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i. Esther-Harris, d. s. p.
ii. Eleanor, d. s. p.
iii. Sarah-Eaton ; she married in 1820 Richard Templin Jacobs, who died November 25, 1842. He was a prominent merchant of Harrisburg. Their children were Samuel, Hen- ricetta, James, George- W., and Eliza.
The latter was twice married, first to A. K. Cornyn, a lawyer, and sec- ondly John J. Clyde, of Harrris- burg.
iv. Henrietta, d. 1840; unm.
v. Caroline-Elizabeth, b. 1795 ; d. 1880 at Harrisburg. She married, in 1813, Joseph Briggs, of Silvers Spring, and they had John-Hanna, m. Julia Ann Todd, and Mary, m. Hon. John J. Pearson.
vi. Frances-Harris, m. John Carson Mc- Allister, and left issue.
vii. Juliana-C., m. John Fisher.
viii. Mary-Read, mn. Hon. John Tod. He wasthe son of David Tod and Rachel Kent, and born in Suffield, Hart- ford county, Conn, in November. 1779. His father was a Scotchman by birth and a man of an original turn of mind, possessing much shrewdness, and a dry kind of wit, many of his sayings being familiarly repeated years after his decease. His mother was a native of the town of Suffield. Young Tod received his preliminary education at the public schools of the village, but his class- ica! edneation was pursued under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Gray, pastor of the Presbyterian church of that town. His rapid progress in his studies enabled him on ex- amination to enter the junior class at Yale College, where he graduated two years afterwards with great credit and honor to himself. After graduating he entered the office of his brother, George Tod, then a practicing lawyer in New Haven, and it is said was also a short time in the office of Gideon Granger, Postmaster General under President Adams. He was admitted to the bar of Hartford in 1800. Shortly after he went to Virginia, where he filled the position of tutor in a family in one of the southern coun- ties of that State. In 1802 he lo- cated at Bedford, Pa., where he did some clerical labor in the prothono- tary's office, and the same year ad- mitted to the bar there. His prac- tice rapidly increased, and such was his standing and popularity in the county that he was elected to the House of Representatives of the
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1SOS, serving in that branch until 1S13-the last two sessions being speaker of that body. In 1813 he was elected member of the State Senate, of which he served as pre- siding officer from 1814 to 1816. He was re-elected in 1816, but re- signed the office December 20, 1816. In 1S20 Mr. Tod was elected a mem- ber of Congress, and again in 1822. The tariff question was the leading measure of Congress during the session of 1823-4. His speeches on the subject-particularly his open- ing speech, delivered on the 10th of February, 1821, and that with which he closed the debate on the Stlı of April-are remarkable; the first for the data, facts, statistics and other important information it con- veys-the second for its powerful and persuasive reasoning, fervid eloquence, wit and satire, all ex- pressed in chaste and elegant lan- guage. Few subjects have elicited more masterly and brilliant dis- plays from American statesnien. On the Sth of June, 1S24, he was appointed president judge of the Fifteenth judicial district, and thereupon resigned his seat in Con- gress. In May, 1827, he was ap- pointed by Governor Shulze a jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Penn- sylvania. He had been engaged with two other judges in holding a court at Lancaster, and becoming ill, hastened to his home at Bed- ford, where, after a brief illness, on the 27th of March, 1830, in the fifty-first year of his age, he breathed his last. The character of Judge Tod was that of a plain, practical Republican-a downright honest man. Without the least ostenta- tion or disguise he remarkably ex- emplified, in a Spartan simplicity of manners, the truth of his own sentiments-that there may be a social equality in the intercourse of men on all proper occasions without at all interfering with the difference conferred by intellect and educa- tion. He was too humble to think himself wiser than others, and too honest to account himself better.
The children of Mary Read Hanna and Jolin Tod were Julia-Ann, m. John H. Briggs ; Rachel, m. Samuel A. Gilmore, of Butler ; Isabella, m. William M. Kerr, and Henrietta. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Kerr, both widows, reside at Harrisburg.
