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Harry Stehman Wilt

1872 – 1949

Direct ancestor Wilt & Brown line

See Harry in the family tree

Born
13 Nov 1872
Lambertsville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Died
22 Jan 1949
Washington, Washington, Pennsylvania
Married
13 Apr 1905, Fayette, Pennsylvania
to Mary Ellen Brown

Harry Wilt and Mary Ellen Brown of Fayette County

Harry Stehman Wilt was born in Lambertsville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in 1872, the fourth of five children of Samuel Wilt and Mary Ellen Ackerman. Mary Ellen Brown was born on 25 June 1885 at Adah, in Fayette County, one of six children of Levi Brown and Mary Catherine Freeman.

They married in Fayette County in 1905 and had four children: Raymond, Harold Levi, Mary Kathryn and Gladys. The family lived around Brownsville.

Mary Ellen's grandmother, Rebecca Fisher Brown, is remembered in her 1891 obituary as the woman who ran Brown's Ferry on the Monongahela River for thirty-five to forty years. Her son Levi, Mary Ellen's father, was born in German Township in 1839.

Mary Ellen died on 29 October 1939 in Luzerne Township and was buried at Church Hill. The Uniontown Morning Herald printed her obituary the next day. Harry died on 22 January 1949 at a nursing home in Washington, Pennsylvania, and was buried at Church Hill three days later. His death certificate gives Brownsville as his home. A different Harry S. Wilt, born in York County, was once mixed up with him in online trees; the death certificate and headstone settle which man is ours.

How we know

  • Pennsylvania death certificates, 1939 and 1949
  • Headstone at Church Hill Cemetery
  • Uniontown Morning Herald, 30 October 1939, and Connellsville Daily Courier, 25 January 1949
  • Obituary of Rebecca Brown, Monongahela Valley Republican, 12 March 1891

Timeline

  1. 1872Born in Lambertsville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
  2. 1880Lived in Glencoe, Somerset, Pennsylvania
  3. 1900Lived in Unity, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania
  4. 1910Lived in Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania
  5. 1912Lived
  6. 1920Lived in South Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania
  7. 1923Lived in Uniontown, Pennsylvania
  8. 1930Lived in South Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania
  9. 1933Died in York County, Pa
  10. 1935Lived in Luzerne, Fayette, Pennsylvania
  11. 1939Lived in Uniontown, Pennsylvania
  12. 1940Lived in Luzerne, Fayette, Pennsylvania
  13. 1949Died in Washington, Washington, Pennsylvania
  14. 1949Buried in Brownsville, Pennsylvania