Samuel Shively (Shiebler, Scheibler) And 1st Wife Susannah Henry, 2nd Wife Mary Henry Who Lived In Westmoreland County, PA

A descendant of the Samuel Shively (Shiebler, Scheibler) line who was from Westmoreland County, PA requested information regarding the lineage of the Shively and Henry lines. Articles related to this family were written for the Shively blog on 1-Apr-2012, 17-May-2014 and 13-Aug-2017.

Samuel Shively was born on 11-Oct-1842 in PA and died 9-Jul-1909 in Westmoreland County, PA.  His parents were Jacob Scheibeler, Jr (born 18-May-1816 died 8-Mar-1885 in Westmoreland County, PA) and Veronica Fannie (Fanny) Kepple (born 6-Dec-1815 died 14-Jul-1885 in Westmoreland County, PA). The parents of Jacob Scheibler, Jr were Jacob Scheibeler, Sr (born 4-Jun-1788 died 7-Oct-1861 in Westmoreland County, PA) and Catherine Troxel (Truxel) who was born 20-Nov-1781 died 4-Mary-1841. Jacob Scheibeler, Sr married 2nd Susannah Kepple (1796-1880).  John Jacob Scheibeler (Scheibler) Sr was the son of Frederick Scheibler ( 1763-1843) and Salome Leichty (born 1763 died 5-Feb-1839). Frederick Scheibler was the son of George Scheibler and wife Catherine (last name unknown) who came from Germany in the 1700's.

Listed on the 1850 Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the household of Jacob Shivelar age 62, wife Susan age 53, son Jacob age 34, Jacobs wife Fanny age 33, Jacob and Fanny's children George age 9, Samuel age 7, Betsey age 6, Mary Ann age 4, Catherine age 2, Lydia age 5 months and then a Sarah Brinker age 16. Listed on the 1860 Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the family of Jacob Scheibler age 44, wife Fanny age 48, son George age 19, son Samuel age 17, daughter Elizabeth age 15, daughter Mary Ann age 13, daughter Catherine age 11 and daughter Lydia A age 9. The next household is Jacob Scheibler age 72 and wife Susanna age 65. Listed on the Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the family of Jacob Shibley age 54, wife Anna age 54, son George age 29, daughter Catharine age 22, daughter Lydia age 20 and James Altman age 14. The next household is Susan Shibley age 73. Three households down from Jacob Shibley is the household of Samuel Shibler age 26, wife Susan age 22 and son William age 2. Listed on the 1880 Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the household of Jacob Scheibler age 64, wife Fannie age 64, son George age 39, daughter Lydia age 30, daughter in law Sophia age 22 and Frank Williams age 14.

Samuel Shively (Shiebler, Scheibler, Scheibeler, Shibley) married twice.  Both wives were sisters. The first wife was Susannah Henry and the second wife was Mary Henry. They were the daughters of Frederick Henry III and Lydia Ann (last name not known for sure as records vary regarding her last name).   Frederick Henry III was born 1816 and died 1898. From the Find A Grave web site is the following: “the father of Frederick Henry III was Frederick Henry II. Frederick Henry II survived the Indian attack in 1779 called “The Henry massacre” in which his mother and 3 children were murdered at home. Infant sister, Margaret Elizabeth Henry was murdered along the way after capture. Two other children were captured and rescued. From various accounts Fred Henry II got away from the cabin and sought help”.

   Frederick Henry II was born 1773 in PA and died 1865 in PA.  Wife was Margaret born 1794 in PA

   The father of Frederick Henry II was Frederick Henry I who was born 1748 in Germany and died 1820 in Hempfield, Mercer County, PA. The wife of Frederick Henry I was Catherine Frantz for 5-Sep-1751 in Bourges, France. She was murdered in 1779 in the “Henry massacre” in Westmoreland, PA.

On the 1850 Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the family of Frederick Henry age 35, wife Lydia age 32, daughter Susan age 4 and son Zacharia age 3. On the 1860 Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the household of Frederick Henry age 48, wife Lydia age 35, daughter Susanna age 13, son Zachariah age 11, daughter Mary age 9, daughter Ellen age 7, son Noah age 2, and daughter Lydia age 6 months. On the 1870 Sewickly Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the family of Frederick Henry age 59, wife Lydia age 51, son Zachariah age 21, daughter Mary age 18, daughter Elllen age 17, son Noah age 13, daughter Lydia A. age 10 and daughter Jennie age 7.  Listed on the 1880 Penn Township, Westmoreland County, PA census is the household of Fred Henry age 64, wife Lydia age 61, son Noah age 23, daughter Anna age 20,  daughter Jennie age 16 and grandsons Willie Shively age 12 and Charley Shively age 6.

