1820 Sarah Good, daughter of Jacob Good and Elizabeth Bowman, was born on May 12. [1]
1820 Peter Musser was born on June 22. [2] [3]
Sarah Good married Peter Musser, son of John Musser and Susanna Weber. [4]
1850 Sarah Musser (age 29, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Peter Musser (age 29), Franklin Musser (age 1), and Barbar Hurst (age 12). Peter was a farmer with estate valued at $2500. [5] [6]
1860 Sarah Musser (age 40) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Peter Musser (age 40), Franklin Musser (age 11), Issrael Musser (age 9), and Mary Ann Musser (age 8). [7] [8]
1860 Peter Musser of Brecknock was a juror in Lancaster County. [9]
1860 Peter Musser was ordained as a Mennonite minister in the Weaverland Groffdale District. [10]
1861 On 22 October, Sarah Musser [Mosser], daughter of Jacob Good and wife of Peter Musser [Mosser], received her share of the estate of her uncle Samuel Good. She signed her name as Sarah Mosser.
1863 Peter Musser of Brecknock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania registered for the draft at age 43. [11]
1869 Peter Musser was named in a county directory as a pastor, Old Mennonite church, in Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [12]
Their children (birth) were Franklin (1849), Israel (1851), Mary Ann (1852), and Sarah (1860).
1870 Sarah Musser (age 50, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Peter Musser (age 50), Israel Musser (age 19), Mary Musser (age 17), and Sarah Musser (age 10). [13] [14]
1874 Peter Musser died on February 23, at age 53. He was buried at Pine Grove Cemetery. [15] [16] [17] [18]
1880 Sarah Musser (age 60, born in Pennsylvania, widowed), mother, lived in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Israel Musser (age 29), Catharine Musser (age 27), Lydia A. Musser (age 5), Peter Musser (age 3), and Reuben Musser (age 1). Sarah Musser's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. [19]
1890 Sarah Good Musser died on November 25 and was buried at Pine Grove Mennonite Cemetery, Bowmansville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Sarah Good Musser was born on May 12, 1820. [20] [21]
1890 Sarah Good Musser died on November 25. [22] An obituary reported [23]:
MUSSER.- On the 25th of Nov. 1890, near Bowmansville, Brecknock Twp. Lancaster, Pa., of nervous prostration, Sarah, widow of late Peter Musser in the 71st year of her age. She had been confined to her bed for a little over eight weeks, growing gradually weaker until she calmly fell asleep in Jesus. She had a strong confiding hope in her Savior. She was buried on the 28th of Nov. at Pine Grove. Services were conducted by Benjamin Horning, Jonas H. Martin and John M. Zimmerman, in the Mennonite meeting house near Bowmanville. She was a church member ever since her youth.
1890 Documents from the probate records of sister Lydia Huber and Christian Huber named collateral heirs of both Christian Huber and Lydia Huber. [24] The account of the estate of Lydia Huber named Lydia's brothers and sisters and their heirs. Dated April 29. [25] The heirs of Lydia Huber included sister Sarah Musser.
1948 Mary Ann Bowman, spouse of Daniel Bowman, died on January 6 in Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was born on April 7, 1853, in Brecknock Township, Lanc County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Peter Musser and Sarah Good. [26]
Research Notes:
Mennonite records [27] [28] [29]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 25, GC3536.
[2] Find A Grave Memorial 77349574, [FindAGrave].
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 25, GC3536.
[4] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 25, GC3536.
[5] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Newspaper, The Columbia Spy, Saturday, December 01, 1860, Page: 2.
[10] Martin G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931), 147.
[11] National Archives and Records Administration, Civil War Draft Registration Records (Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865) (Washington, D.C.), [AncestryRecord].
[12] Barnes & Pearsol, Pearsol & Geist, Directory of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1869), 474, [AncestryImage].
[13] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[14] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryRecord].
[15] Find A Grave Memorial 77349574, [FindAGrave].
[16] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[17] Martin G. Weaver, Mennonites of Lancaster Conference (1931), 147.
[18] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 25, GC3536.
[19] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[20] Find A Grave Memorial 72397709, [FindAGrave].
[21] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[22] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 25, GC3536.
[23] Mennonite Obituary Archives, Herald of Truth, Vol. XXVII, Number 24, December 15, 1890, pages 380 and 381, [MennObits].
[24] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[25] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, Estate of Lydia Huber, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[26] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[27] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[28] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[29] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].