Adam Brandt Inventory

The following record is a transcription in the Estate Inventory Adam Brandt. The original record is held at the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, PA.

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The following is a list of all the goods and chattles rights and credits which were of Adam Brandt, late of Monroe Township, Deceased, at the time of his death, with valuation annexed as appraised August 24th 1838.

1 clock	$	40	00
1 stove and pipe		8	00
1 wood chest		2	00
shovel tongs and scraper		1	00
1 table		3	00
1 lot of tin ware		-	25
1 lot of delph ware		-	50
1 lot earthen ware		-	31 [not legible]
1 looking glass		-	25
1 pr bellows and brush		-	25
1 pr saddle bags		2	00
1 lot carpet		2	00
4 chairs @37 1/2		1	50
1 slate and basket		-	12 1/2
1 lot of spoons		-	37 1/2
1 gridiron etc		-	25
1 bed and bedding		6	00
1 bed and bedding		13	00
1 table		-	50
4 augers @ 25		1	00
1 lot tubs etc [not legible]		1	00
1 iron kettle and chimney hooks		2	00
1 lot benchs		1	50
1 stove and pipe		3	00
1 lot of books		2	00
1 lot knives and forks		-	25
1 case drawers		5	00
1 box and thread		-	50
Amount		97	56 1/2

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Carried forward		97	56 1/4
1 lot of bedclothes		1	50
1 pr bottles etc		-	50
1 lot sheets and bedtick		2	00
1 lot table cloths towels etc		1	00
1 lot Sundries		-	37 1/2
1 pr scissors and yarn		-	37 1/2
1 set scales and weights		1	00
1 box and pocket book		-	12 1/2
6 pr spectacles @20		1	20
1 pr spectacles silver		2	00
1 lot sundries [not legible] etc		1	00
1 box sundries		-	12 1/2
1 Girth		-	12 1/2
1 lot wearing apparel		7	50
5 Shares Bridge Stock Harrisburg @$20		100	00
3 Shares Berlin and Hanover [not legible] Com  @50		150	00
Cash		111	20
Bond. Principle and Interest		749	83
Note Principle and do		306	87 1/2
Note do and do		118	00
Note do and do		158	49
Note do and do		152	00
Note do and do		50	00
Note do and do		25	37 1/2
Note do and do		102	16
Note do and do		27	18 3/4
Note do and do		30	00
Note do and do		56	25
Note do and do		265	00
Note do and do		75	00
[not legible]		2583	75

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brot over		2583	75
1 Bond payable 1st April 1839		583	33 1/3
1    do       “         1    “      1840		583	33 1/3
1     do      “         1    “      1840		583	33 1/3
1 payement due  1    “      1839		150	00
1      “                  1    “       1840		150	00
1      “                  1    “       1844 (or [not legible])		597	94
	$	5231	64

Cumberland County [not legible]

     Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, personally came Lewis Hyer, Esq and John Brandt, who being duly affirmed as the law directs, do depose and say that they appraised the personal property of Adam Brandt of Monroe township late deceased, as contained in the foregoing inventory, to the best of their Judgements and abilities. Further they say not. 

Affirmed and Subscribes      }                                                        Lewis Hyer

the 25th day of August         }

A.D. 1838 [not legible] me  }                                                        John Brandt

   Lewis Learing

Levi and Eliza Heagy Celebrate Golden Wedding

The following article appeared on page 4 of Harrisburg's The Patriot on Friday, January 11th, 1907.

     Mr. and Mrs. Levi Heagy, 1516 1/2 North Fourth street, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in a most fitting manner at their homes last evening.
     The couple received the congratulations of their friends, and were presented with a purse of gold by John Heagy in behalf of their children. The house was beautifully decorated throughout with flowers, potted plants and greens. Refreshments were served. The event was closed with a prayer by A. K. Hollinger.
     Mr. Heagy was born in Lancaster county seventy years ago and has lived in this city for the past twenty-six years. He is a carpenter by trade, and is a veteran of the Civil War.
     Those present were the following: Children, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Hollinger, of Shippensburg; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hayes, of Carlisle; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. William Kreig, Mr. and Mrs. William Heagy, Mr. and Mrs. John Heagy, and A. L. Heagy, of this city. Grandchildren, S. A. Hollinger, of Chambersburg; Mrs. Clarence Railing, of Shippensburg; Nora Hollinger, Ester V. Hollinger, Mollie A. Hollinger, Elmer H. Hollinger, Herman Hollinger, of Shippensburg; C. A. Hayes and Jesse Hayes, of Carlisle; Levi R. Heagy, Miss Sarah E. Creig, Miss Mary E. Thomas, of Harrisburg. Great-Grandchildren, Mrs. William A. Hollinger, of Chambersburg, and Herman C. Railing, of Shippensburg.