- THE ALLISONS OF DERRY.
I. JOHN ALLISON, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, emigrated with his family to Amer- ica as early as 1725, and located on what were termed the "Barrens of Derry, then Chester, afterwards Lancaster, now Dauphin county, Pa. He took up two hundred acres of land, which were warranted to him 15th of April, 1734. IIe died in 1747, leaving a wife Janet, and among other children, the following :
i. Robert, d. March, 1766, unm .; by his will he bequeathed " £100 to the Trustees of the Philadelphia Hos- pital," " £100 to the Grammar School at Newark, ten miles from New Castle," and the balance of his estate to his brothers and sisters. ii. William, d. August, 1739; m. Grizzle Wray, and had Margaret, Patrick. and Robert.
iii. Henry, who had James.
2. iv. John, m. Ann
3. v. James, m. Rebecca vi. Jean, mn. - Smithi.
vii. Margaret, m. -- White.
II. JOHN ALLISON (John), d. May, 1767, in Donegal, leaving a wife Ann (who subse- quently married John Stewart), and had children as follows :
i. Patrick.
ii. Jean, m. George Clark, and had Mary. iii. Rose, m. James Crawford, and had John.
iv. Margaret. v. John.
vi. James, b. 1750.
vii. Ann, b. 1753.
viii. William, b. 1755.
ix. Robert, b. 1757.
III. JAMES ALLISON (John), d. November, 1762, in Donegal, leaving a wife Rebecca, who died in September, 1764, and the fol- lowing issue :
i. James, m. a daughter of Gordon Howard, of Donegal.
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ii. Anna, m. - - Defrance, and had James and John, who were, in 1776, over fourteen years of age.
iii. Jean, m. William Watt, and removed to North Carolina.
iv. Murgarct, m. Bowman, and removed to North C'arolina.
v. Sarah.
vi. Rebecca, m. Hugh Caldwell, and had Janc.
-- THE BALSBAUGH FAMILY.
Among the earliest of the German settlers on Spring ercek, in what is now Derry town- ship, Dauphin county, was George Bals- baugh. a native of Fahrenbach, in the Pfaltz, Germany, where he was born in 1706. He married Eva Minich, born in the same neighborhood, in 1716 With their little family they came to America in the year 1743, and located among their old neighbors in the Fatherland, near Derry church, on the farm now owned by the late venerable Wen- del Henry. Mr. Balsbaugh subsequently removed to Hanover township, six miles further north, and purchased a traet of land of two lumdred acres -- most of it hilly and sterile-which has ever since been known as the " Balsbaugh Place." Mr. Balsbaugh died there in 1775, his wife ten years later. They had a large family, and their descend- ants were quite numerous in Dauphin and Lebanon counties sixty years . ago, but like their Scotch-Irish neighbors, they have gone out from the old homestead and sought new locations south and west. The record we have been able to make of them is mea- ger, it is true, and that mainly of one branch of the family. George Balsbaugh and Eva his wife had among others the following children :
i. George, b. 1736 ; d. March 10, 1802. ii. Peter, b. June 27, 1738 ; d. June 26, 1796 ; m. Mary - -, b. Decem- ber 12, 1742 ; d. June 19, 179S.
iii. John, b. 1740; d. March 24, 1802. iv. Catharine, b. 1743 ; d. at sea.
v. Elizabeth, b. 1745.
vi. Eva, b. 1749.
vii. Gertrude, b. 1752.
viii. Valentine, b. February 14, 1755; m. Elizabeth Miller.
