Notes

[NI1808] From Butler, Pennsylvania. (The Descendents of The William Carson...)

[NI1825] Lived in Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania (became Beaver County) 1778-1783 fought with Westmorland County Rangers. (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1828] Came to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania from Ireland before 1746. Private in Joseph Shippens' Foot Regiment 4/16/1756. Died Will prob 1/30/1792 (2/9/1791 Fayette County, Pennsylvania). (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1837] Third son of Mary and Samuel Chichester. (The Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1839] Second son of Mahitable Tuller and Samuel Chichester. (The Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1842] Samuel moved his family to Judds Meadow, Waterbury, Connecticut in 1722. (The Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1845] David was the second son of Eunice Porter and James Chichester. (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1847] Of Huntington, New York. (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1851] James emigrated from England before 1643. (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1859] Will written November 12, 1864. (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1860] First child of Margaret Conner and James Simpson. (Descendents of the William Carson...)

[NI1907] My father, Philip Daniel was the only one [of ten children] who was born in Illinois. (Ghlee Raymond Howerter, "My Grandparents")

Peter Harrison settled in Cass Twp. and had ten children of which nine were born in Pennsylvania before the move and the tenth, Philip Daniel, born in Cass Twp. in 1870. Philip Daniel (P.D.) Howerter married Eliza Joachim and had four children, Edna, who died at about two months, Carl Clifford (w. Doll Judd), Edith Marie (h. John E Fouts), and Ghlee Raymond. (The Howerter Family)

[NI1909] The Joachim family migrated to this areea in 1865 from the Palatine area of Germany where the Howerters came from. (The Howerter Family)

I wish to explain that the government of Germany at that time was very militaristic. Soldiers were stationed in private homes, people were required to lodge and feed them. Because of this oppression, William's older brother, Simeon Joachim, who had been inducted into service, deserted the army, escaped across the Rhine River into France, adopted the name of John Miller, and made his way to America. He was always known as French John Miller. A little later another brother, Henry (Heinrich) Joachim made his way to America. Since my brother is now John Miller I will be Hentry Miller, he reasoned. Both later reverted to the family name, Joachim, and are buried in the Baughman Cemetery.

As my grandfather related to me, it was in the harvest season. My grandfather was working in the field, when mid-morning his father hurried to the field to tell him, "Wilhelm, you must stop and go to the states now." "Not now father, in the middle of harvest." "Yes, now, they come after you at two o"clock for the army." He hurried home, picked up a few clothes, then headed for the French border only a few kilometers west, leaving behind his wife, one small son, and another expected. After a year or so he was able to send for his wife and family. ... [see notes for Caroline]

My Grandfather William himself was a remarkable man. I can't recall ever going to their home that he didn't give me a coin of some small denomination; a penny was much prized then. He was, I think, a strict disciplinarian. If he had only one fault, it must have been his drinking habits. It is understandable, his appetite for beer, as it was a part of the diet of the German people. He drank excessively, but was always kind and loving with his grandchildren.

When he first arrived in America and Illinois, the T.P.&W. Railroad was starting to be built. I have been told that he made ties for the road and also worked on construction. How else could he have accumulated money enough for his wife's transportation? During his lifetime he acquired a substantial interest in a farm for each of his sons, and at the time of his death he left a 160 acre farm to be divided amongst his daughters. He had never been sick a day in his life, but in February, 1914, he developed pneumonia and in a few days passed away, a much loved man. (Ghlee Raymond Howerter, "My Grandparents")

[NI1910] Caroline Maul was born in the same town, Thaleischweiler, where Heinrich Hochwerder was born in 1678. (The Howerter Family)

They came as a family group, my grandmother Caroline and sons William and Peter, also, her brother, Peter Moul and wife Dora, their children, Peter Jr., Catherine (Kate), and Louisa (Lou). Since my grandfather had not traveled much, he entrusted his brother, French John, with his money to meet my grandmother at the boat in New York, which he did, purchasing train frare for them to Lewistown, Illinois with the balance of the money. He had a ball.

