Paul R. Swan February 2005

Swan ~ Hartzell Family History

The Lineage of

Christian Mock & Mary Shearer

Christian was born 19 Jun 1782 in Pennsylvania. He died 23 May 1855 and was buried in Old Log Church, West St. Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania.

Christian and Mary married in Pennsylvania.

Mary was born 1783/1787 in Maryland. She died 8 Sep 1877 in Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, and was buried in Polly Creek Cem., Laclede, Pottawatomie, Kansas.

The parentage of Christian Mock of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, is quite well established. He was named as a son and heir in the intestate proceedings of Peter Mock who died 1812 at age 85 in Maryland. He was named in later papers concerning that estate (between 1825 and 1833) as living in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Thus it seems sure that Peter of Maryland and Christian of Bedford were indeed father and son.

There is some confusion in the literature, however. Christian’s burial record comes from the cemetery in St. Clair township of the Mock Dunkard Church built on land he contributed. An early history of Bedford County [Anon., 1884] incorrectly listed the second son of Peter Mock and Catharine Garn of St. Clair Township, Bedford as Christian, rather than Christopher. A later genealogist [Wilson, 192? and 1926] apparently relied on this, and incorrectly assigned the dates of Christian’s birth and death from the tombstone record to Christopher, son of Peter of Bedford. Later researchers compounded the error by assuming the name of that Peter’s son was Christian, instead of Christopher. The 1817 will of the Bedford county Peter clearly names his son as Christopher. Even today, various writers arbitrarily interchange Christian and Christopher in reporting tax and census records for St. Clair Township.

Several accounts of the Mock Dunkard church built on land given by Christian to the Brethren of the Running Creek District of Bedford County seem to have as their original source an account in the History of the Church of the Brethren in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which was quoted “verbatim” by Freeman Ankrum in Alexander Mack the Tunker and Descendants [Ankrum, 1943], from whom we borrow:

In 1841 Elder George Mack Holsinger (1804-1862), a grandson of Alexander Mack, Jr., moved fifteen miles (west) from the Yellow Creek congregation in Morrison’s Cove to the Pleasantville area of St. Clair Township. (See also our Teeter Family History regarding the Yellow Creek Church.) There he found a little group of Brethren whose leader was John Garber, a minister but a man too timid to preach. By 1843, under Holsinger’s leadership, a congregation had been formed and a church erected on ground given by Christian Mock, whose wife was a member of the Brethren. This little log building was build on Layton Road, about two miles south and west of Pleasantville, and roughly two miles from Alum Bank. It was still standing when visited by Ankrum sometime before 1943, two miles northwest of the modern church building, but the clay chinking was falling from between the logs. A 1955 photograph of Christian’s tombstone, with the log church in the immediate background, was published on page 47 of the first volume of the Brethren’s Encyclopedia. A second photograph is of the interior of the building. The captions describe it as the Mock meetinghouse built in 1843-44.

The congregation was at that time officially the Dunnings Creek Church of the Brethren, but they were known also as the Mock Dunkards. We do not know whether Christian was a Brethren before this time, or at all for that matter, but the informal name of the congregation points to the possibility of his having been an active member until his death some twelve years later, and burial right next to the church. On the other hand, Holsinger’s mother was a Mack, whose relatives changed their name to Mock when they came to the area, and some of them may well have been members of this church and given it its informal name.

(The Holsinger surname is prominent in the Brethren church, over twenty five being named in the “List of Ordained Ministers and Elders (1708-1980)” in the the Brethren Encyclopedia [Anon., 1983; v. III]. Holsingers were ministers in Antietam, Maryland, near where our Mocks and Shearers lived, and in Morrisons Cove, where our Teeter ancestors lived. John S. Holsinger (probably the John Snyder who was later an elder and minister in Iowa and Virginia) was an executor of Christian’s will, and Elder Henry Ritz Holsinger was Editor of the Christian Family Companion, the first weekly Tunker paper, and of Holsingers History of the Tunkers and the Brethren Church, Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, CA, 1901.)

The connection between Christian and Mary (Shearer) Mock and their daughter Margaret who married David Burger Teeter was originally based on a biography of their grandson Samuel M. Teeter in a Kansas county history [Anon., 1890]. The Album reports that Christian “was born in Franklin Co., Pennsylvania, whence he went to Maryland when quite young, and there became of age and married his wife, who was a native of that State. Mr. Mack was of Holland ancestry while the Shearers were of Swiss descent. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mack lived on a farm in Maryland for some years, and Mr. Mack followed his profession of a veterinary surgeon. They later removed to Franklin County, Pennsylvania where they sojourned eight years, thence going to Bedford County, where Mr. Mack engaged in farming, and also in Veterinary work.” Their grandson Samuel M. Teeter, the subject of the biography, followed his grandfather Christian into the profession of veterinary medicine.

There are several difficulties with the above account, written almost a century after the facts. The Holland ancestry, in particular, is highly doubtful, since a report of a ship embarkation from a Dutch port or a description of someone as “Pennsylvania Dutch” both lend themselves to misinterpretation. Also, a birth in Franklin Co., Pennsylvania in 1782 may not agree with the fact that Christian’s father Peter was in the Washington Co., MD militia in 1778 and 1779, and sold land in that county in 1783.

It’s difficult to apply firm dates to the itinerary outlined above. Their daughter Margaret’s obituary in Kansas says she was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland (in 1817), and “with her parents moved in infancy to Bedford County, Pennsylvania”. We do have a record that “Christian Mock of Washington Township Franklin County and Commonwelth of Pensylvania” purchased household goods in Frederick County, Maryland in 1823 [Frederick County, MD Land Records, Liber JS 17, Folio 569-70]. Thus a move north across the state line apparently occured between those dates. However, residency in Franklin County in 1823 conflicts with the 1820 Bedford County census which agrees exactly with the ages of the children. It may be that Christian either moved back and forth or maintained two homes for a period of time.

Early Bedford County, Pennsylvania records are difficult to interpret. A Christian Mock was taxed in St. Clair Township, Bedford County as early as 1808, where as a farmer he owned one cow and 258 acres valued at $528 on which he was taxed $2.64.

Fred Ickes claims [Mock Family Historian, v. VI, no. 2, pg 19, Spring, 1997] that the Crestian, Chrisley, Cristley and Christian Mock tax records (of some unspecified township) 1810 through 1816 were those of Christopher Mock, son of Peter of Bedford, and brother to Adam, but cites no sources to support that speculation.

There were over a dozen Mock families in St. Clair township from 1820 through 1850, and from 20 to 40 in Bedford County as a whole. Apparently none of these were closely related to our Christian, as he had no brothers who came there from Maryland with him. If he had uncles or cousins in the county, these have not as yet been identified as such, but the Peter Mock (1742-1813) in the county who proportedly came there from Maryland about 1768 had eight sons [Dittig, mock.rootsweb.com/Chart07.pdf].

The 1820 census for “Christian Mock” lists a male and two females under the age of 10 for the family, and a male aged 10 to 16. These will be interpreted below with regard to Christian’s children. Ickes [op. cit.] claims that the 1820 record was of Christopher censused “as Christian”, living beside Adam Mock. He also reports that in the next year, 1821, Christopher and Adam purchased adjacent tracts from the estate of Peter Mock of Bedford, and Christopher was taxed on that land until he sold it in 1824, but does not give citations.

The children in the 1830 census of Christian in St. Clair Township, Bedford Co. match the ages of the 1820 family, with another son and daughter born after 1825. Ickes [op. cit.] also identifies the 1830 census of Christian as that of Christopher, the son of Peter and Catherine (Carn) Mock, although giving no indication of how he came to that conclusion.

The 1840 census for “Christian Mock” in the township is a complete mystery. It lists only two adults, a woman in her 40’s, and another in her 60’s, and two males and two females below the age of ten. This is presumably not our Christian Mock, but why was he not censused that year? In the 1850 Bedford county census of Christian’s family in St. Clair township, are found his son Samuel, 22, and a Charles Hinkel, 10, living in the household. Samuel is known to be his son from Christian’s Bible as well as from his will. That document mentioned “all my children”, but named only Samuel and Matilda, the latter of whom was not listed in the Bible.

Christian Mock 69 Farm. 1000

Mary 66

Samuel 22 Farm.

Charles Hinkly 10

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1850 Census Series: M432 Roll: 751 Page: 168

St. Clair Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania

Although Charles Nunamaker at the top of this page was listed as born in Maryland, his wife was marked as Pennsylvania, and the rest of the page was, by implication (without actual ditto marks) Pennsylvania also. Isaac, Christian and Frederick Mock six pages earlier in St. Clair Township were of the Peter Mock of Bedford lineage.

The Album cited above stated that Christian died 1855 in Bedford country “past three score and ten” years of age, and that Mary survived him and in 1865 went to Iowa, then in 1874 to Kansas. A photograph of Christian’s tombstone, next to the Mock Meeting House, has been published in The Brethren Encyclopedia :

This constitutes the source of the death date and the (calculated) birth date of 19 Jun 1782 for Christian. The second photograph on that page shows the interior of the church, with a raised platform and wide lectern. Both photographs illustrate clearly the log construction of the building.

Christian’s will, signed (with an “x”) 14 May 1855, nine days before his death, bequeathed to his “dearly beloved wife Mary”, as long as she lived, his land, premises, and all of the rents and profits arising therefrom. He directed that his executors, Mary and John S. Holsinger, hold a vendue to sell his personal property. From the proceeds, if any remained after paying his debts, his son Samuel was bequeathed $50 for building and repairs. He further bequeathed to his wife one cow of her choice, one bed, and two hogs, and various household effects. Christian willed that his son Samuel “shall farm the place as long as they can agree”, and that he should give to his mother one third of all the grain he raised “in the bushel”, as much hay as she needed to feed her cow, and he was to have firewood “cut ready at the door”.

Christian provided in his will that the farm was to be sold as soon as practicable after Mary’s death, and that the proceeds were to be divided equally among “all my children” who, unfortunately, he failed to name. However, he did specify that Matilda was to have only five dollars of her share, the remainder to be held in trust for her children. If she were to be widowed before all of those children arrived at twenty one, however, and “if she would be needy”, she was “to have of the money as she sees fit”. As Margaret was also married and had eight children at this time and Magdalene had four daughters by 1860, there must have been some special reason for Matilda to be singled out this way. Perhaps Christian did not get along with that son-in-law.

There are several records that may apply to Mary Shearer’s ancestry:

In 1778, “The Worshipfull John Stull’s Returns” of Washington County, Maryland, listed Peter Mock, together with George, Isaac, Jacob, and Peter Sharer, as having sworn to the Oaths of Fidelity [Revolutionary Records of Maryland, Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Washington D.C., 1924]. Since Mary Shearer married Peter’s son Christian, it is not unlikely that one of these four men was her father. The names of all of these can be identified in a Washington County list (date not known) of Capt. Jacob Sarer’s Company which included Lietn. George Sarer, Sergt. Isaac Sharer, Peter Mock in the 5th class, and Peter Sarer in the 7th[1].

