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Name: John HERSHEY
Sex: M
Birth: 21 May 1772 in Derry Twp, Dauphin Co, Pennsylvania ^b
Death: 23 Nov 1850 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania ^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:

Anna HORST on 20 Mar 1802 .^m1
Anna HORST Birth: 3 Oct 1778 Death: 28 Aug 1861

Children:

Jacob HERSHEY Birth: 9 Mar 1803 in Leacock Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 12 Jul 1883
Magdalena HERSHEY Birth: 15 Aug 1804 Death: 4 Jul 1857
Nancy Ann HERSHEY Birth: 22 Oct 1805 Death: 13 Sep 1885
Fronica HERSHEY Birth: 31 Aug 1808 in Leacock Twp, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 19 Mar 1881
John HERSHEY Birth: 1 Oct 1810 Death: 19 Mar 1869
Benjamin HERSHEY Birth: 12 Apr 1812 Death: 22 Feb 1875
Joseph HERSHEY Birth: 20 Nov 1816 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania Death: 17 Jul 1891

Bibliography

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]*].
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]*].
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, Mason HERSHEY p17]; 1772 [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p42],
place:: [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p19],
parents:: [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p26, Mason HERSHEY p17]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

place:: Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p17]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p26, Mason HERSHEY p18]; 1850 [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p42],
place:: [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p28]

Sources with Information about marriage to Anna HORST

date:: [Ref: Mason HERSHEY p28],
names:: [Ref: GroffCL GROFF p42, HersheyH HERSHEY p20],
child:: [Ref: HersheyH HERSHEY p26, HersheyH HERSHEY p27, Mason HERSHEY p28]

Research Notes:

Pedigree of John 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
John 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 John HERSHEY

1. John HERSHEY m. Anna HORST

m. Anna HORST father: John HORST mother: Ann STRICKLER

2 Jacob HERSHEY

3 Magdalena HERSHEY

4 Nancy Ann HERSHEY m. Jonas S MARTIN

5 Fronica HERSHEY m. Abraham REIFF

6+ John HERSHEY m1. Magdalena MUSSER m2. Margaret HOOVER

7 Benjamin HERSHEY

8 Joseph HERSHEY

2nd generation

6. John HERSHEY m1. Magdalena MUSSER m2. Margaret HOOVER

m. Magdalena MUSSER father: Henry MUSSER mother: Maria MUSSELMAN