Henry Baum was born on 28 October 1817 in Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 He was the son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ He died on 12 June 1898 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County, at age 80.¹ He was buried in Salem (Herb) UCC Cemetery, Rough & Ready, Schuylkill County.¹

     Isaac Baum was born on 31 January 1819 in Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 He was the son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ He married Helena Maurer in 1849.³ He died on 8 November 1895 in Franklin, Venango County, Pennsylvania, at age 76.¹ He and Helena Maurer were buried in Franklin Cemetery, Sugarcreek Borough, Venango County.^1,3

     Isaac Baum and Helena Maurer moved to Jefferson County, Pennsylvania about 1851 where they kept a hotel. They moved to Stonehouse, Clarion County in 1854 and moved to Venango County in 1877 living on a farm in Sugarcreek for 10 years before moving to Franklin. They lived in the 1100 block of Buffalo Street and attended the Lutheran church. Isaac and Helena were cared for in their old age by Isaac's niece Emma Wiest Connor.^3,1
     Isaac Baum left a will in 1895 in Franklin, Venango County. Isaac lists the following as beneficiaries: Emma & John R. Connor; children of E.G. Crawford; Agnes Seigworth; Israel Ferringer; John Baum, a brother; Catherine Eagley, a sister; Joel Baum, nephew; John Lewis, Lucinda, Lizzie and Clara, children of Peter Baum, a brother; Ella, Samuel, and Elizabeth, children of Henry Baum.⁴

     Peter Baum was born on 17 April 1828 in Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.^4,3 He was the son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.^2,3,1

     Esther Baum was born on 17 September 1820 in Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.^2,1 She was the daughter of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ She married Samuel Wiest, son of Johannes Wiest.¹ She died on 26 May 1910 in Northumberland County at age 89.¹ She and Samuel Wiest were buried in Klingerstown Cemetery, Klingerstown, Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.¹

     Samuel Wiest was born on 19 November 1819 in Klingerstown, Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.¹ He was the son of Johannes Wiest.¹ He married Esther Baum, daughter of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ He died on 20 February 1866 in Klingerstown, Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County, at age 46.¹ He and Esther Baum were buried in Klingerstown Cemetery, Klingerstown, Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.¹

     Levi Baum was born on 7 August 1826 in Washington Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 He was the son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ He married Rebecca (?)¹

     Rebecca (?) was born circa 1829.¹ She married Levi Baum, son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹

     Catherine Baum was born circa 1831 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.^1,3 She was the daughter of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.^1,4,3,5 She married (?) Fagley.⁶

     (?) Fagley married Catherine Baum, daughter of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹

     Joseph Baum was born on 24 April 1832 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.¹ He was the son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ He died on 15 August 1852 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County, at age 20.¹ He was buried in Salem (Herb) UCC Cemetery, Rough & Ready, Schuylkill County.¹

     Anna Maria Baum was born on 7 February 1835 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.¹ She was the daughter of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ She married Tobias Wiest, son of Johannes Wiest.¹

     Tobias Wiest is the son of Johannes Wiest.¹ He married Anna Maria Baum, daughter of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹

     John Baum was born on 5 February 1841 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County.¹ He was the son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ He married Sarah (?)¹ He died on 9 January 1897 in Lykens, Dauphin County, at age 55.¹ He and Sarah (?) were buried in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Lykens, Dauphin County.¹

     Sarah (?) was born on 28 November 1838.¹ She married John Baum, son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller.¹ She died on 3 January 1928 at age 89.¹ She and John Baum were buried in Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Lykens, Dauphin County.¹

     Helena Maurer was born in 1826 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 She married Isaac Baum, son of Johannes Baum Jr. and Elizabeth Drumheller, in 1849.¹ She died on 13 May 1907 in Franklin, Venango County.^1,2 She and Isaac Baum were buried in Franklin Cemetery, Sugarcreek Borough, Venango County.^3,1

     Helena Maurer and Isaac Baum moved to Jefferson County, Pennsylvania about 1851 where they kept a hotel. They moved to Stonehouse, Clarion County in 1854 and moved to Venango County in 1877 living on a farm in Sugarcreek for 10 years before moving to Franklin. They lived in the 1100 block of Buffalo Street and attended the Lutheran church. Isaac and Helena were cared for in their old age by Isaac's niece Emma Wiest Connor.^1,3

