The history of the first, second and third generations of the Wall family in America - John Michael Wahl and Christian and Catherine Baughman Wahl

Children of Christian and Catherine Baughman Wahl

What I've learned about the eleven children of Christian and Catherine comes from the baptism records of the Lutheran church in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and the Rev. Brown's "Wadsworth Memorial" Other publications about Wadsworth history based their information on Rev. Brown's work of 1874. The U.S. censuses of Medina County, particularly Wadsworth and Sharon, provided me with additional data. With the help of my Aunt Florence and Uncle Ira Wall I have some evidence from Wayne County, Medina County court records and information from headstones in cemeteries around Wadsworth and Sharon. These are lucrative sources and researchers interested in the history of the family should investigate all of them.

JOHN WALL, the eldest son was born on December 24, 1804 in Penn Township, Northampton County (now Carbon County). He was christened Johannes and baptized on February 17, 1805 in the Lowhill German Reformed (Lutheran) Church. He was twenty years old when his father purchased the land in Wayne County. He married Mary "Polly" Baughman about 1828 probably in Wadsworth, although that is not certain since I've not located a marriage record for them. Polly was the daughter of Paul and Anna Barbara Bachman from Northampton County, Pennsylvania and John's second or third cousin. She was also the sister of Joel Baughman who married John's younger sister Abigail. Polly was born on September 24, 1804 and was baptized in the Lowhill Reformed (Lutheran) Church in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. She was christened Maria Magdalena Bachman. Polly died some time between when the 1870 and 1880 censuses were taken. John remarried to Catherine, maiden name unknown, before 1880. John was a prosperous farmer in Wadsworth Township and somewhat the head of the Wall clan after the death of Christian. He was responsible for obtaining the quit claim deed from his stepmother Magdalena and was the administrator of his father's estate along with his brother-in-law Jonathan Everhard. In 1874 he was a member of the committee that put together the reunion of pioneers for the sixtieth anniversary celebration of the founding of Wadsworth. We have not located the graves of Mary or John. John and Mary had two sons.

Children of John and Mary Baughman Wall:

(1) Paul Wall, born August 6, 1830, married first Kitty A. (maiden name unknown) probably about 1853. Kitty died on September 1, 1854 and is buried in the pioneer cemetery of the Emanuel United Church of Christ (the High Church) where Paul's grandfather Christian is buried. I suspect that Kitty died as a result of the birth of her first child and the child, Alice Wall, survived. Paul next married Isabella Ruthaker in Chippewa Township on December 24, 1857. Paul and Isabel are listed on the 1860 census in Wadsworth Township. In the household is Alice, age five. Also in the household is a John Wall, age 48 listed as a border and farm hand. The identity of this John Wall is a mystery. I have been unable to locate Paul and his family after 1860; however, an 1897 atlas of Wayne County lists Paul Wall with 105 acres in the Northeast Quarter of Section 4, Chippewa Township.

(2) Daniel B. Wall born November 3, 1835, married Abigail Geiger probably about 1863. He appears on the 1860 census still in the home of his mother and father. He and his family are listed in all of the census returns for Wadsworth between 1860 and 1900. The children identified from the census returns were: Russell S., born in August 1864; Mary M., born in March 1866; twins Carrie and Anna, born in March 1870; John J. Wall, born in 1874. Daniel died on April 15, 1908 at the age of sixty-two. Abigail died in 1922. Both are buried in the Wadsworth cemetery as is their daughter Carrie Rohn Stevenson (1870-1960). I have a picture of Russell Wall taken at a family reunion in 1946. He is a distinguished looking gentleman and very tall.

MARY WALL was christened Maria Magdalena when she was baptized in the Lowhill Reformed German church in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. She was born on November 22, 1806. She married Jonathan Everhard in Wooster, Ohio on August 15, 1826 when she was nineteen years old. Apparently she bore no children and she probably died in 1829 in Chippewa Township. I have not found a record of her death or place of burial but seems likely it is in the Emanuel Church of Christ cemetery. Her husband remarried to Mary's sister Catherine.

>CHARLES WALL, our ancestor, was born on September 13, 1808. He married Sophia Frederick. Click HERE for the families of Charles.