VALENTINE BALSBAUGH (George) was born near old Derry church, February 15,
1755. He was, however, brought up on the old Balsbaugh Place in Hanover, to which his parents removed about 1760. Although a practical farmer, he was a minister of the German Baptist Church, and emphatically a self-educated man. His knowledge of the Holy Scriptures was wonderful, and his grasp of revealed truths deep, spiritual and far-reaching. He was what is termed a " weeping " minister of the gospel, and was never known to preach without shedding tears and causing others to weep. To the close of his long and influential life, he never used glasses. He died suddenly of apoplexy at the homestead on the 26th of November, 1851, in the 97th year of his age. Mr. Bals- baugh married August 3, 1777, Elizabeth Miller, daughter of the saintly George Mil- ler, the first bishop of the German Baptist Church in Dauphin county. She was born May 2, 1753, and died in September, 1821. They had issue as follows :
i. George, b. May 5, 177S; was a black- smith by trade, and was noted among his Scotch-Irish Presbyte- rian neighbors as much for his mental strength as for his leonine physique ; he was well read, and with his strong reasoning powers was the leader in debate-a verita- ble Elihu Burritt in knowledge. He married late in life and died at three score.
Hi. Christian, b. 1779; d. s. p.
iii. Daniel, b. 1781; d. s. p.
iv. Henry, b. February 8, 1783; was a farmer; represented the county of Dauphin in the Legislature of 1843; died September 1, 1848. He married Hannah, daughter of Jacob Smith who died at Forreston, Ill., at the age of eighty-five. Dr. George Balsbaugh, of Forreston, Ill., is a son.
v. Catharine, b. May 26, 17S5; a woman of fine personal appearance and noble, self-sacrificing disposition ; she accomplished great good in her long life. She married Rev. Dan- iel Reichard, of Ringgold Manor, Md., a bishop of the German Bap- tist Church. They had a large family most of whom were promi- nent in the church. The Rev. Reichard was a profound theolo- gian, and the professors of St. James College said of him, "he is
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as tough as a fiddle string and genial as tough." He was born May 1, 1760; died January 28, 1856. Mrs. Reichard died Decem- ber 22, 1870. They had twelve children.
vi. Elizabeth, b. February 14, 1787 ; m. the Rev. Lawrence Etter, " an elo- quent man and mighty in the seriptures," many years a minister in the German Baptist Church. He died November 9, 1853, in his sixty-seventh year. Their son Jolin is now a bishop in that church. Mrs. Etter died at the early age of thirty-four.
vii. John, b. November 4, 17SS ; d. in his ninety-first year, near Highspire; married a Miss Ziegler, sister of a prominent minister of the church in Lancaster county. Their son, John, Jr., who died recently, repre- sented Juniata county in the Leg- islature.
viii. Mary, b. October 7, 1790; d. February 27, 1882; married William Gibson, of York county, near Dallastown, Pa., where they resided all their married life.
ix. Peter, b. June 4, 1793; d. November 21, 1871, at the old homestead ; was for years a director of the poor; in the early days of common schools he was one of the most strenuous advocates of that noble plan of ed- ueation, and all through his long life he took the deepest interest therein. A plain, practical farmer, he was as influential as generous. He married Elizabeth Longenecker, who deceased on New Year's Day, 1874. Their children were Valen- tine, b. March 19, 1827 ; m. Mary, daughter of the Rev. Jacob Hol- linger ; Abraham, b. October 12, 1819; m. Susan Seltzer ; Benjamin, b. November 14, 1821; m. Mary, daughter of Rev. Miskey, of Berks county ; Daniel, b. February 15, 1825, founder and first principal of Lebanon Valley College, d. in 1860 ; mı. Laura, daughter of Andrew Henry, of Palmyra; Maria, b. Sep- tember 18, 1828; m. John M. Zort- man, a farmer near Palmyra; Christian-Hervey, b. April 16, 1831, now of Union Deposit, Dauphin
county ; Lizzic, b. July 3, 1834; d. . at the age of twenty-eight; David, b. November 23, 1836, died at six- teen, and Samuel, b. July 30, 1839; m. Sarah, daughter of Rev. Mr. Keefer, of Dauphin county.
x. Christina, b. December 10, 1795; d. May 23, 1863; married Michael Friese. Their son Michael was a leading homeopathie physician who died in Harrisburg in 1880. An- other son, Valentine, a graduate of Diekinson College, died in 1875 at Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
xi. Anna, b. July 26, 1798 ; d. December 23, 1868; married Peter Gingrich, a substantial farmer. Their son Aaron is a prominent physician in Virginia.
