Ahnentafel #70 - Ebenezer Harbert

Ebenezer Harbert

Born: Dec. 25, 1770 in either New Jersey or Pennsylvania
Died: Sept. 16, 1846 in Johnson Co., Indiana

Buried: Glade Cemetery in Johnson Co., Indiana

Married: Mary Magdalene Wallick, March 6, 1792 in Carlisle, PA

Occupation: tailor, farmer

Excerpts from the History of Dearborn County, Indiana:

Ebenezer Harbert and Samuel Purcell were among those who settled in the Ross neighborhood, in the first part of the century, probably about 1812. 

The following record is taken from the biography of Ebenezer Harbert, one of the first settlers of Clay township.  "Ebenezer Harbert came from Pennsylvania to Indiana territory in 1810.  He came down the Ohio on a flatboat.  The party with whom he spent the summer of 1810 at North Bend, Ohio, and in the fall moved to Laughery creek, staying all night the first night at the log cabin of a settler by the name of Falls, living about half mile from the Ohio river.  The settler narrated to them so much of the disadvantages of the country that they proceeded on down the river to the mouth of Grants creek.  Here during the absence  of the men their cabin was besieged by a bear, which confined them to the house until the return of the men folks.  About Christmas time they moved up to Laughery again, going up that creek as far as Guionville, where they commenced a clearing and erected a cabin. When they arrived here there were a few settlers along the creek both above and below but none on the hills.  Samuel Purcell lived farthest up the creek, about two and one-half miles above Guionville.  Ross lived between Purcells and Harberts, John Withers lived opposite Guionville, where Milton now stands.  Still below were James Conway, Mr. Crume and Ben Wilson.  Harbert's nearest neighbor on either side was distant one-half mile.  the whole country was covered with dense forests crossed only by footpaths, and was infested with bears, wolves and other wild animals.  These, together with the hostile Indians rendered the lives and property of the settlers precarious in the extreme, and many were the hair-breadth escapes which never will be recorded.  From time to time, the alarm of Indians would be sounded and the cry of "The Indians are on us, run for your lives," would be accompanied with great excitement and confusion.  In such times each of the members of the family would gather what he could and repair in all haste to the blockhouse.  On one occasion when the Indians made a raid on the settlement, John Harbert gathered up a pot of greens that were cooking, and not having time to reach the blockhouse  hid it in a thicket until the danger was past.  When the family came from their hiding places, they enjoyed their greens even better than that dish is generally enjoyed.  The blockhouse was simply a neighbor's house, where it was understood everybody was to assemble in time of danger.

"A fort was commenced on the farm of John Conaway, but the location being directly under the hill and too much exposed it was abandoned.  Soon after Mr. Harbert settled there a band of Delaware and Potawatomi Indians camped below Guionville.  Among them were several renegade whites, including the notorious Simon Girty.  The Indians would steal everything they could lay their hands on.  They stole three horses from Mr. Harbert.  However, there was much stealing attributed to them that they were innocent of, for some of the settlers were caught in acts of that kind. 

Military - War of 1812?

Census:
1790  not found on census

1793 Pennsylvania - Cumberland Co., Middleton, Ebenezer Harbert, renter

1800 Pennsylvania - Greene Co., probably living with Thomas age 30

1810 not found on census

1820 Indiana - Dearborn Co., age 49, Ebenezer is a widower with nine children.  He is engaged in agriculture.

1830  Indiana - Dearborn Co., age 60 He is living with 2 sons, possibly 2 daughters and a granddaughter.

1840 Indiana - Johnson Co., age 70 living alone and still farming. 

Children:

Catherine
Mary b. 1/13/1796, d. 8/17/1872 md. Richard Smith 1818

• unnamed child, b. 1819, d. 1819
• Sarah b. 1820, d. 1822
• Mary Magdalene b. 1822, d. 4/3/1867 md. Robert Cornforth 4/2/1846 , Children: Richard, John, William, Henry, Mary, Jane, Oliver, Robert, Charles
• John Harbert b. 8/2/1824, d. 12/23/1897 md. Elizabeth Westcott 3/20/1849 Children: Marion, Octavia
• Mary Ann b. 11/2/1825, d. 11/22/1848 md. William Gillespie 8/13/1848, no children
• unnamed child b. 1827, d. 1827
• Henry Harbert b. 7/29/1830, d. AR, md. Mary Knox
• Richard Harbert b. 7/29/1830, d. 6/20/1907 md. Anna Hotchkiss 1/18/1860 Children: Abraham, Mary, Charles, Oliver, Susan, Richard, Anna, George
• Oliver Harbert b. 4/6/1832, d. 11/9/1907 md. Nancy Harbert 5/31/1868 (see below) Children: John, Frank, Oliver, Claudius, Lawrence, Charles
• Maria Louisa b. 2/1836, d. 5/11/1913 md. 1) Robert Cornforth 3/5/1868 (see above) & 2) Addison Butts  ca. 1877 Children: Mary Cornforth, Albert Cornforth, Rachel Cornforth, Mary Butts, Earl Butts