     Catherine Sterner was born on 15 December 1784.² She married Heinrich Baum, son of Johannes Baum and Elizabeth (?).³ She died on 5 July 1820 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County, at age 35.² She and Heinrich Baum were buried in Zion (Klinger's) Lutheran Church Cemetery, Erdman, Schuylkill County.⁴

     Salome Gundrum was born on 30 August 1795.¹ She married Heinrich Baum, son of Johannes Baum and Elizabeth (?).² She died on 29 March 1852 in Upper Mahantonga Township, Schuylkill County, at age 56.¹ She was buried in Zion (Klinger's) Lutheran Church Cemetery, Erdman, Schuylkill County.³

     David George Shepard married Shelly Lynn Steffee, daughter of Robert Melat Steffee and Janet Alene McKissick, in 2000 in New York City, New York.¹

     William Deets was the son of Jackson T. Deets and Mary Ann Hamilton.^3,2,1 He married Addie Ghering.⁴

     Lottie Deets is the daughter of Jackson T. Deets and Mary Ann Hamilton.¹ She married F. H. Bowers.²

     F. H. Bowers married Lottie Deets, daughter of Jackson T. Deets and Mary Ann Hamilton.²

     Chloe Olivia Melat is the daughter of David Kipp Melat and Cherie Lee Phillips.¹

     Carrie Schwab married Francis Peter McNellie.¹

     Jacob Tarr was born in 1802 in "eastern" Pennsylvania.^1,2,4 He was the son of George Tarr and Barbara (?)³ He married Barbara Noel, daughter of Thomas Noel and Mary Magdalena Noel.^5,6,7 He died in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, on 12 June 1881 in his 80th year, "one of the pioneers of Cherrytree Township."^1,2 He and Barbara Noel were buried in Cherrytree Presbyterian Cemetery, Cherrytree Township, Venango County.⁸

