1776 Peter Musser was born in Lancaster County on November 29, 1776. [1]
1788 Elizabeth Rohrer was born on August 14. [2]
Elizabeth Rohrer, daughter of David Rohrer and Mary Shirk, married Peter Musser. [3] They were married in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
1820 Peter Musser lived in West Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 18), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 3 (under 10), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44). [4]
1822 Elizabeth Musser died on October 8. [5] Elizabeth Musser, born 1788, was reportedly buried in Grider Family Cemetery, Hempfield, Lancaster County. [6] [7] [8]
1830 Peter Musser lived in West Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 1 (15 thru 19) and 1 (50 thru 59); and females: 2 (10 thru 14) and 1 (15 thru 19). [9]
1832 Joseph, Fanny, and Elizabeth Musser, three minor children of Peter Musser and Elizabeth Musser, deceased daughter of David Rohrer, were represented by their guardian, Henry Musser, in the settlement of the estate of David Rohrer. [10]
1840 Peter Musser lived in West Hempfield, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [11] [12]
Peter Musser (1777-1848) [13] and Elizabeth Rohrer Musser (1788-1822) [14] were buried in the Martin Greider Family Cemetery, Hempfield, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
1845 The children of Peter Musser and his wife Elizabeth Shereck, daughter of Mary Sherk Rohrer were named in the estate settlement of Mary Sherk Rohrer's brother, Jacob Sherk, the younger, of Hempfield Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The descendants were Henry Musser, Mary Musser, Joseph Musser, Christian Greider and wife Elizabeth Musser Greider, and Jacob Greider and Anna Musser Greider. [15]
1848 Peter Musser died on July 2. [16] Peter Musser was reportedly buried in Grider Family Cemetery, Hempfield, Lancaster County. [17] [18] [19]
Research Notes:
A biosketch reports [20]:
Peter Musser. the great-grandfather of the subject of this biographical sketch, was of Swiss parentage, and married a Miss Dietz, to whom were born children,-John, Christian, Henry, Peter, and Annie. Peter,of this number, was born Nov. 29, 1776, in Lancaster County, and died July 2, 1848, in his seventy- second year. He married Elizabeth Rhorer. of the same county, who was born Aug. 14, 1788, and died Oct. 8, 1822, in her thirty-fifth year. Their children were Henry E., Mary, Annie, Joseph, and Betsey.
See also Mennonite Card File: [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]
Other sources not yet seen: [29] [30][Musser, Edgar A, Musser Genealogy. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: author, 1980. LMHS CS71.M9892 1980][31]
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[2] John F. Meginness et al, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania (Beers: 1903), 90, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Thomas A. Sherk and James W Sherrick, "Joseph Scherch, Immigrant of 1727, and His Descendants," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (July, 1990), 17-29, at 25, C213.
[4] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryRecord].
[5] John F. Meginness et al, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania (Beers: 1903), 90, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial 37471063, [FindAGrave].
[7] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[8] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed X5-271 to 272, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1840, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[12] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryRecord].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial 37471082, [FindAGrave].
[14] Find A Grave Memorial 37471063, [FindAGrave].
[15] Recorder of Deeds, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Book A7, 304-306, [304], [305], [306], [FHLCatalog].
[16] John F. Meginness et al, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania (Beers: 1903), 90, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[17] Find A Grave Memorial 37471082, [FindAGrave].
[18] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[19] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord].
[20] Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches (1883), 595, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[21] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[22] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[23] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[24] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[25] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[26] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[27] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[28] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord].
[29] "Early Lancaster County Mennonite Mussers," Mennonite Research Journal 17 (1976), 13-14, 22 at 22, final pages of article.
[30] Anita L. Mott, Mosser/Musser Family (MD: Heritage Books, 1999), [GoogleBooks].
[31] Richard W. Musser, Edgar Musser, Musser Family History: A Historical Record of the Biglen Switzerland Mosers and Their Musser Descendants in Lancaster County (the American Line of Henry Mosser) 1242-1988 (1998), [GoogleBooks].