EBERHARD
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Additional Link to the John and Catherine Eberhardt Fry Family and the first generation The
Eberhard surname
derives from the given name Eberhard,
which has been located in the German area of
Wurttemberg during 1400s. There
were
dukes and counts by that given name there.
The names translates as eber
= wild boar and
hard = brave or strong and would indicate strength or courage like a
wild boar. It has
many spelling variation such as, Everhard,
Eberhart,
Everhart, Eberhardt, Everhardt, etc. The Henry Cemetery Association has two “Everhard” burials listed in the Henry Warstler Cemetery
in Plain Township, Stark County, Ohio and they are: David
Everhard
died 24 May 1833 age 24 years 7 months 18 days George
Everhard
died 04 May 1843 age 75 years Also
in Plain Township but in Zion Cemetery there are buried some members of
the
Henry “Everhard” family: Catherine
Everhard
born 01 Jun 1777 wife of Henry Henry
Everhard
died 29 Dec 1848 age 80 years 7 months “Infant
son” Everhard
died 20 Jun 1830 son of H&M Jacob
Everhard
died 17 Nov 1829 age 29 years Mary
Everhard
died 30 May 1855 age 16 years 3 months and 16 days Mary
Magdalena Everhard
died 01 Jan 1830 wife of Henry Paul
Everhard
died 1829 age 23 years son of Henry and Mary Note: This Henry Everhard
is also seen in genealogical records as John Henry Eberhart
and his two wives are listed as, Mary Magdalena and Catherine. Their maiden names were
Hewitt and they were
sisters. Mary Magdalena being his 1st wife who
died and he married 2nd
Catherine (Hewitt) Dager
the widow of Jacob Dager.
His father was Paul Everhart. “PHILIP EVERHARD, a retired farmer now residing in Canton, has spent his entire life in Stark County. He was born in Plain Township, September 28, 1812, and is a son of Henry Everhard, a native of Northampton County, Pa. The grandfather, Paul Everhard, was of German descent. The father of our subject was a potter by trade and followed that business during his younger years. He was joined in wedlock with Miss Mary M. Hewitt, of Washington County, Pa., a daughter of Philip Hewitt, who was also of German lineage. In the year 1809, Henry Everhard emigrated to Stark County, locating in Plain Township, where he made a permanent settlement. He carried on general farming, now also operated a grist and saw mill for a number of years his wife died in 1829. He survived her for about twenty years, passing away in 1848. This worthy couple, who were highly respected in the community, had a family of five sons and five daughters who grew to mature years, but Philip, the youngest son, is the only survivor. Our subject, spent his boyhood days quietly upon his father's farm, remaining under the parental roof until he had attained his majority, when he began farming on his own account. The common schools afforded him his educational advantages, and for some twelve years during the winter season he was engaged in teaching. As a companion and helpmate on life's Journey, he chose Miss Nancy Hane, of Canton Township, a daughter of Christian Hane, their union being celebrated September 1, 1846. The young couple began their domestic life in Plain Township, where our 0subject carried on general farming and stock-raising for many years. He always kept a flock of sheep, which he sold for food purposes, or for the wool which they yielded. In 1875, he left the farm and removed to Canton, where he has since resided. He practically lives retired, devoting only a portion of his time to his business interests. He sold his farm in 1883. He owns a fine residence at No. 153 North Cleveland Avenue, a handsome and commodious structure, well finished and tastefully furnished. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Everhard six children have been born: Elta, wife of T. A. Reward, of Cleveland; Mary F., who died May 7, 1890; Alvah H ., who resides in South Dakota; Otto Philip. who makes his home in Deadwood, South Dakota, Charles J., who purchased and now resides on the old home stead in Plain Township; and Ira Hane, who is Teller in the First Nation al Bank of Canton. The mother of this family departed this life December 22, 1891, in her sixty-seventh year, and many friends mourned her loss. She was a devoted member of the Lutheran Church, to which Mr. Everhard also belongs, both having united with the church when young. In politics, our subject is a Republican. He has never been an office-seeker, but served for one term as Supervisor of his township. After coming to the city he suffered greatly from rheumatism in the knee joint for three years and the bone became diseased. This necessitated radical treatment, and the limb was amputated October 22, 1888. Since that time Mr. Everhard has enjoyed excellent health. He is resting after many years of earnest labor, the fruits of his former toil being amply sufficient to keep him in comfort throughout his remaining days.” About
