Susannah Cecelia Brown
Thomas and Hannah Brown were blessed with the birth of their daughter Susannah Cecelia on October 20, 1771. Some records from previous researchers indicate a birth date of 1774 but both her headstone and her burial record state that when she died she was aged 66 years, 9 months, and 8 days old. The date for 1774 would be more feasible given that her brother William was supposedly born in April 1772, but the documentation exists for 1771 and perhaps William’s date is in error.
On the 1790 census her mother Hannah is listed as the head of household that included four males under 16 and four females other than herself. Susannah was probably one of them. If one accepts 1771 as her birth year, Susannah would have been 19 or 20 when she married Daniel Gordon, Jr., in 1791, probably in Graceham, Maryland. Because Daniel Gordon, Jr., was born in 1757 and thus because of the substantial difference in their ages it has been speculated she was could have been his second wife but no record of any first wife has been found.
The Gordon family was of the Catholic faith and it is not known for sure from where they came. Don Wolf, in his research, believed they were Scottish. The Catholics had a large settlement in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, near Hanover in Conewago Township in Adams County. Here there is the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, known as the Conewago Chapel, that was built between 1785 and 1787. It is the oldest Catholic church made of stone in the United States. Priests had served that congregation as early as 1741. They then seemed to migrate to the area of Emmitsburg where Mount St. Mary’s Church and Seminary were later established around 1805. From Pioneers of Old Monocacy (p. 370) there is a Robert Gordon (who in some records is listed as the father of Daniel Gordon, Sr.) who signed a petition for creation of Frederick County from Prince Georges County in 1742; and earlier (p. 241) it is noted that a Daniel Gordon purchased one of the first lots in Emmitsburg when the town was platted in 1785. Whether this was Daniel Gordon, Jr., or Sr., is unclear.
Daniel Gordon, Jr., before his marriage, served as a corporal in Captain Jacob Ambrose’s Company in the regiment of Colonel James Johnson, Maryland Troops, stationed at Morristown, New Jersey, and also possibly as a guard in the company of a Captain Winchester at the Hessian barracks at Frederick, Maryland. He applied for a pension (application 4140) but was rejected because he did not serve an entire six months of his enlistment.
Susannah and Daniel Gordon had six daughters and two sons: Catherine, b. 1793; Daniel, b. abt. 1794; Henrietta, b. 1795; Nancy, b. 1798; John Adam, b. 1800; Elizabeth, b. 1801; Susannah, b. 1802; Elizabeth, b. 1807, and Marie, b. 1811. Baptism records show that both Elizabeth and Marie were baptized January 21, 1813, in the Graceham Moravian Church.
In 1805 Susannah’s brother Thomas Brown, Jr., owned 25 acres called Snyder’s Garden near the present site of the Owen’s Creek Campground in Round Meadow. He sold it to Daniel Gordon between 1805 and 1807 or possibly in 1818. Daniel Gordon also bought an 87-acre tract of Foxes Ranges that was next to Snyder’s Garden and that joined the land of Ignatius Brown, another brother of his wife, but supposedly the deed was never recorded. Their daughter Catherine and her husband Jacob Flautt bought the land from her father’s estate.
In the 1810 U.S. Census a Daniel Gordon is listed in the Emmitsburg area. In the household are one male older than 45 (Daniel), two males 10 to 15 (John Adam and Daniel), three females younger than 10 (Elizabeth, Susannah, and maybe Nancy, depending on the month the census was taken), one female 10 to 15 (Henrietta), one female 16 to 26 (Catherine), and one female 26 to 44 (Susannah). Errors were easily made in these listings but this one does seem to tally.
1820 Census listing showing Daniel Gordon and family members and also listings for his brothers-in law Thomas Brown, Jr., Ignatius Brown, John Brown of Thomas, and Thomas Caster.
Life would not have been easy for a young family after two recent wars. There was a financial panic around 1817. The sea trade of the new nation had been disrupted, and tariffs affected the early banks. Money could only be obtained at high interest rates and cash was scarce. This led to a number of creditor and constable sales, mortgages, and foreclosures of property. There is a notation in The Flautt Family of America (p. 87) that “On Oct. 25, 1823, the goods and chattels of George Flautt and Daniel Gordon were seized for a debt of $6.29 owed to George Harman.”
