1850 Rebecca Bahn (born in Pennsylvania) lived in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Levi Bahn (30), Rebecca Bahn (5), Levi Bahn (5), Lewis Bahn (1), Elisabeth Bahn (1), Henry Neff (21), and John Rhehart (19). [1]
1860 Rebecca Bahn (age 40, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Codorus Twp, York County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Levi Bahn (40), Levi Bahn (13), Rebecca Bahn (13), John Bahn (7), Catharine Bahn (5), Sarah Bahn (2), Lucy Bahn (1/12), and Henry Bahn (38). Rebecca Bahn was a wife. [2]
1870 Margaret Bahn (age 51, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Codorus Twp, York County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Levi Bahn (50), Levi Bahn (24), Rebecca Bahn (24), Lewis Bahn (23), Elizabeth Bahn (21), John Bahn (18), Catharine Bahn (16), Sarah Bahn (12), Louisa Bahn (10), and William Bahn (8). [3]
1900 Margret Bahn (born in Pennsylvania in Jun 1819, married for 57 years), wife, lived in Cordorus Twp, York County, Pennsylvania, in a household with Levi Bahn (80). Margret Bahn's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. [4]
1906 Levi Bahn, spouse of Margarette Rebecca Bahn, died on October 27 in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. He was born on March 22, 1820 in Shrewsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, son of John Bahn and Mary Magdalena Bahn. [5]
1910 Margarette Rebecca Bahn, spouse of Levi Bahn, died on November 8 in Shrewsbury Twp, York County, Pennsylvania. She was born on May 26, 1819 in Pennsylvania, daughter of Johann Jacob Bortner and Catharina Bortner. [6]
Rebecca Bortner, daughter of Jacob Bortner and Catharine Snyder was born in 1818, wife of Levi Bahn, she was still living (when the book was published). [7]
A biosketch of Levi Bahn reports [8]:
Levi Bahn, son of John and Polly Bahn, nee Schwartz, of Springfield Townsliip, was born March 22, 1820, in Shrewsbury Township. He was reared on his father's farm until his nineteenth year, then went to his trade of carpenter with John N. Miller, of Shrewsbury Township, and followed his trade since that date, except four years when engaged in milling. He built the mill which Henry M. Bortner now owns and operates. .January 23, 1843, he married Margaret Bortner, daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Snyder) Bortner, of Codorus Township. Twelve children have been born to this union: Cassie, deceased; Rebecca and Levi, twins; Louis, Elizabeth; Matilda, deceased; John, Catharine, Sarah .J., Louisa, Jacob and William H. Mr. Bahn has been the leading builder of Codorus Township for the past forty years, nearly all the large barns and dwellings having been erected by him. The first meeting house ever built in Glen Rock was put up by Mr. Bahn. He is descended from one of the old families of the township. Mr. Bahn is a member of Fishel's (Lutheran) Church. His grandfather, Frederick Bahn, was only four years old when he came to York County.
[1] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[3] United States Federal Census, 1870, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[6] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[7] George R. Prowell, History of York County Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Beers, 1907), 225, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[8] John Gibson, ed., History of York County Pennsylvania, Part II Biographical Sketches (Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing, 1886), 92, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].