1774 Philip Hewitt with wife Eva Mong,
Peter Hewitt with wife Mary Leffler,
and Elizabeth
Hewitt with husband Jacob Leffler
came to Washington
County. Philip and Peter settled in Amwell
Township,
Jacob in Donegal Township. They had lived earlier in Berks County,
Pennsylvania
and Washington (then Frederick) County. Maryland. Bethlehem Lutheran
Church
(originally Reformed and Lutheran) is located on a hilltop in North
Bethlehem
Township The book DUTCH GLORY by Margaret M. Simon includes the
following
information for the daughter of Philip Hewitt: Mary b 1775; confirmed
1791; d
1829 Stark Co, Ohio m 1793 Henry Everhart 1768-1848 - he m2 Nov 22-1831
Catharine
Hewitt Dager,1777-1843 Ch: John
1794-,
Catharine 1796-, Susanna 1797-1881, Jacob 1800-1829, Henry 1803-, Paul
1806-1829, Mary 1809-1853,Philip 1812-, Lydia 1818-, Rachel 1823- -
left
Somerset 1810 This
places John Henry Everhart in Washington County, PA by
1793 and it is indicated he was in Stark County, Ohio by 1809. He could not be the John
Everhart who is seen
with George Everhart in the 1800 and 1810 census of Huntingdon County,
PA. There
appears to be some association of George Everhart
who died in 1843 and Maryland. At
least
four of his children, John, Elizabeth, Maria and Nancy reportedly were
born
there. Elizabeth
born about 1798 indicates
this in census records and Nancy’s son, William Sell’s biography states
that
she was born there. John
Everhart was
born about 1801 and his birth place is recorded as Maryland in the 1850
census. The
biography for John Cox, who was Maria’s
father-in-law, states that she was born in Washington County, Maryland
in 1818.
One would expect to find George Everhart in the 1800 and 1810 census in
Maryland. The
1810 census of Woodbury Township of Huntingdon County Pennsylvania
shows a G.
Everhart listed just above a J. Everhart.
In G. Everhart’s household there were 3 males under
10 years of age, 1
male 10-15, 1 male 16-25, 2 males 26-45 and 1 male over 45 years of age. There was also 1 female
under ten10 years of
age, 3 females 16-25 and 1 female over 45 years of age. The
1820 census of Plain Township, Stark County, Ohio includes both George
and John
Everhart. In
George’s household there
were 2 males under 10 years of age, 1 male 10-15 years of age, 1 male
16-25
years of age and 1 male over 45 years of age. There
were also 1 female 10-15 years of age, 3
females 16-15 years of age, 1 female 26-44 years of age and one female
over 45
years of age. There
is an estate settlement in Stark County, Ohio dated 07 Sep 1822 for a
Mary Anne
Everhart. After
reviewing this estate
record it appears she was George’s mother or at least the widow of his
father. George is
in the lists of persons who bought
things from this estate, as are Conrad Raver, John Sell. Once this estate was
settled the balance remaining
was $ 2387.35, which was divided as follows: John
Everhart
$
205.00 George
Everhart
436.47 Jacob
Hoch
436.47 Elizabeth
Shields
436.47 George
Everhart
436.47 John
Andrews
218.23
½ Jacob
Hoch
218.23
½
___________ This
list would be the heirs to the estate.
This estate record was complete on 10 Sep
1825. No will has
been found for a John
or Mary Anne Everhart. George
Everhart’s eleven children named in legal
documents located in Stark County, Ohio are: Sons: John
Everhart George
Everhart David
Everhart William
Everhart Daughters: Elizabeth
Everhart Molly
Everhart Margaret
Everhart Catherine
Everhart Nancy
Everhart Maria
Everhart Children in approximate order of birth:
Children
by Elizabeth Hull:
There is a Digest Of Obituaries Published In Newspapers of Columbia City, Whitley County, Indiana 1856-1910 compiled by Nellie M. Raber in the collection of the Peabody Library in Columbia City, Indiana. It contains a biography dated 24 Nov 1897 for John Cox which is of interest: “Cox,
John and his family: He
was born in 1788
and his wife, Lydia in 1790. Both
were
natives of Pennsylvania. They
had five
children, all deceased except Phillip who is past 80 years of age. The children were: Mrs. Koontz, Mrs. Shearer,
Phillip, Jacob and
George W. Cox. George
W. Cox was born in
Huntingdon Co., Pa. on 31 Jan. 1814; died 12 Sep. 1863; his wife, Maria
Eberhard was born
4 July 1818 in Washington County, Md. and
died 22 July 1885; married 11 Oct. 1838 by Petere
Lautzenhauser; two
children were – a daughter who married
John A. Snyder (born 14 Sep. 1839 in Suffield Tp., Portage Co., Ohio
and died
27 Jul 1887) and John Cox who came to Whitley Co., Ind. In October,
1850 (born
5 Jan. 1842 in Suffield Tp., Portage Co., Ohio and died 13 Nov 1897’
married
Mary E. Roberts on 22 Feb. 1866 and had 12 children). The children of
John and
Mary Cox were: Jacob,
Charles, Franklin,
Elmer, George, Arthur, Ida, Laura, Mary, Ellen who are living. (C.C.P., 24 Nov. 1897”. There
is also an obituary for Maria (Everhart) Sell who was the widow of
George W.
