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From: ROLAND BROWN< >
Subject: SUBJECT: RE: SAMUEL ETTER
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 17:35:06 -0400 (EDT)


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> Brethren Encyclopedia's Ministerial Lists has 11 Etters, including one
> Samuel. It says:
>
> "Etter, Samuel; 3-2-1801/11-18-1869; eld. 1858; Lower Cumberland, PA.
> _S. Pennsylvania (1941) 140."
>
> About the Etter Family Brethren Encyclopedia on p 458-459 says: "It is
> believed that the progenitor of Brethren Etters was Hans Georg Etter,
> who took his family to America over a period of yers in the mid-18th
> century. George Etter and his wife were baptized by Michael Frantz,
> Jr., in 1753. In 1770 Jacob, John, and Christian Etter and their wives
> were members at Big Swatara and Codorus congregations, PA, where their
> descendants remain active to the present day. Henry Etter, probably a
> son of Hans Georg, emigrated from Prussia abord the _Phoenix_ on Aug 28
> 1750 and settled at Hummelstown, PA. His son went to Franklin Co PA and
> reared a large family, all Brethren. His son William was a minister;
> sons George and Jacob married sisters Sarah and Susan Miller. Jacob's
> sons Henry and Jacob Jr. (m. Maragret Wine) migrated to Iowa in the
> 1860s. Michael Etter (1777-1847) was born in Dauphin Co PA and moved to
> Montgomery Co OH in 1805, then on to Miami Co OH ca 1812, where he
> helped organize the Stillwater congregation." (Citations of sources
> given.)
>
> It would sound like you could find some early Etters in the lists of
> early members of various congregations on the Brethren Web Page.

Do you find how Michael Etter (1777-1847) was related to the other Etters?
He was a 3rd great grandfather of mine. Hummelstown, PA, is located in
Dauphin Co, PA.

Roland Brown
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