Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Joseph MUSSER
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 17 Aug 1787 b
  • Death: 1845 in Wayne Co, Ohio d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Benjamin MUSSER Birth: 13 Jun 1749 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 25 Nov 1820 in Manor Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
    • Mother:
  • Magdalena BOSSLER Death: 22 Jul 1840

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Magdalena MUSSER Birth: 1812 Death: 1853
  2. Benjamin MUSSER Birth: 1815 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 1885
  3. Anna MUSSER Birth: 1819 Death: 1904
  4. Elizabeth MUSSER Birth: 1822 Death: 1855

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Engle, Morris M, Engle History and Family Records of Dauphin and Lancaster Counties. Mount Joy, PA: Bulletin Press, 1984. LMHS CS71.E58 1984. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1284. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: EngleMM ENGLE p[0-9]*].
  2. Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Spartonburg, SC: Reprint Publishers, 1985. Orig pub 1903. LMHS rF157.L2B6 1985. Available at http://archive.org/details/biographicalanna00megi and at http://archive.org/details/cu31924028852998 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LancasterCoPA Biog p[0-9]*].
  3. Lancaster County Pennsylvania Register of Wills, Wills, 1730-1908, SLC: GeneSocUT, 1947. Will Book 1M 1810-1821, LDS Film#0021359#2. Lancaster County Court House, Office of Records and Archives, 50 N Duke St, Lancaster, PA. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/005534205 images 564-5. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills M-463].
  4. Musser, Edgar A, Musser Genealogy. Lancaster, PA: author, 1980. LMHS CS71.M9892 1980. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p.*].
  5. Recker, Charles, People of the Marsh, Newsletter of the Musser Family 1972-75. Grenada Hills, CA: author, 1972-5. NYPL APV (Moser) 87-2041. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh [IVX]*#[0-9]p[0-9]].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p15]
1787 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#1p2, Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2],
parents:
[Ref: EngleMM ENGLE p23, LancasterCoPA Biog p250, MusserEA MUSSER p15, Recker PeopleMarsh II#1p2, Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2],
father:
[Ref: LancasterCoPA Wills M-463]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
7 Aug 1787 [Ref: EngleMM ENGLE p23, LancasterCoPA Biog p250]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p15, Recker PeopleMarsh II#1p2, Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2],
place:
[Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anna Nancy HERSHEY
date:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p15]
1811 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2],
place:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p15]
Lancaster [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2],
child:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p15, Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]
Sources with Information about marriage to Esther PIERCE
date:
[Ref: MusserEA MUSSER p15, Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2],
place:
[Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]
Research Notes:
first tried the milling business, but it failed to the tune of $27000 [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]

moved to Rochester, New York, where he first began the practice of medicine [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]

Doctor [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#1p2]

moved from Rochester, NY, to Ohio, then back to PA [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]

after death of first wife, moved to Wayne Co, Ohio, and lived with his son-in-law, Henry Bauman [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]

moved to Wayne Co, Ohio [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh II#1p2]

purchased 27 acres of land in Section 17, later selling off 5 which were sub-divided into 41 lots, called the Village of Smithville [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]

died after a sickness broughton by eating some bad fish [Ref: Recker PeopleMarsh III#3p2]



Pedigree of Joseph MUSSER
                                                                /-----Ulrich MOSER
                                                       /-----Galante MOSER
                                              /-----Peter MOSER
                                             |         \-----Dori HUNDSPERGER
                                     /-----Peter MOSER
                                    |         \-----Elsbeth LONGENEGGER
                            /-----Peter MOSER
                           |        |         /-----Christian TOMI
                           |         \-----Elsbeth TOMI
                           |                  \-----Elsbeth HOFER
                   /-----John MUSSER
          /-----Jacob MUSSER
         |         \-----Veronica (MUSSER)
 /-----Benjamin MUSSER
|        |                                                      /-----Andrew HIRSHI
|        |                                             /-----Andrew HIRSHI
|        |                                            |         \-----Barbli SCHENK
|        |                                    /-----Isaac HIRSHI
|        |                                   |         \-----Christina DANNER
|        |                           /-----Christian HERSHI
|        |                          |         \-----Elisabeth SCHMIDT
|        |                  /-----Christian HERSHEY
|        |         /-----Benjamin HERSHEY
|        |        |        |         /-----Daniel STAUFFER
|        |        |         \-----Adelheid STAUFFER
|         \-----Maria HERSHEY
|                  \-----Mary (HERSHEY)
Joseph MUSSER
 \-----Magdalena BOSSLER



Descendants of Joseph MUSSER
1. Joseph MUSSER m1. Anna Nancy HERSHEY m2. Esther PIERCE
m. Anna Nancy HERSHEY
m. Esther PIERCE

2nd generation

2. Magdalena MUSSER m1. Henry BAUMAN m2. Michael HANK
m. Henry BAUMAN
m. Michael HANK
3. Benjamin MUSSER m1. Magdalena SAUDER m2. Caroline CRIDER
m. Magdalena SAUDER father: Jacob SAUDER mother: Maria MUSSER
m. Caroline CRIDER
4. Anna MUSSER m. Jacob LUTZ
m. Jacob LUTZ

3rd generation

6. Cyrus BOWMAN m. Mary A KRYSHER
m. Mary A KRYSHER