Part 3
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
October 10, 1956
Dear Mrs. Schwartz:
I thought I would be able to get over to West Chester this week but so far, (Wednesday), I have not been able to make it. When I go, I think I shall ask the recorder to take me. He is a Phoenixville attorney. I am acquainted with him but until last week, did not know he had been the Chester County Recorder.
I have to do something like this in order to have any time left at West Chester to look up records, but am encouraged by the probability that I can make such an arrangement.
In the meantime I have been getting material together for some other correspondents on Hollingsworth, and so forth. I wrote to The Honorable James France at Kent, Ohio, whose letter was most please to us here. I have found the Haymakers in general, to be very much this way, responsive and discursive and they seem to enjoy writing letters.
While things have been in abeyance this way, I decided I would write to Mrs. Ponti again, and I have had a couple of letters from her which encourage me to think I will be able to get her line straight.
Here is what she said in a letter I received this morning:
"Sorry you are not aware Adam Hamacher's 2 wf. Anne Riley -- per father & mother were familiar with Riley Records as such, mostly of pleasing character."
Imagine getting something like this from Mrs. Ponti.
For the last ten years I have been afraid to tell her anything for fear it would come back to me in the next letter, in some confusing form. So when she said "Riley" recently, I feared I had given her this, and told her I did not think Adam Esquire had anything to do with his father's second wife - and where did she get the name "Riley"?
Well - her grandfather Henry S. Marquart married Elizabeth Douglass, dau. of Elizabeth Hamacher Douglass. So she could have heard it, as stated, from her parents who got it from their grandparents.
I had been looking for something like this for a number of years because my father's middle name was 'Riley' - also my grandfather's. So in 1952 Dr. Hamker wrote that in 1911 one J. O. Hamaker of Bonanza, Oregon, wrote him that 'Adam was married twice and the name of the second wife was Riley'.
Mrs. Ponti is a difficult correspondent. At first I thought she must be of foreign derivation because of her epistolary style. She says she has a dislocated shoulder, which makes it very difficult for her to write. She is also quite concerned over (1) my not telling her all about myself first but only asking 1,000 questions and (2) as she puts it
"ONLY PLEASE: - -
"We do not retain any 'German origin' and spelling of lines - please
Get - away from the German Origin, interpretation Marquardt, Marquart, Markward,
corruptions at most
Neither: do we retain German interpretation of Immig. Adam Hamacher 1740, fr.
Rotterdam, place of departure, no place of residence NAMED occur
'we leave Adam on his departure, at Rotterdam 1740'
'No other interpretation assured' Historical:"
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I do not think she is aware there is such a thing as documentary evidence and I would like to look up her line, - sometime - from two Douglasses:
I. Andrew W. Douglass, of Compass, Chester County, Commissioner of Lancaster "County" (Township) died 1742, m. "Lady Jane, daughter of George Ross, son of the Earl of Ross who was usually the second son of the King of England': Res. Douglassville, Pa., where both buried in St. Gabriel's churchyard; they had a dau.
II. Mary Douglass, b. 1747, m. 1774 Richard Graham and had issue including
III. Catherine Grahma, m. (1) John Marquart, b. 1783, 'desc. Immig. 1743 Y wf to Lebanon, Pa., from Dutchess Co., N.Y. - in Rev. War 1781, John Marquette' (Kispbergh, N.Y.) and had issue III. Mary Graham, m. Patrick Ward and had issue
IV.Simon Ward, b. 1804 m.
IV. Lina Marquart who m. her cousin Simon Ward, a tailor of Lebanon, Pa.
III. Catherine Graham Marquart m. (2) her brother-in-law Patrick Ward, and lived in Harrisburg, Pa., with a son Samuel (Marquart?)
This couple, Catherine and John Marquart, being called grandparents of Mrs. Ponti. Their home was at Campbellstown, I am somewhat confused just here but evidently they had issue including
IV. Henry S. Marquart, b. 1804, d. 1887 and buried at Oberlin Cemetery, Dauphin Co., Pa.,; m. 2-16-1826, Elizabeth Douglass, b. 7-20-1810, d. 3-22-1872, buried same place. (Cycle marriage, see below - she was descended from a brother of Andrew W. Douglass.) They had
V. Henry Marquart of Harrisburg, Pa., b. d. buried at Fulton, Mo., m. Mary Johnston, B. 1837, dau. of Adam Johnston of Pottsville, Pa., later of Mr. Pleasant, Dauphin Co., Pa., he and his family went to Missouri 1880; issue included their youngest daughter,
VI. Margaret Elizabeth Marquart, born Sept. 22, 1879, at the 'Washington
House', Annville, Pa. She m. Sept. 6, 1907, Henry B. Ponti descendant of a New
Orleans family, head bookkeeper of a St. Louis firm, and she says, an ordained
minister of the gospel (d. ). They have issue (?)
'Son first mate steamboat running from New Orleans to St. Louis - bur. (1956)
St. Louis Cemetery.
' Son-in-law, William H. Layhe Capt. Of pleasure steamer today (probably this is
where the '1956' should be inserted) "The Admiral" wf. Decd (?) 2 sons
- sister of RBP
Most likely this refers to in-laws and not issue. I have understood the Pontis did not have children. She has one brother, Clinton, now living, near Fulton, who has a son Joseph who has a daughter Deborah Joe aged about 6-7 years, -- says elsewhere, all that remains of their family.
The second part of this is the descent of John Douglass, miller who married Elizabeth Hamaker, who was the parent of Elizabeth Douglass who married Henry S. Marquart (see IV above):
I. Archibald Douglass, brother of Andrew W. Douglass, (I above) lived for a time in Baltimore, Md., died 1756, is buried Douglassville, St. John's cemetery, had
II. John Douglass, b. 1730, d. 1795, owner of The White Horse Roller Mills in Salisbury Township, who had
III. John Douglass, b. 1750, d. 1849, m. 1794 Elizabeth Hamaker, (3, Adam Esquire 2, Adam Senior 1) and had
IV. Elizabeth Douglass, (IV above.)
A magazine reference to John Douglass spoke of him as a miller from New Jersey, as I recall without having it at hand. It was probably mistaken, for the items about the Ward kinship, spoken of by Mrs. Ponti, are highly definite. Her great-grandfather died while on a visit with his wife, to this daughter Lina at Lebanon.
How the author of "Craun Family" would rejoice at this yet one more evidence of a "cycle marriage".
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I wrote to Mrs. Ponti and asked her, if her ancestor Adam was the son of Anna Riley, and if not, then what was the name of his mother before she was married. I wish I would hear about the Riley Records, at least the pleasing part of them.
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
October 30, 1956
Dear Mrs. Schwartz:
I don't see how you manage to obtain so much of the fine information that you do! Thank you very much for the encouraging account on Joseph Haymaker. I am in hopes that in some way we can reach some of the grandchildren - perhaps through the good offices of that church? Please tell me anything I may do if I can be of help.
It might be that if I wrote again to the Lamberts, they would be more interested. But his is the first break we have had in our line, as to knowledge of any near kinsman of Samuel Hamacher. It might lead to a family record, of the kind the rest of us once had and have lost; and that would be of the utmost value.
Evidently Joseph did go with the Lamberts, as I had remarked and supposed. I hope the rest may be equally well established, for if David were not his father, he might not have been Samuel's either. And, John could appear.
The Samuel of Pickaway County, if he came from the Augusta area, could have been a son of Daniel, I think, but obviously (if Daniel was the man we think) Joseph could not. We find too many Samuels and they bother me a bit, and will continue to do so until we find out who everybody was.
I find that Lebanon County was formed in 1813 from portions of Dauphin and Lancaster. This makes it of less importance to see the Lebanon County records, the way things are going. I wrote to W.D. Hammaker in Indianapolis but received no reply.
