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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 Remley 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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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.
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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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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.
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1860 Agricultural census: OH, Harrison Co., New Rumley twp., pgs. 33-34, line 3 (crops for 1859); John Manbeck; 100 acres improved; 27 unimproved; cash value of farm $4000; value of farming implements and machinery $75; 4 horses; 6 milch cows; 14 other cattle, 77 sheep; 6 swine; value of live stock; $300; 4 bushels of wheat; 19 bushels of 4ye; 75 bushels of Indian corn; 80 lbs. of wool; 31 bushels of Irish potatoes; 42 bushels of buckwheat; 800 lbs. of butter made; 12 tons of hay.
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1870 Agricultural census: OH, Harrison Co., New Rumley twp., pgs. 3-4, line 39 (crops for 1859);: Jno Manbeck Sr: 110 acres improved; 17 acres unimproved; value of farm $7500, value of farming implements and machinery $200; wages paid $100; 3 horses; 3 milch cows; 7 other cattle; 31 sheep; 8 swine; value of livestock $900; 110 bushels of wheat; 80 bushels of rye; 100 bushels of Indian corn; 85 bushels of oats; 120 lbs. of wool; 15 bushels of Irish potatoes; $25 of orchard products; 450 lbs. butter; 40 tons of hay; 10 lbs. honey; value of animals slaughtered $300; total value of farm products $1200.
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www.familysearch.org -- OH, County Marriages, 1789-2013, pg. 453: John Manbeck and Phebe Peck married Jun 20th, 1847 Harrison Co., OH, by Rev. Abraham Lemaster in the U.B.C., records Sept. 18, 1847.
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