Possibly relevant is the record of Peter Shears, born 1749, Pvt. in the German Regiment of the Continental Line in a list of Revolutioary War Pensioners [ Maryland Revolutionary Records, Harry Wright Newman, Washinton, 1938].

Washington County Land Records, in Western Maryland Genealogy:

“Peter Jones of Jerusalem Town, nailsmith, to George Sharrer, blacksmith, and Sebastian Baker, taylor, of Washington Co. for £10: one pair of Ballies and one milk cow. Wit: George Hoffman, Jacob Zacharias”, dated and recorded 17 Oct 1781.

“Jacob Sharrer of Bedford Co., Shirley Twp., Pennsylvania, farmer, to Henry Pence of Washington Co., farmer, for £100: Kelly’s Delight, being land Charles Carroll, Esq., conveyed to Sharrer, 125 a. Wit: Jos. Chapline, John Stull”, dated 29 Nov, rec. 12 Dec. 1783.

“I, George Sharrer of Washington Co., owe Davis Smith of same £150, payable 15 Apr next. Condition: Lot 8 in Jerusalem Town and smith’s bellow, vise, and anvil, stock, etc. Wit: John Stull, John Cellar, Elie Williams, Richard Prather”, dated and recorded 23 mar 1784.

On 5 Jun 1789 the United congregation of the Evangelical, Lutheran, and Reformed churches subscribed to purchase land and build the Salem Church at what is now Pleasant Hall, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Subscribers included five Shearers: Peter (5£ 1sh), Henry (4£), Peter, Jr. (1£ 10sh), George (15sh), and Michael (10sh). All paid their pledges in full except Peter, Sr., who is recorded as having paid 3£ 12sh 8p [“The Church Book for Salem Church”, Marge Small Kieffer, in Franklin County Footnotes, vol. 1, no. 3, July-September, 1930].

A George Shearer was 2nd Corporal on 5 Sep 1812 in Capt. Andrew Oaks’ Greencastle Company in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. A John Shearer was Private in Capt. Andrew Robison’s Greencastle Company in Sep 1814. [Historical Sketch of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, I. H. M'Cauley, D. F. Pussel, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, 1878].

A Maria Shearer of Frederick Co., Maryland, married John F. Chingam on 8 Mar 1832 [Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Maryland Records, 1985, pg. 506 (Bemis R929.3752B834)].

A Rebecca Shearer somewhat older than Mary married a John McMillen, and their daughter Rebecca born 1796 married in 1822 Thomas Alford, brother of Hugh Alford of our ancestry, and a shoemaker in Shenango Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

A Heinrich Adam Scheer immigrated 16 Sep 1751 with Michael Burger on the Edinburgh.

Another interesting reference [Replogle Genealogy] is to a Johann Kasper Scherer and Anna Catharine Mueller of Dorrenbach, Germany. Their daughter Maria Katharina married 14 Feb 1736 Johann Adam Metzger. He was born 26 May 1701 in Niederlinxweiler, Mainzweiler, Germany, the son of Philip and Kathrine (Anna Catharine) Thom of Niederlinxweiler. Anna Catherine came as a widow to America, presumably with her son and daughter-in-law, and they settled in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Children married into Replogle and Broombaugh families. The Scherer surname may be only coincidence, or may provide clues to our lineages of that name.

From the Tax List of Maryland State Archives MARYLAND INDEXES (Assessment of 1783, Index) MSA S 1437

Peter Mock. Ringolds Mannor, pt, 70 acres. WA Marsh p. 4. MSA S1161-11-2. 1/4/5/54

Archibald Sharer. Jacks Bottom, 150 acres. WA Salisbury and Conocheague p. 48. MSA S1161-11-3. 1/4/5/54

George Sharer. WA Upper Antietam and Jerusalem p. 61. MSA S1161-10-9. 1/4/5/53

Peter Sharer. WA Upper Antietam and Jerusalem p. 62. MSA S1161-10-9. 1/4/5/53

Mary was living with her daughter Magdalene Emerick and family in 1860, wherein she reported Maryland as her birthplace:

Jacob Emerick 51 Farmer

Magdalene 32

mary 11 birthplace unknown for

Arnette 7 everyone except:

Margaret 2

Mary Mock 74 birthplae MD

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1860 Series: M653 Roll: 1072 Page: 484

PA BEDFORD ST CLAIR TWP

In 1870 Mary was living with her daughter Margaret and son-in-law David Burger Teeter in Des Moines Township, Jefferson County, Iowa.

David B. Teter 61 Farmer 4000/1200 PA

Margaret 53 Keeping House MD

Jacob 18 Farmer IA

Mary 10 IA

Joseph 7 IA

Samuel Teter 24 Farmer PA

Emaline 20 Keeping House IA

sarah 3 IA

Charles 1 IA

Harriett Glenn 15 IA

Mary Mack 84 No occupation MD

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 399 Page: 46

IA JEFFERSON DES MOINES TWP

The 1900 census of her daughter Margaret Teeter, mother of George, in Mill Creek Township, Pottawatomie, Kansas, gives her mother’s birth place as Pennsylvania, while the Kansas history [Anon., 1890] says Mary was a native of Maryland. Since Christian and Mary moved from Maryland to Pennsylvania when Margaret was an infant, Margaret might have always assumed that her mother was born in the state in which she herself was raised.

Margaret’s obituary in 1901 said she was to be buried in Stratton Cemetery, south of Laclede, “beside the graves of her husband and mother”. When I visited the graveyard, it was named Polly Creek Cemetery, four miles east and five miles north of Wamego. Mary’s tombstone reads

MARY MOCK

DIED

Sept. 8, 1877

AGED

90 yrs 7[?] ms 5 ds

The implied birth date is 3 Feb, not the May 1786 that I had originally from some family source, nor the June 1787 implied in the Kansas county history which had her death wrong by one year. Her age was given as 66 years in the 1850 census in Bedford County, indicating a birth year of 1783/84, and 74 and 84 in 1860 and 1870, respectively, implying a birth in 1785/86.

The children of Christian and Mary Mock are now well documented in the Mock Bible in the possession of Dr. Harold David Mock, and brought to my attention by his sister, Evelyn (Mock) Hirtle George. Printed in Nürnberg in 1765, the Bible inscriptions on three of the flyleaves include birth dates of sixteen Mocks and of three Leppos [George and Swan, 1998].

One page in the Bible has the following six inscriptions, with no indication of who the parents were. The third, fourth and fifth entries are in one hand, the other three were written by other individuals:

In the year of our lord 1817 Margaret Mock was born the 1st Day of May

In the year of our lord 1819 Reuben Mock was born February the 21st

February the 6th 1821 Priscilla Mock was born

March the 28th 1824 Manuel Mock was born

November the 19th 1826 Magdalena Mock was born

In the year of our Lord 1828 Samuel Mock was Born the 19 day of September

Margaret’s birth date is independently available from our family records, which confirms that the Bible record is of the birth of the daughter of Christian and Mary. Samuel, born 1828, is named as a son in Christian’s will signed 14 May 1855, and censused as 22 years of age in Christian’s home in 1850. These known relationships make it quite certain that this page consists of a listing of children of Christian Mock (1782-1855) of Maryland and Bedford Co., Pennsylvania.

However, the list is incomplete. The 1920 census for Christian listed a male born 1805-1810 who does not appear in the Bible. If this was a son, no further trace of him has been found. Also, Christian’s 1855 will mentioned a daughter Matilda who at that time was married with children. Although Christian bequeathed his estate equally among all of his children, he mentioned by name only Matilda (whose portion he reserved for her children) and Samuel.

Census records for the children of Christian Mock can be compared with the information above:

--- BIBLE RECORD --- 1820 CENSUS 1830 CENSUS

(missing) son 1804-1810

Matilda (missing) dtr 1810-1820 dtr 1815-1820

Margaret 1 May 1817 dtr 1810-1820 dtr 1815-1820

Reuben 21 Feb 1819 son 1810-1820 dtr 1815-1820

Priscilla 6 Feb 1821

Manuel 28 Mar 1824

Magdalene 19 Nov 1826 dtr 1825-1830

Samuel 19 Sep 1828 son 1825-1830

From this chart, it appears likely (although not certain) that the first son, as well as Priscilla and Manuel, had died by 1830. The assumption that Matilda is the first of three children born 1815-1820 is dictated by the placement of Margaret and Reuben’s birth dates within that period, so that 1815 seems the most likely estimate for Matilda’s birth year. This fits with the fact that in Christian’s 1855 will, he referred to “all of those children” when mentioning Matilda’s progeny. Her birth in 1815 would allow her to have had several children by 1855.

The eight children of Christian and Mary (Shearer) Mock were a son, Matilda, Margaret, Reuben, Priscilla †, Manuel †, Magdalene “Lanah” and Samuel.

i Unnamed, son, born 1805/1810. The 1820 census for Christian and Mary included a male born 1805-1810. As he was not listed in the Mock Bible, he was either a son who died early, or someone else temporarily in the household.

ii Matilda, daughter, born about 1815. Matilda’s name is known from her father’s will of 1855, at which time she was married with children, but we have no knowledge of her husband or childrens’ names.

iii Margaret, daughter, born 1 May 1817 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, died 31 Oct 1901 in Wamego and was buried in Polly Creek Cem. Margaret was married 26 Nov 1835 to David Burger Teeter {b 27 Feb 1809 in Morrison's Cove, Bedford, Pennsylvania, died 9 Apr 1883 in Wamego and was buried in Polly Creek Cem.}.

Margaret was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, and with her parents moved in infancy to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, according to her obituary [Wamego Reporter, 31 Oct 1901]. This is in apparent conflict with the fact that her father was taxed in St. Clair township, Bedford, in 1808, and censused there in 1820. See the discussion above concerning Christian and Mary’s moves before settling in St. Clair.

David was assessed1846 as a wheelwright on 61 acres of his own land valued at $425 in South Woodberry, Bedford, Pennsylvania. He and Margaret moved in September or October, 1847 to Jefferson Co., Iowa. He was censused there in 1850 as a carpenter, in 1852 and 1856 he was assessed as a cabinetmaker, and 1860 censused as a farmer:

David B. Teeter 51 Farmer 3000/640 PA

Margaret 43 MD

George 19 PA

Elizabeth 17 PA

Saml 14 PA

David 11 IA

Jacob 8 IA

Francis 6 IA

Frederick 4 IA

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1860 Series: M653 Roll: 328 Page: 188

IA JEFFERSON DES MOINES TWP

In 1870 David B. Teter was censused in Des Moines Township, Jefferson County. Also in his home were his son Samuel and family, and his mother-in-law Mary (Shearer) Mock.

David B. Teter 61 Farmer 4000/1200 PA

Margaret 53 Keeping House MD

Jacob 18 Farmer IA

Mary 10 IA

Joseph 7 IA

Samuel Teter 24 Farmer PA

Emaline 20 Keeping House IA

Sarah 3 IA

Charles 1 IA

Harriett Glenn 15 IA

Mary Mack 84 No occupation MD

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 399 Page: 46

IA JEFFERSON DES MOINES TWP

Two households before David the family of an Alexander Clark, 54, was censused with no wife and six children ranging from 8 to 21 (the three eldest being sons). Also in that home was a Margret Teter, 22 and born in Pennsylvania, keeping house. David’s brother John owned land just a mile away, and had 10 children of whom I know the names of only three. It seems likely that Margret was one of the daughters of John and Sarah.

