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Note: www.findagrave.com Memorial # 100998989 Tombstone not found, in the old section of this cemetery, many stones are too weathered to read.
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www.familysearch.org -- Harrison Co., OH Marriages, 1789-2013, pg. 522: License for John Manbeck, Jr. to Lettice A. McAfee issued Aug. 3, 1862. Mr. John Manbeck Jr. and Miss Letticia A. McAfee were married Aug 7, 1862 by Rev. Isaac G. Saddler. Filed Aug. 12, 1862.
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www.familysearch.org -- Harrison Co., OH Birth Records, pgs. 104-105: for Tacy S. Manbeck b. Feb. 13, 1873; mother: Lettice Amanda McAfee, father: John Manbeck, Jr.
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www.familysearch.org; Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001; Harrison Co., OH, pgs. 140-141: Entry Date: May 28, 1886; #148; Name: John Manbeck; Death: March 23, 1886; Age: 56 yrs. 5 mos. 4 days; Death Place: Rumley, Harrison Co., OH; Birth Place: Harrison (Co.); Occupation: Farmer; Residence: Rumley; Cause of Death: Lung Dis;
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From David Shiltz: John Manbeck, though illiterate at least in English, was made administrator ot his father's estate, a fact that suggests he was the oldest son living at the time of his father's death. John's Bible that was handed down to later generations was printed in German, according to A. B. Manbeck's oral history of the family.
When John was about 16, the Manbeck family, probably with the Shambaugh family and perhaps others, migrated to Ohio.
In Toboyne Township, Perry County, PA, from where the Manbecks had come to Ohio, lived John Gutshall and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth was the daughter of Ludwig and Elizabeth (Braun) Wirt. They had seven children. In 1822 John Gutshall died and Elizabeth & her children made their way to Ohio to her mother's home. John Manbeck, over six years younger than Elizabeth, married her in Harrison County, Ohio, on 14 October 1824, Rev. John Crom, the United Brethren minister at New Rumley and Conotton, officiating.
Although no documentary proof has yet come to light, it seems virtually certain that John Manbeck and Elizabeth, his wife, were first cousins. Elizabeth's mother, also named Elizabeth, and John's mother Eve seem to both be a daughter of Michael Braun. The Brauns and the Manbecks had lived in Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. A Michael Braun had witnessed the will of Jacob Manbeck's father there. An inference is that John Manbeck and Elizabeth (Braun) Wirt had the same grandfather--Michael Braun. Perhaps it was a concern and care arising from the family connection that moved young John Manbeck to marry Elizabeth and assume responsibility at the age of twenty-three and one-half for her family of seven children.
John Gutshall, deceased first husband of John Manbeck's wife, had at least two brothers, Joseph and Jonas. Jonas also settled in the New Rumley area. He had 9 children and, of course, many descendants in later generations. Some spelled the name Gotshall.
Both may be buried at the New Rumley U. B. Cemetery. When I read the stones in that cemetery in about 1978, I did it on a windy day and during intermittent showers. I used an audio tape recorder and read the names and dates on the stones. The wind at times made it difficult to interpret what I had read. In Row 2, I noted Jacob Markley and children. I identified the next stone as Sarah J. wife of John Manbeck, Jr. but I put a questions mark after that, and indicated she died either in 1864 or 1861. Next I listed Lettice, wife of John Manbeck, Jr., and I had a question mark after that. I had her age as 32 but I was very uncertain about that. On the next stone I could not read the name all, but I listed the death as 1896 at age 74, and I wondered if this were John Manbeck, Jr.
The 1996 reading of the cemetery by the Harrison County Genealogical Society lists after the Jacob Markley children Sara J. Markley and has no dates. They read the next stone as Hetta A. Shambaugh, again no dates but "wife of M. Shambaugh." Hetta, however, is also listed beside Michael in row 14. Next is recorded John Markley, d 21 Feb 1896, age 74 y 11 m 14 d, followed by Mar_ A. Markley, d 13 Dec. 1893, age 66 y 2 m 4 d. Those latter two are marked with an asterisk, indicating that the listing in Hanna's Historical Collections was used, and Hanna, we know, listed the graves in alphabetical order. Because I had read Lettice on a stone, I suggest that they are, infact, the graves of John Manbeck, Jr., and his two wives, Sarah J. and Lettice.
Lettice was brought up in the home of her McAfee grandparents in the house in New Rumley where George Armstrong Custer had been born. After the death of the McAfee grandparents, Lettice and husband John Manbeck, Jr., lived in that Custer birth place. John Manbeck, Jr. had two children in his first marriage and four in the second. Living with Sarah Jane and John in 1860 was 11 year old John Swales, an orphaned son of Sarah Jane's Aunt Mary Ann (Heidy-Faulkner-Sherman) Swales.
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From David Shiltz:
On July 10, 1965, Alfred B. Manbeck dictated a brief history of the Manbeck family to one of his daughters:
"I, Alfred B. Manbeck, am relating my family remembrances to Hazel F. Manbeck, who is recording it for me."
"My grandfather, John Manbeck, was born March 13, 1801. He was one of four brothers who possibly came from Pennsylvania in their younger days. They were: oldest, Peter Manbeck, born 1797, died 1893. John was next and died in 1876. The third was William Manbeck and George. They were all land
owners in the vicinity of New Rumley."
[Alfred's memory was faulty or his information inaccurate, because there were more brothers--and sisters--and Peter was not the oldest. He was born in 1803. John was older, but the oldest was Jacob. The family in New Rumley did not remember that some of the Manbecks went to Indiana, Jacob being one of them. From census data Jacob's existence can be inferred, but it was not until very recent years that one of our Manbeck cousins informed me about the tombstone for a Jacob Manbeck and Indiana and asked me who he was. She did not realize she had found the long lost Manbeck.]
