Marybelle Book Anderson

 

On a spring morning in Moravia, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1908, Dr. H. H. Davis delivered a remarkable baby girl weighing twelve pounds. James and Sierra “Vada” Book named her Marybelle, and she was greeted with joy by her older sister Margaret, then thirteen.

By the time Marybelle was two, the 1910 Census recorded the family living on a rented farm along Moravia Road in North Beaver Township. Sharing their household was James’ mother, Mary Glenn Book, an 80‑year‑old widow who had lived with them until her death in May of that year. Though widowed since 1868, Mary Glenn had raised her children with resilience, and the census noted her ability to read and write. James himself had left school as a boy to support his mother and sisters, yet he never stopped learning. He attended lectures and concerts throughout his life, served on the School Board, and instilled in his children a deep respect for education.

In 1914, James and Sierra welcomed another daughter, Laura Rebecca, who was born with Down Syndrome. The family’s joy was tempered by sorrow three years later when Laura, after weeks of illness, died of diphtheria in her father’s arms. She was laid to rest at Fair Oaks Cemetery beside her grandmother, Mary Book Glenn.

Marybelle grew up in Shenango Township, where her father operated his own farm. By age eleven she was excelling in school, her name appearing in local newspapers for honor roll achievements. At New Castle High School she joined the Junior Literary Society, Dramatic Club, and Latin Club, earning honors and the affectionate nickname “Bookie.” Her yearbook described her soft voice and powerful speeches with a playful verse.“Her voice is soft and low May breezes blow just so; But when she has a speech It’s like Demosthenes on the beach!” She continued her studies at Westminster College in New Wilmington, preparing for a career in teaching.

By 1930, Marybelle was a young schoolteacher living with her mother in Hickory Township. The following year she secretly eloped with Wilbert “Red” Anderson on January 31, 1931, keeping the marriage hidden to protect her teaching position. Their first child, James Maurice, was born in 1934, followed by a daughter, Eleanor Louise, in 1947.

The family lived in New Wilmington and later settled in Mars, Butler County. In 1954, Marybelle, Red, and Louise sailed from New York aboard the Constitution to India, embarking on years of missionary service. Her nephew Willis Mohney saw them off at the dock, a moment remembered in family lore.

In later years, Marybelle taught Latin at a local high school. Guiding her students her small stature and soft voice did not stop her from having well-disciplined classrooms. To her nieces and nephews she was a stylish, spirited presence — cigarette in one hand, drink in the other, always impeccably dressed. She offered financial and emotional support to her extended family, sending postcards and sharing stories that became treasured keepsakes.

Red passed away in 1980, his obituary appearing in the Butler Eagle. Marybelle lived on until October 16, 1993, when she died at age 85 in Harmony, Butler County. She and Red rest together at Lakewood Memorial Gardens in Dorseyville, Allegheny County. Her obituary remembered her as a devoted wife, mother of James and Louise, grandmother to seven, and great‑grandmother to seven more.

post written by Donna E. Mohney with a little help from Copilot AI.

The Hubbards

 

James Hubbard m. Naomi Cocke

Samuel Hubbard m. Tacy Cooper

Ruth Hubbard m. Robert Burdick

Deborah Burdick m. Joseph Crandall

Mary Crandall m. Nathaniel Wells

Deborah Wells m. Thomas Partelow, Sr

Thomas Partelow, Jr. m. Martha Maccoone

Hannah Partelow m. Rufus Mulkins

Thomas Partelow Mulkins m. Annie

Sarah Ann Mulkins m. Valentine Mohney

Silas Warren Mohney m. Margaret Jane McCamey

Valentine Edward Mohney m. Margaret Annetta Book

Donald EdwardMohney m. Nettie Lynda Lindbeck

Donna Evalyn Mohney

Seventh Day Baptists in North America

The first recorded Seventh Day Baptist meeting was held at The Mill Yard Church in London in 1651 but some Seventh Day Baptists believe that it had originated in 1617.

Stephen Mumford. came from England to Newport, R.I., in 1664-5. He was a Seventh-Say Baptist and quickly began to share his religious beliefs.

Samuel Hubbard's Journal gives this information: that he was originally from Tewkesbury, England, that he and his wife were of the number who made up the first Seventh-day Baptist church in America, and that he made at least one trip back to England.

Mumford converted several members of the First Baptist Church of Newport.

He does not seem to have given formal speeches or sermons so must have converted them individually.

Samuel Hubbard’s Journal can be found in the library of Milton College, Wis., In it, Samuel stated "My wife took up keeping of the Lord's holy 7th day Sabbath the 10 day March, 1665; I took it up one day April, 1665; our daughter Ruth, 25 Oct., 1666; Rachel, Jan. 15 day 1666; Bethiah, Feb. 1666; our son Joseph Clarke, 23 Feb., 1666." From the records, it is quite evident that Tacy Hubbard was the first to embrace the Sabbath in America.

After prominent church members- Elder John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and others (Who earlier had fought along with Elder John Crandall to achieve religious freedoms themselves!) denounced them as heretics, Wild and wife, and Solman and wife went back to the Baptist church. They were called to an open trial to show cause as to why they had denied Christ.. They appeared expecting a fair hearing but found that they were there to be compelled to abandon their beliefs. Tacy Hubbard gave 3 points - the "Grounds" for their grievance:

1. The apostasy of those 4 persons.

2. The speech of Brother Holmes.

3. The dismal lying aside of the 10 precepts and the denying of them at the meeting.

Finding no agreement and rising tension, they withdrew from the church on 7 Dec. 1671. Very soon after, on 23 December 1671, they established the first Seventh Day Baptist church in America. Samuel and Tacy Hubbard were two of the first 7 members who joined together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists. Seventh-day Sabbatarianism spread across the country.

Joseph Crandall became the 3rd pastor of that church and remained in that position for 37 years.

