Sex: Male.
Birth: Jan 1838 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Death: ABT 1914 in Conestoga Centre, Pennsylvania
Family: Wife: Mary Elizabeth Hess 1840 - 1915.
Children: Elizabeth A Wade 1861 - 1916. Ester S Wade 1867 - 1916. John Z Wade 1869 - 1930. William A Wade 1873 - . Charles M Wade 1874 - . Sarah A Wade 1876 - 1913. Florence Wade 1880 - 1900. Edwin Nelson Wade 1882 - 1952.
Marriage: ABT 1862 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Parents: Husband: John Wade 1817 - 1850.
Wife: Elizabeth Mundorff 1813 - 1875.
Noah H Wade was born in 1838 in Conestoga Center, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Sometime before 1862 he married Mary Hess (a very extended family in Conestoga).
Although already a father, Noah enlisted for duty in the civil war on 11 November 1862 as a Private in K Company, 178th Infantry Regiment. He was mustered out on 27 July 1863. The history of the 178th is as follows:
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Organized at Harrisburg October 22-November 27, 1862. Moved to Washington, D.C., December 5; thence to Newport News, Va.
Attached to Busteed's Brigade, 4th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, December, 1862, to April, 1863. West's Independent Brigade, 4th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to May, 1863. West's Advance Brigade, 4th Corps, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, King's Division, 22nd Corps, to August, 1863.
Service: Duty at Newport News, Va., till December 29, 1862, and at Yorktown, Va., and on the Peninsula till July 8, 1863. Reconnoissance to Bottom's Bridge July 1-7. Skirmish at Chickahominy July 2. Moved to Washington, D.C., July 8, and duty there till July 27. Mustered out July 27, 1863.
Casualties and Losses: Regiment lost during service 10 by disease.
A more detailed account of this enlistment:
Enlisted as a Private on 11 November 1862, Unit Number: 2173. Assigned to Company K, 178th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 11 November 1862. Mustered out Company K, 178th Infantry Regiment Pennsylvania on 27 July 1863, Distinguished Service. Family tradition was that he was injured in this first enlistment.
One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Infantry Service History: Officers: Col., James Johnson; Lieut.-Col., John Wimer; Maj., J. W. Chamberlain. The 178th a militia regiment, was recruited in the counties of Columbia, Lancaster, Montour and Luzerne and rendezvoused at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, in the autumn of 1862, where it was organized and mustered into the U. S. service for a term of nine months. On Dec. 5, it left camp for Washington, was ordered to Newport News and thence to Yorktown, where it was posted during the winter. In April, 1863 the regiment went to the relief of the troops at Fort Magruder, who were attacked by Gen. Wise, and in June joined in an expedition to Providence ferry and the movement toward Richmond, which skirmished with the enemy at Bottom's bridge on July 2. After returning to Washington its term of service expired and it was mustered out at Harrisburg on July 27, 1863.
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Noah reenlisted as a Private in D Company, 195th Infantry Regiment, on 14 February 1865. He was mustered out at Washington, DC on 31 January 1866 [a]. The 195th had been formed in July 1864 as a '100 day' unit. Noah served during its second reorganization. The history of the 195th during his period of service was as follows:
Regiment reorganized for one year February, 1865. Ordered to Charlestown, W. Va., March 31, 1865. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia, to July, 1865. Dept. of Washington, D.C., 22nd Corps, to January, 1865.
Service: Guard fords of the Shenandoah, Headquarters at Kablestown, W. Va., April 1-4, 1865. At Stevenson's Station until April 22. At Berryville until June 6. Expedition to Staunton June 6-26. Duty at Harrisonburg July. Ordered to Washington, D.C., and duty there until January, 1866. Mustered out January 31, 1866.
Regiment lost during service 10 by disease.
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Interestingly American writer Walt Whitman encountered Noah's regiment when they rested in front of his house during the move from Shenandoah back to Washington:
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Tuesday, Aug. 1, 1865.-About 3 o'clock this afternoon (sun broiling hot) in Fifteenth street, by the Treasury building, a large and handsome regiment, 195th Pennsylvania, were marching by-as it happen'd, receiv'd orders just here to halt and break ranks, so that they might rest themselves awhile. I thought I never saw a finer set of men-so hardy, candid, bright American looks, all weather-beaten, and with warm clothes. Every man was home-born. My heart was much drawn toward them. They seem'd very tired, red, and streaming with sweat. It is a one-year regiment, mostly from Lancaster Country, Pa.; have been in Shenandoah Valley. On halting, the men unhitch'd their knapsacks, and sat down to rest themselves. Some lay flat on the pavement or under trees. The fine physical appearance of the whole body was remarkable. Great, very great, must be the State where such young farmers and mechanics are the practical average. I went around for half an hour and talk'd with several of them, sometimes squatting down with the groups.