The will of Jacob Scheibeler, Jr (born 18-May-1816 died 8-Mar-1885) was located in Westmoreland Will Book 7, Pages 282-283:

No. 49 of 1885     ) In the name of God Amen I Jacob Scheibaler of Hempfield Township in 

Will Of                  ) County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania being of sound and

Jacob Scheibler   )disposing mind memory and understanding praised be God for the same do make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following to wit. I order that all my just debts, funeral expenses and proving this my Will be in the first place fully paid and satisfied and after payment thereof I give and bequeath as follows. Item, I direct that my beloved wife Fannie take under the Act of Assembly of 1849 allowing widows three hundred dollars of the valuation and appraisement thereof. Item, I give and bequeath to my son George F Scheibaler fifteen hundred dollars which amount I have already advanced to him out of the payment of the Tract of land I sold to him which he now occupies. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary intermarried to Henry E Snyder the Tract of land they now occupy called the Kepple Tract containing seventy five acres and and 128 (   ) and she the said Mary to have fifteen hundred dollars in said Tract of land as her legacy and pay out to my daughter Elizabeth intermarried to Michael Snyder fifteen hundred dollars as her legacy in said Tract of land and at my death pay to my (  ) seven hundred and fifty dollars being in full payment for said Tract of land. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Lydia A intermarried to Albert Eisaman my homestead farm I now occupy containing eighty acres for which she shall pay to my daughter Catherine intermarried to Jessee Fry fifteen hundred dollars for her legacy in said farm and I hereby reserving a house on said farm for my wife Fannie during her natural life should she survive me and I also direct that each one of said heirs occupying the said farms as aforesaid namely George F Scheibaler and Mary Snyder and Lydia A Eisaman give each and every year twelve bus. of wheat and twenty five bushels of oats and fifty bush ear of corn and two bus of potatoes all to be of a good quality from each one during the natural life time of my wife Fannie should she survive me and I also give and bequeath to my son Samuel Scheibaler eight hundred dollars which said amount I have already paid to him in full, and should there by anything left after all my debts and expenses and tombstones for myself and wife are fully paid I direct the same to be divided share and share alike amongst all my heirs. I further direct that after my wife Fannie has taken three hundred dollars of the appraisment and value thereof that the remainder of all my personal property be sold by my executor at public sale and the proceeds thereof to be divided as already ordered and I herby nominate and appoint my son George F Scheibaler and William  (   ) my executors to this my last Will and Testament. In testimony whereas I the said Testator have hereunto set my and and seal this 13th day of February AD 1884.              Signed Jacob Scheibeler (Seal)

In the presence of us who in his presence and at his right subscribe our name as witnesses.

                                     John Truxel

                                     Josiah Maxwell

And now March 14 1885 legally proved and approved same day recorded and letters testify granted to the within named Executors who were duly sworn before me.

                                      E F Houseman, Register

Testator died March 6, 1885 at 5 K am

               

Harry L. Shively (Shiebler, Scheibler) Who Lived In Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

An obituary in The Daily Courier, Connellsville, Pa., Tuesday November 5, 1963, Page 11, Column 1 influenced research in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania:

Harry L. Shively

Harry L. Shively, 87, of Route 71, Greensburg, R. D. 1, died in his home. His wife, Mrs. Lucetta Baughman Shively, died in 1958.  Surviving are three children, Mrs. Cleeus (Bertha) Herman of Greensburg, R. D., William E. Shively of Greensburg and Glenn R. Shively of New Stanton, R. D.; 13 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.

Research from the histories of Westmoreland County and the census records show this Shively family also is listed in the records as Shiebler, Scheibler and other various spellings. Harry L. Shively in listed on the census records with his parents, Samuel and Mary Scheibler. Samuel and Mary are buried in the Hillview Cemetery in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, as Samuel and Mary M. Shiebler.   Samuel was the son of Jacob Scheibler.