THE BAUMS OF DERRY.
I. ADAM BAUM, a native of the Palatinate, emigrated to America about 1760, and set- tled in Derry township, Lancaster now Dau- phin county, Pa., where he died in Decem- ber. 1785; m. Veronica 一 -; both are buried in the family graveyard, on the Horse- shoe turnpike, two miles east of Hummels- town. They had issue, among others:
2. i. Michael, b. 1757 ; m. Margaret Eber- sole.
3. ii. Daniel, b. January 30, 1759; m. Catha- rine Fishburn.
iii. John, b. 1761; d. and left a son John.
II. MICHAEL BAUM (Adam), b. 1757, in Derry township, Dauphin county, Pa .; d. in 1796; m. Margaret Ebersole ; his widow sub- sequently married John Miller. They had issue :
4. i. Daniel, b. April 9, 1783; in. Mary Hummel.
5. ii. Abraham, b. 1785; m. Elizabeth Esh- leman.
iii. John, b. 1787; d. April, 1839; m. Nancy
iv. Ann, b. 1789.
v. Freny, b. 1791 ; in. Isaac Snavely.
vi. Mary, b. 1793; m. Felix Burkholder ; removed to Ohio.
III. DANIEL BAUM (Adam), b. January 30, 1759; d. December 30, 1839; was an ingen- ious mechanic, learned gunsmithing with his father, and during the war of the Revolution was noted for the rifles which he manufac-
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tured for the patriot army. He m. Catharine Fishburn. They had issue :
6. i. Michael, m. Nancy Sheller.
ii. Barbara, m. Thomas Fox. .
7. iii. John, b. March 9,1794; m. Rebecca Zimmerman.
IV. DANIEL BAUM (Michael, Adam), b. April 7, 1783; d. December 4, 1857 ; m. Mary Hummel, b. March 13, 1,89; d. November 23, 1862; dau. of David Hummel and Mary Toot. They had issue :
i. Mary-Ann, m. Samuel Murray.
ii. Lena.
iii. Sarah, d. unm.
· iv. Susan, m. Levi Jones.
v. Catharine, m. Edward Magee, of New- ark, N. J.
vi. Adam-Hummel.
vii. Caroline, m. John Yordy, of Lebanon.
viii. David-Hummel.
ix. Amanda, d. s. p.
V. ABRAHAM BAUM (Michael, Adam), in. Elizabeth Eshleman. They had issue :
i. Mary, m., first, Abraham Fackler ; sec- ondly, John Gerhart.
ii. John, m. Elizabethi Metz.
iii. Michael, m. a dau. of Philip Michael, of Danphin connty.
iv. Catharine, m. Benjamin Miller. v. Susan.
vi. Isane, m. Barbara Bear.
vii. Elizabeth, m. John Baum.
viii. Abraham.
VI. MICHAEL BAUM (Daniel, Adam), d. March, 1831 ; m. Nancy Sheller. . They had issue :
i. John, d. s. p.
ii. Daniel, m. and removed to the West.
VII. JOHN BAUM (Daniel, Adam), b. March 9,1794; d. October S, 1826 ; m. Rebecca Zim- merman. They had issue :
i. Catharine, m. John Abel.
ii. Maria, mn. Jacob Hamaker.
iii. Eliza, d. s. p.'
iv. Margaret, d. s. p.
v. Mary, m. Gill, of Lebanon county.
vi. Louisa, m. Franklin Scott.
