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Two Families, Twice Joined

The Shultz Cemetery marker, Lincoln Township
The Shultz Cemetery marker, Lincoln TownshipShared by Myer Souders

Did you know? The marker for a small family cemetery in Lincoln Township tells of two families who married into each other twice.

Myer Souders sent us this photograph of the Shultz Cemetery marker. It names John Shultz, 1791 to 1851, and his wife Mary (Beaver) Shultz; Henry Shultz, 1762 to 1830, and Salome, his wife, mother of John; and Anthony Beaver, 1761 to 1839, and Susanna (Clapper) Beaver, his wife, mother of Mary. It also names Lawrence Shultz of Indiana, a descendant.

An 1897 biography of Anthony J. Beaver, a grandson of both Henry Shultz and Anthony Beaver, fills in more. Anthony Beaver was born at South Mountain in Franklin County, a cooper and farmer who moved to Blair County and then to Hopewell Township. His son Samuel married Hannah, daughter of Henry Shultz, a farmer of Hopewell, now Lincoln Township, where Henry settled in 1797. Lincoln Township itself was not erected until 1866.

Myer tells us Henry and Anthony are his distant great grandfathers, and John too, five or six times over.

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-09 against the sources listed: every factual sentence was tied to a verbatim passage and a script confirmed each passage is in its source. Information shared with us by readers is given as theirs, not as fact: Myer Souders.

Sources

  1. Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (1897), sketch of Anthony J. Beaver
  2. Africa 1883, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Lincoln Township
  3. The Historical Marker Database, Shultz Cemetery (marker 163189)

Checked 2026-10-09 · County histories and primary sources, read in full

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