In 1821, Daniel signed his name to a document to hire a schoolteacher named Henry Buhrman and establish a school on the mountain. The document also listed a John Gordon and George Flautt, plus his brothers-in-law Ignatius Brown and John Nathan Brown. It is possible that John Gordon was his brother.
The Gordons’ eldest daughter Catherine married Jacob Flautt, Sr., the son of Joseph Flautt, who hailed from Alsace and had settled with other Catholics in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, after immigrating. Catherine was Jacob’s second wife. His first wife was Amelia Woolfe and he had eight children in that marriage, one of whom was Mary Ann Flautt, who married Jeremiah Daniel Brown, son of Catherine’s mother’s brother Ignatius Brown, so Catherine’s stepdaughter married Catherine’s first cousin. According to Rachael Sleasman Schwartz in her book The Flautt Family of America, the record of the marriage of Catherine Gordon to the widower Jacob Flautt, Sr., has not been found, but the author speculated that the approximate time lies between 1824, when Catherine was confirmed a member of the Catholic church, and 1828, when “the wife” of Jacob Flautt is mentioned in the ledger of Poorman’s Ordinary, which was like a tavern or a general store where goods were bartered and sold and owned by John Poorman (later Buhrman). Mrs. Schwartz also stated that it was possible the marriage took place somewhere across the Pennsylvania line where no license was required and no marriage records were kept until 1880 (p. 210). That is also plausible since Jacob Flautt was born in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, not far from the Emmitsburg area. Catherine and Jacob had no children of their own, but it seems that she did take on the role of stepmother to his children. Jacob died June 14, 1863. In her will, which was probated January 28, 1868, she “transferred to her nephew, Daniel Berglite [Berklite], ‘half of tract of 25 acres called Snyder’s Garden; mentioned her sisters, Elizabeth Gorden, Henrietta Gorden, Susan Berglite [Berklite]; brother John Gorden; and bequeathed to ‘the children of my late husband, Jacob Flautt’ the balance of her personal property” (p. 211).
Henrietta Gordon married Daniel Samuel Wolfe, and Nancy Gordon married Samuel I. Simpson.
All that is known of a son Daniel is that with his brother he attended the Buhrman school. Perhaps he died young.
The second son, John Adam Gordon, was a farmer and cabinetmaker and married Margaret McClain in 1831. This family resided on property known as Foxes Range, which later became Foxville.
John Adam Gordon and Margaret McClain
They had 10 children, who mostly stayed in the area, although Agnes, Joseph, and James went west and ended up in Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Catherine married John Wolf who is buried in Foxville, but she died in Missouri in 1918 probably at the home of one of her children. James married Miranda Wolf. In Cavetown, Maryland, on July 5, 1858, at the age of 20, Agnes married David S. Wolf. John, Miranda, and David Wolf were all children of David W. Wolfe and Catherine Hauver, so two Gordon sisters married two Wolf brothers and a Gordon brother married a Wolf sister. Agnes and David Wolf moved to Indiana and then to Conway County, Arkansas, in 1873 where the land was fertile and settlements were being created. In her obituary (see Obituaries) it states that her father was Catholic and her mother who was still living and 70 years of age was a Methodist Episcopalian as was she. Her husband predeceased her and left her in possession of 150-acres, 100 of which were planted in cotton. She also owned a steam cotton gin and grist mill.
Another of John Adam’s daughters, Mary Ann, stayed on the mountain and married Hiram Alexander Wolf and had 11 children, with one being Morland Alexander Wolf, who married Fannie May Brown, the daughter of James and Savilla Buhrman Brown, a granddaughter of Jeremiah and Mary Ann Flautt Brown and a great-granddaughter of Ignatius and Elizabeth McAfee Brown. This Fannie Brown was featured in the article “The Brown Family” in Antietam Ancestors that was researched by two of her grandchildren.
The sixth child, Susannah, married Jacob Berklite, Sr., who was born in Germany. They resided in 1850 in Hauver’s District No. 10, Frederick County, and both are buried in the Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery. In this census she is listed as being 41 and living with her children Susan, 21, and Daniel, 20. Adjacent to her in the list are her sister Catherine Gordon and her husband Jacob Flautt, Sr., and her brother John Gordon and his wife Margaret McClain Gordon. The daughter Susan listed in the census is the Susanna J. Gordon who married William F. Brown. They were second cousins because he was the son of Jeremiah Daniel Brown, her mother’s first cousin. This couple had 11 children, all of whom stayed on the mountain or very nearby.
