Duane, Check out your birth date for Peter S. Alwine, You have May 7, 1875, He has children born in 1889. This is really interesting. Nancy Allwein Manuscript PETER, - son of Samuel and Mary (Schaffer) Allwein was born in Adams County, PA., November 1830. When yet a boy he made bricks for the Kohler's below Lilly's Hill, afterward came to Conewago where he married Catharine, daughter of William Dahlhammer. He operated a brick yard below Abbottstown, at foot of Pigeon Hills, about 1861 to 1868; later he started brick works at New Oxford, PA. He dropped one "L" in his name and wrote name "Alwine" which spelling was followed by his descendants. His parents raised him like their other children in the Catholic Faith, but it is said, owing to some differences with Rev. Peter Manns, S. J. he left the Faith. He and family became Lutherans. It is said Mr. Allwein was a great reader and student of modern science the reading of which books father Manns had forbidden. He however was willing to meet the priest and become reconciled before he died, but it is not known if this was consummated. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Peter S. Alwine was a school teacher in the winter and had wood lots in the Pidgon Hills and made brick in the summer. He died 9 May 1896 and is buried in Abotstown, PA.