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One of the other members of his company was Private Benjamin F. Swinehart who served from Feb. 14, 1865 to Jan. 31, 1866 with Company D, 195th Regiment. B. F. Swinehart was buried in the Fair Haven Cemetery north of Lattasburg.
More detail of the Noah's service in the 195th Regiment is provided by Bayer:
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This regiment was principally recruited in Lancaster County....in February, 1865, Colonel Joseph W Fisher was authorized to recruit seven new companies, and re-orgainze the regiment for a term of one year, with the following field officers: William L Bear, Lieutenant Colonel; Henry D Markley, Major.
Soon afterwards, three additional companies were attached to it, temporarily, and it was ordered to Charlestown, where it formed part of the command of General T W Egan. On the 1st of April, the regiment was sent out under command of Lieutenant Colonel Bear, to guard the fords of the Shenandoah River, with headquarters at Kabletown, returning to camp on the 4th, and moving on the following day to Stevenson's Station.
On the 22nd, it was ordered to duty at Berryville, the order declaring that this regiment had been selected for the delicate duty of preserving quiet in the midst of a hostile people, on account of its excellent reputation for good discipline, and proceeded thither, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Bear, Colonel Fisher being at this time in command of a brigade.
On the 6th of June, the regiment, in conjunction with the One Hundred and Ninety second, moved up the valley as far a Harrisonburg, three companies, under command of Major Markley, proceeding with the rest of the brigade as far as Stanton. While on the way, the three companies which had composed the veteran battalion, were, in pursuance of orders of the War Department, mustered out of service. On the 26th, the balance of the regiment assembled at Harrisonburg, and proceeded thence to Washington, arriving on the 1st of August. It was here employed in guarding government property, in which duty it continued until the 31st of January, 1866, when it mustered out of service.
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Noah and his changing family can be tracked in the censuses of 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1910.
On 11 April 1889 Noah registered for a Civil War Veterans Pension as an Invalid (c).
He finally appears in the 1910 census, age 72, as the head of a household consisting of himself, his daughter, Elizabeth A Snyder 48, and grandson John G Snyder (d). A 1916 obituary of another daughter, Ester S Harris, indicates he was deceased by then, so he died between 1910 and 1916. Since his wife, Mary, is not mentioned in the 1910 census, it may be assumed she died before 1910.
From the 1916 obituary it is seen that Noah and Mary had sons John A, Charles, Edwin Noah (mistakenly given as Edward in both the obituary and the 1910 census, born 1882), Lizzie (born 1862), and William.
Family lore attributed Noah's civil war service to his nominal 'father', a Timothy Wade from Ireland. (There seems to have been a confabulation of generations due to each son being very late - Edwin being born when Noah was 44, and Warren being born when Edwin was 40). According to the account of Warren Wade, Timothy was a professor at a Dublin University, killed a British tax collector, and fled to the United States, Lancaster County. There he married a Conestoga Indian who had been raised in an orphanage, named Bright Waters. This was followed by civil war service during which he was mustered out due to wounds or captivity but then took the $ 600 bounty several times to take the place of another draftee. He was said to have spent time in Andersonville Prison with fellow Conestogan John W Urban, author of 'Battlefield and Prison Pen', a copy of which Warren had in his possession.
According to records, it was Noah that was in the civil war. While he did reenlist a second time just at the end of the war (perhaps for the $ 600 bounty), he is not listed as a prisonver at Andersonville and did not serve in the same regiments as Urban. The regiments in which he did serve saw limited combat, and casualties for both are put at only twenty men due to disease (on the other hand he was given a pension as an invalid, so perhaps he was wounded or caught a chronic disease during his service).
The mythical Timothy may have some basis, but it is impossible with current records to trace the family history definitely beyond Noah with complete certainty, or beyond his likely grandmother, Mary Wade, at all. There were a multitude of Wades in Pennsylvania and Conestoga from as early as 1675, and it is most likely that Noah was descended from these long-time residents of Conestoga Center. The story of the Irishman and the Conestoga Indians fits in with early Pennsylvania history. So-called 'Scots-Irish' immigrants were the first to travel up the Susquehanna rivers at the beginning of the 1700's. Several thousands of them were the first whites to contest land with the Indians later called Conestoga. The last 20 Conestoga Indians were wiped out by a lynch mob of Scots-Irish in 1763. So the story of Timothy Wade seems grounded in fact, and would have to have occurred sometime in 1700-1750. But which of the various Wades that swim into vision, and then disappear, in the Pennsylvania records between 1675 and 1830 may or may not be the ancestor of Noah is impossible to say at present.