Neither of the two youngest daughters, Elizabeth and Marie, married. Elizabeth Gordon applied for her father’s Revolutionary War pension as being the sole surviving child and under destitute circumstances, but she was denied it on January 29, 1884.
Elizabeth Gordon’s application for her father Daniel Gordon’s military pension on January 29, 1884
The Gordons possibly attended Mount St. Mary’s Catholic Church, which is on the site of St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The original cemetery was known as the mountain cemetery but it later became part of Saint Anthony’s Shrine Cemetery and is near the current shrine for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Catherine Gordon Flautt, the eldest daughter, is buried there with her husband Jacob Flautt, Sr., as is her sister Nancy Gordon Simpson.
Susannah and Daniel died within less than a month of each other. There are two listings in Find A Grave for each of them at Saint Anthony’s Shrine Cemetery: Susannah Brown Gordon and Susanna Gauden and Daniel Gordon and Daniel Gauden. Daniel’s headstone reads that he died on July 5, 1838. It is marked with a Revolutionary War service marker. The date on Susannah’s headstone is July 28, 1838. The inscription reads:
Peace to the lamb and endless rest.
Thy errors pardoned and thy virtues blest.
Sleep sweetly sleep beneath the sod,
Till angels wake thee to meet thy God.
Burial Record for Susannah and Daniel Gordon in 1838.
SOURCES:
U.S. Censuses
The will of Catherine Gordon Flautt (Liber TLMc 1-Folio448, Frederick Co., MD)
“The Brown Family,” by Andree W. Wilson-Taylor, in Antietam Ancestors, Volume V, no. 1.
The Flautt Family in America (including those Flautts who changed their name to Floyd), by Rachael Sleasman Schwartz and Harry D. Bowman, Hagerstown, MD, Dixie Press, n.d.
Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland 1721-1743, by Grace L. Tracey and John P. Dern, 1987, by Carroll County Historical Society, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, reprinted 1989.
Descendants of Susannah Cecelia Brown Gordon
Susannah Cecelia
b. 10/20/1771 Creagerstown, MD
d. 7/28/1838, aged 66 yr, 9 mo, 8 d
m. Daniel Gordon, Jr. (3/7/1757-7/5/1838) in 1791 in Graceham, MD
s/o Daniel and Agnes Gordon Sr.
mil: corporal in Capt. Ambrose’s Company in the regiment of Col. James
Johnson, Maryland Troops; stationed at Morristown, NJ. Pension Application
4140; also served as a guard in company of Captain Winchester at the
Hessian camp at Frederick, Frederick County, MD. Pension was rejected
because he did not serve 6 months
Both bur. St. Mary’s Catholic graveyard (now St. Anthony’s Cemetery) at Mount St.
Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, MD
Children:
I. Catharine (7/13/1793-12/27/1867)
m. Jacob Flautt, Sr. (1777-6/14/1863), his second wife, between 1824 and 1828
His first wife was Amelia Woolfe and they had eight children, one of whom
was Mary Ann Flautt who m. Jeremiah Daniel Brown, Catherine’s cousin
Both bur. St. Anthony’s Shrine Cemetery
II. Daniel (b. abt. 1794)
III. Henrietta (perhaps Agnes Henrietta) (b. abt. 1795)
m. Daniel Samuel Wolf
IV. Nancy (2/18/1798-10/10/1865), bur. St. Anthony’s Shrine Cemetery
m. Stephen I. Simpson
V. John Adam (7/1/1800-1/25/1876), Lantz, MD
