Individual Details

John C. HERCHELROTH

(5 October 1774 - 1 January 1835)

The Kittochtinny Historical Society, Vol. II, p. 320
copy in file
200 acres to John Hargleroad in 1831.
The lands of the Finleys and those of his surrounding neighbors all are now owned by those of German descent. Tracing the various land transfers through the last 150 years, affords the clearest history of the manner in which the Sccotch-Irish were supplanted by the Germans on the lands not only in this neighborhood, but elsewhere in the rural districts of our county.
A portion of the original John Finley land passed at his death to his son, John Finley, and then to Christian Kreider. . .Amother portion was sold in 1794 to John Miers. This land lay around the crossroads. Myers added an adjoing tract bought from David Mahan and in 1824 willed both tracts to his son, George Myers, who sold the same, about 200 A., to John Herchelroth (Hargleroad) in 1831. John C. Hargleroad, in the fourth generation of this name, is the present owner of the homestead portion. All that portion of the village of Culbertson west of the Western Maryland R.R. is built upon the Hargleroad land that originally was owned by John Finley.

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BIRTH: also given as 5 Oct 1782

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Hargleroad Genealogy by Stringfellow:
John first married Maria ________ and had a son Laurence, born in 1798. This union was shakey from the start with accusations by John that Maria had tried to poison him. The length of this marriage is uncertain, but undoubtedly of short duration and ended in Lancaster Co. After John's separation and divorce he married Elizabeth Etter. Family stories indicate they were married in Lancaster Co. However other indications support their marriage to have occured in Franklin Co., PA. This would appear to be more valid when you consider that John's son Laurence, to his first wife, was born in 1798, the same year in which he bought his farm in Franklin County. In addition, John's first child born to Elizabeth Etter was born in 1811, thirteen years after he purchased the Franklin County farm.

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by Melvin Hargleroad:
Franklin Co. was taken from Cumberland Co. in 1784 and Cumberland Co. was taken from Lancaster Co. in 1750. Lancaster taken out of Chester Co. 1729 and Chester Co. was the original created in 1682.
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Events

Birth5 October 1774Near Middle Creek, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Christen30 October 1774Reiher's Reformed Church, Brickerville, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Residence18 April 1798purchased farm from David Hess - Near Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania
MarriageAbt 1809Guilford Twp., Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania - Elizabeth ETTER
Will9 November 1834, Franklin, Pennsylvania
Burial1835Marion, Franklin, Pennsylvania
Death1 January 1835Guilford Twp., Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania
BurialSalem Lutheran Church Cem., Marion, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
NotesCemetery/church description - Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church
Occupationfarmer, owned 2 farms - Guilford Twp., Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania
ReligionLutheran
Propertyearly 1800spurchased additional farm - Green Twp., Franklin, Pennsylvania
Occupationcooper, farmer

Families

SpouseElizabeth ETTER (1786 - 1845)
ChildCatherine HARGLEROAD (1811 - 1898)
ChildMaria HARGLEROAD (1813 - 1896)
ChildJohn HARGLEROAD (1814 - 1896)
ChildJacob HARGLEROAD (1819 - 1901)
ChildChristian HARGLEROAD (1823 - 1890)
ChildMichael E. HARGLEROAD (1824 - 1904)
SpouseMaria HERCHELROTH ( - )
ChildLorentz HERCHELROTH (1798 - 1860)
FatherLorentz HERCHELROTH (1739 - 1804)
MotherCatharina Maragaretha QUICKEL (1745 - 1827)
SiblingCatherine HERCHELROTH (1764 - 1817)
SiblingElizabeth HERCHELROTH (1768 - 1830)
SiblingHenry HERCHELROTH (1771 - )
SiblingLorentz HERCHELROTH (1772 - 1822)
SiblingBarbara HERCHELROTH (1773 - 1862)
SiblingJuliana HERCHELROTH (1777 - )
SiblingAnna Maria HERCHELROTH (1778 - )
SiblingEva HERCHELROTH (1780 - )

Notes

Christen

by Rev. John Christopher Gobrecht

Residence

Cost: 837 pounds, 8 shillings

Will

Page 311 Will Book D Franklin County, PA-courthouse 7/17/98 personal visit

The last, 9 Nov 1834, Will and Testament of John Herkelroth of Guilford Township Franklin County Pennsylvania.