Thomas1 Hubbard birth date unknown. Thomas died May 26, 1555 in England. Thomas Hubbard was a gentleman residing at Horden-on-the-Hill, in Essex, England, "of good estate and great estimation," and "zealous and religious in the true service of God." It is believed that the story of Thomas Highbed in Fox's Book of Martyrs, refers to him. During the reign of Queen Mary, [known as, "Bloody Mary"] who was a Catholic, it was decided to eliminate all Protestants. Thomas was considered to be an 'outspoken and dangerous' Protestant.who was “of such property and estimation that when they were reported to Bonner as holding scriptural doctrines, Bishop Bonner apparently feared the consequences of summoning them to London, and went himself to attempt privily their perversions from the truth. Thomas was seized and imprisoned He refused to recant his Protestantism and was burned at the stake May 26, 1555. in Essex, England.

Thomas Hubbard had the following children:

James Hubbard.

Richard Hubbard. He was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England, September 13, 1562.

Elizabeth Hubbard. She was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk

James Hubbard birth date unknown. James died in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England. He married Naomi Cocke. Naomi was the daughter of Thomas Cocke. Naomi died in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England. James Hubbard was a yeoman’ of Mendelsham, Suffolk, England, 80 miles northwest of London. His Testament (printed in 1549) "which he hid in his bedstraw lest it should be found and burned in Queen Mary's days," was brought to America by his son Samuel, and is possibly in the Library of Alfred University, at Alfred Centre, NY.

James Hubbard and Naomi Cocke had the following children:

Rachel Hubbard was born in England. Rachel married John Brandish. They came to America in 1633, and lived in Salem, MA, Wethersfield, CT, and Fairfield, In England, he had been suspected to be a Protestant. Unlike his father, James escaped persecution.”

Benjamin Hubbard.

James Hubbard. He was christened in Mendelsham, Suffolk, ENG, August 14, 1603.

Sarah Hubbard was born 1598. Sarah, and her husband John Jackson, lived in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. They had a son, Robert Jackson, who served four years under Oliver Cromwell.

Thomas Hubbard was born 1604. Thomas and his wife Esther lived on Freeman Lane, near Horsley, in Southwark, London.

Samuel Hubbard

Four others apparently remained in England

Samuel Hubbard was born in Mendelsham, Suffolk, England May 10, 1610. amd died 1689 in Newport, Newport Co, RI. He married Tacy Cooper in Windsor, Hartford Co, CT, January 4, 1635/6. Tacy was born in England February 12, 1608/9. Tacy died circa 1697 in Newport, Newport Co, RI.

Samuel says of himself: "Such was the pleasure of Jehovah towards me, I was born of good parents, my mother brought me up in the fear of the Lord, in Mendelsham, in catechising me and hearing choice ministers, &c."

Menddelsham was a market town about eighty miles northeast of London), Suffolk County,

10 Oct 1633 - Salem, MA. He came this month from England. He probably came in the ship James, Grant, master, which left Gravesend, England late in August, 1633, and arrived in Massachusetts Bay October 10, 1633." Religious persecution is likely what brought Samuel Hubbard to America in 1633.

9 June 1634 Tacy Cooper had come to Dorchester, MA, and was one of the party who left for the Connecticut Valley.

Oct 1635 - With a party of about one hundred, he started to march through the wilderness to the Connecticut Valley; winter coming on before they reached their destination they suffered much from exposure, and insufficient food. Samuel Hubbard remained at Windsor during the winter

4 Jan. 1636 He married Tacy Cooper in Windsor, Hartford Co, CT, Mr. Ludlow was the officiant.

1636, shortly after their marriage, they went to Wethersfield, CT.

18 Nov. 1637 Naomi Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT

28 Nov. 1637 Naomi died in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT

19 Oct. 1638 Naomi Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT

11 Jan. 1639/40 Ruth Hubbard was born.

5 May 1643 Naomi died in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA

10 May 1639 - Springfield, MA. He moved here at this date, in search of peace, and a church was soon gathered; he says: "I gave acct. of my faith" and that there were "five men in all...my wife soon after added."

10 May 1647 "Samuel was now with his wife imbibing freely and preaching ardently the doctrines of Anabaptism." To escape persecution under the harsh laws of Massachusetts they agin moved to Fairfield, CT. His stay here was short: "God having enlightened both, but mostly my wife, into his holy ordinances of baptizing only of visible believers, and being very zealous for it, she was mostly struck at and answered two terms publicly, where I was also said to be as bad as she, and sore threatened imprisonment to Hartford jail, if not to renounce it or to remove; that Scripture came into our mouths, if they persecute you in one place, flee to another; and so we did 2 day of October, 1648, we went for Rhode Island, and arrived there 12 day. I and my wife upon manifestation of our faith were baptized by brother John Clarke, 3 day Nov 1648." And they converted to the doctrine that "no authority existed or could exist for altering God's decree establishing the seventh day as the Sabbath by the substitiution of another day."

Among those chosen as conservators of the rights of the settlers and of t he Rhode Island colonists were Tobias Sanders, Robert Burdick, John Crandall, Joseph Clarke, all Seventh Day Baptists, with others whose names are familiar in all our churches today. For the peaceful performance of their duties, Sanders and Burdick were forcibly seized by the Massachuse tts authorities, dragged to Boston, condemned to pay a fine of 40 each, and cast into prison until the fine would be paid and the prisoners should give bonds in the sum of 100 to observe the peace of the commonwealth for the future. In a similar way, Crandall was dragged to the Hartford jail. Samuel Hubbard (who remained a lifelong friend of Roger Williams) defended Sanders, Burdick, Crandall and Clarke.

10 March 10 1641/2 Rachel Hubbard was born.

25 March 1644. Samuel Hubbard was born in Springfield, Hampden Co, MA

19 Dec. 1646 Bethiah Hubbard was born in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA 12 Oct 1648, "I and my wife upon manifestation of our faith were baptised by brother Joseph Clarke,

3 day of November, 1648." "He was a zealous Baptist and public religious disputant. For twenty three years he belonged to the First Baptist Church of Newport."

30 Nov. 1649 Samuel Hubbard was born in Newport, Newport Co, RI

7 Aug 1651 - He was sent by the church to visit the brethren in prison at Boston, viz: John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and John Crandall.