m. Margaret McClain (8/29/1809-2/18/1893) in 1831 in Sabillasville, MD
occ: farmer, cabinetmaker, and stovemaker
res: bought Foxes Ranges from estate of his father, nr. Foxville, MD
Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery, Foxville, MD
A. Daniel M. (May 1832 Hauvers-6/22/1910, Howard County, MD)
occ: farmer
res: District 5 Frederick County in 1850; Sabillasville District 10 in 1860;
Urbana, MD in 1870; Howard County, MD in 1900
m. Mary Elizabeth Wolfe (1837-1899) in 1855, MD
1. William Hanson (1856-1928)
2. Mary Ann (8/22/1857-4/9/1929), Independence, MO
3. Amanda (1/19/1860-8/27/1860)
4. James Albert (1861-1943)
5. Emma Jane (b. 1864)
6. Daniel E. (1865-1930)
7. Catherine Estelle (Katie) (1867-1904)
8. Ida Virginia (Jennie) (1870-1920)
9. Charles Eugene (3/25/1872-5/15/1953 Howard County, MD)
10. Samantha Ellen (11/30/1874 Baltimore-8/18/1939 Howard County, MD)
11. Adolphus Cook (7/16/1877 Baltimore-12/21/1942 Clarksville, MD)
12. Effie Agnes (1879 Baltimore-4/25/1952 Montgomery County, MD)
B. Joseph S. (1834-11/5/1925), Winfield, KS
m. Annie M. Snider (1840, PA-1915) in 1867
1. Charles A. (1/26/1870-12/4/1940, Peru, OH)
2. Howard Olin (b. 12/6/1878, IN)
C. Agnes Harriett (4/20/1838-7/25/1918)
m. David S. Wolf in Cavetown, MD on 4/5/1858
(s/o David Wolfe, Jr. and Catherine Hauver; gs/o David and Nancy Wolfe Sr. who owned Stoney Batter
farm and Wolfe’s Inn)
res: Conway County, AR
1. David Albert. (8/11/1860-4/29/1887 AR)
2. Adelina Adelma (“Emma”) (10/3/1862-8/29/1940 OK)
D. Catharine A. (1840-1/23/1918), Kansas City, MO
m. John Wolf (10/8/1832 Hopewell, PA-7/27/1890 Foxville, MD)
(s/o David Wolfe, Jr and Catherine Hauver)
Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
1. William (b. 1868)
2. Maggie (b. 1870)
3. Ulysses E. (b. 1870)
4. Annie A. (b. 1871)
5. Harvey U. (b. Oct. 1872)
6. John Albert (b. 11/14/1873)
7. Mary E. (10/6/1877-10/15/1971)
8. Gertrude (b. 1878)
9. Effie A. (b. 1880)
E. Mary Ann (5/18/1842-9/26/1903)
m. Hiram Alexander Wolf (1834-6/29/1905 Foxville, MD) in 1862
(s/o David Wolfe, Jr. and Catherine Hauver)
occ: ran a grain mill and distillery; mail carrier
Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
1. Jackson Randolph (1/14/1863 Garfield, MD-2/5/1948) twin
m. Emma Amanda Stottlemyer on 12/20/1888
occ: farmer and fur trapper
Both bur. Germantown Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
2. Virginia Alice (1/14/1863-9/1/1863) twin
3. Samantha L. (9/13/1864-10/17/1897 Foxville, MD)
m. Abraham T. Hoover
4. Effie M. (3/26/1866-1937)
m. John Elias Stottlemyer (1865-1932)
a. Lucy Pearl (1897-1970, m. Vernon M. Kendall
b. Mary E. (1898-1898)
c. Leister B. (1899-1978)
m. Minnie M. Eyler (1910-2002)
1) Andrew J.
2) Leister B. Jr. (1930-2010)
m. Mary Ann Kline 4/11/1935-12/15/2010)
a) Wayne B.
b) Norma Jean
c) Lauren D. (9/11/1962-1/14/2024)
d) Donna Kay
e) Beverly Ann
3) Mary E. (1932), m. Lloyd C. Buhrman
4) John Robert (1923-2003)
5) Dorothy M. (1944), m1.___ Black, m2. Calvin E. Burhman
5. Elmer Pendleton (3/31/1868-12/3/1948, Eyler’s Valley, MD)
m. Eliza Jane Stottlemyer
6. Ashby Lee (1870-8/4/1944, Highfield, MD)
m. Martha Ellen Warner
7. Addison E. (9/17/1872-7/27/1937 Foxville, MD)
8. Morland Alexander (4/10/1874-3/16/1940 Waynesboro, PA)
occ: carpenter, mail carrier, farmer, and employee of Landis Tool Co.