Mrs. Ponti confirms most of what we have thought but I am afraid it is because we thought it. However, saying that her parents' records say nothing about any Eva Maria and she cannot accept the 'interpretation' that Adam Esquire's mother was Eva. If this holds up and the 1758-1770 gap also, we may find that Adam Sr. was much married.
Lest you think I also am going around in circles - I fear I have lost any reference you may have made to Mrs. Howarth, and I cannot remember either the name, with which I am familiar here, nor the circumstances. I have your letter of September 3, and I remember that you had mentioned Mrs. Hoenstine at one time and I know that at least once since that time I have heard from you, probably on September 29 with the Haymaker correspondence, but I cannot find anything but the envelope. I am sorry indeed about this and will write to her if you will remind me of the circumstances - I can't remember a thing about it. Also please at no time be concerned about the matters of postage or anything like that. These inquiries are for both of us and I am doing all too little as it is, -- I dislike to say "nothing" but that's about all. Nevertheless I plan to turn over a new leaf ---
Mother has been ill, some kind of virus "that is going around", as the doctor says - had considerable discomfort but is was nothing serious fortunately and although she was weak for several days, she is now all right. Meantime we developed a vacancy in an apartment, and with that and preparations for winter, I have been occupied every day and still have not accomplished that trip to Carcassonne - West Chester.
I really think that had I heard of Mrs. Howarth I would have written her at once, for I have been scrapping the barrel for people to whom to write for Hamaker information. The Henry Hamacher in Miami did not answer my note, for which I am now more sorry than ever. There are a few there to whom I did not write, but I shall do so. I think I shall inform Roy Hudson also, of the Ohio development. He is back there now and has access to various records in Cleveland and might find some of the people involved.
Mr. William Hammaker of Harrisburg wrote rather unexpectedly and I gave him a job to do, since he is a member the S.A.R. but never did give me his line and says it is not in Dr. Hamaker's book either. I hope I convinced him sufficiently of its importance to get him to send it before he goes to Florida for the winter. He and Mrs. H. had their Golden Anniversary recently.
It would be nice to think that "our" David Lambert owned 12,000 acres of land in Kentucky and I am glad to have that note, for printed matter about our people has a way of being erratic, and I have to be alert to mentions of Kentucky - several have commented, that Samuel went there first, them on to Indiana.
Strange was a communication to the paper the other day from a Mr. Althouse - he said German farmers, seeing the names Eisenhower, Myers, Moyer, Shoemaker, were likely to consider such people their "buddies" and vote for them - I was amused that the last three names were identified with Hamacher records. I think he is partially in error though. Hope so anyway. I think briefly that most of the country's troubles would be settled politically if everybody that did not vote for Adlai, would vote for Ike and split his ticket. I think it would be a great mistake if the Democrats in the South refuse to go to the polls, out of disgust with the tickets. The Democrats divide the country along economic lines and of course there is some crossing over on that account. But the Republicans still as in 1867, divide it along racial and geographical lines and apparently that is their continuing ambition. For someone like ourselves up here it is distasteful to see the pollster's implications, that if one is a Democrat he is in company with Italians, Poles and so forth, and is more or less bound to turn Republican the minute he gets his ranch house in the suburbs, for the only Democrats are those who are underprivileged. I am not satisfied with the issues expressed in the campaign either but I just finished re-reading "The Tragic Era" by Claude Bowers, concerning the reconstruction era. It has too many parallels with today's conditions to leave me, at least, complacent.
Please let me know about Mrs. Howarth, -- and thank you again.
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher
Mother and I have been thrashing out all the things we think we have on Adam Senior's family - and trying to account for the record; without much success. Sample query: how came it, that the name Riley is in our family, unless David were Anne's son, and if he were her son and the others were not, how came it that Christian and Phillip names sons "David" . . . but, if Anne RILEY were Adam's wife shortly after 1748 and mother of the boys in the Revolution (to 1758) how came it, that he (apparently) had few or no children, between 1758 and 1770 (Ann being a Riley maiden to start with, undoubtedly) unless she, or somebody , died about the former date and he married (3) about the latter date. But this, no one has intimated, and we do not know.
If David were her eldest son as seems probable from his having entered the caveat, born 1752 as would appear from 1817 minus 65 . . . and Ann were born 1732 or before? (John Riley, a captain in the Revolution, was born 1752, married in Lebanon County)*. She would, if living, have been 38 or so in 1770, to Adam's 53. Shall we send Adam to the French and Indian Wars then, until he was 53 and ineligible for the militia?
* (I mean Myerstown, now in Lebanon County)
Among other things, Mrs. Ponti says that Rileys are married to her Marquettes, today, -- implying, same famiy. I wrote her again.
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
November 1, 1956
(the day your Oct. 11 letter, postmarked Oct. 13, has arrived)
Dear Mrs. Schwartz:
Surely, I will be glad to find out where Marie was born. I will write to her mother. The answer will probably be Leitchfield, Kentucky. That is where Uncle Jimmy was, when he died in 1892. He was just about my grandfather's favorite brother.
Since you may like to find out where Mrs. Alex Howarth was born, I shall ask her that too. But I was thinking along your lines about the Kentucky kin myself just last night, for another reason: the first entry for Samuel in the Lexington Twp Range Book, which was from 1816 on, was in 1829; and in 1833, also in Scott County, Indiana, he spent the largest sum, $1000, he apparently invested, for land. It has been our understanding he went from Virginia 1817 almost directly to Indiana, but it was said "he went first to Kentucky and did not like it there so went on to Scott County, Indiana".
With this exception and a possible issue from Lemon Hamacher's second marriage, which even his daughter does not know anything about, you will find the Craun volume accurate as concerns my lines. Sometime I should send you the Scott County records, which are exceptionally complete, but I did not need them to know who we were, and there is nothing anywhere which will differ materially form what you now have.
My fluffs in the Craun volume concerned the date of David's birth, and his baptism which I received after its publication, and the mention of Anna, whom the preacher called "Hamiger", having married Abraham Rife. That it was afterward found to be indexed 'Hannigan' has not destroyed the clarity of the original entry, but I don't know what, if anything, it might involve, even if she were a Hamacher. I can also send abstracts giving the names and sense of the Shenandoah County court records on David I, his second marriage and the like, which will substantiate what you now have about his movements.
The reason my great uncle James Hamacher was in Leitchfield was, that he did not like it in Missouri, where he lost his little daughter Mona in 1872, both his parents and a loved younger brother, in an epidemic. He went back to Indiana and joined Lemon Hamacher his brother, in what my aunt said was a flour milling business at Leitchfield. He died in 1892 aged 48 when Walter was only 19, and Walter was able to tell me, in the one letter I had from him before his death in 1948, that he, Walter, "following lumber operations", had made his was South and finally settled at Winnsboro, La.
Jimmy was in the 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, my grandfather's company, along with their cousin Samuel Bigger Hamacher, who went through the entire period with my grandfather. I often heard both of them, who formed a 2-man mutual admiration society, in Kansas City discuss one of my grandfather's worst memories, having to go off and leave Jimmy during a campaign, when he was desperately ill with the measles. Jimmy had and has, besides Walter, another son, Murten, who still lives at Leithchfield. He sent me what I did not know existed, two pages of her children's births and deaths from my Great-grandmother Hamacher's personal Bible. A brother was Edgar Hamacher, who died in 1928, five years after my Uncle Oliver died in Richmond, Missouri and left Edgar, who was crippled, his watch. I am sending these details in lieu of all the vaious documents, which would take some time to copy.
I have the Stouffer material, which I think came from Dr. H. after we all started corresponding together. But one of the troubles with our anomalous position at present is, that if people have to ask us, they generally do not know anything that would help us to find out what we would have to know in order to answer their questions. If we knew all about the earliest years, we could do so, in many cases, and I hope some day we will be so favored.
