Other Events:

• Education: Franklin & Marshall College
• Church: United Church of Christ
• Occupation: Minister, College President, Head of YMCA

Notes:

http://www.spfldcol.edu/homepage/dept.nsf/d02dea1c0fc6f99d45256bd800296e8c/d6c7bfcf7e54083f852571b6004ddd91?OpenDocument
Paul Limbert is among the most notable YMCA professionals of the Twentieth Century, influencing the YMCA Movement at the local, national and international levels. He earned divinity degrees from both Eastern and Union Theological Seminaries and completed his doctorate in 1929 at Columbia University.

After serving as an Army first lieutenant during WWI, he became the physical director at Camp Upton, New York. Limbert held faculty positions at Franklin and Marshall College and Columbia University and was a faculty adviser to the Student YMCA. For six years, beginning in 1946, he was the President of Springfield College, and in 1953 was named the Secretary General of the World Alliance of YMCAs.

After retiring from the World Alliance, he accepted the appointment as the Executive Director of the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in North Carolina. Limbert authored several books, including Christian Emphasis in YMCA Programs, College Teaching and Christian Values, Living a Century and New Perspective for the YMCA. He was recognized with the Legion of Honor award from France, the L.K. Hall Citation from the Association of Professional Directors and with honorary doctorates from both Springfield and American International Colleges.

Residence:
Address: name missing

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120734444/paul-moyer-limbert

burial unknown

Secretary General of the World Alliance of YMCAs. In 1985 he was named as the first inductee into the YMCA Hall of Fame.

Paul married Anna Elizabeth Myers on 17 Jun 1922. Anna was born on 28 Jan 1899 in Pennsylvania; died on 27 Jul 1984 in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rev. George E. Limbert. – After an illness of seven weeks as a result of diphtheria and its after effects the Rev. George Elias Limbert, pastor of the Trinity Reformed church, of Altoona, died in that city at 9.30 o’clock Monday morning. For six days preceding his death he had been in a very critical condition, though he was conscious until the end.
Deceased was born at Madisonburg, Centre county, December 20th, 1865. He was the son of Henry J. and Caroline Limbert, who were most estimable residents of that place. After he had become a member of the Reformed church, which was at the ages of twenty years, he decided to study for the ministry. He was active in the religious work while a pupil in the Spring Mills school in his native county, and later entered college at Lancaster, graduating in 1890, with high honors. He then entered the theological seminary and graduated from there in 1893. Afterwards he went to Grove City, at which place he was ordained, organized a congregation from a mission and remained its head for seven years. During that time he charge prospered and many new members were added to the roll. From Grove City he went to Danville, remaining nearly six years. May 3rd, 1905, he went to Altoona as pastor of Trinity Reformed church, succeeding the Rev. Lewis Robb. He did good work among his congregation and had endeared himself greatly to the members.
Rev. Limbert was one of the most popular as well as prominent ministers in the Reformed church and was a man who had many friends. He was ever thoughtful for the welfare of others and even in the last hours of his life, when he knew that death was near, he endeavored by counsel and prayer to prepare those around him for the last great day.
He is survived by his wife and one son, Paul, at home; his aged mother, at the old home in Madisonburg, with one sister and four brothers, as follows; Annie, William and Daniel, of Madisonburg; Harvey, of Pittsburg, and Alfred, living in eastern Ohio.
Funeral services were held in the church over which he had been pastor, at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening, and were conducted by his fellow ministers in the Mountain city. Yesterday the remains were shipped through Bellefonte to Madisonburg, to the home of his mother, from where the funeral will be held this morning, internment to be in the Reformed church cemetery.




Residence:
Address: name missing

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100734938/george-elias-limbert

George married Anna Elizabeth Flora Moyer on 21 Jun 1894. Anna (daughter of Joseph Klose Moyer and Mary Elizabeth Kline) was born on 22 Apr 1871 in Rebersburg, Centre County, PA; died on 10 Oct 1967 in Allentown, Lehigh County, PA; was buried in United Church of Christ and Lutheran Cemetery, Madisonburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100735214/anna-elizabeth-limbert

Notes:

