This is the home of Benjamin Maule, near Daleville, PA. Located only a mile or so from Faggs Manor Church, the farm is shown as it appears today. Benjamin built the farm for himself and his wife, Elizabeth Jane Thompson. They were married October 22, 1849. This is where Idella Dora Maule was born and raised and went to school nearby. Benjamin was born in 1827 and died in 1904. His wife Elizabeth was born in 1827 and died in 1897. Benjamin would live seven more years after his wife died. A few miles from the Maule farm is located the Doe Run Friends Meeting where many of the Maule's are buried, included Benjamin and and his wife Jane Thompson. The only Hamilton buried there is infant Ralph Hamilton, the second child of Idella Maule. He died accidentally in 1890 at Sunnyside Farm. He was not even one year old. He is buried there alone side of Benjamin and Jane. This Sunnyside Farm, the farm of Pennock Fred Hamilton and his wife Idella Maule Hamilton, located near Cochranville, PA. It is here were Pennock and Idella raised their 8 children. It was part of a landgrant of Hannah Penn, the daughter of William Penn. Pennock Hamilton died in 1933 and Idella passed away in 1942. Later, Fred Pennock Hamilton, the seventh child of Pennock and Idella, and his wife Evelyn Keim, farmed the 155 acre farm and raised their 5 children. When Fred retired in 1965, it was sold out of the family. The barn as you see it on this photo no longer is there. Located on the farm was the farm shop where equipment and repaired on a regular basis.This building is also long gone, as it was torn down by the new owners after they bought the farm in 1965. Not far from the shop is the stone home where many of the Hamilton's were born. This was the home of Pennock Hamilton and his wife Idella as well as Fred Hamilton and his wife Evelyn. It looks much the same as it did 100 years ago. This house is a wonderful example of Chester County farm homes. The above five pictures are the roots of hundreds of Hamilton's living across Pennsylvania and the United States. In Chester County, the past is the present, it is impossible to escape from it: the inhabitants of today are less real than the men and women who have gone; the shadows of the departed still possess the land. Voluntarily or involuntarily the sojourner must hold commune with those old relatives; for the whole air vibrates with a vast purpose and energy which has been and is no more. What a wonderful family, the Hamilton's, Pennock's and Maule's of Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Part 2 of the Tour