John Moyer
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. John Moyer (son of George Moyer and Lizzie Becker). Family/Spouse: Sarah Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
2. George Moyer was born in 1804 in Millbach, Lebanon County, PA (son of John Meyer and Lizzie Strickler). Other Events:
- Residence: Dauphin, Dauphin County, PA
- Census: 1850, Derry Township, Dauphin County, PA
- Census: 1870, Derry Township, Dauphin County, PA
- Census: 1880, Dauphin, Dauphin County, PA
Notes:
George, married, first Lizzie Becker, second, Leah Stoucher. He was born in 1804 at Mühlbach and was raised there. At present (1883) he lives at Dauphin, north of Harrisburg, Pa., where his sons carry on a butcher shop. I visited him in the Spring of 1883 and received from him many facts in relation to the Meyers of his branch of the family. Children: Rebecca, married Ed. Ebach; John, dec’d, married Sarah Smith. (These were children of the first wife, Lizzie Becker.) The following were children of the second wife: George, married to Margaret Haney; Henry; Michael; William, — had been a soldier in the late war; Noah; Catharine, married to John Walters; Sarah, married to Mr. Glouch.
1850 census
Name: George Moyer
[Geroge Moyer]
Gender: Male
Age: 46
Birth Year: abt 1804
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1850: Derry, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: Agriculture
Real Estate: 10000
Line Number: 25
Dwelling Number: 64
Family Number: 68
Household Members:
Name Age
George Moyer 46
Leah Moyer 34
George Moyer 16
Henry Moyer 14
Catharine Moyer 12
Sarah Moyer 11
Leah Moyer 9
Michael Moyer 7
William Moyer 4
Noah Moyer 3
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1870 census
Name: George Moyer
Age in 1870: 65
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Dwelling Number: 260
Home in 1870: Derry, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Post Office: Hummelstown
Occupation: Farmer
Cannot Read: Y
Cannot Write: Y
Male Citizen over 21: Y
Personal Estate Value: 1500
Real Estate Value: 17000
Inferred Spouse: Leah Moyer
Inferred Children: Henry Moyer
Michael Moyer
Noah Moyer
Agnes Moyer
Household Members:
Name Age
George Moyer 65
Leah Moyer 55
Henry Moyer 27
Michael Moyer 24
Noah Moyer 19
Agnes Moyer 12
John Greenawalt 60George married Lizzie Becker. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Lizzie Becker Children:
Generation: 3
4. John Meyer was born about 1779 in Pennsylvania (son of John Mayer and Catharine Schaeffer); died on 09 May 1851. Notes:
GENEALOGY OF THE MEYER FAMILY by Henry Meyer, 1890
John (John, John, Gr. Meyer) was married, first, to Lizzie Strickler, 2nd, to Christina Lise. He owned the old Mühlbach home after his brother Michael. Died, May 9, 1851, aged seventy-two and one-half years about. Lies buried at the Mühlbach church.
ISSUE, FIRST WIFE—LIZZIE STRICKLER:
1. George, married, first Lizzie Becker, second, Leah Stoucher. He was born in 1804 at Mühlbach and was raised there. At present (1883) he lives at Dauphin, north of Harrisburg, Pa., where his sons carry on a butcher shop. I visited him in the Spring of 1883 and received from him many facts in relation to the Meyers of his branch of the family. Children: Rebecca, married Ed. Ebach; John, dec’d, married Sarah Smith. (These were children of the first wife, Lizzie Becker.) The following were children of the second wife: George, married to Margaret Haney; Henry; Michael; William, — had been a soldier in the late war; Noah; Catharine, married to John Walters; Sarah, married to Mr. Glouch.
2. Catharine, married to John Witters.
3. John, married to Magdalena Meyer, a daughter of the Schaefferstown Christopher Meyer, and consequently, a grand-daughter of John Henry Meyer. (See pages 30-32.) He lives on the western part of the old Mühlbach tract. I visited him in the Fall of 1883 and received considerable information for these pages from the family. He was born in 1808 or 1809, and is still living, Nov. 1889. His wife is dead. Children : — John H., born 1835, married to Amanda Robinson, lives also on the old Mühlbach tract. William H. H., married to Lizzie Robinson, sister of John's wife; Amanda; Agnes, married Charles Garman; Monroe, married to Frances Stover; Tillie, married to John Stover.
