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Mary Magdalena (Haupt) Kreider |
Mary Magdalena (Haupt) Kreider was born on Sept. 9, 1768 or July 16, 1769, the daughter of John "Henry" Sebastian and Maria Catharina (Younken) Haupt/Houpt.
On Sept. 29, 1789, she tied the knot with Abraham Kreider (March 13, 1766-1826).
The pair established their dwelling-place in Central Pennsylvania.
Their foursome of offspring were Mary Catherine Barton, Regina Worman, John Kreider and Henry Kreider.
Mary Magdalena reputedly died on Nov. 17, 1816.
Abraham outlived her by a decade. He passed away on Nov. 2, 1826.
~ Daughter Mary Catherine (Kreider) Barton ~
Daughter Mary Catherine Kreider (1790-1882) was born on Aug. 3 or 13, 1790.
When she was 25 years of age, on Feb. 15, 1816, she was united in matrimony with John Barton (May 10, 1785-1856).
The Bartons bore eight children -- Anna Regina Drake, Emeline Paxton, Caroline M. Payne, Elisha K.P. Barton, Mary Catherine Barton, Adaline Townsend, Dr. John Hervey Barton and Clara E. Parker. Sadly, they lost son Elisha his second year of age.
The Barton home in 1837, at the time of the marriage of their daughter Emeline, was in Espytown.
As of 1850, their dwelling-place was in Bloom Township, Columbia County, with John employed as a merchant.
John died in Bloomsburg on May 23, 1856. Interment was in Old Rosemont Cemetery in Bloomsburg.
Mary Catherine lived on for another nearly 26 years. Death spirited her away on Jan. 21 or 29, 1882.
Daughter Anna Regina Barton (1816-1891) was born on Nov. 24, 1816 in Columbia County. She was a school teacher in young womanhood. On March 13, 1845, at the age of about 29, she married Dr. Thomas Wright Drake (1814-1850) of Wilkes-Barre. Their wedding ceremony was held at St. Philip's Church, Philadelphia, by the hand of Rev. Neville. News of the marriage was published in the Columbia Democrat. They resided in Bloomsburg and belonged to the Episcopal Church. The pair were together for five years until the separation of death. Thomas died in Wilkes-Barre at age 35 on May 10, 1850. The cause is not yet known. A one-line note of his passing was printed in the Wilkes-Barre Advocate. The widowed Anna then moved back into her parents' home in Bloom Township, Columbia County. Later, she went to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Clara and Rev. C.C. Parker, in Bala Cynwyd, Lower Merion Township near Philadelphia. Death enveloped her with suddenness in the Parker house on Sept. 7, 1891. Her obituary was published in the Bloomsburg Columbian, saying "Many of the older residents of Bloomsburg will be pained to learn of the death" and that "many of the middle-aged people of this town went to school to her in their youth." Funeral services were conducted in St. John's Church in Lower Merion, with burial following in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Daughter Emeline Barton (1818-1909) was born on Aug. 6, 1818 in Bloomsburg, Columbia County. On July July 27, 1837, she wed Bright Rupert Paxton (Feb. 3, 1814-1903), son of Col. Joseph Paxton of Catawissa, Columbia County. In announcing the marriage, the Columbia Democrat said she was the "second daughter of John Barton" and that the nuptials had been performed by Rev. George C. Drake. There were 10 offspring of the couple, of whom nine are known -- Henry Paxton, Charles Paxton, John "Barton" Paxton, Joseph Paxton, Mary B. Paxton, Edward Paxton, Leonard Rupert Paxton, George S. Paxton and Katherine Rupert Paxton. Bright's father served as president of the Catawissa Railway, constructed in 1852, "famed throughout the state for passing over the highest bridges and through the most romantic scenery in it," said the Republican-Journal. "The road is now a part of the Philadelphia & Reading System." They lived in the early years in Bloomsburg, Columbia County (1838) and Lycoming County (1840), PA. Bright in 1840 is known to have been a member of the Democratic Whig Citizens of Columbia County. Federal census records for 1850 show the family in Catawissa Township, Columbia County, with Bright engaged as a tanner. Their residence as of 1860-1870 was in Lairdsville, Franklin Township, Lycoming County, with Bright continuing to ply his trade as a tanner and farmer. The census of 1880 shows them continuing to dwell in Franklin Township, with Bright now spending most of his time farming. The Paxtons pulled up stakes and relocated cross country to southern California, settling in Los Angeles by 1900. Their postal address in 1903 was 229 East 30th Street. Bright passed away there at the age of 89 on March 28, 1903. Word of his demise was telegraphed to Mrs. Dr. I.W. Willits, with an obituary appearing in the Los Angeles Times. Emeline outlived her spouse by six years and migrated to San Francisco. She died there at the age of 90 on St. Patrick's Day 1909. Funeral services and burial took place at the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles, and a notice of her death was published in the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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| Old Rockledge landmark, the Indian River Hotel |
- Grandson Henry Bright "Harry" Paxton (1838-1926) was born on Aug. 14, 1838 in Catawissa or Bloomsburg, Columbia County, PA. Said a newspaper, "As a boy he received an excellent education far in advance of the average youth of his day, and he continued throughout his lifetime to add to his store of knowledge until during his last years his mind was a vast treasure house of interesting facts, which made conversation with him a delight. During his early years he was engaged in civil engineering for the government..." He tied the marital cord with Frances Heilman ( ? -1928) of Pine Grove/Schuylkill Haven, PA. Two sons of this coupling were Bright R. Paxton and Philip Koon Paxton. During the Civil War, Harry and his brother Charles joined the Union Army and were assigned to the 34th Pennsylvania Infantry, also known as the 5th Pennsylvania Reserve, Company H, commanded by Capt. John McCleery. He later was promoted to captain and placed in command of Company H. In the postwar years, he was employed by the Reading Railroad and then for 15 years as collector for the Susquehanna-Tidewater Canal Company at Wrightsville, PA. Upon retirement, they relocated to Florida and circa 1916 were in Rockledge, FL, where he was engaged in the orange growing business. In 1909, Harry was awarded a military pension as compensation for his wartime ailments. [Invalid App. #1.385.834 - Cert. 1.157.720] Sadly, Harry passed away in Rockledge at the age of 88 just five days before Christmas 1926. His remains were shipped back to his native Columbia County to sleep for the ages in Greenwood Cemetery, an old Quaker burying ground not farm from the house where he was born. Rev. D.L. Dixon, a Methodist pastor, presided over the funeral service. An obituary was published in the Bloomsburg Morning Press. Frances then began receiving his Civil War pension until her death. [Widow App. #1.569.297 - Cert. A6.13.27] She made her home with her son Philip and died there on Sept. 17, 1928. Rev. C.E. bovard, of the Rockledge Presbyterian Church, preached the funeral service. In a fascinating twist, a hurricane struck the Rockledge area at about the same time she passed, and in transporting the corpse back to Pennsylvania via rail, it became "'lost' somewhere in the storm area," reported the York Dispatch. "The body was placed on a train at Rockledge in time to enable it to arrive here, under normal conditions, some time last night. When one train after another from the South arrived in York and the body of the former Wrightsfulle woman ws not on any of them, the funeral directors became uneasy and made efforts to trace its whereabouts. Railroad movements are so irregular and disrupted in the stormswept area that no information could be obtained as to the whreabouts of Mrs. Paxton's body. Telegraph and telephone wires are also down..." The train which was carrying the casket finally arrived after being routed through Washington, DC. Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Stein led the funeral rites.
