(1818-1878)
Gideon Hartline was born July 15, 1818, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. (1) He is believed to be the son of Joseph (Jost) Hartlein and wife Sarah Mutter. Evidence. Gideon married on May 16, 1841 to Hester (2), or Esther (5) (Hettie) Anderson, born December 20, 1819, in Earl Township. Gideon and Hester had the following children: (2)
Matilda Hartline, born December 29, 1841, died May 31, 1848. (3)
James A. Hartline, born, May 4, 1842. (4) D
Milton Hartline, born 1844
Catharine Hartline, born about 1847, married Chester Drumheller.
Henry Hartline, born 1849, lived in Bethlehem, PA. Was in a war.
Augustus Hirtlein, born May 21, 1855, died August 8, 1858. (3)
Lydia Hartline, born May 6, 1856, baptized August 14, 1856. (5)
Sarah Hanna Hartline, born November 25, 1860, baptized April 1, 1861 (6)
According to the 1850 Census, Gideon was a farmer in Earl township, Berks County. (7) In 1860 Census, he is listed as a limeburner. He died July 15, 1878 and is buried in Pleasantville Cemetery. Hettie died March 5, 1898 and is buried in Pleasantville, Cemetery.
1-Samuel J. Hartline, Boyertown, PA. 2-Margaret Beck Latzo & James Ben Hartline, Mt. Holly Springs, PA.. 3-Names spelled as on tombstones at “Hill Church,” St. Joseph’s. 4-James Ben Hartline, Mt. Holly Springs, PA. 5,6-Hill Church records. 7-1870 Census.
(1818-1909)
Joel Hartline was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1818, a son of George and Maria Dilleplain Hartline. (1) Joel grew-up in Berks County, and was a man of great strength, six feet tall, weighing 200 pounds, and a very large build. (2) He is credited with many occupations, shoemaking, woodchopping, (3) weaving and basketmaking (Oeshbogger). (4) On October 18, 1840, he married Maria Auche (5) and they had five children: (6)
James A. Hartline, born May 30, 1841. D
George A. Hartline, born March 18, 1842. D
Sarah Ann Hartline, born September 27, 1843, married Peter Yoder of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. (7)
John Hartline, born January 18, 1845, baptized May 11, 1845, died in infancy.
Ammon A. Hartline, born in 1854 (8) D
Joel Hartline was quite industrious and was noted for weaving baskets with two ribs instead of the usual one, which made them stand up better. (9) Joel lived to be ninety years of age. He lived his last years with his son George A., in Exeter township of Berks County, Pennsylvania. (10) He died February 12, 1909 and is buried in the Oley Lutheran Church cemetery beside his wife Maria who died July 9, 1892. (11)
1- Hill Church. 2,9-Joseph Hartline, Boyertown, PA 3,7,8-HISTORY BERKS COUNTY. 4-Pennsylvania Dutch word for Basketweaver. 5-New Hanover Church. 10-HISTORY BERKS COUNTY. 11-Stones, Oley Luth. Cemetery.
(1819-1870)
Elijah Hartlein, also called Elias, was born September 29, 1819, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, a son of Michael and Elizabeth Hartlein of District township. (1) On June 6, 1845, Elijah married Sara Ann Reichert, born September 29, 1824. (2) They had the following children:
Mari Ann Hartlein, born December 12, 1845, baptized April 11, 1846. (3) Photo
Jacob Hartlein, born July 20, 1848, (4)
Amanda Hartlein, born October 20, 1847. (5)
Elmira Hartlein, born June 23, 1850, baptized August 11, 1850, (6) married Addison Eschbach, 1871,
William Hartlein (7) Reading, PA Photo
George Hartlein (8) Bucyrus, (Crawford County) Ohio. Photo
Lydia Hartlein (9)
Elizabeth Hartlein (10)
James M. Hartlein died March 10, 1934, (11) Photo
Alvin Franklin Hartlein, born June 13, 1863 in Berks Co, Hereford township, Pennsylvania. (12) D
Elijah died February 26, 1870, and Sarah died November 11, 1893. (13). A deed drawn July 6, 1846, shows the sale of seven acres of land to Elijah Hartlein from his father Michael for $300.00. Or April 19, 1859 he also bought some land from Jacob Gehris, by assignment. (14)
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. (Proverbs 3:5,6)
1,3,5,6-Hill Church. Hanover Church. 4,7,8,9,10,11-Mrs. Delbert Graves, 2601 Walnut St., St. Joseph, Mo. 64503. 12-Baptismal records, copy in author's files. 13-Headstones (by Mrs. Graves.14-Berks County Courthouse, Deeds, Vol. 52, p. 93.
CHARLES WASHINGTON HARTLINE A
(1821-1873)
Charles Washington Hartline was born in 1821 (1) in Union County, Illinois, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Holshouser Hartline. He grew-up in Union County and married Catherine Yumper on October 18, 1846. (2) She was born about 1827. (3) Charles was a farmer, and they had the following children:
Samuel A. Hartline, born about 1847, married Susan b. about 1848. (4) D
Rebecca Jane Hartline, born about 1850,(5) married T. S. House. (6)
Children: James E. b. 1866, Lewis E. b. 1869. (7)
Elizabeth Hartline, born about 1853, (8) married William McLane. (9)
Children: S. F. (female) b. 1870, F.A. (male) b. 1872. (10)
Alfred C. Hartline, born about 1856, (11) married Katie J. Medlock. (12)
Catherine Hartline, born about 1858, married a McManus. (13)
Charles Washington Hartline died April 18, 1873, (14) and Catherine died about 1891. Both are buried in Mt. Tabor Cemetery in Union County, Illinois.
