Family Group Sheet
NameSebastian Heeter, 5G Grandfather
Birth31 Jan 1760, Frederick Co., Maryland
Christen23 Feb 1760, Frederick Co., Maryland
Death5 Jun 1846, Montgomery Co., Ohio
Burial7 Jun 1846, Providence Cem., Perry twp, Montgomery Co., Ohio
FatherGeorge Heeter (~1725->1800)
MotherBarbara [Heeter] (~1730-<1772)
Other spousesElizabeth Rarick, 5G Grandmother
Marriageabt 1786, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania
SpouseElizabeth Dilts
Birthabt 1767
DeathApr 1795, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania
FatherJohn Dilts
MotherMargaret [Dilts]
Children
1 MJohn Heeter, Half 5G Uncle
Birth22 Sep 1787, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania
Death13 Jan 1864, Jackson twp, Montgomery Co., Ohio
SpouseRuth Bryan
2 FBarbara Heeter, Half 5G Aunt
Birth14 Jan 1789, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania
Death27 Feb 1860, Elkhart Co., Indiana
SpouseJohn Rarick, 6G Uncle
3 FMargaret Heeter, Half 5G Aunt
BirthAug 1790/1791, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania
DeathAug 1823, Montgomery Co., Ohio
SpouseJoshua Hoover
4 MGeorge Heeter, Half 5G Uncle
Birth7 Apr 1795, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania
Death23 Oct 1854, Montgomery Co., Ohio
SpouseElizabeth Heck
Notes for Sebastian Heeter
Most of my information on Sebastian Heeter and his 15 children and 133 grandchildren is from The Heeter Family Letters, edited by Lester H. Binnie, Rt. 4, Albion, Indiana, 1978. I have not entered that book as a source on most of these individuals, to avoid repetition. See also pp. 84-86 of Vol. 4, Miami Valley Genealogies, by Lindsay Brien.
His stone in the New Providence Lutheran Cemetery in Perry twp, Montgomery Co., OH, reads: "Sebastian Heeter, died June 5, 1846, age 86 yrs 4 mo 5 days." It was marked by the DAR in 1935.
The appendix to The Heeter Family Letters gives Sebastian Heeter's date of birth as 1 Feb 1760, citing the stone above. In correspondence, Keith C. Rarick, Rt. 5, Box 85, Nashville, IN 47448, has it as 31 Jan 1760. (This is the date I would infer from the stone, so I am using it instead.) The LDS Ancestral File (submission AF91-002448, from Mrs. Brent Ossman, 15256 Hyacinth Place, Dumfries, VA 22026) gives his birthdate as 23 Feb 1760. The Ancestral File record does not include a death date, so perhaps Mrs. Ossman's 23 Feb 1760 date is based on a christening record. And finally, the Wabash County History, in an article by Mary Louise Heeter Leckrone, says that Sebastian was born Jan 6, 1760.
According to Keith C. Rarick, Sebastian was about 3 years old when his parents moved from Frederick Co., MD, to Bedford Co., PA, and settled in the area that is now Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania.
Sebastian served as a Private in the Revolutionary War, and is listed in the DAR Patriot Index. He was issued a land grant for 200 acres on 11 Sep 1786, in what is now Hopewell twp, Huntingdon Co. His first wife, Elizabeth Dilts, died after the birth of their son George. About 4 months later Sebastian remarried. On 14 Apr 1814, he sold the farm in Huntingdon Co. and went down the Ohio R. to Cincinnati. He traded 4 horses and a wagon for 60 acres west of Dayton.
The will of Sebastian Heeter, dated June 1, 1837, and recorded in Montgomery Co., Will Bk D, p. 315, on Aug 25, 1846, names wife Elizabeth; "all my children (in all fifteen)", naming specifically John, Barbara, heirs of Margaret; George, Henry, Frederick, Abraham, Catharine, David, Daniel, Mary, Jacob, and Sally. The two youngest children, Samuel and Sebastian Jr., are not named, perhaps because at the time of writing they were under 21. The sons George and Jacob are the executors.
His stone in the New Providence Lutheran Cemetery in Perry twp, Montgomery Co., OH, reads: "Sebastian Heeter, died June 5, 1846, age 86 yrs 4 mo 5 days." It was marked by the DAR in 1935.
The appendix to The Heeter Family Letters gives Sebastian Heeter's date of birth as 1 Feb 1760, citing the stone above. In correspondence, Keith C. Rarick, Rt. 5, Box 85, Nashville, IN 47448, has it as 31 Jan 1760. (This is the date I would infer from the stone, so I am using it instead.) The LDS Ancestral File (submission AF91-002448, from Mrs. Brent Ossman, 15256 Hyacinth Place, Dumfries, VA 22026) gives his birthdate as 23 Feb 1760. The Ancestral File record does not include a death date, so perhaps Mrs. Ossman's 23 Feb 1760 date is based on a christening record. And finally, the Wabash County History, in an article by Mary Louise Heeter Leckrone, says that Sebastian was born Jan 6, 1760.
According to Keith C. Rarick, Sebastian was about 3 years old when his parents moved from Frederick Co., MD, to Bedford Co., PA, and settled in the area that is now Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania.
Sebastian served as a Private in the Revolutionary War, and is listed in the DAR Patriot Index. He was issued a land grant for 200 acres on 11 Sep 1786, in what is now Hopewell twp, Huntingdon Co. His first wife, Elizabeth Dilts, died after the birth of their son George. About 4 months later Sebastian remarried. On 14 Apr 1814, he sold the farm in Huntingdon Co. and went down the Ohio R. to Cincinnati. He traded 4 horses and a wagon for 60 acres west of Dayton.
The will of Sebastian Heeter, dated June 1, 1837, and recorded in Montgomery Co., Will Bk D, p. 315, on Aug 25, 1846, names wife Elizabeth; "all my children (in all fifteen)", naming specifically John, Barbara, heirs of Margaret; George, Henry, Frederick, Abraham, Catharine, David, Daniel, Mary, Jacob, and Sally. The two youngest children, Samuel and Sebastian Jr., are not named, perhaps because at the time of writing they were under 21. The sons George and Jacob are the executors.
Notes for Elizabeth Dilts
According to The Heeter Family Letters, she died of complications from childbirth following the birth of her fourth child, George Heeter. (The need to have a mother for his four young children probably accounts for Sebastian remarrying only four months after her death.)
