HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Alary, Jacob, John, Isaac, Annie, Bar- 

 bara, Elizabeth, Christian, Abraham and 

 Samuel. ' 



(III) Isaac Meyers, son of Henry and 

 Barbara (Miller) Meyer, was born De- 

 cember 31, 1759, in Salford township, 

 Montgomery county and became a 

 farmer of Bedminster township, Bucks 

 county. Like his ancestors he was an ad- 

 herent of the Mennonite faith. He married 

 Magdalina Overholt, who was born August 

 14, 1762, and his death occurred December 

 31, 1832, while his wife passed away Janu- 

 ary 27, 1846. They were the parents of 

 six children: Jacob; Henry; Isaac; John 

 O.; Esther, the wife of William Swope; 

 and Barbara, the wife of Jacob Yoder. 



(IV) John O. Meyers, son of Isaac 

 Meyers, was born in Bedminster town- 

 ship, Bucks county, in 1800 and died on 

 the 2ist of May, 1843. He was married 

 October 10, 1824, to Miss Elizabeth 

 Halderman and they had seven children: 



1. Hannah, born May 17, 1826, became 

 the wife of Daniel K. Rickert, a son 

 of Daniel and Elizabeth (Kulp) Rickert, 



2. Tobias, deceased. 3. Isaac H., born 

 October 22, 1830, married Cecelia Funk, 

 a daughter of Ralph and Barbara (Kauf- 

 man) Funk, and their children are 

 Isadora, born August .2, 1857; William 

 Clyde, born January 28, 1861: Laura F., 

 born March 8, 1867. 4. Sophia died in 

 1832. 5. Eliza, born September 3. 1833, 

 <died July 23, 1853. 6. John H., the sub- 

 ject of this sketch. 7. Ephraim H., born 

 September 28, 1841, is a carpenter at 

 Blooming Glen, Bucks county. He mar- 

 ried Mary Susanna Hunsicker, and they 

 had ten children, of whom five are yet 

 living. 



(V) John H. Meyers, son of John O. 

 and Elizabeth (Halderman) Meyers, was 

 born in Bedminster township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1838, 

 and in his youth learned the trade of 

 shoemaking under the direction of 

 Christian Gayman at Dyerstown. Bucks 

 county. He afterward followed that pur- 

 suit in Plumsteadville until 1863, when 

 Tie settled upon a farm in Bedminster- 

 -ville. Subsequently he removed to 

 Plumsteadville, where he continued 

 farming until 1884, when he took up his 

 abode in New Britain township and 

 purchased a tract of land, upon which 

 he still resides, having for long years 

 "been actively associated with farming in- 

 terests in Bucks county. 



Mr. Meyers has been married twice. 

 He wedded Sarah Meyers, on the igtli 

 of October, 1861, and they became the 

 parents of nine children. I. Elizabeth, 

 horn November 22, 1863, is the wife of 

 Herry Swartley and they have six chil- 

 dren. 2. Lydia A., born February 27, 

 1865, is the wife of Amos Nace, and they 

 have four children. 3. Joseph, born 

 October 28. 1866, died on the 2rst of 

 Ivlovember of the same year. 4. Han- 

 nah, born March 9, 1868, is the wife of 



Oliver Grass and has three children. 



5. Irvin, born February 8, 1871, is at home. 



6. Henry, born July 19, 1872, married 

 Delia Smith and has two children. 



7. Isaac M., born September 6, 1877, 

 died on the 15th of September of the 

 same year. 8. Cora, born March 16, 

 1880, died August 28, 1880. 9. Tressie, 

 born March 4, 1882, is the v^rife of Levi 

 Yothers, and they had two children. 

 Mr. Meyers lost his first wife Novem- 

 ber 28, 1896, when she had reached the 

 age of fifty-five years and eight days. 

 He has since married Lavina, daughter 

 of Samuel and Mary (Johnson) Buck- 

 waiter, and they reside at Chalfont. 

 Mrs. Meyers was born in East Windsor, 

 Chester county, Pennsylvania, February 

 2, 1838. Mr. Meyers belongs to the 

 Mennonite church, whose doctrines em- 

 brace the faith of his ancestors, and his 

 political allegiance is given to the Re- 

 publican party. 



HENRY WEINBERGER WEISS, an 

 agriculturist of Quakertown, born April 8, 

 1834, on a farm near Milford bquart, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, traces his an- 

 cestry to Killian Weiss, a Swiss immi- 

 grant, who in the early part of the eigh- 

 teenth century located near Zionsville, Le- 

 high county, Pennsylvania, having acquired 

 a grant of land from the Penns. The line 

 of descent is traced through his son, 

 Killian Weiss, born in 1751, who was a 

 farmer by occupation, continued to live on 

 the home property near Zionsville, Lehigh 

 county, and who became quite prominent 

 and influential in the neighborhood. He 

 married a Miss Landis, and among his chil- 

 dren was a son, George Weiss. 



George Weiss, father of Henry W. Weiss, 

 was born on the homestead farm near Zions- 

 ville, Lehigh county. He followed fann- 

 ing, and in conjunction therewith conduct- 

 ed a saw and chopping mill near Milford 

 Square, Bucks county, which property still 

 remains in the hands of a member of tnt 

 Weiss family. He was a member of the 

 Mennonite church, and a Whig in politics. 

 He married Anna Weinberger, whose fath- 

 er was a farmer of Milford township. His 

 death occurred in 1864. 



Henry W. Weiss attended the common 

 schools of the district until his sixteenth 

 year, after which he assisted on the home 

 farm and in the saw and chopping mill, 

 above referred to, continuing the same until 

 his marriage, ]\Iarch 12, 1859, when he set- 

 tled on his father's farm. In 1864 he moved 

 to Haycock township, near Applebachs- 

 ville, where he farmed for one year. He 

 then moved to Quakertown, near where 

 the North Penn railroad .station now 

 stands, and there raised and shipped stock 

 to New York markets. In 1876 he pur- 

 chased the Harry Hacket farm on Califor- 

 nia road, north of Quakertown, containing 

 fifty-nine acres of improved land, which he 

 operates as a dairy farm. For several 