From the History Of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Compiled Under The Editorial Supervison of John W. Jordan, LL.D, Of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Illustrated, Volume 2, The Lewis Publishing Company,New York and Chicago, 1906, Page  95:

WILLIAM F. SCHEIBLER.  The Scheibler family is German.  The first member of the branch which located in Pennsylvania was George Scheibler (I), who came from Germany in 1700 and effected settlement in Montgomery county.  His wife’s Christian name was Catherine.  They were pioneer farmers, and reared two sons and one daughter: George, Catherine and Frederick Schiebler.  They were of the Zwingle Reformed church faith.  The son George went to North Carolina and became judge of the circuit court.  Catherine remained at home, single.

(II)  Frederick Scheibler, youngest child of the American ancestor and his wife, was born 1763, died in 1843, aged eighty years, and was buried in Hempfield township, in the old schoolhouse cemetery grounds known as Feightners.  They espoused the Reformed religious creed and were devout members of that body.  Politically Frederick Scheibler was a firm supporter of Jeffersonian Democracy.  He owned a farm, and taught school in the German language in the borough of Greensburg in an old log school house.  He had the honor of establishing the first bank of Greensburg, and used to drive back and forth from his farm nights and mornings while attending to the banking business.  His early life was an exceptional one for hard experiences, hair-breadth escapes and real romance.  When but fifteen years of age he, being well developed physically, was received as an enlisted soldier in the Continental army.  He was soon captured and made a prisoner of war by the British forces and sent to the military prison on one of the West India Islands, but made his escape by being befriended by an American sympathizer who conducted a tavern on the island.  When he entered the tavern he was a dejected, dirty, ragged youth, whose very condition appealed to the sympathy of the innkeeper, who told him unless he would disguise that very night the officers from the prison would be there in the morning and doubtless recapture him.  Consequently it was planned that he be thoroughly cleaned and dressed in a good suit of clothes and provided with a wig, or queue, then commonly worn.  To the queue as a disguise he attributed his escape, and he continued to wear the queue up to his death.  The officer came to search the tavern in the early morning and was informed that no person of the description was there.  He then went to the bar of the inn and there beheld his prisoner in the role of a neatly dressed bartender, so perfectly disguised that he was not detected.  He, too, was questioned about the escaped prisoner of war, but feigned to be entirely ignorant of the person sought after by the British officer, who finally purchased a drink and drank with the new bartender.  The sequel of this narrative was the he remained in the employ of the innkeeper for six years, during which period he accumulated a good sum of money, and then sailed for New York, but was shipwrecked off the coast and clung to the wrecked vessel for forty-eight hours, after which he was picked up by a passing boat and landed in New York.  From that city he walked the entire distance to his home in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, having lost all of his possessions when ship was wrecked except two dollars in his vest pocket.   His ambition while on the islands was to save his money, return home, purchase a fine team of horses and give his people a big surprise, but the fates decreed otherwise.  The family during these seven long years of absence had never heard from him and believed

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him dead. Just as he was nearing the home place he met his father and brother, who were haying.  A small stream had to be crossed by means of foot-logs, one of which was on either side of the wagon road.  The father started on one and the “prodigal son” was about to take the same log, thinking his father would know him, but the father then retraced his steps towards the other foot-log and they finally passed over the stream on different paths – the son going on to the house in which he was born.  His shoes had given out and he was barefooted, and his attire covered with dust of travel made him present a sorry sight.  He seated  himself on the door step beside a sister who was spinning, and said he by her permission would rest a while.  He asked many questions and finally called for the “lady of the house,” from whom he requested something to eat.   This was soon provided him.  While eating he asked the good woman what had become of a lock of hair she had taken from his head in childhood, whereupon the mother carefully scrutinized her caller and soon discovered her own long lost boy.  The timid maiden who had been so shy threw off her restraint and embraced her brother.  He was of a roaming disposition, and after a short stay at home started westward, and finally halted in Hempfield township,  Westmoreland county, having walked from Montgomery county over the mountains.  Here he settled and married Salome Leichty, of a prominent family, and the greataunt of the late Hon. Eli Leichty.  She was born in 1763, died February 5, 1839.  By this union one son was born—John Jacob Scheibler.  Frederick, the father, was of the Reformed church, and in politics a Democrat.