In the first place I direct that my Executors hereinafter mentioned shall pay off all my just debts and funeral expenses, and for that purpose they shall sell and dispose of to the best advantage what grain there is and both of my plantations, and the residue of the product of said plantations beyond what is necessary to support the family shall be laid up and used for the purpose of erecting a new dwelling house on the farm I live on the cost of which shall not exceed nine hundred dollars. I do not wish any of my stock, tools, farming utensils or household or kitchen furniture to be sold but I dispose of them as herein after mentioned. I give and devise to my beloved wife Elizabeth as much of the household and kitchen furniture as she may choose to take, two cows of her choice of my stock, four sheep, and annually during her life direct that my four sons shall deliver to her five hundred pounds of pork, one hundred weight of beef, fourteen baskets of wheat, ten bushels of corn, four bushels of potatoes, and as many apples and as much cider as she may need and pasture and feed for her cows to be fed with my sons cattle on either of the farms she may be living on. I devise to her also during her life life her choice from time to time of living either on my mansion farm in Guilford Township where she shall be entitled to one room and the use of the kitchen and cellar in my present house or the one that is to be built or on my farm in Green Township where she shall have the room behind the dining room and the room above the dining room with liberty of the cellar, and with the use of so much of the garden as she may want at either place where she shall be living and with liberty to keep her poultry not exceeding one dozen. And I allow my four sons to pay to her annually during life forty two dollars in cash out of the products of the two farms. I allow my wife and children to live on my farm in Guilford Township as they now do until my son Jacob arrives at the age of twenty one years which will be on the eighteenth day of October eighteen hundred and forty, and at that time the first payment of forty two dollars shall be made to my wife and the other provisions for her support commence.Item I devise and bequeath to my daughter Maria two cows and four sheep her choice and two thousand dollars to be paid by my sons as herein after mentioned.Item I devise to my son Lawrence two thousand dollars deducting therefrom what he has received from me and is charged in my book, except that from the charges in the book is to be first taken three hundred and thirty five dollars which I allow him for services services and a horse I gave him which I don't charge him with to be paid by my other sons as herein after mentioned.Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Catharine wife of Jacob Rinehart two thousand dollars deducting therefrom what I have given her and is charged in my books except the cows and sheep and it is my express will that this legacy is for the sole and separate use of said Catharine and shall not be under the control or subject to the debts or contracts of her husband and as it shall become payable as hereinafter mentioned by my sons. I allow it to remain in the land at interest and the interest to be annually paid to herself alone for her own separate use, but if she survives her husband she is then to get the principal and if she dies before him then the principal is to be paid to her children. Item I devise and bequeath to my four sons, John, Jacob, Christian and Michael their heirs and assigns forever as tenants in common all my real estate consisting of a plantation in Guilford Township aforesaid on which I reside adjoining Jacob Heyser, Jacob Fent, William Young's heirs and others containing one hundred and sixty acres more or less. Also a plantation in Green Township and County aforesaid adjoining land of Samuel Semy Samuel Harbison _____Overholzer and others containing two hundred and four acres more or less, which I devise to my said sons subject to the foregoing provisions for my wife and to the payment of the foregoing legacies to Marie, Lawrence, and Catharine which legacies are to be paid as follows, whenever my debts and the the expenses of building the new house are paid then the net proceeds of the two farms after supporting the family shall be annually applied to the payment of said legacies the first sums to be applied to Catharine and Maria's Legacies until they shall have received each as much as Lawrence has already received until Jacob arrives at the age of twenty one years and then and from that time there shall be paid to Maria, Lawrence and Catharine each two hundred dollars annually until their legacies are paid off subject to the provision relating to Catharine's legacy -Item, I give and devise to my said four sons, John, Jacob, Christian and Michael all my stock household kitchen furniture and tools and farming utensils not herein before devised, of which an Inventory and valuation is to be made, and to remain in John's hands till Jacob arrives of age, when John is to give him stock and to the half of the valuation, and when Christian and Michael severally come of age John and Jacob are to furnish them with stock and to the amount of one fourth of said valuation - It is my will that my lands devised as aforesaid shall notbe divided till my youngest son Michael comes of age, and that my said minor children shall be supported educated and be brought up as farmers on the land - I appoint my friend Abraham Hollinger and my son John Executors of this will, and it is my will that Abraham Hollinger do all the duties under this will until John comes of age viz . on the twenty ninth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty five, and I appoint the said Abraham Guardian of my son Jacob until he comes of age. Signed sealed and published by John Herkleroth as his last will and testament this 9th day of November 1834. in presence of
Hse Miller
J.D. Culbertson
J.G. McullohJohn Herchelroth

