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Levi, b. November 11, 1842; unmarried.
CHILDREN OF PHILLIP? (PHILLIP1)
John Zerbe (Phillip2, Phillip1), b. April 17, 1795; d. April 15, 1863; wf., Magdalena. Both died at Denver, Indiana, and are buried there. They lived on a farm three miles east of Pine Grove, but moved to Indiana before the Civil War. Their children are :
Jonathan, b. February 17, 1817; moved to Indiana with his parents and removed to Mechanicsville, Iowa. Had no children.
John, b. October 20, 1820; went West with his parents settling in Cedar County, Iowa, where they had the following children: Andrew J., Bigelow, Kan .; Carolina, Mason, Lewis and Mrs. Emanuel Roberts, all of South Omaha, Nebraska.
Rosina, b. December 12, 1823; m. Jacob Zerbe, son of Peter and Elizabeth, a born Zerbe, of Newtown, Schuylkill County; moved to Ar- gos, Indiana. Children: Mrs. Eliza Rogers, Jacob Zerbe, of Argos, and George, Emanuel, Rosa Ann, Mrs. Susan Kerns and Peter Zerbe, all set- tled in Indiana.
Katrina, b. May 17, 1825; m. Hertzog; moved West; children: Mary, John, George, Michael, Jackson, Frank. Walter S. Hertzog, of Glen- dale, Los Angeles County, Cal., is a descendant.
Samuel, b. April 30, 1827; wf. Wolf; moved to Mechanicsville, Cedar County, Iowa; children: Samuel A., St. Cloud, Minn .; John G., Mrs. Charles Esternacht, Mrs. Dr. Russell and Mrs. Sarah Macker, all of Me- chanicsville, Iowa.
Michael, b. November 8, 1828; unmarried; lives at Mechanicsville, Ia. Frank, son of a second marriage; lives in the West.
The children of George W. Zerbe (Jacob and Rosina), of Argos, Ind., were: Bessie, Ruby, Bernice. He is an oculist and jeweler.
The children of Mrs. Eliza, wf. of Eli Rogers, were: Rev. Frank T. Rogers, Harry, Clayton, Artella, Harley and Tessie.
DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL3 ZERBE, (PHILLIP2, PHILLIP1)
Daniel+ Zerbe, Jr .; b. August 1, 1824; d. January 9, 1882 ; was a great grandson of Phillip1 Zerbe, of Hetzel's; first wf., Maria Esther Gebert. They had four children: William L., b. 1845; Ellen, 1848, married Frank Lutz; Mary Ann, 1850, married William Klopp; one d. in infancy. Second wf., Bar-
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bara Krick, children: Henry, Alice, Daniel O., Lewis, Clara and Ida. Daniel Zerbe, Jr., lived near his father's place at the Union Canal dam, where he kept a hotel, three miles northeast of Pine Grove, where he entertained many Potts- ville fishing parties to the "Big Dam."
Levi, b. February 20, 1826; d. young.
Jared, b. April 20, 1828; wf., - Lehman; lived north of Pine Grove. They had eighteen children.
Louisa, b. December 19, 1830; m. Benneville Hummel. They were the parents of Hon. Edward Hummel, member of the Legislature, of Pine Grove.
Edward, b. June 2, 1832; lived a bachelor for eighty years on the old homestead of his father's.
Peter, b. March 7, 1847; an only son of second marriage; d. when about 32 years old.
WILLIAM L. ZERBE, OF PINE GROVE
William Lafayette Zerbe, (Daniel+ Jr., Daniel", Phillip2, Phillip1) ; b. December 18, 1845. He was raised by his grand- father, Daniel Zerbe, Sr., at the "Big Dam." He married Me- lissa Hehn, of near Friedensburg and settled in Pine Grove, 1874. He was a shoemaker by trade and entered the shoe business, in which he was engaged twenty-five years and be- came prosperous. He died July 15, 1905, leaving one son, Wil- liam E. Zerbe.
