Maria (Folk) Heinley (1805 - 1894)

Born 15 Sep 1805 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 10 Oct 1894 at age 89 in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Maria was born in 1805. She passed away in 1894 and was buried in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

At the time of the 1850 census she was living with her husband Jacob D. Henley in Windsor Township, Berks, Pennsylvania. He was 51 years old and she 45 and gave her name as "Mary". Children living with them included: Elizabeth age 15, Mariann, age 13, Polly age 10, Angelina age 4. Samuel Dietrick age 17 was also living in the household.

In 1860 they were still living in Windsor Township, Jacob was 62 years old and Maria was 54. Only Polly (age 19 and Carolina age 13 were living at the home. He was listed as a farmer and his real estate was worth "200". In the next household on the census had James Lookingbile (age 26) listed as a farmer and his property was valued at "2000". His wife was listed as "Lizzie", the Elizabeth from the 1850 census. At this point James and Lizzie had a daughter Eleanora age 2, and a son James 9 months old. A maid and a servant also lived in the household.

Per Morton's History of Berks County, "Charles A. Folk... was descended from George Folk, the first of the family in America, through Jacob and Jacob Jr. George Folk was a German by birth, and came to Philadelphia in 1754, with a company of some other 145 other passengers. He made his permanent home in Richmond township, Berks county, where his name appears on the first tax list of the place, made in 1768. Jacob Folk continued to reside where his father had settled, and was a farmer and stone mason by trade. His children were: Jacob Jr.; Solomon, of Reading; Samuel, of Maxatawny township; John, living near Hamburg, Pa.: Mrs. Jacob Heinly; and Mrs. Daniel Hoch."

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M442-CDR : 21 December 2020), Jacoby Heinly, Windsor Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1850", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M442-CDR : Tue Oct 03 16:13:43 UTC 2023), Entry for Jacoby Heinly and Mary Heinly, 1850.

• "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXP4-186 : Thu Oct 05 03:38:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Jacob Heinly and Maria Heinly, 1860.

• https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Q3BOAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1624. Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Comp. by Morton L. Montgomery.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2J-PYHV : 13 September 2020), Maria Folk Heinly, ; Burial, Lenhartsville, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Dunkels Church Cemetery; citing record ID 69921599, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania, Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Comp. by Morton L. Montgomery. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Q3BOAQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1624