Oct 1652 - "I and my wife had hands laid on us by brother Joseph Torrey." He was admitted Freeman of Newport, RI in 1655.

1 Oct 1657 - "Brother Obadiah Holmes and I went to the Dutch and Gravesend and to Jamaica and to Flushing and to Hamsted and to Cow Bay." They came home 15 Nov 1657.

In 1664 he was chosen to be General Solicitor, in case of inability of Lawrence Turner. He writes: "My wife took up the keeping of the Lord's holy Seventh Day Sabbath. the 10th day March, 1665. I took it up 1 day April 1665; our daughter Ruth, 25 Oct 1666; Rachel, 15 Jan 1666; Bethiah, Feb 1666; our son Joseph Clarke, 23 Feb 1666."

7 Apr 1668 - "I went to Boston to public dispute with those baptised there."

Jul 1668 - He wrote his cousin, John Smith, of London, from Boston, where he had been to a disputation: "Through God's great mercy, the Lord have given me in this wilderness, a good, diligent, careful, painful and very loving wife; we, through mercy, live comfortably, praised be God, as co- heirs together of one mind in the Lord, traveling through this wilderness to our heavenly Sion, knowing we are pilgrims as our fathers were, and good portion being content therewith. A good house, as with us judged, 25 acres of ground fenced, and four cows which give, one young heifer and three calves, and a very good mare, a trade, a carpenter, a health to follow it, and my wife very diligent and painful, praised be God. This is my joy and crown, in humility I speak of it, for God's Glory, I trust all, both sons in law and daughters are in visible order in general; but in especial manner my son Clarke and my three daughters, with my wife and about 14 walk in the observation of God's holy sanctified 7 day Sabbath, with much comfort and liberty, for so we and all ever had and yet have in this Colony."

16 Dec 1671 - He wrote to his children at Westerly, about the differences between those favoring the seventh day observance and the rest of the church. Several spoke on both sides. Mr. Hubbard gave his views. Brother Torrey said they required not my faith. Other discussion followed: "They replied fiercely, it was a tumult. J. Torrey stopped them at last."

7 Dec. 1671 Excommunicated from the church when Rev. Obidiah Holms declared that they had left Christ and gone after Moses.

23 Dec, 1671 With his wife, one daughter, and four other persons he formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in America. He writes: "We entered into a church covenant the 23rd day of December, 1671, viz: William Hiscox, Stephen Mumford, Samuel Hubbard, Roger Baxter, sister Hubbard, sister Mumford, Rachel Langworthy," &c.

(There is a letter from Roger Williams to Samuel Hubbard, in which he argues the position taken by the latter, and cites various texts against his views; but it is written in a very different spirit from that shown by the Newport church, and recognizes the conscientious motives which actuated Hubbard. "Bro' Hiscox and I send this Church to N. London and Westerly, 7 day Mar 1675," and again March, 1677/8 and 1686.)

1675 - He says: "I have a testament of my grandfather Cocke's, printed 1549, which he hid in his bedstraw, lest it be found and burned, in Queen Mary's days."

1 Nov 1675 - He wrote Mr. Henry Reeves, at Jamaica; "Very sudden and strange changes these times afford in this, our age, everywhere, as I hear and now see in N.E. God's hand seems to be stretched out against N. England, by wars by the natives, and many Englishmen fall at present." "This island doth look to ourselves as yet, by mercy not one slain, blessed be God." "My wife and 3 daughters, who are all here by reason of the Indian war, with their 15 children, desire to remember their christian love to you."

Nov 1676, he writes: "In the midst of these troubles of the war [King Philip's War] Lieut. Joseph Torrey, Elder of Mr. Clarke's Church, having one daughter living at Squamicut and his wife being there, he said unto me `Come, let us send a boat to Squamicut, my all is there, and part of yours.' We sent a boat, and his wife, his daughter and son in law and all their children and my two daughters, and their children [one had eight, the other three, with an apprentice boy] all came. .. My son Clarke came afterwards before winter, and my other daughter's husband in the spring, and they have all been at my house to this day."

Feb 26, 1676, he writes a nephew at Rye: "I bless my God, my condition is comfortable, and I am very well contented with knowing it is more to give than to receive. ...My wife and daughter Langworthy desired me to write about flax, yet if you bring some 20 pound if at a pound of flax for a pound of wool, it's so at Stonington; if bring Indian Corn it's now 4 pound of wool a bushel and I think it wiil be more."

Sep 2, 1677, he writes: "Truely Children for the present I am not altogether beset with thoughts (as its judged from Satan) I have been in very sore exercise, ever since br. Hiscox came to ye and a week before, occasioned by a sudden sentence of the Ch. declaring yet I have not the gift of prophesying publickly in the church tho' hereto fore judged by those brethren of the Old Ch. Yet by most here and encouraged in it, was so sorely set on, that I was horribly tempted to deny all, yet kept; but sorely harried. I pray be silent in this manner for the present."

29 Jun 1678 - He wrote Dr. Stennett, of London: "From my own house in Mayford, in Newport," &c. "Last winter the Lord visited me with a very sore cough as long as strength, and breath did last, oft 5 times together only a little respite; my dear wife oft took her farewell of me, my dear brethren watched me in their terms. Major Cranston [his physician] I sent for - he judged none help or hope for sure, but for present refreshment he gave me a small vial of spirits, which I took, and had some sleep, but my cough rather increased." He was visited by the church which drew into the other room agreeing to seek God's face for me poor one. "The next day I would have gone to town to give public praise, but was advised not to go," &c. "Our Governor died the 19th day of June, 1678, buried 20th day, all this island was invited, many others were there, judged near a thousand people, our brother Hiscox spake there excellently," &c.

1680 – Samuel is taxed 6s. 2d.

1683, Samuel Hubbard went by water to visit friends at Rye, returning by Fairfield, Milford, New Haven, Guilford, Lyme, New London, and Westerly, arriving home after six weeks absence, Sept 25.