BRUBAKER AND MEETCIT.
I. JOHN BRUBAKER, a native of Switzer- land, emigrated to America abont the year 1712, or perchance earlier, as it is stated he
built the first grist mill in what was after- wards Lancaster county, Pa. He settled near the present town of Lancaster. He had a family of nine sons, of whom we have the following :
i. John, m., 1st, Maria Newcomer; 2d. a daughter of Michael Tanner, and had issue.
2. ii. Daniel, m. and left issue. iii. Peter.
iv. Abraham, m. and left issue.
3. v. David. vi. Christian.
vii. Henry.
viii. Jacob.
II. DANIEL BRUBAKER (John), b. about 1715, in Lancaster county, Pa .; m. a daugh- ter of Michael Tanner. They had issue, among others (surname Brubaker) :
i. Joseph, b. 1741; m. Elizabethi Dow- ner.
III. ABRAHAM BRUBAKER (John), resided in: what is now Clay township, formerly a portion of Elizabeth township, Lancaster county, Pa. He married and left issue, among others (surname Brubaker):
i. Abraham, mn. and had David, John, Abraham, Jacob, and Peter.
ii. John, m. and had John, Jacob, and Abraham.
iii. Daniel, m. and had Daniel and John. iv. Christian, m. and had Abraham and John.
v. Jacob, m. and had Jacob and John.
IV. JOSEPH BRUBAKER (Daniel, John), b. about 1741, in Lancaster county, Pa., d. about the year 1SOS, in Halifax township, Dauphin county, Pa. In 1785 he purchased a large tract of land in then Upper Paxtang township, Dauphin county, Pa., and in 1790 with his family settled thereon. At that early period the comforts of civilization were few, schools, homes and churches being widely scattered ; nevertheless he erected the altar of his simple faitli (Dunkard) and in that, after the manner of his fathers, instructed his sons and daughters. Mr. Brubaker m., 1764, Elizabeth Downer. They had issue (sur- name Brubaker) :
5. i. Daniel, b. June 6, 1765; m., 1st, Catha- rine Singer; 2d, Barbara Brubaker.
6. ii. Elizabeth, b. 1770; m. John Meetch, Jr.
7. iii. Jacob, b. 1775; m. Barbara Bartle. iv. Joseph, b. 1779.
8. v. Ann, b. May 1, 1781 ; m. John Boyer.
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9. vi. Catharine, b. 1790; m. Jacob Bru- baker.
10. vii. John (twin), b. 1800; m. Julia Me- haffey.
V. DANIEL BRUBAKER (Joseph, Daniel, John), b. June 6, 1765, in Lancaster county, Pa .; d. February 19, 1843, in Halifax, Dau- phin county, Pa .; was twice married; 1st, Catherine Singer. They had issne (sur- name Brubaker):
i. Joseph.
ii. Jonathan, m. Eliza Rutter, and had John-Rutter, m. Louisa Poffenber- ger.
Daniel Brubaker m., secondly, Barbara Brubaker. They had issue:
iii. Ann, m. S. W. Straw, and had Joseph. iv. Maria, m. A. W. Loomis, and had Albert, Daniel, Barbara, and Will- iamı.
VI. ELIZABETH BRUBAKER, (Joseph, Daniel, John), b. about 1770; d. April 28, 1822; m. John Meetch, Jr.,* b. 1761; d. 1828, son of John Meetch, Sr. They had issue (surname Meetch) :
11. i. Joseph.B., b. September 3, 1792; m. Alice A. Buchanan.
ii. Rebecca, b. 1795; d. July 16, 1829 ; m. Thomas Trump, and had Alfred- Heaton, d. s. p., and Cyrus.
iii. Benjamin, m. Sarah Hoffman, and had Frank and Lizzie, m. Daniel Chubb.
iv. Daniel.
v. John, b. 1803.
