COLUMBIANA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: WALTER, Peter (published 1887)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887
Page 644-645

        PETER WALTER, farmer, Wabash Township, resides on section 30, where
he owns 160 acres of land. He was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania,
December 30, 1816, and when he was nine years old went with his parents to
Columbiana County, Ohio, where the father rented an improved farm. They
lived there thirteen years, then removed to this county, locating on
section 22, Wabash Township, where the father entered eighty acres of land
from the Government. He lived upon that farm until his death. He was born
in Schuykill County, Pennsylvania, in April, 1790, was a shoemaker in early
life but later followed farming. He died in 1865, and is buried at the
cemetery situated on the State line. The mother, Susanna Walter, died in
1873 and is buried beside the father. They had three sons that served
during the late war -Daniel, William and Washington. The father was drafted
during the war of 1812, and furnished a substitute. Peter was married
November 10, 1842, to Miss Harriet Montgomery, born
 in Steuben County, New York, January 25, 1816, where she passed her early
life. In the spring of 1839 she came to this county with her father, who
settled on section 31, Wabash Township. Her mother died before they came
from New York. Mrs. Walter died October 20, 1868, leaving seven children
-Arabella J., born September 40, 1844, died in January, 1877; Catherine A.,
born June 3, 1847, wife of G. Phillips; Thomas S., born July 15, 1849; Mary
A., born July 28, 1851, died in July, 1877; Fletcher G., born May 24, 1854,
married Nettie West April 10, 1879; William H., born February 4, 1857,
married in Noble Township; Roger S., born August 18, 1859. April 7, 1872,
Mr. Walter was married to Mary Hahn, who was born in Columbiana County,
Ohio, September 30, 1825. She came to this county in 1872. Her father,
Jacob Hahn, was born in Maryland and died when eighty-three years of age in
1869. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Her mother, Mary (Wickerd) Hahn,
was born in Germany and came to Amer
ica when three years old with her parents and three other children, the
family locating in Columbiana County, Ohio. Mrs. Walter was first married
to Jacob Hine, a native of Pennsylvania, who died of apoplexy in January,
1860, aged thirty-seven years. She had two children by this marriage
-Albertus D., born August 30, 1850, and John B., born May 28, 1852. Mrs.
Walter's mother died in Stark County, Ohio, at the age of eighty-eight
years. Mr. Walter's grandfather, Henry Walter, was born in Schuykill
County, Pennsylvania, and died in Adams County, same State, aged
eighty-four years; he was of German descent. The Runnells were probably
born in Maryland, near Hagerstown. Mrs. Walter's grandparents all died
before her recollection. The Hahns and Wickerds were of German descent, and
the Montgomerys were of English origin. Mr. and Mrs. Walter settled upon
their present farm in 1844. Mr. Walter was a Republican until 1884, at
which time he voted for St. John.


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