Burial

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
Find A Grave Memorial# 130076768

Notes

Cemetery notes and/or description:
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church at Marion was established in 1812. At first it was a Reformed/Lutheran Congregation and was called Salem's Church. In 1877 the German Reformed congregation dedicated Heidelberg Reformed Church in Marion, ending the combined congregation.

The original church building was made of limestone and the exterior finished with white stucco. Because of this the church at that time was also referred to as the "White Church". In 1950, Salem Church was expanded toward the road and a basement excavated in to provide additional Sunday School rooms, a kitchen and bathrooms.

The cemetery "surrounds" the church on three sides and is now extending out on the west side. As you approch the church from PA Route 16 you cannot see much of the cemetery until you pass the church building.

You can find Salem Evangelical by taking PA Route 11 south from Chambersburg or north from Greencastle. After turning on Miller Road the church is situated 1/4 mile on the right.

99 Miller Road
Marion
Franklin County
Pennsylvania

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2145335

Endnotes

1. Ellis and Evans, 1986, History of Lancaster County, PA, Vol 2.

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3. Robert Stringfellow, (Copyright 1989), My English-German-Scottish Ancestors, Their Descendants and Relatives (Harglerode Genealogy, pp. 45-54).

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5. Descendants of Michael Hargleroad, July 8 1936 (Handwritten pages compiled by William Brownlee Gabby Hargleroad, Maggie Blank Hargleroad, and daughters, Pearl.and Ruth. Letters were sent out to al of WBG Hargleroad's siblings and they responded with their family information.).

6. Lancaster Co., PA, Church Records of the 18th Century, Vol. 3, v. 1, p. 145, Reiher's Reformed Church.

7. , GSF 020,345 Zions of Reiher's Ref. Church, near Brickerville, Lancaster, Penn..

8. , GSF 020,345 Zions of Reiher's Ref. Church, near Brickerville, Lancaster, Penn..

9. Robert Stringfellow, (Copyright 1989), My English-German-Scottish Ancestors, Their Descendants and Relatives (Harglerode Genealogy, pp. 45-54).

10. Sielhammer, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, PA (Original printing, 1905. Reproduced by Unigraphic, Inc. (1978) 1401 N. Fares Ave. Evansville, Indiana).

11. Orphan's Court, Franklin Co., PA, Docket C, p.50-51, 67, 75.

12. Herchelroth, John -- Last Will and Testament, 9 Nov 1834.

13. Findagrave.com.

14. (Published in The Chambersburg Register, Jan. 17, 1908).

15. Herchelroth, John -- Last Will and Testament, 9 Nov 1834.

16. Robert Stringfellow, (Copyright 1989), My English-German-Scottish Ancestors, Their Descendants and Relatives (Harglerode Genealogy, pp. 45-54).

17. Plank, Anna C. records (Anna C. Plank 42 E. Lincoln Ave., Gettysburg, PA).

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19. Findagrave.com.

20. History of Franklin County (1887, indexed Digital version online: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE928950 Fiche: 6045261).

21. History of Franklin County (1887, indexed Digital version online: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE928950 Fiche: 6045261).

22. Robert Stringfellow, (Copyright 1989), My English-German-Scottish Ancestors, Their Descendants and Relatives (Harglerode Genealogy, pp. 45-54).

23. (Adams County, Hastings Centennial Commission, Hastings, Nebr., 1971, p.100-101).