John Henry Saltzgever
(1740-1822)
Eve Mary
(1745-1822)
Jacob Gilbert
(1756-1831)
Anna Margaretha Fox
(1769-1838)
George Michael Saltzgiver
(1786-1869)
Mary Elizabeth Gilbert
(1792-1827)
Daniel Gilbert Saltzgiver
(1814-1869)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Catharine Frey

2. Catharine Beecher

Daniel Gilbert Saltzgiver 2 3

  • Born: 19 May 1814, Gettysburg, Adams, PA 3
  • Marriage (1): Catharine Frey on 25 Oct 1838 in Gettysburg: St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Adams, PA 1
  • Marriage (2): Catharine Beecher about 1859
  • Died: 17 Dec 1869, Butler Twp., Adams, PA at age 55 3
  • Buried: Gettysburg: Evergreen Cemetery, Adams, PA 3

   Another name for Daniel was Daniel Saltzgaber.4

   FamilySearch ID: LCWH-GNV.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1820 in Straban Twp., Adams, PA. 5 The 1820 census recorded Michail Saltzgaber with this household:
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 4
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 6.

2. Census in 1830 in Straban Twp., Adams, PA. 6 The 1830 census recorded Michael Saltsgiver with this household:
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 11
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 14.

3. Newspaper: Gettysburg Times: reprinted 7 Aug 1961 in article on Saltzgiver Family: "Married, October 25, 1838, by the Rev. Benjamin Keller, of this place, Mr. Daniel Saltzgiver, of Straban Twp., this county, to Miss Catharine Frey, of Cumberland Twp., this county", 31 Dec 1838, Gettysburg, Adams, PA. This newspaper citation conflicts with the other newspaper citation for the marriage of Daniel and Catharine Frey. Further research needed.

4. Newspaper: Gettysburg Times: On the 25th ult., by the Rev. B. Keller, Daniel Saltzgiver, of Straban township, to Miss Catherine Frey, of Cumberland township, Adams county., 2 Jan 1839, Gettysburg, Adams, PA. 7

5. Newspaper: Gettysburg Times: Died: On the 19th ult., Edward Gilbert, son of Daniel Saltzgiver, of Butler township, aged 3 years., 30 Apr 1839, Gettysburg, Adams, PA. 8

6. Communicants of the Lutheran Congregation: Daniel Saltzgaber on 22 Oct 1843 in Mount Joy Township: Mark's German Reformed Evangelical Lutheran Church (White Church), Adams, PA. 4

7. Census in 1850 in Cumberland Twp., Adams, PA. 9 The 1850 census recorded Daniel G. Saltsgiver, farmer, 34, living with wife Catherine, 29; Mary P., 9; Cecilia, 6; John, 5; and Fanny R., 2. Also in the home was Henry H. Beamer, 11. Everyone was born in Pennsylaniva. Daniel's real estate was valued at $1,500.

8. Census in 1860 in Butler Twp., Adams, PA. 10 The 1860 census recorded Daniel Saltzgaver, 46; living with wife Catharine, 34; and their children: Mary E., 19; Celia C., 17; John P. 15; Fanny R., 12; Sarah, 8; and Henry Shank, 4. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. [Note: this wife's age matches his second wife, Catherine Beecher (born 1826) and not first wife Catharine Frye (born 1820) plus Beecher's child Henry Shank is living in Daniel's household, born of her first husband Isaac Shank. All other children are by Daniel's first wife.].

9. Daniel applied to PA for $40 for a cow stolen by Rebel soldiers 2 Jul 1863 during Battle of Gettysburg. On 21 Oct 1868 in , Adams, PA. 11 (application cover)
Daniel Saltzgiver dec. care of David Beecher
Butler Township
Arendtsville
Amount awarded: $40.00
for one red & white heiffer

"The above was taken out of the field of Daniel Saltzgiver by armed Rebels and has not since been returned."
(signed) Daniel Saltzgiver

Adams County SS.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber the recorder of deeds in and for said County Cecilla Saltzgiver daughter of petitioner who being duly sworn doth say they she saw two armed Rebels drive away from the premises of Daniel Saltzgiver (her father) one Red & White Heiffer the Property of Daniel Saltzgiver on the second day of July 1863 and that forty dollars ia fair valuation of the same, and that the same has never been returned.
Cecelia Saltzgiver

Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of October A.D. 1868
W. Holtzworth Recorder.

