Person:Henry Slagle (2)

from Roe Family Tree, ancestry.com Added by starbourne5312 on 10 Dec 2006

5. HENRY5 SCHLAGEL (PHILLIP4, GIDEON3, BENJAMIN2, FREIDRICK1) was born Abt. November 1778 in Bethlehem, Eastern PA, and died May 1866. He married CATHRARINE SCHUTT 1812. She was born September 26, 1799, and died April 08, 1872. Notes for HENRY SCHLAGEL: About 1822 Henry and his neighbor Peter Barickman decided to move from eastern PA to western PA in search of land to farm. Henry his wife Cathrarine and five children together with Peter his wife Lydia and her parents Melchoir & Elizabeth Transhew and sister Annahardt required 4 covered wagons, two pulled by horses & two by oxen to make the +300 mile & +3month great trek across the mountains of PA. A young man named John Beetle on horseback was their scout & guide. They (13) started the trek in early May and hoped to have time to build a log cabin in their new location before winter. Their biggest problem came in early September with the crossing of the Allegheny River. Rafts had to be built to float the wagons and after a number of trials and errors and about 3 weeks they made it across. After about 3 days travel west of the river they settled on land in what is now Butler Township, Butler Co., PA which was about 5 miles west of the settlement of Butler and 30 miles north of Fort Pitt & Fort Duquense. Henry & Peter rode to Fort Pitt to file their claims for a 1000 acres each at a cost of $300 payable over a 10 year period. After the surveying and land deals were complete a log cabin was build as the ordeal of winter was soon upon them but the good Lord saw them through. Henry obtained another adjoining 1000 acres west of his when the grantee died and his widow could not develop the grant as required. Henry was one of the organizer of the German Reformed Church in 1845 and was a member of the Building Committee in May 28, 1847 when the cornerstone was laid for the renamed Reformed Zion Church.

According to the Butler County, Pennsylvania Deeds Book, in May 1829 Henry Slagle bought land in Butler Township from a widow, Sarah Collins, for the sum of $120. Sarah Collins lived in Pittsburgh and apparently had quite a bit of land in Butler County, as she appears many times in the in the Deeds Books selling land to different individuals. Henry Slagle was already living in Butler Township at the time he purchased the land. He bought land again from Sarah Collins in May 1851.

From: History of Butler County Pennsylvania - 1883 Chapter 18 -- Butler Township

GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH The only church in Butler Township outside of the borough is the German Reformed Church, which is located near the western boundary at the intersection of the Meridian and Harmony roads. The society is large, and composed of about equal numbers of residents of Butler and Connoquenessing Townships.

The society was organized in 1845, at the HENSHAW Schoolhouse, by the Rev. S. MILLER, who came from Westmoreland County, and consisted of the following individuals and their families, viz: Frederick BARICKMAN, Henry SCHLEGLE, Abram HENSHAW, John HENSHAW, Henry DUFFORD, Jacob DUFFORD, George SLEPPY, Samuel DUFFORD, Eli HENSHAW, Samuel DERSHIEMER, Henry SARVER and Gideon SCHLEGLE. Frederick BARICKMAN and Henry DUFFORD were elected Elders, and Abram HENSHAW and Phillip DUFFORD, Deacons. This congregation and the Harmony congregation originally constituted a pastoral charge.

In October, 1846, the congregation resolved to build a house of worship, and appointed Abram HENSHAW, Henry DUFFORD, Frederick BARICKMAN and Henry SCHLEGLE as a committee to solicit subscriptions for that purpose. This committee was soon afterward appointed as a Building Committee, and John HENSHAW, Samuel DUFFORD and Eli HENSHAW were elected as Trustees, and authorized to purchase ground for a building site, and hold the same in trust for the German Reformed Church. The congregation numbered at this time eighty-two members. The corner-stone of the church was laid, with appropriate ceremonies, May 28, 1847, and the building was dedicated in December, by the Rev. Samuel MILLER, assisted by Rev. L. D. LEBERMAN and the Rev. HOFFMAN, all of Westmoreland County. The name bestowed was the Reformed Zion Church.

From: 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pennsylvania. and Representatives Citizens (1909) p 653-654

Henry Schlagel, father of Samuel, was born east of the Allegheny Mountains and in his youth learned the shoemaking trade. After some years he started for Western Pennsylvania, accompanied by his wife (Catherine Schutt) and four children, and they drove their wagon into Butler Township, Butler County, and came to their pioneer farm. The land was then all covered with brush and in order to find a place on which to erect his little log cabin, he had first to clear a spot. This was about 1827. He went into debt for his land, but cleared off all incumbrances, working on the roads through Allegheny County in order to earn the money. He raised grain and grew stock and became a man in prosperous circumstances. Of sterling honesty and intelligent mind, he was often chosen by his fellow citizens to serve in local offices, and was one of the early supervisors and school directors in Butler Township. He died in 1886, aged eighty-eight years. With his wife he belonged to the German Reformed Church and was a deacon and elder. They were among the founders of Zion Reformed Church on Harmony Road. She died in 1872, aged seventy-two years. They had the following children: Julia Ann, Finney, Gideon and Sarah, all deceased, the last named the wife of Andrew Croup; Theresa, who is the widow of Joseph Manny, of Butler Township; Thomas and Eliza, both deceased, the latter of whom was the wife of William Martin; Catherine, who is the widow of John Duffy; Samuel; Susan, who is the wife of John King, of Donegal Township; and Maria, who is the wife of William Rea of Beaver Falls.

Email message from Ivine Yohe who found the birthdates and birthplaces of Henry Slagle's children.

From: IrvYohe@@aol.com To: Smartin706@@aol.com Subject: Re: Henry Schlagel Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:22:02 EST

Hi, I am not sure where I got that information. I will have to look around a bit. I may have gotten it from the Church of Latter Day Saints in Virginia Beach quite a few years ago. I retyped my information so much that I gave up putting in the sources.

1. ↑ Records of Salem Lutheran and Reformed Congregations, Moore Township, Northamapton County, Pennsylvania, 1774-1840.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Butler County Historical Society. Butler County Cemetery Inventory, Volume 3
   p 1.

   date of birth calcuated from gravestone

3. ↑ Butler County, Pennsylvania Register of Wills. Butler County, Pennyslvania Index to Wills.
4. ↑ Butler Citizen
   May 14, 1886.
5. ↑ James A. McKee. 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pennsylvania. and Representative Citizens. (Name: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, 1909;).
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   roll 147, page 9.
7. ↑ James A. McKee. 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pennsylvania. and Representative Citizens. (Name: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, 1909;)
   p 653-654.
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   roll 1086, page 110, line 28.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5} Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   29 Nov 1850.

   North Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, Family 232, Lines 28-36, NARA microfilm publication M432, Roll 760

10. ↑ ^10.0 10.1 Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    29 Aug 1870.

    Moore Township, Pg 62, Dwelling 522, Family 535, Lines 20-22, NARA microfilm publication M593, FHL microfilm 552882

11. ↑ Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. 1840 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    roll 448.
12. ↑ Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    roll 1108, ed 29, page 16, line 3.