Hans Adam Sontag
and his wife Anna Elisabetha Pfaff
and Some of Their Descendants
Noll Family

According to information provided to Find a Grave, George was born in Northumberland County. Union County was created out of Northumberland in 1813, so he was probably born in that part of Northumberland that became Union. This article gives George's birth and death dates ten years later than reported on his gravestone. His age in the 1850 Census agrees with the birth date on his grave marker. I can only identify six of the nine children by his first wife, and two of the three children by his second wife.

George Noll and Nancy Hall married, and started a family, in Pennsylvania. Following the War of 1812, settlement in the West became much safer. After the birth of a child in Pennsylvania about 1814-5, they migrated West to Ohio, where a son was born in 1817. The last child by his first wife, of which I have record, was born in 1828; the first child by his second wife, of which I have record, was born about 1833-4. So in that interval, from 1828 to 1833, Nancy (Hall) Noll died, and George remarried. In 1839, when George was fifty-three years old, the family migrated to Indiana. His second wife and some of his children came with him.

History of Steuben Cointy, Indiana, like many similar county histories, is a collection of short biographies provided by the persons being described. Genealogists sometimes call them brag books. In this case, some of the information may be misleading. In addition to the article on George Noll's son, Samuel, transcribed above, History of Steuben County, Indiana has articles on two of George Noll's grandsons, Samuel Stover and George Stover, both children of Margaret (Noll) Stover. They leave some confision on when the Noll extended family moved to Indiana.

According to the above article, Samuel Noll migrated to Indiana in 1839 with his wife and first two children. He accompanied his father's family and took the lead in establishing their farm. I began to question this when I saw in the 1850 Census that Samuel's sons, George, age 9, was born in Ilinois, and William, age 7, was born in Pennsylvania. The penmanship is not clear, and these state abbreviations could be interpreted differently. However the 1860 and 1870 census records list the birthplaces of these two sons in Indiana, and son George's death record in Michigan reports his birthplace as Salem, Indiana. So I conclude that the statement in History of Steuben County is correct.

The article on Samuel Stover reported that he was born in Stark County, Ohio, "and was brought by his parents to Steuben County in 1838."^[3] This would indicate that Margaret (Noll) Stover and her husband Ephraim migrated to Indiana the year before her father and the rest of the family came. In the 1850 Census the Ephraim Stover family was reported immediately next to the George Noll family.

The article on George Stover reported that his parents, Ephraim and Margaret (Noll) Stover migrated to Steuben County in October 1834. However it also states that George was born in Ohio in 1838.^[4] While it is possible that the family could have gone to Indiana then returned to Ohio then went back to Indiana, the more likely explanation is that the History made a typographical error.

My conclusion is that Ephraim and Margaret (Noll) Stover migrated to Indiana in 1838, and the following year her parents and her brother Samuel followed.

The 1850 Census found the family in Salem Township, Steuben County, as follows:^[5]

Polly and Sally were the children of George and Catharine; the rest of the children surnamed Noll were the children of Samuel and Christina. The other surviving children of George Noll by his first wife had established their own families. Margaret and Catharine both lived with their families in Salem Township. Susan, who had married in Steuben County, had died in 1849. Elizabeth (Noll) Myers remained in Ohio, and was reported at Green Township, Summit County, Ohio.^[6]

George Noll and his first wife Nancy Hall had nine children, including the following:

1. MARGARET NOLL^[7] b. on 11 December 1812; d. at Steuben County on 1 March 1854; m. EPHRAIM STOVER, b. at Chester County, Pennsylvania, on 12 April 1790, d. at Steuben County on 17 April 1878. Children of Margaret and Ephraim:
   1. James Stover b. at Ohio about 1833-4.
   2. Samuel Stover b. at Stark County on 26 August 1836; m. on 1866 Emeline Ransburg.
   3. George Stover b. at Stark County on 31 August 1838; m. at Steuben County on 1 January 1868 sarah Fackler.
   4. Nancy Stover b. at Indiana about 1840-1.
   5. Isaac Stover b. at Indiana about 1842-3.
   6. Elizabeth Stover b. at Indiana about 1845-6.
   7. Rachel Stover.
2. ELIZABETH NOLL^[8] b. at Pennsylvania about 1814-5; d. on 19 August 1866; m. MICHAEL MYERS, b. at Pennsylvania on 20 May 1792, d. on 14 November 1868. Children of Elizabeth and Michael:
   1. Levi Myers b. at Ohio about 1833-4.
   2. Caroline Myers b. at Ohio about 1844-5.
3. SAMUEL NOLL^[9] b. at Stark County on 10 May 1817 ; d. at Steuben County on 4 May 1888; m. CHRISTINA FECHTLING, b. at Alsace on 12 February 1819, d. at Steuben County on 31 May 1897. Children of Samuel and Christina:
   1. John Noll b. at Ohio on May 1837; m. before 1870 Mareda ________ b. at Ohio about 1843-4.
   2. Elizabeth Noll.
   3. George W. Noll b. at Salem Township on 15 January 1842, d. at Gilead, Branch County, Michigan, on 25 October 1911.
   4. William Frederick Noll b. at Indiana about 1842-3; m. before 1870 Rachel ________ b. at Ohio about 1847-8.
   5. Edward Noll b. at Indiana about June 1849.
   6. Sarah A. Noll b. at Indiana about June 1849.
   7. Mary Noll b. at Indiana about 1858-9.
4. JACOB NOLL.^[10]
5. CATHARINE ELIZABETH NOLL b. at Stark County on 23 July 1826.
6. SUSAN NOLL b. at Ohio on 1828; d. at Steuben County on 24 March 1849; m. at Steuben County on 23 November 1847 CHRISTIAN F. SCHNEIDER.^[11]