Abraham N. Bracht
(1785-1865)
Catherine Elizabeth Wolf
(1789-1837)
Hannah Elizabeth Bracht
(1828-1894)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Hiram Yerling Hall

Hannah Elizabeth Bracht 1

  • Born: 13 Jul 1828, Bainbridge, Lancaster, PA 1
  • Marriage (1): Hiram Yerling Hall
  • Died: 20 May 1894, Elizabethtown, Lancaster, PA at age 65 1
  • Buried: Bainbridge: Bainbridge Cemetery, Lancaster, PA 1

   FamilySearch ID: LK4R-6GT

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Bainbridge, Lancaster, PA. 2 The 1850 census recorded Abram Braught, farmer, 65, living with daughters Sarah, 27; and Hannah, 20. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Abram's farm was valued at $3000.

2. Census in 1860 in Conoy Twp., Lancaster County, PA. 3 The 1860 census recorded Abram Bracht, farmer, 75, living with daughter Hannah Hall, 26; grandson Abram B. Hall, 1; Franklin Horst, "adopt family" and Sarah Horst, 12. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. Abram's farm was valued at $2000 and personal estates $400. The post office was Bainbridge.

3. Her father Abraham in his will gave hannah land. on 15 Feb 1861 in Centerville, Lancaster, PA. 4 I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Hall, part of my real estate lot No. 58 with a frame house thereon erected the same being situate in the town of Centerville, Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania, also fourteen lots of ground situate in the town of Bainbridge, Lancaster County and State of Pennsylvania and numbered in the plan of said town by numbers 70, 71, 72, 73, 93, 94, 100, 101, 102, 128, 129, 130, 131 the said lots being bounded according to the plan of said town.

4. Orphan's Court Record fro Abraham Bracht Decd. on 20 Nov 1865 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. 5 Abraham Bracht Decd.
November 1865

To the Honorable the Orphans Court of Lancaster County, the petition of the subscribers, heirs and legal representatives of Abraham Bracht, late of the County of Lancaster, deceased, Respectfully Sheweth, That the said Abraham Bracht lately died, leaving a last Will and Testament, and duly proven and recorded in the Register's office at Lancaster in Will Book No. [blank] leaving no widow, but leaving issue children living to wit: Rebecca Bracht, Hannah Hall, intermarried with Hiram Hall, and Catharine Beecher, intermarried with Jacob Beecher, all of full age, and a grandson Franklin Horst, the child and heir of Sarah Horst, a daughter of said Abraham Bracht decd, but who was deceased before her said father, the said Franklin Horst is a minor under the age of 14 years, and Christian Engle is his Guardian.

And that the said testator Abraham Bracht died intestate as to the following described Real Estate, and seized in his demesne as of fee, of and in the same to wit:

No 1. A certain 14 lots of ground in the town of Bainbridge in the County of Lancaster, on one of which Number 127 there is erected a one and a half story frame dwelling house with a back building attached, a frame stable, hog pen &c, on Lot Number 128 is a well of good water and fruit trees are all over the lots the fence of these 14 lots extends out on the public Street 10 feet.

No 2. A certain lot of ground No 132, without buildings or improvements.

No 3. A certain lot of ground on which are erected a one and a half story frame dwelling house and other outbuildings. There are a number of fruit trees growing on this lot.

No 4. 8 certain ten lots of ground without improvements, situated in the Village of Centerville in Conoy Township.

All of said lots being in the County of Lancaster. Your petitioners therefore pray the Court to appoint and order John Wiley, Saml Eberly, J. Bracht, Jacob G. Adam, Saml Nissley, Simon Engle, Benjamin Hofferber and Abraham Collins (who have been chosen by your petitioners for that purpose) to make partition of the said premises or real estate to and among the children and representatives of the said deceased in such manner and such proportions, as by the laws of this commonwealth is directed, so that each shall have and receive an equal share thereof, if such partition can be made without prejudice to, or spoiling the whole; but if such partition cannot be made, then of as many as can to value and appraise the same, and make report of their proceedings herein according to law.