m. Fannie May Brown (11/7/1869-8/10/1947); schoolteacher
(d/o James and Savilla [Buhrman] Brown; gd/o Jeremiah and Mary
Ann [Flautt] Brown; and ggd/o Ignatius and Elizabeth [McAfee] Brown
Both bur. Germantown Bethel Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
a. Howard Marcellus
m. Grace Eveline Pote (9/21/1903-10/3/1971)
1) Andree Kriner
m1. Donald Ray Shetron; m2. Edward C. Wilson; m3. Hugh R. Taylor
b. George Leslie
m. Sebal Ruth Pryor
1) George Carroll
c. Joseph Herman (1905-1975)
m1. Olive Mae Kepner (1906-8/5/1937)
1) Darrell Gene (1/1/1930-1/3/1985)
mil. Sgt. US Army, Korea and Vietnam
2) Donald J. (2/28/1925-12/1/2013)
m. Betty Irene Stull (9/23/1931-4/15/2024)
Both bur. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
a) Darrell Joseph Wolf (5/16/1951-2/20/2020)
b) Living Son
c) Living Son
m2. Ruth Edna Hahn (4/15/1902-Jan 1918)
9. Walter Columbus (1877-3/23/1917 Frederick County, MD), single
10. Hampton Maurice (1880-3/1/1947), bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery, Foxville, MD
m. Sadie M. Smith (2/4/1900-7/4/1967)
a. Evelyn P. (1/20/1917-11/10/1918)
b. Mary Margaret (12/22/1919-12/8/1976)
m. Donald Glenn Wolfe
c. Agnes Marie (4/7/1925-10/3/1979, Thurmont, MD)
m. Sotero Abiba (4/22/1908 Philippine-4/22/2003 Virginia Beach, VA)
mil: US Navy 1927-1947; personal steward and chauffeur to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Harry S Truman for 16 years; he gave a haircut to Winston Churchill at Camp David; cook
at Ft. Detrick for 17 years
d. Betty Jane (8/2/1926-1/29/2010)
e. George A. (12/19/1928-11/21/2003, bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Cemetery
m. Ada Grace Portner (12/8/1930-1998), bur. Brown’s Cemetery
f. Elaine M. (4/19/1933-4/2/1989), bur. Mt. Bethel Cemetery, Garfield, MD
m. Stanley G. Baker (1932-2001)
11. Cleveland May (1884-5/29/1965)
m. Ira Luther Fox
F. Ann Maria (12/2/1844-9/1/1860)
G. John Adam, Jr. (1846-11/15/1887)
m. Susan Amanda Kline on 6/7/1869 in Washington County, MD
1. Lillian Catherine (12/1/1869-6/19/1965)
2. Emma May (7/12/1872-10/14/1936)
3. Charles Newton (9/29/1875-8/25/1969)
4. Annie Elizabeth (1/17/1878-9/14/1963)
5. Harold Garfield (9/28/1882-9/18/1905)
H. Martha Ellen (3/12/1849-1/4/1903)
m. Ephraim Dallas Hauver (8/5/1844-7/4/1923) in 1870, Middletown, MD
(s/o Christian Hauver and Anna Mary [Polly] Brown;
gs/o William and Anna Elizabeth [Buhrman] Brown)
1. Charles Christian (1867-10/27/1956), bur. Blue Ridge Cemetery, Thurmont, MD
m. May E. Durben (1873-1967)
a. Charles Lloyd (1898-1936)
b. Raymond Christina (1904-1979)
c. Robert Russell (1914-2007)
2. Virginia Florence (Jennie) (8/2/1868-10/25/1959)
m. Daniel Edward Bachtell
a. Infant Daughter (1894-1894)
b. Infant Daughter (1896-1896)
c. Mary (1899-1988), m. Victor C. Guillermain
d. Eva (1904-1987), m. William Beard Kimble
e. Infant Son (1909-1909)
3. Ammie C. (1871-1940)
m. Walter L. Stottlemyer
a. Anna Mae (1895-1945), m. Clyde Morrison
b. Alma Grace (1896-1918)
c. Ivan C. (1/1/1900-3/9/1965)
m. Virgie Susan Kline (1907-1982)
1) Charles Walter (1925-1978)
2) Evelyn Elizabeth (1926-2000), m. Asa Daniel Harshman
3) Doris Elaine (1927-2013), m. Donzal Meredith Lovell
4) Alma Darlene (1930-2013), m. John Albert Routzahn Sr.