John b. 10/25/1799, d. 5/31/1877 md. 1) Elizabeth Corey ca. 1818, 2) Nancy Clark  9/29/1836 & 3) Martha Matheny 9/8/1868

• Jane b. 7/24/1820, d. 6/19/1873 md. Freeland Anderson 4/27/1837 Children: Rachel, Elizabeth, Lewis, Mary, William
• Parcus b. 1/8/1826, d. 2/9/1865 md. Mary Hulick 7/27/1850 Children: America, Benjamin, Catherine, Michael, John Edward, John Parcus
• Mary b. 3/18/1828, d. 9/8/1856 md. Robert McAlpin 12/2/1846 Children: Mary, Jemima, Josephine, Effie
• Phebe b. 9/26/1830, d. 1/28/1915 md. Oliver Harbert Draper 3/23/1848
• John b. 6/22/1833, d. 6/22/1891 md. Francis Wheelen 12/29/1852 Children: Mary, Elizabeth, John, Henry, Parcus, Phoebe, Mahlon, Oliver, Francis, Rosa, George, Laura
• Sarah b. 1/5/1838, d. 11/12/1841
• William b. 9/26/1839, d. 11/23/1841
• Elizabeth b. 1/13/1842, d. 7/19/1911 md. William Pherson 2/13/1865 Children: Nancy, John, Phebe, unnamed child, Mary, William, unnamed child, Clara, Ruth, Ellen
• Moses b. 9/18/1843, d. 12/17/1919 md. Eleanor Dunlavy 12/13/1866 Children: John, Claudius, Jessie, William, Fred, Thomas, Chester, Harry
• Pinkney b. 11/28/1845, d. 12/29/1911 md. Ida Bisner 6/11/1878 Children: Ira, Grace
• Nancy b. 1847, d. 1924 md. first cousin Oliver Harbert Smith, see above
• Thomas b. 10/30/1849, d. 7/21/1852
• Martha b. 1860

Caleb b. 1801, d. before 1870 md. Sarah Downey 1826

• Ebenezer b. 1827, d. 5/3/1830
• Susana b. 4/19/1831, d. 2/7/1897 md. Robert Fleming 2/29/1848 Children: John, Sarah
• Emaline b. 1834, d. 1863 md. Robert Easton 9/1/1850
• unnamed daughter b. 1835
• Mary Ann b. 4/23/1837, d. 4/22/1900 md. Alexander Conley 4/23/1857 Children: Caleb, John
• Melissa Jane b. 1840, d. before 1910 md. George Busby 8/20/1847 Child: John
• Sophia b. 1849, d. 1/5/1923 md. George Wert 8/28/1868 Child: Sarah

Sarah b. 1803
Samuel b. 4/6/1804, d. 6/3/1876 md. Mary McCabe 10/29/1829

• Malinda b. 1829, d. before 1871
• Melissa b. 1832, d. 1832
• James b. 1834, d. 6/5/1872 md. Magdaline Williams Children: Thomas, William, Pinckney, Minnie
• Sarah b. 1837, d. before 1871
• Thomas Draper b. 4/28/1839, d. 2/11/1926 md. Catharine Batzner 1861 Children: Mary, John, Martha, Timothy, Joseph, Enoch, Rama, Albert
• Benjamin b. 1843 md. Rebecca (--?--) Children: Harriet, Samuel, Mary, Sarah, Abraham, America
• Samuel Caleb b. 4/5/1847, d. 12/23/1929 md. Melissa Flinn 3/23/1871 Children: Minnie, Mary, Lushen, George, Rose, Dora, Alice, James, Fannie, Bethel, Logan
• William b. 1856

Jane b. ca. 1805, d. before 1860 md. Samuel McClain 1829

• unnamed child b. ca. 1830
• Francis b. 5/27/1832, d. 9/28/1922 md. 1) George Welden 7/11/1854 & 2) Preserve Sefton 9/10/1897 Children: John Weldon, Catherine Weldon, Laura Weldon, Clarissa Weldon, William Weldon, Conrad Weldon, Mary Weldon
• Oliver b. 1835, d. 9/28/1884 md. Frances Weldon 10/16/1855 Children: William, Mary, Samuel, Lana
• Conrad b. 6/30/1838, d. 3/19/1925 md. 1) Margaret Combs ca. 1868 & 2) Malinda Maze 5/20/1883 Children: Norman, Dora, Pierson
• Sarah b. 1840
• Martha b. 1842
• Melissa b. 1842
• Mary b. 1843, d. 1880 md. Noah Palmer 1865 Child: Bessie
• Benjamin b. 1847, d. before 1920 md. Mary Farlow 7/30/1869 Children: Omer, Flora, Samuel, Amanda, Jessie, Charles
• Rachel b. 1849
• Merritt b. 1855 md. Mary Niceley 1887 Child; unnamed child