"John's first wife was Elizabeth Wirt who was a widow, born November 9, 1794. John Manbeck and Elizabeth Wirt Gutshall were married October 14, 1824. She brought seven children to this marriage:
George Gutshall, born December 24, 1811; Michael Gutshall, born August 8, 1813; Jacob Gutshall, born May 27, 1815; Susannah Gutshall, born November 12, 1816; Catherine Gutshall, born July 31, 1818;
Gideon Gutshall, born March 21, 1820; Elizabeth Gutshall, born December 13, 1821."
Then born to this union were: Dinah Manbeck, born February 2, 1826; Mary Manbeck, born October 8,1827; John Manbeck, born November 18, 1829; Samuel Manbeck, born September 5, 1832; Hannah Manbeck, born July 28, 1835; Jonathan Manbeck, born May 31, 1837; James Manbeck, born February 9, 1839; Joseph Manbeck, born September 22, 1841.
"Joseph is A. B. Manbeck's father. This wife Elizabeth departed this life June 28, 1844, and was the first person buried in the New Rumley Cemetery. James Manbeck was in the Civil War as a Union soldier. John Manbeck lived in the Custer home in New Rumley and died there. One son, Jacob Gutshall, went to Iowa about 1843 with his wife and three children."
"John Manbeck married the second time, one Phebe Beck, June 20, 1847. They had one child, William, born August 21, 1848." [That constitutes the best evidence that David Manbeck was not the son of John.]
"I, Alfred Manbeck, have in my possession the Bible owned by my grandfather John, which is written in the German language." Thus the dates that Alfred gave in this history must have come from that Bible.
====== David Shiltz: According to Alfred B. Manbeck's family history (above) as dictated to his daughter on 10 July 1965 when he was 89, John was born 13 March 1801. Alfred knew that John was the second child in the family, but he assumed that Peter was older. The 1810 census of Cumberland County, PA, indicates that one son was born between 1794 and 1800. That child, however, was not Peter. It was Jacob, who died in 1836 in Indiana, and who was forgotten by later generations of Manbecks in Harrison County, Ohio.
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Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, 977.1 H6292 v. 1, pg. 898. In the chapter on Harrison County, includes Henry Howe's account of being in New Rumley, I think in about 1886. (Note: John Manbeck's house was the birthplace of Gen. George Custer.) "Custer's birthplace in the early part of this century, 1820, was a log tavern, kept by one Andrew Thompson. It was clapboarded fifty years ago. It is brown, going to decay, some clapboards off, and others hanging by a single nail. Locust trees stand before it; their fragile leaves tremble in the softest zephyrs. I borrowed a backless chair and drew the pretty scene shown, with the conical spire of the "You Bees" in the distance. [The book includes the sketch.]
"Having made the sketch, I went to the house. Some women were sitting in the front groom, sewing and chatting, passing away their lives in simplicity and comfort apparently, with little possessions and little cares. They were simply clad. There was no bric-a-brac about to dust, no card basket for calling visitors. No splendid equipage with liveried footman and gaily attired vistorys had ever called to inspire jealousy and create heartaches up to that door, but the air was pure, and on June days it oft
came in laden with the fragrance of new-mown hay."
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History of Carroll & Harrison Counties, Ohio -- Eckley & Perry. pg. 627 -- John Manbeck was born in PA and became one of the pioneer representatives of farm industry in Rumley twp., Harrison Co, where he stood exponent of loyal and liberal citizenship until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. His first wife died when a comparatively young woman. They became the parents of seven children. After the death of his first wife, John contracted a second marriage and of this union was born one son, William.
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1850 Agricultural census: OH, Harrison Co., New Rumley twp., pg. 379-380, line 30; (crops listed for 1849) John Manbeck; 80 acres unproved; 41 acres unimproved; cash value of farm $2000; value of implements and machinery $100; 6 horses; 7 milch cows; 15 other cattle; 72 sheep; 23 swine; value of live stock $504; 50 bushels of Rye; 100 bushels of Indian corn; 100 bushels of oats; 220 lbs. of wool; 15 bushels of Irish potatoes; 111 bushels of buckwheat; 200 lbs. for butter; 30 tons of hay; 50 lbs. of Maple sugar; 2 gallons of molasses; 100 lbs. of bees` wax and honey; Value of home-made manufactures $20; value of animals slaughtered $85.
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1860 Agricultural census: OH, Harrison Co., New Rumley twp., pgs 31-32, line 4; John Manbeck Jr; 55 acres improved; 55 unimproved; cash value of farm $2500; value of farming implements and machinery $50; 4 horses; 3 milch cows; 2 other cattle; 37 sheep; 4 swine; value of live stock $400; 3? bushels of wheat; 7 bushels of rye; 50 bushels of Indian corn; 125 bushels of oats; 30 lbs. of wool; 7 bushels of peas and beans; 40 bushels of Irish potatoes; 30 bushels of buckwheat; 400 lbs. of butter; 5 tons of hay; 1 bushel of clover seed; value of animals slaughter $30?
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1870 Agricultural census: OH, Harrison Co., New Rumley twp., pgs. 3-4, line 40 (crops for 1859): Jno Manbeck Jr; 60 acres improved; 149 acres unimproved; value of farm $1300, value of farming implements and machinery $100; wages paid $100; 4 horses; 3 milch cows; 4 other cattle; 70 sheep; 18 swine; value of livestock $800; 40 bushels of wheat; 30 bushels of rye; 300 bushels of Indian corn; 300 bushels of oats; 200 lbs. of wool; 30 bushels of Irish potatoes; $30 of orchard products; 250 lbs. butter; 12 tons of hay; 32 gallons molasses; value of animals slaughtered $200; total value of farm products $900.
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