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From: "geshoneyman" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anna Groh, not Anna Moyer
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:56:54 -0400
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Child 12, Mary Magdalena Groh b1 Sep 1758 d 18 Mar 1822, m 23 Aug 1778 Hill
Church [Evangelical Lutheran] near Cleona PA, Christian Heinrich Meily b 17
Feb 1748 d 21 Mar 1821 s/o Heinrich Meily & Veronica "Fronica" Spittler.
Magdalena's maiden name is recorded as Kroh on their marriage record. Henry
is listed in the 5th class, 2nd battalion of the Lancaster County Militia in
1782. They are buried in Grove's Mill Cemetery in Bethel twp, Lebanon Co PA
from which their dates are abstracted. A record of their family is found in
"The Journal of American History", 1920, pp 63-70.

GESH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <>
To: "Barney and Darlene Roll" <>;
<>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anna Groh, not Anna Moyer


> Hi Barney,
>
> I don't have a whole lot on the Groh family because, being Mennonite, they
> did not keep church birth and marriage records. Death takes us into the
> courts, where records are kept. A 1788 unrecorded quit-claim deed (kept
> by
> the Lebanon County Historical Society) by the heirs of Mathias Groh
> provides
> much of what we know about his family. Ann/Anna Groh was one of twelve
> children of Mathias/Matheas Groh and Anna Grove who lived in Bethel
> Township, Lancaster/Dauphin/Lebanon, from the 1740s to their deaths in
> 1771
> and 1782 respectively. The twelve children of Mathias Groh were: (1)
> Abraham, (2) Henry, (3) Mathias, (4) John, m. Magdalena Meyer, (5)
> Christian, (6) Michael, (7) Peter, (8) Elizabeth, m. Christian Stealey,
> (9)
> Ann, m. Christian Frantz, (10) Barbara, b. 1747, (11) Veronica, m. Paul
> Hammon, and (12) Mary Magdalena, b. Sept. 14, 1758, m. Henry Miley.
> (Source: G. Frederick Young, "John Groh.....", Pennsylvania Mennonite
> Heritage, Vol. XVII, No. 1, January 1994, pp. 16-27.) Anna Groh Frantz
> named one of her sons Mathias after her father. Mathias Frantz is the
> Frantz sibling who did not follow the Christian Frantz III family to
> Virginia.
>
> Dwayne Wrightsman
> Lee, NH


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