1,3,5-1850 Census. 2-Union Co. Marriage records. 12-Ibid. 4,7,8,11-1870 Census. 6,9,14-Union Co., Master in Chancery sale of Charles' land. 10-1880 Census. 13-Court petition filed by Catherine McManus June 24, 1911 to close out estate of Isaac Hartline, son of Charles' uncle George (1768). 14- Inscriptions on stones, St. John's Cemetery, Union Co., IL. 15-1850 Census, Alexander Co.
(1823-1906)
Miles Hartline was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, November 8, 1823, a son of Jacob and Sally Poole Hartline. Miles grew-up in Rowan County and moved with his father to Union County, Illinois after his mother died, about 1841. On February 10, 1848, Miles married Sophia Melinda Cauble, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Holshouser Cauble, in Alexander County, Illinois. Sophia was born about 1831 in North Carolina, and was a minor at marriage, thus needing a note of consent from her father. Miles and Sophia had the following children:
Susannah Hartline, born about 1849 (1) married Jeff Miller, January 11, 1881 (2) They had a son Henry who died unmarried.
Jacob Hartline, born about 1851 (3) died unmarried in 1873, 22, buried at St. John's Cemetery.
Sarah J. Hartline, died at age two, (4) buried at St. John's Cemetery.
Henry Clay Hartline, born about 1855 (5) died June 12, 1914, unmarried. Sophia lived with Henry Clay in her last years of life.
Lemuel Hartline, born about 1857. D
George Washington Hartline, born April 27, 1862. D
Columbus A. Hartline, born about 1867 died at age 7. (6)
Martha Hartline, buried at St. John's Cemetery.
1,4,6-Inscriptions on stones, St. John's Cemetery, Union Co., IL. 2-Census, Alexander County, IL. 3-Mrs. Effie Cauble, Endicott, Villa Ridge, IL. 4-1860 Census, Alex. Co. 5-Inscriptions on stones, St. John's Cemetery.
(1824- )
Peter Hartline was born June 13, 1824, a son of John and Betsey Cauble Hartline. They lived in Rowan County, NC, but Peter moved to Cherokee County, TX between 1850 and 1860. There he married Martha J. (Mattie) from Alabama. They were the parents of:
Mary L. Hartline, born 1854 in TX
James C. B. Hartline, born 1856 in TX
Thomas J. Hartline, born 1858 in TX
John H. Hartline, born 1860 in TX
Rebecca Caladonia (Callie) Hartline born 1865 in TX
Jane Hartline, born 1869 in TX
William Hartline, born 1872 in TX
Peter was living in Bosque County, TX in 1880. Martha (Mattie) was living in Bell County, TX with Tom, Callie, Jane and William in 1880 Census, with her daughter Mary and son-in-law, Bob Lofton.
All information from J. J. Duckworth, Chattanooga, TN
(1824-1904)
Paul (Powell) (1) Hartline was born August 13, 1824 in Rowan County, North Carolina, a son of John and Betsey Cauble Hartline.(2) His family moved to near Troutman, North Carolina, in Iredell County about 1830, after Paul's mother died. (3) Paul married about 1860 to Nancy E., and they had one child, a daughter:
Julyann Elizabeth Hartline, born November 2, 1861, baptized June 28, 1862. (4)
Paul's father John died about 1870 and Paul was awarded land valued at sixty dollars from his father's estate on January 8, 1873.(5) Paul lived in Fallstown township of Iredell County. There are numerous transactions recorded in Iredell County deed books in which Paul was involved, some of which also involved other members of the Hartline family.
In 1872, he was granted power of attorney by his brother Moses. (6) In 1875, he was granted a deed for land from Moses. (7)
Nancy died in 1897, and Paul died May 2, 1904. They are buried in St. Michael's Cemetery near Troutman, North Carolina. (8)
1-Organ Church. 2-Ibid. 3-Census. 4-St. Martin's, Troutman, N.C. 5-Iredell County, Deed book 5, p133. 6-Deed book 5-p21. 7-Deed book 6-p47. (8) Tombstones.
(1825- )
John Pinkney Hartline was born in 1825, a son of George and Betsey Bostian Hartline, in Henry County, Georgia. (1) He married about 1841 to Jane Miller and they lived in Cherokee County, Alabama. (2) John Pinkney and Jane had the following children: (3)
Francis (Ann) Matilda Hartline, born June 20, 1842, was married to Dave Long. She died December 29, 1938.
Robert Miller Hartline, born January 7, 1850. Eliza Jane (Lou), born 1855, married Edward H. Wade of Sulphur Springs, Georgia. D
Elizabeth (sis) Hartline born about 1852.
John's first wife Jane died in August, 1858, and was buried in the Alexander Cemetery near Berry springs in Cherokee County, and he moved to Dade County, Georgia and lived with his brother James Alexander (Alec) Hartline until he married Mrs. Celia Adaline Payne Oneal, widow with two children. Celia was born in 1840. Her children were George W. and Thomas R. O'Neal. (4)
John and Celia also had four children:
Benjamin P. Hartline, born in 1864, died January 21, 1902. D
Mary Ann Hartline, born June 6, 1865, married Martin Planzer of Sulphur Springs, Georgia. They had one son Gilbert, born July 4, 1897. He died September 23, 1918.
