George Eberhart and Unknown

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Husband George Eberhart ^{1 2}

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            AKA: George Frey 3
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           Died:  - Middletown, PA
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         Father: John Adam Eberhart (      -      ) 1 2
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Wife Unknown

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - George Eberhart

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The youngest son of John Adam Eberhart, Duke of Elsass (Alsace), Germany, he came to America, landing at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when eighteen years of age. He left Germany without a "pass-port" perhaps because his father was opposed to his leaving. Having some money, he bought a lot of goods and started in search of his brothers, selling his goods by the way. He aimed for Ft. Harris, now Harrisburg, but landed forty miles above at Ft. Halifax, where the commander of the Fort had him arrested, accusing him of having run away from his master, supposing he had been bound to someone to pay his passage over, as he had no "pass-port" to show. For some time he could not understand why he was held a prisoner, but when it was explained to him by a man that understood German, he very vehemently cried out, "Ach nein, Ich bin frei! Ich bin frei." They thought he meant his name was Frey, and there was nothing against him, so they let him go, but he was called George Frey, from that day, and he finally accepted the name. He was married, but had no children. By the time he got to be an old man he had amassed a large fortune, which he left by will to the Lutheran Church to endow a school for poor children at Middletown, Pennsylvania, where he died.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 381.

2 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 167.

3 Rev. Uriah Eberhart, History of the Eberharts (Chicago Lawn, IL: Donohue & Henneberry, Printers and Binders, 1891), Pg 172.