Notes for Henry Overholt
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Henry Oberholtzer or Overhold.
Ancestral File number (October 1998): 1VSN-BR. Henry Oberholtzer.
Buried Alverton Cemetery, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Ancestral File number (October 1998): 4LH3-7J. Henry Overholt.
Ancestral File number (October 1998): 1DDL-T9Q. Henry Overholtzer.
Oberholtzer Roots, Chapter One,
http://www.bee.net/oberholtzers/genealogy/book/chapter1.htm, 1
November 1998. Moved to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Paul H. Calhoun, CALHPH1 database at Genserve, November 1998. Henry Overholt. Children: Agnes, Maria, Jacob,
Barbara Ford, Overholser Family Association, 4 November 1998.
Henry Overholt did not serve in the Revolutionary War as he was a Mennonite. Apparently he was often fined for not attending militia drill. Nevertheless his descendants are accepted by the DAR. There were twelve children. Tombstone in Alverton Cemetery: "Hier / Ruhen die / Gubene / von / Henrich Oberholtzer / ward gebohrendedn 5th Feb/ 1739 / Old Stile / Er ist gestorben Den 5ter / Martius 1813 / Seinalter war 74 jahr / 1 m. und 7 tag /
West Overton Museums brochure. Henry Overhold led a group of German Mennonites from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to West Overton, Westmoreland County, where they established a farming community.
Barbara B. Ford 1995, The Oberholtzer Book. Died 5 March 1813.
Served in the Revolutionary War, in Captain McHenry's Company of Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Went to Westmoreland County by covered wagon in 1800, with about 30 members of his family. Settled in East Huntingdon Township in the present area known as West Overton.
George Harvey, Henry Clay Frick: The Man. Mennonites were pacifists by religion, but patriots by nature. Henry Overhold was one of the first to join the Bucks County militia upon the outbreak of the revolution.
Barbara B. Ford, 19 November 1998. Henry Overholtser.
Edward Yoder, The Mennonites of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Henry Oberholzer (Overholt), brother of Martin, brought the second large Oberholzer family to Westmoreland County in 1800. He had twelve children. He founded West Overton. Was a large landowner in Bucks County, with a farm located next to the Deep Run Mennonite meetinghouse, Bedminster Township. He sold that estate for 1500 pounds gold and silver money and with his wife, five sons, seven daughters, five sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law, and thirteen grandchildren, trekked westward for 300 miles in an extended wagon train which also included a great quantity of goods. In Westmoreland County, he immediately purchased a new homestead, with his married children settling in the same vicinity.
Anonymous, Overholt (A.) & Co., A History of the Company and the Overholt Family, 1940 (transcribed by Karen Rose Overholt Critchfield). After the Revolution, he moved from Bucks County into the foothill country of the Youghiogheny River.
Winifred Paul (no date), Along the Banks of Jacobs Creek; A Genealogy of a Mennonite Community, pp. 76-84. Henry followed his brother Martin to Westmoreland County. Deed Book 9, p. 163: On 7 June 1803
William and Eleanor Newell of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, sold 260.5 acres to Henry Overhold for 1300 pounds, a atract called Rostraver which was patented by Newell on 18 December 1801. This is now West Overton.
Winifred Paul (no date), Along the Banks of Jacobs Creek; A Genealogy of a Mennonite Community, pp. 76-84. Died intestate. The heirs released his estate to sons Abraham and Christian Overholt.
Floyd Brown, GenServ database BRON8CA, 30 August 2000. Life dates 2 May 1739 - 3 May 1813.
Paul H. Calhoun, GenServ database CALHPH1, 30 August 2000. Marriage 3 January 1763.
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