THRUSH, Susannah

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Joseph was a cooper by trade and a farmer. In the spring of 1836 he moved his family from Pennsylvania to Seneca Co. Ohio, near Attica in a three-horse Conestoga wagon.
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In 1837 they moved to a place named Bellville inRichland Co., Ohio, where he purchased a small tract of land.
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In 1840 he lost his land after "the panic of 1837" and rented about 80 acres and lived on it for 18 months.
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In the fall of 1841 Joseph moved his family to Indiana in a Yankee covered wagon. From October of 1841 to July 1842 they lived in a cabin in northern Grant Co., Indiana. In July 1848 Joseph traded his new wagon, one horse and harness to a Mr. McVicker for a 28 acre tract of land near Lincolnville, Wabash Co., Indiana.
Some years later Rachel Ann Thrush, Joseph's daughter gave this account of their arrival to this farm. "There was a little log cabin on this place that we could occupy when we first came, that was some, but not much better than staying out in the open air. It would keep the rain off somewhat, and we had all the woods on the farm to get fuel from to keep a flaming fire to warm us by in the winter".
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Though Joseph and Susannah were of the Lutheran faith in Pennsylvania they became founding members of the Asbury Chapel Methodist Church in Indiana.
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Joseph is buried in Center Grove Cemetery in Wabash Co., Indiana.
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The 1850 census for Largo, Township,Wabash Co., Indiana states Joseph, born in Pennsylvania, was a farmer with land valued at $1000.00. His wife Susanna and several of his younger children were with him at the time the census was taken, including our ancestor Catherine, age 16, who was attending school.
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Joseph L. Thrush came from Richland County, Ohio. His family were himself and wife and five children, one of them being a half-grown lass, the future wife of Mr. Joseph McClintock. They made the trip in a Yankee covered wagon, drawn by three horses, having traveled the longer and more tedious journey from Pennsylvania to Richland County, Ohio, years before, when the country was far more wild and unsettled, in a three-horse Pennsylvania Conestoga wagon. Mr. Thrush settled on the Marion-Lagro Road, called the Boundary Road, because it was laid on the eastern boundary of the Big Miami Indian Reservation, which the whites, with their accustomed greediness and disregard of the rights of the weaker party, located wholly upon the Indian land. Some of them have received a sort of reward for the greediness of their predecessors in the fact that the lands on the west side of the boundary are less in extent by half the width of the road. Mr. Thrush died in 1877, at the age of eighty-one, having been born in 1796.

Joseph married HOCH, Susannah 28 Dec 1823, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Susannah (daughter of HOCH, Henry and FACKLER, Rachel) was born 5 Sep 1803, Pennsylvania; died 6 Sep 1876, Wabash County, Indiana. [Group Sheet]

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Leonard Thrush, son of Leonard and grandson of Jacob, was born in Hopewell Township, now Newton Township, Cumb. Co. about 1760. His name first appears in the records as a freeman in 1782 and continues as a freeman through the years 1782 and 1783. (S. III, Vol. XX).
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On December 14, 1787, he was granted a warrant for 200 acres of land (S III, Vol. XXIV - P. 773.)
His homestead of 300 or more acres was considered to be one of the best in the Cumberland Valley.
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Leonard Thrush served in the Cumberland County Militia as a private, 8th class in Captain Alexander Peeble's Company in the years 1780 and 1781 and on March 14, 1781, he was called to do a tour of duty on the frontier. (S. V, Vol. VI, P. 396-406).
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His name appears as the head of a family in the U. S. Census 1790, and also in the Military Roll of the 6th Battalion, Cumberland County Militia in 1793. (S VI-Vol. V - P. 217).
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January 23, 1799, Leonard Thrush was elected an ensign in Company 1, Fifth Regiment, Cumb. Co. Militia, commanded by Captain Robert Peebles. (S. VI, Vol. IV, P. 716).
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Leonard Thrush lived and died in Newton Township, Cumberland Co. Letters on his estate were granted to Daniel Eckert, administrator, on December 7, 1842. Deeds on record show his wife was named Catherine. His wife Catherine died later, letters on her estate having been granted to Jacob Thrush on July 13, 1844.
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A release given by the heirs of Leonard Thrush recorded December 19, 1846, show his heirs to be as below: Jacob Thrush
Joseph Thrush
Catherine Thrush, married Jacob Thrush XI
Leonard Thrush, B. 1799, D. 1833, XII
Mary Thrush, married Daniel Stine
Catherine Thrush, B. 1801 and D. 1901.
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Leonard married STINE, Catherine Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Catherine was born 1764; died 13 Jul 1844, Newton Township, Cumberland County Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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(Taken from the book "Briggs Heritage" by Clara Jean Whan, 1985)
Henry Hoch Jr. was born about the time that Thomas Jefferson and his committee were drafting the Declaration of Independence. Henry and his wife Rachel followed the westward migration moving to a farm between Newville and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
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The couple had 13 children on the farm known as "the old Hoch farm". Henry followed the same trade as his father, farming his land and weaving in the off-season.
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Henry and Rachel where buried adjacent to the Reform church in Shippensburg but later had to be moved to the Spring Hill Cemetery because of Church expansion. Their graves are marked with stone markers.

