Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107076273/harlan-edward-abbott

Harlan married Jean Haagen on 10 Aug 1944. Jean was born on 3 Apr 1922 in Yarnell, Centre County, PA; died on 19 Mar 2014 in Rebersburg, Centre County, PA; was buried in Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Birth place information from his daughter, Martha's, death certificate.

Date and location from New Hampshire births and christenings index.

Herman married Mary Matilda Meyer in 1917 in New Jersey. Mary (daughter of Henry Meyer and Martha Jane Taylor) was born on 14 Aug 1885 in Miles Township, Centre County, PA; died on 30 Sep 1980 in State College, Centre County, PA; was buried in Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Centre Daily Times:

Mary M Abbott, 95, of Rebersburg died at Parkwest Manor Nursing Home State College on Tuesday.

She was born in Rebersburg Aug 14 1885, a daughter of Henry & Martha (Taylor) Meyer. On July 3 1917, she married Herman E Abbott who preceded her in death.

She is survived by one son Harlan Edward Abbott of Rebersburg, four grandchildren & four great grandchildren.

She attended public school in Rebersburg, and graduated from Lock Haven Normal School in 1905, and from Bucknell University in 1909. She taught elementary school in Livonia, and taught Latin, mathematics and German in secondary school in Butler, Blossburg a& Paterson NJ.

She returned to Miles township in 1922 after her husbands death and was employed by the township school district as teacher & principal until her retirement in 1947. Later she returned to teaching at Waterville & Warriors Mark.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church in Rebersburg and a Sunday school teacher for many years.

She was a member of the Centre County Historical Society & Phi Kappa Phi honorary scholastic society.

After her second retirement , she attended the Broadleaf Writers School. She wrote three books depicting Brush Valley Life.

Funeral services will be held at the UM Church in Rebersburg with burial in the EUB Cemetery.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183662302/mary-matilda-abbott

Emmanuel United Methodist

Row 6, #10. Next to parents, daughter Martha, and sister Jane (Meyer) Weber.

Other Events:

• Residence: Rebersburg, Centre County, PA

Notes:

Author of Genealogy of the Meyer Family. 1890.

Henry — author of this book — was born in Miles township, Centre County, Pa., Dec. 8, 1840. It is not considered good taste for one to "blow his own horn." I shall, therefore, be very brief. I was brought up on father's farm doing such work as usually falls to the lot of farmer boys; and during the Winter season attended, two or three months in a term, the common schools of the neighborhood. In the Spring of 1860 I left home to learn the millwright trade with John Todd, then residing at Potters Mills, Pa., — a trade which both father and grandfather had followed before me. Whatever spare time I had was generally devoted to reading, and the study of mathematics or other subjects that had a bearing on my trade. Sometime in August, 1862, I returned home and on the 19th of that month enlisted in the army for "three years or during the war." A number of my old comrades enlisted about the same time and we were a few days later organized at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pa., as Company "A" of the 148. Regt. P. V. We went through the usual disciplinary stages of the volunteer soldier, and first got down to serious business at Chancellorsville, Va., May, 1863. There was in me a slight leaven of the military spirit, and the boom of cannon, the shriek of the shells, the roar of the musketry, the cheer of the Union Soldiers and the yell of the Rebels reverberating through the deep woods raised my enthusiasm to the highest pitch, and I felt as though I could myself vanquish a whole regiment of the enemy! That was while we lay on the picket line in an opposite direction and at a tolerably safe distance from the disturbance. But later on after a better acquaintance with the serious work before us, when those shrieking missiles began to come uncomfortably close and streams of mangled boys in blue came passing by us to the rear, then, well then, it must be confessed, my ardor abated very considerably. That was the mental and moral experience, I believe, of most of the soldiers. I was in every battle in which the regiment was engaged until my discharge, among which were those of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Auburn Mills, Mine Run, the Wilderness and Po River or Laurel Hill, besides several skirmishes of lesser note. Never being in the hospital I took in all. I was slightly wounded at Chancellorsville, but more seriously at Po River, May 10, 1864; a minnie ball passing through my left hand near the wrist which necessitated amputation and which operation was performed May 17, 1864. by A. F. Sheldon, Surgeon in charge of Campbell Hospital, Washington, P. C. I was discharged at my own request in September following, came home and entered the Rebersburg Select School then in progress. The mutilated condition of my corporeal part rendered my trade useless to me and it became necessary to mark out a new course for the future. I taught school during the following Winter ('64 and '65), went to school again the next Summer and thus continued teaching and going to school alternately for several years. In 1866 I attended the Union Seminary, New Berlin, Pa., and in the Fall of 1868 I entered the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, Pa., graduating with first honors the Spring following. I assisted Supt. R. M. Magee in the Centre County Normal School for a number of years. In May, 1S75, I was elected County Superintendent of Common Schools of Center Co., for a term of three years, and was re-elected without opposition to the same office May, 1878. In the Fall of 1882 I was elected a member of the State Legislature, which, for reasons that need not be stated here, was in continuous session from Jan. 2, 1883, to Dec. 6, same year. I was married at Unionville. Centre Co., Pa., Jan. 18, 1872, to Martha Jane, daughter of Thomas J. Taylor ; and have lived ever since at Rebersburg. Pa. Roth myself and wife joined the Evangelical Church Feb. 6, 1874. Elected Justice of the Peace Feb. 18, 1890. Children .—Infant son, dead, Nov. 11. 1872; Hannah Jane, born Jan. 11, 1876; Henry Taylor, born Oct. 3, 1882; Mary Matilda, born Aug. 14, 1885; Sarah Ellen, born Sept. 1, 1887; Robert William, born Aug. 14, 1889.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76667707/henry-meyer