May 23, 1684, he writes: "What marvelous rich grace..hath made known his holy sabbath to such poor worms: first to my wife, I next, the first settlers or planters in N.E. (abrother and a sister came over with the practice of it)."

19 Dec 1686 - He wrote to John Thronton, of Providence: "My old brother who was before me, you and brother Joseph Clarke (only alive) in that ordinance of baptism, I next and my wife in New England, although we stept before you in other ordinances: Oh! let us strive still to be first in the things of God," &c. ..."My wife and I counted up this year 1686: My wife a creature 78 years, a convert 62 years, married 50 years and independent and joined to a church 52 years, a baptist 38 years, a Sabbath Keeper 21 years. I a creature of 76 years, a convert 60 years and independent and joined to a church 52 years, a baptist 38 years, a Sabbath Keeper 21 years. We are by rich grace bornup and adorned with rich mercies above many, as to have all my three daughters in the same faith and order, and 2 of their husbands and 2 of my grandaughters and their husbands also with us. O praise the Lord for his goodness endures forever! Not to us, not to us poor creatures. These may be my last lines unto you, farewell."

7 May 1688 - He wrote Richard Brooks, of Boston: "The mesles is not gone here. My daughter Rachel have them and some of her family." "

1689 Samuel dies in Newport, Newport Co, RI

ca 1698 Tacy died in Newport, Newport Co, RI.

Samuel Hubbard and Tacy Cooper had the following children:

Naomi Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT November 18, 1637. Naomi died November 28, 1637 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT, at less than one year of age.

Naomi Hubbard was born in Wethersfield, Hartford Co, CT October 19, 1638. Naomi died May 5, 1643 in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA, at 4 years of age.

Ruth Hubbard was born January 11, 1639/0.

Rachel Hubbard was born March 10, 1641/2. 1

Samuel Hubbard was born in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA March 25, 1644. Samuel died in died young.

Bethiah Hubbard was born in Springsfield, Hampden Co, MA December 19, 1646. Bethiah died April 17, 1707 in Westerly, Washington Co, RI, at 60 years of age. She married Joseph Clarke in Newport, Newport Co, RI, November 16, 1664. Joseph was born in Newport, Newport Co, RI April 2, 1643. Joseph died January 11, 1726/7 in Westerly, Washington Co, RI, at 83 years of age. He was christened in Westerly, Washington Co, RI, September 30, 1643.

Samuel Hubbard was born in Newport, Newport Co, RI November 30, 1649. Samuel died January 20, 1670/1 in Newport, Newport Co, RI, at 21 years of age.

Sources:

Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/hubbard_

Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America; August 20-25, 1902. (Plainfield, N.J., Printed for the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference by the American Sabbath Tract Society, 1910-1972), 3 vols. Vol 2, p. 589:

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/genealogy/

The Descendants of Robert Burdick of R I by Johnson

The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island by Austin.

English Martyrology, Abridged from Fox-Book 3 Chapter 14; page 227.

The Ancestors and Descendents of Rev. Henry Clark" C.C. VanDauenter 1902

One Thousand Years of Hubbard History (866 to 1895) by Edward Warren Day,1896

Dornbirer Family | Lauricella Family http://www.lauricellas .com/tree.htm

Thomas and Elizabeth (Bending) Chizum

Josiah and Mary (Webster) Chizum

James and Frances (Thompson) Chizum

James Jenkins and Catherine (Bailey) Chizum

George Manson and Mabel Catherine (Holler) Chizum

Estel Lee and Erma Joyce (Kauffman) Chizum

Philip Lee Chizum and Donna Evalyn Mohney

Shaun Michael Mohney

George Manson Chizum was born in Clinton County, Indiana, son of James Jenkins and Catherine (Bailey) Chizum. (There is some question as to when he was born. At his marriage to Mable, he gives his birth as 15 Sep 1875. In 1917, he gave his birthdate as 15 September 1873 when registering for the draft. His death certificate states 15 Nov. 1868.) James' parents were James and Francis (Thompson) Chizum. Catherine's parents were Bazzle/Basil and Sarah Shockey.

On the 1870 Census of Colfax Post Office, Perry, Clinton County, Indiana, George is listed as 1 year old.

On the 1880 Census Perry Township, Clinton County, Indiana, George's age is given as 9. (George’s age on these censuses gives credence to the 1868 birth date.) At that time, the family consisted of Francis, William Bazzel, Elias Hinton, John Thomas, Elizabeth Jane, Joseph F., Sarah Ann, and Elijah. Another brother, James, was deceased.

On 19 April 1888, George's mother, Catherine, died. Less than a year later, on 2 December 1888, his father, James Jenkins Chizum married Emaline (Emma) Warfield Smith.

Sometime after this, probably about 1889, George left home, ending up in Texas. Some family histories state that he left at age 14, after his father remarried. But if he left after his father’s remarriage, he would have been about 18. (In later years, George told his son that there were too many people at home and he wasn't needed.) He became a fireman on the railroad for a few years. He was in a severe railroad wreck while in Texas and suffered a broken hip. He walked with a cane, and in his later years was in a wheelchair.

On 17 Feb 1895, George married Edna Yancey in Lociel, Benton County, Indiana. The couple had their first child, Walter, in 1895. Walter died 27 November 1895 and was buried in Mount Gilboa Cemetery, Benton County, Indiana. Before 1900, Edna and George divorced and she was living in California with her parents in 1900 when the census was taken, and with her 2nd husband on the 1910 census.

In the 1900 census, George was said to have been born about 1873 and was a boarder in Paw Paw, Wabash County, Indiana.  

By the time the 1910 census was completed, George lived in Liberty, Fulton County, Indiana and was identified as born about 1871, a widower with a farm that was mortgaged, and living alone. Sometime before that, he had purchased a 40 acre farm, one and one-half miles south of Argos on Road 31, for $2,500.

Around this time, George met Mabel Catherine Holler, daughter of John George and Mary Ann (Swails) Holler. Their first daughter, Anna Mildred Chizum, was born 9 April 1911. George and Mabel Catherine were married on 1 October 1911 in Fulton County, Indiana.

