Age 41.
Born Ulrich Himmelberger, the youngest son and third youngest of nine children born to immigrant parents Valentin and Maria Elisabeth Himmelberger.
Records of Bern Reformed Church in Berks County, Pennsylvania show April 12, 1752 to be the date of Ulrich's baptism, not his birth.
In 1776 he married Elizabeth Tesch in Pennsylvania where George, the first of his eight children was born in 1778. Before the next child, Elizabeth was born in 1781, he migrated to what is now Nelson County Kentucky, but was part of Virginia then.
As Ulrich Himmelberger he acquired 250 acres of land in a partership with three other men -- 1,000 acres split four ways with Jacob Kauffman, Christopher Kauffman, and John Weeble. See "Old Processioners Report Book," Nelson County, Kentucky, warrant entry #557. His wife and son would join him soon after.
They will have seven more children while living in Nelson County, Kentucky. Oliver never saw his youngest child as he died in November 1793 before her birth in May 1794. His eldest child was only 15 when Oliver died. The younger children that survived him were ages 12, 10, 8, 6, 2, and an 8-month old baby.
Oliver and Elizabeth had three boys and five girls, all survived childhood, as follows:
George Heavenhill 1778 – 1838
Elizabeth Heavenhill 1781 – 1878
William B Heavenhill 1783 – 1870
Mary "Polly" Heavenhill 1785 – 1864
Margaret "Peggy" Heavenhill 1787 – 1864
Valentine Heavenhill 1791 – 1805
Sarah Heavenhill 1793 – 1832
Susan Susanna Heavenhill 1794 – 1883
[Valentine and Sarah are missing from the linked list below.]
We're not sure exactly when he changed his name but it was before his 1782 service in the Revolutionary War.
"Oliver Haverhill[sic]" Military (DAR)
DAR Nat'l #: 831797 & Nat'l #: 725184
Ancestor #: A053278 shows birth date 1745[sic]
Oliver also survived one of the bloodiest battles in the Indian Wars in December 1791. Known as the St. Clair Expedition, also as St. Clair's Defeat, against a confederation of American Indians, Miami and Shawnee. Poorly planned and unprepared, the casualty rate was the highest percentage ever suffered by a United States Army unit. Approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army had been wiped out. Only 24 of the 920 officers and men engaged came out of it unscathed. Indian casualties were about 61, with at least 21 killed. The number of U.S. soldiers killed during this engagement was more than three times the number the Sioux would kill 85 years later at Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Oliver will live two more years. Sep. 25, 1793 was the last known date that he was alive. Nov. 12, 1793 was the date his widow Elizabeth filed bond naming herself as executor of his estate. He died some time between Sept. 25, 1793 and Nov. 12, 1793.
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I believe him to be buried in this Heavenhill Cemetery, Nelson Co., Kentucky. Before I placed him here, there were only nine other F.a.G. interments here. Among them were Oliver's 3rd child William, the distiller, and Wm's wife Susan O'Neal. But they are not the earliest burials here. It makes no sense that the cemetery would be named for William. It does make sense that Oliver was buried here first. Why else would it be named Heavenhill Cemetery?
[Update: I did not take into account that "Heavenhill" is also a place name, not just the family surname. He is probably buried somewhere else, location unknown.]
Born Ulrich Himmelberger, the youngest son and third youngest of nine children born to immigrant parents Valentin and Maria Elisabeth Himmelberger.
Records of Bern Reformed Church in Berks County, Pennsylvania show April 12, 1752 to be the date of Ulrich's baptism, not his birth.
In 1776 he married Elizabeth Tesch in Pennsylvania where George, the first of his eight children was born in 1778. Before the next child, Elizabeth was born in 1781, he migrated to what is now Nelson County Kentucky, but was part of Virginia then.
As Ulrich Himmelberger he acquired 250 acres of land in a partership with three other men -- 1,000 acres split four ways with Jacob Kauffman, Christopher Kauffman, and John Weeble. See "Old Processioners Report Book," Nelson County, Kentucky, warrant entry #557. His wife and son would join him soon after.
They will have seven more children while living in Nelson County, Kentucky. Oliver never saw his youngest child as he died in November 1793 before her birth in May 1794. His eldest child was only 15 when Oliver died. The younger children that survived him were ages 12, 10, 8, 6, 2, and an 8-month old baby.
