Abraham Billheimer and Elizabeth Weibel

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Husband Abraham Billheimer ¹

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           Born: 16 Jun 1844 - near Smithton, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Billheimer (1819-1900) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Piper (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 29 Dec 1870 2

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Wife Elizabeth Weibel ²

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           Born: Abt 1850
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         Father: Henry Weibel (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Hohenshell (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Charles Billheimer ²

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2 M Robert Billheimer ²

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         Spouse: Allie Ruoff (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Abraham Billheimer

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He was born near Smithton, South Huntingdon township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and continued to reside at his father's home until he had reached the age of seventeen. When his father went to enlist for service in the Civil War, his son, then a mere stripling, enlisted with him. Both men entered Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, volunteering for nine months service. The father and his son of seventeen were fortunate enough to be assigned as messmates, and served throughout their period thus in close comradeship. The experiences of the one were the experiences of the other. Some time before the expiration of six months, they returned and reenlisted in Company B, Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, which was at that time recruiting, and once more went South, reaching their new regiment at Bridgeport, Alabama, just before that body set out on the famous march of General Sherman to the sea. In this service Mr. Billheimer, Sr. remained in the ranks, but his son was assigned to duty as orderly at staff headquarters of General Geary, for whom he acted as a dispatch bearer. This service was an especially dangerous one and the young man got into many tight places, from all of which, however, he extricated himself and came off unscathed. In the year 1866, after the close of hostilities, he once more took up civil life, and returning to his native Westmoreland County, and resided there, with the exception of two years spent in Iowa, in Clinton and Cedar counties. For thirty-one years Mr. Billheimer followed the profession of teaching in the local public schools. Even after giving up his teaching, Mr. Billheimer retained a lively interest in all educational matters. He was active in many local matters and served at least six terms of five years each as a justice of the peace. In politics Mr. Billheimer was an Independent Democrat, supporting in the main the principles and policies represented by that party. In the year 1871 Mr. Billheimer purchased property consisting of a small house situated on a tract of land in South Huntingdon township, situated about two miles west of Ruffs Dale, and eight east of West Newton, on the Mount Pleasant turnpike. Here he built a handsome brick residence situated on a fine elevation.

He and his wife were brought up as neighbors. They continued to reside on his farm, which consisted of fifty-six acres, which he kept in the highest state of fertility and cultivation and where he has carried on his successful farming operations for so many years.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 677.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 678.