Henry married FACKLER, Rachel Bef 1799, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Rachel (daughter of FACKLER, Hans George and Susanna) was born 25 Feb 1779, Aboard A .. Ship Bound For Colonies; died 4 Sep 1865, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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Rachel is said to have been born enroute to the colonies. this statement has come under some scutiny as some researchers believe the family had been in North America for some time prior to her birth. Thier hunch is that she may have been born abord ship while the family was traveling between Europe & the British Colonies, not a the time of the familys original immigration.
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She was the sponsor for Rachel Beck, the daughter of her sister Barbara (Fackler) Beck and John Beck, 1797.

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J. Leon Reisch (Leonard Thrush) took the oath of allegiance to the King of England upon his arrival in Philadelphia in 1750, Indicating that he must have been at least 16 years old.
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Leonard and his four brothers all fought in the Revolutionary War. Leonard served in the 6th battalion,Cumberland County Militia, under Captain Alexander Peebles and Colonel James Dunlop.
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Jacob Thrush, the immigrant, had sons named Leonard, Jacob, Peter, Richard and John. Leonard Thrush, son of Jacob, the immigrant, had seven sons names Jacob, Leonard, Barnabas, Peter, David, Richard and Martin. The five sons of Jacob, the immigrant, all saw service in the War of the Revolution from 1776 to 1783. Of the seven sons of Leonard, son of Jacob, the immigrant, Jacob did service in 1779 and Leonard in 1780. The other five sons are not recorded as doing military duty during the War of the Revolution. Presumably they all were too young. As before stated, no attempt has been made to identify the families of Jacob, Peter, Richard and John, sons of Jacob, the immigrant. My impression is that the families of this name to be found in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and Indiana trace their ancestry to one or the other of these four sons of Jacob, the immigrant. It would require more research than I have been able or care to make to determine the relationship.
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Leonard Thrush was the oldest son of Jacob Thrush (J. Jacob Freisch). He was born in Germany and came with his father and younger brothers to America, landing in Philadelphia August 24, 1750. Leonard Thrush took the required oath of allegiance with his father and hence was sixteen years or more in age in 1750.
He was a taxable in Hopewell Township, Cumb. Co. in 1780, as also were his two brothers, Peter and Jacob. (See Penna. Arc. S. III, Vo. XX).

Leonard Thrush was a member of the original German Lutheran congregation at Shippensburg and his remains lie with his father's in the "Old Dutch Graveyard" in the eastern part of this town. The name of his wife has not been positively ascertained.
They were the parents of ten children, as follows:
1. Jacob, oldest son,
2. Leonard,
3. Barnabas,
4. David,
5. Peter,
6. Richard,
7. Martin,
8. Catherine , married Jacob Foose
9. Rosanna, married Jacob Helmes
10. Susannah, married Jacob Fry
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J. — CATHARINA. [Group Sheet]

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(Taken from the book "Briggs Heritage" by Clara Jean Whan, 1985)
Henry eventually settled at the foot of the North Mountain in theCumberland area near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
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A legend of the area is that George Washington visited a weaver near North Mountain to obtain cloth for the Continental Army, during the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. This weaver may have been our Henry.
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They lived in Lancaster County from the time of their arrival until 1795. Henry joined the westward movement and crossed the Susquehanna, moved up the valley, and settled on a piece of land between the Middlesex and the Stirretts Gap. Henry worked as a farmer in season, and as a weaver during the winter months. Henry and Sarah raised several children. One son, Henry Hoch Jr.
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He lived to be 95 and was buried on his farm and a stone marker is at the place of burial.

Henry married KUNTZI, Sarah Abt 1767, Pennsylvania. Sarah (daughter of KUNTZI, Jacob and Anna Margaret) was born 5 Oct 1755, Pennsylvania; died 1822, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

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Hans George Fackler arrived at the port of Philadelphia on September 29, 1750 aboard the ship "Osgood". William Wilkie, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, with 480 passengers.
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Hans George and a younger brother, Johann Wendell, fought in the Revolution because they were on the militia lists of Lancaster County from 1777 to 1783.
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In fact, Joh. Wendell was listed as a "non-associator" and as such was on the fines list because of such non-association from 1777 to 1783. Non-associators were usually conscientious objecters, members of certain religious sects, among them the German Baptist Brethren (Dunkers, Tunkers or Dunkards). The non-participation of either of these two Facklers would have been in keeping with the religious beliefs of the German Baptist Brethren, a non-violent sect to which a number of their children belonged.
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The Pennsylvania Archives also show both Vendle (sic) Fackler and his brother, George Fackler, as contributing corn and wheat to the Continental Army.
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1790 census:
Dauphin County, Pa.
Foekler, George 3m 16+, 1m -16, 4f
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1800 census index: Dauphin Co., Pa.
Fackler, George DAU 16
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George Fackler found in: Bucks and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, 1682-1825 Land Records
Date: Nov 23, 1761
Residence: Earl Twp.
Land Record ID: 42178
Description: Mortgagor Book-Page: G-252
Property: 258 acres in Earl Township
Remarks: MORTGAGE.
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George was buried in Raysor's U. B. Cemetery, near Susquehanna H. S., off Union Deposit Road, Dauphin County, Pa.

Hans — Susanna. Susanna was born Abt 1739, Germany; died 17 Jan 1806, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; was buried , Raysor's Upper B. Cemetery, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]