BIO: SAMUEL O. ROLAR, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 504-505
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    SAMUEL O. ROLAR, one of the well known citizens of Hopewell township, was
  born in 1859, in Ambersons Valley, Franklin county, Pa., son of Jacob Rolar.
    
    Jacob Rolar was born in 1829, in Lebanon county, and later came to
  Cumberland county, and learned the shoemaking trade at Newburg. After
  completing his apprenticeship he removed to Ambersons Valley, Franklin
  county, where he worked at his trade, and bought a farm of forty acres, and
  where he died at the age of sixty-seven years. He married Isabella Shields,
  who was born near Orrstown, Franklin county, and she died also on the home
  farm in Ambersons Valley, aged sixty-eight years. They are both buried there.
  Their children were: Margaret married Solomon Piper, and resides in Ambersons
  Valley; Mary married Charles Burk, and resides in the same valley; William
  married Mary Burkholder, and died in 1871, aged twenty-two years; Simon
  married Catherine Price, and resides at Shippensburg; James married Jennie
  Shoemaker,and lives in Ambersons Valley; Samuel O.; and Amanda married Harvey
  Lytle, and they live on the old homestead in Ambersons Valley. Mr. Rolar was a
  Democrat, but nothing of a politician. He was a consistent member of the
  Reformed Church.
    
    Samuel O. Rolar attended the township schools until the age of eighteen
  years, coming to Cumberland county at the age of eleven years, and residing
  with his brother until the age of fourteen. During the next three years he
  hired out with Robert Shulenberger, of Mifflin township, a short time with
  Adam Heberling, later with John Heberling and with Simon Heberling. Following
  this Mr. Rolar spent the summer of 1877 in Missouri, returning for two years
  to Ambersons Valley. He then located in Hopewell township, Cumberland county.
    
    In 1880 Mr. Rolar married Mary Elizabeth Heberling, daughter of John and
  Margaret (Mowery) Heberling, of Mifflin township, and then located on a farm
  belonging to his father-in-law, which he has operated and improved until the
  present time. This is a tract of 199 acres of fine land, and six acres of
  woodland. In 1904 Mr. Rolar bought a tract of fifty-eight acres of land
  adjoining the other farm, making it 257 acres. Few farms in this locality are
  in better condition, or grow finer stock. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Rolar
  are: Lillie Margaret, who resides with her grandmother at Newburg; Bertha
  May, John Heberling, Myrtle B., Roy and James Mark, all at home.
    
    Mr. Rolar is a Democrat. Both he and wife and two oldest daughters are
  members of the Zion Church, of Hopewell township, in which he is deacon.
    
    John Heberling, father of Mrs. Rolar was born in 1824, and remained with
  his father until marriage. He was a son of John, and grandson of Rudolph
  Heberling.
    
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  He married Margaret Mowery, daughter of Solomon and Catherine Ann (Corper)
  Mowery, natives of Mifflin township, but residents of Hopewell township. Mr.
  Heberling located in Mifflin township, and bought a farm of 222 acres from
  his father-in-law, on which he remained for thirty-five years. He then
  removed to a comfortable home in Newburg, where he died in 1901, aged
  seventy-six years, eleven months and twenty days. He was a worthy member of
  Zion Church, in the shadow of which he is buried. He was a prominent man in
  his township, and at various times served as school director and as assessor.
  His widow still survives, and lives at the home in Newburg. The two children
  of John Heberling and wife were: David, who resides with his mother at
  Newburg; and Mary Elizabeth, who became the wife of our subject.