5) Pauline Mae (1937-2011), m. Samuel Earl Rohrer
d. Calvert Cecil (1902-1964)
e. Dorothea C. (6/26/1903-6/27/1978)
m. Paul W. Warrenfeltz (1895-1970)
1) Joseph Paul (1923-1993)
2) Irma M. (1928-2001), m. Elvin Theodore Wolfe
a) Michael Lee (1956-2011)
3) Wayne W. Warrenfeltz (1929-2007), m. Peggy Ann Fishack
4) Robert L. (1/28/1931-6/18/1990)
5) Delano R. (1934-1997), m. Nancy Louise Kline
6) Lee Floyd (1937-1956)
7) Gene Ora (1941-2021), m. Joanne Kline
8) Alan David (5/13/1947-3/1/2024)
f. Margaret E. (1909-1909)
g. Helen L. (1911-1918)
4. Alvin William (1875-1949)
occ: potato farmer Foxville, MD
m. Anna Lillie Grace Fox (1872-1947)
a. Clara Grace (6/8/1899-1969)
m. Russell Cleveland McCleaf in 1921
b. Rae Irene (2/11/1901-2/10/1998)
m. Samuel Ray Brandenburg (10/1/1901-2/29/1976)
1) Gene (deceased)
2) Arthur (deceased)
3) Betty Grace (9/13/1922-2/16/2023), bur. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
m. Knowlton Burgee
4) Ray Samuel (10/10/1923-6/11/2010)
m. Margaret Mae Swope (12/21/1924-1/15/2014) on 6/20/1922
(d/o Charles E. and Mary E. Williard Swope)
occ: farmer and employee of Mack Trucks, Hagerstown, MD
Both bur. Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church
a) Steven Thomas (1944-6/2/2000)
5) Harold (Bill) Sr. (1928-10/30/2024)
mil: US Navy Air Corps (1946-1948)
occ: salesman for Noland Co., Hagerstown, MD
m. Elizabeth Ann (4/4/1930-6/21/2016)
6) Carolyn Yvonne (10/25/1929-4/3/2022)
occ: secretary for Fairchild Industries, Hagerstown, MD
rel : Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church
m. Robert Lee Fishack
c. Lillie May (7/29/1904-8/7/1906), bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
d. George William (6/5/1907-9/30/1970), twin
m. Evelyn N. Ridenour
e. Olive Ruth (6/5/1907-5/15/1962), twin
m. Charles Barrick
5. Mae T. (10/22/1884-10/10/1956)
m. John Wesley Cline
a. Gladys E. (1910-1986)
b. Woodrow Hauver (1912-1986)
c. Kenneth J. (1915-1960)
d. Harold L. (1921-2000)
6. Walter C. (3/8/1886-5/15/1886)
I. James Albert (3/22/1851-11/5/1925)
m. Miranda Adeline Wolfe (1/8/1849 Foxville-6/24/1912 KS)
(d/o David Wolfe, Jr. and Catherine Hauver)
occ: farmer
res: Winfield, KS in 1900
1. Charles Richard (11/3/1870-3/14/1939 Flint, MI)
2. John J. (b. abt. 1870 Baldwin, IA)
3. Walter L. (12/30/1871 MD-3/11/1945, Kansas City, KS)
4. Margaret C. (1874 Lanier, OH-1979 Clarkdale, AZ)
5. Bradley James (2/20/1881 Lanier, OH-1/1/1976 Bartlesville, OK
J. Male infant (1859-1860)
VI. Susannah (1/6/1806-6/6/1882), bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
m. Joseph Berklite Sr. (1800 Germany-1870)
res: in 1850 Hauver’s District 10, Frederick County
A. Susanna J. (1/6/1829-1870)
m. William F. Brown (1831-1910) on 3/18/1852 Evangelical Lutheran Church,
Waynesboro, PA, her second cousin
(s/o Jeremiah Daniel Brown and gs/o Ignatius Brown)
occ: farmer
He m2. Catherine E.; m3. Mary Ann Ruth
Both bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
1. Jacob Alfred (5/23/1852-6/30/1914 cerebral hemorrhage),
bur. Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro, PA
occ: farmer
m. Catherine Jeannette King (11/28/1854-7/5/1935)
a. Mary A. (1878-1958)
b. William Josiah (1880-1949 fishing boat accident)
m. Harriet Kahl
c. John Franklin (8/23/1881-11/20/1963)
m. Viola Belle Barnhart
d. Nettie J. (3/7/1885-2/17/1893)
e. Annie B. (1888-1940)
f. Minnie M. (1889-1967)
m. Sheridan Preston Burger
g. Mattie E. (4/2/1893-11/2/1967)
m1. Benjamin Barnhart; m2. Frank Bowders
h. Carrie M. (3/4/1896-9/28/1979)
m. Harry W. Ruths (no issue)
i. Leslie A. (9/27/1898-12/29/1945)
m. Dessie A. West
j. Edna Mae (b. 9/28/1904), m. Floyd Clingan
k. Catherine Jeannette (9/6/1906-11/21/1981)
m. John Wilbur Deardorff
l. Eleanor Irene (6/21/1908-8/2/1989)
m1. John W. Applegate; m2. Benjamin Frank Van Scyoc