David originally entered 40 acres of land 27 Nov 1847 in Sec 9 of Des Moines Twp, but sold that tract for $50 two months later to Samuel Brown. (Samuel figures prominently in land transactions involving not only David and his brother Abraham, but also several of the son’s of his uncle Isaac Teeter, two of whom married Brown daughters.) At that time, 24 Jan 1848, he purchased 135 acres in Sec. 4 from William Olney, using in part a mortgage of $250 on the new land from Samuel Brown. He was listed as a voter in Des Moines Twp. in 1848, along with Abrahm and Isaac K. Teeter.

Although he sold a 3 acre patch in 1850 to his neighbor Joseph Sketoe [G:338], David and Margaret resided on that farm until they left Iowa. In 1863 he borrowed $225 from John Haydon, mortgaging the farm until he paid off the note six months later [R:502].

In 1860 David loaned $140 to his brother Abraham, taking a mortgage on Abraham and Rebecca’s Lots 7 & 8 of Block 2 in the town of Absecom [R:253]. Located in Des Moines Twp., and described as both Absecam and Absecom in the Town Plat recorded 27 Jun 1855 (although later usually called Absecum), this town was five miles west of Libertyville. It was settled as a trading post and stage coach stop as early as 1846, and was busy until 1859 when the stage coach route was changed. By 1870 no trace of the town of 80 lots could be found, and the fate of the mortgage held by David and Elizabeth is unknown.

The land that David and Margaret farmed abuts on its east side the Dunkard, or German Brethren Cemetery, where many of our Teeter and Alford relatives. Their son John M., who died 17 Mar 1859 at the age of 20, was the first Teeter to be buried there. He with four more of the sons who died young and are in the first row along the Teeter side of the cemetery. So also are Susanna Heffner (Burger) Teeter, David’s mother, and, in row 9, Martha (Weller) Alford, mother of John Weller Alford who married David and Margaret’s daughter Elizabeth. Martha’s son William and wife Hannah, David’s brother Abraham and his wife Rebecca Ann (a daughter of Martha Alford), and five of Abraham and Rebecca’s children are among the twenty Teeters who lie in this Brethren Cemetery SE of Batavia.

The Brethren Church had been established there in 1838, when it was first organized by David Peebler and John Garber, the latter becoming the first minister. The meetings were held in private homes, schoolhouses, and barns for twenty years, until the first church was build 1858 in Sec. 4, probably on or adjacent to what is now the cemetery land. That building lasted until a couple of years after David and Margaret left for Kansas in 1874.

The year 1861 was a sad one for David and Margaret. They had twins in June of 1860, James William and Mary Agnes, but James died 13 Apr 1861 before his first birthday. Then 13 July their seven year old son Francis D. died, and on 29 August their son David M. died 20 days after his thirteenth birthday. Their 20 year old son John M. had died just two years previously, and their son Frederick S., five years of age in 1861, was destined to die two weeks before his thirteenth birthday.

The couple moved in 1874 to Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, where they were censused 1880. Their two youngest children, Mary and Joseph, were still at home with them that year.

David B. TEETER Self M M W 71 PA Farmer PA PA

Margaret TEETER Wife M F W 63 PA Keeping House MD MD

Joseph TEETER Son S M W 17 IA Farmer PA PA

Mary TEETER Dau S F W 19 IA PA PA

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1880 Census Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas

Family History Library Film 1254393

NA Film Number T9-0393 Page Number 347D

David died in 1883, and Margaret was living with her son George W. Teeter in Onaga City, Mill Creek Township, Pottawatomie, Kansas, according to the 1 Jun 1900 census:

George Teeter 1841, 59 Day Laborer PA PA PA

Phebe C. 1845, 55 IA OH OH

George R. 1878, 22 R. R. Laborer, both ch born KS

Aggie K. 1881, 18, overwritten with 19, or v.v.

Margaret 1817, 83 12 children, 5 living PA PA PA

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 495 Page: 104

TEETER GEORGE 59 M W PA KS POTTAWATOMIE MILL CRK TWP

She and David were members of the German Baptist church. Her obituary said she was to be buried in Stratton Cemetery, south of Laclede, beside the graves of her husband and mother. This was called Polly Creek Cemetery when I visited it to see and photograph the tombstones, which are still in good condition. Her tombstone reads:

MARGARET TEETER

Died Oct. 31, 1901

Aged 84 Yrs. 5 Mos. 30 Ds.

which implies a birth date of 1 May 1817, in full agreement with her birth as recorded in the Mock Bible.

The entire family’s birth data and some death data are from David’s Bible, entries for dates before May 1869 are all in one pen and hand. The 1950 census ages for the family don’t agree at all well with the dates in the bible. I’ve noted the discrepancies for each individual.

David was a carpenter, wheelwright, and cabinet-maker and farmer. He spent some years as a teacher in both German and English, and held many local offices in his township, Deacon of the German Baptist Church for forty years. [Portrait and Biographical Album, <1901]

The Bethren Church in Des Moines Twp., Iowa where many of the family are buried was established in 1838, and closed 1974.

David died Monday, 9 Apr 1883 [Obituaries, Kansas Reporter and Kansas Agriculturist, both Wamego, 13 Apr 1883]. Interred Polly Creek Cemetery, Pottawatomie Co., now called Stratton Cemetery, south of Laclede, beside the graves of his wife and her mother. His tombstone reads:

DAVID B.

TEETER

DIED

April 9, 1883

AGED

74 yrs 1 mo 12 d

and directly behind is a small, vertical footstone with the initials D. B. T. This death date and age implies a birth date of 25 Feb, not 27 Feb.

The twelve children of David Burger and Margaret (Mock) Teeter were Christian, John M., George W., Elizabeth, Samuel M., David M., Jacob E., Francis D., Frederic S., james William, Mary Agnes and Joseph Eby Teeter, born 1836 through 1862.

1 Christian, son, born 4 Sep 1836 and died 14 Mar 1839.

2 John M., son, born 29 Nov 1838 in Pennsylvania, died 17 Mar 1859 and was buried in Brethren Cem., Des Moines Twp., Jefferson, Iowa. Birth and death from tombstone. Frances Bishop has this birth as 19 Nov, census of 1850 had him 12 years of age.

3 George W., son, born 7 Feb 1841 in Pennsylvania and died 3 Jun 1903 in Onaga, Pottawatomie, Kansas. George W. was married 6 Feb 1862 in Jefferson, Iowa to Phoebe Catherine Winder {b 12 Mar 1845 in Wapello, Iowa, and died 29 Mar 1930 in Arispy, Pottawatomie, Kansas}.

Marriage recorded 1862 in Jefferson, Iowa, just two weeks after the marriage of John Weller “Alfred” and Elizabeth Teeter, his sister, by the same county judge, A. R. Fulton.

George and Phoebe had nine children born 1862-1880, according to some source now lost. From the 1880 census of their childrens’ birthplaces, the family moved to Kansas in 1870.

George Teters 29 Farmer PA

Catharine 25 Keeping House IA

Duane 8 IA

Samuel 4 IA

Louisa 2 IA

Belle Baker 10 IA

David Brown 17 Farm Laborer PA

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 399 Page: 51

IA JEFFERSON DES MOINES TWP 1870

Geo. W. Teeter Self M M 39 PA Farmer PA PA

P. C. Teeter Wife M F 35 IA Housekeeper OH OH

Fransis D. Teeter Son S M 17 IA PA IA

Saml. Teeter Son S M 14 IA PA IA

Eliza M. Teeter Dau S F 12 IA At School PA IA

Mary E. Teeter Dau S F 10 IA At School PA IA

Minnie E. Teeter Dau S F 7 KS At School PA IA

Phebe C. Teeter Dau S F 5 KS At School PA IA

Geo. R. Teeter Son S M 2 KS PA IA

Andrew CLARK Other S M 30 SCT Stock DealerSCT SCT

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1880 Census Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas

Family History Library Film 1254393

NA Film Number T9-0393 Page Number 298A

George Teeter 1841 59 Day Laborer PA PA PA

Phebe C. 1845 55 IA OH OH

George R. 1878 22 R. R. Laborer, both ch born KS

Aggie K. 1881 18 overwritten with 19, or v.v.

Margaret 1817 83 12 children, 5 living

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 495 Page: 104

KS POTTAWATOMIE MILL CRK TWP

The only child of George W. and Phoebe Catherine (Winder) Teeter was Phoebe Catherine, who married Wiliam Benjamin Brownlee.

4 Elizabeth, daughter, born 27 Apr 1843 in Bedford, Pennsylvania, died 24 May 1906 in Mulhall, Logan, Oklahoma Terr., and was buried in Rose Hill Cem., Cleveland, Oklahoma. Elizabeth was married 23 Jan 1862 in Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa to John Weller Alford {b 25 Feb 1837 in New Castle, Beaver, Pennsylvania, died 21 Jan 1905 in Henderson, Cleveland, Oklahoma Terr., and was buried in Rose Hill Cem.}.

Census of 1850 had Elizabeth as 9 years of age, in disagreement by at least two years with her birth date as given in her obituary.

Elizabeth had been ill for some time “with dropsy [edema] and heart trouble”, and had been living in Mulhall with her dauhters for some weeks prior to her death. Her obituary Friday, 25 May 1906 in The Mulhall Enterprise, said that she died[2] “Thursday afternoon, May 24th”, and her remains were taken on the evening train “to be laid beside her husband in Hill’s Chapel cemetery near their home in Cleveland County”. Elizabeth “joined the Dunkard church when quite young and remained in that faith until death”, according to her obituary.

John “Alfred” on 23 Jun 1868 bought Lots No. 15 &16, Old Plat, Batavia, for $25. His mother Martha had the previous year bought Lot 13. If these lot numbers are the same as those given on a 1939 town plan, John’s lots were on Main (3rd) Street, while Martha’s was at the other end of the same block. The corner lot No. 16, on Alto Street, later became the site of the town fire department.

The birth of their daughter Olive May in March, 1868, is recorded in the FHL IGI both in Batavia and in Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, some 25 miles to the southeast. It is possible the family lived there for a short while after Mary Jane’s birth in Batavia 1866, and their purchase of house lots in Batavia marks a move back near his mother’s place right after Olive’s birth.

J. W. Alfred testified at the 12 Jan 1873 marriage of his brother-in-law Jacob E. Teeter, 20, and Eliza Smock, 18, in Batavia. This may be a misprint for Snook, since an Emeline Snook had married Samuel M. Teeter, another brother of Eizabeth, in 1866.

I once had recorded that John was censused 1870 in Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa, but I’m unable to find him in the Heritage Quest Index. He was in Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas by 1880:

John ALFORD Self M M 45 PA Farmer PA PA

Elizabeth ALFORD Wife M F 37 PA Keeping House PA ..

