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I am trying to identify some mysteries in the family. Can you help?
- Seeking to identify this married couple in family papers:
"Marriage Certificate
I hereby certify that, on the 14th of March, 1848, A.T. Hill, of Connecticut, and T. L. Rowley (or JL? or IL?) of Freeport, PA have been joined in the bonds of matrimony by me, the undersigned, an ordained minister of the German evangelical church of Pittsburg
Robert Koehler"
Original marriage certificate was in the papers of Daniel and Polly (Cheney) Rowley, who lived mainly in Brandon VT, Natrona PA and Freeport PA. Anyone who knows a family connection, please write.UPDATE: Robert Koehler has been identified as minister of the German Evangelical Protestant Church in Pittsburgh from 1846 to 1849 according to the following source. I hope to find and identify the married couple and their entire family in the church and cemetery records. Would anyone who reads German like to access the church record for Hills and Rowley names?
Koehler Source: Historical and descriptive statement published on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the German Evangelical Protestant Smithfield Church (Congregational) Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 16, 1932, Page 45 : "Pastors...Robert Koehler 1846-1849".
This German church was at Smithfield Ave. and Sixth St., Pittsburgh and later became known as the Smithfield Congregational Church. The early German church records do exist in German, at the LDS library under the name Smithfield Congregational Church! The first 60 years of cemetery remains from this church were moved to the cemetery at Voegtly Church on Troy Hill in 1860.BREAKING NEWS: 727 burial plots were recently discovered and excavated on Troy Hill in 2003, a cemetery has been found under pavement. I see two possible family members listed in Troy Hill cemetery records that were part of the excavation: Anna Katharina Hill and Heinrich Hill. I would like to find someone who has the cemetery record to look-up those two people. Please read about this remarkable excavation: Post-Gazette: "New burial site for 727 souls will be blessed I-279 excavation and archaeological tests finally over Tuesday, October 28, 2003"
- Unidentified Woman: "Mary Elizabeth Donley [Rowley?] b. 1848".
This is written in Daniel and Polly (Cheney) Rowley's bible, who lived mainly in Brandon VT, Natrona PA and Freeport PA. Anyone who knows who this is or knows the family connection to Donley, please write. - Unidentified Photo:
Anyone who knows who the couple is, sees a family resemblance or has a clue, please write. On the front bottom of the photo it is printed: A. Potter, Photographer, Franklinville, NY and on the back is hand written: A D Rowly Farmersville, Catt. "This photo is in my GGGrandmother's photo album. She was Amelia Metcalf Early...Thank you for your help on this and I hope he belongs to someone out there who might be researching!! best regards, Linda"
George Early lived in Yorkshire, Catt. Co, and married Amelia Metcalf of Centerville. They were born in 1841 " 1848 respectively. They were married 1869 in Pike. They moved to KS in about 1889 give or take a year. They first settled in Palco, Rooks County, KS where they kept the family farm till the 1950's. George Early had a sister, Nancy Jane Early (went by Jane or Jenny) who married Rathbun Follett and they too moved to Kansas and settled in Hazelton.
We GUESS this may be Adrian WILLIAM Rowley (son of Nathaniel Rowley), farmer, born 1837 Oct; married (1)Louisa Morrison, 1862, MO (Switzerland Co.?); married (2)Ellen ___, about 1885. He was born and raised in Farmersville NY. By the 1880s, he migrated to Newbury/Wamego, KS, (now a part of Paxico City) and died 1907 May.