Thursday, November 20. 1912, the Rochester Weekly Republican posted “The suit for divorce of Mabel Chizum vs Geo M. Chizum was tried today. A decision will probably be known tomorrow”.

On the same page, the Republican further reported “The divorce suit of of Mabel Chizum vx. George Chizum on the grounds of cruel and inhumane treatment, tried Friday, was dismissed for lack of evidence. What evidence was presented was of a vague and unsatisfactory nature.”

They must have reconciled their differences as on 11 February 1914, Wilbur William Chizum was born And shortly after on 17 August 1915, Howard Marion Chizum joined the family. In 1916, George and Mabel were recorded as living in Sugarloaf Township.

In 1917, George registered for the World War I draft. He was living at #5, Kewanna, Fulton County, Indiana, and was described as a tall, medium build, white male with brown hair and blue eyes, a US citizen, who had a farm and was married to Mabel. The registration card said that he had “weak limbs.”

On 4 September 1918, another son, Arthur Manson Chizum was born.

The family appeared on the 1920 Census of Liberty, Fulton County, Indiana.

On 25 April 1922, George gave information to complete his brother John Thomas Chizum's death certificate.

On 5 April 1922 , Clara Elizabeth Chizum was born, soon followed by Earl Dean on 30 November 1926 and Estel Leland Chizum on 6 March 1928.

On the 1930 and 1940 censuses, the family is living on the farm in Liberty Township, Fulton County, Indiana.

While George ran the farm, Mildred didn't just sit at home and raise their children. At some point, she became a correspondent for the News-Sentinel, the Rochester, Fulton County, newspaper.

On 7 August 1944, Mabel dies of a stroke in Fulton County, Indiana. Only 2 months earlier, she and George had moved to Argos in Marshall County, Indiana.

In 1950, George lived on Pierce Street, Union Township, St Joseph County, Indiana with the family of Warren and Sadie Bunch. He was listed as a lodger who was unable to work. Another lodger, Idear Forkner, age 89, was also unable to work.

On 20 April 1954, George died at the home of his son, Arthur, and was buried in Rochester, Indiana in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery with Mabel. (Death Certificate gives DOB as 15 Nov. 1868 and born in Boone County, Indiana.)

George and Mabel (Holler) Chizum and their first 3 children. 

                                                   George Chizum with Estel Lee on his shoulders. 

Many of the photos are from Larry Chizum's blog. or from various unsourced Ancestry sites.  Thanks to all who shared. 

The Bordners- Oberhochstadt, Germany to Tulpehocken Settlement, PA

My descent from the Bordners

Balthaser Pauley Bordner m. Merrilis (Mary Elizabeth)

Johan Jacob Bordner m. Sarah Balt

Anna Maria Bordner  m.  Johann Nicholas Schneider

Margaretha Elizabeth Schneider m. Johannes Shaffer

Eva Shaffer m. Isaac Mohney

Valentine Mohney m. Sarah Mulkin

Paul Silas Mohney m. Margaret Jane McCamey

Valentine Edward Mohney m. Margaret Annetta Book

Donna Evalyn Mohney

 When the ship "Adventure," Robert Curson, Master, arrived in Philadelphia, the passenger list included “Balthaser (Baltzer) Bordner, who at the age of thirty-four years, together with his wife Marilles, aged thirty-seven years, and three children - Jacob, Hanna, and Mela, aged ten, eight, and seven years, respectively” There was also a babe-in-arms, George according to family tradition.

The Adventure originated at Rotterdam, Germany, and reached their destination on 23 September 1732. (Jacob’s age was actually 2 years older than given here, perhaps to save money on his transport.)

Balthaser Bortner's signature [Balser] is in the list of Oaths of Allegiance taken on September 23, 1732.

Balthaser Pauley Bortner was born in Oberhöchstädt, Electorate of Bavaria (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany) about 1698. (Ancestors of Elvis Presley, lived here and migrated to Pennsylvania on board the ship Lydia in 1749, moving to Tulpehocken. They were members of Host Church.))

In 1710,  Balthaser Bortner, from Oberhöchstädt, was confirmed at the Niederhochstadt Reformed church.

He married Maria Elizabetha whose maiden name has been reported as Born or Merrilis. (Merrilis is a shortened form of Maria Elizabetha. Born? Did someone mistake Born (as in nee) for Born (a surname)? Merrillis was born about 1695 in Oberhöchstädt,

They had probably left their home in Oberhockstadt in the spring, travelling for up to 5 weeks, by barge on the Rhine. Reaching Rotterdam, the family would have had to wait for a ship and then suffered through miserable sea voyage. At the time, ships were overcrowded, cold and damp, food and water were not healthy, and sickness and disease took many lives.

Although the family arrived during the wave of immigrants from the area of Germany known as the Palatines, and they were labeled as such upon arrival,, it is believed that they were not Palatines. The Bordners spoke High German were members of the German Reformed and the Lutheran Churches.

It is likely that they left their homes to be free, to escape religious discrimination and to avoid the frequent wars. I’m sure the ability to escape the rules of the upper class and to be able to earn money ane own land.

Balser may have become an indentured servant (known as "Redemptioners.") to pay for his family's passage. Born between 1697-1698 in Bayern Pfalz, Oberhochstadt, Balthazer was a farmer.

Balthaser was the father of Johan Jacob Bordner, Anna Maria Barbara Bortner Kann, George Bortner, Peter Bortner, Philip Jacob Bortner, Philippina Bortner Shaffer Frasher, & Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Bortner Low.

In the year 776, the village of Hochstadt in the Palatinate (the Pfalz), was first mentioned in documents. Höchstädt, meanss "Staette des Hoho" or places of the Hoho. Hoho would be the name of a tribe. In the middle of the 15th century an adjacent village was founded west of the Haardt Mountains; it was called "Oberhochstadt" (where Balthasar was born), while the original was called "Niederhochstadt." Hochstadt is located in present day West Germany, projecting into Franc near the Rhine River. Along with nearby Alsace and Lorraine, it was this land that was coveted by the French King, Louis XIV of France. Louis and his troops severely ravaged during the latter part of the 17th century and the early part of the 18th century.