HENRY J. LIMBERT, who is properly ranked as one of the self-made men of Centre county, began his career at the foot of the ladder in life, without other resources than his own indomitable will and steady, plodding industry. From a humble position he has risen to that of one of the representative men of a more than ordinarily intelligent community. He was born August 10, 1834, four miles west of McKees Falls, in what is now Snyder county, Penn., but was then Union county. His parents were John and Catherine (Wise) Limbert, the former a son of Peter Limbert, a farmer by occupation, and the latter a daughter of Frederick Wise, a carpenter.
When a young man John Limbert came to Centre county, and being a carpenter by trade aided in the construction of the "Miller Hotel" in Madisonburg. While thus employed he fell from the roof to the cellar, and it was thought he was killed, but he finally recovered. At that place he was married in 1833, and at once removed to Union county, where he worked at his trade until the early "fifties," when he returned to Madisonburg. There he followed carpentering for a time and later worked at day labor.
He died at the ripe old age of seventy-eight years; his wife passed away when over eighty-five years of age, and they now sleep side by side in the Madisonburg cemetery. Both were active and prominent members of the Reformed Church, with which he was officially connected, and his political support was ever given the Democracy.
Henry J. Limbert is the oldest in the family of seven children, the others being Rebecca, wife of Aaron Smull, of Rockville, Centre county; John, a hotel keeper of Dauphin county, Penn. ; Frederick, a retired farmer of Aaronsburg, Centre county; Benjamin, a resident of Gregg township. Centre county; Catharine, wife of Jacob Frank, of Madisonburg; and Samuel, who makes his home in Lock Haven, Penn. The education of our subject was all acquired in German schools, and at the age of thirteen he was obliged to lay aside his books and earn his own livelihood. He obtained employment with a farmer near McKees Falls, Snyder county, where he received only his board and clothes the first year, and, in addition, $36 the second, and $48 the third. Later he was with another man who gave him $60 per year, his time there being passed principally at work in the woods. Before he had attained his eighteenth year he began learning the carpenter's trade with his father, with whom he came to Madisonburg, and when he had mastered the business began work with John B. Shaffer, serving as a journeyman until 1860. In connection with different partners he then engaged in business for himself until 1863, when he resolved to try his fortune alone, and was very successful in his undertaking until the fall of 1876, often employing as many as fourteen hands, and in the summer of 1868 paying out as much as $2,500 for wages. In 1877 he embarked in farming, which he continued until the spring of 1892, when he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits as a partner of Benjamin Roush, but four years later returned to his farm, where he is now living.
In Rebersburg, Mr. Limbert was married March 20, 1856, to Miss Caroline Long, who was born in Berks county, Penn., January 12, 1835, a daughter of George and Polly (Deck) Long, and they have six children, as follows: Josiah A., a resident of Seneca county, Ohio; Harvey M., of Bellevue, Ohio; John D., of Madisonburg, Centre county; George E. , a German Reformed minister of Grove City, Mercer Co., Penn.; William H., a school teacher of Rebersburg; and Ann E., at home.
In Madisonburg, Mr. and Mrs. Limbert began housekeeping in an old dwelling which he had purchased, together with four lots, having paid $60 down, and going in debt for the remainder of the amount. He borrowed many pieces of the furniture, and was compelled to borrow the money to purchase the remainder of his scanty household goods; but as time advanced and he prospered in business, he was able to build a substantial and commodious residence in Madisonburg in 1860, which was neatly and tastefully furnished. There the family made their home until their removal to the farm in the fall of 1875. This adjoins the village and comprises ninety-two acres, which he has converted from a wooded, stony tract into richly cultivated fields, taking from it as many as 3,000 loads of stone. How- ever, it is now one of the most desirable farms in the locality, and adjoining it he also owns seventy-five acres of timber land. The success that he has achieved in life seems almost marvelous, as from a humble position he has worked his way upward until to-day he is one of the most prosperous and substantial citizens of Miles township. A man of the strictest integrity and honor, Mr. Limbert is able to look the whole world in the face with a clear conscience. He and his excellent wife are both prominent members of the Reformed Church, in which he has served as elder for several years. His political support is unwaveringly given the Democratic party.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100732402/henry-jackson-limbert

Section 2 row 12 plot 9

Henry married Caroline Long. Caroline was born on 12 Jan 1836 in Pennsylvania; died on 6 Sep 1908 in Madisonburg, Centre County, PA; was buried in United Church of Christ and Lutheran Cemetery, Madisonburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100732962/caroline-limbert

Section 2 row 12 plot 9

Other Events:

• Church: Old German Reformed
• Occupation: Centre Mills, PA; farmer and miller, owner of grist and sawmill-lumber and grain
• _MILT: 25 Aug 1862; Meyer, Joseph K. Private. Deserted October 20, 1862; returned May 9, 1835; discharged by General Order, May 17, 1865.

