Frederick Jacob Stover

Frederick Stober, according to his tombstone at Wolf's Chapel Cemetery in Haines Township, Centre County, was born June 21, 1759, and died September 9, 1837. His wife, Anna Hetzler, was born in 1767, and died on October 3, 1852. (The birth of an Anna Maria Hezel, daughter of Peter Hezel, was recorded at the Brickerville Lutheran Church on August 28, 1767.) Frederick's will gives his children as Jacob, David, Christina, Frederick, Michael, Elizabeth (married to George Grove), Catherine, Henry, and Martin. The first mention found of Frederick is as a tax payer in Potter Township, Northumberland County, in 1785. It is not known whether he married before leaving Lancaster County. By 1790, when he was listed in the first census of Northumberland County, he was married with 2 sons. We know from his tombstone that his son Jacob was born December 28, 1790. It would seem that the other son died, as the 1800 census of Haines Township listed him with 4 sons under 10 and one daughter under ten (Jacob would still have been nine when the census was taken during the summer). No birth record has been found for Elizabeth, but later records show that she must have been born about 1800. It is possible she was the daughter listed in the 1800 census. The Lutheran Church at Aaronsburg, Centre County, records the births of Heinrich (1795), Christina (1803), and Martin (1806).