In trying to find out about the Leitchfield experience, which Murten could tell me little about, (and Walter had no opportunity to discuss, since he died the day he received my second letter) I had written to various authorities down there without result. I also wrote to the county Clerk at Barbourville, where Lemon was living when he was killed, and to the editor of the paper there, which I had been informed had reported his murder and the conviction of the three men that followed. My primary purpose was to confirm or "unconfirm" a statement of my aunt, who believed Lemon had a son or more by his second marriage. But none of these inquiries had any results.
It is in the generation of Samuel of Indiana that we are in great ignorance and I think it is going to difficult to overestimate the importance of your discovery there of Joseph Haymaker, his birth date and connection with the Lamperts. I wrote again to Charles Lambert, 914 Rawlings, Washington Court House, and to some Lamberts near Modesto, Calif., who Dr. H. said were of this family. I hope the pastor of the church may be able to let us know the whereabouts of some of the Haymaker descendants today. Had you noticed that John 1780's son William named a daughter "Phoebe"? As of now those two appear more related even than John 1780 and Samuel. We know that Ann Herr was living at least as late as 1795, however, and since David was the only one we know who could have had all three (at present) I am delighted with all this information. I wrote to Roy Hudson who is back in Cleveland in case he could get in tough with somebody of the associated names. Was on the verge of getting the Presbyterian pastor's name at Bloomingburg, from headquarters in Philadelphia, to write him, but maybe your correspondent at Washington Court House will ask him the whereabouts of the present-day descendants, successfully.
Did you hear where the actions took place that were not accompanied by an identification of place, in your material from the Pa. Archives? The March 22, 1793 caveat may have referred to the Abraham Hamaker who was mixed up in a grant out in Venango County:
"Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Patent - to Wilhelm Willink and others of Amsterdam, for a certain tract of land known as 'Hampstead' in District No. P ( 6 ? JIH) Warrant #2821, Dec. 13, 1792. Patent dated Sept. 6, 1802.
Dutchmen deeded to Thomas Griffith and others, and they to Abraham Hamaker (990 acres).
Another deed by Shippen and others to Abraham Hamaker for 165 acres, another part of the Dutch tract "being part of 164,291 acres" - dated Aug. 12, 1814.
This tract is referred to in a large folio volume largely devoted to the discovery of oil at Oil City, and history of Venango County. It covered most of Venango and what is now Warren and other counties. The identity of Abraham was no more known to Dr. H. than to us, but I think he thought his ancestor was the one involved. I looked up the book for him and told him what it had in it.
Meantime we have another John Haymaker, which may be one too many, but I wonder if Mrs. McJunkin could claim them for her own. My note does not say these people where from Virginia, but they lived in Charlestown, Oregon Township, Clark County, Indiana (not Ohio) and my information came from a descendant, W.G. Haymaker, 112 Starks Bldg., Louisville, 2, Ky., who said "the name was once Hamacher but was changed by his grandfather" and gave me the following:
John Haymaker, m. about 1825 one Sarah Crum (from Virginia, he thought) of Clark County, Indiana and had issue,
1. Elizabeth, m. John Overman (to Hume, Missouri)
2. Margaret, m. George B. Bower, of Charlestown
3. Katherine, m. Alexander Ruddell of Charlestown
4. Ellen, m. Alfred Passwater (P's also m. in my Boles line) of Charlestown
5. Amanda, m. James Cortner, to Lebo, Kansas
6. John Wesley, resided Eminence, Kentucky
7. Dr Geo Washington, a surgeon Civil War, res. Charlestown
8. Capt. Issac N., Charlestown
(NB) 9. Joseph M., farmer, Clark Co., Ind.
The only people I could ask about this, knew of the family there but never heard they were related; but then, they never heard a lot of things, and the "Joseph" might mean something. It was quite near Samuel's home.
Mr. H. told me of a woman kin to him and I wrote her but she did not reply. I wonder often what folks think about when they receive such letters; but after many such experiences I try always to write something in reply, even if it's just an "I don't know".
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Samuel of Pickaway County Ohio had a dau. Drusilla and so did John of Clark County, son of Abraham, -- just checking my memory. I have no idea who former was. He may have been born after 1805, have been Daniel's son of Augusta County, but that is just one of many possibilities.
One thing that may have been true of David of Augusta was that he was overly supplied with children, swamped with them - we've looked for a John of course, and think we know of Samuel, but suppose he had equaled his father's record, plus a few small Stouts who may well have become Hamachers? From 1776 or so, to 1795 was a long time. When John 1780 purchased land from William, had you assumed he has John's brother? -- another possible son. No doubt there could have been more. I surely am anxious to learn some more about Joseph Haymaker of Ohio?
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
November 5, 1956
Dear Mrs. Schwartz:
I have written to Pauline Broadway, (for her mother) who has been one of my frequent correspondents, to ask her about her sister Marie Howarth's birthplace - also those of the other children, which should give me too, an idea about the movements of that family.
Also, although I had done so before, I wrote on the subject again to two of Samuel's three surviving grandchildren - Mrs. E.W. Blakey, and Mrs. Rosa Webster, since this time I had a few names of their mothers' possible aunts and cousins in Ohio, to give them to refresh their memories. This in their case is not the disadvantage that it might be otherwise; and I hope may have some results.
Cousin Mort Boles is still living although very frail, and would be glad to tell me if he knew anything, but he left Indiana while just a small child and when he went back there a few years ago, I believe did not know a single name of people to ask for. The prospect seems dim and more so, since as far as I know these folks were never mentioned even by my own grandfather.
That I have to look for as far as my line is concerned is solely, whether Samuel was indeed the son of David Hamacher of Pennsylvania and Virginia, since I know his birth date from family records and his Indiana tombstone, and the Craun connection is explicit. Samuel and Elizabeth Crawn Hamacher's second son David, was born September 18, 1816, in Augusta County, while his parents owned land sold them by Abraham and Barbara Lampert; and was baptized September 22, 1817, in the Salem Lutheran Church near Seawright Springs there. In this church, the Crauns also communed, 1812 on, and the Lamberts from 1818 on.
The reservations I still may have legitimately, concern the fact that Sally Lampert had at least seven brothers all of whose children would have been just as close kin to her, and until an actual birth notation is found we would still have lacked the decisive proofs.
The check points in Dr. Hamaker's pamphlet as regards the general Hamaker lines are many, but I think if we were to consider the one most important question to us, it would be limited in my case, and in yours also, to this establishment of David's line.
Secondarily although I do not think we are far off in our estimates, would be the full list and the relative ages of Adam Senior's children. There are some things in the records which may or may not need clarification, for instance, one only - on Page 714 of Vol 17 Series III Pa. Archives is listed tax for David Hamaker, 1 horse, 1 cow, and on Page 808, for same year (1782) for David "m". (miller) 130 acres, 2 horses, 2 cows, tax 10.10.0. Since one of the immediate disbursements by the executors after Adam died, was approximately this same amount to David their brother, this may just reflect the fact that he was paying Adam Senior's tax that year during his illness. My line, however, has been clear and highly documented down to David in Augusta and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia, and thus no one question about the others, takes precedence over any other, and it is extremely difficult to know just where to begin a general check. The been clear and highly documented down to David in Augusta and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia, and thus no one question about the others, takes precedence over any other, and it is extremely difficult to know just where to begin a general check. The names alone of the children of Adam's children are in some instances such as to lead to questionings. Census records are no better, as for instance, when Dr. Hamaker says that Abraham Hamaker had only one child, a son John, it has to rest on something besides the census, for in the 1800 Census of Hempfield Township Abraham was listed with wife, both 26-45, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 10-16, 1 male under 10, and 1 female under 10.
The attributions of the Christians are highly questionable in some cases and therefore in all. This is especially true when they turn up as a result of a change of residence which is assumed to have occurred. Nothing but a comparison of signatures and of the real estate records would really satisfy one following along on this track; and they lead, as in one or two cases to Hallam Township, (York) into the territory or supposed territory of descendants of Hubrecht Hamacher of whom little is now know to us, and thus in themselves might not be altogether decisive.
