Jacob Moser

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Jacob Moser came to America from Berne, Switzerland in 1765. He settled in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He bought 100 acres of land in 1770, for $500 in what is now Philadelphia. They were members of the Lutheran Church in Switzlerland. His six brothers and two sisters came with him to America. Some of them settled in Burkes County, Penn. The brothers' names were Burkhart, Fredrick, Franklin, Adam, John and Henry. The sisters were May and Catherine. Later John, Henry , Fredric, Adam and Franklin emigrated to North and South Carolina.
Jacob and Burkhart remained in Pennsylvania, Burk Moser remained single, bought 416 acres of land on Panther Creek called Bowens Grove, in the hills of Schuylkill County, Penn. In the year 1776. Burkhart died about 1845. Later the LeHigh Coal Company bought the land and paid $7,000,000 for it and the largest hard coal company in the US developed.
One of the girls married Russell Colt and moved to New York State. The boys were born to this union, Jack and Lionel. Jack became the father of the great stage and screen people, the Barrymore's.
Fredric went to North Carolina and married and became the father of eleven children. His grandson, John, son of Michael, married Barbara Meretz, decendent of the Royal House of Saxony.
One son, Jacob Jr., was 6'2" and weighed 180 pounds and was dark complectioned. He left home when he was 20 years of age and came to Masselon, Ohio and married Susana Whitimire.
Source: Cora Selby Hoeppner, her mother was Mary Mosure Selby - Ancestry.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jacob Jr., was 6'2" and weighed 180 pounds and was dark complectioned. He left home when he was 20 years of age and came to Masselon, Ohio and married Susana Whitimire.
To this union was born 11 or 13 children, among them; Tobias, Frank, Ephriam, George, Jonathan, David, Abner, Harvey, Caroline and Katherine.
Jacob came to Decatur, IN and bought 60 acres of land, two miles south of Decatur. There he built a log cabin. He then returned to Ohio to move his family to their new home. While there he was taken ill with lung fever (pneumonia) and died.
Before his death he told his wife to write to his folks in Pennsylvania. They were quite wealthy and would help her rear the children. Instead she moved her family with an ox team to the farm south of Decatur.

Jacob married Susannah Whitmire on 11 Jul 1826 in Fairfield, Oho. Susannah was born in 1803 in Pennsylvania, USA; died after 1870 in Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1850 Caroline Mosier, Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio, parents Jacob and Susannah.

Caroline married Levi Ewing on 16 Dec 1850 in Ashland, Ohio. Levi (son of William Ewing and Catharine Gorrell) was born in 1820 in Mohican, Ashland, OH; died in Mar 1866 in Decatur, Adams, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In the 1870-census his niece Sarelda Ewing was staying with him and his wife Rachael Lynch in Bluffton. Sarelda was 18 and a school teacher. David was a wagon maker.

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In the 1870 census she is a school teacher in Bluffton, living in the home of her uncle David Mosure and wife Rachel. Some later census records shows both her parents born in Pennsylvania, some both in Ohio.

Surelda married Ferdinand Mosiman on 15 Feb 1872 in Wells Co., IN. Ferdinand was born on 27 Jul 1849 in Harrison, Wells, Indiana, USA; died on 9 Apr 1950 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Frank Ewing

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Bluffton Weekly Chronicle - Mar 8 1916, obituary, Frank Ewing.
W. F. Ewing, aged 62, a well known resident of Vera Cruz, died early this morning, at his home there, after a week's illness with pneumonia. His death was a surprise to many of his friends who were not aware that he was seriously ill. He became sick the first of last week and was cared for at first by his friends and neighbors, but as his condition became worse, a trained nurse from Fort Wayne was secured to take charge of him and she has been caring for him for several days.
Mr. Ewing was born in Decatur, on may 15, 1854, and was the son of Levi and Caroline (Mosure) Ewing. He moved to Vera Cruz forty years ago and has made his home there ever since. He worked at the trade of a painter and paper hanger.
Mr. Ewing was married while in Vera Cruz and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Ewing and their six chidren survive. Mrs. Ewing and the children are all residents of California and the children are as follows: Will Ewing, San Francisco; Mrs. J. E. McLain, Oakland, Cal; Chauncey Ewing, Okland, Cal.; Mrs. Linnie McClanaghan, exact residence in California not reported; Lewis Ewing, Sand Francisco; and Miss Marie Ewing, San Francisco. There is also one half-brother, D.E. Shoemaker, of Coshocton, Ohio.
The funeral will be held on Thursday morning at ten o'clock at Mr. Ewing's late home in charge of Rev. W. H. Schroer and the interment will be at the St. Johns cemetery at Vera Cruz.

William married Seraphine Sarah Sunier on 13 Jan 1876 in Wells Co., IN. Seraphine was born on 11 Jan 1856 in Adams, Indiana; died on 10 Sep 1939 in Oakland, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]