William6 E. Zerbe, (William L.) : b. February 15, 1868; wf., Lillian May Shelly. He learned the trade of cabinet maker and carpenter, but for twenty-one years has been en- gaged in the furniture and undertaking business. About nine years ago he added a retail lumber business to his other ven- tures and has been successful in all of the branches conducted under his management. He is a member of St. John's Luth- eran church, the Masonic, Odd Fellows and P. O. S. of A. lodges, and owns considerable property in Pine Grove, his home town. Mr. Zerbe, who is a self educated man and versatile genius, for a time pursued the study of music in his odd moments, he played upon all instruments and made a study of the theory of music, transposing the scores for some
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years for the Pine Grove band, of which he was a member. He was an ardent collector of old coins and his knowledge of the eras and values of these coins made of him a numis- matist of no small reputation. He also studied up the Zerbe ancestry of the branch to which he belongs, and rendered valuable assistance to the author in the compilation of his line and its connection with others of the same name.
The children of William and Lillian Zerbe are: Charles W., b. January 31, 1889; wf., Emma Lehmy. They have one son, Harry. Charles is engaged in the lumber business with his father.
James M., b. September 7, 1891 ; wf. Ollie Hoy ; one son, Walter; Annie M., b. March 16, 1902, at home; John S., b. March 16, 1902; d. May 14, 1913. James is associated with his father in the undertaking business.
JONATHAN ZERBE (PHILLIP1)
Jonathan2 Zerbe, (Phillip1) ; wf., Magdalena Deppen. They lived on their own farm, about four miles northeast of Pine Grove, now owned by the Jacob Ulmer estate, of Potts- ville, Pa. He later removed to Tremont, when that town had only several houses and kept a hotel. He also owned large tracts of coal lands in the West End. He was b. November 16, 1769, and was buried at Hetzel's church, November 22, 1846. Rev. John Gring, of Lebanon, preached his funeral sermon, (Gring's records). They had the following children :
Jonathan3, b. March 12, 1795; d. May 21, 1849; wf., Rosina Gebert. He lived near his father's place and is buried at Clouser's church, east of Llewellyn. Children: Katrina, b. May 10, 1827; Solomon, b. April 20, 1835; lived in the Hegins Valley. One of his sons lives in Tremont.
John3 D., (Jonathan2), b. March 17, 1798; d. March 9, 1890, aged 91 years, 11 months, 22 days; wf., Barbara Schroppe. They lived at Water Tank, one mile west of Silverton, between Tremont and Llewellyn. (This man made many early visits on horseback to the Centre County Zerbes.)
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He is buried at Clouser's Church. Their chilren were: John Jr., lived at same place, b. 1822, railroader ; his widow and son Frank live on the homestead. Other children were:
Israel and William, d .; Mrs. Mary Gehres, d., of Port Carbon; Mrs. Sarah Bernhardt, Mrs. Sarah Ruch, Mrs. Lena Walker, Phila., and Mrs. Charles Gable, eighty-eight years of age, who lives with her son Henry, in Hegins Township, on the main road, near Valley View. She was married, 1847, and had nine children: Sarah, wf. of Noah Geist, Weis- hample; Charles, Ashland; William, d., Phila .; Ellen, wf. of Frank Yoder; Daniel and Henry, Hegins; Katharine, wf. of Elias Buffington, Ashland; Emma, wf. of Marcus Herb, Mt. Carmel, and Mary. wf. of Charles Miller, of Valley View, Hegins Township.
(Note-Mrs. Gable contributed an interesting reminiscence on another page, and Mrs. Miller furnished information. Mrs. Gable has 39 grand- children, 36 great grandchildren, and one great, great grandchild living.)
Elizabeth3, (Jonathan2) ; b. 1794; d. October 27, 1849. She married Peter Zerbe, of Rehersburg. They settled in Newtown, Zerbe P. O., 1828.
Michael3, (Jonathan2); first wf., Magdalena Bucher; second, Polly Tobias. Their children were: George, Michael and Frank, who settled in Michigan. He had six children with his first wife and one with the second. His da., Mary, married John Zerbe, of Newtown; b., December 10, 1825; d., July 14, 1851; Katrina, b. May 5, 1828; John, b. August 24, 1830.
George Zerbe, (Michael); b. October 5, 1834; wf., Catharine Dewald, Pinegrove. Miss Jennie Zerbe, a recent professional nurse, employed by the King's Daughters of Pottsville, Pa., is a granddaughter of George Zerbe.
Michael Zerbe lived on his father, Jonathan's3, place, (Ulmer's farm), up to the time of his death, which occurred on a winter night when on coming home from Tremont he lost his bearings and stuck in a snow drift, one hundred yards from his own home and was frozen to death.
