Prepared by Anne Broomall Wiegle with information from Carla S. Koval

 

 

Descendants of Laura Hatton Meharg

Generation No. 7



1. LAURA 7 HATTON (SUSANNA 6 BROOMELL, DANIEL 5; ISAAC 4; DANIEL 3 BROOMALL; JOHN 2; JOHN 1) was born April 13, 1869 in Homeville, Upper Oxford Twp, Chester Co PA, and died July 16, 1965 in Coatesville, Chester Co. PA. She married SAMUEL MEHARG, who died August 10, 1919. They are both buried in Fairview Cemetery in Coatesville.

Children of LAURA HATTON and SAMUEL MEHARG are:
i. SUSANNA R. MEHARG , b. October 1889; d. April 1971; m. BARTON W. HOWE.
ii. JAMES E. MEHARG , b. September 1893.
iii. LAURA MAY MEHARG , b. June 1894.
iv. WILLIAM MARTIN MEHARG , b. March 1896; d. February 1957; m. ANNA SMEDLEY.
v. JOHN FRANKLIN MEHARG , b. December 1897; m. SARAH REBECCA FISHER , February 1927.
vi. CHESTER L. MEHARG , b. November 1899.
2. vii. HOWARD H. MEHARG , b. August 19, 1901; d. December 03, 1951.
viii. MARGARET E. MEHARG , b. 1904; d. October 1952; m. RUSTON CAMPBELL.
ix. MARY ELIZABETH MEHARG , b. 1906; d. July 1987; m. THEODORE DANIELS , October 1924.
x. SAMUEL W. MEHARG , b. 1907; d. April 1957.
xi. SALOME W. MEHARG , b. 1909.

Generation No. 8



2. HOWARD H. 8 MEHARG (LAURA 7 HATTON; SUSANNA 6 BROOMELL; DANIEL 5; ISAAC 4; DANIEL 3 BROOMALL; JOHN 2; JOHN 1) was born August 19, 1901, and died December 03, 1951. He met (1) LILLIAN LARSON. He married (2) ALICE WILSON.

Child of HOWARD MEHARG and LILLIAN LARSON is:
3. i. BEVERLY MAE (LARSON) VACHON, b. February 28, 1927, St. Paul MN, Lutheran Home. Adopted by JOSEPH and HELEN VACHON.

Child of HOWARD MEHARG and ALICE WILSON is:
ii. JOHN HOWARD MEHARG

Notes of CARLA KOVAL, the granddaughter of LILLIAN LARSON:
I think that indicating the adoption is important. Mother always knew she was adopted. My birth grandmother, Lillian, was living on her own in St. Paul, MN working in a department store. Mother was born in a Lutheran Home there on February 28, 1927. Lillian's father and mother
knew of the child Lillian gave birth to, but no one else in the family knew, even right up until Lillian's death last year [1998]. Lillian decided to give Mom up for adoption so my mother went to a foster home, where she stayed for three years while Lillian tried to make up her mind. Mother was given the name Beverly Mae Larson. Her adoptive parents were Joseph and Helen Vachon. While Mother was living with Joseph and Helen, Lillian would come and visit my mother. Mother knew who she was.
Back in 1982 mother decided to start looking for her birth mother, after a year of research we discovered that Lillian had married and moved to Seattle, Washington. She was living in our own back yard all those years. We called her and arranged a meeting.