References and Notes
(a) Source: History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, Published 1870
(b) 1870 WADE NOAH Lancaster County PA page 196 Conestoga Twp Federal Population Schedule PA 1870 Federal Census Index PA53138032
(c) Image of application no. 605.754, certificate number 39.218, obtained on ancestry.com.
(d) 1910 Census detail:
Noah H Wade
Age: 72 State: PA
Color: W Enumeration District: 0023
Birth Place: Pennsylvania Visit: 0051
County: Lancaster
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Daughter Elizabeth A Snyder 48, Pennsylvania Grandson John G 11, Pennsylvania
(d) The Lancaster Intelligencer, February 21, 1916, pg. 2:
Mrs. Ester S. Harris, wife of Isaac H. Harris, died yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock at her home, No. 43 New South Dorwart street, of pneumonia and other complicated troubles. She had been ill some months and was in the forty-ninth year of her age. The deceased was born at Conestoga Centre, a daughter of the late Noah and Mary (Hess) Wade, but had resided in this city for more than twenty years. She was a member of the Lancaster Avenue M. E. church and had been a member of the Lancaster Evangelistic Chorus. She is survived by her husband and brothers and sister as follows: John A. Wade, Charles and Edward of Conestoga Centre; Mrs. Lizzie Snyder, of Millersville, and William Wade, of Baltimore.
The funeral will take place from the late home on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, with services at the Conestoga Centre M. E. Church, at 10:30 o'clock. Interment will be made in adjoining cemetery. (e) Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Prose Works. 1892. V. November Boughs 12. Some War Memoranda (f) Source: The People of the Marsh, Charles Recker, Mar-Apr 1975, page 3:
A deed in Book WW, page 126, of Lancaster Co, was discovered by Edgar Musser, shows that a Jacob Landis died intestate leaving 200 acres near Conestoga or Strasberg, which he acquired from Tobias Collet and others in 1722 to his heirs and issue, Benjamin Landis; Barbara, wife of Teodorus Buckwalter; and Anna Tinkey, deceased, late wife of Christian Musser, of Lancaster Co, yeoman, deceased. Christian Musser also died intestate, so his share, which had been purchased by Benjamin Landis, was distributed to his heirs and issue, Peter Musser (who had a wife, Fronica); Hans Musser (who had a wife, Christina); Magdalena (wife of Martin Hoover); Anna (wife of John Wade); and Barbara Musser. Although the deed mentioned, which was dated 1795, does not tell when Christian died, that may have happened ca 1741 as that year is when Anna Muser, widow of Christian, signed a bond for faithful performance of her responsibilities in the administration of his estate. John Musser and Durst (Theodorus?) Buckwalter also signed this bond.
(g) The quotation from an Internet geneology forum. However given the marriage and death dates, this can be ruled out as an ancestor of Noah Wade:
JOHN WADE was born 1768, and died June 09, 1816 in Lancaster Co., Pa. He married MARIA HEISCH Sept. 22, 1789. She was born Aug. 06, 1769.
Children:
1. JOHN WADE, b. Jan. 08, 1792; d. Feb. 09, 1829, Lancaster Co., Pa.; m. SUSANNA WARFLE, June 03, 1819; b.Mar. 13, 1796; d. Nov. 18, 1839.
2. CHRISTIAN WADE, b. 1799; d. Nov. 26, 1853; m. MARY RESSLER; b. June 07, 1806; d. Jan. 02, 1886.
The daughters as far as we can figure out are:
3. CATHERINE WADE, b. March 12, 1803, Lancaster Co., Pa; d. Dec 27, 1862, Lancaster Co., Pa.; m. HENRY FROELICH, b. May 24, 1803, Lancaster Co., Pa; d. Feb. 14, 1871, Lancaster Co., Pa.
4. SUSAN WADE, b. February 21, 1810, (or 1815?); d. May 11, 1899; m. BENJAMIN SHAUB; b. March 09, 1815; d. June 06, 1896.
5. MARTHA WADE, b. Oct. 08, 1805; m. MICHAEL GROFF.
6. BARBARA WADE, b. Feb. 15, 1807; m. BURKHALDER?
7. HANNAH WADE.
8. WADE female, unknown name.
(h) 1790 Census: According to AIS, John Wade State: PA Year: 1790 County: Lancaster Image: 0811 Township: Earl Roll: M637_8. According to Pennsylvania Geneology Forum, quoting a 1908 reprint of the 1790 census, John Wade was in Elizabethtown, not Earl. However the image of the census page with John Wades name on it (or the others listed on the same page in the 1908 reprint) is not to be found on ancestry.com, for Earl, Elizabethtown, or Conestoga townships. The others are also catalogued as Earl Township by AIS. (i) The census listings were as follows:
1790 Census
Benjamin Wade - Lancaster Township.
