Check with the genealogical Societies in those Counties, I am sure they can help you. Good luck! >From: The Kleins <kvbs@omsoft.com> >Reply-To: PANORTHU-L@rootsweb.com >To: PANORTHU-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PANORTHU-L] Jacob SHEETS, Northumberland & Snyder Counties >1850-1880 >Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:54:10 -0800 > >Does anyone have a suggestion where to look for a marriage record ca 1848, >or a death record ca 1878? I am led to believe the death took place in >Snyder County, but the marriage may have been in Montour, Northumberland, >or Snyder. Does anyone know if civil marriages were performed as early as >1848? I am also looking for the records of the Reformed Grave Yard near >Selinsgrove; does anyone know what church this is associated with? or where >the records are archived? > >I am searching for both a marriage record and a death record for Jacob >SHEETS (aka SHEETZ), who lived in Northumberland and Snyder Counties. He >was born ca 1825 in Pennsylvania, and, according to an LDS IGI record, in >1848 he married Sarah Ann WEIDENHAMER, daughter of Jacob D. and Susannah K. >(DREIBELBIS) WEIDENHAMER, formerly of Berks County, who farmed in >Limestoneville, Montour County. I have located 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses >for Jacob SHEETS; he worked as a hotelkeeper in Selinsgrove in 1860 and in >Sunbury in 1870. According to an unsourced family history document, Jacob >SHEETS died ca 1878 in McKees Half Falls, Snyder County. > >The WEIDENHAMER family attended Follmer's Lutheran Church and Paradise >Lutheran Church in Northumberland County, but neither church has a record >of Jacob SHEETS' marriage to Sarah WEIDENHAMER. > > Buried in the Reformed Grave Yard near Selinsgrove, Snyder County, is >"Jacob Adam Sheets s/o J. & S. d, 8 Feb 1858 aged 1y 22d." I believe he may >be a child of Jacob and Sarah. I would like to locate more information on >this burial. >