Cox before she married Henry B. Sell and it reads:
“Sell, Mrs. Henry B. was born in Huntingdon
Co., Pa. on 4 Jul 1818; died on 23 Jul 1885.
In 1819 her father moved to Stark County., Ohio. She married George W. Cox
on 11 Oct. 1838 and
they moved to Whitley Co., Ind. in 1850 where he died on 13 Sep. 1863. Her 2nd
marriage on 22 Dec. 1868
was to Henry Sell who died on 2 Dec. 1879.
The Rev. Leathers had charge of the funeral service. The text was from Nahum,
1:7. (C.C.P., 29 July 1885).” Note: There are two different
birth places for
Maria Everhart listed in this information: Washington County, Maryland
and
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. There
is some indication she may have been born in Washington County, PA as
her
brother William was born there in 1815. An
obituary for Catherine (Everhart) Fry was carried in an Ashland Ohio
newspaper
and it reads: “Mrs.
Catherine Fry, whose
maiden name was Eberhart,
was born in Pennsylvania,
came to Ashland when 6 or 7 years of age, was born in Morrison’s Cove
Huntingdon County, Feb 1, 1811, when she first came to Ohio, she
settled near Stuebenville,
where she was married on 4-28-1831, came to
their farm in Mohican Twp. In 1836, where she died April 27, 1884, aged
73 yrs 2 mo and 26 days.” Catherine
was the daughter of George Everhart. Sarah
Ann Everhart and her husband Moses Pontious
are
buried in the South Section of the Akron Cemetery in Henry Township,
Fulton County,
Indiana: “Row 6 PONTIOUS
[NOTE:
Moses Pontious, b.Stark Co
Ohio, a son of Solomon & Magdalina
(Kreighbaum) Pontious, natives of
Penn. He was a cabinet-maker, and had a shop at Hartsville, Ohio. He m.1852, Sarah Ann Eberhardt,
and they came to Ind. in 1869. Five children born, three of whom were:
Josephus, Alpheus, and Jemima. Jemima
m.1896, Jacob P. Eshelman.
Her marriage application (Fulton Co Ind)
tells that she was b. in Hancock Co Ohio. (Historical
Atlas Fulton Co Ind,
Kingman
Bros., pp. 39-40).] The
Will book “B”, for Stark County, Ohio includes
the will for George Everhart on page 307 and it reads: “George
Everhart’s Will
I
George Everhart of the said county of Stark and State of Ohio do make
and
publish this my last
will & testament in manner
and form following that is to say First. It is my will that all my
just debts and
funeral Expenses shall be fully paid. Second. I give an bequeath unto my
sons John, George,
William & Joseph Everhart and my daughters Elizabeth, Molly,
Margaret,
Catherine, Nancy, Maria, and Sarah Ann, to each of them three hundred
and fifty
dollars without interest, but if I give them other of them more than
three
hundred and fifty dollars in my lifetime, they shall pay interest for
all they
receive above and over the said sum of three hundred and fifty dollars
let the
same be on note or account. Third.
It is my will that farm I now live on being part of the North East
quarter
section four in Township eleven of Range Eight containing one hundred
and
thirty acres, shall not be sold until my youngest son Joseph is twenty
one
years of age, and my wife Elizabeth shall have one third of all the
income of
said farm so long as she shall remain my widow. Fourth. It is my will that after
my death, all of my
personal property shall be sold by my Executor on public sale and the
avails of
said sale after the widow gets her lawful share the balance shall be
paid over
to my children or their guardians, until they all have received the sum
of
three hundred and fifty dollars; and there if there is a balance left
it is to
be divided in equal shares among my children or their heirs. And
lastly I hereby
constitute and appoint Peter Loutzenheiser
to be the
Executor for this my last will and testament, revoking and an nulling
all
former wills by me made and ratifying and confirming this and no other
to be my
last will and testament. I
testimony where of I
have here unto set my hand and seal this thirty first day of March A D
1842.
George
Everhart
{seal} Signed
published and declared by the above named George
Everhart as and for his last will and testament In
the presence of us, who at his request have signed as Witnesses
to the same. his John
Fryberger Jr.
