Zimmerman, Anna Margaretta (b. 30 JAN 1769, d. ?)

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Note: Buried in Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery At Hegins,
Pennsylvania Baptised: 27 Sept., 1807 By Rev. John Knoske, at
St Jacob's Lutheran Church, in Pinegrove, Pennsylvania. Andrew
and his wife, Elizabeth moved from the old log cabin, at the
mountain moving his few household goods with a wheelbarrow to a
log building which stood a short distance west of the house
then in the course of construction which he and Elizabeth
occupied when the construction was completed on his father's
farm. Andrew purchased the former Mabel Moyer farm in 1846. (
I did not locate records of this transaction in the
Grantee-Grantor index.) His land reached from Warren Harner's
farm to the west of the stone bridge at the mill. The land at
the east end was marshy and brush land but the west end had
heavy clay good for bricks. In 1846 he built the barn and other
buildings were constructed in 1854 from lumber and bricks made
from the clay on his land. Having purchased the land to the
south of Deep Creek, Andrew and his sons, Simon C. and John C.,
began to build a large brick mill and a brick home on this
property as well as the saw mill. Here Simon C. and John C.
did most of the excavating with poor equipment. A wooden water
wheel was installed that could run the mill with four mill
stones. It made stone mill flour and ground other grains, but
was not considered to be up to date. An abundance of fresh
running water came from the springs in the mountain, plenty for
both house and barn with enough left over to run the large
water wheel with a dam and running stream. In 1889 Andrew
purchased three rollers. From that time on the mill was called
'Schrope's Roller Mill'. The roller mill was a substantial
brick building with a capacity of twenty five barrels of flour
a day, and equipped with modern machinery throughout. They
removed the big water wheel and installed a turbine wheel. He
kept two teams of men constantly employed in delivering their
product and shipping considerable quantities from the Good
Spring Railroad. In 1860 the value of Andrew's real estate was
$21,960.00 and his personal property was valued at $3,810.00,
as recorded on the 1860 Federal census, a very wealthy estate
for that time. In the spring of 1864, Andrew purchased the
Fidler farm at Hegins for his son, Simon C., and the old
homestead at Valley View became the property of his son John C.
The mill and the mill property was retained by Andrew until the
fall of 1868, when he bought the property owned in 1932 by
James M. Schrope at East Hegins, and moved onto it. At that
time Andrew deeded the mill property to his two sons. They
hired a miller to run the mill but it was not profitable. On
05 January, 1878 John C. bought Simon C.'s share as recorded in
book 149 page 281 of the Grantee-Grantor Index. Then, later
John C., in turn sold the property to Henry Herb Schrope and
his brother Jacob Herb Schrope on 05 May, 1886 as recorded in
book 202 page 506 of the Grantee-Grantor Index. Henry Herb
Schrope took over in 1886 and did the team work for the mill
and farmed the land. Henry and his family lived in the brick
house until 1895, but he couldn't make ends meet. He rented
the property to George and John Romberger for one year at the
end of which time John Romberger bought the mill and sixty
acres of the land. Mr. Romberger increased the productivity of
the mill but not enough to make it pay. He sold the mill and
two acres of land to his son , Paul, he in turn sold the mill
to Samuel Koppenhaver for $8,000.00. After one years time Mr.
Koppenhaver sold the property to Mr. Harry E. Balmer for
$29,500.00. Much of this history of the property transactions
comes from Leona Miller, a granddaughter of Henry Herb Schrope
but I have not located any legal documents for any transactions
since 1886. The mill and mill property came into possession of
his two sons but other con-siderations were given to his two
daughters, Mrs. Saloma (Schrope) Snyder and Mrs. Anna (Schrope)
Holdeman, so as to equalize the inheritances. The Schropes were
pioneers in the field of education. The eastern part of Lower
Mahantongo (Hegins) Township, had accepted free schools in
1840. Andrew Schrope (1807) fought for free schools for the
western part of the township. It required a special act of the
Legislature to establish a school district and then only by the
vote of the people. An act was passed in 1846 to form the Coal