Oliver b. 9/21/1806, d. 9/20/1886 md. Mary Ann Wheelen 2/20/1834

• Elizabeth b. 10/16/1835, d. 11/28/1886
• Ebenezer b. 7/1/1837, d. 12/6/1911 md. Mildred Johnson 1866 Children: Curtis, Clay, Minnie, Ebenezer, William, Samuel, Laura
• Catherine b. 1839, d. 1926 md. Milton Knapp 10/16/1860 Children: Leticia, Mary, John, Elvery, Eliza, Cynthia, Emory, Augustus, Clara
• Harriet b. 1841, d. 1865
• William b. 5/20/1843, d. 1/16/1923 md. Mahala Smith 12/15/1864 Children: Mary, Mitchell, Thomas, Sarah, Katherine, Lulu, John, Daisy
• Malinda b. 1847, d. 1850
• Rachel b. 2/22/1850, d. 10/16/1883 md. George Harbert 1881, see below, no children
• Samuel b. 1850, d. 1920
• Jane b. 12/18/1851, d. 12/13/1855
• Oliver b. 3/21/1854, d. 12/30/1922 md. Mary Head 3/21/1877 Children: Everett, Orin, Harry, Bertha, Dora, Carl
• Marine b. 1860, d. 1/9/1934 md. 1) Adaline Williams 2/9/1879 & 2) Viola Maxwell 3/1/1921 Children: Ada, Harriet, Beatrice, Charity, unnamed daughter, Pleiades, unnamed daughter, Elsie, Florida, John

Richard b. ca. 1811, d. before 1868 md. Mary Moore

• James b. 1835, d. 6/2/1860
• Rachel b. 1836
• Mary b. 1838, d. 1862 md. Jacob Moore 3/8/1857 Children: William, Scipio
• Jacob b. 1842
• Daniel b. 1844, d. 2/27/1864
• Thomas b. 1848, d. 1860
• Mariah b. 1851, d. 7/15/1920
• George b. 1854, d. 1912 md. 1) Rachel Harbert 1881 see above & 2) Mary Land  7/4/1887 Children: Ira, Joseph,Ralph, Alta, John, Dorothy, Theodore, Charles, Royal, unnamed child, Royal, Goldie, Clancy

Rachel b. 4/11/1815 md. George Moody 2/14/1833

• Mariah b. 1835
• Elmira b. 1838
• Charles b. 1842 md. Martha Park 6/6/1886
• Rebilo b. 1846
• William b. 1847 md. Ruth Beard 10/9/1869 Children: Lindley, Fannie, Luetta, Orman
• Smith b. 1849, d. before 1860
• George b. 1853, d. 12/29/1919 md. (--?--) Child: Clara
• Benjamin b. 1858

Mariah  b. 10/5/1817, d. 6/10/1891 md. Samuel Billingsley

• Mary b. 11/14/1836, d. 10/1/1895 md. 1) Isaac Hendrickson 11/4/1858 & 2) Preserve Sefton 6/18/1866 Children: Clara Hendrickson, Samuel Hendrickson, Robert Sefton, George Sefton, John Sefton, Edwin Sefton
• Henry b. 7/5/1839, d. 1/5/1911 md. Martha McClain 12/2/1861 Children: Robert, Susan, Mary, Alta, Lula, Amanda, Bessie
• Robert b. 11/4/1841, d. 2/4/1916 md. 1) Delilah Caplinger 1/11/1871 & 2) Mary Brenninger 3/13/1879 Children: Maria, Jane, Edgar, Carrie, Samuel, Amy, Ada, Minnie, Bessie, Robert, Nora
• Oliver b. 1843, d. 1851
• Louisa b. 12/11/1845, d. 5/15/1925 md. James Caplinger 3/6/1867 Children: Amanda, Samuel, Santford, George, Laura, Dudley, James, Douglas, Carmon,
• Anna b. 1848, d. 6/24/1920 md. George McClain 1/10/1866 Children: Edmond, John, Money, Moses, Samuel, Estella, Henry, Mary
• William b. 1850, d. before 1860
• John b. 1853, d. 10/3/1875
• Sarah b. 1855, d. 1930 md. 1) Thomas Caplinger 7/4/1878, 2) John Slater 4/2/1884 & 3)Willard LaFary 9/14/1890 Children: Maranda Caplinger, Albert LaFary
• Samuel b. 1014/1861, d. 4/8/1939 md. Effie Langston 9/24/1889 Children: Bynum, Mabel, Ruby, Mary