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From: "Karen Bagford" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Baer/Bear & Graff/Groff Brethren
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:36:53 -0400
References: <002601c89a72$6dfd86a0$0b00a8c0@D1JH4121>


I have Henry Baer/Bear/Bar/Barin, married Mary Moyer/Meyer, daughter Hannah,
b. April 18, 1750 in Redstone, Fayette, PA. Hannah married Christian
Kauffman (Stehman) Stemen April 1, 1770, in Redstone, PA.
Their son, Henry S. Stemen, b. 1775, Green/Lancaster Co, PA (married Mary
Beery in Rockingham Co, VA) and in 1803 went to Fairfield County, Ohio,
where he was one of the original settlers. In 1809, Rev. Stemen was called
to the ministry of the Mennonite Church.

Karen Johnson Bagford


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:49 PM
Subject: [BRE] Baer/Bear & Graff/Groff Brethren


> The record of baptisms of the Conestoga Brethren include, among many
> others,
> the following:
>
> Jacob Baer/Bear - 1742
> Henry Baer/Bear and Wife - 1743
> Anna Baer/Bear - 1747
> Veronica/Fronica/Freny Graff/Groff - 1750
> Hannes/John Graff/Groff - 1754
> Madeline Baer - 1763
>
> First question: Does anyone know about one or more of the above
> individuals?
>
> Second question: Were they possibly from the early Swiss Mennonite
> Baer/Bear and Graff/Groff families that intermarried and lived in Earl
> Township, Lancaster County?
>
> Third question: In a footnote on p. 161 of his book, Martin Grove
> Brumbaugh
> says his first ancestor on his mother's side was Hans Graff/Groff who came
> to Pennsylvania in 1696 and ultimately settled in Earl Township. Was this
> the same person as the Hans Groff who was married to Anna Bear and to
> Susanna Orendorff Kendig, who wrote his will 7 Nov 1738 in Earl Township
> where he died before 5 May 1746? If so, what is the line from him to
> Martin
> Grove Brumbaugh?
>
> Fourth question: My own Grove ancestor was a Jacob Grove who was Brethren
> in Wilkes/Ashe, North Carolina, during the late 1700s, and whose children
> migrated to Muhlenberg, Kentucky, in 1801. Was this Jacob Grove a
> descendant of the Earl Township Graff/Groff/Groves?
> Was he the Jacob Grove who was the son of Martin Graff (died before 1760)
> of
> Earl Township?
>
> Dwayne Wrightsman
>
>
>
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