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Diana. Yes, that has to be Sallie. The clincher is 8 year old Harry. Actually, his middle Name was Thornton, so, I guess that the census taker missed that fact. Regarding Sllie's parents, Here's what I have:
On May 25th, 1862 John H. Buzzerd married Sallie A Sloyer. Officiating was the Rev. Jesse Knipe, pastor of the Pikeland German Reformed Church in Chester County, Pa. There may be a clue here as to where Sallie Sloyer's family resided. We know that in 1860 that Simeon Buzzerd had a neighbor by the name of William Sloyer. The evidence of this assertion is that in the original manuscript of the 1860 census, William Sloyer appears on the same page as Simeon Buzzerd both residing in Schuylkill Township. The census taker used a very very fine script to record the data to the point that even on the original manuscript much less a microfilm of the census, it is almost impossible to read. When we were in Washington D.C., we visited the National Archives and were allowed to examine the original 1860 census manuscript. There were I believe, three names listed in William Sloyer's household but none of then were Sallie. If William was not her father, he must at least have been an uncle. This may be reason enough to bring Sallie in close proximity to John in or about the small community of Phoenixville.
If we assume that both John and Sallie attended the German Reformed Church (which sounds like a euphemism for Lutheran Church to me) then Pikeland Township may have been where Sallie lived. In the 1790 census a Henry Sloyer and a Henry Sloyer Jr. are listed as heads of household in Pikeland Township. One "free white female is also listed as living in Henry Jr.'s household. Presumably, this would have been his wife since "living in sin" was forbidden in those days. This Henry Sloyer Jr. is too old to be Sallie's father since she won't be born for more than 40 years after the 1790 census. But, she will in fact have a contemporary relative by the name of Henry Sloyer Jr. who will in 1864 assist Sallie in obtaining a pension from the US Government as a widow of John H. Buzzerd. Furthermore, we have seen the grave of one Henry Sloyer who was born on November 17,1825 and died April 14, 1900. If we assume that this is the Henry Sloyer that assists Sallie in 1864 in her attempt to obtain the war pension then he is probably her brother. Furthermore, since he signed his name as Henry Sloyer Jr. he may be the fourth generation in a row in Pikeland Township with that name. If all of that is true then there must have been born some time around 1800 the third successive Henry Sloyer in Pikeland township, and that Henry Sloyer would have been Sallie's father.
Another Sloyer is mentioned in the pension papers. Harry Sloyer, born around 1845 helped Sallie reapply for a war widow's pension in 1908. Chances are that this is a brother of Sallie and is probably the reason she named her son Harry. That's all we have been able to extract about Sallie's family and origins so far. A closer look at the Pikeland census records may reveal more data.
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