The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical SketchHensel, W. U. (William Uhler)
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The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851: An Historical Sketch
Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler)
Christiana (Pa.) -- History; Riots -- Pennsylvania -- Christiana
“One week ago the earthly form of Castner Hanway was laid in yonder
cemetery. A quiet, unobtrusive man, he gave no token that his name was
one to conjure newspaper notoriety, or stir the wrathful vengeance of
the baffled slave power, as it did at one time. Yet in him, was the
stuff of which heroes are made. ‘He stood by his colors’ when that was
all he could do. During the ninety-seven days that he was in prison
he never once complained. He wrote to his wife from there, ‘I do not
regret my course; I have simply done my duty.’ With a nature capable
of asserting such a beautiful sentiment in the face of so great mental
and financial agony, surely the reward in the Eternal Kingdom would be:
‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful
over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou
into the joys of thy Lord.’”
Hanway left no descendants. His collateral relatives, so far as known,
were:
Jackson Hanway, deceased, a brother, whose children are: Ida Hanway
Whiteside, Christiana, Pa.; Ella Hanway Skelton, 1725 Lindenwood
Street, Philadelphia; Wilmer Everett Hanway, 1716 North 55th Street,
Philadelphia.
John Hanway, deceased, a brother, leaving a son, Joseph Hanway,
Hamorton, Chester County, Pa.
Ellis Hanway, deceased, a brother, whose children are: Mrs. Louisa
Booth, Gap, Lancaster County, Pa., and William Hanway, 1038 Lowell
Street, New York City, N. Y.
Washington Hanway, deceased, a brother, leaving one child, Mrs. Clara
Hanway Pierce, 317 South Queen Street, York, Pa.
Phoebe H. Gray, deceased, a sister, whose son is Albert Gray.
Hannah Ellis H. Fairlamb, deceased, a sister, who left children:
Elizabeth Barnes, West Chester, Pa.; and Robert Fairlamb.
Rebecca H. McDade, deceased, a sister, late of Norristown, Pa.
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