John X Stover mark
At
a court of Common
Please begun and held at the Court House in the town of Canton within
the State
of Ohio on Monday April 17 1843 The last will and testament of George
Everhart
was brought into court of Probate the witnesses to said will … John Fryberger & John Stover
even before the court and being
duly sworn did dipose
and say that the said deceased
signed and subscribed said will at the end thereof in the presence of
said
witnesses. That
they the
said witnesses attested and subscribed said will as witnesses in the
presence
of said deceased and that the testator at the time of Executing said
will was
of sound mind and memory, of full age and not under any restraint. Which testimony is hereby
… to writing and
filed. And it
appearing to the court the
said will has been duly attested and proved as aforesaid the same is
admitted
to Probate.
The
Administration Records, Volume I, for Stark County, Ohio include on
pages
371-375 the Probate record for the Estate of George Everhart and it
reads: “George
Everhart’s Estate Be
it remembered that heretofore to wit on
the second day of October, eighteen hundred and forty nine came
the Executor of the estate of George Everhart deceased and filed in the
clerk’s
office of this court a final account which is as follows to wit: Peter
Laubzenheiser
Executor of the estate of George
Everhart, deceased in account with said estate. Said
executor charges himself as follows
to wit: To amount found in his hands as per his partial account passed
and
approved by the court at its November term AD 1845 Amt.
received from sales of personal property (but of sale list)
$ 1168.40 “
“
of Interest on same
141.81
¾ “
“
from outstanding debts since filing
said partial
823.36 “
“
for interest on
do
300.14
___________
$
2444.30 ¾ Said
account claims credits following per debts paid Voucher
No.
1
Jacob
Keplinger for tax
$ 3.18
“
No. 2
do
do
$
2.75 ½
“
No.
3
George W. Beldin
60.00
“
No.
4
George Hughs
16
“
No.
5
George
Everhart Jr.
3.96
“
No.
6
Jacob Keplinger
for tax
3.25
“ No.
7
do
do
do
4.73
“
No.
8
William Dunbar
10.00
“
No.
9
John Fryberger
5.00
“
No.
10
William Dunbar for tax
7.52
“
No.
11
Dunbar & Meyer
75.00
“
No.
12
Danl. Rattenberger
Clerk
2.00
“
No
13
Brown & Meyer
10.00
_________
Amount
187.45 ½
The foregoing account includes the
full amount of the sale of personal property, as per return; also all
the debts
due said estate and contained in schedule of debts returned to court by
the
Exr. Except $ 306.60 of the debt of $ 470.14 returned in said schedule
against
John Hull, which said Exr. Returns uncollectable-the said Exr. Being
able to
collect only-$ 163.54-and also except the accounts in said schedule of
debts
against several heirs of said testator as advancements to them. But it is to be remarked
that on the account
against William Everhart, of $ 430.36 he has collected the sum of $
90.27,
being the excess over $ 350.00, with its interest-also from the account
against
Maria of $ 466.48 he has collected the sum of $ 147.46 being the excess
over $
350.00, with its interest-with these sums he has charged himself in the
above
account. The
testator in his lifetime gave to his
several children the several amounts charged in said schedule against
them as
advancements-The said William & Maria have paid the Exr. The
excess of the
account against them as above stated but George Everhart &
Elizabeth, now
married to-Kritzer have refused
to pay the Exr. The excess of their
accounts over $ 350.
& he has no power to collect the same of them; but said excess
is with its
interest, is to be regarded as so much paid to them or their shares of
said
estate to which they may be entitled over and above the $ 350.00 Below
said Exr. Exhibits an account,
charging himself with the amount of the accounts against the heirs
charged in
said schedule, as advancements, but claiming credit for the amt.
collected from
William & Maria (he having charged himself with the same in
above account)
and also claiming credit for the excess of the said accounts against
George and
Elizabeth as he has never collected the same of them Amt.
of the account (Advanced) against
Elizabeth, (now married to Kritzer)
Amt. on excess
over $ 350.00 being $ 27.15 to Oct 23/49
$
377.5 Amt
of the account (Advanced)
against John
22.70 ”
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Peggy
349.46
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George
446.00 Amt
on excess over $ 350.
Being $ 96.00 to Oct 23/49 Amt
of the act.
