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From: "Bobbie Welty" <>
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Shearer Cemetery in Mt Joy Twp
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 17:15:11 -0600
References: <20031206.141333.-214105.3.joeedwolfe@juno.com>


Thanks for your reply. I assume you are talking about the Latter Day Saints
Family History films?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph E Wolfe" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Shearer Cemetery in Mt Joy Twp


> To0 Bobbie Welty: If you haven't checked out the microfilms on Albert
> Gerberich "Pennsylvania German Families: you might want to do that...they
> do I know included Hershey and I think Witmer in them. the films numbers
> are 522107 through 522123.
>
> Joe Wolfe
>
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 22:39:26 -0600 "Bobbie Welty" <>
> writes:
> > Dear Richard,
> >
> > I saw your reply mentioning an Elizabeth S. Witmer. I have hit a
> > brick wall
> > with my Witmer family and hope you might be able to shed some light
> > on this.
> >
> > Joseph Witmer b. 1760 Lanc. Co wife Barbara
> >
> > Their daughter:
> > Catherine Witmer b. 1791 Lanc. Co, d. 1863,
> > married in 1813 to
> > Jacob Hershey b. 5/19/1792 Lanc. Co. d abt 1842, both buried
> > Crossroads
> > Cemetery of the Brethren, Mt. Joy, PA.
> >
> >
> > Their daughter:
> > Elizabeth Witmer Hershey b. 1/13/1818, d. 4/14/1885
> > married
> > Benjamin Hummer Ritter b. 6/21/1818, d. 2/8/1896
> > They are both buried in the Crossroads cemetery also.
> >
> > I also know Benjamin Hummer Ritter's mother is Elizabeth Hummer b.
> > abt.
> > 1794, d. after 1850
> > I do not know anything else about the Hummer family.
> >
> > If any of this sounds familiar, I would love to correspond with you.
> >
> > Bobbie Welty
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard A. Sherer" <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Shearer Cemetery in Mt Joy Twp
> >
> >
> > > Frank,
> > > Christian Shearer, son of John and Elizabeth Kulp Sherer of Mt.
> > Joy
> > > Township, was born November 30, 1822 and died of dysentery
> > September 24,
> > > 1853 in Conewago Township, Dauphin County. He was married to
> > Elizabeth
> > > Reiff and left behind 5 children (the youngest born after
> > Christian's
> > > death). He was buried in the private graveyard of his neighbor,
> > Jacob
> > > Moyer. John B. Shank of Conewago Township was appointed guardian
> > of the
> > > children. Elizabeth Reiff's sister, Susanna, was married to a
> > Peter Shenk
> > > (or Shank), and in 1861 he was named guardian in place of John B.
> > Shank.
> > > Christian's brother, Samuel Kulp Shearer, was born May 7, 1821 and
> > died
> > > June 17, 1911. He married (1) Elizabeth S. Witmer and (2) Annie H.
> > Herr
> > and
> > > had a total of 9 children. Christian & Samuel's sister was named
> > Elizabeth,
> > > not Anna.
> > > BTW, Samuel's house is still standing.
> > > Best of luck,
> > > Richard Aurand Sherer
> > >
> > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 20:36:57 EST, Frank W. Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am looking for a Christian D. Shearer (Sharer / Sherer) who
> > died 9 Dec
> > 1896
> > > >and his wife Annie S. Shenk who died 4 Jul 1896.
> > > >
> > > >Christian may have been the son of a John and Elizabeth Sharer.
> > They had
> > two
> > > >other who also had two other children (Samuel, and Anna). Samuel
> > lived
> > on, or
> > > >in the area of the family homestead up through the 1880's if not
> > longer.
> > The
> > > >area is today is in the area of Mt Pleasant BIC Church on
> > Pleasant Road
> > > >between
> > > >Snyder Road and Risser Mill Road in Mt Joy Twp.
> > > >
> > > >I do not know if that is the location of the Shearer Cemetery is
> > in this
> > area
> > > >or not.
> > > >
> > > >Frank W. Hess
> > > >Enola, PA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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