David ALFORD Son S M 17 IA Farmer PA PA

Georg E ALFORD Son S M 16 IA Farmer PA PA

Mary ALFORD Dau S F 14 IA PA PA

Olive ALFORD Dau S F 12 IA PA PA

William ALFORD Son S M 9 IA PA PA

Maggie ALFORD Dau S F 7 IA PA PA

Louis ALFORD Son S M 6 IA PA PA

Elizabeth ALFORD Dau S F 4 KS PA PA

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1880 Census Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas

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Elizabeth’s obituary said that she and John moved in 1876 to Kansas where they lived twenty years, and that they spent the last ten years (as of 1906) in Oklahoma near Henderson in Cleveland county.

A death notice in The Lexington Leader of Friday, 27 Jan 1905 says that “John Alford, 86 years old, died Thursday[3] at his home near Henderson”. Lexington, referred to as a city in that notice, is today a small Cleveland county town south of Norman on the South Canadian River, and Henderson was probably nearby, although it has disappeared by now. He was described as a prominent farmer of his neighborhood.

The nine children of John Weller and Elizabeth (Teeter) Alford were David, George, Mary Jane “Merrie”, Olive may, William, Margaret “Maggie”, Louis, Elizabeth and Lillian, born 1863 through about 1880. Mary Jane “Merrie” (pronounced “Mary”) married John Eaton Hartzell, and these were my maternal grandparents.

5 Samuel M., son, born 8 Aug 1845 in Morrison's Cove. Samuel M. was married 28 Jul 1866 in Jefferson to Emaline “Emma” Snook {b about 1848}. Emma, or Emaline, was daughter of Jacob and Sarah “Sally” A. (Price) Snook. [Iowa Ancestors] Their marriage was recorded in Jefferson, Iowa.

Samuel and Emaline, with two small children, were living with his father in 1870 in Jefferson County, Iowa (see above for census).

By 1880 they were in Pottawatomie, Kansas:

Sam M. TEETER Self M M 34 PA Farmer PA PA

Emma TEETER Wife M F 32 IA Housekeeper PA PA

Sarah M. TEETER Dau S F 13 IA PA IA

Chas. TEETER Son S M 11 IA At Home PA IA

David TEETER Son S M 9 IA At Home PA IA

Adaline TEETER Dau S F 6 KS At Home PA IA

John TEETER Son S M 4 KS PA IA

James TEETER Son S M 10M KS PA IA

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1880 Census Rock Creek, Pottawatomie, Kansas

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I was unable to locate Samuel or Emaline in the 1900 census.

6 David M. †, son, born 9 Aug 1848 in Jefferson, died 29 Aug 1861 in Jefferson and was buried in Brethren Cem. Birth and death from tombstone. 1850 census has David as 3 years old, born Iowa.

7 Jacob E., son, born 23 Feb 1850 in Iowa and died 5 Apr 1873 in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington. Jacob E. was married 12 Jan 1873 in Batavia to Eliza E. Smock {b Feb 1849}.

I’ve lost the source of the record I found of this couple’s marriage:

Jacob E. Teeter, 20, married Eliza Smock, 18 on 12 Jan 1873 in Batavia, Jefferson, Iowa, “test. J. W. Alfred”, probably John Weller Alford.

On 29 Apr 2003 a cousin, Kari Teeter Kandoll, contacted me via e-mail and provided the following account of her descent from Jacob and Eliza:

“Jacob E. Teeter born 2/23/1850 in Iowa; died 4/5/1873 in Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. He married Eliza E. Smock 1/12/1873 in Jefferson County, Iowa.

“Children:

1. Cameron Teeter born 1877 in Iowa.

2. Ernest Wilbur Teeter born 1878 in Kansas. Maybe died in Montana.

3. Bertha M. Teeter born 1879; died 1939 in Olympia, Thurston County, WA. She married Walter C. Cummings who died 26 Jan 1974 (see transcript of death certificate). They are buried in the Yelm Cemetery, Yelm, Thurston County, WA.

4. Clarence Elmer Teeter born 5/16/1882 in Batavia, Jefferson County, IA; died 11/2/1945 in Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. He married (1) Edna Pearl Cartwright 06/16/1903 in Oskaloosa, IA (divorced), (2) Hazel Elenor Schaffner 11/26/1926 in Tacoma, Pierce County, WA.

5. Charles W. Teeter born 08/1889 in Iowa.

“My father Donald D. Teeter is Clarence and Hazel’s son.”

The five children of Jacob E. and Eliza E. (Smock) Teeter were Cameron, Ernest, Bertha, Clarence E. and Charles W., born 1877 through 1889 in Iowa.

8 Francis D. †, son, born 23 Jan 1854, died 13 Jul 1861 in Jefferson and was buried in Brethren Cem.

9 Frederic S. †, son, born 6 Jun 1856, died 20 May 1869 in Jefferson and was buried in Brethren Cem. Birth and death from tombstone.

10 James William †, son, born 29 Jun 1860, died 13 Apr 1861 in Jefferson and was buried in Brethren Cem. Birth and death from tombstone. He was a twin to Mary Agnes.

11 Mary Agnes, daughter, born 29 Jun 1860 and died 13 Nov 1932. Mary Agnes married Broun Garrett.. Her death date is from Frances Bishop, confirmed by David’s Bible. Mary Agnes and her brother James William were twins, but James died before their first birthday.

I was unable to locate Mary Agnes and Broun anywhere in the country in the 1900 census index. The only child of Broun and Mary Agnes (Teeter) Garrett was Libbie Agnes, born 1889.

12 Joseph Eby, son, born 25 Nov 1862 in Batavia and died 2 Nov 1941 in Wamego. Joseph Eby was married 1 Oct 1885 to Erse Cleona Barrett (1) {b 10 Dec 1864 in Assumption, Christian, Illinois, and died 28 Feb 1944 in Wamego}. He was married 14 Nov 1917 in Wamego, Pottawatamie, Kansas to Mary Margaret Harstine (2) { died 2 Nov 1941 in Wamego}.

Family information from Frances Bishop of Topeka, many years ago. David’s Bible has Joseph’s death on 4 Nov 1941. I’ll stick with Frances’ date of 2 Nov.

The seven children of Joseph Eby and Erse Cleona (Barrett) Teeter were Frank Corbin, Laura Lelia, Marcus Dow, Loipaid Carl, Louis Floyd, Joseph Wingate and Mabel Marian, born 1886 through 1902.. Frances Bishop provided me with most of the information shown here on the descendants of Joseph Eby Teeter. This was many years ago, at the start of my search for my Teeter ancestors, including the children of Mabel Marian, but I do not now know in what year I met with Frances at her home in Topeka, Kansas.

iv Reuben, son, born 21 Feb 1819 in Pennsylvania, died 12 Apr 1883 and was buried in Keagy Cemetery, Pennsylvania. Reuben married Elizabeth Hoffman {b 3 Sep 1824 in Pennsylvania and died 4 Jul 1892 in Keagy Cemetery}.

One flyleaf of the Mock Bible contains the following inscriptions, where doubtful readings are shown with question marks and parenthetical guesses.

Rheuben Mock Was born february the 21 in the year of our lord 1821 [sic]

Elizabeth Mock Was born septtember the 3 in the year of our lord 1824

Christtopher Mock was born january the 1 in the year of our lord 1843

Mary ann Mock was born April the 2 1846

Lydia Mock was born March the ? 1848 (1 or 7)

Elisebeth Mock was born 1849

March the ???

Samuel Mock was born 1851

Magdelenia Mm Mock was born September the ?? ????

Isaac Mock was born november the 9 1858

Matilda susan Mock was born August the 18 1864(?)

jacob Mock was born September the 12 1861(?)

Reuben’s birth year of 1821 given here does not agree with the 1819 given on the previous page, nor with the inscription on his tombstone, which also reads 1819. The March entry between Elisebeth and Samuel could belong to either, and the faint, scribbled day is enigmatic. The “Mm” letters following Magdelenia’s name might have been an aborted attempt to write Mock which was not crossed out. The date for Isaac is very faint, and Evelyn Hirtle George reads it as 1 Nov 1857. The two dates in the 1860s are quite hard to read, and at least one is probably incorrect, as all of the other dates were entered chronologically.

Evelyn lists from other sources two possible additional children of Reuben and Elizabeth, John R. and Emanuel David (b 1865). As these are undocumented in bible or estate records, I don’t accept them as children in this family.

From Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 807-808 as quoted on ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/blair/bios/sell/mil-par.txt:

“Reuben Mock was born in Maryland and was young when he was brought to Bedford County by his parents being reared at Pleasantville where they lived for many years. After his marriage he removed to Woodbury Township, in Bedford County, where he engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1884. In his earlier years he was something of a horseman and it was told how he successfully drove a six-horse team all the way from Morrison’s Grove to Baltimore, carrying grain and produce. This was before railroad days and, considering the difficulties, was considered something of a feat. He used the famous Conestoga wagon which was especially constructed for long distances and heavy loads. It has been celebrated in story and poem. Reuben Mock was well known and was a welcome visitor at many a fireside and public gathering. He was of the pioneer type, brave, resourceful and efficient. He was a member of the Brethren church and was a stanch supporter of the Democratic party. He married Elizabeth Hoffman, a daughter of Rev. Christian Hoffman who was a pioneer preacher of the River Brethren faith in Bedford County.”

Although Reuben and Elizabeth had four children by 1850, I was unable to find them in the 1850 census.

In 1860 Reuben and Elizabeth were censused with seven children in Middle Woodbury Township, Bedford County. Note that Elisabeth doesn not appear in the home this year (see discussion below).

Ruben Mock 37 Farmer 0/1008 all born PA

Elizabeth 35

Christian 17 farm hand

Mary A. 15

Lydia 13

Samuel 9

Magdulina 4

Isaac 3

Matilda 10/12

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1860 Series: M653 Roll: 1072 Page: 327

PA BEDFORD MIDDLE WOODBURY

The next household censused in 1860 was probably that of a brother of Elizabeth, Christn and Mary Hoffman, both 40, wih children John, Leah, Isaac and Susan, ages 22, 19, 19 and 17.

In 1870 daughter Mary was gone from the household, but the three youngest children children had appeared during the decade - and Reuben had aged 13 years:

Reuben Mock 50 Farmer 4750/1000

Elizabeth 46 Keeping House

Lydia 23

Samuel 19 all born PA

Magdaline 16

Isaac 14

Matilda 10

Jacob 8

John 6

Emanuel 4

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 1304 Page: 539

PA BEDFORD MIDDLE WOODBURY

Reuben and Elisabeth were censused in 1880 by a lisping census taker with his own ideas on the spelling of given names. The FHL transcription, re-edited here, recorded the “w” as “u” in Reuben’s name, apparently settling for half-right. Presumably Matilda worked in someone else’s home, but resided with her parents.