(Advanced) against
Nancy
350.00
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“
William
430.46
Int. on
do
9.83 ”
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Maria
466.48
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Int. on
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30.98
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Molly
346.18
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Catherine
350.00
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3574.07 Deduct
excess act vs Elizabeth
over $ 350 27.15 Int
on same to Oct 23/49
22.70 Deduct
excess act vs George
over $ 350
96.00 Int
on same to Oct 23/49
80.52 “ Amt received of
William with interest
90.29 “
“
“
Maria
“
147.16
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446.12
____________
$
3109.95 The
State of Ohio Stark County,
Peter Lautizenheiser
being sworn, says the foregoing account is in all respects just and
true as he
verily believes. Sworn
& subscribed before me
Peter
Lautizenheiser Oct
4, 1849 Geo. W. Roffensberger
dept
Clk
And afterwards to wit now at this
time of the court of common pleas begun and held at the Court House in
the town
of Canton, within & for the county of Stark and state of Ohio
on Tuesday
the twenty-third day of October eighteen hundred and forty nine, came
Snow a
master commissioner in chancey
of the court and filed
here in a final account report upon the foregoing account which is as
follows
to wit. ‘To the court of common
pleas, within and for the
county of Stark and State of Ohio setting as probate court Oct, T. 1849. The undersigned master
commissioner in chancey
for said court respectfully reports to the court
that he has carefully examined all the papers on file stating to the
final
account of Peter Lautzenheiser,
Executor of the last
will and testament of George Everhart, decd,
and on
such examination he finds matters relating to the estate which require
something more than an ordinary report.
He has therefore examined the will, … which he found
recorded in Book B
page 307, by which said testator gave each of his children namely,
John,
George, William, Joseph, Elizabeth, Molly, Margaret, Catherine, Nancy,
Maria
& Sarah Ann, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars and at
the same
time provided that if he gave any of them, in his lifetime, more than
the said
sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, they should account for the
excess with
interest thereon. It
appears by the
inventory and schedule of debts returned to court, and by a record of
suit in chancey in this
court that said testator, in his lifetime,
gave to his children as follows, to wit: To Catherine $ 377.15, To John
$
349.46, To Margaret $ 314.31: to George $ 446; to Nancy $ 350.00, to
William $
430.46, To Mariah $ 446.48; to Molly $ 346.18; to Catherine $ 350.00.
To adjust
these matters and settle up the estate, these items, with interest on
the several
excesses over the said sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ought to
be
brought in and form a part of the assets in the hands of the Executor,
though
he may not have collected them but to do justice to the executor he
ought at
the same time to have credit for these sums paid to these legatees. To do this the money in
his hands ought to be
paid out-1st to the widow her distributive
share. 2. To the legatees
who have not been equally advanced with those who in the lifetime of
the said
testator had received the highest sums of money until they are all made
equal
3. The balance be
equally divided among the aforesaid
children.
The master finds that said executor
has filed a partial account in this case and in it he has charged
himself with
a part of the debts collected and a part of the said bill, and on this
he
charges the balance. Therefore
to
determine whether or not he has correctly charged himself, the Master
has been
obliged to reexamine his partial account and the schedule of debts and
sale
bill so far as was necessary to determine this fact.” George
was married prior to 1831. The
name of this wife has not been found but
some claim, in genealogical records, that it was Catherine. It does appear by the date
of birth used this
was actually Catherine (Hewitt) Dager
who married 2nd
to John Henry Everhard. George remarried on 06 Oct
1831 to Mrs.
Elizabeth (Hull) Sellers and the two younger children, Sarah Ann and
Joseph,
are hers. Joseph
Everhart’s death record
gives his mother as Elizabeth Hull.
George’s
widow, mentioned in the will, was named “Elizabeth”.
Elizabeth appears to have been the daughter
of John and Catherine Hull. A
John Hull
is mentioned in the probate record. Looking
at genealogical records on Ancestry.com
causes some confusion. George
Eberhart/Everhart
is given the same birth and death dates
as is John Henry Everhard/Everhart. George has been found to
have died on 04 May
1843 not 28 Dec 1848 as published in these records.
Some of these records give his parents as
Paul and Emma (Statler) Eberhard/Everhart
but others give his father as John Everhart of Franklin County,
Pennsylvania. These
records for John
Henry give his parents as Paul and Emma Statler
also. If this John
and this George are
the two who appear in the census records of both Huntingdon County
Pennsylvania
and later in Stark County, Ohio it is probable they were brothers. John
Henry Everhard/Everhart
married 1st to Mary Magdalena Hewitt and after
her death married her
sister, Catharine (Hewitt) Dager,
widow of Jacob Dager. It appears
that this is the “Henry Eberhard”
who is buried with
Mary Magdalena and Catherine in the Zion Cemetery in Plain Township,
Stark
County, Ohio along with other family members. This is likely the “Henry
Everhart” seen in the 1820 Plain Township census.
George and his son David are buried in the
Henry Warstler Cemetery
also in Palin Township. The
location of George and David’s graves are
unknown but it is recorded they were buried in the “Old Churchyard”
within this
cemetery. George’s 2nd wife, Elizabeth (Hull) Eberhart
is buried in the Hartville Union Cemetery also in Stark County, Ohio as
is her
mother Catherine Hull. If
George and John Henry Everhart were brothers and
sons of Paul and Emma (Statler)
Everhard/Everhart
other genealogical records indicate that their father, Paul, was born
“at sea”
aboard the ship “Friendship” on the voyage to America in 1727 and died
on 03 Aug
1797 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Paul’s parents
are
recorded as Michael 1698-1772 and Anna Magareth
(Brunner) Eberhard/Everhart.
