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Gerhart Groh (c.1660) was a Mennonite living in Osthofen, Germany. His son may have been

Hans Groh (c.1688 - c.1750) emigrated from Wittgenstein, Westphalia, to Pennsylvania about 1726 and was naturalized in February 1728 at Conestoga. He held land in Bethel Twp, Lancaster Co, PA. He and Maria his wife had eight children:

1. Mathias Groh (c.1710 - 1771) married about 1733 Anna Grove (c.1713)
2. Peter Groh (c.1720 - 1769)
3. Isaac Groh (c.1722) married Susan Miley
4. Catherine Groh married Joseph Groff
5. Franey Groh married Peter Groff
6. Barbara Groh married Abraham Steiner
7. Mary Groh
8. Anna Groh married Abraham Wingard

Mathias Groh (c.1710 - 1771) lived in Bethel, Lancaster County, now Lebanon Co, PA, in 1743, obtaining a warrant for land on Swatara Creek in 1752. He married Anna Grove (c.1713)

Anna Grove was the daughter of Jacob Graff (c.1690-1730) who emigrated from Zurich, Switzerland, about 1726, and his first wife. Jacob then married Elizabeth, of Cocalico Twp, Lancaster Co.PA. By 1734, she remarried Valentine Miller.

1. John Groh (1729-1816) married Magdalena Meyer, moved 1788 to Niagra, Ontario, Canada
2. Henry Groh (1735?) moved to Detroit 1793, thence to Thames River, Ontario
3. Abraham Groh (1738?-1797) married Maria widow of Jacob Shaeffer
4. Christian Groh (1740?-1811) married Barbara
5. Michael Groh (1742?)
6. Peter Groh (1744?-1819) married Maria
7. Elizabeth Groh (1746?) married Christian Stealey
8. Barbara Groh (1747 - 1827)
9. Anna Groh (1748?) married Christian Frantz
10. Veronica "Franey" Groh (c.1752) married Paul Hamman
11. Johann Mathias Groh (c.1750-1833) married Susanna Morgan
12. Mary Magdalena Groh (1758-1822) married Henry Miley

Veronica "Franey" Groh was born about 1752 and married Johann Paul Hammann (1745-1789) about 1775. She remarried to Christopher Lindamood, and died about 1832

1. Barbara Hamman (15 Jul 1776 - 14 or 1844) m.1795 Rudolph Rosenberger (1774-1846)
2. John Hamman (25 Jan 1778 - 12 Oct 1832) m.1805 Barbara Baker (1774-1850)
3. Margaret Hamman (11 Jan 1790 - 1814)
4. Michael Hamman (c.1782)
5. Paul Hamman (c.1784 - 1821)
6. Catherine Hamman (9 Mar 1786 - 9 Oct 1855)
7. Elizabeth Hamman (15 Oct 1788 - 10 Jan 1851)

Barbara Hamman (1776-1844) m.1795 Rudolph Rosenberger (1774-1846)

Asa Rosenbarger (1796-1875) m.1818 Rachel Pitman (1797-1874)

Leah Rosenbarger (1820-1884) m.1849 Jacob Stonecypher

Ephraim Stonecypher (1853-1934) m.1875 Martha Highfill

Bertha Helen Stonecypher (1876-1950) m.1904 John Liptrap

Virgil Raymond Liptrap (1907-1977) m.1949 Frances Mary Tate Matthews

James Matthews Liptrap (1951)


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