2. Silas H. (6/26/1852-5/22/1924), twin, unmarried
bur. Green Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro, PA
3. Milton W. (6/26/1853-9/28/1872), twin, unmarried
bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
4. Upton B. (1/28/1855, Lantz, MD-3/31/1917),
occ: farmer at Bulltail, nr. Lantz
m. Clara Ellen Conrad
Both bur. Germantown Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
a. Bessie Alice (1877-1937)
m1. Charles Robert Pryor (div.); m2. Charles A. Whitmore
b. Joseph Augustus (1879-12/17/1952)
m. Linnie Mae Whilhide
c. Ivan Milton (12/29/1881-12/6/1965) Germantown Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
m. Alta Mae Royer (5/25/1884-7/13/1961)
1) Myrtle Marie (6/26/1901-11/14/1988), m. Wilbur Marcellus Fox on 11/26/1919
a) Merle Upton (1920-2000)
b) Kennard Lee (1921-1922)
c) Paul Marion (1/3/1924-3/10/2008)
mil: sgt. US Army WWII, at Normandy on D-Day
rel: Graceham Moravian Church, Graceham, MD
m. Betty Jane Boward (4/30/1926-12/6/2004) on 11/18/1942
(I) Cynthia Lou (9/1/1943-4/28/2012)
m. David McJonathan on 11/23/1986
(II) Living Daughter
(III) Dennis Lee (5/3/1946-12/9/2009), bur. Veterans Cemetery, Flintstone, MD
mil: US Navy, served in Vietnam
d) Glen Leo (1925-1993)
e) Richard Melvin (1926-2010)
f) Wilbur Chester
g) Wilmer Lester (1928-1954)
h) Robert Francis (1930)
i) George Philip (1932-2011)
2) Charley Lester (6/28/1902-1902), twin
3) Clarence Leslie (6/28/1902-9/2/1983), twin
occ: stonemason and with brother Jesse built the stone edifice of the Germantown
Bethel Church of God in Cascade, MD
m. Letha A. Wolf on 5/30/1923
4) Jesse Royer (3/13/1904-4/23/1996)
occ: stonemason
m. Emma V. Wetzel on 3/13/1932
5) Amanda Ellen (11/14/1905-2/27/1985)
m. Harry C. Davis
a) Lester Jacob *1928-1994)
b) Earl Walter (1932-2004)
c) James Russel (1939-2003)
6) John Albert “Slim” (4/27/1907-2/24/1983)
m. Amanda M. Pryor on 11/27/1924
a) Helen Larue (5/30/1927-5/27/2019), m. Floyd Jacob Snyder
(I) John William (7/12/1951-2/17/2023), m. Susan Zigler
b) Albert Richard (1928-2009)
c) Anna Mae (1931-1983, m. Dominic Zaia
d) Glenn Walter (1934-1998)
7) William Taft (3/4/1909-9/24/1986)
m1. Iva O. Buhrman on 4/5/1931 (d. after birth of daughter 2/24/1940)
a) Judy Ann (2/21/1940-11/19/2023), m. John Charles Morton
m2. Beatrice Whisler Epler
8) Upton Lee, Sr. (6/18/1911-7/22/1967)
m. Esther Naomi Cool
a) Charles (6/7/1940-2/22/1992)
b) Barbara A. (11/17/1942-3/14/2007)
c) Upton Lee, Jr. (10/9/1945-8/20/2020) Smithsburg Cemetery
m. Janet Rose Lee
d) Donna M. (5/31/1947-1/19/2016), m. Randolph Scott
9) Paul Milton (3/31/1913-4/10/1978)
m. Lois Izetta Haney
a) Lewis I. (1951-2019), carpenter
10) Francis Lloyd (3/8/1915-1/19/2000)
11) Mary Alta (10/20/1918-10/9/2003)
m. James Ross Eyler, Jr. on 9/25/1938
12) Beulah Mae (1/19/1921-12/24/1986)
m. Charles Wagaman
a) Ruby G. (1948-2019), m. Harold O. Ingram
b) Kristie K. (1959-1980)
13) James Leroy (1923-3/14/2021), bur. Germantown Bethel Church of God Cemetery,
Cascade, MD
mil: machinist in US Navy WWII
occ: carpenter; contractor
m. Betty Frazer (d. 2010) on 11/9/1941
14) Ivan Maurice “Peck” (5/1/1924-3/9/1990)
m. A. Bernice McNulty on 9/28/1946
a) Dennis Wayne (1947-1981)
d. Minnie A. (4/7/1884-11/3/1978)
m. Murray Clifford Harbaugh (7/21/1884-7/28/1963)
s/o George Martin and Savilla A. (Brown) Harbaugh
1) Glen Clifford (1906-1995)
m. Margaret Elizabeth Marteney
2) Walter Leon (12/29/1916-12/23/2017)
mil: 190th Field Artillery Long Tom Unit WW II and fought in Normandy during
D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge
m. Mollie Emma Gates on 7/13/1946
occ: foreman for Waynesboro Construction Company for 30 years; farmer
res: Buck Lantz Road, Sabillasville
Both bur. Germantown Bethel Cemetery, Cascade
a) Rueanna F., m. Dennis Perry
b) Walter L.