I had another letter from Mrs. Ponti who mentioned a couple of things which might come in handy at some time or other - her father spoke of the name of the estate of his ancestors as "Greenbacks", which in the context, I interpreted as the home of Adam Junior - no one had mentioned this before. She spoke of Ann Riley - "our Ann Riley", and of her father as distinguishing between the children of Adam Sr. as (their group and ) "the younger group". That John had m. Maria Bollinger and that Peter had gone to Canada, the children of Abraham3 to Ohio and Illinois. Some of the names I asked her about had been too German-sounding for the memory of a child, she had no recollection of them. Taking this all in all it does not help to produce any alternative to our conception of Adam Junior, John and Henry as children of Eva Maria before 1748, and if Henry was a son and it appears he was, there is no occasion for any other conclusion.
It still leaves room for perhaps two children, who may have been sons, in the early record.
Here is a brief chronology of the area around Shenandoah County, Virginia, which may help to explain or rationalize some of the things which may have occurred at about the times mentioned - and will at least show some others, which are not likely to produce much:
1803 - Columbia Furnace built
1800 - The Rev. John Brown walks from Pa. To Valley of Virginia
1804 - Five acre subdivision added to Woodstock
1805 - Heavy flood at Winchester
1807 - First newspaper, German, at New Market; last issue June 7, 1809
1808 - Columbia Furnace sold to John Arthur et al.
1813 - Philip Grandstaff plans to erect a mill dam on Stony Creek. (Family still
there, still milling)
1815 - Augustine Holler deeds land for Union Forge Church, near David Hamacher's
farmer holdings, Lantz's Mill Valley.
1817 - Newspaper, Woodstock Herald, started - 1823 changed name to The
Shenandoah Herald.
1822 - The Rockingham Register founded - Harrisonburg, Va.
1822 - Liberty Furnace built.
I ascertained that the Grandstaffs, whose mill is at Edinburg, had no memory of the Hamacher name, and neither did the present owner of the mill at Lentz's Mill Valley, a man named Wilkins who had nothing to contribute concerning when the frame mill (said to have been constructed after the Civil War) was built there, nor the house, a white frame house in a hollow in a bend of the creek with the strong mill race running underground through its lawn. Some or all of this appears of later date than David.
Of the above references, the "heavy flood", if at all general, appears to me now to be of the greatest possible significance. Lantz's Mill Valley and particularly this mill site, is a slightly eerie place, a cup in the hills and had a flood struck anything either there, or on the deeper nearby portions of the stream, it would have been quite damaging. David was in financial difficulties in 1806. He gave the impression of a man who was or may have been waiting about, in Shenandoah, to collect money owing to him; and he owed other people money. Some, he collected through court action; some he could not collect; some, his creditors could not collect. It was exactly the situation which would have existed, should something have happened to his mill; and he sold, for $1000, the remaining 48 acres on which the mill was situated, remaining from an original 200 acres for which he had paid L200, (selling 152 acres immediately for L 152, to Augustine Holler); to Alexander McConnell; and departed the county, after satisfying most of the claims against him. The terms of the last sale are explicit in establishing his wife's dower right in the state of her former husband, Daniel Stout. She appeared later as the custom was, to be examined privately and confirm her agreement with the transaction.
In our line a story existed which I may not have mentioned before but which I thing has something to do with this episode - Samuel is said to have related with gusto and humor, the narrative of a "buggy trip he took with his father when he was about 14". At this time he would have been 16, but otherwise the account would seem to have been justified. I would like to know how everything finally came out. David went apparently, to Augusta County, not evading anything. The claims outstanding seem to have amounted to about L 25, so he need not have been entirely destitute. But what he was doing 1806 to 1810 and later, in Augusta, I have not found out.
Some said Samuel told of having had a brother, from whom he was separated. Some others said he had a twin named Adam, so that I have been alert for an Adam in the record who could have been born January 22, 1790.
I have just wondered, slightly, about the Thomas Haymaker who was born in Virginia in 1793; I have the record of him, you sent me, when he was living in Union Boro, Fayette County, Pa., 1850, had been in the War of 1812 enlisting at Shepherdstown, W. Va., etc. Evidently one must look for him and others nearby in Pennsylvania, among Hubrecht's people. But, he had a daughter, named "Ann . But, he had a daughter, named "Ann R.".
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Miss Clara Hamacher of Washington, D.C., whose line you have back to Christian Hamaker m. Anna Stoner, said something which might be helpful or at least kept in mind: she heard that an Evans family took and reared two Hamaker children, two Evans children having previously been taken by the Hamakers - this last, would have been Daniel, and the children of Elizabeth Hamaker Evans. Dr. Hamaker said the papers in the administration of the estate of her brother John, who died 1808 in Hanover, were "illegible". Do you know how "illegible" they were? We need everything there, that they could tell us - at least for my satisfaction concerning the whole story on John of Hempfield, and also to separate the Hanover property if possible from nearby Hamaker properties held in similar names. I. e., was this John actually the John that was John of Hempfield's son, or somebody else? He had debts to several people, but the fact that Jacob Hamaker, and George Gish, were among them, may need some clarification. We do not know when he was born and he may have had older children, which is an additional consideration.
In the census records, Daniel son of John of Hempfield did not say he was of an age suitable for comparison with what has been given as his date of birth - whereas that date of birth would be entirely suitable for Daniel, the son of Adam Junior, according to what I am told of Orphan's Court records; not that Daniel of Hempfield was not John's son, but that he may have been given some wrong data? The 1810 Census compares all right and no doubt this is a minor point, it is a later one that is "off".
After you had sent me the notes on the Henry County Bassetts, we had a note from Mrs. Arthur H. Bassett who had been at Lansdowne, Pa., near Philadelphia, visiting her son and his family. She inclosed an inquiry from one of the Henry County Bassetts, which wondered about the reasons for her ancestor's having left his original site to come out there! I hope I may have been of some service to her, for we had the address of some people for her who might know more about the line. I feel greatly frustrated, that Mrs. Bassett did not get here, and for an odd reason which adds to my discomfiture - we live on the second floor; and she had had a fall which left her, besides being greatly weakened, unable to climb even one step. Henry was out of town on business much of the time, there was a new baby in the family - and before her visit was out, news came from home which impelled her return. . . I thing this is all valid for we have nothing with which to reproach ourselves; but it is going to seem strange to the future historian, and shows on what slender things our research my depend. Arthur was devotedly interested and I had hoped to see his records while she was here.
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.,
November 9, 1956
Dear Mrs. Schwarts:
This is the day your letter, postmarked November 6, arrived - that seems more normal, somehow! And your suggestion about sending the camellia was most thoughtful. I know Mother would appreciate that, very much. She has been unfortunate in her son, who has ideas about masses of bloom around the house but never seems to plant anything; though I know she likes her house plants, very much.
The election went just about as I would have had it go, since I had been urging everybody please to split his ticket. Harry Tootle was defeated in Connecticut - Governor Ribicoff, who by all accounts is a good governor, was left in isolation as the State's only elected Democrat; Harry said however that he obtained some 153 more votes, in his district, than did Adlai - which considering the nature of the party voting, I thought spoke very well for him. There were almost four times as many Republicans there, as Democrats.
Mother commented that she was very well satisfied, since now Ike must pull his own chestnuts out of the fire instead of leaving the job for somebody else to do.
On the genealogical front, I thought of another person to whom to write, and I asked my father's cousin Mrs. Watkins, who lives in my birthplace in Missouri, to inquire again of her Cape Girardeau cousins, what church there might be old enough to contain records of the "John Haimaker" who enlisted from there, later was a resident of Boonville, Missouri. I also, and more primarily, told her of your John of 1780, and of Joseph Haymaker of Ohio - and did her father ever speak of any cousins in Ohio?
