Other records record him as John Elder Hanawalt. Was he an Elder in a Church?
Family records indicate that John and his wife Mary (went by Molly) Rothrock Hanawalt are buried at this cemetery, but they may not have grave markers still existing.
Find-A-Grave contributor Bob Toelle supplied the following:
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys ..., Vol 1, Franklin Ellis, 1886, page 540:
Of the earliest history of the Brethren in the Lewistown District but little is known. ... The first resident ministers were Jacob Kinsel, who settled near the present site of the Spring Run Church; Joseph Rothrock, who lived four miles northeast of Lewistown; and John Hanawalt, one mile east of Mount Union. The last named was probably the first speaker in the English language among the Brethren in this region. He was an excellent man, decidedly original in his habits and manner, but not a fluent speaker, and died at the age of sixty-two in the year 1827[actually, 1829].
Family records indicate that John and his wife Mary (went by Molly) Rothrock Hanawalt are buried at this cemetery, but they may not have grave markers still existing.
Find-A-Grave contributor Bob Toelle supplied the following:
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys ..., Vol 1, Franklin Ellis, 1886, page 540:
Of the earliest history of the Brethren in the Lewistown District but little is known. ... The first resident ministers were Jacob Kinsel, who settled near the present site of the Spring Run Church; Joseph Rothrock, who lived four miles northeast of Lewistown; and John Hanawalt, one mile east of Mount Union. The last named was probably the first speaker in the English language among the Brethren in this region. He was an excellent man, decidedly original in his habits and manner, but not a fluent speaker, and died at the age of sixty-two in the year 1827[actually, 1829].
Other records record him as John Elder Hanawalt. Was he an Elder in a Church?
Family records indicate that John and his wife Mary (went by Molly) Rothrock Hanawalt are buried at this cemetery, but they may not have grave markers still existing.
Find-A-Grave contributor Bob Toelle supplied the following:
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys ..., Vol 1, Franklin Ellis, 1886, page 540:
Of the earliest history of the Brethren in the Lewistown District but little is known. ... The first resident ministers were Jacob Kinsel, who settled near the present site of the Spring Run Church; Joseph Rothrock, who lived four miles northeast of Lewistown; and John Hanawalt, one mile east of Mount Union. The last named was probably the first speaker in the English language among the Brethren in this region. He was an excellent man, decidedly original in his habits and manner, but not a fluent speaker, and died at the age of sixty-two in the year 1827[actually, 1829].
Family records indicate that John and his wife Mary (went by Molly) Rothrock Hanawalt are buried at this cemetery, but they may not have grave markers still existing.
Find-A-Grave contributor Bob Toelle supplied the following:
Source: History of that part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys ..., Vol 1, Franklin Ellis, 1886, page 540:
Of the earliest history of the Brethren in the Lewistown District but little is known. ... The first resident ministers were Jacob Kinsel, who settled near the present site of the Spring Run Church; Joseph Rothrock, who lived four miles northeast of Lewistown; and John Hanawalt, one mile east of Mount Union. The last named was probably the first speaker in the English language among the Brethren in this region. He was an excellent man, decidedly original in his habits and manner, but not a fluent speaker, and died at the age of sixty-two in the year 1827[actually, 1829].
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