John Cambel Hartline, born March 23, 1867. D
Joseph Alexander (Eck) Hartline born September 17, 1868 (5) D
Josie Akins, grand daughter of John Pinkney gave the following account of the death of Jane Miller Hartline. (6) John Pinkney had a horse that would kick if touched the flank. The horse was kept in a barn across the road from their log house on Shinbone Ridge. One day John took his wife Jane to show her the horse. Jane walked behind the horse just as John touched the horse's flank to show how it would kick. Jane was struck and killed.
1,4-J. J. Duckworth. 2-Josie Akins. 3-Gertrude Smith, Rt. #1, Box 162, Valley Head, AL. 35989. 5-O.J. Hartline and J. J. Duckworth from headstones Sulfur Springs Cemetery. 6-Account given to J. J. Duckworth.
(1825- )
George Hartline was born about 1825, the second son of Samuel and Elizabeth Holshouser Hartline. He married to Elizabeth Lingle, born about 1829, daughter of John and Elizabeth Cruse Lingle from North Carolina. John was the son of Anthony and Margaret Cauble Lingle, early settlers near Cobden, Union County, Illinois in 1817, Germans from North Carolina. The marriage took place on March 5, 1843, in Union County. George was a farmer, and they had the following children:
Mary Clarissa (Clara) Hartline, born about 1847, married Rufus J. McIntire, July 2, 1877, child: Amy B. McIntire.
Levi Hartline, born, about 1851.
Jackson Hartline, born about 1851.
Thomas Hartline, born about 1853. D
Sarah Hartline, born about 1859,
Calvin Jefferson Hartline, born about 1859 D
Silas Hartline, born in 1866 D
Walter Hartline, born in 1869. D
We have no record of the death dates for George and Elizabeth, but both are buried in Mt Tabor Cemetery, Union County, Illinois.
1-Lawanda Carter Wiley.
For the wage of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
(1825- )
Milly Hartline was born October 10, 1825 in Rowan County, North Carolina, (1) the daughter of Jacob and Sally Poole Hartline. She married about 1845 to Daniel J. Parker and they had the following children: (2)
Nancy S. Parker, born about 1846 in Arkansas
Rhodia J. (Rhody) Parker, born about 1848 in Illinois and married Willis Cauble on April 25, 1867.
John F. Parker, born about 1849 in Illinois.
Lucinda Parker, born about 1851 in Illinois. It is possible that they had other children.
Two of their children, Rhodia, age eleven and Lucinda age nine were living with their grandparents, Jacob and Sarah Hartline in 1850. (3)
1- Earl Hartline, 1510 Bessie St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63701. 2-3-Lawanda C. Wiley. 4-7-9-11-Hill Church.
(1826-1899)
Joshua Hertlein was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania on May 6, 1826, son of George and Anna Maria Dilleplain Hartlein. (1) He grew-up in Berks County and learned the shoemaker's trade. He married at age twenty-six, to twenty-six year old Elizabeth Clouser, born May 15, 1826. They were married on October 12, 1852 (2) and had the following children:
Miranda Hartline, married Daniel Knabb. (3)
William Henry Hartline, born March 21, 1857, baptized May 24, 1857. (4) He died at age fourteen. (5)
Sarah Hartline, born December 29, 1862, baptized March 22, 1863, (6) married Howard B. Deysher, at Mt. Penn, Pennsylvania. (7)
George C. Hartline, born December 8, 1868, baptized April 4, 1869. (8)
Mary Catharine Hartline, born July 6, 1855, died under one year. (9)
John Clauser Hartline, born September 6, 1860, married Mary Magdailine (Maggie) Noll. (10) D
Harriet Hartline, born January 28, 1866, died at five. (11)
Joshua was born in Earl township, and after marriage, lived in Exeter township. His wife Elizabeth L. Clauser was the daughter of Abraham and Catharine Clouser. (12) Joshua died February 2, 1899 and Elizabeth died January 12, 1907 (13) Both are buried at Oley Lutheran Cemetery.
1,4,6,8-Hill Church. 2-3-5-7-9-10-11-12&13- Historical & Biographical Annals of Berks Co., Montgomery. 10 update from Thomas William Hartline 2009.
(1827-1889)
John C. Hartline was born in 1827, a son of Christian Hartline (1803) and his first wife Mary Ann Duvall (Lippincott) Hartline. (2) John C. was born in Monroe County, Ohio. His first wife was Armina (Boughner) Hartline . His second wife was Martha J., but the dates of these marriages are not to be found on records either at Monroe Co., or Pleasants County, West Virginia where they later lived.
Children:
William Hartline, born Ca. 1855 in Monroe County, Ohio, married Margaret Kennedy. D
Mary Hartline, born Ca. 1851.
Joseph Hartline, born in 1856 in Monroe County, Ohio D
Between 1856 and 1860, John C. Hartline married Martha J. It was after this time that they moved to Pleasants County, West Virginia.
Children:
Mazy G. Hartline, born Ca. 1861.
Loretta Ellen Hartline, born Ca. 1863.
John Milton Hartline, born in 1866 in Monroe County, Ohio. D
Andrew Hartline, born Ca. 1868.
Benjamin Hartline, born Ca. 1870.
Charles Hartline, born Ca. 1871.
Mary E. Hartline, born Ca. 1878.
John C. Hartline died on March 27, 1889, in Jefferson District of Pleasants County, West Virginia, of Scrofula. His death was recorded by his son John Milton. John C.'s wife, Martha J. was still living at the time of his death.
