General Notes

BIOGRAPHY: Esther Charlotte Schindler was born on April 16, 1796 inFrederick, Frederick County, Maryland to Adam and Christina (Quierin)Schindler.  Esther died November 1, 1874. William died June 21, 1879.William Link, second son so named by Peter (the first child died ininfancy) and his fifth child, lived his whole life in Augusta County. Hewas born October 24, 1795, and died June 21, 1879. On June 10, 1818, hemarried Esther Charlotte Schindler, sister of Susannah, who was the wifeof William's older brother, John. Adam Schindler, Esther's father, signedher marriage bond. William and Esther distinguished themselves long aftertheir demise by becoming the great-grandparents of General Eisenhower andhis brothers.  William was a farmer and cabinetmaker, a skill he passedon to his eldest son, Peter J. Link.  William's eldest child was adaughter, Rebecca, born March 15, 1819. She married Peter E. Houff, April10, 1845. Peter's brother, William A., was to marry Susan ChristianaLink, Rebecca's first cousin, the following year. Many of the Houff  andHulvey names are descended from Rebecca and Peter. Rebecca preceded herfather in death by a few years. She and Peter Houff are buried in theSalem Lutheran Church Cemetery.  William's next child was a daughter,Louisa Link, who married Samuel Lambert, December 18, 1845. Nothing moreis known about her except that she had died before April 19, 1858, dateof her father's will in which he does not mention her, but leaves hershare of his estate to her children.  Elizabeth Juda, named for her auntand grandmother, was born November 19, 1822. She was confirmed in theSalem Lutheran Church December 8, 1840, and married Simon Stover December31, 1848. Their only daughter was named Ida Elizabeth and became thebride of David Eisenhower. Mary Ann Link Beam took Ida Elizabeth west toKansas nine years after the death of her father. Elizabeth, her mother,had died fifteen years before this change of residence. An almostcomplete Stover genealogy is found in this history, from Elizabeth Judaand Simon, as well as all of the Eisenhower data.  Peter J. Link,William's first son, was born next, his birthday being July 26, 1825. Asa young man before marriage, he lived in Rockingham County, where GeorgeUtsler, in whose home he resided at the time, lists him as a cabinetmakerin the 1850 census, employed. The marriage date of Peter J. Link andElizabeth E. Kerr has not been found. The first of their two children wasborn in 1857. Both were daughters, named Alice, who married CharlesThompson, and Hester, who married William H. Landes. Elizabeth's name isplainly set out in the marriage license of her daughter, Hester. Peterand Elizabeth are buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery at FortDefiance, Virginia.  William's next child, a son, was his namesake. Hewas born March 3, 1827. Young William married Susan Jane Amanda Cook,September 24, 1857. Augusta County records reveal the birth of sixchildren to their marriage: Leonard, Adam, Jacob, Ida Margaret, DavidPaul, and Susan Jane Amanda. Death records indicate the passing inchildhood of Leonard, Jacob, Ida Margaret and David Paul. I can learnnothing about Adam and Susan Jane Amanda, although their father survivedtheir mother. William is admonished in his father's will "to work thefarm for his mother as long as she lives upon such terms as are fair andreasonable." William lived until 1889, but his wife, Susan Jane Amanda,died eleven days after the birth of her youngest child and namesake.  Thelast child of William and Esther was Mary Ann. At the time of William'slast illness Emmanuel Beam was secured to take care of him. After Williamdied, Emmanuel Beam went to Kansas. Mary Ann Link, a spinster of fifty,followed him and married him in this western state in 1883. Ida ElizabethStover, niece of Mary Ann Link, and with whom she had lived after herparents' deaths, accompanied Mary Ann to Kansas.  In this will which hedid not change through the years evidenced by his admonition to his so