The family of George Harter 1801-1854

 George Harter, also seen as George Harter Jr., left a few more bread crumbs for us to follow.  He was born in 1801 in Rockingham County, Virginia and died in 1854 in Whitley County, Indiana.  His wife was Elizabeth Ann or Anna Geiger, the daughter of Anthony and Mary Kirk Geiger.  The couple had met and married in 1825 in Licking County, Ohio.

George and Elizabeth had at least six children together.  There may be more, because the first known child was not born until 1830.

John was the first son we have knowledge of.  He married Mary Bennett, the daughter of Solomon and Margaret Farmer Bennett, in 1851 in Whitley County, Indiana.  Their children are Harvey, Sarah, Elizabeth, Clara, Laura, Mary, and Henry.  I will follow this family in my next blog post.

Mary was born in 1832.  She married Ozias Boggs, the son of William and Susanna Mohr Boggs.  Their children are a bit hard to decipher on the various census records.  They were Owen or Orin, George, John, Laura or Flava (or something else!), Lewis, Ida, an infant son who was born and died in 1867. and Nemmea, seen as Nimmie.  Mary died in 1932.

Henry was next, born in 1834.  He married Mahala (Mary) Hill, the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Crow Hill.  Their children are Sarah, Marie or Maria, Naoma or Naomi, Amelia, George, Charles, and Ethel.  Henry died in 1900,  

Anthony was born in in 1836 and married Susannah Catherine Boggs, the daughter of William and Susanna Mohr Boggs, another case of siblings marrying siblings.  Their children are Amanda, Laura, Joseph, Perry, Howard, and George.  Anthony died in 1909.

Elizabeth was born in 1838 and married James Jackson, the son of Lemuel and Mercy White Jackson.  James is a bit interesting because he was born in Maine, which is a bit different from the Ohio-Virginia-Pennsylvania locations of the families so far mentioned in the Harter line.  Their children are Sarah, Isaak, Isaiah, Samuel, Eleazor, Joseph, and Eldora (seen as Dora).  Lemuel died in 1880 and Elizabeth married William Hoverstock in 1893.  There were no children born to that marriage, as Elizabeth was 55 at the time of her second marriage.  She died in 1924.

Sarah was a surprise to me.  She is not noted in my previous blog post, because I did not know about her.  She was born in 1841 and married William Miller, the son of Daniel and Margaret Wolf Miller. Their children are George, Noah, Ella, Sarah, and Lewis (also seen as Louis).  Sarah died in 1909.

These children all lived in a tight geographic area of Noble, Whitley, and Allen Counties in Indiana.  Their children would have known a lot of cousins!  If my count is correct and complete, George and Elizabeth had 39 grandchildren.  They surely had an impact on their neighborhood!