John Blair Linn's History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Phila.: Louis H. Everts, 1883; Press of J.B. Lippincot & Co., Phila.) goes from Campbell to the Dr. Ira D. Canfield who was found drowned in September of 1867. Since the Doctor's mind had been "impaired dome years before his decease," it was "...supposed he ended his own life." He'd been born the first of February at Morristown, New Jersey and had studied medicine at Reading. He was a practicioner of medicine in Centre and Clinton Counties for over fifty years and he left one son, Dr. Ira Canfield, Jr.
The US Census of 1850 for Walker Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania gives us the physician living with a Peter Zigler, William Smith, and a Houston. These people live near John Orr, an innkeeper, and Jacob Lotz, a blacksmith. Around these live the Candys.
Solomon Candy is a shoemaker. In 1850 he's 28 years old living with a Mary Candy (27) and two children--William (2) and Catharin (1). They live int he household of a ninety-two year old man named John Snyder (Dwelling 1865, Family # 1892).
Levi Candy is a mason (36 years old) and his Catharine is five years younger. Their child Ann is eight years old and attending school within the year. Elizabeth is four years old and the John Candy with them is but six months old. These are in Dwelling # 1857, Family # 1884).
And Jacob Candy is a farmer in Dwelling # 1866, Family # 1893. Jacob is sixty-one years old and his Catharin [this is Catharine Ann Snyder] is just a tad bit older at 63. With them are Daniel Candy (age 22) and Matilda Candy, the youngest in the household at nineteen. Jacob lives right next door to John Emerich, also a farmer. John Emerich is 35 and his Mary is 23 years old. For some reason the census says on the next line [ ] "Margaret Kin Read," age 17. And the Jacob Emerich with them is sixty-five years old. In the next dwelling is Daniel and Rebecca Emerich.
Then for the enumerator it's on to see (Dwelling # 1860, Family # 1887) Mary Snyder (age 61) who lives with Absalom (age 26) who does blacksmithing and Peter Snyder, a tailor. And William Conner a forty year old mason (Dwelling # 1861, Family # 1888).
It's in Dwelling # 1865, Family # 1892 where we find Solomon Candy with elder John Snyder.
The Township had been erected in 1810 so it's been forty years in the making by the time we find our people on the 1850 Census.
That milestone year, 1850, is when we find Samuel Candy and Polly up in the Town of Buck Eye in Stephenson County, Illinois. Samuel's most of thitty years old and Polly is thirty-three. Their Catharine is 12, Sophia is ten, and John is seven years old. The Mary E. with them is two years old and the George Emerisk is 23 years old. They are #520 up there. Polly cannot read & write. Catharine, Sophia, and John are attending school. This is one year before Polly--Mary Magdalene (Emerich) Candy dies. She'd given birth to Mary Elizabeth in Illinois, but the rest of the children down in Centre County.
From Betsy E. Tolstedt we learn, "I am a descendent of Jacob via his son Levi. Levi followed Samuel to Stephenson County, Illinois. I have lots and lots of stuff. I have also connected with a descendent of Solomon Candy. I am eager to look at what you have on Samuel. His family disappeared from Stephenson County" (Ancestry.com, 31 JAN 2005).
Betsy posts news from the Orangeville Courier 20 & 27 APRIL 1901 in an article entitled, "Former Centre County People: Prominant Citizens Who Lived in Pennsylvania." This tells us..."John Candy, farmer near Rock Grove, son of Levi Candy, came out here from Hublersburg, about 45 years ago with his many family, and many of the older people of Nittany Valley will remember the Candy's. They were good people, industrious, honest in their dealings with their fellow men. The writer [of the article] was very well acquainted with Levi while in the east."
Based on a compilation of information we see that Samuel married Mary Magdalena Emerich (Polly) on the 21st of December 1837. They gave birth to Catharine Ann in April of 1838 in Pennsylvania. Sophia, too, was born in Pennsylvania. And the 1850 Census tells us that our "Great/Gee" John Candy was also born in Pennsylvania in the year 1842 or 1843. Then Mary Elizabeth was born in the August of 1848 in Illinois. About three years later, Samuel's wife, Mary Magdalena (Polly) dies.
The US Census of 1840 back in Walker Township, Centre, Pennsylvania gives us some Kenedys there; but it also gives us a Jacob Candy; Samuel Candy; and William Candy.
Obviously the Census of 1820 would be good to read as well. 1820 would've been five years after Samuel's birth in Walker Township. We are tracing the life of Samuel because he went on to marry Mary Magdalena (Emerich) and they bore the children including our John Candy (born 1842/43).