CATHERINE WALL was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania in 1811, married Jonathan Everhard on June 11, 1829 in Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio. Catherine and was about eighteen years old when she married Everhard. The Reverend Henry Weygandt, the pastor of the High Church, performed the ceremony. Jonathan and Catherine were among the earliest pioneers to purchase land and move to Sharon. They bought land on lot 68 on August 31, 1831 and apparently spent the rest of their lives on their farm in the southeastern part of the township. Jonathan was one of the administrators of Christian's estate when he died in 1853. Jonathan and Catherine are listed on the 1840, 1850 and 1870 censuses of Sharon Township. From those census returns we identified the couple's children (There is a large gap in years between Daniel and Fietta so it is probable there were one or two Everhard children who died before 1850).

Children of Johnathan and Catherine Wall Everhard

(1) Mary Everhard, born 1830.

(2) Sarah Everhard, born 1833.

(3) Sophia Everhard, born 1835.

(4) Isaac Everhard, born 1837.

(5) Elizabeth Everhard, born 1840.

(6) Daniel W. Everhard, born 1842.

(7) Fietta (spelling questionable) Everhard, born 1849.

(8) Edwin Everhard, born 1851.

REBECCA WALL, was born on January 21, 1810, and baptized in the Ben Salem Union Church on March 11, 1810. She married Curtis Brouse on February 1, 1830 in Baughman Township, Wayne County by Rev. Weygandt, pastor of the High Church. Rebecca was twenty years old at the time of her wedding. There is a bit of a mystery about Rebecca's name. She was christened "Rebecca" shortly after her birth in Pennsylvania and she is listed as Rebecca on the marriage record in Wayne County. Rebecca appears with her husband and family on the 1850 census in Lorain County, Ohio. The Compendium of American Genealogy gives her name as Rebecca. However, on the quit claim deed from her stepmother her name is given as Margaret Brouse and the sketch on the Wall family in the "Wadsworth Memorial" gives her name as Margaret. Was she named Rebecca Margaret or Margaret Rebecca? I suppose we will never know for certain. Curtis and Rebecca removed to Indiana some time after 1850 and one of their grandchildren, Ulysses Chester Brouse son of Curtis, Jr. became mayor of Kendalville, Indiana and a member of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture in 1917.

The Brouse children we know of were:

(1) Mary Brouse, born about 1833.

(2) David Brouse, born about 1836.

(3) Peter Brouse, born about 1838.

(4) Curtis Brouse, born in 1840. During the Civil War he was a member of the 30^th Indiana Volunteers.

(5) Henry Brouse, born about 1845.

(6) Jeremiah Brouse, born about 1847.

SARAH WALL was born probably in Union County, Pennsylvania about 1821. She married Abraham Keller on November 17, 1838 by a justice of the peace in Chippewa Township. Sarah was about seventeen years of age and her new husband was twenty-six. In 1831 the Keller's purchased land on lot 68 in Sharon Township next to brother-in-law Jonathan Everhard. They were also among the first pioneers in Sharon. The 1850 and 1870 censuses of Sharon Township lists the Keller family. Abraham gave the census taker his occupation as carpenter on the 1850 census and carpenter and farmer on the 1870.

Children of Abraham and Sarah Wall Keller are:

(1) John Keller, born about 1839.

(2) Barbara Keller, born about 1840.

(3) Catherine Keller, born about 1841.

(4) Christian Keller, born about 1843.

(5) Solomon Keller, born about 1847.

(6) Mary Ellen Keller, born about 1848.

(7) Fanny (Frances?) Keller, born about 1849.

(8) Ann Keller, born about 1850.

(9) Charles Keller, born about 1856.

ABIGAIL WALL was born in 1817 possibly in Union County, Pennsylvania. On November 7, 1839 she married Joel Bachman (Baughman) in Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio. Abigail and her groom were twenty-two years of age. Joel was Abigail's second cousin. They appear on the 1840 census in Chippewa Township in Wayne County. Abigail died in Wayne County on October 29, 1840 at the age of 23. I have not located Joel or any children on censuses after 1840. The 1853 quit claim deed from Christian's widow lists his living heirs. All of the children except Mary, Judith and Abigail are named on the document. However, Catherine Bower, Eli Hartman and Barbara Baughman appear on the deed. We know for certain that Eli was Christian's grandson and the son of Judith Wall Hartman who died shortly after Eli's birth. Barbara Baughman must have been Christian's granddaughter and the daughter of Abigail and Joel. The identity of Catherine Bower is a mystery but her name on the deed would indicate she was also a granddaughter. I thought perhaps she was also the daughter of Joel and Abigail but if she was she and Barbara had to have been twins. Also, I can't account for the name "Bower."