vi. Elizabeth, b. 1805; d. 1847; m. Michael
*John Meetch, Sr., the son of an Irish magistratc, was born in Enniskillen, county Fermanagh. Ire- land, in 1724. He received a good education. Marrying in opposition to his father, he came with his wife to America about 1752, landing at New York. From thence they went to the headwaters of the Susquehanna. finally passing down that river, locating on the northern side of Peter's mountain, thus being one of the early pioneers of that locality. In 1756 his family was driven off by the Indians- but returned when the settlers had organized for their own defence. In the French and Indian war, Mr. Meetch took up arms in aid of the frontiers, and when the storm of the Revolution burst upon the country lie was an active participant, being in Capt. John Reed's company during the Jersey cam- paign of 1776-7. Mr. Mcetch died at his residence in 1794, his wife surviving him only a few years. They had five children who reached maturity : Nancy, m. John Cavet, went to Knoxville. Tenn., where she died at the age of ninety : Mary, m. Brown, removed to Westmoreland county, Pa .: Rebecca, m. - Dunlap, settled in Eric county, Pa .; Elizabeth, m. Robert Lyon, removed to Northumberland county, Pa., and John, who mar- ried and remained on the homestead, as above.
Freeburn, and had John-M., m. Susan Wickersham.
12. vii. Ann, b. 1807 ; m. Benjamin Hoon. 13. viii. Mary, b. September 25, 1809; m. George Carpenter.
14. i.c. Catharine, b. June 7, 1811; m. John Frederick.
x. Robert.
xi. Sarah, b. 1817; m. Joseph Brubaker.
VII. JACOB BRUBAKER (Joseph, Daniel, Jolin), b. 1775; d. prior to 1808; m. Bar- bara Bartle, b. 1766; died October 11, 1853, in Middletown, Pa., and is buried in the M. E. graveyard there. Concerning the wife of Jacob Brubaker, we have the following : She was of German parentage and born in Cumberland county, Pa. Her mother, Christiana Bartle, was a woman of strong, practicable turn of mind, of good education, and possessed of a firm reliance upon divine Providence. Her father, Andrew Bartle, re- moved to Harper's Ferry, where he remained until the outset of the Revolution, when he went to near Fort Licking, on the Holstein river. A year after their settlement they were taken captive by the Indians, and with other prisoners marched toward Detroit. On the journey the prisoners were separated, each party consisting of eight whites and nine Indians. Barbara, with her mother and sister Wilhelmina, continued together until the latter, a delicate girl of fourteen, fell by the way exhausted, when one of the savages struck her with a tomahawk, and scalping her proceeded onward. The an- guish of the mother and sister cannot be de- scribed. The march was rapid and provi- sions scarce, the entire party subsisting for three days on a pair of pigeons caught by one of their number. Barbara received from her Indian captor kind treatment, and when her little feet gave out he carried her upon his back until she was rested. When they gathered around the campfire after the day's march, her mother would take her Bible, which she carried with her, and read aloud by the light of the blazing logs. Her heroic endurance of the hardships of her situation had won the admiration of the savages. Her reading from " the book " had to them an appearance of mystery that to their untutored minds savored of the super- natural, and when the time came for her to read, they were her earnest and reverential listeners, while as they expressed it, she " made the book talk." When grown to wo-
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manhood Barbara was often heard to say that the Indians treated her infinitely better than did the British, into whose hands she afterwards fell. Arriving at Detroit, they were delivered to the British, starved and ill- treated, and every indignity and abuse heaped upon them by their white captors. At the end of six weeks' captivity among the Indians, and two years and a half among the British, she and her mother were ex- changed as prisoners of war. Barbara Bar- tle had become a perfect mistress of the arts of swimming, diving and skating, and was sub- sequently instrumental in saving more than one person from a watery grave. She grew to be a lovely woman, and afterwards mar- ried Jacob Brubaker. They left issue (sur- name Brubaker):
15. i. Joseph, b. August 12, 1797; m., first, Rachel Frederick ; secondly, Sarah Meetch.
ii. Jacob, b. 1800; d. 1859.
