Now I know why that sounded familiar! I have the info we discussed filed somewhere, but obviously not in my brain. Bill T. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dwayne Wrightsman Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRE] Elder John Garber Sr. and wife Barbara Miller Bill, Based on previous discussions that you and I have had on this matter, it turns out that this particular marriage between a John Gerber (b. circa 1760) and an Anna could not have been the Anna Kauffman daughter of Henry Kauffman who married a Gerber/Garber of the same name, the reason being that the John Gerber you describe is one or two generations too young, or putting it the other way, Anna Kaufman was one or two generations too old. I think that I brought up the possibility that the correct John Gerber/Garber husband may have been the one who was with the Ephrata Society, especially since Anna's sister Maria was married to Jacob Graff of the Ephrata Society, but our discussion never went beyond that. As I recall, I don't think either one of us could get a decent handle on who the Gerber/Garber of Ephrata was. Dwayne Wrightsman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Thomas Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRE] Elder John Garber Sr. and wife Barbara Miller Dwayne: According to my Garber/Gerber files, a John Gerber (b. circa 1760) s/o Jacob Gerber, and grandson of immigrant Christian Gerber (1702 to 1769), was married to an Anna (Kauffman??). He purchased his father's farm in Donegal Twp. in 1802 and sold it in 1822. He disappears after that. Christian was Mennonite and lived in what is now West Hempfield Township. The footnotes state that some have erroneously tied Christian to the John Garber brother of Nicholas who died in 1748. The 1748 family is the Brethren Garber family. Bill Thomas ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ Support Our Sponsoring Agency The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:[email protected] ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message