Husband John Burkhart Dehart
Born: 24 Dec 1836 - Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Christened: 1 Jan 1837 - First Reformed, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Died: 6 Apr 1926 - Plainfield, Union, New Jersey
Buried: - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Father: Gilbert Dehart (Abt 1809-1881)
Mother: Lydia Ann Burkhart (Borgert, Burckhart) (1814-1898)
Marriage: 1861-1862 - Dauphin Co, Pennsylvania
Wife Mary Ann Weiss (Wise)
Born: 29 Sep 1843 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 20 Oct 1930 - Plainfield, Union, New Jersey
Buried:
Father: Jacob Weiss (1806-1887)
Mother: Joanna Susanna (Joanna S.) (1809-1875)
Children
1 M Philip Dehart
Born: Mar 1877 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 8 Jan 1920 - Plainfield, Middlesex Co, New Jersey
Buried:
Spouse: Ellen M Leonard ( - )
2 M Irving Dehart
Born: 31 Dec 1882 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 24 Jun 1961-24 Jun 1962 - Plainfield, New Jersey
Buried:
Spouse: Awilda ( - )
3 M Harry L Dehart
Born: Jan 1874 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 14 Aug 1956 - Plainfield, New Jersey
Buried:
Spouse: Mary ( - )
4 F Eva W Dehart
Born: 1866 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: - Chicago, Illinois
Buried:
Spouse: Elmer E. Green (1861-1890)
Marr: 20 May 1882 - Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
5 F Lillian Dehart
Born: 21 Feb 1868 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 4 Jun 1947 - Steelton, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Buried:
Spouse: John Kohler (1860-1933)
6 F Bessie Dehart
Born: 1879 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: Young
Buried:
7 F Carrie Dehart
Born: 1862 or 10 May 1863 - Dauphin Co, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 29 Jul 1938-29 Jul 1941 - Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: complications dislocated shoulder following stroke
Buried:
Spouse: Charles Moore (1859-1920)
Marr: By 1880 - Dauphin Co, Pennsylvania
8 F Annie F Dehart
Born: 7 Sep 1892 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 23 Mar 1900 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Buried:
9 M Charlie Dehart
Born: Abt 1853 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 23 Dec 1871 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Buried:
10 M Gilbert Dehart
Born: Abt Jul 1884 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Christened:
Died: 29 Oct 1884 - Highspire, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
b December 31 1836 or December 1835, Reading (information on a pair of charts compiled in re to the settlement of the estate of John's grandson, John B. Dehart, son of Philip, who died I guess intestate in 1995 in New Jersey, with no direct heirs, leaving the heirs of all collateral lines to inherit.) Cousin found him b 12/24/1836, chr l/l/1837, w next child chr at First Reformed, in Reading. John m 1861 or 1862, in Dauphin Co, probably in a Lutheran or Brethren church, Mary A. Wise, b September 29, 1843, Highspire, PA, dau of Jacob Weiss or Wise and Johanna Susanna. John Burkhart d April 6, 1928, Plainfield, NJ
He lived in Highspire, PA, where he was employed variously as a bottle washer at a beer factory/ distillery in Highspire; a big plant on the map in the northeastern corner of the town. One census shows him emplyed as a fireman. Like all of his family he was industrious and hard working, well off, and possessed of land, much of it inherited. Cousin Dorothy or one of the Kohlers remembered visiting him as a child and remembers a big orchard and a carriage house in the back yard, and an old man with twinkling blue eyes. A photo of John B. Dehart clearly shows the twinkling blue eyes.
1875 map shows him living in Highspire, on Second STreet, between Vine and RAce, one lot from Vine St. He had a largish lot. J Kiip Hschool or boys' school was two lots over.
The set of notes from my cousin say John lived in Reading until he was 20, then to Harrisburg, then to Plainfield NJ.
John's family had owned considerable real estate in REading, and though John was a laborer in a beer factory in Highspire, he always seems to have been quite well off. For instance, a map from the 1870's of Highspire shows him and his family occupying a single house on a quite large lot in the north- western part of town.
He apparently moved to Plainfield, NJ, shortly after 1880 - but moved back to Reading by 1920, where they lived at the home of his daughter Evie Greene. In Plainfield, they lived on South Second St., first near Pond place, and later at the corner of LEe Place.
When he was older, John Dehart and his wife returned to Reading, according to a third cousin. She wrote: "I remember visiting my great grandparents in Reading. They lived in an old row home with a noarrow covered passage- way to the LARGE back yard. At the far end of the back yard was a large carriage house which was rented out as a candy factory. Grandfather also had Fruit trees and a large vegetable garden....They ended up living with my grandmother (Aunt Irma's mother), ...when they were old". - in Plainfield, NJ near Philadelphia. My father's notes mention "Schuykill Ave in Reading" and don't explain the significance of this place.