I doubt very much whether John of 1780 could have gone in the Army since he was a married man at the time, and have been out that way; but I hope to trace him on account of the fact that a Bollinger was the leading settler of that whole area; and there may have been a connection, which would reveal more about such Johns as were left behind.
That John of Boonville was aged 70 in 1854; and the other one, who was also in Missouri and in the Army, was said to have been born in or about 1782. Perhaps my cousin could tell me something about the present-day Boonville tribe, as she has access to Missouri records.
In regard to the Howarth record, it was my understanding from your first letter that it was not Marie Hamacher Howarth who was born in Alabama, but that it was Mrs. Alexander J. Howarth. That was why I wondered at your query about Marie's birthplace. I suppose that Mrs. A.J. Howarth may have been Marie's grandmother-in-law. The note you sent me some time ago, stated that her first name was Margaret, and she married Mr. A.J. in 1866. Then went to Skene, Mississippi. The derivation of Marie, as the granddaughter of my Greatuncle James of Indiana and Kentucky, made that route to Mississippe hers - her presence there was just fortuitous. Please note this well for I think that so much Hamaker detail may well be confusing, and I have gone to great trouble to avoid any misconception about my already established line.
I owe you an apology I think for my long insistence that you must have derived from the Winchester branch of the Hamakers, for the other night I really went into this subject. I cannot understand as a result, why Dr. Hamaker thought the Hubrecht records "did not hang together" - for I think that as a consequence of the Winchester records, it would be extremely difficult to conclude that more than two original Haymakers were ever there. This has a corollary, that only two Johns are supposed to have been there, and further, only two Thomases. It does not however dispose of the initial difficulty, that Hubrecht may have had many more sons who went elsewhere than to Virginia, or who stayed in Pennsylvania, and could easily have fathered another generation by 1780.
It did have this result, that I am still concerned to know more about the Thomas, blacksmith, vet of the War of 1812, who was born in Virginia in 1793; and whether the David, who appeared at Winchester during one year, 1802, may have been my ancestor David; and whether "Alexander Haymaker" of the 1820 Census, may have been another of his sons who was farmed out.
My great-grandfather, the David of Missouri, had a son whose name was David Alexander, who was 21 when he died in the Missouri epidemic in 1872.
John Caspar Haymaker of Winchester or Adam of Winchester I think must necessarily have been the father of the only William who was there in the tax record. Had the former been his father, William had to be born after the year 1765. Had the latter been his father, William could have been born at an earlier date and could have had a son John born 1780, which would be a happy solution had he not been born in Pennsylvania.
But by attributing to Adam of Winchester all the children he is known to have
fathered, plus those or including those of Botetourt and Montgomery, we accord
with the 1784 Census in every particular, leaving aside only "David"
who must have been born (somewhere) before 1784; Adam Junior; Elizabeth, and
Alexander. By attributing to John Caspar his know children of record, we get six
children, the correct number, in 1784 at home, plus Thomas, Henry, and the Adam
who died in 1835. Furthermore Cartmell substantiates many of the ensuing lines.
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Mrs. Ponti writes that according to her recollection of her mother's conversation, one daughter of a John and Margaret both surmaned Bollinger, married a Dr. "Faunstock" --- (Fahnestock it is spelled now-a-days here).
If I have not mentioned to you my hypothesis concerning the earliest day, (or if I have) perhaps I should do so. I think that Balthazar Herzog's wife was probably a Reimmel, less probably a Hamacher, that she must have been a sister of Eve Hamacher and thus, Eve herself probably was a Reimmel. Thus, Samuel Hamacher of Virginia was related to the wife, Ann Maria Reimmel, of Frederick Craun. This remains to be shown.
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I am clear on the death of Joseph Haymaker since you gave me the dates from his burial place in Bloomingburg Cemetery - born July 14, 1794, died March 31, 1859.
Abraham and Barbara Hamacher Lambert had a son, David, and he was the one who lived next to Abraham in Ohio.
The records of Old Salem Lutheran Church at Seawright Springs, Augusta County, Virginia, include the following:
- John Lambert and wife Anna (Curry) record begins 1818
- Philip Nevergal and wife Mary, a dau, Mary, born March 13, 1818, bp Sept. 12, 1824.
- Samuel Lambert and wife Catherina (Hisey) girl Anna Christina b. Aug. 21, 1825, bp Sept. 10, 1826.
(notes not carried out, there are more later than this).
Also
- Michael Krahn and wife Elizabeth, a son David, b. Jan. 1, 1806, the first Krahn record in this church.
-Samuel Hamacher and wife Elizabeth, boy born Sept. 18, 1816, and bp Sept. 22, 1817, namen David.
- Elizabeth Hamacher communed April 1815
- Frederick Craun (Krahn) communed Sept. 1812, with Johannes, Catherina,
Elizabeth, George
Sept. 1813, with Maria
1814, Anna Maria, Catrina, etc.
Some time ago, I asked the Rev. Mr. Philip J. Bame for more on Michael Krahn and wife. I think this is the same Michael in later census records though, he had several children there, and was living when Frederick's will was written; may have been a nephew but wasn't of Frederick's children.
Somebody told me there was an Elizabeth in Indiana who was of Samuel's household or at least kin to him, that "she was a Doolittle and afterward married a Bacon" so I have been alert for an Elizabeth who might have been kin. She could have been a Stout kinswoman or my information might be completely in error.
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I think I have sent you the record, (First Ref. Church, Lancaster, Pa.)
Maria Salome Hamacher m. 10-29-1769, Adam Lampert
And I am not altogether clear on the reasons for Dr. H's statement, that the Lambert name was not known in Pennsylvania much before 1800. We have arrivals by ship
12-29-1772 Peter and Andreas Lambert
10-19-1736 Caspar Lambert and Johannes Herr (no known kin)
10-22-1773 Christian Lambert
9-15-1749 Christoph Lambert (one in Shenandoah Co. Va. Later)
11-10-1764 Frantz, Adam and John Lambert
10-19-1776 George Lambert
9-9-1765 Henrich Lambert
10-5-1767 Jacob Lambert
It may well be that some of these people or some more like them, had a long and proud record extending back into the past to Italy and it may be to this, rather than to any formal attempt at a line, that the biographical history refers. The efforts to say something nice in a different form about such numbers of estimable citizens led very often to imaginative writing. However, the 1783 date rule out that David as of us, although perhaps not necessarily the Daveid R. born February 29, 1824 in Kentucky, -- but, maybe this will appear at some later time.
The Hamachers of my line have been perplexed by such numerous statements in print and by word of mouth that I am reminded at all times, of the many slips that can be made between the time something is told to an interviewer, and its final appearance in print, -- besides of course the faithful transcriptions of material sincerely in error. We had little jokes, "All the Hamachers were millers but one, and she married a Miller", -- told with a straight face when the least inspection of the statement would make it fall flat. "Samuel's name was not really Hamacher, it was something else" - but what else, never stated. "He came on a ship, his parents died at sea" - "he came from a family of brothers in Pennsylvania" - to wade through all these things is the job of the people who want to arrive at some kind of provable account.
I heard from the sister of the man who wrote the Hollingsworth book and they are to send me a small pamphlet produced since, by a man in Georgia; but, cannot help me to find my ancestress in any of the lines so far. The Hollingsworths of near Hattiesburg, I think are foreshadowed in some of the lines, one family which went early to South Carolina. It should be possible for them to hook up to the book with relatives ease.
The new names you sent, surly should strike a responsive chord somewhere in my family, because for one thing, Oliver, my greatuncle, no less than his brother my grandfather, was interested in the Indiana family and went back there within recent memories. But I have concluded that the best time for people to be indoctrinated with such family information, is while they are children - lots of people do not indulge much in later reminiscence for fear somebody will consider it a bore. As The Reader's Digest has it, this month:
"Take to heart the advice of Thomas Fuller, who way back in the 17th century admonished: "Make not thy own person, family, relations or friends the frequent subject of thy talk. Say not, 'My manner and custom is to do this; I am apt to be troubled with corns; my child said such a witty thing last night'."'
