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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: DAVID REIFF
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:40:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200009252106_MC2-B4A5-EF4@compuserve.com>


>Greetings. I am looking for genealogical information on DAVID REIFF who
>was an early Brethren Minister. David was in Botetourt County, Virginia as
>early as 1780, I believe. He also had a son JOEL REIFF who built the first
>Brethren Church in Monroe County, WV. David Reiff's wife may have been
>either Catherine or Nellie Fleete. I am trying to find out exactly who his
>husband was as well as his ancestry. Thank you, Ray, Colorado
>
>
>
Reiff/Rife -was one of the families that moved from Coventry
(Pottstown/Chester Co PA) to the Hagarstown MD area --and then moved down
the Valley (and came out to the Ohio frontier). John Rife came to the Four
Mile (near Boston IN) in 1808, from near Winchester VA.

Merle C Rummel
Church Historian


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