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From: "Cheryll Reed" <>
Subject: [SNOWHILL] Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Bonebrake, and Jacob Oller
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 21:39:15 -0500

From: The Bonebrake Family, Antietam Ancestors; Spring 1991, Volume III,
Number 4, pgs.91-101

ELIZABETH BONEBRAKE (born November 30, 1830-died February 19,1911), daughter
of Jacob and granddaughter of Conrad, married Jacob Franklin
(1825-1897), son of Joseph and Rebecca (Stoner) Oller (see Antietam
Ancestors, Volume I., page 18), an elder of the Antietam congregation of
German Baptists. Early in his career he farmed and clerked in dry goods
stores in the vicinity of Waynesboro. He was one of the original members of
the firm Geiser, Price & Company, manufacturers of the Geiser Separator, of
Waynesboro, and upon their incorporation in 1869 he became the first
secretary and treasurer of The Geiser Manufacturing Company. He was also one
of the incorporators and first president of the Bank of Waynesboro. Jacob F.
and Elizabeth (Bonebrake) Oller resided at 228 West Main street, Waynesboro,
in a brick house erected around 1836 by the Reverend George W. Glessner on
"The Hermitage," a farm owned by Glessner's father-in-law, David Besore (see
Antietam Ancestors, Volume II., page 14). Two of Oller's daughters, Mesdames
Dubbel and Rohrer, erected houses on the same lot. Most of this family were
buried in Burns Hill Cemetery.

Jacob F. and Elizabeth (Bonebrake) Oller had issue:

1. REBECCA, born May 23, 1850, attained the age of one hundred two years,
and was familiar to people in Waynesboro as "Aunt B." She married Columbus
C. Stull (1829-1918), of Quincy. They had one son, Harry, who died
unmarried. In her later years she resided with the Dubbel family, next to
her parents' home at Waynesboro.

2. SALINA ANN (born July 9, 1851-died August 7, 1851) lies buried in the
Bonebrake family burying ground on Conrad Bonebrake's homestead.

3. SUSAN E. (1852-1923) married Joseph E. Rohrer (1851-1918) and had one
daughter, Bessie (1879-1965), who was a member of the Daughters of the
American Revolution and a genealogist.

4. JOSEPH JACOB (born March 2, 1855-died September 3,1936) wed Myrtle (born
October 11, 1869-died August 5, 1938), daughter of Henry C. Funk, and had
four offspring:
(1) The first-born died in infancy;
(2) Rello, who succeeded to her parents' residence and in 1989 donated it to
the Waynesboro Historical Society to be used as their headquarters;
(3) Jefford F. (born October 15, 1896-died July 27, 1974) married Anne
Baldridge, deceased; and
(4) Jack Ezra (born November 7, 1900-died May 20, 1986), a professor of
French at Juniata College, married Elizabeth Rohrbaugh, who survives him. J.
J. Oller entered the employ of the Geiser company as a boy, and later
assumed the position of general manager, which was created for him. He
succeeded his father as secretary and treasurer of The Geiser Manufacturing
Company, and when that concern was sold to other interests, he became
president of the Landis Machine Company, of Waynesboro. He was a trustee of
Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pa., which all of his children who survived to
adulthood attended. The auditorium there is named Oller Hall in memory of
this family.

5. WILLIAM BOYER (born September 20, 1857-died August 27, 1862).

6. JESSE Rupp (born May 20, 1860-died March 24, 1904) married Ida, daughter
of Dr. John A. and Emma Helen (Bonebrake) Royer (q. v.), who subsequently
married H. E. D. Gray.

7. ANNA (1863-1889) married Silas E. Dubbel (born December 7, 1861-died May
20, 1949), a druggist at Waynesboro. They had four children:
(1) May Lawshe (born February 12, 1884-died October 4, 1953) wed Rush E.
Stouffer (1881-1967), sometime cashier of the Citizens National Bank of
Waynesboro, whom she bore two children, Rush E. Stouffer, Esq., of Tacoma,
Wash., and the late Mrs. John Gower, of Kingston,Tenn.
(2) John D.
(3) S. Earl (born February 3, 1889-died March 15, 1977) a Presbyterian
clergyman and professor at Juniata College, wed Marion I Entriken and had
one son, Silas E., of Huntingdon, Pa.
(4) John Oller Dubbel.

8. ELIZABETH (born October 5, 1865-died June 17, 1866).

9. MAY (born April 14, 1867-died July 7, 1962) wed David Maurice (born
October 7, 1863-died March 19, 1940), son of Hiram Emerick Wertz, of Quincy,
Pa. He was an orchardist. They had four offspring:
(1) An infant son;
(2) Elizabeth married Calvert N. Ellis, sometime president of Jul!iata
College, of Huntingdon, Pa.
(3) Anna married Dr. William MacNeish; and
(4) David Maurice (born November 1,. 1905-died August 20, 1907).

10. JOHN B. married Adelaide Harley and had two children, Richard and Helen.
They removed to New York City.

11. EDITH (born March 22, 1 872-died January 29, 1875).

Most of this family were buried in Burns Hill Cemetery, Waynesboro.

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