Nevertheless I hope that some of Joseph's children, at least, may have a carefully maintained family Bible!
Thank you again for all this information. I shall send a copy of my mimeographed material concerning the Adam Hamaker, David Hamacher, Samuel Hamacher court records, and the record of the Nokes family which are as Roy Hudson had them in his book, "Hudson, Hamacher and Related Families". The details are of little interest but I will excerpt the ones that have intrinsic interest. The main thing to Roy and me were, that Samuel had r.e. dealings with Barbara and Abraham Lambert, and that the 1850 Census was clear about his birth in Virginia, both circumstantial evidence leading to David as his parent.
Sincerely,
(signed) Samuel Bassett Hamacher
R. 1, Phoenixville, Pa.
November 11, 1956
Dear Mrs. Schwartz,
I believe you have Roy Hudson's work in my mimeographed excerpt, along with Dr. Hamaker's pamphlet and the Craun volume. I am including some extension for these works, from the court records at Harrisburg, Pa., and the counties of Shenandoah and Augusta in Virginia. Although not verbatim, they do contain some associated names, and will suffice to explain the conclusions arrived at by our historians.
Lewis Wayland may have been the sheriff or former sheriff of Augusta County. In 1949 I had met in Harrisburg, Dr. John Wayland, the historian, so I asked him later about this Wayland and he said one of his forebears had held such a position in Augusta County.
I thought I had seen the name of John Bell somewhere else but all I found was, that Isaac Bell had been appointed guardian 1825 of the minor children of Jacob Hayamaker and widow Elizabeth, of Rye Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Note that according to the 1820 Census in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Daniel Hamaker was still under the age of 45.
The list of David Hamacher's children is not complete even according to our present knowledge of the possibilities, but those mentioned are the ones either "proved" or who had a close relationship with Abraham and Barbara Lambert. I have tried to contact present-day Armentrouts and Neffs in view of these "Hamaker" marriages in Shenandoah, but so far have had no results. It might also be possible to obtain somewhere in Shenandoah County, the names of the children of Peggy, whose first husband was Daniel Stout.
The Lamberts, Waggys, Crauns et al, apparently lived near each other in the vicinity of Old Salem Church at Seawright Springs, Virginia, where they have records along with Samuel and Elizabeth Crawn Hamacher; this is not south of Staunton but some distance north, along the border of Rockingham County. The records of this church begin in the fall of 1802 with conveyance to trustees of two acres on the south side of Naked Creek.
I am not sure whether I ever sent you a resume of these Virginia churches, but such a list has been of value to me and it might be of assistance to us and in general to have it available, -- so a sheet is appended herewith. Frederick Krahn was in Timberville vicinity before going to Augusta County and the births of two of his children are recorded at Ruder's Church there. Where he and Ann Maira worshipped from 1792 to 1803 or later, is a question.
Sincerely,
(signed) Samuel Bassett Hamacher
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
January 2, 1957
Dear Mrs. Schwarts,
For a few days, I expect to write "195-7" correctly and then revert to an absent-minded "1956".
May the New Year bring you all good things.
I thought I would write this note, as Roy Hudson has been too preoccupied with getting his business started in Cleveland again, to do very much about anything. He astonished me by writing yesterday from Ormond Beach, to which he returned in connection with the sale of his home there.
Therefore, in case you do not expect to hear further from the researcher at Bloomingburg, I am hoping to write to the pastor now, since the holidays, to try to get in touch with descendants of our Joseph Haymaker.
Roy said he attempted to find out something about old Indiana newspaper files, through the Historical Society of Indiana, but at the time, nothing came of it. Mrs. Ernest Craun, of Michigan is also trying for Ohio newspaper files, and just notified me that she had been advised they had not been made accessible since the Ohio Society removed just recently, to Columbus.
During the Civil War, Roy's grandfather requested that he be sent the Jeffersonville, Indiana, paper, which the people in his vicinity seem to have been accustomed to taking. So that I think this newspaper might be a logical one in which to find an account of the death of Samuel Hamacher, 1858. But whether any of them would give his parentage, is a question.
I heard from all the Hamachers at Christmas, and Pauline Broadway among them, who said she would write at length after the holidays, to answer my recent inquiries. I am keeping the Craun book up to date with the modifications they send me, so will eventually have some changes and additions, but of course not complete among the current generations. I found also a letter from my father's cousin, (and Pauline's father) Walter Hamacher. He had a middle initial, which I must ask about, either V or N; and was telling a Richmond cousin about his family and the ages of his children, about 1934, as later set forth from other sources, in the Craun book. The latter was more of a formal effort and there were no substantial differences. The letter was sent me about two months ago among some other effects of Ralph Hamacher, of Richmond (Mo.).
In preparing the lines of the Craun book, both Mr. Victor Craun and I, had the advantage of the earlier questionings of my aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Hamacher Powell, who began her interest in the family well before the death of my grandfather in 1915, and who had personal knowledge of the families involved. Prior to that time, a kinswoman Mrs. Gertrude Hamacher Long, of Kansas City, had also made an investigation. Therefore in 1948 we had this material against which to check the results of the more formal study, made with mimeographed sheets for names and current addresses, and accompanied by written questions concerning the families. Most of them were filled out by members of the immediate families, after their present addresses had been given to us by the older, known representatives of the family. I do not recall finding anyone whose name had not been given us already, by these means, but it did provide a confirmation; and except where clearly indicated, the Hamacher section of the Craun book is both accurate, and complete. I was sorry about some typographical errors and others involved in the compiler's acceptance of work in progress, but I have not found or heard of any erroneous attributions, and have not been able to justify any additions that are not in there, in the section for which I was responsible.
The fine work you have done will, I think and hope, place us well on the way toward a full account of two more Hamachers of Samuel's generation, the nearest we have ever been to an understanding of his probable family. With a chance to "prove" who he really was!
Please let me know how I can help, if I may in any way. During the winter months I am in a better position to handle any necessary correspondence and to organize material for inquiries.
My aunt, to whom I referred above, was the wife of Isaac Newton Powell, a banker in Chicago's South Side and at one time City Treasurer of Chicago. Following her death in Chicago a few years ago I received a large express shipment of her family researches which she had also done, on an infinite number of New Netherlands Dutch of New York State. It was a most difficult assignment even to copy the voluminous existing records. As a consequence of her work I have my grandmother Van Deusen's direct lines back to virtually all the arrivals from Holland there, plus and infinite number of lines of the collaterals, -- material fully documented in various places but hard to come by, all in one place.
I received form Mr. William C. Lightner, of York, two Hamacher items copied from Gibson's "History of York County", pages 148 and 149, concerning the marriages of two daughters of Daniel Stoner Hamacher, to members of the Myers family. This I incorporated into a couple of pages which I sent to him, about the two "Christians and Anns" of York and their descendants, since I had some other lines of this Daniel Stoner Hamacher. Should anybody come across the account, and be interested, perhaps we can hear from this further.
Since some of these people or their descendants may still be encountered during your research, I am inclosing the items, but otherwise they will not be of much help to me.
Sincerely,
(signed) S. B. Hamacher
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
January 15, 1957
Dear Mrs. Schwartz,
I am sorry I cannot tell you a thing about any of the questions asked in your last letter.
No doubt I have many of the court excerpts about which you ask, but not with the specific page and volume number attached. They all deal with real estate transfers, some of them quite early, for instance your reference, Deeds 0. 1. 281 is the next page to 280, on which is recorded Adam Senior's purchase from James Long of 19-1-2 acres in Hanover Township, near Manada Hill. This was in 1751. It may be the same deed.
