Samuel Erdly

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GEDCOM Note

SAMUEL ERDLY CAME DIRECTLY FROM GERMANY IN ABOUT 1818, AND SETTLED IN PENYAN, SENECA COUNTY, NEW YORK. HERE HE MET HESTER PLATT (OF PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH DESCENT) AND THEY WERE MARRIED. TO THEM WERE BORN 11 CHILDREN. THE FAMILY LIVED IN PENYAN UNTIL ABOUT 1850, WHEN THEY CAME BY OX TEAM AND COVERED WAGON TO NOBLE TWP, NOBLE CO, IN, LOCATING NEAR THE AREA WHERE THE OLD POPLAR SCHOOLHOUSE STANDS. NO RECORDS INDICATING LAND OWNERSHIP CAN BE LOCATED, SO IT IS FELT THAT THE LAND MUST HAVE BEEN RENTED. SAMUEL, BEING IN THE CARPENTER TRADE, BUILT SEVERAL OF THE FIRST FRAME SCHOOLHOUSES, ONE BEING AT WOLF LAKE, ALSO ONE AT POPLAR. ELIZA ANN TAUGHT AT THIS POPLAR SCHOOL DURING THE TIME THAT HER PARENTS LIVED THERE. WILLIAM (OLDEST CHILD) CARRIED THE MAIL VIA HORSEBACK FROM STURGIS, MI TO FORT WAYNE,IN AND FROM FORT WAYNE TO GOSHEN, IN. VAGUE RECORDS INDICATE THE FAMILY LEFT INDIANA SOMETIME IN THE 1860'S VIA COVERED WAON TO SETTLE NEAR LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN. LATER THEY MOVED TO OCEANA COUNTY, MICH AND THERE SPENT THE REMAINDER OF THEIR LIVES. SOME OF THE OLDER CHILDREN CAME BACK TO NOBLE COUNTY TO LIVE, WILLIAM BEING ONE OF THESE.

Children of Samuel and Hester Erdly (misspelled Heartley) in the 1870 census of Hudson (Lyons), Walworth County, Wis. Angevine 27
Henry 25
Franklin 23
Phidelia 21
Amanda M 18
Alice C 16
Sarah C 13
Augusta 11
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