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• Reference Number: 10950
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• Reference Number: 10949
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A lawyer, a then a Judge.
FRANCIS A. WITMER, son of Isaac L. and Annie (Bubb) Witmer, was born Oct. 28, 1877, in Lower Mahanoy township, where he obtained his early education. Later he attended a summer school at Elizabethville, and the Central Pennsylvania College at New Berlin, and when seventeen he taught for part of a school term at Washington, in Lower Mahanoy township. After the death of his father, in 1895, he came to Sunbury and lived with his brother, Charles B. Witmer, meantime attending the high school from which he was graduated in 1897. He then took a special course at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., and in June, 1899, registered as a law student in his brother's office, studying law and teaching school, being thus engaged for two terms at the Gass schoolhouse in Upper Augusta township. On June 16, 1902, he was admitted to the bar on May 22, 1905, to the Supreme court; and he has also been admitted to the United States Superior and Circuit courts. He is now in partnership with his brother as junior member of the firm of Witmer & Witmer and engaged in successful practice at Sunbury. Mr. Witmer is a member of the Northumberland Bar Association, of the B.P.O. Elks, Lodge No. 267, and of Friendship Hose Company. He is a member of the Reformed Church and has been active in some of its interests, having been chairman of the publicity committee of the Laymen's Missionary committee of the Eastern Classis held in 1910. Politically he is a Republican. In September, 1907, Mr. Witmer married Lula O. Yoder, daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Miller) Yoder, of Hegins, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and they have two daughters, Lillian M. and Annie E. The family home is at No. 1132 East Market street.
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WITMER. The Witmer family, which has many representatives in Northumberland county at this day, was founded there by Christophel Witmer, who by his wife Christina had children as follows: Christophel (1762-1825), Sarah (1767-1852), Heinrich (1758-1825), Mathias (June 10, 1757 - May 5, 1824) and Mrs. Daniel Zerbe. The Witmers with which this article deals are descended from the sons Mathias and Christophel.

Francis — Lula G YODER. Lula (daughter of Lewis Delong YODER and Elizabeth "Lizzie" May MILLER) was born 6 Aug 1880; died 27 Oct 1964; was buried Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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In September, 1907, Mr. Witmer married Lula O. Yoder, daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth (Miller) Yoder, of Hegins, Schuylkill Co., Pa., and they have two daughters, Lillian M. and Annie E. The family home is at No. 1132 East Market street.

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Isaac L. Witmer, son of John, was born Oct. 21, 1826, and died Oct. 9, 1895. He married Annie Bubb, daughter of Michael Bubb and granddaughter of Philip Bubb, who came to America from Germany when sixteen years old and settled in Mahanoy township, Northumberland county. To Mr. and Mrs. Isaac L. Witmer were born thirteen children, nine of whom grew to maturity.

Isaac — Annie BUBB. Annie was born 18 Apr 1862; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: D7E17D04CC414D28AE42EE6F05D71CB8B8F4

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• Reference Number: 10941
• _UID: C10B750DB7C34E60969BA9A657BB1F0B321C

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Lewis D. is a. wheelwright
Lewis YODER attended Crittenden's Philadelphia Commercial College in 1865.
Lewis' grandfather George Yoder Jr and his great uncle Abraham (brother of George Jr), were the first of the Yoder's to settle in Schuylkill county, locating in what is now Eldred township. where they secured large tracts of land and engaged in farming. Abraham also built a saw and grist mill, one of the first in the county, and this mill is still standing. George Yoder married Elizabeth Reiner of Berks county, and they had six children- Mary, Sallie, Hattie, Elizabeth, William, and Charles-all now deceased.

Birth: 1845
Death: 1925
Burial:
Friedens Union Cemetery
Hegins
Schuylkill County
Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Sec. 1, Row 25
Genealogical Abstracts from the Mount Carmel Ledger, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Jan 6, 1893 through Mar 17, 1893
Friday, January 13, 1893; An infant child of Lewis YODER, living on the Avenue in Mt. Carmel, died of membranous croup. Interment at Numedia.

Lewis married Elizabeth "Lizzie" May MILLER After 1870-before 1880. Elizabeth was born Jan 1849, Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA; died Jan 1944, Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA; was buried Friedens Union Cemetery Hegins Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Reference Number: 10928
• _UID: 79B5057E3BCA426A8FCB95B1766E249AA493

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Buried: Upper Mantonhat Burough Hovoden Church
LUTHERAN BAPTISMS
WILLIAM YOTTER and wife BRIGITTA: Son NATHANAEL YOTTER, b.
September 4, 1841, bp. October 21, 1841; sponsors: Charles Yotter and Sarah Herring.
WILLIAM YOTTER, with BRIGITTE DELAN [G], sponsors to BENNEVILLE
REINERT, b. March 13, 1840, bp. May 10, 1840, son of Georg and Peggy Reinert.
OH13281- William Yoder m.c1840 Briggietta DeLong (8/22/1822 Berks-
4/11/1900) d. 6/13/1854 Carpenter,farmer,school teacher
(Howerter's Church data; Schulykill Bio
+OH13281- William b.12/24/1812

George Yoder and wf Elisabeth [Reiner]
Wilhelm Yoder
19 Dec 1812/7 Feb 1813-L
Jacob Reiner and wf Elisabeth [Wagner]

William's baptism is recorded in the YNL #14 article on the
Schuylkill Co. Yoders. This copy was provided by our renown contributor Dr. Don
Yoder, who also authored that article.

