10 Auswanderer: Gaiberg, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden Wuerttemberg,

1 . Johannes Valentin Epler
      
* 22. Aug. 1694  Gaiberg, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, BW, Germany
       Emigrant 1737
      + 25. Jan. 1775 Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
 2. oo 26. Nov. 1720 Waldhisbach, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, BW., Germany
      oo Anna Barbara Wustar * 22. Jan. 1702 Hilsbach, Ortenaukreis, BW, Germany
      + 25. Jan. 1775 Tulpehocken Creek, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA


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3. Hans Georg Epler * 21. Mar. 1721 Gaiberg, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, BW, Germany
     
+ 29. Aug. 1792 Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
4. Johannes Valentin Epler
* 26. May. 1723  Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
      + 13. Nov. 1806 Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
5.  oo Anna Barbara Wustar
     
* 22. Jan. 1702 Hilsbach, Ortenauskreis, BW, Germany
      + 25. Jan. 1775 Tulpehocken Creek, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
6. Johann Jacob Eppler * 05. Aug. 1725 Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
     + 29. Aug. 1792 Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
     oo Magdalena Shenkle * 1726 in Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
     + ..................... in Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
Anna Barbara Epler * 02. May 1728 Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
      + ... Nov.1729 Gaiberg= Geyeberg, Kraichgau, Germany
7. Johann Adam Epler * 23. Apr. 1730 Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
    + 05. May 1806 Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA
8. Maria Barbara Epler * 16. Aug. 1732 Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
    + 05. Oct. 1809 Cumru, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
       1.oo 1750 Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
9.    1. oo John Hiester * 08. Jan. 1708 Grafschaft, Hochsauerlandkreis, NRW, Germany
       + 1757 Bernville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
       4 children:
       1. Maria Catharine Hiester * 16.Sep. 1750 + 24. Jun. 1824 Berks Co., PA, USA
 


Birth: Nov. 18, 1752 Berne, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Jun. 10, 1832 Reading; Berks County; Pennsylvania, USA

Joseph Hiester
5th Governor of PA

US Congressman and Governor. After attending the local schools he engaged in the mercantile business until the Revolutionary War. He entered the war as a captain and was promoted to colonel and elected as a major general after the war. For a brief time he was held as a prisoner of war by the British. He was a member of the constitutional convention that ratified the Federal Constitution on February 12, 1787. For 14 years he was a representative in the state congress and then four years in the state senate. In a special election he was elected to the Fifth Congress to fill a vacancy and reelected to the next three terms of Congress. He resigned from the Congress in 1820 when he was elected as Governor and served until 1824. He was originally interred in the burying ground of the Reformed Church before reinterment to this location.  

Burial: Charles Evans CemeteryReading
Berks CountyPennsylvania, USA


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         2. Joseph Hiester 5. Governor of PA
         * 18.Nov. 1752 Berne, Berks County, PA, USA
         + 10. Jun 1821 Reading, Berks County, PA, USA
         oo 1771 Reading, Berks County, PA, USA
         oo Elizabeth Witman;
         *  02. Apr. 1750 Philadelphia now Montgomery County, PA, USA
         + 11. Jun. 1825 Reading, Berks Co., PA, USA
          9 Children  ....

      2. oo 04.Apr. 1758 Gaiberg, Kraichgau, Germany
10. 2.oo Johann Christian Ruth * 07. Nov. 1728 Walhausen, Cochem-Zell, Germany
      + 24. Aug. 1793 Cumru, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
      6 Children:  .....
 

Name: Johann Valentin Epler
Arrival Year: 1737
Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
Family Members: Wife Anna Barbara Wuster;
Son Hans Gorg;
Son Johann Valentin;
Son Johann Jacob;
Son Johann Adam;
Daughter Maria Barbara;
Daughter Anna Barbara
ource Publication Code: 1031.8
Primary Immigrant: Epler, Johannes
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of naturalization. Span indicates
period between last mention of emigrant in country of origin and first mention
of his residence in the New World. "Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.
Source Bibliography: BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from
German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German
Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.
Page: 103

 

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