth and lived there. I *think* his dates are 8 Febraur 1858 - 30 March 1940, and buried at St. John's "Union" Cemetery in Nazareth. I have a sketchy note that he married Mary Elizabeth in 1893 when 35 years old. A second marriage?
8. Ellen Blanche (b. 29 Sept 1871, Nazareth) no other information
9. Charlotte "Lottie Jane (15 Nov 1873, Nazareth - 16 Feb 1879) One might presume she is buried next to her parents at Nazareth.
Perhaps a decade or two ago, I met a woman in Boalsburg either descended from The Rev. Smith or somehow knowledgeable about him and his family. I *think* she was a member at St. John's Reformed Church, Boalsburg (now St. John's United Church of Christ). I am embarrassed not to be able to make a clearer referral to her and have no idea if she still lives.
I would be please if one or another of the above information leads to the discovery of The Rev. Mr. Smith's list of ministerial acts.
One very slight improvement to Justin's comments: the particular family from whom Mary Jane (Mrs. Martin Albert Smith) came was NOT of the Brush Valley but rather from the Boalsburg area. Her parents lie buried in Boalsburg Cemetery. Her father George was a son of Michael Meyer(Moyer), my great-great-grandfather. Michael and wife Elizabeth (Derstein) Moyer -- they had taken the name Moyer in Lebanon County, as did nearly all of the family there -- moved to Brush Valley in retirement, and Michael died there in 1842 and was buried in the Lutheran and Reformed cemetery there under the name Moyer. His widow survived him by 30 years, moved in with son George & his wife Anna (Fox) Meyer and upon her death was buried in their plot at Boalsburg under the spelling _Meyer_!! Apparently Michael too the _Moyer_ spelling after George had married Anna Fox of Hummelstown and moved to Centre County. Some day I must try to find evidence of this name-change confusion at Centre Co courthouse or library.
Alles gute. Gute Nacht. Mit besten Grüßen, Karl E. Moyer, Lancaster PA
Begin forwarded message:
From: Justin Houser
Many of you may be aware that one of the best sources we have for Penns Valley Reformed Church information is the private register of the Rev. Peter S. Fischer (served 1832-1857), legendary Reformed pastor who served from Pine Grove Mills to Rebersburg, and points in between, at various stages of his ministry. The register includes his marriages from 1832 to 1853 (spotty near the end) and his burials of all individuals over 10 years of age from 1832 to 1853. Apart from any existing parish records, this is a tremendous resource. A copy/extract is in the library in Bellefonte.
In one of the Civil War Widows' Pension files I just noted, that of my relative Susan (Breon) Cain Coldren, who was the widow of Jacob G. Cain, of the 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, who was killed at Chancellorsville on May 3, 1863, is a very interesting note. To prove her marriage to Jacob Cain, she submitted an affidavit from the Rev. M. A. Smith, who stated that he was the German Reformed pastor in the Gregg Township vicinity in 1853, (probably succeeding Rev. Fischer), "having charge of several congregations there," and that he married Jacob G. Cain and Susan Breon on December 22, 1853. Notably, he states "that no record of marriages was kept in the church or congregation, that it is his practice to give certificates of marriage to parties whom he married, but whether he did so in this instance he cannot say, that no record of any kind was made except that which was made in his own private Pastoral Record, which is now in his possession." He copied verbatim from his register, so that we can see how entries were listed there, "Names of Married, Jacob G. Cain & Susan Breon, Time of Marriage, Decr. 22, 1853, Remarks Gregg (Township)."
At the time of the affidavit, October 3, 1864, Rev. Smith was living and ministering in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. One wonders where the pastoral register of Rev. M. A. Smith is located today. Perhaps in a Reformed Church archive, perhaps among family descendants, perhaps in Dauphin County or some other place where he ministered, or perhaps lost to the ages. If located, this book would undoubtedly contain many more marriage records from Penns Valley for a few years from the mid-19th century.