Samuel3, (Jonathan2, Phillip1); b. September 6, 1805; d. September 11, 1872; wf., Susanna Lengle. He was a blacksmith and lived two miles east of Pinegrove. Children:
William, b. about 1830; m. Eliza Kinsell; lived near his father's place; children: William, Kate, Susan, Harriet, Samuel, George, Elias.
Jacob, b. January 7, 1832; m. Rebecca Wenrich; lived near his fath- er's place; children: Franklin, Mrs. Elias Kinsell, Mrs. Ed. Bretz, Mrs. Wm. Kinsell, Isaac, Jacob, and Amos Zerbe, principal of the Tremont schools.
John, b. May 11, 1836; he had two daughters and two sons.
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Isaac, b. about 1845; m. Louisa Umbenhower; lives at East Hanover, Lebanon County, Pa. One of his sons is Harry Zerbe, of Cressona, Pa., hotelkeeper.
Anna, b. December 16, 1842; m. George Zuby.
Solomon Zerbe, (son of Jonathan); b. July 12, 1813; d. of smallpox, January 11, 1847; m. Lucinda Boyer; they had one son, George, b. about 1845, who now lives in Lebanon County.
Salome, (Jonathan2), wf. of George Daubert, who were the grand- paernts of Charles Daubert, living two miles northeast of Pine Grove.
Amos5 Walter Zerbe, (Jacob+, Samuel3, Jonathanª Phil- lip1) ; b. August 11, 1878; wf., Lillian Spancake, b. May 5, 1879; m., December 31, 1905; son, Jacob Stuart, b. December 3, 1909. Mr. Zerbe is a school teacher by profession and first taught at Blackwood, Schuylkill Co., from where he went to East Greenville, Montgomery Co., where he was supervising principal of schools. He occupied the same position in Reilly Township, Schuylkill County, and is at present princi- pal of the Tremont High School. He has been successful in his vocation and is looked upon as one of the leading educa- tors of the county.
J. E. Zerbe, of Allentown, formerly of Summit Hill. Schuylkill County, removed to Bloomingdale, near the for- mer place where he bought the White Bear Hotel and a hun- dred acre farm adjoining it, was a great grandson of Jonathan Zerbe.
(The Zerbes of Ohio, most of their ancestors came from Pinegrove Township, Pa., hold their annual reunion at Piqua, Ohio, August I.)
PETER ZERBE, OF NEWTOWN, ZERBE P. O.
Peter Zerbe, the head of the Newtown Zerbes, came to that place in 1828, from Rehersburg, Berks County. He was married to Elizabeth3 Zerbe, (Jonathan2, Phillip1), about 1814, at Hetzel's; several children were born at Rehersburg and were : Jacob, Joseph, John. Peter, Martin and Henry.
Jacob, b. May 26, 1817; wf., Rosina, da. of John Zerbe. They moved to Walnut, Indiana. Children: Elizabeth, Jacob Jr., Peter, George, Emanuel, Rosina and Susan. Peter, son
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of Jacob and grandson of Peter, of Newtown, and wife visited this section, 1914. He is sixty-one years of age, having left Newtown with his parents when thirteen years of age. He and his father's family are prospering in Indiana and other Western States.
Joseph, b. July 11, 1819; d. June 2, 1872; unmarried; lived at Newtown. John, b. October 9, 1822; wf., Maria, da. of Michael Zerbe; lived at Newtown. One son, Roseberry Zerbe, b. 1850, d. 1873.
Peter, b. November 20, 1820; wf. Green; lived at Newtown; had two sons and several daughters; sons Aaron and Joseph of that place.
Martin, b. October 21, 1824; he lived at Blackwood, but for many years kept the leading hotel at Newtown. He has several children living at that place, Martin, Frank and Elizabeth; one dead.
Henry, b. January 6, 1827 ; was killed at a lumber landing, August 20, 1862. His wife was Margaret Kerschner. Henry and Martin together built the hotel. An iron plate, inscribed 1810, which was brought from Rehersburg, was imbedded in the wall. He had one son, Henry.