Rhewben MOCK Self M Male W 61 MD Farmer PA PA

Elithabeth MOCK Wife M Female W 56 PA Keeping House PA PA

Matilda MOCK Dau S Female W 20 PA Servant MD PA

Jacob MOCK Son Male W 18 PA Farmer MD PA

John MOCK Son Male W 16 PA Farmer MD PA

Emanuel MOCK Son Male W 14 PA Farmer MD PA

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1880 Census Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania

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Their son Samuel was censused adjacent to them that year, with his own son Rhewben.

Over six years ago I plotted the metes and bounds of Reuben’s land inherited by his children. Unfortunately, I’ve since lost the source identification and any hint of the location of this land, other than somewhere in Woodbury Township, Bedford County:

Elizabeth’s father the Rev. Christian Hoffman was a pioneer preacher of the River Brethren faith in Bedford County [Sell, Jesse C., “Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens”, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 807-808 as cited on

ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/blair/bios/sell/mil-par.txt].

From another reference, homepages.rootsweb.com/~holinger/hollyhoffman.htm :

“Christian Hoffman was born 1799 in Pa. he was a Brethren Preacher he married Mary Longenecker b. 1800 Londonderry twp. Pa. they lived in Woodbury twp. children were: Elizabeth Hoffman b.1824 married Reuben Mock, Lydia Hoffman, Nancy Hoffman, Isaac Hoffman b. abt.1829, Christian Longenecker Hoffman b. Nov.13,1830 he married Annie Nancy Bassler, Sarha Hoffman b. Oct.24,1832 married Jacob B. Stern, John Hoffman b. abt 1838, Leah Ann Hoffman b. Oct.11,1840 married Jeremiah Hollinger, Susan Hoffman b. Feb.12,1843 married Henry S. Guyer.”

In summary:

Hoffman, Christian born 1799

m Mary Longenecker

Elizabeth born 1824

m Reuben Mock

Lydia

Nancy

Issac

Christian

Sarah

John

Leah Ann

Susan

The eleven children of Reuben and Elizabeth (Hoffman) Mock were Christian H., Mary Ann, Lydia, Elisebeth, Samuel H., Margaret Magdalene, Isaac Scott, Matilda Susan, Jacob Irvin, John R. and Emauel David Mock:

1 Christian H., son, born 1 Jan 1843 in Pennsylvania. Christian H. married Elizabeth Smith {b 1844/1845 in Pennsylvania}.

I have from the Mock Bible of Evelyn Hirtle-George that Christian was also recorded as “Christtopher”, where his birth date was also recorded. He was “Cristen”, aged 7, in the 1850 census, and “Christian”, 17, in the 1860 census.

To illustrate the difficulties of identification in Bedford County of Christian Mocks, note first that Christian, age 17, was censused in his father’s home in 1860, adjacent to a Hoffman household - his mother’s maiden name.

In 1870 a Christopher Mock, age 27, was censused with wife Elizabeth, between his father and John Hoffman, 32, and family, who was in turn censused adjacent to Mary Hoffman, 70, living alone, the latter being Christian’s grandmother. Considering the known history of confusing Christian and Christopher, this would appear to be a record of Christian, son of Reuben and grandson of Christian and Mary Hoffman:

Christopher Mock 27 Farmer 0/200

Elizabeth 26 Keeping House

Alice 4

Anna 2

Ladia 6/12

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 1304 Page: 539

PA BEDFORD MIDDLE WOODBURY

However, ten years later, Christian Mock, age 38, and wife Elizabeth were censused with children of apparently completely different names:

Christian MOCK Self M M W 38 PA Cattle Dealer PA PA

Elizabeth MOCK Wife M F W 35 PA Keeping House PA PA

Mary A. MOCK Dau S F W 15 PA At Home PA PA

Maggie MOCK Dau S F W 10 PA PA PA

Ella MOCK Dau S F W 6 PA PA PA

Gertrude MOCK Dau S F W 3 PA PA PA

Homer MOCK Son S M W 6M PA PA PA

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1880 Census Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania

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Should this be interpreted as the same family, with Alice now named as Mary A., Ladia now as Maggie (presumably Lydia Margaret or v.v.), and Anna died young? I confess I can’t be sure, but believe so, and am assuming that to be the case. So be warned of my assumptions when examining the children in this family:

The six children of Christian H. and Elizabeth (Smith) Mock:

i Mary Alice, daughter, born 1863/1866 in Pennsylvania, married John C. Dillon, born 1859/60 in Pennsylvania. John was a Bolt Maker for a Steam Railway in Altoona Pennsylvania in 1920, and they had a son Ray E. aged 12 that year. Mary’s brother Homer was living with them that year also (see below).

John C. Dillon 60 Bolt Maker, Steam Railway

Mary A. 54

Ray E. 23 Machinist Helper, Steam Railway

Homer Mock 40 Lodger, Machinist Helper ditto

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1920 Series:T625 Roll:1539 Page:153

PA BLAIR 7-WD ALTOONA CITY

ii Anna †, daughter, born 1867/1868.

iii Maggie Lydia, daughter, born 1869/1870 in Pennsylvania. Please see the note above concerning this daughter’s name.

iv Ella, daughter, born 1873/1874 in Pennsylvania.

v Gertrude, daughter, born 1876/1877 in Pennsylvania.

vi Homer, son, born 1877/1880 in Pennsylvania. There were two Homer Mocks censused at age 32 in 1910, but only one of whose parents were both born in Pennsylvania.

Homer L. Mock, in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, was 32 years of age and working as a laborer in the P. R R. shops. He was living with Jesse W. and Esther M. Parks, and listed as brother-in-law [Series: T624 Roll: 1317 Page: 125]. Esther was 25 years old, and so born 1884/85, and could have been a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth for whom we don’t have any other record. Again, I’m assuming this record is of the son of Christian, and consequently adding Esther to the family, but caution the reader that I have seen no supporting evidence beyond this census record.

In 1920 Homer Mock, in Altoona, was 40 years of age and a boarder in the home of John C. and Mary A Dillon (see above). Mary was 54 years of age, born in Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania parents, and thus surely the sister of Homer. On the basis of this record, I’ve added her marriage to John.

vii Esther, daughter, born 1884/85 in Pennsylvania, married Jesse W. Parks, born 1884/85 in Pennsylvania, a machinist in the P. R. R shops in 1910.. In 1920 they were still in Altoona, Jesse listed now as a plumber in the P. R. R. shops.

Jesse W. Parks 34 all born PA of

Esther M. 35 PA born parents

Jess W. Jr. 9

jack R. 5

Kenneth W. 2 6/12

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1920 Series:T625 Roll:1539 Page:145

PA BLAIR 7-WD ALTOONA CITY

2 Mary Ann, daughter, born 2 Apr 1846 in Woodbury, Bedford County, and died 23 Oct 1909 in Bedford County. Mary Ann married Adam B. Guyer {b 17 Feb 1845 and died 17 Jan 1916 in Bedford}.

Adam and Mary were censused 1870 in Middle Woodbury Township, Bedford County, he 25 and she 23 years, and with no children at that time.

They were still in Woodbury Township in 1880:

Adam B. GUYER Self M M W 34 PA Farmer PA PA

Mary GUYER Wife M F W 33 PA Keeping House PA PA

William H. GUYER Son S M W 9 PA PA PA

Seward GUYER Son S M W 7 PA PA PA

Myrtle GUYER Dau S F W 3 PA PA PA

Oscar GUYER Son S M W 3M PA PA PA

Saml. D. SMOUSE Other S M W 14 PA Servant PA PA

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1880 Census Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania

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Adam and Mary A. Guyer were censused 1900 again in Woodbury Township, both aged 55 years and married 30 years. Mary was reported to have had four children, all living, and Myrtle, age 23 born 1876, and Oscar, age 20 born 1880 , were still living at home.

Adam B. Guyer was censused 1910 as a widower, aged 65, in Bloomfield Township, Bedford County. He was living with Daniel J. and Myrtle Reininger, and listed as Father-in-Law

The four children of Adam B. and Mary Ann (Mock) Guyer:

i William H., son, born 1870/1871 in Pennsylvania. There were two men of that name born in Pennsylvania of age 28 in 1900, but the one in Blair County had a middle initial R. The other Willaim was located in the western part of the state in Beaver County, with wife Myrtal and son Carlos M, and they reappeared in 1920, as Myrtle E. and William H., in East Huntington Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was a 39 year old minister, and they had been married for 12 years with four children, Carlos M., 11, Jamie M., 9, Elizabeth, 6, and William M., 4. I feel that these are probably records of the son of Mary Ann and Adam, as the middle initial and age is correct, but warn the reader that it’s difficult to be sure of connections based on census records across the state. Myrtle was born in Ohio, her father in Ohio and her mother in Pennsylvania.

ii Seward, son, born Oct 1871 in Pennsylvania. Seward married Ada ____ {b Aug 1899 in Pennsylvania}.

Seward was living in Blair County, north of Bedford, in 1900 with his wife Ada and daughter Mary:

Seward W. Guyer Oct 1871 28 Salesman, Shoe Store

Ada Oct 1875 24 m 2 yrs, 1 ch, 1 living

Mary A. Aug 1899 9/12

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1380 Page: 164

GUYER SEWARD W 29 M W PA PA BLAIR 4-WD ALTOONA

Seward died before 1910, for Ada was censused as a widow living in Woodbury Borough, Bedford County that year with her daughter and son:

Ada Guyer 34 No occupation

Mary 10 All born PA of

Warren H. 8 PA born parents

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1910 Series:T624 Roll:1312 Page:70

PA BEDFORD WOODBURY BORO

iii Myrtle, daughter, born 1875/1877 in Pennsylvania. Myrtle married Daniel J. Reininger {b 1880/1881 in Pennsylvania}.

Daniel J. and Myrtle Reininger were censused 1910 in in Bloomfield Township, Bedford, and her father Adam B. Guyer, 65, was living with them [Series: T624 Roll: 1311 Page: 242]. Daniel was 29, Myrtle 34, and they had been married eight years. I found neither I could find neither Daniel or Myrtle anywhere in the country in 1920, but a mis-spelling of his surname could effectively hide them.

iv Oscar, son, born 1879 in Pennsylvania. Oscar married Ada ____ {b 1882/1883}.

Why Oscar didn’t appear in the 1910 census with two sons is unknown, but he and his family were in South Woodbury Township, Bedford County in 1920:

Oscar Guyer 38 Farmer

Ada 37

Glen 15

Chester 13

Richard 11

Adam 7

Margaret 4 11/12

Mearld, son 1 9/12

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1533 Page: 90

PA BEDFORD SOUTH WOODBURY

3 Lydia, daughter, born Mar 1848 and died in 1887. Lydia married Charles F. Hartman {b 1848/1849 in Pennsylvania}.

Lydia and Charles were censused 1880 with her brother Isaac living with them:

Charles F. HARTMAN Self M M W 31 PA Wagon Maker PA PA

Lydia HARTMAN Wife M F W 31 PA Keeping House PA PA

George R. HARTMAN Son S M W 4 PA PA PA

Jason HARTMAN Son S M W 1 PA PA PA

Isaac MOCK BroL S M 23 PA School Teacher PA PA

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1880 Census Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania

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There was a Charles F. Hartman, age 52 and married 10 years, in the 1900 census for North Woodbury Township, but that man was born in Maryland, and his wife’s name was given as Lucinda. Given the errors in censuses, and since I don’t have a death date for Lydia, I mention this here for future use in researching this family.

