BIO:  Henry A. WELTY, Liberty 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 472

HENRY A. WELTY, farmer, P. O. Fairfield, is a great grandson of a German 
ancestor, who settled in Washington County, where his son, Henry, grandfather of 
our subject, was born, and where he married a Miss Mary Zimmerman, a native of 
Maryland.  Henry Welty, later, bought a farm in Liberty Township, this county, 
on which he died in 1840, his widow dying on the same place in 1862.  Their 
children were as follows:  Henry, married to Lydia Eiker, and living in 
Illinois; Susan, wife of Henry Martin, both deceased; Nancy, wife of Eli 
Shockey, living in Washington County, Md.; Mary, wife of John Shank, of 
Mummasburg, this county; Elizabeth, who died unmarried; David, who died a few 
days before his intended wedding, and John Z., the youngest, the father of Henry 
A.  John Z. Welty was born January 25, 1829, on the home farm, which he 
subsequently inherited and which he has always worked; for many years he was 
also a butcher.  He married Harriet, daughter of Henry Wortz, of Liberty 
Township, this county, who is still living.  They had six children:  Henry A.; 
Mary Elizabeth, wife of John D. Overholtzer, of Liberty Township, this county; 
Catherine, widow of Robert Hockensmith, of Frederick County, Md., where she 
died; John Lewis, teacher, living with his parents; George Wortz, also living at 
home; Harriet, who died when five years old.  Henry A., the subject of this 
sketch, was born March 3, 1852, on the home-farm, where he worked until a year 
after his marriage, when he removed to the farm owned by him and his wife.  
October 1, 1878, he was married to Miss Coralia Haines, born in Frederick 
County, Md., March 6, 1851, a daughter of Stephen Haines, a farmer of that 
county, who died regretted by all who knew him, and is missed by the poor of 
that region, to whom he was ever remarkably kind and charitable.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Welty have one child, Adria Gertrude, born October 6, 1879, at the home of her 
grandfather.  Mr. and Mrs. Welty have a comfortable home, a good farm, and are 
as happily situated as can be desired.  They are members of the Reformed Church 
in Fairfield, in which he has for a long time been a deacon, and their many good 
traits endear them to a large circle of friends.  In politics he is a 
Republican.