Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: David HARPSTER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 29 Dec 1816 in Miflin Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 29 Oct 1898 in Harpster, Ohio d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • George HARPSTER Death: Abt 1825 in Mifflin Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Catherine THOMAS Birth: 7 Oct 1772 in Pennsylvania Death: 6 May 1854 in Seneca Co, Ohio

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sarah A HARPSTER
  2. Ivy HARPSTER

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Dale, Beverly, Harpster, private email 12/28/1995. Author address: revbev at pobox dot upenn dot edu Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995].
  2. Byrd, Freida, Harpster, Herbster, Herpster, Harbster, in Boucher Family Newsletter, Mar 1987. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Byrd HARPSTER].
  3. Upper Sandusky Commercial Tribune, "David Harpster is Dead", Oct 29 1898. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898].
  4. Upper Sandusky Commercial Tribune, "Jane Maxwell Harpster", Apr 1899. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 4/1899].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995, Byrd HARPSTER],
place:
[Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]
Pennsylvania [Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995],
parents:
[Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995, Byrd HARPSTER]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
28 Dec 1816 [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]
1898 [Ref: Byrd HARPSTER],
place:
[Ref: Byrd HARPSTER, SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]
Sources with Information about marriage to Rachel S HALL
date:
[Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995],
child:
[Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
date:
5 Apr 1847 [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]
Sources with Information about marriage to Jane M MAXWELL
date:
[Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898, SanduskyOH Tribune 4/1899],
names:
[Ref: Beverly Dale 12/28/1995]
Research Notes:
act 1828: moved to Harpster, Ohio [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]

1845: purchased 700 acres of land in a Government sale [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]

1854: settled on a farm and started growing sheep [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]

one of the most extensive wool growers in America; was known as "wool king" [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]

owned over 3100 acres in Pitt Township, Ohio; 1300 acres in Mifflin Twp, 80 acres in Van Wert Co, 600 acres in Nebraska, 2240 acres in Illinois, and land in other states, all improved and under fence [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]

cause of death strangulation, due to dropsy [WTM: fluid retention, often caused by heart failure or kidney disease (www.rootsweb.com/ ~njmorris/disease.htm)] [Ref: SanduskyOH Tribune 10/29/1898]



Pedigree of David HARPSTER
                   /-----George Frederick HERBSTER
          /-----David HARPSTER
         |        |         /-----Martin WEICK
         |         \-----Anna Christina WEICK
         |                  \-----Anna Christina HOSIN
 /-----George HARPSTER
|        |         /-----Jacob HECKER
|         \-----Anna Maria Barbara HECKER
|                  \-----Agnes DOERR
David HARPSTER
|         /-----John THOMAS
 \-----Catherine THOMAS



Descendants of David HARPSTER
1. David HARPSTER m1. Rachel S HALL m2. Jane M MAXWELL
m. Rachel S HALL
m. Jane M MAXWELL father: John MAXWELL mother: Sarah ROBISON