1784 Henry Rohrer, son of Isaac and Elizabeth Rohrer, was born on the home farm along the Conestoga. [1] [2] [3]
1804 Henry Rohrer was age 20 when his father died. [4]
1806 Henry Rohrer sold hjis share of the inheritance to his brother Martin, and moved to Hagerstown, Maryland. [5]
1810 Henry Rohrer bought land in Hagerstown from Henry Shrader. [6]
1812 Henry Rohrer sold the land in Hagerstown to his brother Abraham. [7]
1813 Henry Rohrer married Ann Margaret Hedrick on 31 July 1813 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. [8] [9]
Henry Rohrer moved to the Shenandoah Valley and then settled in Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. [10]
1833 Henry Rohrer sold land in Conestoga Twp, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to William Coleman for a canal. [11] [12]
1847 Ann Margaret Rohrer, spouse of Henry Rohrer, died on April 20 in Jefferson County, West Virginia. She was born in 1796. [13]
1851 Henry Rohrer, spouse of Ann Margaret Rohrer, died on September 15. He was born on May 11, 1781 in Pennsylvania. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
Research Notes:
Mennonite card file. Henry Rohrer was born in 1784. [19]
[1] Clyde L. Groff, Walter B. Groff, and Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A good life in a new land, Vol. 1 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 103, F126, [FHLCatalog].
[2] Clyde Rohrer Herr, "The Rohrer Family Cemetery," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (October, 1988), 7-12, at 10, E46.
[3] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[4] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[7] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850, [AncestryRecord].
[10] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[11] Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed 6P-91 to 92, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[12] Martha B. Clark, "Early Conestoga Navigation," Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society 12-9 (1903), 315-330, at 319, [HathiTrust].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Find A Grave Memorial 124502272, [FindAGrave].
[15] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[16] Clyde L. Groff, Walter B. Groff, and Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, A good life in a new land, Vol. 1 (Ronks, Pennsylvania: Groff History Associates, 1997), 103, F126, [FHLCatalog].
[17] Clyde Rohrer Herr, "The Rohrer Family Cemetery," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 11 (October, 1988), 7-12, at 10, E46.
[18] Lister O. Weiss and Noah R. Getz, The Saga of a People: A History of Johanne Rohrer (1939), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[19] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].