10. Cause of Death: consumption, Dec 1869, Butler Twp., Adams, PA. 2

11. Newspaper: Gettysburg Times: Peter Saltzgiver, administrator of Daniel G. Saltzgiver, has sold the house and lot of the deceased, in Beechersville, to David Beecher, for $550., 2 Nov 1870, Gettysburg, Adams, PA. 12

12. Court: A legal notice in the Republican Courier identifies the Gilbert/Saltzgiver relationships and names Michael Saltzgiver's children born of his wife Elizabeth Gilbert, and also names David Beecher husband of Mary Gilbert. On 19 Jul 1881 in Gettysburg, Adams, PA. 13 At an Orphan's Court, Held at Gettysburg, for the county of Adams, on the thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one - before Daniel Sheffer and Wm. M'Clean, Esquires, Judges, &c. assigned;
On motion ---
The Court Grant a Rule
On all the heirs and legal representatives of
JACOB GILBERT,
Deceased to wit; Barny Gilbert, who has released his interest in said Estate, Susanna, intermarried with Bernhart Gilbert, whose share is sold to Thaddeus Stevens, Sally, intermarried with Jacob Arendt, Catharine, intermarried with Michael Crowl, Elizabeth, intermarried with Michael Saltzgiver, who died before the said Jacob, leaving issue, Henry, Daniel, Margaret, Michael, Eliza, and Sophia Saltzgiver (all minors;) Sally, intermarried with Daniel Herr, John Gilbert (eldest son,) George Gilbert, Samuel Gilbert, Sophia, intermarried with Jacob Harman (Col.,) Mary, intermarried with David Beecher (merchant) - to be and appear at the next Orphan's Court, to be held at Gettysburg, for the county of Adams, on the 22d day of August next, to accept or refuse to take the Real Estate of said deceased, at the valuation made thereof, agreeably to the Intestate Laws of this Commonwealth.
By the Court,
JOHN B. CLARK, Clerk.
July 18, tc.


Daniel married Catharine Frey on 25 Oct 1838 in Gettysburg: St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church, Adams, PA.1 (Catharine Frey was born on 28 Apr 1820 in Gettysburg, Adams, PA,14 died before Jun 1860 in , Adams, PA and was buried in Gettysburg: Evergreen Cemetery, Adams, PA 14.)


Daniel next married Catharine Beecher, daughter of David Beecher and Anna Maria Gilbert, about 1859. (Catharine Beecher was born on 13 Dec 1826 in , Adams, PA 15 16 17, christened on 14 Apr 1827 in Arendtsville: Arendtsville Union Church (Zion Lutheran and Trinity Reformed), Adams, PA,15 17 died on 14 Jun 1894 in Chambersburg, Franklin, PA 16 and was buried on 17 Jun 1894 in Arendtsville: Fairview Cemetery, Adams, PA 16.)


Sources


1 Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, PA), 2 Jan 1939, marriage of Daniel Saltzgiver and Catherine Frey.

2 Ancestry.com, U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, PA > Adams > Butler Township. Daniel Saltzgiver, 55, d. Dec 1869, consumption.

3 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16906941.

4 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 672. PA > Adams > Mount Joy Township > Mark's German Reformed Evangelical Lutheran Congregations. Online image 65.

5 1820 United States Census, 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Straban, Adams, Pennsylvania; Page: 85; NARA Roll: M33_96; Image: 56.

6 1830 United States Census, Year: 1830; Census Place: Straban, Adams, Pennsylvania; Series: M19; Roll: 143; Page: 54; Family History Library Film: 0020617.

7 Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, PA), 2 Jan 1839. Reprinted 100 years later on 2 Jan 1939, page 4, "Out of the Past."

8 Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, PA), 30 Apr 1839. Reprinted 100 years later on 30 Apr 1939, page 4, "Out of the Past."

9 1850 United States Census, Year: 1850; Census Place: Cumberland, Adams, Pennsylvania; Roll: M432_743; Page: 114A; Image: 231.

10 1860 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXPV-ZK2 David Saltzgaver, Township Of Butler, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. 97, household ID 706.

11 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Civil War Border Claims, 1868-1879 (Original data: Record Groups. Records Relating to Civil War Border Claims. Records of the Department of the Auditor General, Record Group 2. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Images 653-57.

12 Gettysburg Times (Gettysburg, PA), 2 Nov 1870: Sales. Reprinted 100 years later on 2 Nov 1970, page 4, "Out of the Past."

13 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, PA), Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 19 Jul 1881, page 2. Orphan's Court Legal notice headlined Jacob Gilbert defining Gilbert/Saltzgiver/Beecher relationships.

14 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16906911.

15 Arendtsville Union Church (Zion Lutheran and Trinity Reformed; Arents Church), Adams County, Pennsylvania.

16 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19795432.

17 FamilySearch.org, Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V2FG-R68 Katharina Bücher, 14 Apr 1827; Christening, citing Lutheran and Reformed Church, Arendtsville, Adams, PA; FHL microfilm 824351.



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