Henry Zerbe (Henry, Peter) ; wf., Sarah. They had thirteen children born to them, several deceased; Charles, Newtown ; Henry Jr., Donaldson ; Monroe, Pinegrove; Lloyd, and Franklin, Newtown; Dora, wf. of Wm. Long; Sarah, wt. of Wm. Gauntlett, both of Pottsville; Annie, wf. of Ralph Klinger, Wiconisco, and Mary, at home; Mrs. Sarah Zerbe, wf. of Henry, d. March 20, 1915.
Henry Zerbe, or "Harry," as he is better known, is a prominent citizen of Newtown. He was postmaster for a number of years, school director and occupied many posi- tions of trust in his home town. He is now engaged in the grocery business, owns some property and is altogether an all around man of affairs. The town was first called Swatara, its proper name, but a little gathering of houses farther down the creek was known by the same name, then it was named Newtown. One day a U. S. post office representative from the general department called on Postmaster Zerbe and in- quired as to the early history of the place. He said, "there
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are several Newtowns in the state, there is always a confusion. We will name the town Zerbe, after Peter Zerbe. the first settler."
Harry Jr., one of Harry Zerbe's sons, is engaged in the hotel business at Donaldson. A newspaper item says, "Henry Zerbe is improving the water line to his hotel."
Henry3 has a brother Oliver, who lives at Nicetown ; his son is a Presbyterian clergyman at Rochester, N. Y.
Peter Zerbe, head of the Zerbe P. O. families (Newtown). son of Peter Zerbe, of Rehersburg, b. May 12, 1781.
Peter5 Zerbe, (Peter4, Johannas3 and Margaretta, George" Peter, Martin1), b. 1801.
It will be noted that the Norwegian Township Zerbes are not of the John the miller (Lorentz1) line, although they intermarried several times, making their children, as in the case of Peter who married Elizabeth, a born Zerbe, the issue of the two branches.
ZERBE RECORDS, JACOB'S CHURCH
John Zerbe, b. September 27, 1781 ; d. July 17, 1853; is on record at Jacob's church (1780) as having communed there 1799. A John Zerbe was confirmed there 1810. August 18, 1799, Daniel Zerbe and wf., Anna Maria, bap. a daughter, ·
Maria Catharine; sponsors. Leonard Ried and wf., Anna Maria Zerbe.
February 20, 1803, George Zerbe and wf., Catharine, bap. a da., Anna Catharine; August 28, 1803, Jacob and Catharine Zerbe bap. a daughter, Salome; and another daughter, Cath- rine, April 14, 1805. John Zerbe and wf., Elizabeth, doubtless the former, stood sponsors for Margaret Bressler at baptism.
REMINISCENCES OF OLD SETTLER
Jolın Zerbe, b. October 9, 1822, at Relirersburg, Berks County, lived and died in Newtown, Zerbe P. O., Schuylkill County, January 22, 1905, aged 82 years. He was married to
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Mary, daughter of Michael and Magdalena Zerbe, of Pine Grove Township. The following is a brief abstract of a his- tory of his life as written by himself in his later years and duly signed and witnessed.
"My father, Peter Zerbe, of Newtown, after whom Zerbe P. O. is named, took up a tract of land in Schuylkill County, and in 1826-'27, during the summer, with his two eldest sons, Jacob and Peter Jr., came over to make improvements on the place. On September 28th, 1828, we removed from Rehersburg, Berks County, to our new home. I was then six years old and remember well the two four-horse teams that brought us and our belongings to Schuylkill County. The teams belonged to my father's brother, Jacob, and to his cousin, John Zerbe.
"We started at sunrise and reached Pine Grove at noon. where they fed the horses and we had dinner. Three miles further we reached Umbenhauer's tavern, the only house in seven miles, when we came to my grandfather, Michacl Zerbe's house (my mother's father), where our par- ents left me and my smaller brothers, Martin and Henry, while they journeyed on. (This place is now Ellis Minnig's Hotel, Tremont). The next morning my grandmother's maid, Luda Lengel, brought us three little boys four miles east into Norwegian Township, and during that trip we saw only one small shanty, this was a half mile from our place.
My father had a house ready for us, but we put in a hard winter. We had no near neighbors, we saw no people for weeks and even months. We were without school, lodge or church, and shoes and proper clothing were hard to obtain and our house was insufficient to protect us from the severe weather. My father worked hard, at making shingles, in Painter's Swamp, to support his family and while working here dislocated his shoulder and was laid up for weeks through the accident.