My father thought that John Dehart's father must have been a preacher, because he understood that his mother was in a home for retired clergy and their wives in Reading. I can't yet make sense of that. It appears to be simply incorrect.
These notes, which seem to come from older members of that family, also say John was born in Philadelphia in 1769! That was from John Irving, one of John's sons. I also have it that John went to Dauphin County (Highspire or Steelton, then to Harrisburg, then... My father's notes mention a Dehart in a bank in Reading, and include a note to check with the Chamber of Commerce to learn about that individual. Implication, the Dehart in the bank was known to be a relative.
John B Dehart came from a prosperous old Pennylvania Dutch family. They had been of the sort who, having settled on large parcels of land in the middle of the 18th century, always had little industrial enterprises going on their farms of one sort and another, and in their spare time they moonlighted as full time factory laborers.
A large amount of money must have stayed in the family; that 1995 estate must have been for half a million dollars. I do not know, and did not ask, by what formula it was divided among the descendants of the siblings of Phillip Dehart (son of John) and of Phillip's wife, after John B Dehart, the only son of Phillip, died unmarried and intestate. But a third cousin got around $50,000. John B Dehart (the grandson who died intestate) is said to have "worked for the phone company". Phillip was John Dehart's oldest son.
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SOURCES on Dehart genealogy
DEHARTS: NOTES AND GENEALOGY
The best source of Dehart information isthe Dehart surname list. <http://www.onelink.com> They have more up to date information than
much that I have on these pages. The Dehart surname list is extremely
active and has people researching a number of lines; two people there are
also working on Berks Co George W Dehart, several others are working on
Berks (Philadelphia and Montgomery) County Deharts.
This list moved to Yahoogroups.
Goto Dehart list web site. <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~am1/dehart.html> Also Dehart researchers.
On the Philadelphia, Berks and Dauphin (Harrisburg area) County, PA
Deharts, Linda Demko is the best source. She has a great deal of material
on this family group. It is she whose findings turned Montgomery's
reports on their head.
Go to LindaDemko's Dehart web site. <http://hometown.aol.com/padehart/family2/index.htm> Her notes are also a veritable Where's Where of how to research Berks Co PA Dutch ancestry. When I last checked, this web site did not still exist. Linda Demko was getting on in years when I was last in touch a few years ago.
PUBLISHED SOURCES:
Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks
County (Chicago: Beers, 1909) He has his early Berks Co Deharts all scrambled up, and inaccurately says that they were recently from France.
Klett, Joseph R. ed. Genealogy of New Jersey Families (Genealo-
gical Publishing Co, 1996), article on Deharts. Reprint
of NJGM article and update.
Family History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints, International Geneological Index and Ancestral File
(I need to check who submitted information on descendants
of Jacob to Ancestral File, but I think it was a Hope
Foundation of Utah, which I wrote to, and never got an
answer from.)
I used two sources from the Mormon Library:
De Hart and allied families (Microreproduction of original
records at the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania),
published in Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical
Society of Utah, 1966. It contained misc genealogical
information on New York and New Jersey Deharts. There
was no apparent connection to any Pennsylvania Deharts,
but the material could ultimately be useful.
Lane, Annabel Wishart. The history of the De Hart, Mersereau,
Meek, and allied families: Warrensburg, Missouri, 1954.
(Washington, D.C.: Filmed by the Reproduction Systems,
1971).
One of these sources referred to more;
Documentary History of New York, vol 3
Colonial History of New York, vol 2.
History of Morris County, NJ
Two more sources available from the Mormons that look like they
could possibly be helpful are;
Dehart, Dora Farler. A history of Jacob and Mary Dehart
(Middleton, Ohio: D.F.DeHart, 1985)
("Jacob DeHart (b1811) emigrated about 1829 from France to
Baltimore, Md")
Buchanan, Mrs. J.H. Four Generations of Boone genealogy.
(Seattle, WA Boone Family Association for Washington, 1955)
The Deharts associated with Boones were Brooklyn Deharts,
and atleast some were in Berks Co and travelled with Boones
from there. The Boones also migrated from Berks Co. Daniel
Boone was born there.
General Notes (Wife)
They were staying with daughter Eva when both she and her husband died.
A number of John Dehart's children had moved to Plainfield, NJ.
Mary Anne Weiss is listed b betw 1841 and 1843 on family records, but listed as 10 years old (and in school) on 1850 census. I'm inclined to think that the exact birth date that someone produced for the pedigree chart that was compiled in connection with the settlement of the estate of John Dehart (grandson of John B Dehart) is correct.