| Title |
Rev. |
| Birth |
1751 |
[3] |
| Sex |
Male |
| Eby ID |
00092-5275 |
| Person ID |
I18193 |
| Last Modified |
28 May 2004 |
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| Father |
Rife |
| Group Sheet |
F4431 |
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| Children |
| | 1. John Rife, b. Abt 1780 |
| | 2. Abraham Rife, b. Abt 1782 |
| | 3. George Rife, b. Abt 1785 |
| | 4. Samuel Rife, b. 15 Apr 1788, , Adams Co. Pennsylvania |
| | 5. Joseph Rife, b. Abt 1790 |
| | 6. David Rife, b. Abt 1792 |
| | 7. Isaac Rife, b. Abt 1794 |
| | 8. Mary Rife, b. Abt 1796 |
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| Group Sheet |
F4430 |
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| Notes |
David Rife, "a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was born in the year 1751 (My grandmother, Mrs. John Shoemaker, daughter of Barbara Reiff, used to say that her uncle, David, was two years older than her mother and that her uncle was ordained as minister of the Mennonite Church when he was in his thirty-ninth year, consequently he entered the ministry in 1790). All attempts made to obtain names of his parents and of all his brothers and sisters proved fruitless. We know of one sister he had, named Barbara, who was born in 1753, and died in Waterloo County in 1820. She was married to Isaac Shantz, father of all the old Shantzes that settled in this county during the early part of the present century. When a young man he moved to Adams County, Pennsylvania. He was a Mennonite and in 1790 was appointed a minister of that church. He was married and had a family of eight children, namely:..." |
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| Sources |
1. [S2] Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra Eby, 180 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
2. [S2] Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra Eby, 180 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
3. [S2] Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra Eby, 180 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
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