I have all of these transactions that seemed in the past to be cogent, but I have never actually looked at them. The purpose of looking at them, which I think would be entirely justified, would be to try to compare the signatures, and thus ascertain perhaps better than we know now, just who was involved, wherever we have a confusion in names.
Any confidence I had when I began to look through my notes, evaporated when I realized I did not have these references in my notes either. Somewhere, too, I would like to get access to the manner in which Adam acquired that property in Mahantango Creek, north of Peter's Mountain - the only one we do not yet know about, apparently. That may be among these references - but I doubt it.
The real estate transactions of Adam, as given by Blessing and concurred in by Dr. Hamaker:
1749 - 30 acres Warwick Township (near Lititz) - "no further trace".
1750 - 100 acres Rapho Township - ("This tract sold 1774 to Martin Shuck; p. 435 Series III Vol XXIV Pa Archives").
1751 - Purchase in Hanover Twp. From James Long, 19-1/2 a. This was or must have been, in John of Hempfield's settlement with his brothers. It was in G.1.375, but John's son owned it when he died in 1808.
1752 - 100 acres, ret. 157.132 acres, patent to Michael Rider, Hanover Twp.
1752 - Tax, 100 acres, west side of Derry Township
1762 - Adam and ANN sell land to John McClure
1762 - Adam pur. Land in Spring Creek of John and Elizabeth Carver (This was still owned by Adam at his death in 1783, and was bequeathed to Adam Junior and Christian). Recorded, by Hershey Corporation, -- 1910.
1764 - John Brindle rec. patent, 174 acres (and below; Fidler's Elbow on the west of Hummelstown, on Swatara.)
1756 - Warrant 100 acres, survey 119.8 acres, bounded by lands of A. Flack, A. Schoedlein, H. Tilsel and M. Stall. Added to Adam's 1752 purchase on east side of Hummelstown, it was bequeathed to Adam Jr. in 1783, conveyed in 1810 to son Adam. Dr. Hamaker considered that Adam Sr. lived here, up to his death.
1774 - Pur. 19 acres West Hanover Twp. "Mentioned in will" (?)
1773 - Pur. 174 acres from John Brindle ("This is tract known as Fiddler's Elbow, willed to Philip and Samuel Hamacher") (All shown on 1762 Hummelstown map)
All of Adam's children of whom we have birth record (up to 1748 in other words) were born either in Lancaster, which may be probable, or at the Warwick Twp. Property near Lititz; and were reared, with their brothers and sisters of this first group of children, in Rapho Township; and most of them married residents of that township. But then, Adam, and Ann, made yet another move. Whether as Martin Brackbill had it, to land already cleared by other settlers, or as Dr. Hamaker had it, still further into the Great American Forest. This was to the property northeast of Hummelstown, to which he added later for the benefit of his eldest son, then of Christian.
Christian was "sheriffed" in Dauphin in 1806 and that is what makes it so hard to accept without question, the bracketing of any children born "at Hummelstown" earlier that that, since we do not know just how old Christian may have been when he died in 1826 in Cumberland County. Blessing said that it was assumed this was the same Christian: who "having lost all, moved to Cumberland County". The only warrant we have for it as far as I am aware, is the apparent age of the latter Christian; and the fact, which is known, that his wife was from Rapho. He was out of the Daupin militia by 1787 but so were most of the others, though they would still have had a few years to serve, up to the age of 53. You may have sent me his record in the 1790 Census, when the makeup of this family seems to have placed him as younger than Adam Jr., but older that Philip, -- from the above transactions this would have seems to have been just about the case.
The third thing we don't know is whether his son John was one of the three male children he had who were all under 16 in 1790.
The place where Christian was "sheriffed" was Lower Paxton Twp., and in that same year Jacob Hamaker bought 53 acres in that township at a sheriff's sale. Whether he, and John Hamaker who sold his effects to Adam Jr. in 1803, were sons of Christian, can only be assumed, according to my present knowledge. There may be ways in which it can be determined, by someone who is concerned, but I don't think Page 55 of Dr. H.'s booklet is at all conclusive in this respect.
That's why, among other things, the obstacle to anyone's knowing all about all the Hamakers are almost insuperable. This is only one situation, but would probably be multiplied many times for anyone looking up all of the members of the early family, and their descendants.
Under the circumstances I am delighted to have gotten into as close contact as I have, with Joseph Haymaker of Ohio. I hope for the benefit of both of us, that he may turn out to have been a brother of both of our ancestors - and that better records may have been preserved by folks who may not have moved as many times, as our lines did. The circumstances of the loss of our family bibles, is known in my line - they were kept, at least - and so I have every expectation of getting in touch with some of the Joseph Haymaker lines, and of results. I have written a letter to the Postmaster at Bloomingburg, to this end, and am now awaiting some kind of reply. I included a page for addresses of living descendants, all that are known to the recipient. Having to get a reply, then to find the older members of the family who may have some knowledge, may be easy, or quite difficult. I appreciate better, the work of others who have surmounted these questions.
No, I have not heard from anyone else. I did not expect any reply from Judge France, nor have I heard from the Tomlinsons since their initial inquiries on your behalf. I take it, that the S A R connection is that of William S. Hammaker, of Harrisburg: he joined; but how, he had never said, and was quite disappointed, I think, that his line was not in Dr. H.'s booklet. He had a Getz ancestor and I do not know, either, how this brought him down from Adam's line. Neither, apparently, did Dr. Hamaker. (who asked me shortly before his death, about it) I asked Bill recently to send me his line so we could repair the omission, but I do not know whether he will, or not.
The assumption with the Perry County Hammakers is, that they are descended from Henry.
And with regard to G.1.375, the indenture of 1794, the copy I have would seem to have a more reasonable addenda - it says, "Signed by the heirs, with space left for David and Salama of Virginia". I do not know either, whether this was on the original. These were, however, the only two heirs, mentioned in the document, who were in Virginia at the time, the others being located as in its preamble.
I thought you might be interested in the inclosed clipping, in some way - I do not know anything about the people involved.
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher
OBITUARY
Mrs. Minnie D. Cann
Mrs Minnie Davis Cann, widow of the Rev. Joseph J. Cann, died yesterday in Camden County General Hospital, Lakeland. She was 75 and lived at the Parkview Apartments, Collingswood.
She was a direct descendant of Jefferson Davis.
Surviving are a daughter, Miss Virginia Can and five sisters.
Services will be held at 8:30 P.M. at the Murray funeral home, 408 Cooper St., Camden.
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
February 3, 1957
Dear Mrs. Schwartz:
I have been given the addresses of several Haymakers and Lamberts in the counties adjacent to Washington Court House, Ohio, so I have just finished writing inquiries to a few of them, from which I surely hope for information. I wrote to
Carl J. Hammaker, 2609 Colonial, Dayton, O.
John C. Haymaker, 4685 Loxley Avenue, Dayton, O. -
(maybe same one whose 1892 m. we have?)
Elmer Haymaker, Devalon Drive, Washington C.H., Ohio
Lt. Col. Blake W. Lambert, 144 Circle Drive, Fairborn, O.
Frank Lambert, Greenfield-Sabina Road, Washington C.H., Ohio
There are a few other addresses but I thought these people might answer letters better than some others.
Roy Hudson also sent the following"
Robinson's History of Greene County, Ohio - Page 318
Daniel Hammaker, Miami, 1830 (Miamisburg, south of Dayton) listed as one of a number of Green County pioneers from 1803 to 1840.
This volume also contains the family of one Joseph Lambert at Caesar's Creek, which I shall not copy, since it called him a soldier of the Revolution, and I do not know into what family he would fall, that early,
The edition of Dill that he consulted, had no index and the only additional thing Roy found was a Civil War soldier, Thomas Lambert, enlisted 5-5-1864 in Co. C, 168th Ohio Vol. Inf. - page 431, a private. I have since sent him the page references you gave me and hope he can find more on Haymaker, possibly Stout, Neff, Armentrout, Shewey - anything that would contribute to our understanding of this tribe. He said he took a number of the counties in that section, went through many unindexed volumes, to turn up these few references.
