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Jesse is I.D. number 149-30 in the 1923 Genealogical Register and has a two line entry on page 1193. The only information it relates, other than what is included in the 1879 book, is that he married Sept. 4, 1841, Catharine Godschalk. The entry then says that "no further data obtainable."
Well, here's the further data...At the time of the 1850 census, Jesse was a shoemaker living with Catharine and their three children, two daughters and a son, in Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Jesse was recorded as a 38-year-old (he was really 40), and as owning $1600 worth of real estate. His children were Adeline, Almira and one year old son Joshua. Mary Jane would be born in 1856.
By 1853 they were living in East Vincent Township, Chester County, and he was a farmer. The records of St. Vincent Reform Church states that he was a member "from organization"; the church was founded in 1848 but became a Reform Congregation in 1853. The records begin in 1853, and indicate he received Holy Communion each time it was served from November 1856 until the end of his life. Catharine was also active in the church. Jesse was elected an elder in April 1858, and remained in that office till death. He died interstate March 1862.
Catharine was born 15 December 1816 in Kulpsville, Towmencin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, to Herman and Mary (Stauffer) Godshalk. She was a great-great-granddaughter of the immigrants Christian Stauffer and Gerhard Clemens, both of what later became Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, and of Bishop Jacob Hendricks Godtschalk of Kulpsville. She died interstate at her home in East Vincent Township 2 April 1905. She was buried four days later in St. Vincent Reform Cemetery, where her husband, her son, and her two eldest daughters are also buried.
Adeline is buried next to her first husband, Daniel Hipple, with whom she had three children, none of whom survived. She later married, and was widowed by Jacob Heffner. She died 25 March 1916, aged 74 years, having lived several years with her nephew Josiah Halteman.
Josiah Schultz died before 1900 and next to him in the cemetery are three small stones, presumably of infants. His stone is said to be unreadable. When his mother Catharine died, a quarter of her estate went to "the minor Grandchildren of Josiah Schultz, a deceased son."
Almira married Moses Halteman, a farmer in East Vincent Township, son of Christian and Deborah (Stauffer) Halteman. Christian was one of the two who bonded the administrators of Jesse's estate. Moses became Almira's legal guardian in June 1863 (he married her three years later), and became Mary Jane's legal guardian in 1870 after her first guardian died. This is guardian of the estate only; both daughters continued to live with their mother (although both Catharine and Mary Jane were living with Moses and Almira at the time of the 1870 census). Moses and Almira had six children, four of whom, three sons and a daughter, lived to adulthood. All four married and had children. Their youngest, William, is my grandfather.
Almira died 7 November 1915 at her home, and Moses died 23 December 1920 at the Mennonite Home in Franconia Township, Montgomery County.
Mary Jane married Frank Gresh and they lived in Norristown, Montgomery County. They had five children, a son and four daughters.
The sources for the information on this page are the 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 and
1900 U.S. censuses; the estate files for Jesse and Catharine, as well as Catharine's
death record at the Chester County
Archives; newspaper clippings on Catharine, Almira and Moses at the
Chester County
Historical Society; the papers of William Halteman (now in my mother's possession);
and the church records of St. Vincent Reform Church (microfilm 1598063, items 5
to 8, Family History Library).
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