Great-grandson Bright R. Paxton (1869-1945) was born on Oct. 20, 1869. He studied law with mentors W.F. Bay Stewart, Henry C. Niles and George E. Neff. Said the York Gazette and Daily, "Both Stewart and Niles later became judges of the courts of York county." Bright wed Clara M. Frysinger (1869-1957). Together they produced two daughters -- Helen F. Paxton and Frances R. Paxton. Bright became an attorney and based his practice in Catawissa, PA. Later his office was at 35 North George Street, York, PA. He was a member of the York County Bar Association for half-a-century. They held a membership in the Trinity First Reformed Church. The couple's final home together was at 34 West Market Street, York. Sadly, at the age of 75, he passed away at home on Oct. 11, 1945. Burial was in the local Prospect Hill Cemetery. His pastor Rev. Dr. Allan S. Meck led the funeral rites.
Great-grandson Philip Koon Paxton (1872-1967) was born in about 1872 in Norris, PA. He relocated with his parents to the beach peninsula of Rockledge, FL and was there in 1926-1945, working as a citrus grower. He was considered a pioneer of the area. He may not have married and did not reproduce. His address in the 1960s was 1439 Rockledge Drive. Philip died at the age of 95, in Wuesthoff Memorial Hospital, on Aug. 6, 1967. An obituary was published in the Cocoa (FL) Evening Tribune. Rev. Dr. James A. Sawyer, of the First Baptist Church in Cocoa, presided at the funeral. The remains were cremated.
- Grandson Charles Paxton (1840-1914) was born on May 5, 1840 in Lycoming County, PA. A notation of his birth was written into the family Bible. He stood 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and weighed 148 lbs., with a light complexion, blue eyes and brown hair. In young manhood he trained as a machinist and was employed in the shops of the Baldwin Locomotive Company of Philadelphia. Charles enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, in Harrisburg on June 1, 1861. He was placed in the 34th Pennsylvania Infantry, also known as the 5th Pennsylvania Reserve, Company H, commanded by Capt. John McCleery and later by his own brother Henry Bright Paxton. He held the rank of sergeant. He was reported missing in battle and then taken prisoner and held in Richmond, writing to his mother in July 1862 that "We have been treated very well so far, the most of them being very kind." He eventually was returned to his regiment. In action at the Battle of Lacy House/Ellwood Manor in the Wilderness on May 6, 1864, he received a gunshot wound in the left forearm. Charles was treated at Carver General Hospital in the District of Columbia and remained until just before he was eligible for a discharge. He was mustered out of the army in Harrisburg on June 11, 1864, having completed a term of three years' service.
Above: Lacy House where Charles was wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia. Below: Carver Hospital where he was treated. Library of Congress 
He returned to his parents' home in Lairdsville, Lycoming County. Recalled his brother Leonard, Charles "stayed home about a year, then went up into the oil regions of northwestern Pa and was there probably a year or two." On May 30, 1866, he wed Josephine (Connor) Wood (May 10, 1847- ? ), an immigrant from Ireland who grew up in Vermont, and was the daughter of Irish immigrants William and Joanna "Julia" Connor. The nuptials were conducted in Frankford, Philadelphia County, PA by the hand of M.W. Garrison. But the bride also claimed that they had exchanged marital vows on the Fourth of July 1869 in Harrisville, MO, also officiated by Garrison. Josephine's background was exceptionally murky. She claimed to have been married before circa July 4, 1858 to Jean "Charles" Wood ( ? - ? ) and set up housekeeping in Germantown near Philadelphia. This first spouse was said to be a cotton field owner and slaveholder who was freighting goods on the Delaware River and reputedly was killed accidentally as a civilian at the First or Second Battle of Bull Run/Manassas, with burial taking place on the field. Josephine made the claim that after Wood's death, she "started out to see if I could not find my husband. I went from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. to see the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, and he took me to see President Lincoln, and I got permission from him to go wherever I wanted to to look for my husband... and I went over the battlefield of Manassas and then went to Richmond, Va., and to Petersburg and then to Portsmouth, and when I got there the blockade was on and I could not get north again until the war was over, so I remained at Portsmouth, Va., and worked, sold pies, cake and fruit to the soldiers, and when the war was over I then returned to Philadelphia... While I was looking for his body or trying to get some trace of him, I was wounded by a bullet from the rifle of a Confederate soldier while riding through Petersburg, and I carry the wound today, which was in my left breast." Lincoln allegedly gave her a letter to be presented to George G. Blake, commanding officer at Fortress Monroe.