Notes:

Grist-Mills. - The first grist-mill in the valley occupied the site of the mill now owned by J. K. Meyer,
Centre Mills. It was a small log building having but two pairs of home-made millstones, one pair of which was used for chop and the other for flour. The bolt-reel was turned by hand. It was built and owned by a Mr. Kreamer, states Mr. John Hoy (who is now eighty-seven years of age, and gave a number of facts mentioned in this sketch). When this mill was built cannot be ascertained definitely, but it was prior to 1798, for in that year Col. Henry Meyer did some repairing in it, as is seen by entries in his old account-book. In the same year Mr. Meyer made some repairs at John Motz's mill, Penn's Valley.
The old mill was purchased by Tobias Pickle when he came into the valley, and it was replaced by the present stone mill. It was built in 1802 or 1803, according to recollection of Henry Meyer, whose father. Col. Meyer, made the millwright work. The story that it took seventy-five barrels of whiskey to build his mill is probably an exaggeration. The mill now owned by Daniel Walker was built in 1819. It occupies the site of one built about the year 1802, which was burned down. Mr. Daniel Dubbs, of York County, built it in the first place, and it was subsequently owned by his son Oswald.
The first mill on the site of William Meyer's present mill was built by Christopher Royer in 1819. In the year following (1820) Abraham Reber erected a gristmill near Madisonburg, on the farm now owned by Reuben Grimm. It was burned down not long after, and a distillery along with it, which had been in operation as early as the year 1803. Philip Wolfart erected a grist-mill on his farm (later Snook's) in 1824. It was not kept in repair for want of custom. At Gramly's Gap used to be a small flouring-mill, which was subsequently changed into a fulling-mill. At Madisonburg there is at present a small grist-mill in operation. Wolf's mill was erected in 1834 by Anthony Wolf. It is a fine stone mill, and in good repair. An oil-mill used to be at the same place.
Before there were any grist-mills in Brush valley the early settlers took their grain to Kishacoquillas valley to have it ground. They went by way of Penn's Creek Springs, at the west end of the valley. The Ertles, - Valentine, Daniel, and Philip, - who were among the first settlers about the present neighborhood of Madisonburg, cut a path across the mountains into Penn's valley, and took their grain on horse-back to the valley above stated. Their route through the Seven Mountains and the pike from Stover's across, it is said, followed nearly the same general direction. Later Mr. Hubler erected a small mill some distance below Aaronsburg, and the grain of Brush Valley was then taken there to be ground until the 1 small mill at Centre Mills was put in operation.



246 GENEALOGY OF THE MORR FAMILY. by Calvin Moyer

2. Joseph K. was born March 28, 1840; married to Mary E. Kline. She was born Aug. 23, 1845. He owns a grist and saw-mill at Centre Mills, near Rebersburg, Pa., and carries on the lumber and grain business and farming. The family are members of the Reformed Church. Joseph writes his name Moyer.
Children ten:
(1) Eva, born at Loganton, Pa., Aug. 20, 1869. She is a graduate of Palatinate College, Myerstown, Pa.
(2) Flora, born near Rebersburg, Pa., April 22, 1871; married to Rev. Geo. E. Lambert June 21, 1894.
(3) John N., born September 26, 1872; married Edith Wolf.
(4) Sarah, born July 11, 1871.
(5) Mary E., born July 21, 1876.
(6) Hiram B., born Oct. 29, 1878.
(7) Rebecca J., born Feb. 7, 1882.
(8) Jasan K., born July 20, 1885.
(9) Geo. C, born June 13, 1887 ; died March 12, 1894.
(10) Miriam Ruth, born Oct. 12, 1891.