There is a record of a coat-of-arms authorized in 1454, by the German Emperor awarded one Hans Bortner, and his sons, Hans and Paul, presumably presented for valor in battle. Of course, there is no record of the connection to Balthazer.

Batlthaser Bordner settled in Tulpehocken township, Lancaster (now Berks) county, immediately after landing, and died there in 1747."

1734 Balthaser and Maria Elizabetha were members of the Little Tulpehocken (Christ) Church, which was an Evangelical Lutheran Church. This church, which was founded in 1734, was first housed in a log structure in the Tulpehocken Settlement. It was located on the Tulpehocken Trail between the Delaware Indian village of Shamokin (now Sunbury) on the Susquehanna River, and Womelsdorf, home of Conrad Weiser, a leader in the Tulpehocken Settlement and mediator with the Indians. Host is about 3 miles northwest of Womelsdorf. The church records begin in 1748 and included several records of the Bortner family. Today the church is located 1.5 miles southwest of Bernville, Jefferson Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

1735 Peter Bortner warranted land on Mill Creek Bridge on Tulpehocken Creek in Heidelberg Twp, Lancaster County on 12 November, 1735. The land was surveyed on June 30, 1737 and was adjacent to tracts owned by Ludwick Plumb, David Evans, and Erasmus Buggamer. The land was vacated and then patented by Martin Heckaborn in 1743.

1736 Daughter Phillipena was born in the Tulpehocken Settlement. A son, Philip Jacob, who married in 1760, may have been born about the same time.

1737-48 Jacob Burtner received a warrant for 200 acres on Swatara creek in Tulpehocken Twp, Lancaster County on January 26, 1737. On April 10, 1738, a survey was made in Earl Twp. On January 20, 1743, the land was vacated for want of compliance and was to be returned for the use of Jacob Byerly. Jacob Byerly received a patent for the land in 1748. Jacob was age 15 in 1737. The land was in Tulpehocken Twp, Lancaster County, later Berks County. Perhaps this was a different Jacob Burtner.

In 1738, their daughter Maria Elisabeth was baptized by Reverend John Casper Stoever at the Little Tulpehocken (Christ) Church. (Evangelical Lutheran) (near the present village of Bernville, Jefferson Township, Berks County.

Before 1740, he received a Warrant from the Proprietors to purchase 160 acres located in Earle Township, Lancaster County, PA. He paid about 25 pounds for the land. He evidently didn't keep up with the payments as, in 1743, a Deed was issued to someone else.

1745-1746 Balthasar Bortner died. Record of his estate are found in Philadelphia County. Apparently, the Bortners spoke "High German", since their recorded wills were written in that dialect.

Merrilis died before 1750. She and Balthaser were likely buried on the family farm.

Some records list him as Balthaser Bortner III. I haven’t been able to locate the documentation this is based on.

Children of Balthaser and Merreles Bordner:

1. John Burtner b:1721 in Bucks, Pennsylvania 23 Oct 1754 Tulpehocken d. 6 jan 1837 Tulpehocken buried Salem Reformed Church Cem m Anna Maria Broz

2. Hanna Bordner Bortner b: 1724 in Germany

3. Anna Maria Bortner b: 1724 in Germany

4. Sarah Bortner b: 1727 in Germany

5. Johann Jacob Bortner b: 10 Aug 1731 in Germany  (see below)

6. George Bortner b: 1732 in Germany

7. Peter Bortner b: 1734 in Pennsylvania

8. Anna Barbara Bortner b: 1735 in Germany

9. Philip Jacob Bortner b: 1735 in Pennsylvania

10. Philippina Bortner b: 1736 in Pennsylvania

11. Mary Eliz. Bortner b: 8 Mar 1738 PA

Johan Jacob Bordner

Johann Jacob Bortner was born 10 August 1731 in Oberhöchstädt, Electorate of Bavaria (Bavaria), Deutschland (Germany). His parents are listed as Balthaser and Elisabetha Bortner. He was baptized on 12 August 1731 and the sponsors were Jacob Sauter and Apollonia Meyer, both single.

Jacob Bordner, on 10 April 1761, a foreigner was naturalized in Philadelphia.

Before 1740 Jacob received a Warrant from the Proprietors to buy 160 acres of land in Earle Township, Lancaster County, for about 25 pounds. He probably occupied this land as a tenant on a rental basis while he undertook to pay for it, as was the usual custom. In 1743 a Patent (Deed) f or this property was given to somebody else, probably because Jacob had n t made the required payments to obtain title for himself. These facts are found in the Bureau of Land Records of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. In one of these records Jacob's name was misspelled " Burtner", but in another place the correct spelling was shown.

He was in colonial military service during King George's War. On July 14, 1746, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in a force of 400 men raised in the Pennsylvania Colony to be employed, with troops from other colonies and British Regulars, to invade Canada. This was during King George's War, one of several French and Indian Wars that finally resulted in conquering Canada for the British in 1760. We learn from history that this Pennsylvania force was raised by the Colonial Governor over the objection of his pacifist-minded, Quaker-dominated legislature. The Pennsylvania troops went into Winter quarters in Albany in 1746. They were discharged in October 1747, the expedition having been laid aside, although the War continued another year.

Discharged from the militia, Jacob Bortner was an executor of the estate of his father, Balthaser Bortner. It is likely that he took responsibility for his younger brothers. His sister, Anna Maria Barbara married in 1748 and went with her husband to York County- probably taking her 2 sisters with her. (Her brother, George, later went to York County. He wrote about his life and stated that Anna Maria Barbara had her 2 sisters with her there.

Jacob married Sarah Balt, according to records of certain of his Berk County descendants. This was doubtless in the early 1750's, because their child, a son, Jacob, was born October 23, 1754.

Sarah was born in 1730 9^th month in Oberhöchstädt, Landkreis Südliche Weinstrasse (Hochstadt), Rheinland Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), Allemagne (Germany)

Her parents were Johannes Baldt and his wife, Anna Catharina Wagner.

