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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