1-Records, Monroe County, Ohio and Pleasants County, West Virginia, personally collected. 2-Dave Hartline (from Probate record.) 3-Because of the ten years between Joseph and John M., it is likely that Joseph is by his first wife and John M. by his second wife.
WILLIAM ALEXANDER HARTLINE (1) A
(1827-
William Alexander Hartline was born in Georgia in 1827, the son of George and Betsy Bostian Hartline. (1) He grew-up and married Mary Jane in Dade County, Georgia, (2) and they were parents of the following children:
William Thomas Hartline, born in 1849. D
Robert H. Hartline, born in 1851.
Doctor K. (Doc) Hartline, born in 1856. (3)
Peter Alexander (Alec) Hartline, born October 28, 1858. D
James Joseph (Joe) Hartline, born in 1859.
Rosa Hartline, born in 1860. (4)
Willie Hartline(5)
William A. was a farmer and brick mason in Sulphur Springs on the Alabama-Georgia state line. (6) His property was valued at $275.00 in 1870. (7)
Numerous descendants of William A. live in the western part of the United States, while others remain in the Alabama-Georgia area.
1,2,3,6-J. J. Duckworth, paper, The Hartlein Ancestry, N.E. Alabama. 4,5-Bessie Minor, Moore, Oklahoma, letter 1964. 7-1870 Census, Dade County, Georgia, from J. J. Duckworth.
(1827-1867)
Rachel Hartline was born July 30, 1827, near Cobden, Union County, Illinois, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Powles Holshouser Hartline.
She was married when she was 19, on August 30, 1846, to twenty year old John Calvin Carter, in Union County. John was born March 31, 1826, in Illinois. After their marriage, he dropped the name John, and later was known only as Calvin. Rachel's father Samuel died when she was two and one-half, and her mother reared her. Rachel and Calvin had the following children:
John Calvin Carter, born about 1848, never married.
Harriet Carter, born February 10, 1849
Elizabeth Carter, born about 1852.
Missouri Carter, born October 4, 1853.
Jackson Carter, born January 1, 1856.
Mary Francis Carter, born July 17, 1857, died September 8, 1875, never married.
Elijah Carter, born January 17, 1860.
Calvin Carter, born October 19, 1862.
Calvin Carter, Sr. was a farmer, and on November 21, 1849, he bought over 50 acres of land two and a half miles west of Cobden, from Alfred Vancil. On January 5, 1850, he sold this land to F.N. Underwood and then bought 35 acres adjoining from the same man on the same day. A month later, he bought an adjoining 38 acres from Jacob Rendleman, Jr., making a net of 72.25 acres which he kept until his death. He also farmed thirty-two acres of land from a Mrs. Brown on which he was growing wheat at the time of his death. The Walnut Grove Church now adjoins his farm.
John Calvin enlisted in Co. C. 109th Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Camp Anna, August 14, 1862, receiving $13.00 a month and an enlistment bonus of $100.00 of which $25.00 was paid upon enlistment and $75.00 upon discharge from his three year enlistment. He was given furlough with an advance of one month's pay on December 22, 1862, at Camp Lumpkin, Mississippi, but overstayed his leave. He returned to service the following April 23, and was assigned to Co. A. 11th Regt., Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He remained with that company until the end of the war when he was mustered out at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 14, 1865
A physical description of John Calvin Carter is found in the records of the Illinois Adjutant General. At the time of his enlistment he was 38 years old, 5' 8", with blue eyes, light hair, and a ruddy complexion.
While he was in the army, Rachel continued to farm the land with the help of her eight children. Rachel died April 10, 1867, and was buried at Mt. Tabor Cemetery on the east side of what is now Illinois Highway 127, one mile north of their farm. She left eight children ranging in age from four to eighteen.
On June 18, 1869, John Calvin Carter married Mrs. Louisa Norton Emery, a widow with four children: William Walter, 10, Albert, 9, David, 6, and Mary, 3. To them was born one child, Emma, who married Willis Rhodes. Calvin died of pneumonia, April 26, 1870, and was buried at Mt. Tabor Cemetery beside his first wife Rachel. His estate was valued at $1000.00 personal property $600.00.
Willis Cauble was appointed guardian of Calvin's minor children: Missouri, Jackson, Mary Francis, Elijah and Calvin.
BURIAL EXPENSES OF JOHN CALVIN CARTER:
April 27, 1870.
Coffin $26.00
cloth coat 15.00
pr, Doe Skin Pants 7.00
black cloth vest 4.00
fine shirt 2.25
pr. suspenders .40
pr. cotton socks .30
pr. cotton gloves .30
neck tye .25
The inscription on his stone reads:
"Farewell my wife and children all
From you a fallen Christ doth call:
Mourn not for me it is in vain
To call me to your side again."
Source: Lawanda Carter Wiley.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in Him will I trust. (Psalm 91:2)
ELIAS “ELI” HARTLINE (1) A
(1827-1910)
Elias “Eli” Hartline was born in 1827 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, a son of David and Lydia Hartlein. His family moved in 1835 to Stark County, Ohio. After his father, David’s, death his stepmother Molly Smith Hartlein moved to Berrien County, Michigan where other family members were living.
On March 3, 1853 Eli married Elizabeth Kritzer (Kreutzer) in Berrien County, Michigan.
Children:
David L. Hartline, born April 18, 1855, in Berrien County, MI. On November 5, 1876, David married Rosa Ann Thaxton, born about 1858 in Indiana, a daughter of William and his second wife Martha (Bowers) Thaxton. D
Evan Hartline, born February 22, 1856 in Berrien County, Michigan, married Mary Ann Schroff. D
Franklin Hartline, born July 18, 1857, married Sindia Snyder November 7, 1883.