Oliver and Elizabeth had three boys and five girls, all survived childhood, as follows:
George Heavenhill 1778 – 1838
Elizabeth Heavenhill 1781 – 1878
William B Heavenhill 1783 – 1870
Mary "Polly" Heavenhill 1785 – 1864
Margaret "Peggy" Heavenhill 1787 – 1864
Valentine Heavenhill 1791 – 1805
Sarah Heavenhill 1793 – 1832
Susan Susanna Heavenhill 1794 – 1883
[Valentine and Sarah are missing from the linked list below.]
We're not sure exactly when he changed his name but it was before his 1782 service in the Revolutionary War.
"Oliver Haverhill[sic]" Military (DAR)
DAR Nat'l #: 831797 & Nat'l #: 725184
Ancestor #: A053278 shows birth date 1745[sic]
Oliver also survived one of the bloodiest battles in the Indian Wars in December 1791. Known as the St. Clair Expedition, also as St. Clair's Defeat, against a confederation of American Indians, Miami and Shawnee. Poorly planned and unprepared, the casualty rate was the highest percentage ever suffered by a United States Army unit. Approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army had been wiped out. Only 24 of the 920 officers and men engaged came out of it unscathed. Indian casualties were about 61, with at least 21 killed. The number of U.S. soldiers killed during this engagement was more than three times the number the Sioux would kill 85 years later at Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Oliver will live two more years. Sep. 25, 1793 was the last known date that he was alive. Nov. 12, 1793 was the date his widow Elizabeth filed bond naming herself as executor of his estate. He died some time between Sept. 25, 1793 and Nov. 12, 1793.
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I believe him to be buried in this Heavenhill Cemetery, Nelson Co., Kentucky. Before I placed him here, there were only nine other F.a.G. interments here. Among them were Oliver's 3rd child William, the distiller, and Wm's wife Susan O'Neal. But they are not the earliest burials here. It makes no sense that the cemetery would be named for William. It does make sense that Oliver was buried here first. Why else would it be named Heavenhill Cemetery?
[Update: I did not take into account that "Heavenhill" is also a place name, not just the family surname. He is probably buried somewhere else, location unknown.]
Age 41.
Born Ulrich Himmelberger, the youngest son and third youngest of nine children born to immigrant parents Valentin and Maria Elisabeth Himmelberger.
Records of Bern Reformed Church in Berks County, Pennsylvania show April 12, 1752 to be the date of Ulrich's baptism, not his birth.
In 1776 he married Elizabeth Tesch in Pennsylvania where George, the first of his eight children was born in 1778. Before the next child, Elizabeth was born in 1781, he migrated to what is now Nelson County Kentucky, but was part of Virginia then.
As Ulrich Himmelberger he acquired 250 acres of land in a partership with three other men -- 1,000 acres split four ways with Jacob Kauffman, Christopher Kauffman, and John Weeble. See "Old Processioners Report Book," Nelson County, Kentucky, warrant entry #557. His wife and son would join him soon after.
They will have seven more children while living in Nelson County, Kentucky. Oliver never saw his youngest child as he died in November 1793 before her birth in May 1794. His eldest child was only 15 when Oliver died. The younger children that survived him were ages 12, 10, 8, 6, 2, and an 8-month old baby.
Oliver and Elizabeth had three boys and five girls, all survived childhood, as follows:
George Heavenhill 1778 – 1838
Elizabeth Heavenhill 1781 – 1878
William B Heavenhill 1783 – 1870
Mary "Polly" Heavenhill 1785 – 1864
Margaret "Peggy" Heavenhill 1787 – 1864
Valentine Heavenhill 1791 – 1805
Sarah Heavenhill 1793 – 1832
Susan Susanna Heavenhill 1794 – 1883
[Valentine and Sarah are missing from the linked list below.]
We're not sure exactly when he changed his name but it was before his 1782 service in the Revolutionary War.