My grandmother and family arrived in Lewistown, Illinois and were put off the train. Since she understood no English (nicht Verestehn (sic)) she was at an impasse. The station operator knew no German. Luckily a merchant from Smithfield was there to pick up some merchandise. He spoke the language and loaded her and the children into the wagon with his freight and delivered them to the home of John Orwig where they were reunited with her husband.

My grandmother was a remarkable woman. She raised her own family to adulthood, four boys and four girls. She was well-known as a midwife and how many babies she ushered into the world would only be a guess. She used to sit and tell me of her childhood in the old country, of how it was her responsibility to take the noon meal to the men in the field. She would take a bucket to the tavern, get a bucket of beer and a loaf of black bread and that would be their noon meal. It was also her duty to graze the cow. As there were no fences dividing their pots, only stones, they had to be careful that the cow did not get so much as a mouthful of grass from the neighbor or they would have to pay the neighbor to keep them from reporting the incident to the authorities. Also, if you owned a plot of two acres, you were considered well-fixed. Ten acres made you a millionaire. Also they would go to the forest (public land) to gather wood for fuel which they would tie in bundles and carry them home on their heads. She would show me how to take a towel, make a pad for her head, then place a crock or jar on top and go where she wanted to go. I have been told by people of her age that when she was younger, that at a dance she would place a glass of water on her head and waltz all over the floor and never spill a drop. She lived to the ripe old age of 92 years, a truely remarkable woman. (Ghlee Raymond Howerter, "My Grandparents")

[NI1928] When I transcribed Louise Fridley's name from her tombstone, I wrote her name down as Louisa. I need to check this.

[NI1942] Christina (Denah) (married John Hinderliter) and her brother Peter Howarter left for Ill. in 1837. Peter and his wife and family arrived in the fall of 1837, but Denah and John did not arrive until the spring of 1838 because they lost a horse in Ohio and had to winter there to get enough money to buy another and then travel on. These two families were some of the earliest settlers in Cass Twp. Fulton Co. Il. By this time there were few Indians left in the area as the last big conflict with them had been the Black Hawk War in 1832. Denah and John had 12 children, four born in Illinois after the move. In ensuing years, descendents of the Hinderliter family have spread all over the U.S. (The Howerter Family)

[NI1948] Adam Howerter was the first child born in America to Valatin and Anna Christina. He was born Sept 2, 1742 in Chester Co. Pa. and was christened at the Trappe Church there. Several more children were probably born to Valatin and Anna Christina in America, but no definite proof has been found.

Adam Howerter married Catherine Krohn (b. in Germany) and they moved to Longswamp Twp. Berks Co., Pa. They had ten children, all christened in the Longswamp Church. Adam served in the Revolutionary War along with the two men named Howerter that we feel sure were his brothers, but this has not been proven. About 1780, Adam and all his family and relatives that could be persuaded to move went to Northumberland Co., Pa. with the exception of his oldest son, Heinrich(b. 1768 d. 1838) who was already married and had a family. (The Howerter Family)

J. L. Floyd's "The History of Northumberland County" reports the following; The inscription on his tombstone says "born in Chester Co," but family tradition has it that he was one of the Hessian soldiers brought here by the English gov't during the Revolutionary War, after which he settled in Chester Co., Pa. I, Jan Huffman, disbelieve this story. All evidence supports Adam's being born in Chester County.

Adam was in the Revolutionary War arrcoding to Berks Co., Pa. "Soldiers of the Revolution" p. 162 by Maurer (1932). He was listed as Ensign Adam Howarter, 8th Company, 1st Batt. Pa. Archives, 5th Series Captain Richstein's Company, Vol. 5, p 168 (1780). (Hellen Manley Johnson, "Denah Howerter")