1-Berrien County, MI records.
ADAM ALEXANDER HARTLINE A
(1828- )
Adam Alexander Hartline was born about 1828 in Rowan County, North Carolina, a son of Henry and Sophia Kessler Hartline. He was married when he was twenty eight, at Dongola, Union County, Illinois, July 9, 1851, to Mary Mowery. She died before 1853, and he married Elizabeth Casper, April 14, 1853 in Union County.
He was ten years old when his father moved to Pulaski County from North Carolina. He received his education in the subscription schools of the county. He started in life as a farmer and farmed until his death. In the 1870 Union County census, he is recorded with Real Estate valued at $4000.00 and personal property valued at $2000.00. Date of death and burial are not known.
Adam and Elizabeth had the following children: (All born at Dongola)
Jacob Henry Hartline, born about 1855. D
George W. Hartline, born about 1858. D
John Hartline, born about 1857
Mary Hartline, born about 1862, married February 24, 1884, Union County, to Sandy H. Mowery, born 1857, witnesses: Adam and Charles Hartline, her uncle.
Susan Hartline, born about 1863.
William Hartline, born about 1867.
Amanda Hartline, born about 1870.
Source: Lawanda Carter Wiley, from Alexander County and Jonesboro, IL Courthouse records.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)
(1828-1879)
Conrad Hartline was born in Monroe County, Ohio in 1828, a son of Christian and Mary Hartline. (1) He married Eleanor Gray, born in 1831, and they had the following children: (2)
Mary Ann Hartline, born in 1854, married David Sykes, October 29, 1888.
Edmund Hartline, born in 1859, married Sadie Boughner, March 7, 1889.
Conrad Hartline, Jr., born in 1861, married Amanda A. McNichol, May 2, 1901.
Isaac Hartline, born in 1863, married Ophelia Miller, July 30, 1900.
Winfield Hartline, born in 1867.
William Hartline, born in 1868.
Sarah E Hartline, born April 15, 1870, died February 20, 1873.
Emma R. (Ella) Hartline, born February 21, 1873, married John S. DeVaul, son of Conrad DeVaul.
Adella Hartline, born December 7, 1877, married March 24, 1900 to Martin McCoy.
Conrad died September 30, 1879 in Adams township, Monroe County, Ohio of heart disease. In 1880, (3) Eleanor (Elner) was the head of household (widow) with eight children, living in Adams township.
l-Courthouse records, Monroe County, Ohio. 2-Birth dates of first six children from 1880 Census, Monroe County, Ohio. 3-1880 Census, Monroe Co., Adams Township.
PETER LAWRENCE HARTLINE A
(1828-1891)
Peter Lawrence Hartline was born December 8, 1828, in Georgia, a son of George and Betsy Bostian Hartline. (1) His mother died shortly after his birth, and his father soon married again. (2) The family moved to Cherokee County, Alabama, before 1834, and that is where Peter spent his childhood.
He was married about 1851 to Eliza A. Griffin, born March 28, 1835. (3) They had the following children: (4)
Mary Jane Hartline, born July 18, 1853, died September 25, 1887, was married to F. T. Pruitt. She is buried in Davis Cemetery, Cherokee County, Alabama.
James Alexander (Jim) Hartline, born August 29, 1858. D
Joseph Washington Hartline, born April 3, 1859. D
Paul G. Hartline, born in 1860, died young.
Laura Hartline, born in 1867, married John Teague, May 31, 1895.
Beulah Hartline, born 1869, never married.
William A. (Bill) Hartline, was born in 1871.
Fannie Hartline, born in 1874, married William R. (Adolphus?) Partlow in Cherokee County, Alabama, November 11, 1893.
Reed A. Hartline, born December 17, 1876 D
LutherHartline, born 1877.
Sally Hartline, born May 5, 1843, married Frank Pruitt after Mary Jane Hartline died in 1887.
Peter L. and Eliza lived in the Broomtown district of Cherokee County, Alabama until after the civil war, when state line into Chattooga County, Georgia. They were still there on July 26, 1870. They moved back to Cherokee County sometime after 1870. (5)
Peter L. Hartline served in the Confederate "G" Company, 19th Alabama Infantry, Army of the Mississippi with his brothers during the Battle of Shiloh. Afterwards, he continued in this unit until the evacuation of Atlanta by the Confederate Army, September 3, 1864, at which time, he was captured by Sherman's Army at Jonesboro, a town just south of Atlanta. He was taken by way of Nashville and Louisville to the Union Army Prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois, where he arrived October 29, 1864. He remained a prisoner of war until the time of his discharge at Camp Douglas, June 17, 1865. After taking the Oath of Allegiance, he returned to his family on his farm in Cherokee County, Alabama.
The Confederate military records describe Peter L. Hartline with sallow complexion, dark hair, gray eyes and five feet eight. Except for the short time in 1870 when he and his family live in Georgia, Peter and Eliza farmed in Cherokee County, where he died May 1, 1891 and Eliza died August 22, 1, 1901. Both are buried in Davis Cemetery. (6)
1,3-J.J. Duckworth, paper. 2-Exact date of mother's death unknown. 4-All born in Cherokee County, Alabama. 5-6-J. J. Duckworth, paper.