"Oliver Haverhill[sic]" Military (DAR)
DAR Nat'l #: 831797 & Nat'l #: 725184
Ancestor #: A053278 shows birth date 1745[sic]
Oliver also survived one of the bloodiest battles in the Indian Wars in December 1791. Known as the St. Clair Expedition, also as St. Clair's Defeat, against a confederation of American Indians, Miami and Shawnee. Poorly planned and unprepared, the casualty rate was the highest percentage ever suffered by a United States Army unit. Approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army had been wiped out. Only 24 of the 920 officers and men engaged came out of it unscathed. Indian casualties were about 61, with at least 21 killed. The number of U.S. soldiers killed during this engagement was more than three times the number the Sioux would kill 85 years later at Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Oliver will live two more years. Sep. 25, 1793 was the last known date that he was alive. Nov. 12, 1793 was the date his widow Elizabeth filed bond naming herself as executor of his estate. He died some time between Sept. 25, 1793 and Nov. 12, 1793.
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I believe him to be buried in this Heavenhill Cemetery, Nelson Co., Kentucky. Before I placed him here, there were only nine other F.a.G. interments here. Among them were Oliver's 3rd child William, the distiller, and Wm's wife Susan O'Neal. But they are not the earliest burials here. It makes no sense that the cemetery would be named for William. It does make sense that Oliver was buried here first. Why else would it be named Heavenhill Cemetery?
[Update: I did not take into account that "Heavenhill" is also a place name, not just the family surname. He is probably buried somewhere else, location unknown.]
Born Ulrich Himmelberger, the youngest son and third youngest of nine children born to immigrant parents Valentin and Maria Elisabeth Himmelberger.
Records of Bern Reformed Church in Berks County, Pennsylvania show April 12, 1752 to be the date of Ulrich's baptism, not his birth.
In 1776 he married Elizabeth Tesch in Pennsylvania where George, the first of his eight children was born in 1778. Before the next child, Elizabeth was born in 1781, he migrated to what is now Nelson County Kentucky, but was part of Virginia then.
As Ulrich Himmelberger he acquired 250 acres of land in a partership with three other men -- 1,000 acres split four ways with Jacob Kauffman, Christopher Kauffman, and John Weeble. See "Old Processioners Report Book," Nelson County, Kentucky, warrant entry #557. His wife and son would join him soon after.
They will have seven more children while living in Nelson County, Kentucky. Oliver never saw his youngest child as he died in November 1793 before her birth in May 1794. His eldest child was only 15 when Oliver died. The younger children that survived him were ages 12, 10, 8, 6, 2, and an 8-month old baby.
Oliver and Elizabeth had three boys and five girls, all survived childhood, as follows:
George Heavenhill 1778 – 1838
Elizabeth Heavenhill 1781 – 1878
William B Heavenhill 1783 – 1870
Mary "Polly" Heavenhill 1785 – 1864
Margaret "Peggy" Heavenhill 1787 – 1864
Valentine Heavenhill 1791 – 1805
Sarah Heavenhill 1793 – 1832
Susan Susanna Heavenhill 1794 – 1883
[Valentine and Sarah are missing from the linked list below.]
We're not sure exactly when he changed his name but it was before his 1782 service in the Revolutionary War.
"Oliver Haverhill[sic]" Military (DAR)
DAR Nat'l #: 831797 & Nat'l #: 725184
Ancestor #: A053278 shows birth date 1745[sic]
Oliver also survived one of the bloodiest battles in the Indian Wars in December 1791. Known as the St. Clair Expedition, also as St. Clair's Defeat, against a confederation of American Indians, Miami and Shawnee. Poorly planned and unprepared, the casualty rate was the highest percentage ever suffered by a United States Army unit. Approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army had been wiped out. Only 24 of the 920 officers and men engaged came out of it unscathed. Indian casualties were about 61, with at least 21 killed. The number of U.S. soldiers killed during this engagement was more than three times the number the Sioux would kill 85 years later at Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Oliver will live two more years. Sep. 25, 1793 was the last known date that he was alive. Nov. 12, 1793 was the date his widow Elizabeth filed bond naming herself as executor of his estate. He died some time between Sept. 25, 1793 and Nov. 12, 1793.
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I believe him to be buried in this Heavenhill Cemetery, Nelson Co., Kentucky. Before I placed him here, there were only nine other F.a.G. interments here. Among them were Oliver's 3rd child William, the distiller, and Wm's wife Susan O'Neal. But they are not the earliest burials here. It makes no sense that the cemetery would be named for William. It does make sense that Oliver was buried here first. Why else would it be named Heavenhill Cemetery?
[Update: I did not take into account that "Heavenhill" is also a place name, not just the family surname. He is probably buried somewhere else, location unknown.]
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