Christian Wade - Lampeter Township.
James Wade - Hempfield Township.
John Wade - Earl Township.
1810 Census
Daniel Wade - Lancaster Township. Census Page 475
James Wade - Lancaster Borough. Census Page 567
1820 Census
Daniel Wade - Lancaster Township. Census Page 120
Andrew Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 157
James Wade - Columbia Borough. Census Page 329
Joseph Wade - Columbia Borough. Census Page 330
1830 Census
Daniel Wade - Lancaster Township. Census Page 3
Susan Wade - Lancaster Township. Census Page 4
Catharine Wade - Donegal W Township. Census Page 79
Andrew Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 95
Samuel Wade - Little Britain Township. Census Page 141
David Wade - Earl Township. Census Page 229
Mary Wade - Earl Township. Census Page 229
Christian Wade - Leacock Township. Census Page 234
1840 Census
John Wade - Lancaster Township. Census Page 37
Henry Wade - Hempfield E Township. Census Page 114
Joseph Wade - Donegal E Township. Census Page 117
Mrs. Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 139
David C Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 150
Daniel Wade - Manor Township. Census Page 153
Christian Wade - Hempfield W Township. Census Page 206
Mary Wade - St.Rasburg Township. Census Page 283
John Wade - Earl Township. Census Page 445
1850 Census
Henry Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 2
Mary Wade - Little Britain Township. Census Page 18
Andrew Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 31
Mary Wade - Mount Joy Township. Census Page 31
Fracsis Wade - Salisbury Township. Census Page 35
Christian Wade - Bart Township. Census Page 44
Robert Wade - Leacock Township. Census Page 102
Elizabeth Wade - Manor Township. Census Page 150
John Wade - Blue Bakers District. Census Page 185
Samuel Wade - Columbia Borough. Census Page 223
Leah Wade - Earl W Township. Census Page 239
Eliza Wade - Conestoga Township. Census Page 253
John Wade - Conestoga/Safe Harbour . Census Page 275
Edward Wade - Conoy Township. Census Page 303
Mary Wade - Marietta Township. Census Page 412
1870 Census
Benjamin Wade - Brecknock Township. Census Page 33
Julia Wade - Elizabethtown Borough. Census Page 57
Mary Wade - Elizabethtown Borough. Census Page 60
Henry A Wade - Elizabethtown Borough. Census Page 64
Noah Wade - Conestoga Township. Census Page 196
Aaron Wade - Drumore Township. Census Page 267
Amos Wade - Drumore Township. Census Page 267
Christian Wade - Drumore Township. Census Page 267
Howard Wade - Salisbury Township. Census Page 271
Aaron Wade - St.Rasburg Township. Census Page 323
Emma Wade - St.Rasburg Township. Census Page 323
Mary Wade - St.Rasburg Township. Census Page 323
Samuel Wade - Marietta Township. Census Page 390
Edward F Wade - Marietta Township. Census Page 391
John Wade - Earl E Township. Census Page 432
John Wade - Earl E Township. Census Page 432
Joseph Wade - Leacock Township. Census Page 439
Robert Wade - Leacock Township. Census Page 439
David Wade - Earl E Township. Census Page 440
John Wade - Earl E Township. Census Page 441
1910 Census
Raymond Wade - Census Page 10
Charles M Wade - Census Page 23
Edward N Wade - Census Page 23
John Z Wade - Census Page 23
Noah H Wade - Census Page 23
William A Wade - Census Page 24
William H Wade - Census Page 31
Harry K Wade - Census Page 33
Daniel Wade - Census Page 33
Addeson Wade - Census Page 35
David M Wade - Census Page 35
John E Wade - Census Page 37
A Milton Wade - Census Page 40
Effie L Wade - Census Page 40
Charles Wade - Census Page 42
Julia Wade - Census Page 45
David S Wade - Census Page 47
Ira Wade - Census Page 47
Galen G Wade - Census Page 55
Ariel D Wade - Census Page 64
Anna Wade - Census Page 65
Emma B Wade - Census Page 66
Plus the following Wades in the 1910 census not a head of household:
Sarah A Wade - Census Page 66
Robert M Wade - Census Page 72
J N Wade - Census Page 74
Ralph R Wade - Census Page 74
William J Wade - Census Page 80
Margaret E Wade - Census Page 80
Geo L Wade - Census Page 100
Jeremiah Wade - Census Page 126
Edith Wade - Census Page 126
John D Wade - Census Page 132
Anna Wade - Census Page 132
Emma Wade - Census Page 132
Roy Wade - Census Page 132
Hitte Wade - Census Page 143
Nettie Wade - Census Page 143
Change: 8 Oct 2006 Time: 01:00:00.