All: Peter RISSER
All: Listed in Father-in-Law's Will as husband of Elisabeth Hershey
All: Listed in Rev. John Risser,
"A Fragment of My Family Relationships and of My
Descent," written Aug. 14, 1859, in Ashland County, Ohio.
All: Listed in Ralph Beaver
Strassburger, "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A
Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphi from
1727 to 1808"
All: Listed in William John
Hinke, "Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings and
Addresses, vol. 42 (Norristown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), 1:270.
All: Minister at Rissers,
Mennonite Church.
He came across the sea on the same vessel on which his father-in-law came.
He arrived in Philadelphia on 3 Sep 1739 on the ship "Robert &
Alice" with a large group of Mennonites from Friedelsheim.
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All: c6. Elizabeth HERSHEY(HERSCHE)
All: Land Records of Father,
Christian Hershey, name children and daughters husbands
(Deed Z-121)
Listed as wife of Peter Risser in "The Risser Family: Our Heritage,
1739-1985"
All: Information from [email protected] (Margo)
.
All: Barbara RISSER
All: Birth: IGI Film 1260992, Batch 8128091 42 Source. is IGI.
Source is IGI.
I suspect that the wife Elizabeth
Landis is a sister to Catherine Landis
the wife of Benjamin Hershey 1741. If so, her parents would be Henry
Landis and Veronica Graf.
They had no children. Philip and Eva married when Philip was 81 yrs. old.
Stephan van Rensselan BIRDSALL
Source is US census 1880.
BIOGRAPHY: Henry was half Jewish.
Source is Geneva Obermeyer 1799 Kiowa Ave. Ste. 107 Lake Havasu, AZ 86403-3885. Geneva and Phyllis say that her name is Samantha Jane Goodwin from Cumberland , Maryland.
Same source as mother.
Siblings from US 1880 census.