"He could not work and as soon as he was able he went
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to Berks County for assistance. His relatives came and brought flour, potatoes and other necessaries; meat we did not need as my brothers could always get rabbits, venison and other game, but my mother told our friends she was afraid we would have to move back to Berks County in the Spring.
"My father got better and when the weather opened, my father's cousin, John Zerbe, came again and brought him a plow, two horses, harness and some feed for them, and sup- plies for us. That summer we got on our feet and it went better. We cleared fifteen acres and planted it all in oats, corn, wheat and rye and potatoes we had in plenty. We worked hard but prospered, as all honest men can do that have the will.
"In a distance of thirteen miles, east, west, north and south, of Llewellyn, to the gap of the Second Mountain and ten miles north and south and two miles east of Pencal Ridge, there were living among the earliest inhabitants, Peter Starr, Michael Zerbe, the Clousers, Flibs, Zimmermans, Hafers, Bretzs, Confairs, Longs, Geberts, J. Zerbe, Housemans, Ad- ams, Werners and Stitsels. These were all settled on the road that leads to Pine Grove, from Llewellyn. Our nearest neighbor was Mrs. John Adams, great grandmother of John Sterner, who now lives on the place, and Umbenhauer's tav- ern was farther on. These were all the inhabitants when we came here in 1828 .- John Zerbe." (Seal)
TALE OF A CATAMOUNT
Mrs. Ellen Zerbe, wf. of Charles Gable, d., eighty-three years old, and grandmother of Oscar Geist, of Gordon, relates the following among many other interesting tales: "We lived in the Blue Mountain Hollow, in Pinegrove Township. My father was Jonathan Zerbe, who reached the age of 97 years and had eight children (referred to elsewhere).
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"Wild animals were plentiful in the country around where we lived, and the children were not allowed to roam about in the woods. One night, when my father was away from home, after we had gone to bed we heard the most blood- curdling screams outside, like a woman crying for help and other frightful yells. The boys were for going out and seeing what the noise was about, but were not allowed to, and the smaller children covered their heads with the bed quilts and coverlets.
"In the morning we found the remains of a large deer. his horns in his effort to escape a catamount and perhaps a pack of wolves, had caught in between the bars of our rail fence, he could not get away and he was thus devoured, only parts of his frame and carcass remaining. The cries of a catamount very much resemble those of a woman or child in distress. My father saved the horns and nailed them up in our barn."
(Mrs. Ellen Gable, the above, fell upon the iey porch at the home of her son, Henry Gable, Hegins, February 7, 1915. and fractured her hip. She is 88 years old at this writing.)
INDIAN STORY OF JOHN ZERBE
John Zerbe, son of Phillip1 by his first wife, came to Pinegrove Township carly and took a tract of land and clear- ed it. This land was afterward taken up by his stepbrother, Jonathan Zerbe (Phillip1) and part of it now belongs to the Jacob Ulmer estate, Pottsville, and is known as Ulmer's farm. A thrilling experience is related of this man with the Indians.
After building his log house and planting his field in corn, the Indians from the Swatara Valley, who visited him frequently to beg, borrow and steal, came and made some demands upon him, which he refused. This angered them and they determined to have revenge.
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One night he heard a cow bell in the corn field which signified that one of his cows was in the corn. Suspecting that all was not right he took a pail ostensibly to go to the spring for water, the path to which lay through the corn field. He carried his old flintlock musket behind his back and when nearing the sound of the cow bell, threw down the pail, took aim and fired, killing instantly a full blooded Indian. He went to the spring but there were no other Indians in sight. He scooped out a grave in the cornfield and buried the red man near where he fell. That grave can still be seen on the Ulmer farm and also a mound of chips near the spring where the Indians congregated and sat whittling their bows and arrows.
One day John Zerbe and a man named Nagle, father-in- law of Assumas Boyer, went out to hunt. On their return John Zerbe found his wife and children murdered. The mas- sacre was too horrible to relate. One of the girls was terri- bly mutilated but still living and suffering dreadfully. The half-crazed father seeing she could not live, himself put an end to her misery by completing the work of the Indians and dispatching her.
Overcome with grief, remorse and sorrow at the death of his loved ones, he abandoned everything and returned to . Rehersburg, Berks County.