VIII. ANN BRUBAKER (Joseph, Daniel, John), b. May 1, 1781 ; d. January 1, 1857 ; m. John Boyer, b. 1792; d. 1860. They had issue (surname Boyer) :
1 i. Joseph, b. 1817; d. 1875; m. Mary Syler, and had David, Joseph, Mary- Jane, and Sarah.
ii. Elizabeth, b. 1819; d. 1844; m. Fred- erick Fronk, and had Henry and Rebecca.
iii. John, b. 1822; m. Jane E. Keagle, and had Rebecca, Elizabeth, Mary, Kate, Margaret, John-Downer, and Philip.
IX. CATHARINE BRUBAKER (Joseph, Dan- iel, John), b. about 1790; m. Jacob Bru- baker, b. December 22, 1787; d. December 22. 1851. They had issue (surname Bru- baker) :
¿. John, m. Maria Clemson, and had William and Lydia.
ii. Hiram, m. Sarah Umberger, and had Rebecca, Benjamin, and Millard.
iii. Henry; m. Rebecca Shammo, and had Jacob and Samuel.
iv. Benjamin, m. Barbara Loomis, and had Mary-J., Earnest, and Myrtle. v. Susanna. vi. Mary.
vii. Isaac, m. Mary Geist, and had John- H. and Margaret.
viii. Jacob.
X. JOIN BRUBAKER (Joseph, Daniel, John), b. about 1800 ; d. 1826; m. Julia Me-
haffey, and there was issue (surname Bru- baker) :
i. Elizabeth, m. John Fullwood, and had Sarah, Julia, Emma, Charles, John, and William.
ii. Sarah, m. - Ebron, and had issue.
iii. Henry-Mchaffey, m. Kate Guernsey, and had Mary, John, and Stephen.
XI. JOSEPH B. MEETCH (Elizabeth, Jos- cph, Daniel, John), b. September 3, 1792; d. December 25, 1875; m. Alice Ann Bu- chanan. They had issue (surname Meetch):
i. Mary-R.
ii. Alice-Ann, m. Herman Chubb, and had Ellen, Joseph, Myra, Myrtle, Mary, and Harry.
iii. William-Buchanan, m. Mary Sheaffer, and had issue Annie and Sarah.
iv. John.
XII. ANN MEETCH (Elizabeth, Joseph, Daniel, John), b. 1807; d. 1854; m. Benja- min Hoon ; and had issue (surname Hoon):
i. John, m. - Livingston, and had John and Justina.
ii. Joseph-E., m. and had Clarence, John, and Joseph.
iii. Harriett-E., m. George English, and had Emma, George, Clara, and Lucy.
iv. Sarah.
v. Annie-Clara, m. John Metzger.
vi. Mary.
vii. Benjamin.
XIII. MARY MEETCH (Elizabeth, Joseph, Daniel, John), b. September 25, 1809; d. Jan- uary 26, 1879; m. George Carpenter. They had issue (surname Carpenter) :
i. James-B., b. August 11, 1830; m. Mary Garman, and had James, America, and Allen.
ii. Lizzie-M., b. November 3, 1832: d. September 25, 1857; m. Stiles Dun- can, and had Mary and Harry.
ii. Charles-D.
iv. Thomas-B., b. April 16, 1838; m. Emma F. Brubaker, and had Sarah, Benton and Duncan.
v. John-H.
vi. George- W., b. July 4, 1842; m. Sallie Fyson, and had Bruce and Walter.
XIV. CATHARINE MEETCH (Elizabeth, Joseph, Daniel, John), b. June 7, 1811 ; m., April S, 1830, John Frederick ; b. May 6, 1806. They had issue (surname Frederick) :
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