Hershey Family Tree

Descendants of Christian HERCHE(HERSHEY)

Notes


1973. Mary Ann LEITER

In 1850 the Arnold family was living on a farm in Pike Twp., Clearfield Co.,
Penn. About 1854 they moved to Seneca Co., Ohio. After David died, Mary
Arnold lived with her daughter Mary Wilber in Mecosta, Michigan..

Birth: IGI Film 1903596

Marriage: IGI Film 1903868


4908. Hannah Ann ARNOLD

Birth: IGI 1903596


4909. Enoch Leiter ARNOLD

Birth: IGI 1903596
Birth: IGI Film 1395877, Batch 8428901 65


4910. Elizabeth D. ARNOLD

Birth: IGI 1903596


4911. Phillip Enoch ARNOLD

Birth: IGI 1903596


4913. Barbara Adeline ARNOLD

Birth: IGI Film 1903596


4914. Mary Magdalene ARNOLD

Mary and her husband lived in Mecosta, Michigan, where her mother came to live
with them after the death of her father.

Birth: IGI Film 1903596


4915. Jacob Henry ARNOLD

Birth: IGI Film 1903596


4917. Sarah Catherine Permilia ARNOLD

Birth: IGI Film 1903596


1974. Martha Magdalena LEITER

Marriage: IGI Film 1903868

Martha and Anna are twins.

Information on this family was found in History and Genealogy of the Leiter Families, John A. Leiter, p 23.


Isaac SHELLENBERGER

In 1837 Isaac was guardian of Jacob Leiter, Martha's brother, but in 1840
Jacob asked for a new guardian since Isaac was about to move to Ohio. In a
brief genealogical record published in Chicago in 1939, it is stated that Isaac
Shellenberger resided in Belvidere, Illinois ("Shellenberger Family and
Genealolgy of John Shellenberger", p. 47).

1880 Kingston, De Kalb Co., Illinois Census


4922. William E. SHELLENBERGER

1880 Kingston, De Kalb Co., Illinois Census


4925. Louise SHELLENBERGER

1880 Kingston, De Kalb Co., Illinois Census


4927. Edward SHELLENBERGER

1880 Kingston, De Kalb Co., Illinois Census


1976. Jacob LEITER

In 1837 Isaac Shellenberger was guardian of Jacob. Isaac was Jacob's
brother-in-law, but in 1840 Jacob asked for a new guardian since Isaac and
Martha were about to move to Ohio. In 1841, Jacob followed his older brother
John to Seneca Co., Ohio and moved to Fulton Co., Indiana, in 1846.

Jacob was a capenter and a farmer.

Marriage: IGI Film 1903868

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4929. Sidney LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


Lydia Ann ROSE

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4930. Jane LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4931. Barbra LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4932. Adie LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4933. Laura LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4934. Abraham LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4935. Levi LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4936. Eli LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4937. Anna LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


4938. Mary LEITER

1880 Rochester, Fulton Co., Indiana Census


1977. Abraham WITMER

Abraham farmed the 133 acres he received from the estate of his father. In
1870 he sold a piece of this land to the trustees of St. Paul's Union church
for the erection of a church building. In 1889 Abram and Mary wre living in
Port Treverton, Penn., when they deeded their farm to their son Daniel. After
Abraham;s death his widow, Mary, lived with her son Daniel.

1850, 1860, 1880 Susquehanna, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


Mary WILDT

1850, 1860, 1880 Susquehanna, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4940. William Henry WITMER

1850, 1860 Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4944. Margaret Alice WITMER

Information taken from "The Long Family" by William Gabriel Long.

1860 Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


Abraham SIEBER

In the 1880 census of Fayette Twp., Juniate Co., Penn., Abraham is listed as a
farmer with his second wife Eliza and daughter Ada. He wrote a will on Feb.
24, 1882, devising the land on which he them lived to his wife Eliza for her
lifetime and a house and lot in McAlisterville to his daughters Alice and Ada.

Some information on this family was taken from the data base of Michael Milliken (MillikenM@aol.com)

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4951. Ada C. SIEBER

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


1981. Anna Elizabeth WITMER

1880 Walker, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census

Marriage Records of Lost Creek, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania

The obituary of Anna Elizabeth Witmer Sieber was published in the Herald of Truth, July 1889.


David SIEBER

1880 Walker, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4953. Louise F. SIEBER

1880 Walker, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4956. David SIEBER

1880 Walker, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4957. Mary E. SIEBER

1880 Walker, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


1982. Jacob S. WITMER

Jacob was a farmer in Fayette Twp., Juniata Co., Penn.

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


Anna B.

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4959. Cora E. WITMER

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4960. Edna S. WITMER

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


4961. Mary WITMER

1880 Fayette, Juniata Co., Pennsylvania Census


1988. Benjamin WITMER

In 1843 Dr. John Witmer sold 87 acres from the original Witmer farm to his son
Benjamin. When Benjamin died the land was sold to Jacob K. Brubaker in 1850
(Will U-1-663, Lancaster). At that time the executors of the estate purchased a
house and four acres in East Hempfield Twp. in trust for the use of the widow
and children of Benjamin. In 1856 Anna Witmer married Christian Keller and was
living with him in 1860 in East Hempfield twp. By 1870 Anna Keller was a widow
living in East Hempfield Twp. with two widowed daughters.


1989. Maria WITMER

Maria's husband Jacob Hostetter was an innkeeper in East Hempfield Twp. in a
house owned by her father, Dr. John Witmer. The inn was sold to Daniel Hessin
1843, but Jacob was still called an innkeeper in 1850. In 1860 and 1870 he was
called a farmer. In her husband's will, it was ordered that his real and
personal property were to be used for the support of Mary for her lifetime.


1880 East Hempfield, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania Census


Jacob HOSTETTER

Jacob will was Deed D-2-119, Lancaster, Penn.


4968. Amos W. HOSTETTER

1860 Carroll Co., Illinois Census. In the 1860 census, Amos is living with his uncle Abraham.

Amos was working with his Uncle Abraham in the bank as a cashier and Bookkeeper. When the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the 34th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, becoming Captain of Company I. He was killed while reconnoitering on the picket line before Atlanta, Georgia.


4971. John Witmer HESS (Dr.)

Information taken from the
"Biographical Annals of Lancaster County", p. 532.


1992. John B. WITMER

John B. Witmer was one of the executors of his father's will and by that will
he came into possession of 47 acres that adjoined the Columbia Pike on which he
erected a brick house in 1849. By 1860 he was located in Antrim Twp., Franklin
Co., Penn. In 1892 he was living in Greencastle, Penn., when his sister Anna
B. Witmer died.


1994. Jacob B. WITMER

By 1850 J. B. Witmer was a physician in Greencastle, Penn. His death and the
death of his daughter Mary E. were noted in the "Lancaster Intelligencer"on
april 11, 1854. In a will proved in Franklin Co., Jacob Witmer mentions "my
second daughter" in addition to his wife Mary Ellen (Will F-40, Franklin co.
Courthouse, Chambersburg, Penn.). At the time of the 1880 census Mary E. Witmer
was boarding in lancaster.


4985. Mary Ellen WITMER

Mary E. is noted in the Lancaster Intelligencer on Apr ll, 1854.


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