683. John Groff
1 NAME John /Grove/
702. Abraham Rife
Groffdale Mennonite Cem.
Lanc.Co.,PA
Lanc.Co.,PA
717. Rev Christian Landis Hess
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?
Old Hershey Mennonite Cem.
Lived near Hess mill at Pequea, PA..
Peter was the great Mennonite bishop of the Pequea who farmed one mile west of Gap by Herr's Mill.
Irvin David Hess states: "He is referred to in the Biographical History of Lancaster History Alex. Harris (Reprint) pg. 179 as married to Margaret Hess, no date of marriage shown. He died in 1843, age 78, was born about 1765."
old Hess family cem.
Minister of the Old Mennonite Church - ordained in 1800. John and Esther owned 120 acres of Hess Homestead tract and lived in the old Hess log house. They put the second floor on the log house. They held church in the log house as well as at the neighboring stone house where John's sister, Elizabeth, married to Daniel Burkholder, lived.
1167. Christian Hershey Hess
Lived in Rothsville.
1169. Henry Hershey Hess
Lived in old Hess Homestead, Warwick Twp., loghouse which was by then a two-story house. 1864 sale deed states they owned a portion of three different Hess tracts. They built a second front door to the log house to accommodate privacy because they shared their house with their son, Jonas. Died of typhoid fever.
1170. Susanna Hershey Hess
Eleve
1171. Esther Hershey Hess
Died aged 16.
1173. Barbara Hess
Died aged 8.
1174. Martha Hershey Hess
Married Sam Oberholtzer (brother of Christian) 1802-1875. Rothville.
11 Children.
1177. Anna (Annie) Hershey Hess
Eight children.
Previous marriage to a Sechrist - West Lampeter Twp., E. Lampeter Twp., PA
Great Great Granddaughter of Rev. Hans Herr). Moved to Smoketown after
John's death.