In marrying our Charles, Josephine brought an adopted stepdaughter Frances "Fannie" (Wood) Albert into the union. Josephine later claimed that "My mother put me in the home of this Mrs. Fannie Wood when I was real young, as our people were poor, and I never worked for any other people but this Mrs. Wood before my marriage to her son." Charles suffered from his wartime wound for the rest of his life. A surgeon wrote in 1869 that the enemy bullet struck "about middle of left forearm, fracturing both bones, ball still remaining in the arm causing inflammation and occasional suppusation. Entire loss of rotatory motion caused by a union of the two bones at the place of fracture." In 1869, he was awarded a military pension as compensation for wartime injuries [Invalid App. #139.870 - Cert. #986.690]. Brother Leonard, who had settled in Los Angeles County, CA, did not see his brother again for about a decade, but recalled this about Charles' comings and goings:
Charles' pension certificate
National ArchivesFrom [northwestern Pennsylvania] he went to St. Louis, Mo., I do not think he was there any great length of time, maybe a few months or a year. From there he went to Lawrence, Kans., and some time afterwards he bought a little farm at Stranger, Kans. He lived there until, I think, about 1880 or 1881 when he went to Albuquerque, New Mex. where he was a year or two when he bought a business at Coolidge, New Mex. I think he must have been there 10 or 12 years and may have been longer. As far as I know he went from there to Albuquerque and stayed a short time, then Bland, New Mex. and was there until he came to me in Nov. 1912. About May he went back to Bland and was there a few months when he returned here and lived in this County until he died. After he left Penn. I never saw him until 1876 when he and his wife visited our parents. I went to him in 1881 at Albuquerque, New Mex. I batched with him a little while and then I went out on the Railroad. His wife was in Kansas when I went to New Mex. and I think immediately afteer he bought the business in Coolidge she came to him. I saw him every few months, some times oftener, until 1885 when I came to Cal. He was here on a visit, I think in th summer of 1899. Our parents were living here then.
Charles' stepdaughter Frances "Fannie" Albert later spelled out their movements during these years, writing in 1916 that:
Mother and Mr. Paxton were living in Lawrence, Kansas when I first met Mr. Paxton. They went from there to Stranger, Kansas, now known as Linwood. They lived there on a farm for several years. Mr. Paxton ran the farm with hands but worked as a machinist for the railroads putting up windmills. Then they moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, where Mr. Paxton ran a laundry, known as the Philadelphia Laundry. I think I was about eighteen or nineteen when we went to Council Bluffs. We were there about a couple of years. Then they moved back to the old place in Linwood, Kansas. From there soldier went to Colorado, prospecting, I think, but my mother and I remained in Linwood. Soldier went to Colorado with a man named Richards, brother of O.G. Richards, a lawyer who still lives in Eudora, Kansas.
During the Linwood years, Charles worked in the railroad shops in Armstrong, KS, spending the week there and returning home on Saturday nights. He also may have been postmaster at Linwood, with his wife running the operation during his absence. While in Coolidge, Charles operated a store and is said to have traded with Indians and cowboys. Then after leaving to go prospecting, leaving his wife behind, she tore down the store building and moved to Grant, NM, where she opened a rooming-house. Charles returned in about 1903 and went to find her in Grant but their discussion was unsatisfactory, she threatened divorce and they separated for good. He spent several months in 1907 with his stepdaughter in Chicago, with him earning a living as a watchman. During that period Josephine lived at Fort Riley, toiling as a maid or housekeeper for Lt. James A. Shannon, and in 1914 at Fort Leavenworth, employed by Capt. William S. Browning. Charles suffered a small stroke and moved in November 1912 to Rivera, CA, where his brother Leonard was living. Charles returned to Bland in May 1913 and came back to Los Angeles four months later in September 1913. He apparently was in the brother's household but fell and dislocated his shoulder followed by a stroke. With the brother and family unable to care for him at an elevated level, they arranged for him to be admitted to the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. At his admission to the Home, he was reluctant and said he did not know where his wife was. When his stepdaughter's letters would arrive from Chicago, they were read aloud to him "but he did not seem interested," recalled niece Laura E. Paxton. He died in the Home on June 14, 1914, with interment in the local Evergreen Cemetery, and a brief notice published in the Los Angeles Times. His widow moved to Wisconsin and began receiving his pension payments as of Nov. 16, 1914 [Widow App. #1.037.014 - Cert. #816.633]. She wrote to her husband's brother Leonard, demanding that they return all of the possessions he had left behind in their residence. When petitioning for the pension, she had to prove a number of the murky allegations of her past, and Ellen Connor of Amery, WI gave written testimony about the existence of the two husbands. Other friends O.G. Richards, S.D. Richards and Euretta L. Kraus also provided supporting affidavits. A government investigator, T.E. Keith, intervieweed her and then reported: "She is a very ignorant woman, being of a family who were forced to work for a living, and for that reason had no opportunity of getting much of an education, but it seems rather strange that, notwithstanding this handicap of being uneducated,, she was unable to give me names of her young friends in Pa. who knew her prior to her marriage to this Wood, and who knew him." Then in 1916-1917, Josephine's dwelling-place was in Eudora, KS. She fades away into the mists of the past after that.
- Grandson John "Barton" Paxton (1842-1913) was born on March 16, 1842. He was twice-wed. His first spouse was Sue J. Price (May 12, 1843-1868), daughter of James B. Price. During the Civil War, Barton and his brothers Harry and Charles joined the Union Army. All three were placed in the 34th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H, also known as the 5th Pennsylvania Reserve. Tragically, just three years after the war's close, Sue passed away on June 20, 1868. Barton eventually married his second bride, Anne J. Price (May 10, 1856-1921), daughter of Lucius D. and Anna Maria (Haines) Price. A trio of offspring of this family were Joseph T. Paxton, Emmeline Barton Paxton and Charles Rupert Paxton. For years, Barton was a machinist who lived in Philadelphia. He also held a membership in the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. On Nov. 20, 1879, Barton was awarded a military pension as compensation for his wartime service. [Invalid App. #322.898 - Cert. #191.759] Their address in the early 1910s was 331 Saunders Avenue, below 39th and Lancaster Avenue. Suffering from bladder cancer, he died on March 13, 1913, at the age of 74, with interment at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd. Anne lived for another eight years and began receiving her husband's monthly pension payments. [Widow App. #1.004.460 - Cert. 758.576] Her final residence was at 645 North 63rd Street, Philadelphia. Suffering from chronic kidney disease, Anne was cleaved away by the angel of death at age 64 on Feb. 13, 1921. Adaline Price Linvill signed the official Pennsylvania certificate of death.
Great-grandson Joseph T. Paxton (1880-1910) was born on Aug. 23, 1880. He was employed as a technical representative of a hosiery mill supplies company. While in Durham, NC on a project installing machinery at Hosiery Mill No. 1, he became ill from a severe cold and went to bed in his hotel room. He died overnight, at age 29, discovered by a chambermaid. Said an obituary, "From the condition of the body and features, it is supposed he died from a congestive chill."