A farmer in the Tulpehocken Settlement, Lancaster (now Berks) County, Jacob was in Berks after 1752. He acquired a farm of 25 acres, by deed, in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1761 from Richard and Thomas Penn, sons of William Penn. The land was just north and east of the present village of Bethel and lies on both sides of the Harrisburg-Allentown Road (Route 22 ). He was the first to change his name to Bordner (originally Bortner).

In 1753, Jacob Bartner was taxed in Tulpehocken Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Jacob married Sarah Balt, sometime before the birth of their first child, Johan Jacob.

1754-58 Records of the Host Tulpehocken Church at Marion Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania name the following children: Johan Jacob (1754, born 23 October and baptized 27 October), Anna Maria (1756), William (1757), and unnamed son (13 November 1758, other research indicates this son to be named Daniel).

In 1754 Johan Jacob Bortner, son of Jacob Bortner, was born on October 23. He was baptized on October 27, 1754 at the Host Reformed Church, Tulpehocken Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

1754 Jacob Portner and wife are sponsors of Sara, daughter of Joh. Bast. Weber at Host Tulpehocken Church.

1756 Anna Maria Bordner, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Bortner was born on December 9, 1756, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Anna Maria was baptized at Host church with sponsors Johannes Meyer and Anna Maria Meyer.

1757 Jacob Bartner was taxed for 50 acres of land in Tulpehocken Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

1758 Jacob Bortner was a signer of a letter sent to sponsors in Holland asking for help because many had died from Indian attacks.     

1758 Unnamed Bordner, son of Jacob Bordner and Sara, was born on November 13. He was baptized on November 29, 1758, at the Host Reformed Church in Tulpehocken Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America.

1761 Jacob Bordner, of Berks County, was naturalized as a British citizen, on April 10, at Philadelphia, after taking sacrament on April 7.

20 June 1761 Jacob Bortner, of Tulpehoccon, purchased a tract of land on Swahatawro Creek in Bethel Township, Berks County on June 20, from the Penn proprietors. The tract had been previously leased (Patent A15-503) by Jacob Hoffman, innholder, and his wife Eve, who was unable to pay his rental. This property is located just north of Bethel, on both sides of the Harrisburg-Allentown Road (U. S. Route 22). The Blue Mountains are about five miles north but his land was fairly level.

During the 1760's, his land was on the frontier. Indians, during the French and Indian Wars, attacked the English settlements. There sprung up a row of forts along the Blue Mountains for the protection of those in the settlements. Jacob's land was within sight of one of the forts.

On April 10, 1761 Jacob was naturalized as a British citizen by the Colonial Supreme Court in Philadelphia. Their records showed his name to b e "Jacob Bordner", and his residence in County.

Shortly thereafter, on June 20, 1761, Jacob acquired land in Bethel Township, Berks County, by Patent (Deed) from the Proprietors, Richard and Thomas Penn, - on default by the person 'who held the Warrant. That property is just North and East of the present Village of Bethel; it lies on both aides of the Harrisonburg-Allentown Road (U.S. Route 22). It is s aid to be good "limestone" land, which was prized by the Pennsylvania Dutch. It is fairly level land, although the Blue Mountain lies within sight about five miles North.

In the 1760's Jacob's Bethel farm was on the Pennsylvania frontier. Occasionally settlers in that area were killed by the Indians. During the " French and Indian Wars (for which a final peace treaty was not signed until 1763), the French incited the Indians to attack the English Colonial frontier settlements. There was a line of forts along the Blue Mountain for protection of the settlers. One such fort was within sight of Jacob's house.

1768 Jacob Bortner was taxed in 1768 in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Jacob was too old for service in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War, but three of his sons, Jacob Jr., John, and William, were in the militia. Although the record shows that Jacob Jr. was fined for skipping militia drills during the latter part of the war, it appears that he must have had some active service, because he was voted a pension of $40 per month in 1836 by the Pennsylvania Legislature for his war service (only about one year before he died). His name is recorded o n one of the plaques to the memory of Revolutionary War soldiers in the DAR Chapel at Valley Forge. After the war, Jacob Jr. held the rank of Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania militia.

1778 Jacob Bordner took the oath of allegiance in Berks County and paid a supply tax. He provided service in support of the American Revolution.

1779 Jacob Bordner was taxed in 1779 in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania for 180 acres, 3 horses, and 4 cows. Jacob Bordner, single freeman, was also taxed. His total tax was 2015.

1780 Jacob Bordner was taxed in 1780 in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania for 180 acres, 3 horses, and 4 cows.

1781 Jacob Bordner was taxed in 1781 in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania for 180 acres, 3 horses, and 4 cows.

1782 Jacob Bordner was taxed in 1782 in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania for 180 acres, 3 horses, 4 cows, and 6 sheep.

1784 Jacob and Sarah Bortner were sponsors at the birth of John Jacob Krag, son of El. and Anna Maria Krag.

1789 Jacob Bortner of Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, dated his will, written in German, on December 10. An English translation is with the estate papers and named sons Jacob, William, John, Daniel, Peter; daughter Sarah married to Nicholas Schneider; and deceased daughter Barbara.

1790 Jacob Bordner Senior lived in Bethel Twp, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in a household with 1 male age 16 and over, and 1 female.

On the 1790 United States Federal Census, Jacob Bordner Senior is living in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. In his home are one male over age 16 and 1 female.

1790 Jacob Bordner, the elder, in Bethel Township, wrote more specifications for his estate, on April 2, naming sons John and William and wife Sarah. Witnessed by Jacob and John Bortner.

1792 Jacob Bortner surveyed 60 acres in Bethel Twp, Berks County, on April 3. Jacob Bordner patented the land in 1828.

When Jacob Sr. died in 1792, he willed his 186 acre farm to Jacob Jr., but he made a settlement with his other children by requiring Jacob Jr. to make payments to them over a period of years. That was a normal pattern of handling estates in those days. Jacob Sr. was survived by five sons and one daughter, Anna Maria Schneider. Another daughter, Barbara, had died young.

