Rev. Moses H. Gottshall and Mary Shelly

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Husband Rev. Moses H. Gottshall ¹

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            AKA: Bishop Moses Godshalk,2 Rev. Moses H. Godshall,3 Moses H. Gottschall 4
           Born: 25 Mar 1815 - Frederick Twp, Montgomery Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 26 Oct 1888 1 5
         Buried:  - Schwenksville, Montgomery Co, PA

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         Father: William Z. Gottshall (1784-1875) 1
         Mother: Magdalena Hunsperger (1787-1864)

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       Marriage: 18 Jul 1857 5

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   Other Spouse: Hannah Clemens (      -1856) 2 3 - 6 Feb 1840 3

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Wife Mary Shelly ³

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            AKA: Mary Shelley 2
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Children

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1 M Rev. William S. Godshall ⁶

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           Born: 23 Jun 1865 - Frederick Twp, Montgomery Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Nancy Von Nieda (      -      ) 6
           Marr: 22 Sep 1886 7

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2 U [Infant] Godshall ⁷

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Moses H. Gottshall

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He was the sixth child of a family of thirteen children. He was studious, intelligent and obedient, possessed of more than ordinary piety and reverence. He received his education in the public schools of his day, which provided him with a very limited education, the Word of God, however, being his chief delight and principal study. He was married in 1840, and took charge of his father's farm, where he spent all his life-time. On December 3, 1847, he was called and ordained to the ministry in the Mennonite church, and became the first pastor of the Schwenksville Mennonite church. In 1850 he was ordained bishop of the same church, and later he was chosen bishop also of the Deep Run and the Branch congregations in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the Bowmansville congregation in Lancaster County, which he also organized. In October, 1865, he organized the First Mennonite Church, in Philadelphia, and became its bishop. At his death, Boyertown congregation, in Berks County, was also in his district. He was a man of wonderful oratorical ability, liberal-minded but sincere and consistent, and for popularity among all denominations he had hardly an equal. His services were all without any pay, and he was obliged to work hard for his support, yet withall he was eminently successful.
On October 21, 1888, he preached his last sermon in the Deep Run congregation, from the text, Rom. 14: 10-14. It was accompanied with more than usual fervor and earnestness. He came home sick, and five days later he passed away. His funeral was the largest ever held in the neighborhood, fully fifteen hundred people being present, among them twenty-seven ministers from different denominations.

1 Rev. N. B. Grubb, A Genealogical History of the Gottshall Family (Gottshall Family Association, 1924), Pg 17.

2 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 103.

3 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 506.

4 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 515.

5 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 507.

6 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 511.

7 Daniel Kolb Cassel, A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp or Culp Family (Norristown, PA: Morgan R. Wills, Publisher, 1895), Pg 512.