Adam and Eve Brandt

Adam and Eve Metzger Brandt, great-great-grandparents of Zella Miller Irvin, are buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Monroe Township.

The cemetery is located at the intersection of York Road and Boiling Springs Road.

Adam's headstone reads:

"In Memory of Adam Brandt
born Nov 29 AD 1751
& departed this Life the 15th of August AD 1838
Aged 86 Years 8 Months & 15 days"
Next to the headstone is a Revolutionary War marker. There are several records in the PA State Archive's Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File with the name Adam Brandt or Adam Brand. It is unclear, at this time, which of these files is associated with this Adam Brandt. All of the Adam Brandt/Brand Abstract Card Files are labeled "Inactive Duty, Militia." It is likely that our Adam supported the war effort without engaging in active service. More research is required to determine the full extent of Adam's participation in the American Revolution.

Eve's headstone reads:
"In Memory of Eve Brandt who
was born the 14th of November 1752
& died the 10th of February 1830
Aged 77 Years 2 Months & 27 days."

The dates of birth and death on the headstones are consistent with the Brandt Bible records located at the Cumberland County Historical Society and with the Adam Brandt will on record at the Cumberland County courthouse.

For Our Famine Slain: A Poem From March 1865

The following poem appeared in the Carlisle Herald And Expositor on March 10, 1865, eight days after the death of Samuel Hollinger in Richmond from disease and neglect while detained as a prisoner of war. It is not known when word of Samuel's death reached home but the appearance of this poem preceded the return of recently exchanged and furloughed soldiers from Samuel's regiment. News from the prison camps, both good and bad, arrived in Carlisle throughout March, 1865.
The author of the poem was not identified.

Poetical

for the Herald

IN MEMORIAM

He shall not die unsung, nor yet unavenged.

Within a Southern prison, where the heavy air was rank,

And the gloomy walls were mouldering, in the darkness damp and dank:

When famine gaunt and gloomy, sat brooding night and day,

And human beings huddled, like shivering beasts of prey,

Lay a pale-browed youthful soldier whose face so saintly bright,

Seemed to have caught its beauty from the far off land of light.
The heavy lids drooped lower, his cheek grew pale and wan,
And the light from out that kindling eye, forever more was gone.
And day by day more slowly his feeble pulse beat,
Till the angel of Death in pity came with lagging feet.
He murmured sweet and childish things, and repeated his infant prayer,
While a comrade whispered his mother's name and smoothed the dark waves of his hair.
Then over his pallid features passed a smile as sweetly bright
As a beam from the open portal of the radiant land of light.
Then gathered 'round him those pale, sad men, and chanted a funeral psalm,
While the deep despair of their captive hearts gave place to a holy calm.
The sternest spirits grew tearful and mild as they bowed their heads to pray,
And the gloom of the living charnel house grew bright with celestial day.
Oh for one fold of the dear old Flag to shroud him for his rest.
Oh for one star from out its host to lay upon his breast,
Oh for a mother's or sister's kiss to press on those lips of clay,
And a tender hand to hide those eyes afar from the light of day.
O'er his grave no friend may weep but the mocking bird will sing,
And the southern flowers wake to life, with the breath of coming spring.
And the crash of War will come to that spot accursed of God,
Whence the cries of our starving brothers have risen from every sod;
Swift as from out the murky sky, the livid lightnings spring,
Shall be heard 'midst the bloom of the orange bowers, the clang of the sabres' ring.
The stately Palmetto shall bow its head, while the storm is sweeping by,
And the light of many a burning home, shall gleam in the lurid sky.
But he will not wake, or start from his rest when the flying squadrons come,
Or at morn and evening list to hear the beat of the reveille drum;
The angel of Freedom shall watch when he sleeps and never a slave shall tread,
A spot of earth whose bosom bears, the graves of our patriot dead.
Strike man of the iron heart! strike man of the willing hand!
For the Union our Fathers gave us and an undivided land.
But wield ye a surer, deadlier blow when ye strike for our Famine slain,
Whose graves as the stars above them, are thick on the southern plain.
Strike for the living and the dead! to the traitor heart with your steel!
And pour the blaze of your murderous fire where his shattered columns reel;
Press to his lips the cup we have drained - the cup of crimson gore,
'Till the blood of our murdered brothers shall plead from the ground no more.
Carlisle, March 4th, 1865

Sarah Hollinger's Pension Claim

Sarah Hollinger filed for a Widow's Claim For Pension soon after Samuel's death in a Richmond hospital. Here is here claim that she placed on April 24th, 1865. One of the witnesses, Addison O'Donnel, may have been Sarah's brother. The pension was granted at a rate of $8.00 each month.

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This record is part of Samuel Hollinger's pension file and is available through the National Archives and Records Administration.