Bibles: Peter and Charlotte Mauck DeWalt: Delmont, Westmoreland Co, PA

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    BIBLE OF PETER AND CHARLOTTE MAUCK DeWALT
  (Bible belonged to Aunt Maria DeWalt Baer, and was copied by her nephew
  Louis Hoey of Murrysville, PA at the home of his cousin, Susan DeWalt Baer
  Hill, Burnett's Creek, Jan 1, 1918.)
  Children:
                BIRTHS
  John DeWalt      July 5, 1799
          (married Sara Silvers)
  Henry DeWalt     February 12, 1801
          (married Mary Pryor)
  Elizabeth DeWalt        Dec 16, 1802
          (married Jacob Keihl)
  Jacob DeWalt            Sept 14, 1805
          (married Elizabeth Keihl)
  Michael DeWalt          Oct 18, 1807
          (married Susan Walter)
  Peter DeWalt            July 5, 1809
          (married Barbara Pegg)
  Maria DeWalt            Nov 17, 1811
          (married George Baer ?  Shively?)
  Wm  DeWalt              Aug 4, 1814
          (married Mary Steelsmith)
  Margaret DeWalt         Feb 14, 1818
          (married John Morrison)
  Susan DeWalt            June 24, 1820
          (married Samuel Hoey)
  Thomas DeWalt           March 25, 1826
          (married Susan Lavely)
  Two other children died in infancy.
  Average age of the 11 at death was about 76 years.
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  Susan DeWalt married Samuel Hoey Jan 8, 1839 in Westmoreland County, PA.
  Samuel was the son of James and Eleanor Huey Hoy.
  "They were married at the residence of the William Thompson of Washington,
  PA, by the Rev. David Kirkpatrick, DD.  After the ceremony Samuel and
  Susannah went on horseback to the home of Mr. Hoey's mother, where they
  began housekeeping and where their children were born and reared.
  Susanna DeWalt was born June 24, 1820, a daughter of Peter and Charlotte
  Mauck DeWalt of Delmont.  Her parents died when she was but a child, and
  until her marriage she was supported entirely by her own effort."
  --History of Westmoreland County by John N. Boucher, 1896.  page 98
  
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