(1828-1910)
Ezra D. Hartlein was born December 29, 1828, to George and Maria Dilleplain Hartlein of Berks County, Pennsylvania. (1) Ezra remained in Berks County all his life. (2) There he married Catharine Focht, sometime prior to 1854, and they had the following children: (3)
Emma Rebecca Hartlein, born in 1854, died November 18, 1862.
James Buchanan Hartlein, born 1856, died November 19, 1862. Age 5 yrs., 11 mo., 5 days.
Ezra purchased some land from Hiram Clouser in Earl township, Berks County in 1892. It is not known if Ezra had other children. He served in the civil war, (4) and was a Weaver by trade. (5)
His children died on consecutive days, (6) and in the 1870 census records, (7) he was forty and his wife was thirty-four with no children. We suppose the cause of death of their children to be an epidemic.
Ezra died November 15, 1910 and Catharine died April 30, 1911. Both are buried at Oley Lutheran Church Cemetery, near Pleasantville, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
1-Tombstones Oley Cemetery. 2- Census records, tombstones. 3-4-6-Hist. & Bio. Annals, Berks Co., Montgomery. 5-Census 1870. 7-Earl township.
(1829-1899)
Elijah Hartline, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Holshouser Hartline was born March 15, 1829, near Cobden, Illinois. He was married in 1869 to Emeline Richards, born March 4, 1844. Elijah's father had died when he was ten months old, and his mother reared him. He later worked for his uncle Isaac Hartline, and was a member of his household from 1850 until Isaac's death in 1867. By 1870, he had acquired the SW 4 Section 36, township 11 S. Range 2W, which joined on the north, the land his grandfather George Hartline bought in 1820. The 1870 Census shows his real estate was worth $2000.00 and personal property $500.00.
Elijah and Emeline had the following children: (all born near Cobden)
Alice Hartline, born about 1869. D
Rolla Hartline, born about 1871. D
Sophronia Hartline, born 1873, married Nelson Dillow.
Debbie Hartline, born 1876, died 1933, never married, buried in Casper Cemetery.
Story Hartline, born 1876, died 1939, never married, buried at Casper Cemetery.
Walter Hartline, born about 1879. D
Elijah was a farmer and also worked at carpentry. He died without a will, March 11, 1899, at his home near Cobden. The administration of his estate was granted to his son, Rolla. Elijah's wife, Emeline, died March 8, 1906, and both are buried at Casper Church Cemetery.
1-Lawanda Carter Wiley headstones, census records, Union County records.
(1829-1894)
Joseph Hartline was born December 15, 1829 in Mahantango township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of George and Anna Maria Musser Hartline. (1) Joseph married Lydia Reabuck, the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Reabuck who was born in 1835, and they had the following children: (2)
George Washington Hartline, born June 21, 1865. D
Alisa Hartline, born about 1868, married Frank Sheetz of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. Alisa died in 1895 at twenty-seven.
Sophronia Hartline, born about 1871, married Joseph Powell and they lived in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
Mary Elizabeth Hartline, married Gabriel Snyder and lived in Shamokin.
Amelia Hartline, married Harvey Maurer of Shamokin.
Jared Hartline, died in infancy.
Elmira Hartline, married John Drumheller of Shamokin.
Margaret Hartline, married August Ross of Shamokin.
Abbie Hartline, married Charles Kerstetter of Shamokin.
Harry Hartline, died in infancy.
Of the three sons of Joseph, George Washington was the only one who survived and had a family of his own. Lydia died November 26, 1881, and Joseph died July 9, 1894. (3)
1-Lawanda Carter Wiley. Will sources: Jonesboro Courthouse, IL,. Family Records. 2-Mary Hartlein, 849 Sycamore Dr. Lansdale, Pa. 19446. 3-Northumberland County, Pennsylvania History, Morton L. Montgomery. 4-Stones in Shamokin cemetery (information collected by Mary A. Hartlein).
(1829-1908)
Joel Hartline was born October 7, 1829 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of David (1801) and Lydia Hartlein. Joel’s family moved to Stark County, Ohio in 1835, then after his father David’s death in 1841, his stepmother, Molly Smith Hartlein moved to be near her family in Berrien County, Michigan.
Joel married at Galien, in Berrien County, on December 1 (or 4), 1859 to Hetty Boyle, daughter of Godfrey and Rosanna (Kuhl) Boyle. Hetty was born in Oronoko township on September 5, 1842.
Children:
David G. Hartline, born July 26, 1861, died February 27, 1934. Lived at Glendora. D
Elias “Eli” Hartline, born February 16, 1863, died March 27, 1917.
George Hartline married Lillie Boyle, February 20, 1901 and lived at Glendora.
Ella Hartline married 1. John Gifford, 2. Phiscater, lived in St. Joseph.
Nathan Hartline, born died December 23, 1897. 23y, 5d.
Stella Hartline married Warren Hagley, November 9, 1898 and lived at Galien
Edna Hartline, married Frank Narregan, February 8, 1899 and lived at Baroda.
Minnie Hartline, married Daniel Spinning Robe and lived at Buchanan.
William J. Hartline, born March 21, 1883 married Rose Miller, born February 7, 1883, married December 20, 1906 and lived at Berrien Springs.
Clayton Hartline, born 1888, married Ada Stevens March 15, 1911. Clayton died 1955, of Buchanan.
Joel Hartline died October 29, 1908.
Hetty (Boyle) Hartline died August 19, 1933 with burial at Storick Cemetery.
1-Berrien County, MI records.