Great-granddaughter Emmeline Barton Paxton (1888-1943) was born on Nov. 1, 1888. She never married and was burdened with schizophrenia for many years. She lived at 6423 West Chester Road in Upper Darby. In about 1932, her mental state declining, she was admitted to Dufur Hospital in Horsham, PA. There, she stayed for the remaining 11 years, 11 months and 19 days of her life. She also contracted chronic congestive heart failure and rheumatic heart disease. She passed into the arms of the heavenly host at age 54 on March 6, 1943. Burial was in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd. Sue P. Edmunds, of the 6423 West Chester Road address, was the informant for the official certificate of death.
Great-grandson Charles Rupert Paxton (1896-1979) was born on Sept. 20, 1896 in Philadelphia. He entered into marriage with Elizabeth Blair (Dec. 17, 1894-1946). One known son of theirs' was Charles Rupert Paxton Jr. (1927-2022). During World War II, they made a home at 5606 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, with Charles earning a living at the Philadelphia Signal Corps Depot. Sadness blanketed the family when Elizabeth died on June 21, 1946. The widowed Charles endured for another 33 years. He passed into eternity on Aug. 14, 1979. They sleep for all time in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
- Grandson Joseph Paxton (1846-1919) was born in 1846. Joseph at age 25 relocated in 1871 from Pennsylvania to the Indian River area of Rockledge, FL. Then in 1878, he tied the knot with Annie Leland Hatch (1862-1940), daughter of A.L. Hatch. They were the parents of Leonard "Rupert" Paxton, Mary Virginia Rembert and Joseph Lelano Paxton. They spent the balance of their lives together in Rockledge. He is known to have spent over a month with friends in the summer of 1900 in the orange growing belt of Southern California before returning home. Sadly, after an evening of visiting with his son Rupert, who had returned from World War I Army service in France, Joseph went to bed and passed away at age 72 on Jan. 14, 1919. Rev. H.M. Boyd, of the Presbyterian Church, officiated the funeral rites. He sleeps for all time in Cocoa City Cemetery. A Cocoa Evening Tribune obituary referred to him as one of the Indian River country's "pioneer residents" and "one of her most highly respected and substantial citizens; a man whose business ability has commanded the respect of all and whose intense loyalty to his country in the great war has been a most admirable example, giving his two sons to the service and placing a large sum of his month at the disposal of the government through the purchase of bonds and through gifts to the various war funds."
Great-grandson Leonard "Rupert" Paxton (1880-1946) attended the South Florida Military Academy in Bartow circa 1900. He became a county surveyor and then during World War I served in France with the 117th Engineer Corps, part of the famed Rainbow Division.
Great-granddaughter Mary Virginia Paxton (1887-1971) wed R.M. Rembert.
Great-grandson Joseph Lelano Paxton (1894-1945) was born on Nov. 21, 1894. He joined the U.S. Army during World War I and was deployed to France. He died on May 30, 1945.
Step-great-granddaughter Frances "Fannie" Wood Paxton (1860- ? ) was born on Sept. 9, 1860, reputedly of an Italian family of New Orleans. She was brought into the home of her adoptive parents Jean "Charles" and Josephine (Connor) Wood and later raised by her adoptive stepfather Charles Paxton. (She also could have been a daughter of Charles Boyle and a native of Camden, NJ.) She later disclosed to a government investigator who reported that "she does not believe [Josephine] is her mother and would like to know who her father was. She says [Josephine] told her she was born in New Orleans... She says her earliest recollection is at a table where mother struck her." Fannie herself recalled the incident, saying "I did something at the table that displeased my mother and she struck me. I had my mouth filled with mashed potatoes and the old mammy picked me up and my mouth was full of blood and she got the blood and potatoes out of my mouth. I can remember that the house where this happened was magnificently furnished." Fannie also remembered that her mother "never showed me the affection of a mother, she was very cruel to me. I have heard my mother say, when I was a little child, " 'Well if Fannie had her rights she would never have to comb her own head'." The girl eventually was placed in a convent in St. Louis, believing it was the Holy Cross Convent, and stayed until her mother's marriage. At the time her her mother wed Charles Paxton, Fannie took on the "Paxton" surname. Over her growing-up years she resided with her mother and stepfather in Lawrence and Stranger/Linwood, KS, Council Bluffs, IA and then back to Linwood. She left home at age 21. Circa 1885, in Oscaloosa, KS, Fannie married Ed Albert ( ? - ? ). They were the parents of Charles Albert. In 1916, she made her residence in Chicago at the address of 4339 Drake Avenue and at 2738 South Hamlin Avenue.
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| Graves of John Barton Paxton (top) and wives Sue and Anne - courtesy Jenn O. |
- Granddaughter Mary Barton Paxton (1848-1899) is said to have been born on July 17, 1848 in Catawissa, Columbia County, PA. She grew up on her parents' home in Franklin Township, Lycoming County, PA. She relocated to Southern California, and in 1897 purchased a 10-acre plot of ground at the corner of West and 17th Streets in Santa Ana. Sadly, she succumbed to the spectre of death in Los Angeles on or about March 5, 1899. Her final burial was relocated circa March 1946 to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, PA, where she was placed next to her sister Katherine.
- Grandson Edward Paxton (1851-1928) was born in 1851. In young manhood he lived under his parents' roof in Franklin Township, Lycoming County and worked as a farmer. Edward migrated to California. He roomed in Los Angeles in 1910, performing odd jobs. Later he lived in San Francisco in 1916 and in Kennett, CA in 1928. He was employed in Shasta/Kennett as a gardener. Five days before Christmas 1928, at age 77, he was found dead in his home. Rev. E.E. Malone led the funeral rituals followed by burial in Redding Cemetery. His younger brother Leonard came from Los Angeles to attend. A brief obituary was printed in the Redding Searchlight.
- Grandson Leonard Rupert Paxton (1855-1935) was born on Aug. 3, 1855 in Lairdsville, Lycoming County. On Nov. 17, 1885, at the age of about 30, he married Stella R. ( ? -1936). They immediately moved to California and bore four children, Laura E. Paxton, Clara B. Paxton and Bright R. Paxton II. In 1889, he joined the staff of the Los Angeles County Recorder of Deeds. In short order he was named deputy county clerk and held that position for 37 years. The Paxtons lived on a farm in Downey, Los Angeles County in 1900. Circa 1916, he was employed as clerk with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and made his home in Rivers/Rivera, CA. He is known to have earned a living as a rancher in 1928 and to have traveled to Redding, CA that year to attend his brother Edward's funeral. He also amassed stock in the Bell-View Oil Company at Santa Fe Springs. Their last address was 648 East Telegraph Road in Rivera. Death cleaved him away in his residence at the age of 79 on April 19, 1935 from the effects of heart disease. An obituary in the Los Angeles Times said he had served for 38 years as a county employee. His remains were lowered into the sacred soil of Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, CA. Stella only outlived him by a year and four months. She passed on Aug. 16, 1936.