Adam Howerter, the first known ancestor of a family numerously represented in Berks and Northumberland counties, Pa; was born Sept 2, 1742 and died in what is now Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co., Pa. near Howerter's Church, Dec 6, 1819. The inscription on his tombstone says "born in Chester Co", but family tradition has it that he was one of the Hessian soldiers brought here by the English gov't during the Revolutionary War, after which he settled in Chester Co, Pa. About 1786 he located in Longswamp Twp, Berks Co., where in 1790 the Federal Census Report records him as the head of a family of three sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Henry was already married in that year, but at that time had no children. He is said to have remained in Berks Co., but Adam and his other children, sons Johan Adam and Johan Peter and four daughters, came to the Mahantango Valley, settling in that district now embraced in Upper Mahanoy Twp, where the father took up a large tract of land, some of which he cleared, erecting the first set of buildings thereon. He and his wife Catherine, who according to the tombstone inscription was born in Europe Dec 23, 1748, and died April 23, 1819, are buried at Howerter's Church. They were Lutherans in religion, as are their descendents. Three of their daughters married brothers named Wary, another was married to a Spiece, and another to a DeTurk. One of the Warys is buried at Mahanoy, one at Herb's Church. The tradition that the emigrant ancestor was a Hessian soldier may be correct, as no Howerter appears among the immigrants to this country recorded in the Penna. Archives. (J.L. Floyd, History of Northumberland County - 1911)Adam Howerter was the first child born in America to Valatin and Anna Christina. He was born Sept 2, 1742 in Chester Co. Pa. and was christened at the Trappe Church there.

Adam Howerter married Catherine Krohn (b. in Germany) and they moved to Longswamp Twp. Berks Co., Pa. They had ten children, all christened in the Longswamp Church. Adam served in the Revolutionary War along with the two men named Howerter that we feel sure were his brothers, but this has not been proven. About 1780, Adam and all his family and relatives that could be persuaded to move went to Northumberland Co., Pa. with the exception of his oldest son, Heinrich(b. 1768 d. 1838) who was already married and had a family. (The Howerter Family)

J. L. Floyd's "The History of Northumberland County" reports the following; The inscription on his tombstone says "born in Chester Co," but family tradition has it that he was one of the Hessian soldiers brought here by the English gov't during the Revolutionary War, after which he settled in Chester Co., Pa. I, Jan Huffman, disbelieve this story. All evidence supports Adam's being born in Chester County.

Adam was in the Revolutionary War according to Berks Co., Pa. "Soldiers of the Revolution" p. 162 by Maurer (1932). He was listed as Ensign Adam Howarter, 8th Company, 1st Batt. Pa. Archives, 5th Series Captain Richstein's Company, Vol. 5, p 168 (1780). (Hellen Manley Johnson, "Denah Howerter")

Adam Howerter, the first known ancestor of a family numerously represented in Berks and Northumberland counties, Pa; was born Sept 2, 1742 and died in what is now Upper Mahanoy Twp, Northumberland Co., Pa. near Howerter's Church, Dec 6, 1819. The inscription on his tombstone says "born in Chester Co", but family tradition has it that he was one of the Hessian soldiers brought here by the English gov't during the Revolutionary War, after which he settled in Chester Co, Pa. About 1786 he located in Longswamp Twp, Berks Co., where in 1790 the Federal Census Report records him as the head of a family of three sons and four daughters. The eldest son, Henry was already married in that year, but at that time had no children. He is said to have remained in Berks Co., but Adam and his other children, sons Johan Adam and Johan Peter and four daughters, came to the Mahantango Valley, settling in that district now embraced in Upper Mahanoy Twp, where the father took up a large tract of land, some of which he cleared, erecting the first set of buildings thereon. He and his wife Catherine, who according to the tombstone inscription was born in Europe Dec 23, 1748, and died April 23, 1819, are buried at Howerter's Church. They were Lutherans in religion, as are their descendents. Three of their daughters married brothers named Wary, another was married to a Spiece, and another to a DeTurk. One of the Warys is buried at Mahanoy, one at Herb's Church. The tradition that the emigrant ancestor was a Hessian soldier may be correct, as no Howerter appears among the immigrants to this country recorded in the Penna. Archives. (J.L. Floyd, History of Northumberland County - 1911)
[Parts of the above was written by Jan Huffman]
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Adam Howerter Will, 1819

November the 29th 1819, I the Subscriber acknowledge that this is my
earnest will, that my two sons Adam and Peter Howarter as
Administrators shall divide all my goods amongst my Children in equal
parts, after my death the shall let all my loose goods be appraised,
and make vendue, and make the money in equal shares except what my
burying expenses are the shall be paid before hand, but Elizabeth or
her children shall have her share, and that shall also be divided
amongst them in equal shares, she has yet to receive L28.0.6 till she
has received one hundred Pounds but this would be my wish, that none
of my Children should go to Law, which I sign with my hand by
witness and seal.