The two children of Charles F. and Lydia (Mock) Hartman:

i George R., son, born 1875/1876 in Pennsylvania. There were too many men of the right name, age and birthplace in the 1900-1920 censuses to identify which one was the son of Lydia and Charles. Most were living in Pennsylvania, but none in Bedford County.

ii Jason, son, born 1878/1879 in Pennsylvania. There was on e Jason Hartman in North Woodbury Township, Blair County, in 1910 [Series: T624 Roll: 1318 Page: 14], but the census was so poorly written and copied that I could read neither the name of his wife nor of their two sons. His age was given as 31, his wife as 28, and their sons as 5 and 2 years. He was probably not the Jason Hartman, born May 1875, boarding in Alleghany Township, Blair County ten years earlier.

4 Elisebeth, daughter, born in 1849. Our only knowledge of Elisebeth is her listing in the Mock Family Bible. There is a cryptic, incompletely readable date after her name (see above), and I’m now wondering if that was a date of her death as an infant. She does not appear in the 1860 censuses of Reuben’s family.

5 Samuel H., son, born 25 Mar 1851 and died 9 Oct 1934. Samuel H. was married 1875/1876 to Anna Katherina Nicodemus {b 16 Jul 1858 in Blair Co., Pennsylvania, and died 1910/1920}.

The information on this family was originally taken from the IGI, which cites as source: “Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No additional information is available.”

Samuel was censused in 1880 next to his father:

Samuel MOCK Self M M W 29 PA Farmer MD PA

Anna MOCK Wife M F W 21 PA Keeping House PA PA

Cora MOCK Dau S F W 3 PA PA PA

Rheuben MOCK Son S M W 1 PA PA PA

Leah MOCK Dau S F W 2M PA PA PA

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1880 Census Place Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania

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I could not find Samuel censused 1900 anywhere in Pennsylvania. In 1910, however, he was still in Woodbury Township, Bedford County:

Samuel Mock 59 34 yrs married Farmer

Anna 52 7 ch, 6 living

Lloyd 19 Laborer

Grace 17

Pearl 14

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1318 Page: 19

PA BLAIR NORTH WOODBURY TWP

Samuel was censused in 1920 in the home of his daughter Pearl Wineland. There were three other Wineland families censused in sequence before George:

George A. Wineland 26 Farmer

Pearl M. 24

Samuel E. 1 7/12

Samuel H. Mock 68 Father in Law, widower

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1540 Page: 150

PA BLAIR NORTH WOODBURY

Anna’s parents and Nicodemus grandparents appear in an Ancestry World Tree, but that source shows only three children in her own family, Virginia, Mary and W. Lloyd Mock, and provides no dates for them. Mary and Lloyd appear in the list of children as obtained from the IGI for Samuel and Anna, but Virginia does not. (The IGI entry for George and Mary (O’Haley) Nicodemus does not list Anna as a child.). Both the ancestry and the children of Anna given here are quite unsatisfactorily documented, and should be treated with extreme caution.

The seven children of Samuel H. and Anna Katherina (Nicodemus) Mock:

i Cora, daughter, born 1877 in Pennsylvania.

ii Reuben, son, born 1878/1879 in Pennsylvania. I was unable to find Reuben censused anywhere in the country in 1900 or 1910.

iii Mary, daughter, born 1881 in Pennsylvania. This daughter was, however, clearly named as Leah, 2 months of age and born in April, in the 1880 census.

iv Virginia, daughte. Virginia married ____ Bonebreak. Accepting the World Tree name of Virginia, but with no date, and married to a Bonebreak, but no first name, this census in Blair County in 1920 seems apossibility for the daughter of Samuel and Anna. It implies a birth date of 1880/81.

Harry Bonebreak 38 Locomotive Machinist

Virginia 39

Kathryn 11

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1920 Series:T625 Roll:1540 Page:152

PA BLAIR MARTINSBURG

v Lloyd, son, born 1891 in Pennsylvania. If the census age is off by ten years, he could be the Lloyd C. Mock (age 28) with wife Florence and two daughters censused in Baltimore in 1930, but I do not consider that identification very likely. Otherwise I’ve been unable to find Lloyd anywhere in the country in any census other than his father’s in 1910.

vi Grace, daughter, born 1892 in Pennsylvania.

vii Pearl, daughter, born 1895 in Pennsylvania. Pearl married George A. Wineland {b 1893/1894 in Pennsylvania}. Pearl’s family has been identified only because her father was censused with her and her husband in 1920 (see above).

The only child of George A. and Pearl (Mock) Wineland:

1 Samuel E., son, born 1918/1919 in Pennsylvania.

6 Margaret Magdalene “Maggie”, daughter, born 7 Sep 1855 in near Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania, and died 13 Nov 1946. Margaret Magdalene “Maggie” was married 30 Dec 1891 to Edward Noble (1) { died 1880/1890}, and was married 20 Dec 1891 to David S. Lynn (2).

The records for Margaret are, at first sight, difficult to interpret. Her obituary, copied below, says she was married first to Edward Noble, by whom she had three sons, Emerson, Roy and Edward, and married second in 1891 to David Lynn, by whom she had one son, Lloyd. The first marriage is documented in her 1880 census adjacent to her father “Rhewben”:

Maggia NOBLE Self F W 25 PA Keeping House MD PA

Emerison NOBLE Son S M W 4 PA PA PA

Roy NOBLE Son S M W 2 PA PA PA

Edward NOBLE Son S M W 8M PA PA PA

(The census itself specifies that Edward was born in October)

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1880 Census Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania

Family History Library Film 1255098

NA Film Number T9-1098 Page Number 356B

At the same time, Margaret’s future husband was censused to the north in Blair County, with Oriosta born July 1779:

David LYNN Self M M W 25 PA Farmer PA PA

Kate LYNN Wife M F W 19 PA Housekeeper ENG ENG

Oriosta LYNN Dau S F W 10M PA Daughter --- ---

William EDWARDS Other M W 15 PA Laborer PA PA

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1880 Census Huston, Blair, Pennsylvania

Family History Library Film 1255103

NA Film Number T9-1103 Page Number 382A

Then, by 1900, Maggie and David were together:

David Lynn Apr 1853 47 married 22 years, farmer

Maggie Jul 1855 44 married 22 years, 7 ch, 7 living

Ostin (dtr) Jul 1878 21

Rhoda Mar 1880 19 all in family born PA

Lizzie May 1881 17 of PA born parents

Edward Jan 1884 16

Annie May 1886 14

Orville May 1889 11

Lloyd Mar 1893 7

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1381 Page: 307

PA BLAIR HUSTON TWP

It’s not obvious from this one census alone, but all of these children except Lloyd were by David’s first wife Kate, and their report to the census taker that he and Maggie had both been married 22 years is somewhat misleading. Actually, Margaret had either brought up her three sons alone for over ten years, or her 1880 census (which didn’t give her marital status) should only be interpreted in that she was not with Edward that year.

In 1920, David and Margaret were censused living next to their son Lloyd, with a Stephen Lynn in the adjacent household, all born in Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania born parents:

David Lynn 66 At home

Margaret 64

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Lloyd Lynn 28 General Farm

Blanch 25

4 children (see below)

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Stephen Lynn 54

Margaret 54

Walter Grubb 13 Orphan child

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1540 Page: 62

PA BLAIR HOUSTON

Obituary not dated, Archie Claar Obituary Collection, Vol. 55, p. 153 (1946) ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/blair/obits/claar06.txt:

“Mrs. Margaret M. Lynn, widow of David S. Lynn, died on Wednesday evening, November 13, at 6:45 o’clock at the home of her son, D. Lloyd Lynn, Williamsburg, R.D. 2. Mrs. Lynn was a daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Hoffman Mock, and was born near Woodbury on Sept. 7, 1855. She was twice married, first to Edward Noble, to which union three sons were born, Emerson Noble, of Warren, O.; Roy, of Baltimore, Md., and Edward, deceased. On December 30, 1891, she was married to David S. Lynn, and to this union one son was born, D. Lloyd Lynn, at whose home she died. These step-children survive; Mrs. Howard Treese, Mrs. Herman Smith, Mrs. David Sollenberger and Orville Lynn, all of Williamsburg R.D., and Edward Lynn of Altoona. Also surviving are several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and two brothers, Emanuel D. Mock of Cheswick and J. Irvin Mock of Erie. Mrs. Lynn was educated in the Bedford County schools are was a member of the Snively Church of God at Larke. Interment was made in the Beavertown cemetery.”

The three children of Edward and Margaret Magdalene “Maggie” (Mock) Noble:

i Emerson, son, born Nov 1875 in Pennsylvania. Emerson married Levada ____

{b Oct 1876}.

Emerson Noble Nov 1875 25 m 5 years farmer

Levada Oct 1876 23 3 ch, 3 living

Ross Apr 1895 5

Palmer Oct 1897 2

Roy May 1900 0M

Anthony Fry Nov 1883 16 Hireling

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1375 Page: 49

PA BEDFORD BLOOMFIELD TWP

There was an Emerson C. Nobel, age 44 in 1900 and 54 in 1910, in Damascus Township, Wayne County, who was most likely an uncle to this Emerson.

Emerson H. Noble 34 Odd jobs

Lovada M. 33

Palmar L. 12

Roy ?. 9

Harry E. 6

A. Ruth 4

John E. 1 11/12

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4 houses away

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Emerson Noble 44 Stone quarry

Mary 43 Agent, Clothing house

Harry 15

Ruth 13

Grace 9

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1318 Page: 77

PA BLAIR TAYLOR TWP

Roy W. Noble 19 Fireman, Paper mill

Daisy R. 25

Violet K. 2 8/12

Roy W. Jr. 6/12

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1540 Page: 236

PA BLAIR WILLIAMSBURG

Since this Roy Noble was the same age as Emerson’s son Ross, he must have been a nephew. However, I was unable to find either of Emerson’s brothers, Roy and Edward, in any Pennsylvania census 1900 or later.

ii Roy, son, born 1877/1878 in Pennsylvania.

iii Edward, son, born 1879 in Pennsylvania.

The only child of David S. and Margaret Magdalene “Maggie” (Mock) Lynn:

i D. Lloyd, son, born Mar 1893 in Pennsylvania. D. Lloyd married Blanch ____ {b 1894/1895 in Pennsylvania}.

As shown above, Lloyd and Blanch were censused in 1920:

Lloyd Lynn 28 General Farm

Blanch 25

Elda 7

Grace 6

Idella 4 6/12

Virgie 2 1/12

Pearl Lynn 21 Hired Girl

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1540 Page: 62

PA BLAIR HOUSTON

7 Isaac Scott, son, born 9 Nov 1857 in Pennsylvania and died 15 Apr 1921. Isaac Scott was married 12 Sep 1888 in Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania to Imelda Hair {b 1851/1852 in Pennsylvania}.