Great-granddaughter Laura E. Paxton (1886- ? ) was born in about 1886. She was unmarried and lived with her parents in Rivera, CA in the early 1910s. When her uncle Charles Paxton came into their household in 1913, then fell and injured himself followed by a stroke, she and her parents had him admitted to the Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. She later recalled that "for a month or six weeks I went to see him every week and after that I did not go so often. After he was hurt I wrote to [his stepdaughter] about it and wrote her quite often afterwards. After his death I wrote her all about his funeral, told her that we buried him in Los Angeles which was in accordance with his wishes. I hated the idea of having his personal effects sold at public auction and wrote and told her that if she did not want his things to let me know as I wanted them if she did not. I asked for what money he had to defray the funeral expenses as his relatives here had to defray those expenses. A reply, which I considered insulting, came to my father refusing it." As of 1936, she made heer dwelling-place at 648 Anaheim-Telegraph Road.
Great-granddaughter Clara B. Paxton (1888-1974) was born on March 14, 1888 in San Fernando, CA. She was joined in wedlock with Frank Curt Miller (Jan. 1, 1888-1941), son of Curt W. Miller and originally from Phoenix, AZ. Two known offspring they bore together were Marjorie Frey (1919- ? ) and Curt P. Miller (1923- ? ). Frank attended the California Institute of Technology. At one time followed in his father's footsteps as a newspaperman. Then circa 1924-1925, he served as city engineer for Elsinore, CA. Clara sued for divorce in 1924, citing cruelty. She claimed he chided her for not keeping up his pace and claimed he said "I am making money and I want a live bird to help me spend it." But the couple reconciled and in 1930 lived together in Elsinore, with him now generating income in manufacturing icea. She held memberships in the Order of Eastern Star and American Legion Auxiliary. Frank went on to own a distribution agency and amassed a large collection of rare stones. At the time of his death, he was en route to Los Angeles to acquire a machine used for polishing the gems. They were plunged into grief on June 26, 1936 when their only son died at the age of 13. Just five years later, Frank tragically was killed in a vehicular accident on March 27, 1941 when a Santa Fe Railroad train struck his truck at the Valley View Road crossing. Said a newspaper, "He was driving near Norwalk, CA going "about 25 miles per hour as he approached the tracks. The engineer, George Litch, sounded his whistle. Miller apparently did not see or hear the train. The engine, traveling at 60 miles an hour, struck the light delivery truck broadside, scattering wreckage for 100 yards. Known to be a careful driver well acquainted with the road over which he had traveled many times, the news of his death came as a shock to townspeople." His funeral was held at St. Andrew's By the Lake Episcopal Church. Clara lived for another 33 years and appears to have wed again to M.B. Hockenberry ( ? - ? ) and (?) Hill. She passed away in Camarillo, CA at the age of 86 on June 7, 1974. Her obituary was carried in the Lake Elsinore Valley Sun-Tribune. Rev. Millard White, of the local United Methodist Church, preached the funeral. Interment was in the Elsinore Valley Cemetery.
Great-grandson Bright R. Paxton II ( ? - ? ) settled in Riverside, CA. On 14, 1923, he wed Jane Barker ( ? - ? ), with the exchange of vows taking place in his parents' home in Rivera. The news was announced in the Long Beach Telegram. His address in the mid-1930s was 11302 Miranda Street, North Hollywood. Bright was in Riverside in the mid-1970s.
Great-granddaughter Edith Paxton ( ? - ? ) was united in matrimony with (?) Rich. She was in Fullerton, CA in 1974.
- Grandson George S. Paxton (1859- ? ) was born in 1859. He worked as a printer in 1880 in Franklin Township, Lycoming County.
- Granddaughter Katherine Rupert Paxton (1861-1945) was born on Aug. 14, 1861. She too relocated to northern California, settling in San Francisco. There, in the 1894 timeframe, she taught cooking in a normal school and then in 1904 was a teacher in the Buena Vista Primary School extension. She was injured on Jan. 23, 1908 when a United Railroads streetcar struck her at the corner of 18th and Dolores Streets in Oakland, causing two broken ribs and a deep, inch-long scar on her right cheek. She sued United for $10,000, settling for $2,500, claiming her "personal appearance was seriously marred," reported the Oakland Tribune. As of 1909, she graduated from a French course at the San Francisco Commercial Evening School. Perhaps armed with funds and interest in French, the San Francisco School Board granted her a three-year leave of absence in December 1909 for "advanced study abroad." Katherine's name was in the news in 1910 when the Santa Ana (CA) School Board brought a lawsuit to condemn her real estate at the corner of Ross and 17th Streets so that a new schoolhouse could be constructed on the site. Part of the tract contained a walnut orchard. Reported the Anaheim Gazette, "The school board began negotiations for this site early in the fall. An offer of $5600 was made Mrs. Paxton, who arrived here a few days ago to meet the school men. At that time the property was acreage property. While negotiations were under way Mrs. Paxton had the tract platted and filed her map showing it as lot property." She finally agreed on a sale price of $6,000. Upon her return in 1913, she was transferred from the Buena Vista School to the Oriental School. Her address in 1916 -- the year she retired after a quarter-century of service -- was 138 Eureka Street, San Francisco. Katherine appears to have returned to Pennsylvania in her later years, making a new home at 226 Upland Road in Merion, Montgomery County. Burdened with hardening of the arteries, she suffered a heart attack and died at home at the age of 83 on June 24, 1945. Burial was in Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, PA, with the remains of her sister relocated there a year later so the two could rest side by side. Sue P. Edmunds, of 6423 West Chester Road in Upper Darby, signed the official Pennsylvania certificate of death.
