{"id":4130,"date":"2012-09-19T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=4130"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T15:32:04","slug":"vitals-joseph-christoph-iii-rebecca-musser-speicher","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=4130","title":{"rendered":"Vitals: Joseph Christopher II & Rebecca Musser Speicher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph<\/strong> Christopher, Jr. (1797-1862) b. Stoneycreek Twp., Somerset Co., PA; r. Accident, Garrett Co., MD (son of Joseph Christopher, Sr. & Elizabeth Lehman Miller Speicher<\/a>) Farmer; First store owner in Accident
\n-buried: probably Bear Creek (Church of the Brethren) Burial Ground<\/a>, Accident, Garrett Co., MD (although the Speicher family donated land to St. John’s Lutheran Church & Cemetery in the Cove about the time of the Civil war supposedly to settle a disagreement with the adjacent Lutheran Church, possibly over the slavery issue.)<\/p>\n

m.1 Anne<\/strong> Lehman (1824-1844) little is known except that she was born in Germany and bore Joseph 10 children in America<\/p>\n

m2. Rebecca<\/strong> Musser\/Mosser (1829-1892) b. Maryland; r. Accident, Garrett Co., MD (daughter of Nicholas, Jr. & Elisabeth Musser<\/a>\/Mosser) (m2. John W. Bowser, 4 children, 1867-1873)
\n-buried:\u00a0Bear Creek Burial Ground, Accident, Garrett Co., MD?<\/p>\n

Marriage: 1847, Garrett Co.<\/p>\n

Children:<\/p>\n

1. Truman<\/strong>\u00a0S. (1848-1864\/7) died as a teen, possibly in the Civil War as a bugler and was buried in the wilderness.
\n2. Diana<\/strong>\u00a0Annie (1849-1909) (m. Albert Augustus Jacobs)
\n3. Sallie<\/strong>\u00a0\/Sally (1851-1851) died in infancy
\n4. Alexander “Alex” <\/strong>A. (1853-1938)
\n5. Joseph\u00a0Martin “Jas”\u00a0<\/strong>(1857-1904) a third generation of Joseph
\n6. Laura<\/strong> Catherine (1859-1919) b. Accident, Garrett Co. MD; r. Elk Lick Twp., Somerset Co., PA (m. Christian F. Lee<\/a> – our line)
\n-buried: Springs Cemetery, Somerset Co.
\n7. Sarah<\/strong> Alice (1861-1939)<\/p>\n

Documentation:<\/p>\n

“Family Group Record.” Cindy Krause Leonhardt, e-mail, 18 Jan. 2011<\/p>\n

Richard W. Davis. MennoSearch.com<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/MennoSearch.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Ancestry.com<\/em>. 11 Sept. 2004
\nHttp:\/\/Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~quick\/d0187\/g0000013.html#1015477<\/a><\/p>\n

“Joseph Speicher.” Our Family History Center<\/em>. Web. 19 Sept. 2012<\/b><\/p>\n

“Johan & Joseph Speichers.” Glades Star.\u00a0<\/em>Sept. 1947, p. 256<\/p>\n

(The descendants of Lt. Paul E. Speicher, Jr., of Morristown, NJ, great-grandson of Joseph Speicher II, reportedly have the Speicher family Bible with many names and dates.)<\/p>\n

Various Public Member Family Trees, Federal Censuses, & other documents.
\nAncestry.com<\/em><\/p>\n

RETURN TO OUR MUSSER FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n

RETURN TO OUR SPEICHER FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n

Last revised: 10\/16\/18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Christopher, Jr. (1797-1862) b. Stoneycreek Twp., Somerset Co., PA; r. Accident, Garrett Co., MD (son of Joseph Christopher, Sr. & Elizabeth Lehman Miller Speicher) Farmer; First store owner in Accident -buried: probably Bear Creek (Church of the Brethren) Burial … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4127,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4130\/revisions\/8747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}