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From: Merle Rummel <>
Subject: Re: Rev. Martin Hauser
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 16:20:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20000401203853.22841.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com>

>
>1. Jacob HAUSER (Houser). Born abt 1760 in
>Warwick Twp, Lan Co, Pa. Jacob
>died in College Twp, Centre Co, Pa on 14 Feb
>1832, he was 72.
>
>They bought land in what is today Centre Co,Pa in
>1788. They settled there
>that year and the site is today called
>Houserville.
>
Toward the end of the Revolution/after the Iroqouis Indians had suffered
enough damage that they withdrew to the north (back to New York/Canada
-late 1780s), settlers began to move north along the Susquehanna River. A
major Brethren settlement was in Penn Valley (including Brush Valley) in
Northumberland Co PA, now far eastern Centre Co. Some of these families
moved on to Kentucky and were early in Ohio (c1800).

I've flown over these valleys -they have a tilted cap H shape -toward the
NE-SW, with ridges to both sides, and a broken lower ridge down the center
-with the headwaters of Penn Creek cutting through the center ridge and
going on east clear to the Susquehanna below Lewisburg. It is a very
fertile looking valley, with many dairy farms.

At the Tates Creek Church, west toward Wilmore KY was an early Brethren
Church under Elders Abraham Houser and Jacob Rohrer, of Antietam MD. Elder
Abraham Houser moved on to the Olive Branch Church (Ohio River on Bullskin
Creek, near Felicity OH) about 1802.

Merle Rummel
Church Historian

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