I wrote to the Postmaster at Bloomingburg inclosing a letter which I asked him to turn over to any descendants of the Haymaker family, who might still be known to him. This was two weeks ago, but I have had no reply of any kind as yet.
Roy did not find anything in the Pickaway County history about the Samuel "Hamucker", wife Nancy, who was there in the 1850 Census. He may turn up in the line of Joseph Haymaker if we ever get that.
I hope you may have heard from Mrs. Tomlinson but I think that her Bucks County research may assume less importance in view of what we are learning about the probable lines of David Hamacher of Virginia. So I am writing these replies with the greatest hopes.
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher
Phoenixville R. 1, Pa.
February 23, 1957
Dear Mrs. Schwartz:
Albemarle County, Virginia, adjoins Augusta County on the east. I have now received an excellent account of the families connected with Joseph Haymaker who went to Fayette County, Ohio, which says he came from there. I hope this will mean more to us in the long run, than the many questions it brings up:
I. Jacob Myers, b. Sept. 1735 ? in Philadelphia County, Pa., son of Jonathan
and Lydia Wilson Myers, m. by tradition 1765 Christina Suster of Schustie, born
Oct 10 ? 1746 near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. He died and she died,
as stated on their tombstones at Bloomingburg, Ohio.
Jacob Myers d. Jan. 26, 1839 aged 83
Christina Myers d. Dec. 20, 1848 aged 102
They had two children Samuel Myers, b. June 11, 1776, and Phoebe Myers, b. March 3, 1792, wife of Joseph Haymaker
I. "Joseph Haymaker came to Fayette County, Ohio, from Abemarle County, Virginia (Orange Court House). The Myers family also located in Fayette County, Ohio, from Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia" - record from Orion C. Larrimer, 1935. "Joseph was born July 14, 1794 in Albemarle County, Va. He was a drummer boy in the Battle of Tippecanoe, 1812 War, and son of John and Anna Hare Haymaker both of who died in Virginia.?
He married Nov. 13, 1817, Phoebe Myers, dau. of Jacob and Christina Myers. His wife a sister of Colonel Samuel Myers, one of the pioneers of Fayette County. His father served in the War of 1812 and was in Hull's surrender" - (Dill.) Phoebe's dates were: b. March 3, 1792, d. Feb. 18, 1878. Issue:
1. Mary Ann Haymaker, b. 9-11-1818, m.____McMillen, 5 ch.
2. Christina Haymaker, b. 3-22-1820, m.____McClure, 3 ch.
3. John Louis Haymaker, b. 9-24-1821, d. 9-10-1846
4. Jacob Myers Haymaker, b. 9-12-1823, m. (1) Lydia Trimble, b. 10-17-1833, d.
8-14-1860; m. (2) Margaret Klever, b. 3-9-1842, and had issue:
a. Elmer E., b. 2-9-1863, d. 11-12-1883
b. Herman, b. 2-25-1865 d. July 1946
c. Harry Klever, b. 4-2-1871, d. Mar. 1944
m. 1909 Lela May Hays, b. 1882 d. 1956. Ch (1):
i. Elmer Haymaker, b. 1-26-1910, m. 12-28-1942
Laudonna Dodd and has 2 children,
Hal Jay b. 11-3-1948
Lana Lou b. 12-27-1950
d. Cora, b. 10-4-1866 d. 12-17-1884
e. Lora, b. 12-22-1873 d. 5-5-1891
f. Leny, b. 12-11-1868 d. 12-26-1872
5. Elizabeth Jane, b. 6-10-1825, m. Jan. 1,1852, d. 2-22-1907 at Xenia, Ohio and bur. At (says "Bloomington") Ohio. Issue by husband Lames Larrimer, son of Thomas and Mary Bryson Larrimer:
a. Susanna Bell, b. 4,1, d. 4-27-1853
b. Arthur lee, b. 5-11-1854, d. 4-21-1874, unm.
c. Emma Josephine, b. 1-5-1856, d. 3-25-1935 at St. Louis, Mo.; m. 6-28-1882
William hedrick, had 4 ch:
Marie, b. 4-23-1883, St. Louis
Lewis, b. 7-26-1885, Carthage, Mo.
William Larrimer, b. 2-17-1880, Carthage, Mo.
Arthur Lee, b. 10-7-1890, Edwardsville, Ill.
d. Clara Ella, b. 3-4-1857 at Washington, Iowa, d. 7-16-1918 at Yellow Springs, Ohio, m. 1-16-1896 John Harper, of Jamestown, Ohio, where she is buried. Ch. (1):
Bernice Harper, b. 5-12-1899.
e. Edgar Valoris, b. 11-11-1858, d. 3-6-1863
f. Orion Clayton, b. 2-28-1866, m. (1) 3-16-1899 Mary Heistand who d. 12-8-1899;
m. (2) 1-1-1912, Mary F. Cassidy, d. 12-29-1946. No issue.
6. Mary Martha, b. 7-29-1827, d. 9-1-1846.
7. Sarah Delia, b. 7-16-1829, d.
a. Manford Hubert, b. 8-21-1855.
b. William Edgar, b. 7-9-1859.
c. Amy Trimble, b. 11-4-1860, d. m. 1-1-189- Joel Burr Littleton, (Springfield
undertaker). Issue, 4 ch:
- Burr, b. 9-6-1892, m. (1) Della Patecil (2) Myrtle Patecil Morris. No
issue.
- Lois, b. 6-27-1894, retired teacher of Spanish, res. Elyria, Ohio.
- Herbert Arlo, b. 11-23-1895, m. Kathryn Floak; a funeral director of
Springfield, O.; no issue
- Gladys, b. 1-16-1899, m. George Ludwig Crickson, res. Hasbrook Hts., N.J.; no
issue.
d. Harry Clarence, b. 4-24-1867, d. 1-11-1924, m. 4-24-1894 Minnie Pettigrew, has 1 ch;
- Eleanor, b. 6-1-1895, m. Blake Helms, of Toledo, Ohio.
8. Joseph Wilson Haymaker, b. 1-27-1832, called "Wilson", m. Ruhama Wright, dau. of Mathias B. and Rebecca (Carr) Wright. Children:
a. Horace
b. Ralph
c. John
d. Carrie
e. Gertrude
This information furnished by Mrs. Elmer Haymaker, of Route 5, Washington C.H., Ohio (Loudonna Dodd, page 1) who writes: --- "This is all of the information I have on the Haymakers. However, Miss Bernice Harper may be able to give you more. She has, I understand, kept in touch with some of these people."
I have written to Miss Harper, whose address is 2056 Warren Road, Lakewood 7, Cleveland, Ohio, principally to try to ascertain whether the Christian name of the first John Haymaker was a matter of record (since the wife of David Hamacher was also named Anna Herr). Not having had a reply from her, I think some confirmation may be possible through a search of the records in Virginia, so I am asking for such a check, by Mr. William Galbraith Smith, former president of the National Genealogical Society, at Washington.
The fact that both Joseph and Samuel knew Lamberts at least invites the possibility that they may have been brothers, although in this event Samuel's undoubted descent in the line of Adam, Senior would necessitate another generation in the line. John if a son of David would probably have been still a minor in 1794, so he may have been a son of Henry, the most likely prospect now know, in that event. It seems even more probable that Samuel and Joseph were not brothers, and that Samuel was a son of David, while on account again of the Lamberts, John and Joseph may still have been descended from another son of Adam, Sr. John evidently came from the part of Pennsylvania where the Herrs were resident. But the records of Albemarle and Orange counties will be checked for both Joseph and Samuel along with other children of this John Haymaker.
Sincerely,
(signed) S.B. Hamacher