c) Leon W. (3/7/1950-8/18/2022)
mil: medic during Vietnam War
d) Marilyn J., m. Lee Burgett
e) Yueletta R. (Shelly), m. Phillip Wivell
f) Paul J., m. Delmar Olson
3) Loretta Mae (1908-1993)
m. Lewis Nelson McClain
a) Betty (1927-2009), m. Lester C. Martin
b) Charlotte A. (1933-2011), m. Rudy R. Milligan
4) Richard Lee (1921-2000)
m. Eva Betty Wright (1927-2020)
a) Mona Jean
b) Sheila Joyce, m. Freeman
c) Pamela Lea (1951-2003), m. Joseph Richard Stockslager
5) Grace
m1. Raymond H. Kipe
m2: Frank Miller
e. Bertha A. Ellen (1885-1905), unmarried
f. Albert C. (1887-1905), unmarried
g. Elmer Walton (1889-1939), res: Peoria, IL
m. Ruth M. Meader
h. Russell Alvey (1892-1979)
m1. Helen Grace Smith (div.); m2. Catherine Wolf Timmons
i. Charles Wachter “Pete” (9/8/1894-3/15/1958)
m. Esther Bland McGlaughlin (1895-1963)
1) Gladys Mae (1914-2001), m. Joseph B, Huff
2) Herbert Upton (1915-1995)
3) Edna Bland (1917-2001), m. Howard Dixon
4) Pauline Jane (9/16/1922-3/22/2011)
m. Robert Charles Hahn (1915-1994)
5) Mary Geraldine (1924-1941)
6) Charles “Lee” (1926-1988)
7) Thomas Clifton (1929-1985)
8) Joyce Ann Brown (1932-)
m. Herbert Hays, Jr.
j. Agnes Oneda (1904-1995)
m. Merle L. Willard
5. Mary Alice (1857-8/18/1876), single
bur. Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church Cemetery
6. Athalinda M. (1858-3/28/1926)
m. Daniel I. Pryor (1857-1897) on 12/2/1880
Both bur. Germantown Bethel Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
7. Joseph A., to Norfolk, VA
8. James Daniel (1/14/1861-6/22/1923)
m. Martha Jane Ellen Brown on 4/30/1885, his cousin
(d/o James and Savilla Brown)
Both bur. Germantown Bethel Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
9. Irvin (d. 9/20/1863)
bur. Germantown Bethel Church of God Cemetery, Cascade, MD
10. Stella (9/8/1867-6/22/1933)
m. William D. Kraige
res: Roanoke, VA
11. Elsie S (6/14/1868-5/8/1932)
m. David Augustus Ruths (18633-1943)
bur. Harbaugh Church Cemetery, Rouzerville, PA
a. Etta Mae (1887-1952)
b. Harry W. (1893-1947)
B. Daniel (3/16/1830 Gettysburg PA-8/23/1909 Waynesboro, PA)
m1. Lucinda Buhrman in 1853; m2. Rachel Miller in 1902
VII. Elizabeth (b. 12/4/1807)
bap. 1/21/1813 Graceham Moravian Church
She applied on December 12, 1883, for her father’s Revolutionary War pension as the sole surviving child and
under destitute circumstances but was denied on January 29, 1884.
VIII. Marie (b. 12/7/1811, bap. 1/21/1813 Graceham Moravian Church), single