Isaac and Imelda’s marriage record was posted by Diana L. Mock on the MOCK-GEN-L board:

Isaac C. [sic] Mock, age 31, an insurance agent living in Woodbury Boro, PA, son of Reuben and Elizabeth Mock, and Imelda Hair, age 26 living in Woodbury Boro, PA, daughter of Samuel R. and Margaret Hair, were married September 12, 1888 by Rev. J. W. Ely at Woodbury, Pennsylvania [Bedford Marriages vol 3 #693].

Isaac was censused 1880 at age 23 living with his sister Lydia and her husband Charles Hartman (above). In 1900, he and Imelda were censused in Bloomfield Township, Bedford County, and in 1910 and 1920 in Roaring Springs Township, Blair County:

Isaac Mock Nov 1856 43 12 yrs married Managed Estate

Imelda Sep 1861 38 3 ch, 3 living

Frances sep 1889 10

Margaret Apr 1892 8

Palmer Sep 1823 6

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1375 Page: 50

PA BEDFORD BLOOMFIELD TWP

Isaac Mock 53 21 yrs married O--- Shop

Imelda 48 3 ch, 3 living

Frances W. 20

Margaret E. 18

Palmer S. 16

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1318 Page: 30

MOCK ISAAC 53 M W PA PA BLAIR ROARING SPRING

Isac S. Mock 63

Imelda 58

Palmer 26 (overwritten, unreadable first entry)

Margaret 27

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1540 Page: 179

PA BLAIR ROARING SPRINGS

Six households earlier on that census page were Joseph and Pearl Mackie with his mother-in-law Sara Mock, 61 and niece Mareta Mock. I have not identified either of these two Mock ladies, but their living close to Isaac may indicate a relationship:

Joseph A. Mackie 20 Railroad Clerk

Pearl 20

Mildred P. 1/12

Sara Mock 61 Mother in law

Mareta Mock 14 Niece

There is an extensive biography of Isaac online:

“Isaac S. Mock was reared in Woodbury Township and obtained his early instruction in the public schools and later attended Juniata College, under the government of the Brethren church at Huntingdon, Pa., having had previous instruction of excellent character at Woodbury and at New Enterprise, under Profs. Clouse, Cotton, Saylor, Vaughn and others. After leaving school he taught for eight terms and then accepted a position as clerk in the freight office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona. Still later he became station agent at Ore Hill for the same road but resigned after three years of service in order to perfect his business education and took a course in the Spencerian Commercial College at Cleveland, O. He was graduated there as a stenographer and then accepted a position in the auditing department of the C. C. C. & I. Railroad Company, at Cleveland and acceptably performed the duties of that position until he felt like returning to Bedford County about one year later.

“On September 12, 1888, Mr. Mock was married to Miss Imelda Hair, who is a sister of Edward W., Scott. Horace G. and Clarence Hair, well known citizens of Roaring Spring. Mr. and Mrs. Mock have three children: Frances W., Margaret E. and Palmer.

“From 1888 until 1904, Mr. Mock was general manager of the landed estate of Peter S. Duncan, of Hollidaysburg, owner of the Ore Hill mines. He has been a very active and useful citizen since he came to Roaring Spring in 1904, not only serving as a councilman but exercising his rights as a citizen and using his influence for public improvements and increased morality. He is a Prohibitionist in his views on public matters and is president of the Anti-Saloon League of Roaring Spring. He is identified with Lodge No. 539, F. & A. M., Roaring Spring and for ten years has served as its secretary. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church and is one of its trustees.

“In 1904 and 1906 he was the choice of the Democratic and Prohibition parties for the state legislature, but in 1904 withdrew because of not having been a resident of the district the required time. In 1906, notwithstanding that the parties for which he was a candidate were far in the minority he ran far ahead of their party vote with the liquor men and saloon interests solidly against him.”

[http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/blair/bios/sell/mil-par.txt citing Sell, Jesse C., Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911, pp. 807-808.]

Imelda Hair was a sister of Edward W., Scott, Horace G. and Clarence Hair, well known citizens of Roaring Spring, Blair County. Their children graduated from the Roaring Spring Borough High School, Frances in 1906, and Palmer and Margaret in 1911.

The three children of Isaac Scott and Imelda (Hair) Mock:

i Frances W., daughter, born 1889 in Pennsylvania.

ii Margaret E., daughter, born 1892 in Pennsylvania.

iii Palmer, son, born 1893 in Pennsylvania.

8 Matilda Susan, daughter, born 14 Aug 1859 in Pennsylvania and died 16 May 1937 in Roaring Springs, Pennsylvania. Matilda Susan was married 11 Nov 1886 in Woodbury Twp., Bedford, Maryland to Thomas Zook Replogle {b 1857/1858 in Pennsylvania and died 1910/1920 in Rhode Island}.

My photo copy of the Bible birth date for Matilda is extremely faint, and I’ve accepted Evelyn’s reading, as she has access to the original. I seem to read the day as 18, rather than 14, but I also read the year as 1864?, which is definitely wrong. Her 1860 census age of 10 months fixes her birth as in 1859, and the Bible reads August.

Matilda’s marriage record of 11 Nov 1886 [Hengst, Michael A., Bedford County Marriage Records, Closson Press, Apolo, Pennsylvania, 1989] reads “Tillie S. Mock, 25” which age is off by two years. The full record was posted on MOCK-GEN-L by Diana L. Mock:

Thomas Z. Replogle, age 28, a jeweler living in South Woodbury Township, PA, son of Daniel E. and Elizabeth Replogle, and Tillie S. Mock, age 25 living in Woodbury, PA, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Mock, were married November 11, 1886, by Rev. W. L. Spanogle at Woodbury, Pennsylvania [Bedford Marriages Vol 1 #248].

This couple had four children born in Pennsylvania, but sometime after 1897 they moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where Thomas became a postmaster. One small mystery in the two censuses in that location is that son William, born 1896/97 according to the 1920 census, does not appear in the 1910 census, when he would have been about 13 years old. I did not find him indexed as living in any other household in 1910, but if he had been living with another Replogle family, the index wouldn’t list him.

Thomas Z. Replogle 52 married 24 years Post Master

Tillie S. 50 5 ch, 4 living

Robert S. 22 Printer, Newspaper Co.

Sabina L. 19 Clerk, Dep’t Store

Idella M. 17 Stone setter, Jewelry

all born in Pennsylvania

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1445 Page: 16

RI PROVIDENCE 9-WD PROVIDENCE

Matilda Replogle 60 Widow

Sabina 28 Bookkeeper NH&H RR Co.

William B. 23 Clerk NH&H RR Co.

all born in Pennsylvania

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1677 Page: 184

RI PROVIDENCE 5-WD; PROVIDENCE

Despite their censuses in Rhode Island 1910 and 1920, Vanessa Taylor has Thomas’ death in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania. She is also the source of the dates on his parents [www.taylor-barry-roots.com/barry/dat7.html#1].

Linda M Cochran’s GenCircles Family Tree gives specific birth dates for all of the children, including twin Celia for whom I have no other source. I’ve also adopted Linda’s names for the daughters where other sources have first and middle names reversed.

The five children of Thomas Zook and Matilda Susan (Mock) Replogle:

i Robert Spencer, son, born 18 Sep 1877 in Pennsylvania.

ii Letitia Sabina, daughter, born 21 Aug 1890 in Pennsylvania. Sabina Letitia in other records.

iii Mary Idella, daughter, born 22 Aug 1892 in Pennsylvania.

iv Celia, daughter, born 22 Aug 1892 in Pennsylvania.

v William J. Bryan, son, born 17 Dec 1896 in Pennsylvania.

9 Jacob Irvin, son, born 12 Dec 1861 in Woodbury and died 26 Nov 1950 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Jacob Irvin married Minnie Catherine Bassler {b 7 Oct 1866 in Martinsburg, Blair, Pennsylvania, and died 20 Sep 1903 in Erie}.

I have had no success in finding Jacob and Minnie in 1900 or later censuses.

The source for Minnie’s children, dates and parentage is by Vanessa (Barry) Taylor, boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.bassler/14, 23 Dec 2000 and her web page www.taylor-barry-roots.com/barry/dat5.html.

Also, for her siblings, see

searches.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/blair/bios/wiley/wiley03.txt, citing Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA, Samuel T. Wiley, Philadelphia, 1892:

“November 13, 1855, Rev. Jacob S. Bassler married Lydia Shank, of Waynesboro, Franklin county, and they have four children: Anna B., wife of Levi Acker, a retired farmer of this county; Susan E., married Jacob Gresser, who is now engaged in farming; J. Harry, who married Fannie Coffman, and is a machinist of the firm of Snoeberger Bros. & Bassler; and Minnie C., married J. I. Mock, of Woodbury, a teacher in the public schools of North Woodbury township.”

The two children of Jacob Irvin and Minnie Catherine (Bassler) Mock:

i Robert Chalico, son, born about 1895. Robert Chalico married Joanna Wertz.

Robert and Joanna, with their respective parents, are identified by Vanessa (Barry) Taylor on www.taylor-barry-roots.com/barry/dat14.html, but no dates are given. On another page, www.taylor-barry-roots.com/hoffmanreport.html, she writes “The oldest son of Robert C. was killed in Korean War, October 1950 aged 21 years old, Robert C. Mock, 2460 Grandview Ave. East Reading, Pa.” [Is this latter name a citation? If so, he may be a living descendant of Peter Mock of Maryland.]

From this, Robert C., Jr., oldest son, was born 1928/29, born when Jacob was about 68/69 years, so I split the difference and estimate Robert C, Sr. was born 34 yrs after 1861, or 1895.

If my rough estimate of 1895 is in error, Robert C., Sr. could have been the 17 year old in training 1920 at the US Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Lake County, Illinois:

Robert C. Mock 17 IND IND IND Recruit under training

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 381 Page: 193

IL LAKE GREAT LAKES, U S NAVAL TRAINING

ii Lydia Eldon, daughter, born 2 Feb 1890. Lydia Eldon married Clinton B. Blyberg.

10 John R., son, born 1863/1864 in Pennsylvania. John R. was married 1891/1892 to Ida Zimmerman {b 1865/1866 in Springfield Twp., Clarke, Ohio}.

John and Ida were censused 1900, 1910 and 1920 in Woodbury Township, Bedford County with Cora Mock, daughter of John’s brother Samuel, in their home each of those years. In 1910 Ida was noted as not having any children, and the two of them had been married for 18 years.

Also that year Susan Zimmerman, 72 and born in Maryland of Maryland born parents, was in their home and listed as John’s Mother-in-Law. There is a couple found in the Ancestral File of the Family History Library, named Isaac and Susan (Hass) Zimmerman who had a daughter Sara Jane b21 Aug 1854 in Sunbury, Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Whether or not this couple are Ida’s parents I cannot judge.

