PART II

PART II. 343

IV. MAGDALENA ROYER, DAUGHTER OF III. HANNAS.

IV. MAGDALENA ROYER, p. 340, m. Ephraim Holl,(*) b. July 5,

1772; d. June 29, 1808; res. in a stone house near at what used to be

Keller's Mills, not far from Lititz, Lanc. Co., Pa.; he, "a feeble and

unhealthy man"; she, "an exemplary woams, holding fine chris-

tianlike principles, but no church member"; she m. 2ndly a for-

eigner, Wilhelm Hebbenheimer, d. in 1824; she and both husbands

buried at B. Middle Meeting-house; 3 ch., all by first husband:

Page Name Birth Death

343 V. Daniel Holl Dec. 28, 1792 Dec. 31, 1870

344 V. Samuel " Mar. 11, 1798 Feb. 25, 1866

344 V. Catharine" Nov. 21, 1800 Sept. 3, 1850

CHAPTER I.

V. DANIEL HOLL, p. 343, m. in 1818, to Barbara Leib, b. near

Lititz, July 21, 1803; d. Aug. 16, 1882; made a trip to Stark Co., Ohio,

in 1825, and again in 1831, when he bought a farm 1 mi. n. of New

Berlin; in 1832 a few days after the burial of his mother, he started

with his family to Ohio. They had two teams, one four-horse cov-

ered wagon, containing the household goods, and one two-horse

covered wagon for the use of the family, and containing the bedding

and provisions. At night they put up at the numerous taverns,

one of which could be found every few miles along the route. Privi-

lege was granted to do cooking on the kitchen fires (no cooking

stoves then), and the bedding was rolled on the floor of the sitting

or dining room. It took sixteen days to make the journey, about

350 miles." "He displayed considerable enterprise by being the

first of all his relatives, friends and neighbors to 'go west.' After

he had paved the way there was an immense emigration from old

Lancaster County to Stark County, Ohio." He was a "firm moral-

ist, the poor man's friend, an unusually kind and sympathetic hus-

band, and as a father he had no superior, and few equals." Children:

VI. Ephraim Holl b. Nov. 11, 1818; d. in infancy

VI. Maria " b. Oct. 3, 1820 m. Geo. Wolf; 3 ch.

* Ephraim Holl was the oldest son of John Peter, b. Nov. 18, 1745, "im

Wasserman;" d. Nov. 16, 1825; and Elizabeth Grabill Holl, d. Oct. 13, 1787;

aged 33 yrs. and 5 ms.; a carpenter and a Tory during the Revolution. John

Peter was a son of Johannes Holl, who came from Switzerland with the Kellers,

(foot note, p. 63) about 1730, and settled where New Holland, Lanc. Co., Pa.,

now stands. He had five sons: Abraham, b. Feb. 11, 1734; John, b. Aug. 10,

1744; John Peter, above, b. Nov. 18, 1745; Wendel, b. July 8, 1747; and

Isaac, b. Feb. 16, 1749, the last four being by a second wife.

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