BIO:  William WALHEY, Menallen Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 481

WILLIAM WALHEY, retired farmer, Bendersville, was born August 2, 1816, in 
Menallen Township, this county, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Bender) 
Walhey, former a native of Armstrong County, Penn., a son of Nicholas, and of 
French extraction; the latter a native of Dover, York Co., Penn., a daughter of 
Henry Bender, and a sister of Henry Bender who was part owner of the original 
plat of Bendersville.  John Walhey was a moulder by trade, but while living in 
this county followed farming.  He died in 1819, a member of the Catholic Church, 
at the age of fifty years; his widow was a member of the Evangelical Church, and 
died at the age of eighty-seven years and eight months, in about 1866.  William 
Walhey was reared a farmer; on December 13, 1843, he married Catherine Rice, of 
Gettysburg; she died in 1871, the mother of the following children:  Eliakim, 
Elizabeth C., Angeline, John W., William W., Samuel H., and Annie Armenia, who 
died in childhood.  March 4, 1873, Mr. Walhey’s second marriage was celebrated 
with Ruth Wilson Wills, a daughter of James J. Wills, and a sister of Judge 
Wills of this county.  Mr. Walhey now resides at Bendersville, retired from his 
main farm, and now operates twenty acres near town.  He is a Prohibitionist; has 
served his township in local offices.  He is a member of the Methodist Church, 
in which he has been steward and trustee.  Mrs. Walhey is also a member of the 
same church.