
Person Info
David D Babb: Birth: 25 JUN 1837 in Stony Creek MIlls, Alsace.
Sarah Babb: Birth: 6 MAR 1839 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania.
Emoretta (Emma) Babb: Birth: 9 MAY 1840 in prob Stony Creek MIlls, Alsace, Berks, Pennsylvania.
Mary Babb: Birth: 17 JAN 1842. Death: 11 JAN 1915 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Babb: Birth: 24 MAR 1843. Death: 21 FEB 1907 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Johannes Babb: Birth: 17 OCT 1844 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania. Death: in killed at Bull Run II
Sophia A Babb: Birth: 8 FEB 1846 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania. Death: YOUNG
Rose Ellen Babb: Birth: 13 NOV 1847. Death: 22 MAY 1922 in Cody, Cherry, Nebraska
Daniel Babb: Birth: 16 FEB 1851 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania.
George Babb: Birth: 15 DEC 1852 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania.
Lydia Carolina Babb: Birth: 7 MAR 1856 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania. Death: 28 MAY 1947 in Ohama, Nebraska
Minerva Rebecca Babb: Birth: 8 SEP 1858 in prob Stony Creek Mills, Berks, Pennsylvania.
Ida Babb: Birth: 25 SEP 1860. Death: 2 DEC 1932 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania
Margaret Babb: Death: 29 DEC 1935 in Berks County, Pennsylvania
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Note: r three of them may not be hers. There is substantial overlap but two or three of them aren't the same 12 listed by Findagrave which appears well researched or atleast well informed. The article below says there were 14, however. My list contains 15, and the article says that 14 are still living suggesting there may have been more. Contributed by: [email protected] ********************************************************************* Mary De Hart Babb was the daughter of John De Hart, Jr. (1769-1874). The following is from an article published in the Reading [PA] "Eagle," shortly before her death in 1903. I think it gives a wonderful picture of how women of her generation lived. MODEL HOUSEWIFE One of the Good, Old-Fashioned Mothers, Whom Everybody Delights to Honor, is Mrs. John Babb of Stony Creek. Berks County has many model mothers and housewives—the old-fashioned kind of wives who do honor to the name of wife. Such an one is Mrs. John Babb, who lives at Stony Creek Mills, just east of Reading. She is the widow of the founder of Babb's hotel, the well-known inn at that place. Mrs. Babb is the mother of 16 children, is 87 years old and still attends to all her household work, even to the washing. She is a daughter of John DeHart, who died in Alsace years ago, aged almost 100 years. The DeHart family is noted for its longevity. Of Mrs. Babb's children, 14 are living. John Babb, the husband, who died about 6 years ago, was physically an almost perfect man, his stature being as erect as... All this may account for the good health of the offspring. Mrs. Babb was 21 years old when she married and her youngest child is now 20, which shows that she became the mother of 16 children within a period of 36 years. The eldest of the children is David, who now conducts a smithy at Stony Creek Mills, and has 5 children. Then comes Sarah, Mrs. Jacob Bower, of Amity, who has 4 children. William was born next and he died at the age of 8 months. Emma, Mrs. Henry Christian, of Alsace, whose husband died 8 years ago, has 1 child. Rosa, Mrs. Daniel Reider, of Hooper, Nebraska, is the only one of the family who is married and has no children. Lydia, Mrs. Frederick Heine, of Hooper, Nebraska, has 9 children. Elizabeth, Mrs. Dallas Leinbach, of Reading has 4; Mary, Mrs. Richard Long, of Reading, 3; Minerva, Mrs. John Fisher, Stony Creek Mills, 2; Ida, Mrs. Lewis Kern, Stony Creek Mills, 6; Margaret, Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Keller, Stony Creek Mills, 3; George, of Stony Creek Mills, 6; Daniel of Gibraltar, 5. John died in the late war, being severely wounded at Bull Run. His body was never recovered. Miss Savilla is the only one of the children who is single. She lives in Reading. James, the youngest, lives at Stony Creek Mills and has 1 child. These surviving children are all in good health. Mrs. Babb was busy washing when the Eagle representative called to take her picture. She did the work without apparent fatigue and said she also did all the ironing. She lives in a neat brick house, a short distance from the old hotel stand, which "Johnny" Babb made famous. He built the residence before his death. It is about 20 years that they retired from the hotel business. Mrs. Babb is healthy with the exception of an occasional spell of rheumatism. Her hearing and sight are well-preserved. She generally goes to bed at about 9 p.m. and very seldom gets up before 7 in the morning. Her sleep is never so sound in the early part of the night as it is towards morning. She raised all her children without the aid of a nurse and rarely had hired help when they lived at the hotel. She attended to all the cooking herself and had the reputation of being able to make a first-class meal in an unusually short time. John Babb was raised in the vicinity of Snyder's hotel, Alsace, and was a blacksmith by trade. He built Babb's hotel about 40 years ago. The travelling public was very anxious that a hotel should be built there since a great many teams passed that road in those days, and there was quite a demand for a watering place. The business conducted by Mr. Babb was a very orderly one, and the hotel soon became noted as one at which a first-class meal and excellent accommodations be had. The hotel has been considerably enlarged since then. For quite a number of years Mr. Babb conducted the blacksmith shop across the way, along with the hotel. Mrs. Babb said to the Eagle: "I liked the hotel business very well, but could never bear to see anything disorderly about the place, and we never tolerated anything of the sort. When we first started in business here Stony Creek Mills was about one-fifth as much of a place as now. There were only 3 or 4 houses here. The woolen mills were not yet erected and a paper mill stood on that spot." "Mrs. Babb is a member of the Spies church, being confirmed by Rev. Wagner of Reading. She attended the church regularly until several years ago, when the distance became a hindrance." Stony Creek Mills was established in 1864 and got a post office in 1879. In 1912, it consisted of 50 single houses and 15 double houses. Population was "not far from" 500. Spies's Church ministers included Frederick Herman (Reformed) and Henry A. Muhlenberg (Lutheran); later, T. T. Yaeger (Lutheran) and A. S. Leinbach (Reformed). Note: There seems to be a little confusion about who where her children. Two o |
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