Daughter Caroline M. Barton (1820-1852) was born on Nov. 5, 1820 or 1821. She was joined in wedlock on Aug. 21, 1849 with Edwin Walter Payne (July 29, 1821-1898). The pair's dwelling-place was in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia at 526 North Eighth Street, above Parrish, with him earning a living as a merchant. Sadly, she died at the age of 31 on May 6, 1852. Her mortal remains were lowered under the sod of Woodlands/Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. The widowed Edwin married a second time to Helen E. Hammond (Oct. 27, 1830-1913), daughter of Hezikiah and Hannah Hammond. They went on to bear a large family including Carrie Barton Payne (1858-1864), William Weightman Payne (1860-1873), Warren Hammond Payne (1863-1866), Edwin Walter Payne (1868-1869), Lucie Virginia Payne (1871-) and Gordon Brown Payne (1872-1873), all of whom died under the age of 13 and sleep for all time in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Edwin passed away on March 23, 1898. In an obituary, the Wilmington (DE) News Journal said he "was at one time a student in Friends' School, this city. He was much interested in athletics and had been a member of the old Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia. Helen outlived him by 15 years. Suffering from senility and pulmonary edema -- congestive heart failure -- at the age of 82, she surrendered to the angel of death on July 23, 1913. The entire family is interred under a single, tall shaft at Laurel Hill.
Daughter Mary Catherine Barton (1824-1835) was born on Dec. 9, 1824. Sadly, she surrendered to the angel of death in 1835, at the age of about 10.
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| Philadelphia landmarks for which Joseph B. Townsend was a board director -- the Union League (left) and Jefferson Medical College - Courtesy Library of Congress |
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Joseph B. Townsend Sr. Jefferson Digital Commons |
He was especially active in philanthropic and social causes in the city, and was president of Jefferson Medical College (today's Sidney Kimmel Medical College), manager of the Western Savings Fund Society, director of the Pennsylvania Hospital and Guardians for the Poor and legal counsel to a number of title and trust firms. He was a founder in 1861 of the Union Club, and then in 1862 a charter member of its successor, the Union League, formed by "Old Philadelphians" as a society of patriots in support of the Union cause during the Civil War. Among his League co-founders were Benjamin Gerhard, Charles Gibbons, William H. Ashhurst, secretary George H. Boker, James L. Claghorn, Horace Binney Jr., Morton McMichael and J. I. Clark Hare. He served as a director there for five years until 1867 and in 1891 held the post of vice president. Also in 1862, he is known to have signed a petition for the "Colored People of Philadelphia" to be allowed to ride in cars of public transportation. In the profession, he served in 1894-1896 as chancellor of the Law Association of Philadelphia (today's Philadelphia Bar Association) and in 1893 received an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Their first address was 813 Arch Street. Then circa 1866, "on account of his health, which had been affected by over work," said the Philadelphia Inquirer, they moved to the suburb of Overbrook and constructed a mansion-house known as Greysbone. They stayed in Overbrook for the remaining 30 years of their lives together.
Sadly, suffering from "oedema" (congrestive heart failure), Joseph died at home on Oct. 11, 1896. An obituary in the Inquirer said he was "one of the oldest members of the bar in this city" and that "Among the legal profession he was the admitted leader in real estate matters. His practice was largely confined to this branch of law, and he was frequently consulted as an authority on such matters, particularly in regard to titles to real estate. He has been connected with a number of large estates." The Philadelphia Times added that he "has been so wedded to his profession that the proffer of political honors failed to draw him from it, and he has never sought nor held a purely political office... He was also identified with many other charitable and benevolent associations, and with true public spirit lent his influence to the promotion of every public and private enterprise commending itself to his judgment." Funeral services were held in the Overbrook home, by the hand of Rev. James Haughton, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, with private burial at Woodland/Laurel Hill Cemetery. He was succeeded on the board of Jefferson by his sons James and Charles, both attorneys. Ada outlived her husband by eight years. She passed away on May 5, 1904. Funeral rites were conducted in the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, with a short notice of her death appearing in the Inquirer. The terms of her last will were spelled out in the Inquirer, including gifts to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Visiting Nurse Society, Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Exchange for Women's Work. In bqeusts of $5,000 each, to the Pennsylvania Hospital and Hospital of Jefferson Medical College, the funds were "to be used for a free bed in each institution in memory of her husband," the Inquirer reported. Some of Joseph's papers are preserved today by the University of Delaware, comprising 5.8 linear feet of legal and personal correspondence, wills and estate files, legal proceedings, account and receipt books, and financial and judicial records.
- Grandson Joseph Brevitt Townsend, Jr. was an 1878 alumnus of Penn Charter School and a 1884 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He joined his father's law practice, and they worked together for a dozen years until the father's death in 1896. Joseph Jr. was legal counsel for the Western Saving Fund Society of Philadelphia and a board director of both the Provident Trust Company and the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Philadelphia. His brothers later joined the firm, which became known as Townsend, Elliot & Townsend. The firm evolved into Townsend, Elliott & Munson in 1914 which was merged in 1978 into the Pittsburgh giant Reed Smith Shaw & McClay.
- Grandson John "Barton" Townsend (1864-1928) was born on June 11, 1864. He received a bachelor of arts degree in 1884 from the University of Pennsylvania and joined his father's law practice. He spent a year there and in 1885 became a clerk for the Provident Life and Trust Company. Barton married Elizabeth E. Williams ( ? - ? ). Two known children were was Caspar Wistar Barton Townsend (1894-1946) and Anne B. Townsend. Their home was in Lower Merion Township on City Line and Merion Avenue. Barton stayed with Provident for the rest of his career. In 1891 he was promoted to assistant trust officeer and in 1911 to vice president. During World War I, he served as president of the Philadelphia-Delaware Chapter of the American Red Cross at a time when it was becoming a major national humanitarian organization providing invaluable medical personnel and supplies to U.S. troops in Europe. At the formation of Provident Trust Company of Philadelphia in 1922, he was tapped as vice president and then on April 19, 1923 elevated to the presidency. He also held a seat on Provident's board of directors. In the last year of his life, Barton helped oversee Provident's acquisition of Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company. He also was head of the Commonwealth Title Insurance Company. Burdened with chronic heart disease and hardening of the arteries at the age of 64, he was whisked away by the angel of death on Sept. 13, 1928. Interment was in the burying ground ofo the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr. A statement by Provident, published in the Inquirer, said he "had quickness of apprehension and sound judgment, and his personal charm, sense of humor and tolerance greatly endeared him to his associates and to all who were privileged to know him." Son Caspar of Overbrook signed the official Pennsylvania certificate of death. Circa 1928, daughter Anne was a top U.S. tennis player.