     Jacob Tarr and Barbara Tarr lived in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where Jacob was a farmer and land speculator.^9,10,11,12 The Tarrs first farmed in Cherrytree Township on land formerly belonging to Jacob's father, just west of Cherrytree Village. Here Jacob was taxed for 200 acres in 1824 and 1825 and for 214 acres from 1826 through 1828.^13,14 He bought 150 acres in Cherrytree Township from his parents George Tarr and Barbara for $50 on 23 May 1829. This land was part of a larger tract on which George Tarr had settled over twenty years earlier and bounded on the north by the farm they sold his brother Martin a month earlier.¹⁵ Between 1830 and 1835 Jacob was taxed in Cherrytree Township for 167 acres and from 1836 through 1844 for 150 acres.^16,14 He purchased 140 acres and 10 perches in Oakland Township, Venango County, on 15 February 1855 from William R., George W., John F. , and James B. Stewart for $420. This property was just southwest of the old farm of Jacob's father and the middle part of a larger tract patented to Elijah Stewart of Cherrytree Township, but settled by George Cain and surveyed 19 April 1848 for George W. Tarr at the request of William R. and James B. Stewart.¹⁷
     Jacob Tarr and his son George Andrew Walter Tarr purchased 56 acres and 102 perches on 30 April 1860 from Charles C. Gaskill and wife Sarah C. of Coopers Point, Camden County, New Jersey for $113. The property bordered lands of James Gibson, Robert Ward, John Blood, and John Rynd and was part of Holland Land Company Tract 254 which became vested in Gaskill and was a portion of a larger tract surveyed to Jacob Tarr, a part of which was conveyed to Robert Ward.¹⁸ He purchased 4 acres and 105 perches in Cherrytree Township on 7 July 1859 from William C. Reynolds for $20. This land abutted Josiah Hamilton, WIlliam C. Reynolds, and George W. Tarr and was part of a larger tract conveyed to Reynolds by John Reynolds and his wife of Meadville on 28 May 1838.¹⁹ He and Barbara Noel sold this property in Cherrytree Township on 20 September 1864 to his nephew George W. Tarr of Cherrytree Township for for the same price.²⁰ He and George Andrew Walter Tarr partitioned the tract into two equal parts (each 28 acres 51 perches) by and aggreement of 12 April 1862.²¹ No record of the survey to Jacob has been located, but prior to the purchase he evidently had or believed he had some claim to the land, for on 5 March 1860 he and son George A. W. Tarr entered into an agreement for William Packer to have exclusive right to dig for oil on the property. The payment was quite modest: a dollar now, twenty dollars by 1 April and thirty dollars by 1 June.²² He and son Isaac Tarr, with their wives Barbara and Catherine sold 50 acres and 112 perches of the Oakland Township farm on 2 January 1865 to George Davis of New York City for $2700. The property was bounded by lands of R. Hays, E. Hays, J. Tarr, and the Franklin-Cherrytree Road.²³ He and Barbara sold 10 acres and 134 perches in Oakland Township to son Daniel Turner for $20 on 27 February 1865. The property was on the headwaters of Kain's Run and abutted the west line of Mark Ward, Jacob Tarr, land formerly Deits's, and Daniel Tarr and was part of the larger tract conveyed to Jacob by George W. Tarr.²⁴ He and his wife Barbara sold 27 acres, abutting the Franklin Road, lands of Ward and Company, Lewis Renninger and Jef Tarr, Brewer and Loomis, and of Jacob Tarr in Oakland Township to their son Isaac Tarr for $1200 on 2 September 1865.²⁵ He sold the remaining 60 acres and 47 perches of their farm in Oakland Township on 21 January 1867 to Margaret Ann Bennyhoof of Cherrytree Township for $1700. The property was described as bounded by land of Daniel Tarr, land formerly Deets's, of Brown and Loomis, of Isaac Tarr, and formerly Ward's.²⁶ He bought 80 perches in Cherrytree Township from Peter Bennehoff and his wife Catherine name written as Benneyhoff for $2000 on 2 September 1865. This property abutted land of Samuel M. Irwin Jr. and Peter "Benninghoff" (formerly A. J. McClintock) and the Franklin Road.²⁷ He purchased an additional acre and 71 8/10 perches in Cherrytree Township on 11 March 1867 from Charles Krantz and his wife Rachel for $180. The land was bounded by W. P. McClintock, the Franklin Raod, John Blood, and Richard Irwin and part of a larger track Krantz had purchased from George Tarr Jr. in 1864.²⁸ He bought 28 more perches from Peter Bennehoff and his wife Catherine for $90 on 2 October 1867. This land was along the Bennehoff land, land of Fiddler V. Irwin, and the Franklin Road.²⁹ Barbara Noel bought 5 acres in Oakland Township from Peter Bennehoff and his wife Catherine for $300 on 27 November 1868. The land abutted Samuel Tarr, George Tarr, and George W. Tarr and originally was part of the large tract conveyed to George Tarr by Commonwealth patent in 1840 and which he bequeathed to son George by his will. George Jr. sold this land to Bennehoff in 1867.³⁰ He and Barbara Noel of Cherrytree Village sold an acre and 49 perches in Cherrytree Township on 10 April 1874 to E. C. Westlake of Cherrytree Village for $300. The property was located along Samuel M. Irwin's line, the road to Irwin's Mill, the street running between S. Snyder and Mary Feely's lot, and Snyder's alley, originally part of a larger tract conveyed by John Reynolds of Meadville to Richard Irwin.³¹
     Jacob and Barbara "made use of the German language in their social and business intercourse."⁴
     After Barbara's death Jacob made his home with son Jefferson in Cherrytree Township.³²

     Barbara Noel was born on 8 April 1804 in Menallen Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Noel and Mary Magdalena Noel.² She was baptized on 6 May 1804 in Conewago Chapel, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Sponsors for the baptism were Nicholas and Theresa Noel.² She married Jacob Tarr, son of George Tarr and Barbara (?).^1,3,4 Barbara died in 1875 probably in Cherrytree Township, Venango County.¹ She and Jacob Tarr were buried in Cherrytree Presbyterian Cemetery, Cherrytree Township, Venango County.⁵