Someone else
on Ancestry has listed a Paul Everhard
who they say is the son of Johann Freiderich
1694-1751 and Anna Catharina (Stambach)
Eberhard. This Johann Freiderich
Eberhard appears
in these records as the son of
Martin E. and Anna Margaretha
(Zillinger)
Eberhard of “Durstel, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France”.
Joseph Eberhart,
youngest son of George
Everhart references, in his biography, Peter and Michael Everhart who
came over
on the ship “Friendship” as his ancestors. So it is unclear as to which
record
is correct but it is obvious that the Eberhardt
or Everhardt or Eberhard or Everhard or Everhart or Eberhart
name does come to America from the area along the Rhine River known as
Alsace-Baden-Wurttemberg. A
daughter of George Everhart, named Elizabeth,
married 1st to … Raver and 2nd
on Jan 1831, in Stark
County, Ohio to John Kritzer. This Kritzer/Critzer
family moved to Berrien County, Michigan along with
some of Elizabeth’s children by her first marriage and both names,
Raver and Critzer or Creitzer, appear here
in Berrien County. In
the 1830 census of
Stark county Elizabeth Raver is listed just before George Eberhart
and she does not have a husband. Some
of George’s children, Catherine (Everhart)
Frey, William Everhart, Maria (Everhart
) Cox, Nancy
(Everhart) Sell and George Everhart Jr. moved to Whitley County
Indiana. Here the
spelling of the name changed to Eberhard. In the
book, Counties of
Whitley and Noble Indiana, which can be found online, George
Jr.
is referred to as George Eberhard
Sr.: ( “GEORGE
EBERHARD, Sr., a Whitley County pioneer, was
born in Huntingdon County, Penn., September 15, 1806. His father, a
farmer, emigrated to
Stark County, Ohio, in 1820, and our subject
worked on the home farm until twenty-four years old. April
14, 1829, he married Catharine Snyder, of Stark, who died
February 22,
1870, in the sixty-fourth year of her age, Note: This
George Eberhard died on
19 Apr 1883 in Columbia
Township, Whitley County, Indiana.
His
death record gives his parents as “Mr.” and “Mrs.” Eberhard.
His sister, Maria (Everhart) Cox-Sell died on
23 Jul 1885 in Columbia Township, Whitley county,
Indiana. Her death
record does not
include her parent’s names. George
Everhart’s grandson also of Whitley County,
Indiana: “WILLIAM
SELL
was born in Stark County, Ohio, August 2,
1837, one of ten children (five of whom only are now living), born to
Henry B.
and Nancy (Eberhart)
Sell, natives of Pennsylvania
and Maryland, and of German descent. Henry B. Sell was a farmer by occupation, and at the age of
seventeen moved to Stark County,
Ohio, and at nineteen was married. On his arrival in Ohio, he had only
25
cents, and at the time of his marriage had earned enough to buy a pair
of young
steers. He worked at clearing, etc., till 1844, when he came to
Indiana,
stopping at Fort Wayne, Liberty Mills, and finally in Columbia
Township, where
he purchased some land and went through all the hardships incident to
pioneer
life, and by persistent labor acquired 845 acres of good land. His
wife, who
ably assisted him in all his undertakings, died about the year 1872,
Mr. Sell
surviving her about four years and dying in 1876. They were members
respectively of the Lutheran and Presbyterian Churches, and had the
respect of
all who knew them. Our subject, William Sell, was reared in Whitley
County,
from the age of six years, and obtained his education at the common
schools.
September 2, 1860, he married Miss Martha Jane Riteneour,
and to their union were
born seven children, viz.:
Benjamin F., Henry J., William J., Catharine, Charley (deceased), Milledore and Theodore, twins,
the last now dead. The
mother died in August, 1871, and Mr. Sell married his present wife,
Miss Anna Riteneour,
sister of his deceased wife, who has borne him
four children — Cora A., Irvin (deceased), Fanny (deceased) and Oscar.
Mr. Sell
owns and works 160 acres of land in the township, and is doing a. good
business
in town, in handling all the latest and best improved agricultural
machinery
known to the trade. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Lutheran
Church.” In
Whitley County, Indiana there is an “Eberhard
Lutheran Church” and an “Eberhard
Cemetery”. The
following children of George Everhart are
buried there: George
and Maria (Eberhard) Cox George
and Catherine (Snyder) Eberhard Henry
B. and Nancy (Eberhard)
Sell Also
in Whitley County, Indiana there is a “Ream Bethel” Cemetery and George
Everhart’s son is buried there: William
Eberhard George’s
youngest son by wife, Elizabeth Hull,
remained in Ohio but settled in Hardin County: HISTORY
OF HARDIN COUNTY, OHIO pgs.