(1829-1877)
Isaac Hartlein was born in 1829, a son of George (1805) and Anna Maria Yoder Hartlein of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. On May 18, 1856, he married to Matilda Bechtel (Bachtel), born March 15, 1832. (2) They lived in Berrien County, Michigan.
Children:
David J. Hartlein was born Saturday, November 10, 1860 Berrien County, Michigan, died March 30, 1863.
Catherine A. Hartlein was born May 19, 1862, Berrien County, Michigan, died May 2, 1863, (11 months, 13 days).
Isaac Hartlein died March, 1877 in Berrien County, Michigan.
Matilda (Bechtel) Hartlein died April 7, 1903, buried at Feather.
1-Berrien County, MI, Death records. 2-Berrien County, MI marriage records.
BENJAMIN G. HARTLINE (1) A
(1830-1904)
Benjamin G. Hartline was born November 23, 1830, in Berks County, Pennsylvania, son of George and Catharine (Kate) Ganser Hartlein. (1) Benjamin was baptized April 4, 1831 at Hill Church. (2) He was reared in Earl township of Berks County, and married Esther Ann Pierman, born November 5, 1834, daughter of Jacob and Anna Pierman. (3) They had the following children: (4)
John Francis Hartline, born January 1, 1854.
Sarah Amanda Hartline, Born June 2, 1856.
Effinger Enoch (Pierman) Hartline, born October 27, 1864, baptized December 25, 1864, died 1934. (3) D
William Calvin Hartline, born June 1, 1868.
Benjamin and Hetty (Esther) made their home in Earl township and following the death of Benjamin's father Johann George, his father's estate was settled April 10, 1874, with Lydia Hartline as Executor. (5)
Benjamin was the recipient of a portion of that estate.
Hetty died June 17, 1884, and Benjamin died October 20, 1904. Both are buried at the Oley Lutheran Church Cemetery near Pleasantsville, Pennsylvania. (6)
1,2,3,4-Hill Church. 3,6-Stones, Oley Cemetery. 5-Deed book 112, p. 561, Berks County, PA.
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusteth in Him.
(Psalm 34:8)
ELIZABETH CATHERINE HARTLINE A
(1831- )
Elizabeth Catherine Hartline was born in 1831, in Rowan County, North Carolina, daughter of Henry and Sophia Kessler Hartline. The family later moved to Illinois, and she was married in 1847 to Adam Mowery in Pulaski County, Illinois. (1) Adam and Elizabeth had the following children: (2)
Catherine Hartline, born about 1848.
Susanna Hartline, born about 1850.
Charles W. Hartline, born about 1857.
Mary Hartline, born about 1859.
1-Perrins History of Alexander, Pulaski and Union Counties. (research by Lawanda C. Wiley). 2-From the 1860 Pulaski Co. census.
(1831-1911)
George Hartline was born November 17, 1831, and lived in Mahoning township, Montour County, Pennsylvania. He married Harriet Heller August 28, 1862, and they had the following children:
John Henry Hartline, born November 2, 1862, Mahoning Township. D
Anna Margaret Hartline, born September 4, 1865, married Frank J. (Francis) Hock, April 14, 1892.
Mary Alice Hartline, born June 14, 1864, married Michael Scott.
Samuel Willets Hartline, born March 2, 1869, married November 29, 1896 to Louise Strassner of Montour County. Sam died August 19, 1898. D
Harriet Hartline, born March 9, 1873, died March 16, 1873.
Harriet, wife of George, died and George married Elmira Heller on August 24, 1874. Both Harriet and Elmira Heller were from Madison township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and are believed to have been sisters. George and Elmira had no children.
1-Montour County PA records, Will Book 4, pp 493,496. Florence Myrtle Buisch, family records, Danville, PA.
(1833- )
Charles W. Hartline was born August 17, 1833 in Rowan County, North Carolina, son of Henry and Sophia Kessler Hartline. When he was six years old, he came to Pulaski County, Illinois with his parents. He received his early education in the subscription schools of Union County. He was a farmer, owning 192 acres of land, and attended the German reformed Church. (1) When Charles was twenty nine, on March 29, 1863, he married Mary Ann Meyer, daughter of John and Elizabeth Lackey Meyer, and they had the following child:
John Hartline, born September 4, 1864, married October 1, 1885 to Martha Peeler in Union County, Illinois. (2)
Mary Ann (Meyer) Hartline died November of 1864, and Charles married Susan Casper, April 7, 1867 in Union County. Susan was born January 1, 1835, daughter of Jacob and Eliva Mowery Casper. (3)
Charles and Susan had the following children:
Minerva Hartline, born March 29, 1869, married John Cauble, December 8, 1891.
Amy Hartline, born January 14, 1870, married Mr. Peeler.
Martha Alice Hartline, born August 16, 1874.
1,2,3-Perrins History (collected by Lawanda Wiley).
GEORGE WASHINGTON HARTLINE A
(1833-1862)
George Washington Hartline was born in 1833, in Georgia, the ninth child of George Hartline. (1) He was the first child of George's second wife, Joanna Dearing* Hartline, whom George married April 16, 1832. (2) George Washington married Nancy D. Cauley** (sometimes spelled: Cawley and Cally), August 13, 1851, and they had the following children: (3)
George Alexander Hartline, born July 16, 1852. D
Mary Ann Hartline, born April 1, 1854, married Jabe A. Burgess, lived at Ft. Payne, Alabama. Buried Glenwood Cemetery, Fort Payne, Alabama.
William Thomas Hartline, born 1856. D
Nancy Melvina Hartline, born September 1, 1858, married Ephriam Smith, her step-brother and lived in Dekalb County, Alabama on lookout Mountain.
