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    Person Info
  • Name: Abraham HERSHEY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 24 Jan 1787 in Derry Twp, Dauphin Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 9 Jan 1844 d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Jacob HERSHEY Birth: 1742 in Hempfield Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 11 Apr 1825 in Salisbury Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
  • Mother:
  • Anna NEWCOMER Birth: 25 Jul 1752 Death: 8 Jan 1832

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Fronica HERSHEY
  2. Jacob S HERSHEY Birth: 27 Nov 1812 Death: 24 Aug 1889

Marriage: Children:
  1. Margaret HERSHEY Birth: 17 Jun 1824 Death: 2 Nov 1906
  2. Peter E HERSHEY Birth: 5 Feb 1826 Death: 31 Aug 1911

Bibliography
  1. Groff, Clyde L, Walter B Groff, Jane Evans Best, The Groff Book, Ronks, PA: Groff History Associates, 1985. NYPL APV (Groff) 86-1589 v1. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p[0-9]*].
  2. Hershey, Henry, Hershey Family History. Scottsdale, PA: Mennonite Publishing House, 1929. Reprinted: Kokomo, IN: Selby Publishing, 1989. NYPL APV (Hershey) 94-9058. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p[0-9]*].
  3. Mason, Floyd R, Hershey Family Tree of Pennsylvania. Bridgewater, VA: author, 2002. NYPL APV (Hershey) 05-3375. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p26],
place:
[Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p19],
parents:
[Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p26, Mason HERSHEY p18]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
date:
21 Jun 1878 (sic) [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p18],
place:
Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p18]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p26]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
9 Jun 1844 [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p18]
Sources with Information about marriage to Maria SIEGRIST
date:
first marriage of Abraham [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p22, Mason HERSHEY p18],
child:
[Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p241]
Sources with Information about marriage to Anna EBY
date:
abt 1823 [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p53]
second marriage of Abraham [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p22, Mason HERSHEY p18],
child:
[Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p241]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of Abraham HERSHEY
                                                       /-----Andrew HIRSHI
                                              /-----Andrew HIRSHI
                                             |         \-----Barbli SCHENK
                                     /-----Isaac HIRSHI
                                    |         \-----Christina DANNER
                            /-----Christian HERSHI
                           |         \-----Elisabeth SCHMIDT
                   /-----Christian HERSHEY
          /-----Andrew HERSHEY
         |        |         /-----Daniel STAUFFER
         |         \-----Adelheid STAUFFER
 /-----Jacob HERSHEY
Abraham HERSHEY
|                  /-----Peter NEWCOMER
|         /-----Wolfgang NEWCOMER
 \-----Anna NEWCOMER
         |                                    /-----George WABER
         |                           /-----Heinrich WABER
         |                  /-----Hans WABER
         |                 |        |         /-----Uli RUGGIN
         |                 |         \-----Elsbeth RUGGIN
         |         /-----Henry WEBER
          \-----Elizabeth WEBER
                  |                                    /-----Peter KUNDIG
                  |                           /-----Jorg KUNDIG
                  |                  /-----Hans Heinrich KUNDIG
                  |                 |         \-----Barbel HUFFELBERG
                  |         /-----Hans Jacob KUNDIG
                  |        |         \-----Dorothea SCHARER
                   \-----Maudlin KENDIG
                            \-----Susanna WYMANN



Descendants of Abraham HERSHEY
1. Abraham HERSHEY m1. Maria SIEGRIST m2. Anna EBY
m. Maria SIEGRIST
m. Anna EBY father: Peter EBY mother: Margaret HESS