Adam (A) Howarter

Saldin Paul, Peter Yoder
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[NI1950] Quite possibly, (but there is no way now to know definitely), the Howerters first came from Switzerland as there were many people of Swiss decent living in the Scickeringhohe region of the Palatine district in Germany. The first known ancestor was Heinrich Hochwerder (b. 1678 d. 1763) in Thaleischewiler, Germany. He married Anna Maria (last name unknown) and they were the parents of three children, Valatin, Johan George, and Anna Barbara. Valatin (b. approx. 1710, birthdate taken from age on ship's records) married Anna Christina Huttenmeyer in 1735 and had Philip Nicol, Johan Michael, and Anna Marie, all born in Germany. The family migrated to Pennsylvania and arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 12, 1741. There is nothing known of Philip Nicol or Anna Maria in America or even if they managed to survive the voyage over. (The Howerter Family)

Valetin Hohwerder, (b. 1710 in Germany) ... was one of the Palatine Germans who fled their homeland and come to America from Rotterdam via England on the ship "Friendship" Alex Thomas, Master, arriving in Phildadelphia, Pa. on 12 October 1741 (signature recorded in Pa. Pioneers, by Strasburger) (Hellen Manley Johnson, "Denah Howerter")

The genealogy of this branch follows hereafter, as three grandsons of his [Johannes Huber], George, Daniel and Johann Huber, came on the sailing vessel Friendship* and subscribed to the usual oaths in Philadelphia, October 12, 1741. ... With these three Huber brothers, several others of the parish of Thaleischweiler are mentioned as having emigrated to Pennsylvania on the same sailing vessel: ... Valentin Hochwarter, whose name in one list was changed into Hochwerder and another one into Huberter, was amrried at Thaleischweiler in 1735 and reported in the register as "having gone to Pennsylvania".

* Jurgen Huber, aged 24; Daniel Huber, 22, and Andreas Huber, 20. - Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume XVII, p. 217 (The Huber-Hoover Family)

[NI1961] Amos Howerter, son of Solomon, was born Oct 2, 1844, in Upper Mahanoy Twp, and was there reared. When twenty-one he began to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed for sixteen years in Upper Mahanoy and at the coal mining towns, building a number of houses and barns and doing work at the coal breakers; he employed as many as four men. In the spring of 1879 he began farming as his present place in Upper Mahanoy, have a 68 acre farm on the road leading across Line Mountain to Shamokin, besides which he owns 25 acres of mountain land. He built the house on his home property several years before he began farming there, and all the building are of his construction and the first to be built upon that land. He put up the others when he settled down to farming there. Mr Howerter has been a useful citizen, has served his township three years as school director, and has been an active member of the Lutheran congregation of Howerter's Union Church, to which his family also belong. He has served as deacon and trustee, is at present and elder, and was building master when the present church edifice was erected. In politics he is a Democrat.

On Jan 29, 1874 Mr Howerter married louisa Kahler, daughter of George Kahler, who lived in JUniata Co. Pa. and they have had children as follows: William I., who lives on a tract of 54 acres, formerly owned by his ancestor's brother, Johan Adam Howerter, the latter's property, however, being much larger in extent; George Monroe; Catherine N., who married Wilson Wagner, and lives in Shamokin; Emma L., Mary E., Edward A., and Freeman Amos. (J.L. Floyd, History of Northumberland County - 1911)

[NI1966] George Monroe Howerter, son of Amos, was born Jan 14, 1878, on his father's farm, and obtained his education in the common schools of the locality. He worked for his father until he was past twenty-one, and in the fall of 1905 began farming on his present place, which contains 38 acres, near the Schuylkill County line, and upon which he has made a number of improvements since it came into his possession, including the summer house which he built in 1909. This property was first owned by George Geist, later by Daniel Geist, who built the dwelling, then by William Geist, who built the barn in 1879, and subsequently by Daniel Klock, who Mr Howerter succeeded. Mr Howerter sells his produce in Shamokin, and he is a good business man, as well as a thrifty farmer.

