__________________________
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_Joseph SHIREY ______|
| m 1857 |
| |__________________________
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|--LIVING
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| _Jacob Sr. BOWERS ________+
| | (1794 - 1856) m 1815
|_Susan BOWERS _______|
(1837 - ....) m 1857|
|_Susanah (Susanna) ANDES _+
(1793 - 1873) m 1815
_____________________
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_James KIRKPATRICK __|
| m 1856 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--LIVING
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| _Joel BOWER _________+
| | (1794 - 1866)
|_Martha Jane BOWER __|
(1828 - ....) m 1856|
|_Sarah LOBAUGH ______+
(1803 - 1872)
_Philip BOWER _______+
| (1767 - 1816) m 1803
_Adam Dorres BOWER __|
| (1807 - 1892) m 1833|
| |_Susanna GRAHAM _____+
| m 1803
|
|--John Snow BOWER
| (1847 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary Ann SNOW ______|
m 1833 |
|_____________________
_Robert Adam BOWER __+
| (1825 - 1906) m 1850
_James Reid BOWER ____|
| (1852 - 1940) m 1893 |
| |_Matilda Ann REID ___
| m 1850
|
|--Mildred Dorothy BOWER
| (1894 - 1979)
| _James DAVIS ________+
| | (1840 - 1925) m 1868
|_Agnes Cameron DAVIS _|
(1870 - 1951) m 1893 |
|_Frances Ryer BOWER _+
(1842 - 1934) m 1868
_William A. BOWERS ________________+
| (1852 - 1930) m 1875
_Frank Earl BOWERS __|
| (1883 - 1955) m 1908|
| |_Virginia (Jenny) Harriet HELSLEY _+
| (1853 - 1931) m 1875
|
|--Loree Edna BOWERS
| (1915 - 1997)
| _William Riley SHARP ______________
| | (1850 - 1937) m 1870
|_Bessie Bell SHARP __|
(1884 - 1970) m 1908|
|_Lucy Jane WYMORE _________________
(1851 - 1932) m 1870
_David Charles HARRIS _+
| (1851 - 1919) m 1874
_Howard Armour HARRIS _|
| (1875 - 1964) m 1902 |
| |_Helen Alma BOWER _____+
| (1855 - 1887) m 1874
|
|--Charles Christian Ryer HARRIS
| (1922 - 1978)
| _______________________
| |
|_Mary Oral RYER _______|
m 1902 |
|_______________________
_____________________
|
_Thomas JONES _______|
| m 1847 |
| |_Susanna GRAHAM _____+
|
|
|--George Clarke JONES
| (1857 - ....)
| _Philip BOWER _______+
| | (1800 - 1889) m 1823
|_Sophia BOWER _______|
(1825 - 1906) m 1847|
|_Abigail SNOW _______+
(.... - 1858) m 1823
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|
_Peter LOBACH _______|
| (1687 - 1720) |
| |__
|
|
|--Peter LOBACH
| (1719 - 1785)
| __
| |
|_Gerdraut MEY _______|
|
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[136] From Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, relating chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, edited by William Henry Egle, Annual Volume 1900, article "Two Pennsylvania-German Families, by A. Stapleton, pp 187-189: "With the Schwenkfelder colony, there arrived in Philadelphia, in 1734, in the ship 'St. Andrew', Wilhelmus and Degenhart Pott and Peter Lobach, the latter a minor. Wilhelmus Pott was the step-father of Lobach. They wer4 from Holland and from highly respectable antecedents. ***Upon their arrival in Pennsylvania, they settled on a branch of the Manatawny Creek in Rockland Township, Berks County, where their lands adjoined that of Johannes Keim, who is supposed to have come to the valley prior to 1700. Peter Lobach was fourteen years of age when he arrived in the Province. In 1746 his step-father conveyed to him a portion of the estate, and on which the village Lobachsville was built, which with all its buildings and industries remained in the Lobach family until its breaking up in 1885, by the death of David Lobach, Esq. The Pott and Lobach families were very active and enterprising people. John Pott, a son of Wilhelmus the immigrant, bought extensive tracts of land where Pottsville now is. He erected large ironworks, and founded the city which perpetuates the family name. It is also claimed that he was the first to utilize anthracite coal in that region, and opened a market for the same. Recurring again to young Lobach, we hind that soon after he acquired his land he erected in 1748 a fulling mill and saw-mill. At this time he also imported from England machinery for finishing woolen goods. A dye house was also built this same year, and the manufacture of woolen goods was carried on until 1824. To all these industries were added a chair factory and turning mill. A stone hotel and post-office followed. All as stated remained in the hands of the family. In 1850 Samuel Lobach, a grandson, who had succeeded to the estate, secured the plate of Scull's map of Philadelphia, made in 1750, and published an edition which is now quite rare. It seems surprising that families so important in Provincial days as the Pott and Lobach families should die out so utterly in the locality of its first settlement and activities. Few if any descendants are now found in that region. ***The Lobachs were not only active in business, but were far in advance of their surroundings in general intelligence. From "My Ancestors" by Dr. Irwin Hoch DeLong: Peter Lobach, Philadelphia County, Pa. was naturalized at a Supreme Court held September 24-25, 1744, together with twelve others who are said to have been Quakers or such who conscientiously scruple to take an oath. In the record above (the declaration of the witnesses to a will), dated 1754, it is definitely stated that Peter Lobach was a Mennonite. (Cf. Pa. Archives, Second Series, Vol. II, page 368). He is buried in the Lobach family plot in the cemetery adjoining St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Lobachsville, Pa. Lobachsville is approximately 14 miles northeast of Reading, m between New Jerusalem and Pikesville.
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_John STAMBAUGH ________|
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|--Malinda Sophia STAMBAUGH
| (1848 - 1928)
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|_Catharine (STAMBAUGH) _|
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