Compiled with the help of Sam Couch
Taken on the Hultz farm, date unknown.
Richard Hultz (1760-1840) was about 26 years old when he and his brother Henry came to this area from Virginia with their father, Henry Sr. (Henry Sr. served in the Revolutionary War and is buried in Peter’s Creek Cemetery). Richard purchased 300 acres, patented April 25, 1788, called “Hulse’s Walk.” On the Warrantee Atlas there are two segments of land, comprising 537 acres, that adjoin Richard’s property, purchased by “Henry Hulse,” but it has not been determined if Henry Sr. owned both parcels or if one belonged to him and another to his son Henry Jr. (NOTE: The name is recorded in different documents as Hultz, Hulse, and Huls.) The oldest patent to the family was for “Oak Hill” dated June 1, 1786. The Hultz property covered the area of between what is now St. Anne’s Church on Hoodrige Drive, Bethel Church Road and South Park. Richard and the Henrys farmed the land.
Richard, a ruling elder at MLUP Church, married Abigail (1758-1832) and they had five children, of whom only James (1787-1833) has been positively identified as being buried here. James was a farmer and a ruling elder at MLUP Church. Buried along with James are his wife, Mary Calhoon (1790-1864), and their three children—David Calhoon (1820-1893), superintendent of Mayview Hospital (and David’s first wife Sarah Ann Adamson and David’s 18-year-old daughter Jennie M. by his second wife, Mary Walker); Eleanor King Hultz; and Hiram (as well as Hiram’s wife Mathilda Boyer and young sons Alfred and James Boyd). Hiram served in the Civil War as a sergeant in Company K, 127th United States Colored Infantry. He later became a colonel.
It is possible that Richard and Abigail’s son Henry B. could also be buried here with his wife, Margaret Mathews (1803-1868), and three of their four children—Sara Jane (and Sara’s husband Henry H. Murray); Marshall M., who graduated Jefferson Medical College in Philadephia in 1858, set up a practice in Washington County, entered Co. H, 62nd Pennsylvania Infantry (as a sugeon), and died of consumption at age 28 shortly after returning home from his three years of service (according to the PA State Archives, Marshall stood just over 5 feet 8 inches tall and had black hair and grey eyes); and Captain James Hultz. Also buried here are James’ wife, Abigail Espy, and three of their six children—Albert M., Thomas Harry (see below), and William Park (as well as William’s wife, Susanna Blanche McCabe and their son Roy Marshall, who died at age 3).
Thomas Harry (1860-1928)—known as T. Harry—served as a clerk of sessions for MLUP Church for 20 years. He resigned from the position in October 1918, because the church was too far from his home (church notes refer to his home as being located on Bethel Church Road). T. Harry lived on his father, James’, farm and joined MLUPC on May 12, 1877 at age 17. By the time he was 30 years old, he was a
ruling elder, a position he held for 40 years. When he died, the church reported he had missed only 17 days during his tenure. On his passing, the church noted that T. Harry “stood as a lighthouse to warn earthly mariners of the perils of life’s seas, and to mark out by this example the safe channel. His clearness of vision and fairness of judgment made his counsel exceedingly valuable to the large number of people who sought his advice.” On Jan. 24, 1901, T. Harry married Ella Roach (1868-1945).
Other Hultzes buried here are the great-granddaughter and great-grandson of Henry Hultz Sr.—Jane Hultz (and her husband, Samuel Cooley) and Isaac Phillips and his wife, Margaret Williams.
Hultzes married into many local families including Cooley, McMillen, McCully, Philips, Long, Couch, Murray and Espy.
"I will ransom them from the power of the grave
I will redeem thee from death
O, death will be thy plague."
The following pictures were found in a folder of information about the Hultz family at the Pittsburgh's Heinz History Center. None of the people were identified. If you know who these people are, please email me at stclaircemetery@juno.com
  
We received an email from
Jennie Griggs who says this is John Hultz.
Another picture of him can be found in
"Memoirs of Allegheny County"
Available online through
  
Jennie Griggs also identified the older woman wearing a cape as Matilda Alison Hultz. She is the mother of John Hultz (pictured above) and the wife of Elson Hultz(Henry Elston Hultz)--the older man pictured with his arm resting on a table.
Thanks Jennie!
  
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