564-565 “Joseph
Eberhart is
prominently numbered among the agriculturists of Washington township,
Hardin county. He is a
representative of a prominent old German
family who formerly wrote the name ‘Eberhardt.’
and
he is a descendant of the crown heads of the Fatherland. The ancestry
of this
illustrious family is traced back to the year 1445 and to the Dukes of Wurtemberg, and in the United
States their history goes
back to 1727, when Peter and Michael crossed on the old "Friendship,"
John Davis master. Landing in Philadelphia on October 16, 1727, they
located in
Lehigh county,
Pennsylvania, and they formed the
beginning of a large settlement of their countrymen there. George and
Elizabeth
(Hull) Eberhart, the
parents of Joseph and Sarah Ann,
were born in Stark county, Ohio, and but two of their eleven children
are now
living, and Joseph is the only one in Hardin county. The
genealogical records contain two different
parental lines for George Everhart of Stark County, Ohio. One record indicates his
wife was named
Catherine and his father was named John, mother’s name not known. Another gives his mother
as Mary Ann. Others
indicate his wife was named Catherine
and his parents were Paul and Emma (Statler)
Eberhart. Also
these records contain information about John
Henry Everhard and give
his parents as Paul and Emma
(Statler) Everhard.
This is the Henry Everhard
who is buried in Plain Township, Stark County Ohio in the Zion Cemetery. I believe that George and
John Henry were
brothers. These
records also indicate
that Paul Everhard was
the son of Michael and Anna Margaret
(Brunner) Eberhart. The
Re. Uriah Eberhart
authored a book, History Of The Eberharts
In Germany and
The United States; from A. D. 1265 To A. D. 1890-625 Years in
1891 and it
was published by Donohue & Henneberry
Printers
and Binders. In
this book he states that
three brothers, Peter, Michael and Joseph Eberhart
came to America from Germany in the year 1727.
Tracing back through his work it is Michael who is
the ancestor of
George Everhart of Stark County, Ohio.
Michael arrived in Philadelphia aboard the ship
“Friendship” on 16 Oct
1727 and “settled in what was then Northhampton,
but
now Lehigh county, Pa.”. The author states: “I do not know how many
children he had, but
know he had a son by the name of Henry … and one named Paul, who was
born on
the ocean, coming over from Germany”.
Paul
Eberhart would be
the
next descendant of interest. Rev.
Uriah Eberhart states
that Paul “was raised in Northhampton
County until he was forty-six years of age,
when in 1773 he moved to the Manor settlement, seven miles from
Greensburg,
Westmoreland county, Pa., where he engaged in tilling the soil”. He also states Paul had
four sons, “viz.,
Jacob, John Henry, Christian and Frederick.”
History
of Huntingdon and Blair Counties Pennsylvania, by Africa
J.
Simpson was published in 1883 in Philadelphia
by Louis H. Everts
it contains: “During
the years
intervening between the close of the first struggle with Great Britain
and the
year 1810, many other families had taken up their abode in this portion
of the
Cove. Among those who were residents in 1800 we find mentioned
Christian, Leonard,
and John Acker, George, Jacob, John, John, Jr., and Conrad Brumbaugh,
Emanuel Ludwig, David Coughenour,
Abraham Ditch (the
latter two operating a grist- and saw-mill on Clover Creek), Casper Dil- linger-
(who owned a
saw-mill), John and George Everhart,
Nicholas Fouse, John,
Matthew, and Richard Hutson,
Christian Hoover (who owned an oilmill
on Piney Creek), Abraham Longenecker,
Philip Metzker, Samuel
Mobley, Harmon Obenour,
Paul, Jacob, and Christian Rhodes, James Spencer, Jacob Sheets, Stoephel Shrom,
Jacob Smith, Adam
Sorrick (who then
owned a grist-mill), Henry Solliday,
Henry Wisour, and Jacob
Willhelm. Among
additional
residents mentioned in 1810 were Joseph
Everhart, George Foutz,
Samuel, John. Frederick, William,
Jonathan, Martin, and Jacob Hoover, Andrew Metzker,
and Daniel Wiltrout.
However, for names of other residents of that year, also during the
years 1820
and 1830, the reader is referred to the history of Woodberry township,
of which Huston then formed a part. WOODBERRY
TOWNSHIP. 1801.—
John Scholes, constable ; Jacob Rhodes, Philip Oiler, supervisors ; George
Everhart,
Jacob Hoover, overseers of the poor; Zacliariah
Albaugh, Paul Yerger, appraisers. 1809.
