The Storer family is one of the earlier families to have settled in Harmony Township. Coming from Derbyshire, England, five children of George and Julia Storer’s eleven offspring came to America while their parents remained in England. Of the five that settled in and around Susquehanna and Bradford County, it is Moses and Mary Ann ( Hartshorn) Storer that I am most interested in as they are the parents of Hannah (Storer) Walker – my great, great grandmother.
Moses and Mary Ann Storer
Moses and Mary Ann (Hartshorn) were married in England and came to this country in 1847 to make their home in Stevens Point, PA. According to several mentions of the Storers in Beers’ Commemorative Biographical Record of Northeastern Pennsylvania, these families settled in “the wilds of Harmony Township”. Moses and Mary Ann had six children and it is their second child, Hannah that married Ianthus W. Walker. Several of the Storer family members are buried in the Brandt Cemetery; Moses and Mary Storer, Hannah and Ianthus Walker, George W. Storer ( 1851-1906). It seems that John Storer is buried there as well – a stone that lies next to one where the inscription has long faded away, bears the name of “Myra Storer, wife of John Storer”. There may very well be other family members buried there without a stone.
In 1985, Sarah (Bailey) Warder gave my family her extensive research on the Storer family; it is her work that I have posted here..
Storer family history from Sarah (Bailey) Warder - Page 1
Storer family history from Sarah (Bailey) Warder - Page 2