4. Michael, was born Nov. 19, 1810; is married to Lucy Ann Krall. The family lives about one and a half miles south-west of the Miihlbaeh homestead. Michael is a pleasant and intelligent gentleman, and is quite well posted on Meyer history. He is of short stature, as most of his great-grandfather John's descendants are. He says, we call the Campbellstown Meyers (Christopher's sons) the "big Meyers". He remembers how, when he was a boy, the Pennsvalley (Centre County) Meyers used to send hounds in boxes to his father. All the Meyers of that period were hunters. I visited the family twice in 1883. Children: — Israel, born in 1835, married first to Catharine Betts, second, to Caroline Friese, lives in Ohio ; Levi, married Eda Heckman, lives in Ohio ;
Catharine, married to Wm. Miller, she died in 1880; Solomon, married Catharine Banter, lives at Schaefferstown, Pa.; Caroline, married Frank Goss; John, married to Amanda Royer.
5. Elizabeth, married to J. B. Smith of Berks County, Pa., who represented his county three successive terms in the Legislature.
ISSUE WITH SECOND WIFE — CHRISTINA LISE:
6. Henry, married to Sarah Miller. He was born Jan. 28, 1815; died Nov. 1, 1881. His wife was born Jan. 1, 1819. Henry owned the old homestead and his widow and two sons reside there now (1883). I visited there several times during the Summer of 1883, and received many facts for this sketch from the widow and from papers which she kindly permitted me to examine. It was she who gave me the information about the original buildings near the spring. Her husband's grandmother, Catharine (Schaeffer) Meyer, used to say that the buildings had been put up by the "old folks", that is, by the Meyers who came from Germany. (See page 18.) Charles M. Zerba, Esq., of Lebanon, Pa., writes me, June 25, 1888, that the farm which had been in possession of the Meyers so many generations, has at last passed into other hands, J. Monroe Zimmerman now owning it. See note, page 15. But this does not include the whole of the original tract, only the eastern part or half. Children : — Sarah, married to Uriah Kryder ; Henry, married Clarissa Dissinger, great-granddaughter of the Schaefferstown Christopher Meyer. Henry was born March 3, 1850, died Feb. 2(5, 1886. He and his brother Thomas lived on the old farm at the spring and were the last Meyer owners of it.
Ida Christina, married to John Achey, lives at Lebanon. Pa.; Thomas, married Celicia Strickler.
7. Mary, married Henry Fisher. Indiana.
8. Sarah, married Cyrus Kryder.
9. Leah, married to George Dager.John married Lizzie Strickler. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
5. Lizzie Strickler Children:
- 2. George Moyer was born in 1804 in Millbach, Lebanon County, PA.
- Catharine Meyer
- John Moyer was born on 25 Sep 1808 in Lebanon County, PA; died on 19 Nov 1894 in Millcreek Township, Lebanon County, PA; was buried in Schaefferstown Cemetery, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA.
- Michael Moyer was born on 19 Nov 1810 in Pennsylvania; died on 9 Mar 1890; was buried in Schaefferstown Cemetery, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA.
- Elizabeth Meyer
Generation: 4
8. John Mayer was born on 03 Mar 1745 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA (son of Johannes Mayer); died on 15 Jun 1812 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA; was buried in Millbach Cemetery, Millbach, Lebanon County, PA. Notes:
John Moyer will dated Sept. 23, 1811. Probated Aug. 24, 1812. Dauphin Co. C.H. Will abstract C-259 (DCHS). This information comes from the Ancestry database: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records 1750-2014. From a reference card for John Loudermilch; Barbara Moyer, dau. John-Catherine.
Name:
Capt Johannes Mayer
Captain 5th Company, 2nd Btn., Lanc. Co., Militia.
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47663736/johannes-mayer
Capt Johannes Mayer, Captain 5th Company, 2nd Btn., Lanc. Co., Militia.John married Catharine Schaeffer. Catharine (daughter of Alexander Schaeffer and Eva Anna Angelica Engle) was born on 17 Oct 1747 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA; died on 11 Oct 1825 in Millbach, Lebanon County, PA; was buried in Millbach Cemetery, Millbach, Lebanon County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
9. Catharine Schaeffer was born on 17 Oct 1747 in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA (daughter of Alexander Schaeffer and Eva Anna Angelica Engle); died on 11 Oct 1825 in Millbach, Lebanon County, PA; was buried in Millbach Cemetery, Millbach, Lebanon County, PA. Notes:
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51068032/catharine-mayerChildren:
- 4. John Meyer was born about 1779 in Pennsylvania; died on 09 May 1851.
- Michael Meyer died before 1795.
- George Meyer
- Henry Meyer
- Barbara Meyer
- Catharine Meyer
- Elizabeth Meyer