PETER WALL was probably born in Pennsylvania in Penn Township of Union County, in February 1819. He married Sybella Everhard on June 17, 1841 in Baughman Township, Wayne County. The Reverend Weygandt performed the ceremony. Sybella was probably closely related to Jonathan Everhard, the husband of Catherine Wall. Peter was twenty-two and Sybella was nineteen when they married. Peter and family appear on the census returns of 1850, 1860 and 1870. During those years he was living in Spenser Township, Medina County where he probably spent all of his adult life. In 1900 he was living in the home of his son, Reuben, in York Township, Medina County.

Peter and Sybella's children were:

(1) Reuben S. Wall born in December 1842. Reuben served in the Civil War in Company B, 42^nd Ohio Volunteers. He married Mary A. Hartman on July 3, 1865 in Wayne County and had two children, son William J. Wall born in November 1870 and daughter Jessie Wall born in July 1884. It is possible there were other children we know nothing about.

(2) Jacob James Wall born in May 1849. His wife's name was Matilda and they had three children that we know of:

(a) Edith A. Wall born in July 1877

(b) Lillian G. Wall born in November 1888

(c) Harrison B. Wall born in May 1891.

(3) Harrison E. Wall born in October 1853 and married Harriet Lance.

ISAAC D. WALL was born on April 13, 1813. He was baptized in the Zilgels Lutheran and Reformed Church in Weisenberg Township, Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania. He married Susannah Brouse about 1838 probably in Sharon Township. Susannah was probably closely related to the large Brouse family of Chippewa, perhaps a sister of Curtis Brouse who married Isaac's sister Rebecca. She was born on October 10, 1812 in Ohio. Isaac purchased land on lot 66 in Sharon in 1833. He later purchased land in lots 21 and 22, probably about 1838. Isaac and Susannah lived in a log cabin on this lot, then built a frame house which was still standing in 1981 when "e; Early Sharon Township" was published. Jacob Derr, who became the mayor of Wadsworth occupied the house when the great cyclone of 1890 struck Sharon. Isaac died on September 11, 1870 and is buried in the Wadsworth cemetery. Susannah died on May 10, 1912.

Children Of Isaac and Susannah Wall:

(1) Sarah A. Wall born about 1839, married Uriah Wearstler; Sarah died in 1928. Sarah and Uriah apparently inherited the Isaac Wall farm or purchased it from the other heirs.

(2) Lavina Wall, born about 1842, married William Rhodes.

(3) David Wall, born about 1848; married Nettie Briggs in October 1869.

(4) Ella Wall, born about 1856, married Tom Duley.

JULIA WALL, was christened Judith and born in late 1814 or early 1815. She was baptized in the Zilgels Lutheran and Reformed Church in Weisenberg Township of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. She married Joshua Hartman probably in Wadsworth or Sharon in 1834. Joshua was the son of Peter Hartman and Catharine Zollner and was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on January 9, 1813. The Walls and Hartman's were acquainted in Northampton County. Christian and Catherine Wall were the sponsors for the baptism of Joshua's sister Catherine in the Ben Salem Church in Northampton County in 1807. Julia died on May 1, 1835 at the age of twenty probably in childbirth.

Child of Eli and Julia Hartman:

(1) Eli Hartman born on October 31, 1834. Joshua married twice more and had sixteen children. He was a successful farmer in Sharon and died sometime after the cyclone of 1890.

DANIEL WALL, the youngest of the Wall children was born on November 3, 1823 in Union County, Pennsylvania. He was still a baby when his parents brought him to Ohio. Daniel married Lydia Fry in 1843 in Wadsworth. Lydia died on November 17, 1853 after the birth of three children. Daniel remarried to Sarah whose last name was probably Neff. They had at least six children I've identified from census records. Daniel worked as a peddler and farmer and lived most of his life in Wadsworth. He was still living when the 1900 census was taken.

Daniel and Lydia's known children were:

(1) Catherine Wall, born in 1844. 

(2) Isaac Wall, born in 1846. 

(3) Abigail Wall, born in 1848.

Daniel and Sarah's children were:

(4) Emma Wall, born March 1855, married Henry Geiger.

(5) Alice Wall, born in 1857.

(6) Amanda Wall, born in 1862.

(7) Charles Wall, date of birth unknown.

(8) Carl Wall, date of birth unknown.

Ronald N. Wall

Modified: 10 July 2017