On May 31, 1902, he married Amanda Rebuck, daughter of Joh and Sarah (Rebuck) Rebuck, and granddaughter of Elias and Mary (Reitz) Rebuck and of (maternally) Conrad and Lucy (Shott) Rebuck. Three children have been born to Mr and Mrs Howerter: Mary Florence, George William, and Emma Sylvia. Mr. and Mrs. Howerter are Lutheran members of St. Jacob's (Howerter's) Church in Upper Mahanoy Twp. Politically he is a Democrat. (J.L. Floyd, History of Northumberland County - 1911)

[NI1976] Solomon Howerter, son of Johan Peter Howerter, was born on the homestead, Feb 1, 1805, and was a lifelong farmer in Upper Mahanoy Twp., living on a 120 acre farm on the south side of Line Mountain, not far from Howerter's Church. It was located on the road crossing Line Mountain to Shamokin. There he died June 25, 1878, and his wife Mary (Hepler), born Feb 7, 1808, died June 14, 1876. They are buried at Howerter's Church. They were the parents of ten children: Elias, who died June 30, 1907, aged 79 years, three months, six days, lived in Upper Mahanoy Twp, and his only child was Mary, now the wife of William S. Kahler, of that township; Catherine, married Godfried Schreffler; Bennevile lives in Juniata county, Pa. Charles is a resident of Crawford county, Ill. Jared lives in Shamokin, Pa. Luzena and Augustus died young; Amos is mentioned below; Aaron (deceased) lived in Girardville, Pa. (J.L. Floyd, History of Northumberland County - 1911)

[NI2005] Their [Peter and Elizabeth's] oldest son Charles moved in a covered wagon from Knox County [Illinois] to SE Kansas where there is a large group of their descendants today. (The Howerter Family)

[NI2021] He had been studying for the ministry and was called to serve in the Civil war and was killed at Gettysburg. (The Howerter Family)

[NI2064] Will, Clara and the children migrated to Oklahoma in the Spring of 1895, ( March 19, 1895). They came down in a covered wagon leading one cow. They had a stove in the wagon.
Will homesteaded on 160 acres of land 5 1/2 miles Northwest of Waynoka, Oklahoma.
They intended to live in the covered wagon however Floy got ill with the membranous croup. There was a sheep ranch and a pretty fair house on Spring Hill on the Irving Place. The man living there made them use the house since Floy was sick and he stayed in the wagon. The first house was a dugout except the South side which had one log and the North side which had two. The dugout had one room with a dirt floor. Later a new house was built- part log and part picket. The logs were Cottonwood packed between with wood and mud. The log portion was the kitchen and had a dirt floor. The picket portion was Cedar from across the river and were split down and worked over with a broad axe. The picket portion was one large room which was the living room and bedroom. It all had a dirt roof. Francis remembers many times when there Cedar haulers sleeping all over the floor at night. They came down usually from up around Kansas and got logs to sell. Around the second year the family was here the neighbors got together and built a school which the called Cottonwood. Francis, Floy and Bert all attended this school. [Written and compiled by Leroy Hinderliter]

[NI2072] Clara said that the only school she attended was the Union School just across the road from the F. M. Woolley, her father- about 5 miles from Sterling, Kansas. There are records on the Woolley's going back to New York in the late 1700's. Another part of the Woolley's are the Cortrights which go back to the late 1600's. The Cortrights supposedly are decentents of a Spainiard by the name of Cortez. Both the Hinderliters and Woolleys migrated to Kansas where there farms were close together.{Written & Compiled by Leroy Hinderliter]