WALD/WALT, Henry>Solomon, Northumberland Co,PA
I am researching the following WALT ancestry.I would like to have any marriage or issue info that other WALT researchers may have obtained on Henry Walt, boatbuilder of Liverpool, Perry Co. PA referenced below.Henry's birth 1817, death 1853 in Liverpool. the following excerpt from Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.. Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co., 1911:
Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy, Pages 540 thru 562
"WALT.The Walt or Wald family is well known along the Susquehanna in the southwestern portion of Northumberland county, several of its members residing at Herndon and Dalmatia. Solomon Z. Walt, a thrifty business man and farmer of Lower Mahanoy township, William A. Walt, a resident of Herndon, who has been track foreman of the Herndon branch of the Philadelphia & Reading road for a number of years, and Joshua Wald, who is now living retired at Dalmatia, are all of the same stock, descendants of Solomon Walt or Wald.
Solomon Walt (or Wald) was a native of Montgomery county, Pa.,where he owned a fine farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits.Late in life, in about 1839, he removed to this section with his family, settling at Uniontown, which is across the river in Dauphin county.There he died, at a ripe old age, and there he is buried. He led a retired life after coming to Uniontown (also called Pillow), and for some years before his death was blind. He was a man of medium size.His wife, Catharine (Underkoffler), also lived to an advanced age, and we have the following record of their family: Willoughby and David, both of whom lived at Dalmatia, are more fully mentioned below (David Walt was a carpenter in the boat yards at Mahantango, Liverpool and Northumberland, and for thirteen years he and Augustus Arnold rented a boat yard and repaired boats); Henry, who was a boat-builder and carpenter, lived at Liverpool, Perry Co., Pa., where he died when comparatively a young man and where he is buried (his wife, Rebecca Borrell, bore him three children, Jonathan, Jane, who is married and lives at Saint George's Lock, Del., and Rebecca, who died young); Catharine (Kate) married Abraham Ziegler, of Herndon; Susanna died unmarried; Caroline lives in Montgomery county: Sallie married Adam Gottshall and they lived at Pillow, Dauphin county; Betzy married Abraham Herman; Lovina married Henry Frey (after a short residence in Northumberland county they returned to Montgomery county)."
Thanks,
V.K. Jones