Joseph Klose Moyer served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
http://www.pa-roots.com/pacw/infantry/148th/148thcoa.html
148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
Company A. recruited in Centre County
Meyer, Joseph K.
Private August 25, 1862 Deserted October 20, 1862; returned May 9, 1865; discharged by General Order, May 17, 1865

Joseph K Moyer
in the 1890 Veterans Schedules [Enumeration date: June 1890]

Name: Joseph K Moyer
Gender: Male
Role: Veteran
Residence Date: Jun 1890
Home in 1890 (Township, County, State): Miles Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Enumeration District: 77
Year enlisted:1862
Year discharged:1865
Rank:Private
Company:View image [Company A; 148 Regiment, PA Volunteers]

Date of enlistment: 14 August 1862
Date of discharge: 17 May 1865
Length of service 2 years, 8 months, 28 days


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Joseph K. Moyer in the U.S. Civil War Soliers, 1861-1865
Name: Joseph K. Moyer
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Pennsylvania
Regiment: 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry
Company: A
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Alternate Name: Joseph K./Meyer
Film Number: M554 roll 88
Other Records: Learn More about this Regiment

[note: there is not image of the actual record with this entry on Ancestry.com]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/148th_Pennsylvania_Infantry_Regiment
"The 148th Pennsylvania Infantry was composed of volunteers raised chiefly in Centre County, Pennsylvania, with seven companies hailing from the county. Company C in particular was recruited in the area surrounding the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania (today known as Pennsylvania State University) and included many of the college's students.[1] The regiment was filled out with a company each from Clarion, Jefferson, and Indiana Counties.[2] Once companies were raised, the regiment was organized at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 8, 1862, under the command of Colonel James Addams Beaver."


The story of our regiment; a history of the 148th Pennsylvania vols., written by the comrades
by Muffly, J. W. (Joseph Wendel), b. 1840, ed
Publication date 1904
Publisher Des Moines, Ia., The Kenyon printing & mfg. co.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924030915015/page/1092
Joseph K. Meyer listed on page 1092

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The battle flag of the 148th Pennsylvania Regiment
http://www.pacivilwar.com/148thflag.html

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Chart of the battles the 148th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment engaged in.

The 148th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 198 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 183 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

It is honored by two monuments at Gettysburg.
http://civilwarintheeast.com/us-regiments-batteries/pennsylvania/148th-pennsylvania-infantry/

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Details of Gettysburg
https://www.centredaily.com/entertainment/article42821835.html


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76800081/joseph-klose-moyer

Buried Section 1, Row 2, #20. Stone next to wife, and son George Calvin and daughter Eva.

Joseph married Mary Elizabeth Kline on 15 Feb 1868. Mary (daughter of Hiram Roe Kline and Rebecca Achenbach) was born on 23 Aug 1845 in Pennsylvania; died on 26 Feb 1921 in Miles Township, Centre County, PA; was buried on 2 Mar 1921 in Saint Peters Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: teacher
• Residence: 1887, Centre County, PA

Notes:

Obituary
Moyer – Mrs. Mary E. Moyer, widow of the late Joseph K. Moyer, passed away at her home in Rebersburg last Saturday night, as the result of general debility. Her maiden name was Mary E. Kline and as a girl she attended the Millersville Normal School where she equipped herself as a teacher. Later she taught school at Loganton where she met Joseph K. Moyer and their marriage occurred in February, 1869. The latter was a lumberman and some years after their marriage they located at Rebersburg which had been their home ever since.
Mr. Moyer passed away eleven years ago but of their ten children, eight survive, as follows: Flora (Mrs. Limbert) and John Nevin, of Rebersburg; Sara (Mrs. Bray), of Freeland, Pa; Elizabeth (Mrs. Kreider), of Toledo, Ohio; Hiram Bruce, of Albion, Pa.; Jason K., of Corning, N.Y., and Miriam (Mrs. Sherman), of Freehold, N.J. One daughter, Eva Moyer, died a few years ago and Calvin in childhood. She also leaves one brother, Howard Kline, of Adrian, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Hattie Mengle, of Palmerton, N.J.
From early girlhood Mrs. Moyer was a faithful member of the Reformed church and a true Christian woman. Funeral services were held at her late home at Rebersburg on Wednesday morning by Rev. Kurtz after which her remains were laid to rest in the Union cemetery at Rebersburg.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76800093/mary-e_-moyer

Buried Section 1, Row 2, #21. Next to husband, and son George Calvin Moyer and daughter Eva.