Son Dr. John Hervey Barton (1830-1908) was born on May 18, 1830 in Bloomsburg, Columbia County. On June 15, 1860, he wed Hannah B. Price ( ? - ? ). They became the parents of three -- Henry Lester Barton, Philip Price Barton and Mary Catherine Barton (1868-1954). He received a medical education in Philadelphia and then located his practice in Lock Haven. They were members of the Lock Haven Protestant Episcopal Church. Hannah died on Sept. 2, 1889. The widowed John remained in Lock Haven until about 1895, when he moved to Pittsburgh to live with his son Henry in the city's East End, where he was assistant superintendent of the Westinghouse Machine Company plant. With his health in decline over the span of three years, he left Pittsburgh in mid-1908 and went to the home of his son Philip at Niagara Falls. He succumbed to the spectre of death at the age of 78 on Dec. 20, 1908. An obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and burial was in Lock Haven.
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| Westinghouse Machine's East Pittsburgh works, managed by Henry Barton, 1890s |
- Grandson Henry Lester Barton (1862-1929) was born in 1862 in Lock Haven. On April 20, 1897, he wed Caroline Canby Askew ( ? - ? ) of Altoona, PA. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and later Westinghouse Machine Company in Pittsburgh, where he was employed as assistant superintendent circa 1895. In about 1909, they moved to Detroit, where he launched Metal Products Company before joining General Motors Corporation in 1914 as a production executive. Their address was 1408 Seminole Avenue, Detroit, and he held memberships in the Detroit Club, Detroit Country Club, Detroit Athletic Club and Engineers Club of New York. Henry died in Ford Hospital at the age of 67 on Aug. 24, 1929. He slumbers for all time in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery.
- Grandson Philip Price Barton (1865-1937) was born on May 5, 1865 in Lock Haven. He was a graduate of Cornell University and a member of the University Club in Pittsburgh. He moved to Niagara Falls to join the staff of the Niagara Falls Power Company. On Dec. 28, 1899, Philip tied the knot in Pittsburgh's Calvary Episcopal Church with Georgia Henry Thurston (1872-1928). His cousin Charles Townsend of Philadelphia was best man. Their only child was Mrs. William Wallace. Philip built a 21-year career with the Niagara Falls Power Company, becoming vice president and general manager. In 1905 he was named vice president and general manager of its allied companies, the Canadian Niagara Power Company and the Niagara Falls Development Company. With the early yearning to make a humanitarian difference, he held the post of vice president of the Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital and, during World War I, gave of his time as city chairman of the Liberty Loan and Victory Loan initiatives. Philip retired in 1923 and the pair relocated to Hartford, CT. Said the Hartford Courant, "soon after his retirement from business [he] became interested in welfare work." He actively volunteered with the local Community Chest, forerunner of the United Way, and in 1927 "organized the first school section of the Chest campaign, through which teachers and employees of the city schools were solicited. In 1929 he was made a Chest director and soon after he succeeded Newton C. Brainard as chairman of the budget committee. In the comparatively short time he resided in Hartford, not only did he continue his interest in community welfare work but also became associated with other organizations. He was a trustee of the Library Association in Hartford and treasurer of the Children's Museum. He was also a member of the Hartford Club and the Hartford Golf Club." Sadly, Georgia passed away in 1928. Burial was in Hartford. The widowed Philip may have returned to Pittsburgh as of 1929 but eventually moved back to Hartford, with an address of 57 Forest Street. Philip died in Hartford at the age of 72 on Sept. 3, 1937. Burial was in the city's Cedar Hill Cemetery. Their married daughter Mrs. William Wallace lived in Boulder, CO as of 1937 and Toronto, Canada in 1954.
- Granddaughter Mary Catherine Barton (1868-1954) was born on July 3, 1868 in Lock Haven. She never married and spent her adult years in Connecticut. Her home address at one time was on Forest Street, sharing the residence with Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, he the former editor of the Hartford Courant. She held a membership in the Trinity Episcopal Church. Death spirited her away in a convalescent home in Bloomfield near Hartford at the age of 85 on June 21, 1954. Funeral rites were conducted in the family church. The remains were lowered under the sod of the city's Cedar Hill Cemetery. A brief obituary was published in the Courant.
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West Laurel Hill Cemetery Courtesy Antonio Costa |
Daughter Clara Emily Barton (1832-1893) was born on Sept. 10, 1832. When she was 31 years of age, on Jan. 14, 1864, she married Philadelphia resident Rev. Calvin Clark "C.C." Parker (July 1836-1920), originally from Massachusetts. Rev. T.H. Cullen officiated, and the marriage was announced on the pages of the Bloomsburg Star of the North. The couple did not reproduce. His pastorship from 1864 to 1869 was at the Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church of Warren, PA. As of 1870, census records show them in Erie, PA, with his serving as minister of the local Episcopal Church. For a time he also held Episcopal services at the Methodist Church of Girard Station. He resigned in 1873 and became rector of Christ Church of Greensburg, Westmoreland County, staying for a year. The pair then moved in 1875 to Bala Cynwyd, Lower Merion Township, a tony suburb of Philadelphia, where he had been named as rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. Sadly, Clara died on April 22, 1893. Her remains were interred in nearby West Laurel Hill Cemetery. On their grave marker, directly underneath Clara's name and dates is the single word "Faithful." The widowed Calvin continue his work at St. John's until the following year when he stepped down. Census records for 1900 show him in a Philadelphia boarding house at 3827 Baring Street kept by Annie Stokley. In 1904, at the age of 68, he again tied the knot with 35-year-old Clara Elizabeth Shannon (Sept. 4, 1869-1945), who was 33 years younger. The age difference was so vast that a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer stopped at her house to inquire and was told that he was calling on her at the time "but both refused to be seen to discuss the affair... Rev. Mr. Parker is an Episcopal clergyman, but has no charge at present." Circa 1909, Calvin is known to have served as chaplain at the Home of the Merciful Saviour, at 46th and Baltimore Avenue. Their home together was at 4805 Walnut Street. He passed away on July 23, 1920, just two days after his 84th birthday. The funeral service was held at St. Peter's Church at Third and Pine Streets. Clara outlived Calvin by a quarter of a century. Her final address was 4714 Warrington Avenue. At her death on Oct. 24, 1945, she was laid to rest with Calvin and his first bride, and a brief death notice appeared in the Inquirer.