Rev. M. A. Smith was pastor of the Aaronsburg Charge of the German Reformed Church, consisting of St. Peter's Reformed, Aaronsburg; Penns Creek (now Salem Reformed), Penn Hall; St. John's Reformed, Farmers Mills; and St. Paul's Reformed, formerly near Fiedler, as early as 1852 through 1856. I'm not sure, but it is likely that the Holy Cross Reformed Church, originally joined with Holy Cross Lutheran Church, and which survived only a few years, was also part of this effort. In December, 1856, Rev. Smith became pastor of the St. Thomas Reformed Church in Linglestown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and served there until 1866. In 1869 he was apparently pastor of the Memorial Reformed Church in Hecktown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. He officiated at a funeral in Bath, Northampton County, in 1877. He was married to Mary Jane Moyer/Meyer, of the Brush Valley Meyers. Karl Moyer, I know that you have done considerable research on this family. Do you have any information on when and where Rev. Smith died, which might provide a clue to the fate of his register?
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Harry Harrison Hain's "History of Perry County . . ." (pp. 788-9): "Rev. Martin Albert Smith was born on a farm, three miles west of Bloomfield, November 22, 1822. He was the son of Benjamin Smith (who, with his father, Adam Smith, emigrated from Alsace, in 1848,) and Elizabeth (Albert) Smith. His father having purchased a farm in Tyrone Township in the part that is now Spring Township, with his parents he moved there in 1829. He attended the local schools, then taught by William Power, Henry Thatcher (father of the noted Thatcher boys), and George R. Wolfe, who also married a sister of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thatcher. There he got his preliminary education in English, and in his home, from his parents, he learned to read German. During 1840-41 he taught Markel's school, near his home, attending the New Bloomfield Academy the following season. He then taught several seasons at Hogestown, Cumberland County, where the late
noted A. Loudon Snowden was one of his pupils, attending summer sessions of the academy in the meantime. In 1843 he attended a course of catechetical lectures at the Loysville Lebanon Church, conducted by Rev. C. H. Leinbach, the Reformed pastor, which changed the future course of his life. This class numbered about seventy from the congregations of Lebanon, St. Peters' and Rudolph's. In the words of Mr. Smith, "As a catechist, Rev. Leinbach had few equals in the Reformed Church; more than once I saw tears flowing down his cheeks while expostulating." He attended Sunday school at Landisburg, as there was none then at St. Peter's Church, near his home. In the fall of 1843 he entered the freshman class of Marshall College, at Mercersburg. Conveyed in a covered wagon, by his brother, he and a cousin, Charles H. Albert, with their room furniture, bedding and stove, arrived at the primitive college town. Most of the students came in the same wa - the custom of the period. Part of the time students would board themselves, and the cost would be as low as thirty cents a week. Corn was then thirty cents per bushel, and other
products accordingly low in price. During two winters of his college career Mr. Smith taught school, as the terms were then short, and still kept up in his work. He graduated in 1847. During his senior year he had also taken some of his theological work, and in 1849 he graduated at the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg. He was licensed to preach on May 14, 1849. That summer he supplied the charge at Nittany Valley, and during the following winter taught in the York Institute. In the fall of
1850 he traveled by train and overland to Clarion, where he was installed as pastor of the Reformed Mission. Remittent fever caused him to relinquish it, and he started to return home overland on horseback. He stopped with a friend at Boalsburg, and about that time the charge there was divided, and later, in 1852, he became the first pastor of the new Aaronsburg charge, with five churches, at a salary of $350 per year. He also preached for the Presbyterians at Spring Mills for two years of this period. Two churches were built during this pastorate, which lated until December, 1856. He was married March 21, 1854, to Miss Mary Jane Myers, of the Nittany Valley charge, first served by him. He assumed the Hummelstown charge in December, 1856. It consisted of five congregations. Going into other congregations in eastern Pennsylvania he raised enough money to pay the considerable indebtedness of the church at Hummelstown, where he remained until 1866. In December of that year he began his ministry at Dryland and Bath, Pennsylvania, to which Nazareth was later added. At Bath a fine church was erected during his pastorate, and it became a separate pastorate about 1885, Rev. Smith remaining with Nazareth and Dryland. During December, 1890, he resigned the charge,
and on March 13, 1891, he passed away. Prior to the organization of the Potomac Synod he was president of the old Synod of the United States. During his forty years' ministry he preached almost eight thousand sermons. Of his children, one, Charles M. Smith, is a prominent retired minister, residing at Middletown, Maryland, and another, Calvin, was long an editor and publisher at Pen Argyl. A third, George, is a druggist at Patterson, N. J."