Other Events:

• Church: Old German Reformed
• Occupation: farmer and miller

Notes:

From Genealogy of The Morr Family, Julia Morr and her Descendants - chapter IX.
John (Catherine, Julia, Andrew,) was born December 30, 1806; died at Aaronsburg, Pa., January 28, 1878. He was married to Mary Klose. She was born in Penn's township, Northumberland county, Pa., April 23, 1810; died at the Meyer home- stead near Rebersburg, Pa., May 26, 1865. Mr. Meyer is buried in Reformed Cemetery at Aaronsburg; Mrs. Meyer in the Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg. For many years Mr. Meyer lived on a farm about one mile west of Rebersburg, near Meyer's mill, thence he returned to Aaronsburg, where he lived until his death. He was a man rather below the medium height, of a very kindly, amiable disposition, and had not an enemy in the world. He was honest and industrious, and his word was as good as a note with "approved security." Issue seven: Sarah, Joseph, David, Malinda, Mary, George, and Ellen.

from The Genealogy of the Meyer Family by Henry Meyer, 1890.
John (George, Christopher, Gr. Meyer), was born Dec. 30, 1806; was married to Mary Klose, a sister of Rachel Klose, wife of Michel Meyer, Freeburg. See page 114. John lived for many years on a farm west of Rebersburg, Pa., about a mile, near Meyer's Mill, thence he returned to Aaronsburg, Pennsvalley, Pa., where he died Jan. 28, 1878. He was a man rather below the medium height; he was of a very kindly, amiable disposition and had not an enemy in the world. He was honest and industrious, and his word was as good as a note with "approved security." His wife Mary was born April 23, 1810; died at their homestead near Rebersburg, Pa., May 26, 1865, and is buried in the Lutheran and Reformed cemetery of the latter place. John lies buried in Reformed cemetery at Aaronsburg. (We found her headstone in Aaronsburg - Edna)



Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62090582/john-meyer

John married Mary Klose. Mary was born on 23 Apr 1810 in Freeburg, Snyder County, PA; died on 26 May 1865 in Rebersburg, Centre County, PA; was buried in Aaronsburg Reformed Cemetery, Aaronsburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Church: elder in the Presbyterian Church

Notes:

History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, pg 524-525.
Col. Hiram R. KLINE, (deceased) was born in this township December 27, 1815 on the farm now occupied by A. H. KITCHEN, and was a descendant of one of the representative families of Columbia County. His grandfather, Abram KLINE, immigrated to America from Germany prior to the Revolution, located in New Jersey and then moved westward to what is now Orange Township, Columbia Co., Penn., settling here when the county was a wilderness. His children were Harmon, Abram, George, Matthias, Isaac and Elizabeth. Isaac was the father of Hiram R. and married Mary, daughter of Abram WILLETT, and by her had ten children: Charity, Sarah, Abram, Elizabeth, Lavina, Hiram R., Peter, Almira, Arminta and Mary. Hiram R. married October 31, 1842, Rebecca, daughter of John and Mary E. (FEHR) ACHENBACH, who was born December 25, 1817, in Briarcreek Township. At the age of thirteen she moved with her parents to Orange Township. After marriage Mr. KLINE moved to Raven creek and for five years was engaged in milling. He returned to Orange Township and engaged in farming until the spring of May 29, 1881, while on a trip to the farm. He was a staunch Democrat, for years was weighmaster of the North Pennsylvania Canal, and in 1860 represented the county in the Legislature. He was an excellent singer and taught vocal music in his early manhood. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and an esteemed citizen in the community in which he lived. He left a widow and four children: Mary E., wife of Joseph K. MOYER, resides in Centre County, Penn.; Sarah J., is the wife of Rev. A. HOUTZ; Joseph Howard, married Maggie J., only daughter of A. H. KITCHEN; Harriet A., married John F. MENGLE.


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24260411/hiram-roe-kline

Hiram married Rebecca Achenbach on 31 Oct 1842. Rebecca (daughter of John Achenbach and Mary Elizabeth Fehr) was born on 25 Dec 1817 in Briar Creek, Columbia County, PA; died on 30 May 1897; was buried in 1897 in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Orangeville, Columbia County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Residence: 1830, Orange Township, Columbia County, PA

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24260430/rebecca-kline

Gravesite Details: w/o Col HR; age 79yrs 5mons 5days