And Now November 20th 1865
It is ordered by the Court that the seven men above named be an Inquest to view value and appraise the Real Estate of which he died seized and to make partition thereof to and among the heirs and legal representatives of said deceased, according to law, and make return of their proceedings to the Orphans Court on the 19th day of March 1866.

5. Estate of Abraham Brought Decd. on 20 Mar 1866 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. 6 Return of Inquisition
To the Hon. the Orphans Court of Lancaster County. The undersigned seven men duly appointed and by virtue of the annexed order of Court qualified according to law we proceeded to view the several premises mentioned in the said Order and went upon the same after notice to the parties interested and mentioned in said Order having been given and as many of them as chose being present and finding that in our judgement equal partition of them could not be made of the said several premises to and among all the heirs and legal representatives of said Abraham Bracht deceased without prejudice to or spoiling of the whole and therefore we value and appraise the said several premises as follows to wit.

No. 1. A certain 14 lots of ground in the Town of Bainbridge County of Lancaster on one of which number 127 there is erected a one and a half story frame dwelling house with a back building attached a frame stable hog house and on lot number 128 is a well of good water and fruit trees are all over the lots the fence of these fourteen lots extending out in the public street 10 feet we value and appraise at the sum of Six hundred and fifty-four dollars ($654).

No. 2. A certain lot of ground No 132 without buildings or improvements we value and appraise at the sum of Ninety-eight dollars ($98) it being in said Village of Bainbridge.

No. 3. A certain lot of ground on which are erected a one and a half story frame dwelling house and other improvements with a number of fruit trees growing thereon and situate in the Village of Bainbridge aforesaid we value and appraise at the sum of Three hundred and fifty-four dollars ($354).

No. 4. A certain ten lots of ground without improvements situated in the Village of Centerville in Conoy Township we value and appraise at the sum of Two hundred and thirty-five dollars ($235).

Which Inquisition was read and confirmed by the Court on the 19th day of March 1866.

Same day a paper filed by Hannah Hall, Catharine C. Beecher and Christian Engle guardian of Franklin Horst and Rebecca Braught heirs and legal representatives of said decd declining and refusing to take any of the premises or pieces at the valuation but desire the same to be sold at public vendue and pray the Court to grant an Order to Jacob F. Beecher and Hannah Hall Trustees to sell.

And now March 20th 1866 at the instance of the heirs of decedent and on motion of S. H. Patterson Esq. Court grant an Order of sale and order and direct Jacob F. Beecher and Hannah Hall Trustees to sell the above described real estate by Vendue or out by... [signed by sureties for $2700: J. F. Beecher, C. Collins, Hannah Hall, W. W. Smith].

6. Newspaper: The Lancaster Bar: Orphan's Court: "J. F. Beecher and Hannah Hall, executors of Abraham Bracht.", 26 Jun 1869, Lancaster, Lancaster, PA. 7 "J. F. Beecher and Hannah Hall, executors of Abraham Bracht."


Hannah married Hiram Yerling Hall. (Hiram Yerling Hall was born about 1831 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and died on 5 Aug 1862 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY 8.)


Sources


1 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69842171.

2 1850 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4H2-1VV Abram Braught, Bainbridge, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 78.

3 1860 United States Census, Year: 1860; Census Place: Conoy, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Roll: M653_1124; Page: 216; Image: 223; Family History Library Film: 805124.

4 Lancaster County Registrar of Wills, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-J9S6-3.

5 FamilySearch.org, "Lancaster County Orphan's Court (Lancaster, PA)," https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-J9S6-3.

6 FamilySearch.org, "Lancaster County Orphan's Court (Lancaster, PA)," https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PF-FSFR-W.

7 The Lancaster Bar, a Weekly Legal Publication (Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.), 26 Jun 1869, page 3.

8 Ancestry.com, "Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865," Hiram Hall, Private, Enlistment in Pennsylvania, Ayers Battery, d. 5 Aug 1862 Brooklyn, NY.



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