BIO:  Samuel WEIKERT, Germany 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 436

SAMUEL WEIKERT, P.O. Littlestown, was born in Mountpleasant Township, this 
county, February 12, 1815.  His father, George Weikert, was twice married; first 
to Miss Spitler, who died, leaving ten children:  John, Elizabeth, George, 
Peter, Andrew, Henry, Catherine, Fanny, Mary and Jacob.  He then married Mrs. 
Ann Maria Colestock, nee Lightner, who bore him four children:  Margaret, Sarah, 
Samuel (subject), and William.  Samuel Weikert, at the age of sixteen, went to 
Coler’s flour-mill, in York County, where he remained for six years, four years 
in learning the business, and two in conducting it.  He then followed milling in 
Conowago Township, this county, for seventeen years, and at Berlin, York County, 
five years.  He came to Littlestown in 1860, and, in company with John Duttera, 
engaged in buying and shipping grain for several years.  He has now given up 
active business and is living in retirement.  In 1848 Mr. Weikert married Lydia 
Showalter, who bore him four children, three now living:  Mary Josephine (wife 
of Alonzo Sanders), Charles E. (married to Mary Fink), and Emma (married to 
Luther Alleman).  Mr. Weikert is a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and 
contributed liberally toward building the edifice; has also officiated as elder 
in the church.  He is a Republican, politically, and has served the borough in 
several local offices.  His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Weikert, were 
natives of Lancaster County, Penn., and many years ago settled in Mountpleasant 
Township, this county.  They are both buried in St. John’s graveyard.