Jonathan Zerbe afterward settled upon the same tract of land.
CENTRE COUNTY ZERBES
There are two different branches of Zerbes in Centre County. One descended from Martin1 Zerbe and the other from Lorentz1, brothers, (1710).
Phillip Zerbe, of the latter line, came to Centre County about 1800. He was born in the Blue Mountain Hollow, Pinegrove Township, Berks County, and married Barbara,
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da. of John Lingle, of the same locality. He is supposed to have been a son of Jonathan Zerbe, of Cumru Township, brother of John, of Cumru, a miller, who settled on this side of the mountain at an early date. Shortly after their mar- riage they made a long and tedious journey by wagon to Centre County and located upon a farm between Milheim and Coburn, Penn Township, afterward removing to another tract of land in Gregg Township. He was a linen weaver by trade but supported his family by farming. He was a Demo- crat in politics as were most of his line.
Phillip1 Zerbe, b. about 1778, (Jonathan3, John2 the m., Lorentz1) ; d. in Gregg Township. Phillip and Barbara Zerbe had the following children :
John, b. September 27, 1804; was blind for some years prior to his death, which occurred in Snow Shoe, Centre County.
(Note-For the Philip and Jonathan Zerbes, of Blue Mountain Hol- low, see Phillip1 Zerbe, of Hetzel's Church, Pinegrove Township.)
Johann Phillip, b. March 27, 1806; d. at Pinegrove, while receiving treatment at Pottsville for threatened blindness.
David, b. November 10, 1807; was blind for thirty-five years; d. in Gregg Township.
(Note-Mrs. Bretz, of Pinegrove, who was a Zerbe, and is eighty years of age, recollected well when David Zerbe, accompanied by a half grown boy, eame from Centre County to visit his cousins in Pinegrove, and Mrs. Rebecca Troutman, seventy years of age, of Krick's Mills P. O., Berks County, da. of John (John Christian), remembers, too, when the Pinegrove cousins brought David, a blind man, to visit her father, John Zerbe.)
Jacob, b. November 10, 1807; d. near the Loop, Potter Township, af- ter having been blind for twenty-five years.
Adam, b. August 19, 1811. Weaver by tradc, operated a saw mill for many years in Gregg Township. Removed in 1847 to Penn Township, Pine Creek, where he purchased eighty aeres of land and lived until his death at nearly seventy years. He is interred in Paradise cemetery. Member of Evangelical church.
Michael, b. May 7, 1814; d. in Stephenson Co., Ill.
Henry, b. October 23, 1815; d. in same county and state.
Catharine, b. October 27, 1817; d., 1896; m. Abram Hoover, d.
Andrew, b. Mareh 1. 1821; living in Gregg Township.
Phillip Zerbe was twice married; his second wf. was Hannah, da. of Adam and Hannah Elizabeth (Minnich) Sunday. He had nine children with the first wife and eight with the second, viz:
Elizabeth, b. May 16, 1822; m. Charles Ripka; d. in Gregg Township. Mary, b. April 26, 1824; m. Harry Garver; d. in Potter Township.
Susanna and Sarah, twins; b. August 26, 1826; Susanna m. George Wirt; d. in Penn Township; Sarah m. Peter Auman; d. in Gregg Township. Joseph, b. November 4, 1830; d. in Gregg Township.
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William is a resident of Gregg Township.
Hannah m. Peter Confer, of Millheim, Centre County.
Amelia, d. at the age of twenty-one years.
Adam Zerbe, (Phillip), was twice married; first wf., Susanna Swavely, by whom he had the following children: Henry, of Haines Township; Adam P .; Reuben, d., Penn Township; Julia A., m. Daniel Geary, d. in Penn Township. Second wf., Mrs. Catharine Confer, (Heckman.)
Adam3 P. Zerbe, (Adam2, Phillip1); b. April 21, 1845; worked at lum- bering until twenty-seven years of age; m., February, 1872, in Haines Township, to Elizabeth Daup, da. of Joseph and Catherine Decker Daup. They had five children: Susan O., Joseph A., d .; William D., Emory P., and Maria A. A. P. Zerbe's wife, Catharine, dying he makes his home with his son, Atty. W. D. Zerbe, of Bellefonte.
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