William (Wilhelm) Yoder (1812-1854) was a carpenter by trade, as well as a farmer. He also taught school for a while and was an active worker for the temperance cause. he was interested in music, was a good singer and a fine performer on the clarinet. When the old Lutheran church was built in Eldred township he was one of the contributors and always took a great interest in its work. In politics he was a Democrat of the old school, though he was never a seeker for office. He was a poet of considerable ability. He died at the age of forty-five years and his widow, Briggietta Delong, lived with her son Nathan during the last twenty-four years of her life, died at the age of seventy -eight.

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE- Between William Yoder (1812-1854) and Brigitta DeLong (1822-1900). This records their marriage on the 7th of Feb. 1840. William was the great-great-great grandson of Oley immigrant Hans Yoder.(William/George Jr./George Sr./Samuel/Hans Jr./Hans Sr. of Steffisburg, Canton Bern, Switzerland.)

NOTE: George Sr. of Berks County was a wealthy farmer and bought a farm for each of his children. George Jr and Abraham Yoder's gifted farms were located in Schuykill County where they settled with their families.

William's father George Yoder Jr and his uncle Abraham (brother of George Jr), were the first of the Yoder's to settle in Schuylkill county, locating in what is now Eldred township. They secured large tracts of land and engaged in farming. Abraham also built a saw and grist mill, one of the first in the county, and this mill is still standing. George Yoder Jr married Elizabeth Reiner of Berks county, and they had six children- Mary, Sallie, Hattie, Elizabeth, William.

William is buried at Jacobs Cemetery Line Mountain (formerly known as Howerter's Lutheran and Reformed Church Cemetery) Northumberland Co Pennsylvania.

Cemetery notes and/or description: A brief history/timeline of the Church and adjoining Cemetery: - 1797: Howerter's Church (initially built; the Howerter family had given the most money for the building; a log structure with a balcony) - 1807: Howerter's Lutheran and Reformed Church (the original log church was replaced with a "modern" church. It was built for both congregations) - 1810: Jacob's Church (first recorded use by this name) - 1874: St. Jacob's Church (first recorded use by this name) - 1893: St. Jacob's Church (a new church building was completed) - 1894: St. James Church (name of the church was changed) - 1943: St. James Church (church was destroyed by fire; it was not rebuilt - only the cemetery remains) - 1943: The Lutheran Congregation relocated to Pitman, Schuylkill Co., PA and built St. James Lutheran Church - 1953: The Reformed Congregation merged with the Reformed congregation of St. John's Lutheran and Reformed Church (at Leck Kill) and later built Christ Church, near Leck Kill, Northumberland Co., PA

William and Brigitta named each of their male children with the middle name of Delong, Briggitta's maiden name.

Children from this marriage were:
Nathan Delong Yoder was born on 4 Sep 1841 in Grand View" farm, near Hegins. was born in Eldred township, Schuylkill county pa, died on 30 Jul 1914 in Hegins Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA at age 72, and was buried in Shamokin Cemetery Shamokin Northumberland County Pennsylvania, USA.
Enos Delong Yoder was born in Oct 1843 in Hegins, PA, died on 2 Jul 1910 in Hegins, PA at age 66, and was buried in Shamokin Cemetery Shamokin Northumberland County Pennsylvania, USA.
Lewis Delong Yoder was born on 15 Nov 1845 in Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA, died on 31 Aug 1925 in Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA at age 79, and was buried in Friedens Union Cemetery Hegins Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Sec. 1, Row 25.
Mary Jane Yoder was born on 24 Jun 1848 in Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA and died on 4 Sep 1872 in Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA at age 24.
William Delong Yoder was born in 1852 in Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA, died in 1916 in Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA at age 64, and was buried in Friedens Union Cemetery Hegins Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA.

