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Jacob Walter

(11/20/1777 - 00/00/1862)

branch.gif (1966 bytes)Michael Walter
Jacob Walter
Marriage(s)Anna Maria Buss
 1 Margaret Smith on:
   Children:
  - Juliana Walter
  - Daniel Walter
 
  Siblings:
  - Henry Walter
  - John Walter
  - Barnet Walter
  - John George Walter
  - Catherine Walter
  - Abraham Walter
  - Elizabeth Walter
  - Leonard Walter
  - Michael Walter
  - William Walter
  - Peter Walter
 
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Burial:Shafer Schoolhouse Cemetery
 
Notes:
Mrs. Fetherman, who was an efficient helpmeet to her husband In his acti ve career, was born in Stroudsburg July 25,1841, and now resides there. S he is a member of the Reformed Church, and has always taken much intere st in its work, while in social life she has won many friends. Her great-g reat-grandfather ;Mathias Shaffer,a native of Germany, settled in Northamp ton county at a very early date, and her great-grandfather, Jacob Walte r, and grandfather Huston were both born there. The former settled near Bu shkill, Monroe county,about the time of the separation of the counties, a nd he died near Stroudsburg at the age of eighty-four. He married Miss Smi th, and had thirteen children: John, Mrs. Fetherman's father; Peter, who d ied at BushkiII at the age of seventy-four: Jacob, who removed to Wiscons in about 1850, and died there in 1868 of typhoid fever; Daniel, a farm er in Stroud township, Monroe county, who lied two years ago; Barnett, w ho resides upon a farm on Cayuga Lake, in Tompkins county, N. Y.; Olive r, a resident of Bangor, Northampton Co., Penn. ; Chauncey, who went to Id aho some years ago, and is now in South Dakota; Katie, who Married a Mr. G aris, of New Jersey, and died in 1877; Mary, who died on a farm in East St roudsburg in the summer of 1896; Julia, who married Peter Kunkel, a farm er near Stroudsburg, and died in 1894; Sarah, who was accidentally kill ed in childhood; Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Shafer, the owner of a lar ge farm in Tompkins county, N. Y., where she died in 1892; and Margaret, w ho married a Mr. Edinger, and resides upon a farm near Tannersville. Thirt een years ago all but two of this large family were living, but at prese nt only three survive.


John Walter, the father of Mrs. Featherman was born at Bushkill, August 17 ,1812, and died February 22, 1868. He married Miss Lavina Huston who was b orn at Bushkill, August 17,1821, and died in 1897, and this union was bles sed with children as follows: Anna E. ( now Mrs. Fetherman) ; Charles, w ho resides at the old homestead in Monroe County; Emma, who married a M r. Bossard, and settled near Scranton, Penn., where she died in 1896 ; Ell en, who became the wife of Sheriff Learn, of Monroe county, and died in 18 86; Mary, wife of Henry Warner, of Bangor, Penn. ; and Nettie and Minni e, who died in childhood.
 
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