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.