Jacob Brubaker and Susanna Erb

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Husband Jacob Brubaker ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1758 1 2
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         Father: John Brubaker (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Mary Doner (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: 1781 1

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Wife Susanna Erb ¹

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Children

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1 M Jacob Brubaker ⁵

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            AKA: Jacob Brubacher 4
           Born: 1782 6
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         Spouse: Maria [2] Eby (1787-1864) 7 8

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2 M John Brubaker ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Brubaker

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He and his wife raised a family of seven children. He died of yellow fever, contracted while in Philadelphia, he being engaged in hauling his grain and flour to that place during the prevalence of that disease there.

He settled on Hanover Creek [Lancaster Co, PA?]; removed to Keller's mill, in Cocalico township.

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General Notes: Wife - Susanna Erb

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As a young widow, she devoted her time and energies to her family. Previous to this some members of the "Old Mennonite" church settled in Canada, They had purchased a very large tract of land, but after a while they found there was a mortgage on it of $30,000, which would be foreclosed. They became alarmed and sent a committee to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to solicit aid from their brethren. After some labor they succeeded in raising the amount; this young widow contributed a large sum towards it. The committee started back to Canada, through the wilderness, with this money in gold and silver in their saddle-bags, on their horses. They reached home safe and cancelled the mortgage. These events transpired about the beginning of the 1800s. Those men had nothing to give for security but their word and honor, which they faithfully fulfilled. They surveyed the tract, 60,000 acres, divided it into lots of from 500 to 1,000 acres, and sold tickets to the parties who loaned them the money, held a regular lottery, and so this widow drew a large tract of land, in lieu of her claim against the committee. She traveled out, on horseback, to see her land. In the year 1816 she sent her youngest son, John, out to take charge of this land; he married there and raised a numerous family.
She lived 51 years in widowhood, and died at an advanced age. She traveled to Canada twice on horseback; one day, while leading her horse across the mountains, she came upon a large rattle-snake, which was lying across her path; she aimed a blow at it with her walking-stick and killed it.

1 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 89.

2 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 867.

3 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 88.

4 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 178.

5 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 90, 184.

6 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 90.

7 Alex. Harris, A Biographical History of Lancaster County (Lancaster, PA: Elias Barr & Co., 1872), Pg 90, 178.

8 Jacob Eby, A Brief Record of the Eby Family (Lancaster, PA: 1923), Pg 4.