John and Ida were censused 1900 through 1920 in Woodbury Township with his niece Cora Mock, daughter of his brother Samuel:

John R. Mock Jan 1864 36 m 8 yrs Farmer PA PA PA

Ida J. Mock Jun 1866 34 no children PA PA MD

Cora Mock Mar 1877 23 niece Servant PA PA PA

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1376 Page: 203

PA BEDFORD WOODBURY TWP 1900

John R. Mock 46 married 18 years PA PA PA

Ida J. Mock 44 no children PA PA MD

Cora May Mock 33 Niece PA PA PA

Susan Zimmerman 72 Mother-in-Law MD MD MD

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1312 Page: 63 pt 4

PA BEDFORD WOODBURY TWP

John Mock 55 Farmer PA PA PA

Ida 52 PA PA PA

Cora 42 PA PA PA

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Series: T625 Roll: 1533 Page: 137 pt 2

PA BEDFORD WOODBURY 1920

I have lost track of where I found Ida’s mother’s name as Susan. A check on the IGI of the FHL found two dozen Ida’s with a birth date within two years of 1866, but provided no way to select the one who married John Mock. Nor did searches on the Zimmerman GenForum and RootsWeb message boards.

11 Emanuel David, son, born 1865/1866 in near Woodbury, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania, and died 13 Feb 1953 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania, USA. Emanuel David married Ida Florence Snider {b 24 Sep 1870 in Taylor Twp., Blair, Pennsylvania, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}.

Emanuel and Ida are the grandparents of Evelyn (Mock) Hirtle George, who provided the Mock Bible, cited earlier, from which so much information has been obtained.

For 1900, the Heritage Quest census index lists him as Emanuel L. Mack, but the census itself reads Mock with his middle intial illegible because of scribbling over:

Emanuel ?. Mock Sep 66 33 m 7 yrs Merchant

Ida Sep 1870 29 2 ch, 2 living

Harold Sep 1895 4

Evelyn Dec 1897 2 all PA PA PA

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1382 Page: 209

PA BLAIR TYRONE BORO

Emanuel D. Mock 43 m 16 yrs Comm--- Shoes

Ida 39 3 ch 2 living

Harold 14

Evylin 12

all born PA of PA born parents

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1318 Page: 100

PA BLAIR 2-WD TYRONE BORO

Emanuel D. Mock 53 Traveling Salesman

Ida F. 49

Evelyn F. 22

Harold S. 24

John Snider 35 brother-in-law, Engineer

Grace E. Snider 39 sister-in-law, Teacher

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1920 Series: T625 Roll: 1522 Page: 188

PA ALLEGHENY 14-WD PITTSBURGH

The two children of Emanuel David and Ida Florence (Snider) Mock:

i Harold Snyder David, son, born 24 Jun 1895 in Tyrone, Blair, Pennsylvania, and died 1 Feb 1970 in Cheswick, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Harold Snyder David was married 22 Jun 19xx in Concordia, Kansas to Alice Lina Marcy {b 25 Jan 1897 in Concordia and died 10 Jan 1992 in Cheswick, Pennsylvania}.

Names and dates for this family were were provided to me by Evelyn, op. cit., but I have deleted birth and marriage dates after 1920.

The two children of Harold Snyder David and Alice Lina (Marcy) Mock:

1 Evelyn Alice, daughter, born 24 May 19xx in Pittsburgh. Evelyn Alice was married 28 Aug 19xx in Cheswick, Pennsylvania to Royal Tremaine Hirtle (1) {b 25 Aug 192xx in Pittsburgh and died 15 Aug 19xx in Cheswick, Pennsylvania}. She was married 6 Oct 19xx in Cheswick, Pennsylvania to James Calvin George (2) {b 19 Jun 19xx in Tarentum, Pennsylvania}.

2 Harold David , son, born in 19xx Harold David married Annamae Manconi.

i Harold Snider David Mock, born 19xx, married Deborah Ann Dzik.

1 Maxwell David Mock

ii Evelyn F., daughter, born 1897/1898 in Pennsylvania.

v Priscilla †, daughter, born 6 Feb 1821. Since Priscilla and Manuel do not appear as young children in the 1830 census of Christian’s household, we must assume that they died young before that date.

vi Manuel †, son, born 28 Mar 1824 and died before 1830. Manuel’s name as christened was quite probably Emanuel.

vii Magdalene “Lanah”, daughter, born 19 Nov 1826, died 7 Jan 1913 in Bedford and was buried in Pleasantville, Cemetery, Bedford, Pennsylvania. Magdalene “Lanah” was married 9 Oct 1845 in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania to Jacob Emerick {b 13 May 1810 in Germany, died 7 Oct 1891 in Bedford and was buried in Pleasantville, Cemetery}.

Magdalene and Jacob are the ancestors of Bud Betts who provided me with the information on this family and descendants [Personal Communication, 29 Jan 1997]. His year of birth, 1827, for Magdalena is one year later than the Mock Bible entry, and would be only ten months before the birth of Samuel as recorded in the latter source. He cites the burial records of Pleasantville Cemetery, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania which shows “... Jacob Emerick (dates) wife Magdalene (____) 11-19-1827, 1-7-1913”.

Magdalene’s mother Mary was residing with Magdalene and Jacob in the 1860 census. (Ten years later Mary was with her daughter Margaret Teeter in Iowa.)

Jacob Emerick 51 Farmer 2600/200

Magdalene 32

Mary 11

Annetta 7

Margaret 2

Mary Mock 74

all except Mary, born MD, marked Unknown birthplace

Second previous census:

John and Sarah Emerick, 35 and 26, with 5 children

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1860 Census Series:M653 Roll:1072 Page:484

PA BEDFORD ST CLAIR TWP

In 1870 their youngest daughter was censused as Idella, although from some unknown souce I had her name as Della:

Jacob Emrick 61 Farmer 3000/900 GER

Magdalene 45 Keeping House PA

Margaret 12 PA

Idella 4 PA

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1870 Series: M593 Roll: 1304 Page: 680

PA BEDFORD ST CLAIR TWP

The spelling Idella is repeated in 1880:

Jacob EMRICK Self M M W 71 GER Farmer GER GER

Magdaline EMRICK Wife M F W 53 PA Keeping House MD PA

Idella C. EMRICK Dau S F W 14 PA At Home GER PA

Chales ANDERS Other S M W 19 PA Works On Farm PA PA

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1880 Census West St. Clair, Bedford, Pennsylvania

Family History Library Film 1255098

NA Film Number T9-1098 Page Number 321D

I do not find Magdalene in the 1900 census, but in 1910 she was still living in West St. Clair, and had with her an adopted daughter:

Magdaline Emrick 82 widow 6 ch, 4 living

May Berringer 16 adopted daughter

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1910 Series: T624 Roll: 1312 Page: 58

PA BEDFORD WEST ST CLAIR

Bud Betts [Personal Communication] has the Marriage Certificate of Magdalene and Jaob Emerick. Jacob’s father came over supposedly as a fur trading partner of John Jacob Astor who had come from Germany in 1784, set up the American Fur Company and died in 1848. Jacob bought 91+ acres of land 12 Nov 1862 in St Clair Township, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania [Patent Book H, v. 65, p. 28].

The four children of Jacob and Magdalene “Lanah” (Mock) Emerick:

1 Mary Jane, daughter, born 1849 in Bedford and died 24 Apr 1926 in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. Mary Jane was married 20 Jul 1866 in Johnstown, Bedford, Pennsylvania to William Alexander Peterson {b 1842 in Bedford and died 6 Feb 1922}.

The only child of William Alexander and Mary Jane (Emerick) Peterson:

i Magdalene Jeanette, daughter, born 9 May 1880 and died 15 Mar 1964. Magdalene Jeanette was married 2 Apr 1903 in Atlantic City, New Jersey to John Faint {b 27 Jun 1879 and died 6 May 1953 in Abington, Pennsylvania}.

Madalene and John’s daughter Doris (Faint) Betts is the mother of Bud Betts, and their son George Harold Faint (1909-1986) was the father of Art Faint, Bud’s genealogy research collaborator, both of whom have shared information with me on this branch of the Mock lineage.

2 Annetta, daughter, born 11 Oct 1852 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, and died 15 Nov 1922. Annetta was married 13 Feb 1876 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania to Espy Barefoot {b in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania}. From some source now lost I had 11 Oct 1859 birthdate for Anetta, but since in the 1860 census she was listed as seven years old, this must have been a misprint for 1852.

The five children of Espy and Annetta (Emerick) Barefoot:

i Idella, daughter, born about 1875 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania. Idella was married in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania to Wilson Mock.

I don’t have Wilson’s ancestry, but note that Idella’s maternal grandmother, Magdalena Mock, daughter of Christian, had a first cousin Wilson Mock, born 1834 in Ohio to Abraham and Catherine Mock. There were two other Mock families on Wilson’s 1900 census page, Solomon of a previous generation next door, and Isaac born six months after Wilson, as well as a Henry H. Barefoot born 1860.

Wilson Mock May 1869 31 9 yrs married Farmer

Dalla Feb 1871 29 4 ch, 4 living

Alice Dec 1890 9

John Nov 1892 7

Florence Oct 1894 6

Harry Feb 1898 2

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Solomon Mock Aug 1847 52 Farmer

Rachel E. Mar 1854 46

Stewart M. Mar 1875 25

Ray K. May 1886 14

(the years married are illegible becaue of

overwriting, but the number of children for

Rachel is clearly zero.)

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4 intevening households

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Isaac Mock Nov 1868 31 9 yrs married

Nora Mar 1872 28 3 ch, 3 living

Park Oct 1891 8

Freda Jan 1895 5

Gladys Jun 1897 2

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1900 Series: T623 Roll: 1376 Page: 55

PA BEDFORD LINCOLN TWP

ii Thomas, son, born 12 Dec 1880 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, died 14 Apr 1968 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, and was buried in Pleasantville, Cem, Pennsylvania. Thomas married Nettie Harbaugh.

Their was a childless marriage - Mock Genealogy

iii Charles, son, born 10 Mar 1889 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, and died 22 Jan 1969. Charles married Elizabeth Mickle.

iv Harry, son, born 4 Jun 1892 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, died 28 Jan 1950 and was buried in Pleasantville, Cem, Pennsylvania. Harry married Elizabeth Beckley {b 5 Apr 1890 and died 25 Oct 1981}.

They had four kids

v Jacob son. Jacob married Mary Harbaugh.

3 Margaret, daughter, born 20 Aug 1857 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, died 1 Sep 1929 in Bedford and was buried in Pleasantville, Cemetery, Pennsylvania. Margaret was married about 1880 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania to John Wesley Rouzer {b 4 Nov 1852, died 6 Jan 1944 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, and was buried in Pleasantville, Cem, Pennsylvania}.

The twelve children of John Wesley and Margaret (Emerick) Rouzer:

i Oregon J. son.

ii Annie, daughter, born in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania.

iii Samuel, son, born in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania.

iv Magdalene, daughter, born in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania.

v Mary, daughter, born in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania.

vi Clara, daughter, born 29 Feb 1888 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania, and died 7 Aug 1931.

vii