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Daughter Regina Kreider (1792-1876) was born on Nov. 23, 1792.
She tied the knot with Samuel Worman ( ? - ? ).
Four offspring in this family were Regina Snyder, Samuel Adams Worman, Hannah Worman and Mary Creveling.
As of 1850, federal census records show Regina as a single mother in Bloom Township, Columbia County, PA, operating a hotel and tavern with her adult offspring. Residing in the hotel in 1850 were 38-year-old German-born laborer Christian Albright and 12-year-old Mary Koehner.
When she was granted a tavern license, on April 17, 1850, Regina's name was published in the Bloomsburg Star of the North.
Census records suggest that circa 1860, Regina was postmistress in Scott Township, Columbia County. and sharing a home with her single daughter Hannah.
Regina passed away on Nov. 22, 1876, with burial in Creveling Cemetery in Almedia, Columbia County.
Daughter Regina Worman ( ? - ? ) is said to have married (?) Snyder of Bloomsburg, PA.
Son Samuel Adams Worman (1818-1886) was born on June 4, 1818 in Espy, also known as Espytown, Columbia County. Advertising in the Columbia Democrat in 1845 shows him engaged in selling dry goods and Timothy seed in Espytown. A bachelor at the age of 30, in 1850, he lived with his mother in Bloom Township, Columbia County, PA and earned a living as a merchant. He and Gilbert H. Fowler in 1855 are known to have filed a legal complaint in county court against Henry Trembley for causes not yet known, and in 1856 against the executors of the late William Trembley of Bloom Township. Samuel also appears to have been a justice of the peace in Jackson Township circa 1857 and to have officiated weddings. Samuel entered into marriage in the 1850s with Martha Matilda Stiles (June 13, 1833-1909), a native of Briar Creek Township, Columbia County, and the daughter of John and Nancy (Hess) Stiles. Their brood of children were Robert McCurdy Worman, Charles Albert Worman (1858- ? ), twins Ada and Eva Worman (both 1863-1864), Barton Styles Worman (1864-1865) and Samuel Kreider Worman (1869-1962). As evidenced by their many markers in the Creveling Cemetery, all but one of the children died young, with only youngest son Samuel reaching adulthood. Sadly, at the age of 68, Samuel died in Espy on July 27, 1886. His remains were lowered into the slumber of the ages in Creveling Cemetery. Two years after his death, with Martha serving as executrix, a sales of their real estate was ordered by the county orphans court, comprised of a seven-acre tract along the road from Espy to Lightstreet, a 62-acre tract in Main Township, along the Susquehanna River, and a town lot in Espy along Third Street. Martha remained in Espy and, stricken with pleurisy, died there at the age of 75 on Jan. 11, 1909.
- Grandson Samuel Worman ( ? -1962) -- the only surviving child -- was twice wed. His first bride, whom he married on Sept. 21, 1893, was Lena Hartman ( ? - ? ), daughter of Eli Hartman, and announced in the Columbian. Sadly, she died after just two years of marriage, with word printed in her hometown newspaper, the Clarion (PA) Democrat. His second spouse, with whom he tied the knot in 1915, was Nellie M. Schweppenheiser (1884-1975). Together they bore a son, Samuel Frederick Worman (1918-2003). Samuel passed away at the age of 92 on April 23, 1962.
Daughter Hannah H. Worman (1828-1892) was born in about 1828. She did not marry. At the age of 22 in 1850 and lived in the hotel/tavern operated by her mother in Bloom Township, Columbia County, PA. In 1860, she dwelled with her mother, who was serving as postmistress of Scott Township, Columbia County, and they were sitll in the same household as of 1870. Her residence in 1880 was with her married sister and brother-in-law Mary and Alfred Creveling in Philadelphia. By 1892, she was in Espy, Columbia County. Death swept her away at the age of 69 on May 31, 1892. An obituary in the Bloomsburg Columbian said she was the "sister of the late Samuel Worman" and "was an excellent christian woman." The remains were laid to rest in Afton, PA.
Daughter Mary Magdalene Worman (1830-1909) was born on Feb. 19, 1825 or 1830. She wed Alfred Creveling (1832-1890), originally from Espy, Columbia County. There were seven children of this union, of whom three are known -- Ella R. Creveling (1854- ? ), Emma May Ruckle (1858- ? ) and Grace E. Creveling. When the federal census enumeration was made in 1860, the Crevelings dwelled in Scott Township, Columbia County, with Alfred earning a living as a merchant. Mary is believed to have been a judge of home and dairy products including jellies, spiced peaches and apple butter at the Agricultural, Horticultural and Mechanical Exhibition of Columbia County, held Oct. 18-20, 1860. At the 1864 exhibition, in Bloomsburg, she judged exhibits of "Fancy Articles." U.S. Census records for 1880 show the family in Philadelphia, with Alfred engaged in iron manufacturing, and Hannah's 50-year-old, unmarried sister Hannah in the household. Their final address together was 314 North 33rd Street in Philadelphia. Sadness cascaded over the family when Alfred died in Philadelphia at the age of 58 on Jan. 7, 1890. Burial was in Creveling Cemetery in Almedia, Columbia County. Mary share a residence in 1900 with her married daughter Emma Ruckle and family back in Espy. In time, the widowed Mary settled in Danville, Montour County. Her address in 1909 was 9 Bloom Street. Having been stricken with a cerebral embolism and meningitis, the angel of death spirited her away on Dec. 18, 1909, at the advanced age of 91. Mrs. E.S. Gearhart of Danville was the informant for the official Pennsylvania certificate of death. The remains were interred in Espy.
- Granddaughter Ella R. Creveling (1854- ? ) wed Edward Sayre Gearhart and found success teaching the Pennsylvania Railroad Bible class in Philadelphia, later moving to Danville, PA.
- Granddaughter Emma May Ruckle (1858- ? ) married Harvey C. Ruckle (Jan. 1857- ? ), a furniture factory laborer, and bore one daughter, Isabell Ruckle.
- Granddaughter Grace E. Creveling (1865-1947) was single and made her residence in Los Angeles in 1931. She died in 1947.
~ Son John Kreider ~
Son John Kreider (1796- ? ) was born in 1796. He died young.
~ Son Henry Kreider ~
Son Henry Kreider (1798- ? ) was born in 1798. As with his brother John, he died at a young age.
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