(III) John Jacob Scheibler, only son of Frederick and Saolme (Leichty) Scheibler, was born in 1788, in Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, at a point near the present borough of Youngwood.  He died October 7, 1861.  He was a sturdy farmer, and supported the Democratic party.  He, too, was of the Reformed church faith.  He married Catherine Truxel, daughter of John Truxel and wife; she died May 4, 1841, and was buried in the cemetery aforementioned. To John Jacob and Catherine (Truxel) Scheibler were born:  John, Jacob, William, Elizabeth, Hannah and Sarah.  John and Jacob remained at home and fell heir to farms formerly possessed by their father.  William migrated to Iowa, where he spent the greater part of his life and where his descendants reside.

IV.  John Scheibler, eldest son of John Jacob and Catherine (Truxel) Scheibler, born April 22, 1810, died October 2, 1887.  He married, May 13, 1830, Mary Sell, daughter of Jacob Sell and wife, Rev. Nicholas P. Hacke performing the ceremony.  Mrs. Scheibler was born April 4, 1811, died May 5, 1883, and was buried in the old cemetery, but the remains were removed to the St. Clair cemetery at Greensburg, Pennsylvania.  The children born to Mr. and Mrs. John Scheibler were:  Simon G., born March 25, 1832, of Greensburg, Pa.; Sarah, born June 7, 1834, married Jackson Baker, of Holton, Kansas; Hannah, born October 16, 1836, married Rev. T. F. Stauffer, of Sioux City, Iowa and is now deceased; Julia, born January 1, 1839, married Josiah Rumbough; Uriah Frederick, born March 23, 1841, married Mary Sutman, he died June 7, 1905; John S., born January 29, 1844, married Sally Clarke, of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, she died in 1881, he moved to Abilene, Kansas, where he still resides;  Jacob, born August 24, 1846, died April 12, 1890;  Isaac P. O., born June 23, 1849, died single September 8, 1873; William F., born September 28, 1851, of whom later; Eli, born January 24, 1854, married Alice Weimer, resident of Hempfield township.

V. William F. Scheibler, the second youngest son of John and Mary (Sell) Scheibler, born September 28, 1851, obtained a good common school education and attended the county normals.  He then followed the profession of a teacher in the Westmoreland county schools for a period of eleven years.  He farmed some during this time and taught winter school.  In the spring of 1889 he removed to the Fifth ward of Greensburg borough, known as “Bunker Hill,” where he engaged in general merchandising, which business has grown to one of large proprtions and which he still conducts.  His annual sales have been as high as $35,000. He began in a modest way and his good wife attended to the little store, while he “hustled” in the country purchasing and trading for live stock and country produce, until the town grew up around him, increasing his trade until his whole time with that of several clerks was required to handle the large volume of business.  He also handled real estate to quite an extent, and became a prosperous business factor of the borough.  For several years he has been engaged by the officers of the Street Railway Company to secure right-of-way along the rural lines.  In brief his has been an active career, built up by energy and strict integrity.  While other men have sought ease and trifling pleasures, Mr. Scheibler applied his every energy in the direction of his business, which has been crowned with an almost phenomenal success.  He is a Democrat in politics.  While too busy in the marts of trade to seek out public office, he served his native township as school director, and upon moving to the borough of Greensburg, where he has lived and operated the past sixteen years, he was made a justice of the peace, serving five years; also member of the school board. He and family are members of the Reformed church.

            He married, September 29, 1874, at Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, Catherine E. Brugh, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Brugh, the ceremony being performed by Rev. T. F. Stauffer.  Their children were:  Stella L., born December 25, 1875, married Harry E. Blank, an attorney of Greensburg, and they have a daughter, Catherine Virginia, born September 12, 1902.  Harry S., born July 27, 1877, married Jessie Overly, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and their children are:  Ruth E., born March 13, 1900, and Helen Reed, born October 12, 1902.  He is a traveling salesman for the Allen Kirkpatrick Grocery Company, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.  Florence Ethel, born November 11, 1885, at home.  At both the store and the residence of Mr. Scheibler are to be seen the evidence of education and refinement.  The family are greatly attached to one another,  even to the rosy-checked grandchildren, who are of the seventh generation from the founder of the family in America, George Scheibler, who landed in a strange land in 1700.