— William McGimpsey,
Jacob Rodkey, and
Peter Swoope were
successively appointed constables
in the spring of 1809, but refusing to serve were
lined by the court forty dollars each. Samuel
Hoover, Jacob Rodkey,
supervisors; Joseph
Everhart, Tobias Henline,
overseers of the poor. 1810. — Samuel Hoover, George Everhart, and Jacob Hoover were also fined forty dollars each in the spring of 1810 for refusing to serve as constable. 1830. — Alexander Campbell, constable; Joseph Everhart, Jacob Brumliaiigli. supervisors; Jacob Bosler, Jacob Rodkey, Jr., overseers of the poor; William Campbell, Davis Gibboney, Abraham Solliday,”
Notes: George
Everhart moved to Stark County, Ohio in 1819.
John Henry Eberhart
moved there in 1809. You
also will find a Barnett Everhart in
Stark County, Ohio in 1820 who was the son of a Frederick Everhart. The
name
Jacob Everhart is also seen in Stark County, Ohio.
Jacob and Frederick appear to have been
brothers of John Henry and sons of Paul Everhart.
It is also interesting that George Everhart
may have had an association with Washington County, Maryland as does
John Henry. This
county is just south of Huntingdon
County, Pennsylvania where George reportedly immigrated from when going
to
Stark County, Ohio. Also
of interest is
that this area are of Maryland is known for its clay deposits and that
John
Henry Eberhart was
“engaged in manufacturing
earthenware before moving to Stark County, Ohio. One of John Henry’s
sons, John,
“taught school for seven years in Washington County, Md.” These references lead me
to believe that the
John Henry and George Everhart of Stark County, Ohio were closely
related. If
George’s father was John then it is likely John was a brother to Paul
who was
John Henry’s father. Since
John Henry
was in Stark County, Ohio in 1809 he may not have been the John
Everhart who
seems to be the brother of George and is seen in the 1800 and 1810
census of
Huntingdon County, PA. A
problem is that often these German families would have
more than one person of the same formal name such as; John Henry
Everhart, John
George Everhart and John Jacob Everhart.
These individuals often went by their second name. The John Everhart who is
seen with George
Everhart 1800-1810 may have been John Jacob Everhart.
George may have been another son of Paul
Everhart.
The
first marriage record for Catherine Raver
reads: “State
of Michigan County
of Berrien
Jesse Helmick
a Justice of the Peace within
and for the of Berrien aforesaid Do hereby Certify that on the 17th
day of August A.D. 1842 at J. Critzers
I bound in
marriage John Quick of the age of Thirty years a resident of the County
of
Berrien State of Michigan and Catharine Raver of the age of Eighteen
years a
resident of the County of Berrien State of Michigan on the presence of
John Critzer and Eli
Raver residents of Berrien County State of
Michigan. Dated
this 17th day of August A.D. 1842
Jesse Helmick Recorded
Sept. 24, 1842
Justice of
the Peace A
Burnete
… B.C.” There
has been debate as to whether Catherine’s
maiden name was Creitzer
or Raver. If she
was 16 in 1842 she would have been
born in 1826 and that would place her birth before the marriage of John
“Kritzer” to Elizabeth
(Everhart) Raver in 1831. This
would mean her maiden name was Raver, as
this marriage record indicates. John
“Critzer” would have
been her step-father and Eli Raver was
most likely her brother. Elizabeth
(Everhart) Raver-Kritzer
was the daughter of George
Everhart of Stark County Ohio. John
Critzer the son of
John and Elizabeth was born on 25 Dec
1834 in Ohio and died on 04 Apr 1911 in Berrien County, Michigan. His death record states
that his mother was
Elizabeth “Evenhart”. The
1850 census of Berrien County includes John and
Catherine Quick with their children: Mary
Quick age 7 years Lewis
Quick age 5 years Elizabeth
Quick
age 5 years Isaac
Quick age 3 years Caroline
Quick age 2 years Margaret
Quick age 2 months Elizabeth
Quick married
John Harner on 25 Feb
1862 in Lake Township of
Berrien County, Michigan. Their
daughter
was Jennie Harner. Jennie
Harner
married William Upson in Berrien County, Michigan in 1897. Their
daughter Cora E.
Upson married Walter M. Brackett in Berrien County, Michigan in 1915. Their
son Harold Earl
Brackett married Ula Arvena
Daniel (nee Hambrick)
in Berrien County, Michigan in
1947. Their
son William Brackett
married Jane Hauch in
Lakeside, Berrien County,
Michigan in 1970. |
