Forry History - ChapterVI

IV. William (son of Lawrence) was born August 19, 1800. He learned the paper making trade from Mr. Sharpless, of Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa., after which he went to Philadelphia and married Christiana Ulrich. He died February 10th, 1855, at the age of 54 years, and is buried at Trenton, N. J. , in the Mercer Cemetery. His family consisted of seven sons and four daughter.

  1. Peter, born May 25th, 1827, married to Hannah Nippins,died March 16th, 1909, aged 82 years, and is buried at Mount Holly, New Jersey. They had three sons and two daughters: Edwin, William H., John, Lizzie and Kate.
    • Edwin was married to Emma Anderson. They have two daughters and one son--Mildred and Lillian are the names of the two daughters, but the son's name the writer has not been able to find out. They reside at Wilmington, Del.
    • William H. was married to Mary Finley, (now dead). He had five sons, Raymond, Thomas, Louis, William and Jackson, all of Wilmington, Del.
    • John was married to Mary Bough, of Wilmington, Del.
    • Lizzie, wife of Harley Brown, lives at Mt. Holly, N. J. She has one son.
    • Kate is married to Clement Hitchman. They reside at Long Branch, N. J., and have one son,Reuben, and one daughter, Irene.
  2. Andrew Jackson was born April 29th, 1829, and was married to Elmira AdamsThey had two sons and three daughters; two daughters dead.
    • Frank is married to Helen Day and resides at Pallsborough, N. J.
    • Sallie is married to William F. Finley. She has three sons and is living at Winneto, Chicago, Illinois.
  3. William Howard was born March 19th, 1833, and is married to Emma Miller. He had three sons (two of which are dead), one son, Albert, is living at Philadelphia; he has one son.
  4. Benjamin Franklin was born March 15th, 1834, and is married to Anna McOneal--two sons, (one son is dead); one son, Merret, was married. Both are dead. Merret had a daughter, Mary, who survives and is living inWilmington, Del.
  5. George Whashington (sic), born March 26, 1835--dead.
  6. Joseph Ean, born June 18th, 1836--dead.
  7. Mary Elizabeth, born October 27th, 1837; she is unmarried and lives at Trenton, N. J.
  8. John Simon, born April 20th, 1839, was married to Anna Carr--no children. His widow lives in a Masonic Home in New Jersey.
  9. Emeline, born November 4, 1842--dead.
  10. Anna Catherine, born June 7th, 1845, is married to Joseph Mershon. They had six children, but all of the family are dead.

V. Christiana (daughter of Lawrence) was born September 2d, 1802 and died September 22d, 1882, aged 80 years and 20 days. She went to Lehigh County and married Charles Druckenmiller. They had a family of four sons and two daughters: Charles, Henry, John, Benjamin, Mary and Lydia.

Christiana died at an advance age and is buried in the Moravian Cemetery in Emmaus.

VI. Eliza went to Northampton County, Pa., and married John Rinker. She raised a family, but her descendants cannot be located.

VII. Lydia (daughter of Lawrence) was married to Jacob Klingaman near Bloomsburg, Pa. She has a family of four sons and five daughters; Charles, George, Washington, Horace, Mary, Sarah, Fanny, Elizabeth and Amanda.

  1. Charles was married to Martha Schlicker and had two sons and two daughters: Sarah M., Savilla, Samuel and Cornelius.
    • Sarah M., wife of William Kunkel, (both dead) had one daughter, wife of Montgomery Miller, who has three sons and one daughter: Hazel, Asher, Clyde and Guy.
    • Savilla, wife of Mr. Yohe, has one son, Charles, at home, and one daughter, Isabella, wife of John Fisher, of Bloomsburg, Pa., who has a son named Homer.
    • Samuel has two sons and two daughters, their names the writer could not learn.
    • Cornelius died unmarried.
  2. Horace was married and has two sons, William and Peter, and one daughter whose name the writer could not learn.
  3. Sarah, wife of William Unger, was living in Philadelphia.

The rest of the family went west and we have no further record of them.

VIII. Catherine (daughter of Lawrence) was married to William Maurer, of Catawissa, Columbia County, Pa. She had a son who died in infancy, and three daughters, Marguerite, Harriet and Mary.

  1. Marguerite was married to Adam Bowers--two sons and two daughters.
  2. Harriet was married to Dr. G. E. Creasy, of Berwick, Columbia County, Pa. The names of the others the writer could not get.
  3. Mary was married to John Geiger. They had five sons and one daughter.

Harriet, daughter of Catherine, wife of George Gensel, died without any descendants.

Henry (brother of Jonas, Lawrence and John and son of John) was taken prisoner by the Indians and held for several years. Finally the Indians decrees that he must run the gauntlet and formed a circle, through which he was permitted to amke his escape if he could. The Indians of course thought it was impossible and they would kill him. At one place of the circle an old squaw and her two sons were stationed. She told him to come to her, which he did, and she saved him, apparently in the same manner in which Pocahontas, the Indian chief's daughter, saved the life of John Smith, in 1607. He was kept for some time by this old Indian Squaw and was traded off, in Plattsburg, New York, to some French trappers, from Canada, for a lot of tobacco.

His brother Lawrence, on learning that he was living in Canada, left Catawissa and went, in company with his son, Jonas, in search for him (Henry) and found him. Lawrence had no difficulty in identifying his brother Henry. He had gone through many hardships, but was a wealthy trader at that time. He married a French Canadian woman and raised a family of three sons. He died and is buried in Canada. One of the sons went to Plattsburg, New York, but we have no record of what became of him.

His brothers, French fishermen from Quebec, married in New Orleans.

During the War of 1812, these two brothers were taken from a French fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland, by what was thought a French privateer, and their vessel was burned. The crew was taken to New Orleans where these two brothers made their escape and settled there. They both married French women and raisedfamilies, but we can find no record showing whether they are living or not.

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