     Barbara Tarr and Jacob Tarr lived in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where Jacob was a farmer and land speculator.^6,7,8,9 She and Jacob Tarr sold this property in Cherrytree Township on 20 September 1864 to his nephew George W. Tarr of Cherrytree Township for for the same price.¹⁰ Jacob Tarr and Barbara sold 10 acres and 134 perches in Oakland Township to son Daniel Turner for $20 on 27 February 1865. The property was on the headwaters of Kain's Run and abutted the west line of Mark Ward, Jacob Tarr, land formerly Deits's, and Daniel Tarr and was part of the larger tract conveyed to Jacob by George W. Tarr.¹¹ Jacob Tarr and his wife Barbara sold 27 acres, abutting the Franklin Road, lands of Ward and Company, Lewis Renninger and Jef Tarr, Brewer and Loomis, and of Jacob Tarr in Oakland Township to their son Isaac Tarr for $1200 on 2 September 1865.¹² She bought 5 acres in Oakland Township from Peter Bennehoff and his wife Catherine for $300 on 27 November 1868. The land abutted Samuel Tarr, George Tarr, and George W. Tarr and originally was part of the large tract conveyed to George Tarr by Commonwealth patent in 1840 and which he bequeathed to son George by his will. George Jr. sold this land to Bennehoff in 1867.¹³ She and Jacob Tarr of Cherrytree Village sold an acre and 49 perches in Cherrytree Township on 10 April 1874 to E. C. Westlake of Cherrytree Village for $300. The property was located along Samuel M. Irwin's line, the road to Irwin's Mill, the street running between S. Snyder and Mary Feely's lot, and Snyder's alley, originally part of a larger tract conveyed by John Reynolds of Meadville to Richard Irwin.¹⁴
     Jacob and Barbara "made use of the German language in their social and business intercourse."¹⁵

     Thomas J. Tarr was born circa 1829 probably in Cherrytree Township, Venango County.¹ He was the son of Jacob Tarr and Barbara Noel.¹ He married Elizabeth Pierson.^2,3 He died in 1884 in Seneca County, New York.⁴ He was buried in McDuffietown Cemetery, Romulus, Seneca County, New York.⁴

     Thomas J. Tarr and Elizabeth Pierson lived in Allegheny Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, where Thomas was a farmer in 1860.⁵ He and Elizabeth Pierson moved from Pennsylvania to Varick, Seneca County, New York, circa 1864.^6,7

     George Andrew Walter Tarr was born on 17 August 1827 in Cherrytree Township, Venango County.^1,2 He was the son of Jacob Tarr and Barbara Noel.^1,2 He married Nancy Bennehoff, daughter of Peter Bennehoff and Catherine Noel, in 1851.¹ He died on 17 March 1900 in Titusville, Crawford County, at age 72.^2,3,4 He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Titusville, Crawford County.⁴

     George Andrew Walter Tarr was a farmer in Oakland and Cherrytree Townships in Venango County. He also operated a large teaming business carrying oil along Oil Creek from Titusville to Oil City. In 1865, during the height of the oil excitment, he sold his land and retired. On 15 Apr 1870, he and his family moved to Titusville.⁵
     George Andrew Walter Tarr and his father Jacob Tarr purchased 56 acres and 102 perches on 30 April 1860 from Charles C. Gaskill and wife Sarah C. of Coopers Point, Camden County, New Jersey for $113. The property bordered lands of James Gibson, Robert Ward, John Blood, and John Rynd and was part of Holland Land Company Tract 254 which became vested in Gaskill and was a portion of a larger tract surveyed to Jacob Tarr, a part of which was conveyed to Robert Ward.⁶ He and Jacob Tarr partitioned the tract into two equal parts (each 28 acres 51 perches) by and aggreement of 12 April 1862.⁷ No record of the survey to Jacob has been located, but prior to the purchase he evidently had or believed he had some claim to the land, for on 5 March 1860 he and son George A. W. Tarr entered into an agreement for William Packer to have exclusive right to dig for oil on the property. The payment was quite modest: a dollar now, twenty dollars by 1 April and thirty dollars by 1 June.⁸

     Samuel P. Tarr was born in March 1832 in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of Jacob Tarr and Barbara Noel.¹ He married Amelia Baney, daughter of John Baney and Susannah Benninghoff.² He married Nancy Jane Belknap, daughter of George W. Belknap and Martha (?).^3,4 Samuel died on 26 September 1905 probably in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, at age 73.⁵

     Samuel P. Tarr was living in Oakland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1860, but by 1870 was living in Cherrytree Township where he lived the rest of his life. He worked as a cobbler and a farmer.^6,3,7,1