Dear Cousins -- Here is Part IV of this narrative on Jacob and Samuel Alwine. Let me know if you have any questions about any of this. I expect to be writing more on this branch of the Allwein/Alwine family in PA, but this is it for a while. As always, Duane Jacob Alwine (1771-1854) and his Descendants Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Duane F. Alwin Ann Arbor MI 48103 Part IV In contrast to Samuel Alwine, who was Catholic, Jacob and Catherine Alwine's two eldest sons, John and Jacob II, both married into the Lutheran faith. John married Anna Schuster (or Shuster) and Jacob II married Lavina Kemerer. These are surnames connected with the Lutheran and Reformed Germans who settled in Salem and Penn Townships. They were farmers and had farms in Hempfield Township a few miles to the north of Greensburg. An 1876 map of Hempfield Township shows the locations of the Alwine farms. There are four of them, belonging to John, Jacob II, John's son Henry, and Henry's son John. They are located near the point where two streams join to form Brush Run (now called Brush Creek) which flows southward toward Jeanette. A school was organized in the area around that time. The first classes were taught by Lawrence Strump at the Shuster home until this school was erected. The school -- called the Alwine School -- was built in 1874 and still stands today with the original bell in its belfry. Bell Young was the first teacher in the new building. The school was closed in 1947, but soon thereafter the Alwine Community Civic Association was formed to commemorate and preserve the school and the "Alwine community" there. The school can be found today by traveling north from Greensburg on old U.S. Route 66. It is located on the east side of old Route 66 just south of the intersection with Route 993. The present-day structure, known as the Alwine Civic Center, serves as a community center to the area. [Endnote #15] John and Anna (Shuster) Alwine were buried in the old German Cemetery in Greensburg, both in 1884, but the graves were moved shortly thereafter. A borough ordinance enacted around 1890 put a stop to the use of both the old German (Reformed and Lutheran) and original Catholic cemeteries for burial purposes. Many of the graves from the German Cemetery were moved to one of the townships nearby. I do not know where Jacob II and Lavina (Kemerer) Alwine were buried, and there are few traces of them, as there were apparently no children born to them. John and Anna Alwine had two children: Henry (1827-1903) and Sara Lavina (1842-??). Lavina Alwine married John H. Baker, son of Isaac Baker of Hempfield Township, on Feb. 28, 1865. Henry Alwine married Sophia, daughter of Christian Klingensmith, Nov. 18, 1847. They had nine children: John L., Levi, Hannah, Hiram J., Samuel I, Edward E., Susan Maria, Lavina, and William Henry. Henry, and Henry's son Levi Alwine, plus many of their descendants had close ties to the Lutheran churches in Salem and Penn townships. Many Alwine descendants are buried in Lutheran or Union cemeteries in the area. Levi Alwine (1851-1917) was quite active in St. John's Lutheran Church at Boquet in Penn Township during his life, as were his wife and children, and most of his family is buried in the Denmark-Manor Lutheran and Reformed (now Woodlawn) Cemetery in upper Penn township. The children of these families intermarried with people of German Lutheran and Reformed origins, including families with such surnames as Klingensmith, Kemerer, Lauffer, Portzer, Kepple, among others. It is interesting to note that several of Levi Alwine's sons started using the name "ALLWINE" rather than "ALWINE" and both versions of the name persist among the families of the area. The difference in spelling is replicated in street names -- while there is an "Alwine Avenue" in Greensburg, there is an "Allwine Avenue" in Jeanette. In other words, when one encounters a family in Westmoreland County that spells the name as "Allwine," it is very likely descended from John, via Henry and Levi. The name Alwine, on the other hand, predominates and was used by Catholic and Protestant families alike. Endnote 15. See George Swetnam and Helene Smith, A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Duane F. Alwin Professor, Department of Sociology Senior Research Scientist & Program Director Survey Research Center Office: 4067 Institute for Social Research Phone: 734-764-6597 Fax: 734-647-4575 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~