Several good suggestions were made by readers for the name "Tivall" but I lean to selections from Rupp's "Thirty Thousand Names". In particular, two names strike me as possibilities, Diwall and Dewalt. The German's "D" was often heard as a "T" and the "w" would be sounded as a "v". Either of these names could be the source of Tivall. Rupp's names are immigrants through Philadelphia, and that is to be expected. The Garr family and the Crisler came through Philadelphia and lived for a while in Pennsylvania. So it would not be a surprise to have the Tivall family living in Pennsylvania for a while also.
Lawrence Garr, son of Andreas Garr, was born in 1716. In Virginia, he married Dorothy Blankenbaker, who was born in Virginia, probably in the 1720's. Their four children have been given. The names were probably taken from the will of Lawrence, which was written in 1753 and witnessed by Lewis Fisher (cousin-in-law of Dorothy), Theobald Crisler (his brother-in-law), and Zachary Blankenbaker (Dorothy's brother).
The son, John, was born in 1744, and the son, Andrew, was born in 1750 (according to the Garr Genealogy); the birth dates of the two girls are not specified. At his death, Lawrence was about 38 years old. The family was quite young. His wife, Dorothy, apparently never remarried, as she appeared in the church records for another thirty years or so. She must have been responsible for the farm(s) and raising the children. No information is known on the future of the two girls, Eve and Elizabeth. Each of them was left land and the eventual fate of the land might disclose something.
I thought it would be interesting, as a part of the search, to see if there were any references to Eve and Elizabeth in the Hebron Church records. Of course, they probably would not appear under the name of Garr but under a married name. A prime location would be the sponsors at the baptisms of the children of Andrew and John, their brothers, since siblings were often chosen as sponsors.
The births of seven children of John Garr and his wife Margaret Wilheit are given in the Hebron Register. There were five more children who are not recorded at the church. One of the reasons may have been that the church fell on "hard times" at about the time the last child of John and Margaret is recorded. The church was without a well-defined leadership for several years and John and Margaret may have drifted away from the church. The birth date of one child does not agree when comparison is made between the Garr genealogy and the church records. In the next note, I will examine the records for the children at the church.
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