There is an ancestral file ("Ancestral File," database FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:MM9.2.1/M4XZ-6P3: accessed 2 JULY 2013), entry for Samuel Candy that tells us more about Mary Magdalena.
Mary Magdalena Emerich was born on the 13th of January of 1818 to the parents Johannes Emerich and Elizabeth Dunkle who'd married in about 1814. Johannes Emerich had come from Tulpenhocken in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He'd been christened in the Christ Lutherian church on the 14th of October 1787. But he died in Walker Township, Centre, Pennsylvania in the February of 1845 (just six years before his daughter died in Illinois). Johannes Emerich's wife, Elizabeth (Dunkle) lived for five years longer than her daughter Mary Magdalena. The dates of Elizabeth Dunkle's lifetime are given as: 10 JAN 1790-24 APRIL 1856). And Elizabeth was a Pennsylvania woman. Elizabeth Dunkle's parents were Melchoir and Barbara Dunkle. Melchoir had been born in 1764, the year that Captain Potter first spied the "empire" in the wilderness of the seven mountains.
Johannes Emerich (born 17 SEPT 1787 in Tulpenhocken) had a father named John Nicholas Emerich. This is still according to the Ancestral File. John Nicholas had been born on the 28th of June 1754 also in Tulpenhocken. Likewise his wife to be Maria Barbara was born in Tulpenhocken in 1765. John Nicholas and his wife most likely moved to Walker Township and it was there that they both died. John Nicholas in late November (the 28th) of 1815 and Maria Barbara on the 31st of March 1854.
The Emerich research goes back further still. John Nicholas Emerich had been born to Bathasier and Maria Martha (Kanter) Emerich during that September 1787 in Tulpenhocken. The ancestral file gives us the life dates for Bathasier as 1719-1810, and, suggests that Maria Martha was born about 1723.
And there is information regarding John Nicholas Emerich's wife--Maria Barbara. She'd been a Riegel...born in 1765 in Tulpenhocken to parents Simmon (5 NOV 1738-12 JAN 1829) and Anna Gertrude (Kirschner) Riegel (born abt 1745 and dying before 1825). But Maria Barbara died in Walker Township.
The ancestral file was submitted by someone (dwoodward2026793) with a lot of details about Samuel and Mary Magdalena's daughter, Mary Elizabeth Candy--sister of John Candy who married Sarah Maurer. Mary Elizabeth was about five or six years younger than our Great John (who went on to father George Augustus Candy). Mary Elizabeth married Albert De Wild--a harnessmaker. Ancestry.com information tells us that Mary Elizabeth went to Kansas (Jewell County) for a spell and stayed with her sister Sophia, but that Mary Elizabeth and Albert went to Iowa like John and Sarah Candy. Mary Elizabeth and Albert got married on the 11th of May 1880 in Jewell City, Kansas. But Mary Elizabeth is buried in a municipal cemetery in Marengo, Iowa. Albert's lifetime dates are given as 1852-1918. And Mary Elizabeth died on the 26th of March 1921.
Mary Elizabeth's brother John had died in 1918 in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. His wife Sarah Maurer (who'd been married to John abt 1865) had grown up in Illinois, a child of George and Elizabeth (Bolender) Maurer. Elizabeth Bolender's people also came from Centre County, Pennsylvania, in fact, that is where Sarah's mother was born according to the Death Certificate for Mary Katharine Mengedohd (02 JUNE 1931). Mary Katharine's parents George and Elizabeth Maurer were also the parents of Sarah who married our Great John Candy. Elizabeth Bolender had come from Centre County and George from Union County (where he'd been born in 1810) George Maurer made way to Illinois in 1840 and was married to Miss Elizabeth Bolender in 1841. Their daughter, Sarah, is improperly cited in Tilden's The History of Stephenson County, Illinois as having married J. Kennedy when in fact, she married John Candy, son of Samuel (born 1815) who was the son of Jacob and Catharine Ann (Snyder) Candy.
As George and Elizabeth Maurer made way into Stephenson County, Illinois it had been two years since the Cedar Creek overflowed. At the mouth of Richland Creek was a handful of Indian camps still menacing the settlers. These were called "Pottawotamies" and "Winnebagoes" not "Delaware" and "Shawnees" like they were called on Big and Little Fishing Creeks near the Nittany Post Office back in Pennsylvania. When the Cedar Creek overflowed there were new divisions made in place names. Before the flood Buckeye Township was known simply as the Central District. The settlers had been relying on their guns for meat which would scatter great flocks of "prairie chickens" and roaming herds of deer. Without milling flour was hard to come by so biscuits were missing the boof and anything bread-like was flat and hard.
The tiny wave of settlers arriving in 1840 were on the heels of those who'd migrated in 1837.
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