Rev. Mathias Burchfield and Barbara Overholt

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Husband Rev. Mathias Burchfield ^{1 2}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Mar 1822 - Tuscarawas Co, OH 1 2
         Buried: 

       Marriage:  - Westmoreland Co, PA

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Wife Barbara Overholt ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1775 - Bucks Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Jan 1813 - Tuscarawas Co, OH 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Martin Overholt (1743-1811) 1 3
         Mother: Esther Fretz (Abt 1748-1813) 1 3

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Children

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1 F Esther Burchfield ⁴

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           Born: 28 Dec 1798 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 5 Jun 1876 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: David Alleshouse (1798-1853) 4
           Marr: 1820 4

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Mathias Burchfield

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He and his wife were married in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and removed to Ohio about the time her mother did. He was a farmer, but became an United Brethren preacher, preaching in German, and had a "meeting house" on his own farm. It is said that he preached in the German language, but that he was of Scotch descent, his father and a brother having come over from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania.

The following inscriptions are upon the tombstone in the same rural cemetery (on the Burchfield farm), where widow Esther Fretz Overholt was
buried\emdash viz.:
. OUR FATHER AND MOTHER.
Mathias Burchfield, Barbara Burchfield,
Died Mar 16, 1822; Died Jan 16. 1813;
aged 52 years. aged 38 years.
. Go preach my Gospel saith
. the Lord. Bid the whole
. world my grace receive.

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Notes: Marriage

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For information about their descendants, click here.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 341.

2 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 151.

3 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 132.

4 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 152.