Brigitta Delong Yoder; Birth: Aug. 21, 1822; Death: Apr. 11, 1900. Buried at Friedens Union Cemetery Hegins Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Sec. 1, Row 25
Tombstone Inscription: Wife of William Note: 77y, 7m, 20d

William married Brigitta DELONG 7 Feb 1840. Brigitta was born 22 Aug 1822, Greenwich, Berks Co PA; died 10 Apr 1900, Hegins Twp, Schuylkill Co, PA; was buried Friedens Union Cemetery Hegins Schuylkill County Pennsylvania, USA Plot: Sec. 1, Row 25. [Group Sheet]

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  Briggietta Delong
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Briggitta
LUTHERAN BAPTISMS
WILLIAM YOTTER and wife BRIGITTA: Son NATHANAEL YOTTER, b.
September 4, 1841, bp. October 21, 1841; sponsors: Charles Yotter and Sarah Herring.
WILLIAM YOTTER, with BRIGITTE DELAN [G], sponsors to BENNEVILLE
REINERT, b. March 13, 1840, bp. May 10, 1840, son of Georg and Peggy Reinert.
OH13281- William Yoder m.c1840 Briggietta DeLong (8/22/1822 Berks-
4/11/1900) d. 6/13/1854 Carpenter,farmer,school teacher
(Howerter's Church data; Schulykill Bio
william's widow, who lived with her son Nathan during the last twenty-four years of her life, died at the age of seventy -eight.
DELONGS REFORMED CHURCH, Bowers, PA 1765-1852
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE- Between William Yoder
(1812-1854) and Brigitta DeLong (1822-1900). This
records their marriage on the 7th of Feb. 1840.
William was the great-great-great grandson of Oley
immigrant Hans Yoder. William's baptism is recorded in the YNL #14 article on the
Schuylkill Co. Yoders. This copy was provided by our renown contributor Dr. Don
Yoder, who also authored that article.

Brigitta by Dr. Don Yoder
According to Brigitta's Taufschein, which I have, she was the daughter of Daniel DeLong and Lidia Stein.

The parents were unmarried and sometime after the birth Lidia married, not Daniel but Benjamin Hering (1805?1837), whose mother was a DeLong. (More complications to work on!) The Hering?s had a daughter (who married Reuben Yoder) and several sons whom my father remembered as quaint and interesting great uncles when he was a bog. The Herings, accompanying Anthony and Sarah Stein, moved to Mohantongo. The family was so close knit that Brigitta thought she was a Hering! Upon confirmation, her mother informed her, "No, you are a DeLong," and gave her the details.

The young girl was so taken with her DeLong name and heritage that she gave the name DeLong as middle name to all four of her Yoder sons, the oldest of whom was my grandfather, Nathan DeLong Yoder (1841-1914).

Yoder Ancestry
But there's more to the story, if I may be frank, and genealogists should be frank. Church records sometimes unwittingly reveal family secrets too. Grandmother Brigitta was born in August, 1822, in Greenwich Township, Berks County. Exactly nine months previously to her birth, the records of the New Bethel Zion Church, now Mt. Zion Lutheran Church at Grimsville north of Kutztown, reveal the fact that at the baptism of a child of Henry and Elizabeth Fritz, the godparents were Daniel DeLong and Lidia Stein! The young courting couple, Daniel and Lidia, must have stayed all night at the Fritz farmhouse, where they undoubtedly engaged in the universal courting custom of bundling. But they went too far, as many courting couples did, but I'm glad it happened that way, for that act of love produced a blessed ancestress of mine, Brigitta DeLong Yoder, whose memory and the story of her good deeds throughout life are still told in my family.

Her husband, William Yoder (1812?1854), farmer, schoolmaster, cabinet-maker, fraktur artist and poet, died at the early age of 42, and she remained a widow the rest of her life, raising and nurturing her children. And somehow she was able to send her oldest son, my grandfather across the Susquehanna to the Freeburg Academy in Snyder County, where he perfected his English, his public speaking, his copperplate handwriting, and he also learned surveying, all of which he could use as the community leader he became, with two terms as Justice of the Peace (1875?1885), his long-time secretaryship of the Friedens Union Church in Hegins Valley, and many other community services.

Parents:
Daniel DeLong
Lydia Stein
Benjamin Herring Sr. Step-Father
According to Susan Stine Mason 1st cousin 3x removed to Brigitta:
"My great grand aunt Lydia Stein was engaged to Daniel DeLong in 1821. She ended up not marrying him after finding out she was expecting his child. After Brigitta was born, Lydia married Benjamin Herring Sr. I have her in my family tree as the biological daughter of Daniel and the step-daughter of Benjamin since he raised her."
Children of William(Wilhelm)and Brigitta Yoder are:
Nathan DeLong Yoder
Enos DeLong Yoder
Lewis DeLong Yoder
Mary Jane Yoder-Hepler
William DeLong Yoder

http://www.lynnheidelberg.org/lehighcountyancestry.html (there are 2 pages)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62756761

Brigitta Delong Yoder

Birth: Aug. 21, 1822
Death: Apr. 11, 1900


Inscription:
Wife of William

Note: 77y, 7m, 20d

Burial:
Friedens Union Cemetery
Hegins
Schuylkill County
Pennsylvania, USA
Plot: Sec. 1, Row 25