Jacob Bortner died before March 2, 1792 when an inventory was made for the estate of Jacob Bortner on March 2. Items included a bible, hymnal, and prayer books and weaver tacklins. He willed his 186 acre farm to his oldest son, Jacob Jr, who was then required to make payments to his siblings. (One portion of his land remained in the hands of his descendants until 1944

1793 The administration account was made. March 29 - April 3.

Last Will and Testament of Jacob Bortner :

Proved 22 February 1792

In the name of God amen. This tenth day of December anno domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine. I Jacob Bortner of Bethel Township in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, yeoman, being at present sick and weak in body, nevertheless of sound mind, memory and understanding thanks be to God. Calling unto mind the mortality of my body an d honoring that, it is appointed for all men, one to dye, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say prinsipally and first of all recommend my soul into the hand of God who gave it and my body, recommend to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner at the direction of my Executor herein after named and as touching such worthy estate where with it hath pleased God to help me in this life. I give, divide and dispose of the same in the following manner and from Imprimis, it is my will, and I do order in the first place, that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid of and satisfied as soon as convieniently may be after my decease. I give and bequeath unto my elder son Jacob Bortner and to his heirs and asigns all my certain plantation and tract of land whereon I now live. Situate in Bethel Township aforesaid, adjoining land of Jacob Schneider, Daniel Schneider & Leonard Miller and others. Containing one hundred and eighty six acres. Be the same more or less to be holden by him my said son Jacob Bortner his heirs and asigns forever, for which plantation or tract of land he shall pay the sum of six hundred and sixty pounds, in gold or silver money in yearly payments. In one year after my decease, he shall pay the sum of thirty pounds and so yearly until the aforesaid sum of six hundred and sixty pounds be fully paid and satisfied. The first payment shall be paid unto my son John, the second to my son William, the third payment again to John, and the fourth to William. The fifth payment to Daniel, the sixth to Peter, the Seventh to my daughter Mary, intermarried to Nicholas Schneider and then to begin again at John and then William, then Daniel, then Peter, then Mary and so on by rank as said above mentioned, until each of them hath received the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds, and the said two payments shall be paid unto the heirs of my daughter Barbara, deceased, and it is further my will and do hereby order that all my personal estate my executor herein after named, shall sell at suitable vender, and the money shall be distibuted in following manner. The one half thereof shall be in the hands of my beloved wife Sarah during her life, and the other half shall be equally divided to and among all my children and to the heirs of my daughter Barbara, deceased. Share and Share alike, excepting to my son Jacob, I give and bequeath the sum of five shillings, over and above his equall share for his birthright and it is further my will and do hereby order that the money I have heretofore advanced to some of my children, shall be deducted out of their part so that they may be made equal in share with each other. And it is further my will and I do hereby order that my son Jacob, shall give and deliver yearly and every year unto my beloved wife Sarah, the following enumerated articles, ten bushels of good wheat, five bushels of good rye taken to mill and the grist & bran home again, one fat hog to wey one hundred pound, thirty pound of good beaf, three pound of good wool, ten pound of hatcheted flax of the same quantity of toe, six pound tallach, one pair of shoes, firewood as much as she stands. To live in the house with my son and to have liberty in the kitchen & seller. And my son Jacob shall keep for her one good summer and winter as his own. One barrell of good syder and apels as much as she stands in need of. Fourth part of the garden potatos and cabige for her use and the fourth part of the hens. It is my will and do order that in case one or either of my children dye without such part or share of the one dying, shall be equally divided to and among all my children aforesaid. I do hereby order that the one half of the money owing from the sale of my personal estate which I have bequeathed unto my beloved wife aforesaid, shall not come into her hands, but it shall be and remain in the hands of my executor. And he shall pay of that money unto her as she shall stand in need of or shall w ant. And after her decease, that money, if any yet left, shall be divided in equal shares among all of my children and the heirs of my daughter Barbara deceased. It is my will that the above legacy given and bequeathed unto my beloved wife Sarah, shall be in full for her. I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved son Jacob Bortner to be my executor of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void all former and other will and wills and executors by me before made ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament.

Jacob (JB) Bortner (his mark)

.Sarah Balt Bordner died in 1800 in Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. They were probably buried on their farm. Jacob's farm in Bethel Township was passed on from father to son, generation after generation. At one point it was divided between two sons. One part remained in the possession of descendants for four generations until 1944, when the last Bordner owner died, leaving no children.

Children of Jacob and Sarah (Balt) Bordner.: (from his will)

Johann Jacob, Bortner, Jr. 23 Oct 1754 – 6 Jan 1837 m. Anna Maria Brosz

William Bordner 3 jan 1757 Berks Co – 8 Jan 1827 Dauphin County m. Maria Elizabeth Koppenheffer

Johannes Bordner 13 Nov. 1758 Berks - 3 June 1812 Mifflin Twp. Dauphin Co., pA

Burial Lykens Daupin County St. Peter’s Cemetery m. Susannah Mellinger

Peter Bordner 11 Mar 1763 Bethel, Berks – 24 Fdec 1816 Lykens Twp. m. 17 Oct. 1781 Stouchsberg Catherine Katterman burial St. Peters

Daniel Bordner 2 Nov. 1765 - 6 Jan 1844 PA buried Hamlin, Lebanon County Klopps Cem

m. Eve Catherine Kneaves

Mary, intermarried with Nicholas Schneider (See Schneider information for details on their lives.)

Barbara

Sources:

Philadelphia Council minutes

Kirchenbuch, 1727-1798, Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Oberhoch stadt [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/211459, FHL film 247646

Burgert, Annette Kunselman. Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers. Myerstown, PA: AKB Publications, 2000. 574p.

A Biographical sketch by Harold Bordner

Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971

Pennsylvania, U.S., Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952

Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies. (Supreme Court at Philadelphia), 10 April, 1760.

Pennsylvania, U.S., Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801

Geneanet Community Trees Index

Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Balthaser Bortner and Maria Elizabetha" Webpage: www.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m1263x1264.htm
Email address: JanetRobertWolfeGenealogy@gmail.com

Census and Tax Records