Emmanuel United Methodist

Row 6, #7. Next to wife, Martha J., two of their married daughters and a granddaughter.

Corp. Henry Meyer—Age 21 ; Rebersburg, Pennsylvania ; enlisted August 19, 1862; mustered August 25th; promoted to Corporal November 16, 1863; wounded at Chancellorsville May 3, 1863; again, severely, at Po River, May 10, 1864, necessitating amputation of left hand ; discharged at Campbell Hospital, Washington, September 12, 1864; resides at Rebersburg, Pennsvlvania. From The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Vols, page 928.

Henry tells the story of Company A in a chapter of The Story of Our Regiment: A History of the 148th Pennsylvania Vols (pages 493-564), and his time in the hospital (819-834).

Henry married Martha Jane Taylor on 18 Jan 1872 in Unionville, Centre County, PA. Martha was born on 25 Apr 1850 in Centre County, PA; died on 6 Mar 1928 in Rebersburg, Centre County, PA; was buried in Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183663416/martha-jane-meyer

Emmanuel United Methodist

Row 6, #1, Next to husband Henry, two of their married daughters and a granddaughter.

Notes:

Linn's History
Henry Meyer son of Col. Henry Meyer came to Brush Valley with his parents as a child. He resided on his fathers farm. He belonged to the old German stock which first settled Brush valley. Of robust body a& vigorous mind, he was able to communicate his stories of stirring incidents of his early days. He died 12/28/1881, aged 86 years, 3 months & 26 days.
His wife's maiden name was Bierly daughter of Nicholas Bierly. Children: David of Nittany Valley, Daniel of Illinois, Samuel of Milesburg, Professor Henry of Rebersburg, Mary intermarried with Rev. George Weirick (deceased) she is now Mrs. John F Price of Sugar Valley, Matilda married Samuel Mingle of Lock Haven & Judith wife of Joseph Bierly of Rebersburg.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64031786/henry-meyer

Section 1, Row 14, #5. Between step-mother Margaret and his brother Jacob. Henry (Capt. Henry Meyer 1795-1881) is also acknowledged on a cast bronze plate affixed to a marble stone "in memoriam of the Meyer family buried in this plot."

The Genealogy of the Meyer Family: Page 64: Buried between his step mother Margaret and his brother Jacob.

Henry married Hannah Bierly. Hannah (daughter of Nicholas Bierly and Lucy Buchtel) was born on 26 May 1800 in Rebersburg, Centre County, PA; died on 16 Dec 1892 in Centre County, PA; was buried in Evangelical Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Row 6, #12. Next to son David B. Meyer and daughter-in-law Fyetta.

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64032219/hannah-meyer

Emmanuel United Methodist