Martha Ellen Hartline , born October 24, 1860, died March 26, 1899. D
**Nancy D. Cauley or Cally, was a daughter of Thomas Cally and Delilah Derring (Dearing) Cally, who were married in Henry County, GA in 1830. After the death of Thomas Cally, Delilah married David M. Mobley in Henry County, GA before moving to Cherokee County, AL. Family name was spelled "Cally" in marriage record for Thomas when he and Delilah married, "Cawley" when Delilah married David Mobley and Cauley in the Mobley Family Bible when G.W. Hartline and Nancy were married. (4)
George W. and his wife Nancy lived in the Broomtown district of Cherokee County, Alabama on 160 acres of farmland near Little River on Lookout Mountain, where all their children were born. (5) There was a ford on little River called "Hartline Ford," which was used by people crossing the river for years.
George Washington Hartline was the only one of George Hartline's sons who died during the civil war. He, along with three of his brothers, joined "G" Company, 19th Alabama Infantry, Army of the Mississippi in Huntsville, Alabama on September 26, 1861. (6) After receiving his training at the camp of instruction in Talledega, Alabama, George W. fought in the Battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862, in Tennessee.
George Washington Hartline died in the Confederate Army Hospital in Granada, Mississippi on June 13, 1862. (7) Although the hospital records dated 28 August 1862 do not indicate the cause of death, it is said that he died during a measles epidemic in the army camp. (8) After George Washington's death, Nancy married Hollis Smith, who had a son named Ephraim. Nancy's daughter Nancy Melvina grew-up as a stepsister to Ephraim, and when they were grown, about 1880, they married to each other. Hollis Smith also had one son and one daughter by his first wife, and He and Nancy had the following children:
John Smith
Ruben Smith
Ward Smith
Lila Smith
William Smith
Nancy is buried in the Smith Cemetery near Jamestown, Alabama.
1-J. J. Duckworth. 2-personal records (collected by Lawanda Wiley). 3-0. J. Hartline. 4-J. J. Duckworth. 5-Purchased land adjacent father's farm 1853, original records at federal land office, Lebanon, Dekalb County, Alabama. 6-J. J. Duckworth. 7-Ibid. 8-Dacie Jane Gilreath Hartline, daughter of Martha Ellen Hartline, Gilreath.
Fear thou not. for I am with thee. Be not dismayed; for I am thy God. I will
strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand
of my righteousness. ( Isaiah 41:10)
(1833-1900)
Jared Hartlein was born December 20, 1833, in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, son of George and Anna Maria Yoder Hartlein of Mahantango township. (1) Jared's parents later moved to Shamokin township of Northumberland County. (2) Jared was married on June 20, 1863, to Christina Wetzel, born January 7, 1846. (3) They had the following children: (4)
Brinton Hartlein, born October 6, 1864. D
Susan Hartlein, married Theodore Weaver, son of David Weaver.
Heber Hartlein, born 1867. D
Jared Hartlein, Jr.
Amanda Hartlein
Mary Hartlein
Nerie Hartlein, married Mary about 1909. D
Rebecca Hartlein, never married.
Katherine Hartlein, married Dan Smink.
In her will, dated November 21, 1867, Jared received the sum of twenty-five dollars from his mother.
Jared died April 16, 1900, and his wife Christina died on December 14, 1907.
1-U.S. Census 1830, Schuylkill County, PA. 2-Mother's Will, Northumberland County, PA. 3-Vol. 131, p29, Sunbury Historical Society, PA. 4-Ray Hartlein, Takoma Park, MD.
(1833- )
Joseph G. Hartline was born 1833, a son of Christian and Mary Hartline of Cameron, Monroe County, Adam township, Ohio. Joseph married Elizabeth Walton, born 1835. Their Children: (2)
Albert Hartline, born about 1862. D
Amanda Hartline, born 1865.
Sarah Hartline, born 1867.
Joseph Hartline, born ca. 1871 (3) I'm not sure this Joseph existed, still checking.
1-1880 Census, Monroe County, Ohio, Adams Township. 2-Brian Hartline. 3-David Calvin Hartline.
(1834-1917)
Joshua Hartline was born 1834 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, a son of David and “Molly” Smith Hartline (1801). The year after his birth, his family moved to Stark County, Ohio. In 1841, David died and Molly moved to Berrien County, Michigan, near her family. Joshua Hartline, married on December 11, 1862 to Cleopatra “Patra” Mitchell.
Children:
Silas Hartline, born March 16, 1867 in Buchanan township, Berrien County, Michigan married Martha “Mattie” Frew March 19, 1895. D
Joshua died October 20, 1917.
1-Berrien County, MI Records.
WILLIAM R. HARTLINE (1) A
(1835-)
William R. Hartline was born in about 1835, a son of Jacob and Anna Mary Logan Hartline. (2) He married Sarah A., who was born about 1834 in Pennsylvania. (3)
Their Children:
William L. Hartline?
Jacob Hartline, born about 1860.
Mary Hartline, born about 1865.
Henry L. Hartline, born about 1869.
James L. Hartline, born about 1873.
William was a brickmaker. (4) He resided at 31 E. Factory Street, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. (5) His wife was a widow in 1898. (5)
1-Keith A. Nonemaker. 2-1850 Census, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. 3-1880 Census. 4-Hauck’s Centenniel Directory of Mechanicsburg, 1876, p. 57. 5-Fink’s Directory of Mechanicsburg, 1898.
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