Friday, April 5, 2013

Where is Peter Wallover buried?

At Saint Paul's Cemetery, located adjacent to the St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 415 E. Athens Avenue, Ardmore, PA.


The Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church website is located here: http://www.stpaulsardmore.org/cemetery.html


The cemetery website is located here:
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/burial/lutheran/

Peter Wallover is listed here, along with other relatives I am sorting out:
http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/burial/lutheran/w.html


WalloverAnn MariaJanuary 31, 1818Plot C1033 grave 2 South portion
WalloverMargarettaSeptember 15, 1846Plot C1033 grave 4 North portion
WalloverPeterApril 17, 1824Plot C1033 grave 3 North portion
WalloverPeter W.January 26, 1905Plot C1033 grave 3 North portion
WalloverDecember 5, 1871Plot 64 grave 1 South portion


ShaferCharles G.August 24, 1878Plot 64 grave 2 South portion
ShaferClarence A.S.March 30, 1886Plot 64 grave 5 North portion
ShaferGeorge L.March 20, 1898Plot 64 grave 3 North portion
ShaferLizzie H.August 5, 1881Plot 64 grave 4
ShaferMelisa S.E.February 23, 1905Plot 64 grave 5 North portion
ShaferSarah AnnUnknownPlot 64 grave 1 South portion
ShaferWillieUnknownPlot 64 grave 6 North portion

KartchnerJohn ChristopherUnknownPlot 64 grave 2 South portion

LeaderLinnieUnknownPlot 64 grave 4 North portion



We visited this cemetery in June, and even though we didn't get to see actual records or talk to anyone while there, I noticed a couple of discrepancies.

1) First, Peter W. Wallover's grave is located next to the others in Plot 64.
2) His death date reads December 25, 1871.
3) So, who is the other person whose death date is January 26, 1905? I'm looking into that.



Here are the other graves:







This headstone was broken in two pieces. :( 
I think it says:

In Memory Of
Lizzei H.
Daughter
? Shafer



Linie C. Leader

Anyone else wonder why the misspellings?



Tuesday, March 26, 2013

To research


1. Info about Peter Wallover in an online periodical I can find at Weber State Stewart Library

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 50
Publication Fund of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1926
From inside the book
Page 22



Peter Walover in Joseph Price diary


From the diary of Joseph Price

"Mo. 17th 1819 Wind S W froze prety hard but very fine Still Clear morn at Meeting George & John here to dinner at the Doct alittle while Evening Reading after Tompson high

18th Wind S & moderate thawing day Little Wm. & I of[f] with the wagon to Abraham Carriers to get it mended they finished about dusk & off Set for home prety dark Spent at Taylors 3 pints

19th wind S. and Red to sun rise froze very Little If any not any one Wells here to Get a Coffin for Brooks Child 2/6 Long I fell to work & made it myself out Mehoganey finishd it Evening at Yerkes Pint bear Capt Towers & Peter Walover their Chated the Evening with them"

Source: http://lowermerionhistory.org/texts/price/price1819.html

William Wallover

Q: Is it William H. or William R. Wallover?

William is the son of Peter Wallover and Margaretta Walton Wallover. He is listed in different sources as "William R." Wallover and "William H." Wallover. I have been going off of an idea that William R. is correct, and that it could possibly stand for "Russel" or "Russell", which might indicate that his maternal grandmother's maiden name may have been Russell. (Margaretta Walton, daughter of William Walton and possibly ____ (Mary?) Russell.)

What I know about him:

Marriage: 5 Dec 1822 to Harriet Mervine

The following link lists William R. Wallover's marriage to Harriet Marwine (also Mervine, Merwine).
http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?661,358288
Wallover, William R.; Harriett Marwine
Married Dec 5,1822, by Rev. Caspar Wack. (Source Germantown Reformed Church).
Market Square Presbyterian Church, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA

Also this source citation:
"Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V26V-KB6 : accessed 26 June 2012), William R. Wallover, 1822.

Later, Harriet marries Jonathan Stott. I have found at least one daughter, Anna Eliza Stott.

From "The Sharpless Family" (need full reference) p. 1236:

6993. William Russell [son of] Hannah, b. Birmingham, Chester Co., m. Port Providence, Montgomery Co., 3, 15, 1855, Anna Eliza Stott, b. Phila., 1, 1, 1836, dau. of Jonathan Stott and Harriet Mervine, of that city. He is a machinist, residing at Phoenixville, Chester Co., Pa., where were born his children,--
7679. Laura Eucebia, b. 3, 28, 1856; m. Phoenixville, 4, 9, 1879, Thomas Winfield Rossiter, farmer, b. Valley Forge, 12, 9, 1852; d. Phoenixville, 1, 8, 1887; son of Lewis Rossiter and Malissa Buckwalter, of the latter place. Child, Arthur Winfield, b. Phoenixville, 11, 20, 1883.
Charles Alexander, b. 7, 11, 1862; d. 9, 5, 1862.
Mary Currin, b. 8, 31, 1864; a teacher at Phoenixville, unm.
Herbert Adams, b. 10, 11, 1874.


Friday, November 2, 2012



“Having been several times kindly invited, I dined with P.W., a respectable paper-maker in the neighborhood of Merion, where I spent the afternoon pleasantly. The situation is beautifully romantic, being in a deep narrow valley, the steep hills on each side of which are covered with wood.  The mill, which would be considered as an extensive one even in England, is almost wholly employed in making writing and printing paper, with large quantities of which he supplies the printers and stationers in Philadelphia. 
During the visit he gave me a little history of his life. About twenty years (before), being then twelve years of age, he left Mentz, his native place in Germany, accompanied by his father who died on the passage to this country. Being that class of emigrants called redemptionists[1] . . . P.W. on the arrival of the ship in the Delaware, was hired by Henry Drinker, and was employed about the house as a waiting boy and assistant to the girls in the kitchen. After spending nearly four months in this family, and having acquired the English language, he had the good sense to discern, that it would be more to his interest to be taught some manufacture and requested liberty of his master to be put apprentice to a paper-maker, which was readily granted, although his first indenture was not yet expired.
After having obtained a knowledge of the manufacture of paper, he by industry and care, acquired sufficient property and credit to enable him to begin business which he has, now, for several years, carried on to advantage.  I never was in a paper mill where the business was managed with more neatness and order. As I sat in the house it was pleasant to reflect on such an instance of successful industry.”




[1] Proceedings and addresses, Volume 28, By Pennsylvania-German Society. p. 60:

“When the Germans arrived in America … if they were poor or had no well-to-do friends, they were compelled to sell themselves for a number of years to people who in return paid their passage money. This system of redemptioning, as it was called, was in itself not particularly unjust, but so many abuses arose that it became a public scandal. In the first place, many Germans, as mentioned before, came to America in the belief that they would be met by the representatives of the newlanders, who would furnish them opportunities for work, so that they could earn the expenses of the voyage in a short time. When they arrived they were obliged to sell themselves to people who were utter strangers to them. This sudden transition from independence to servitude undoubtedly created unspeakable hardship. The time of servitude was often considerably lengthened because the survivors had to pay the passage money of those who died at sea. They were at times required to pay even for the food which the dead would have bought.” Outlines other problems, such as children being sold by “unscrupulous captains” without the knowledge of their parents, who is some cases were sick on board the ship.” Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=7tSwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA19&dq#v=onepage&q=webb&f=false
p. 65: “The system of redemptioning was still in vogue after the War for Independence.”
p. 67 talks about the plight of PA Germans during the French and Indian war