Operated the mill built by the Hess family in 1792 along the Pequea Creek, Salisburg Township. Christian, an ordained minister, before 1800, was the leading minister at Pequea Creek for many years before the first meeting/schoolhouse was erected. Christian Hess, Jr., also a miller was elected trustee of the newly-built meeting/school house that was built on the
opposite bank of the Pequea Creek north of the mill and given the Hess name.Christian Hess, Sr. Margaret Hess, and Peter Eby moved to Salisburg Twp. from Warwick
Twp. about 1792. In 1879 when the second new meeting house was built, the congregation name changed from Hess to Hershey since the Hess families declined in the community and congregation.
Irvin David Hess gives Christian's wife's name as "Mrs. Snavely." Was her marriage to Christian her second?
Married Daniel Brubaker, 1767-1848. Lived in Schoeneck. Irvin David Hess reports: "[Judith and Daniel] lived on a part of two hundred acres near Lititz (later known as Warwick Twp.) This was possible the land Jacob and Veronica Hess are reported to have taken up one mile from Lititz in 1734 It was reported occupied by John Gibble in 1880."
Lancaster, PA.
She died at an early age. It is not known whether she and Henry were related.
Moved to Cumberland Co., PA.
A deacon.
Carl F. King records her birth as being about 1771.