and Pine School District, which was to include Lower Mahantongo
Township to the Dauphin County line. Hubley Township was then
not separated from Lower Mahantongo Township. Having failed in
securing the approval of the Coal and Pine District, another
special act was passed by the Legislature in 1847, to erect
that part of Lower Mahantongo Township which practically became
Hegins Township in 1854, exclusive of Lower Mahantongo School
District and Kessler School District, the same to be known as
the Well Made School District. John Schrope, Sr. (1784) was
designated as judge, John Henry and W. R. Hower as inspectors
of the special election. Andrew Schrope was elected as a
member of the school board of the Well Made School District.
Prior to the establishment of the free school system in Lower
Mahantongo (Hegins) Township, Andrew Schrope and some other
friends of education engaged a New England schoolmaster to
teach the boys, especially in the English language. Though he
could neither read, write nor speak the English language,
Andrew believed that the future language of America would be
English. Most of the other pioneer settlers of this valley had
some particular trade or occupation which they followed, such
as 'hatter,' 'cooper,' 'smith,' 'shoemaker,' 'carpenter,' or
'laborer.' The Schropes seem to have had all, for we found as
a part of the old homestead, a blacksmith shop, a carpenter
shop, a homemade weaver's loom and a broom making machine and
implements of other trades. They made their own farming
implements, plows, harrows, rakes, hand rollers, etc., and all
this with the exactness of a master mechanic. The straight
rows of Andrew Schrope's onion patch has become proverbial.
The attention to details and exactness of the Schrope
forefathers is perhaps nowhere more clearly shown than in the
account of books of Andrew's son, Simon C. Schrope, beginning
with 22 March, 1864, the day he took possession of the farm.
The book is inscribed: 'Showing all the profit and loss on the
farm of Simon C. Schrope'. Every cent received and every cent
spent is accounted for as well as the value of every thing
given in exchange for goods or labor. These books throw many
interesting sidelights on the customs and habits of the 1860's.
That 1864 to 1870 belongs to the age of candles is shown by the
fact that he bought a bundle of dips for 20 cents. He raised
his own flax and wool, for the records show that he bought
several 'spinwheels' for $6.00 and paid 50 cents to have one
repaired; and later he paid Phillip Reed $2.04 for weaving 12
yards of woolen goods and $10.99 for weaving 61 3/4 yards of
linen. This item needs no comment: '27 October, 1869, paid Jas.
Huntzinger, J. P., in the name of S. C. Sulivan for attaching
102 feet of lightening rod by the Gerat Lightening Co. (I call
it a Humbuck) $50.68'. Record of Lands Sold by Andrew Schrope
(1807) DATE BOOK PAGE SOLD TO LOCATION 13
January, 1847 27 119 William Hoff Lwr. M'tongo
Twnsp. 29 March, 1853 40 24 John Mc Caules
Mahanoy Twnsp. 04 March, 1859 65 476 John C. Allen
Rush Township 01 April, 1864 91 35 Jesse Snyder
Germanville 01 April, 1864 92 253 John S. Roberts
Hegins Township 29 April, 1866 93 413 Reuben Benj.
Huntzinger Hegins Twsp. * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * 04 April, 1867 99
582 Frederick Sommers Germanville * * * * 01 April,
1867 101 536 John Schrope Hegins Township * * * *
05 February, 1867 114 81 Peter Klinger Hegins
Township * * * * 08 April, 1867 115 145 John
Schrope (1784) Lots 32, 33, 34 * Hegins Township * * *
01 April, 1867 149 279 Simon C. Schrope Hegins
Township * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * 14 February, 1882 185 244 Simon C.
Schrope Hegins Township Mixed - Real and Personal

Event: Date: 1807
Place: 27 Sept., 1807, Baptised
Note: Type: Fact 1

Death: 25 JUL 1885 Hegins, Pennsylvania

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Note: Buried in Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery At Hegins,
Pennsylvania

Death: 18 DEC 1877 Hegins, Pennsylvania

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Note: Anna (Schrope) Holdeman left no heirs, nothing further is known
of her.

Death: 1913

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Note: Hegins, Pennsylvania ,Buried in Frieden's Cemetery The
following children are all the records obtained for the
descendants of Simon C. Schrope (1829 - 1898) and his wife
Harriet (Herner) Schrope.

Death: 07 JUL 1898 Hegins, Pennsylvania

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