Excerpts from The Pennsylvania Germans. A Sketch of their History and Life, of the Mennonites, and of side lights from the Rosenberger Family By Jesse Leonard Rosenberger. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois Copyright 1923 by The University of Chicago Published November 1923 p 147 ...Daniel Rosenberger's son David married Ann Funk, a daughter of Christian Funk and granddaughter of Bishop Heinrich Funck. Christian Funk was a broad-minded, able Mennonite minister, who apparently took a more friendly attitude toward the American Revolution than some of his brethren thought that a Mennonite should take toward war, one of his contentions being that the war taxes imposed should be paid without any consideration of the use that was to be made of them. On account of the position that he took in some such matters, he was eventually expelled from the church, after which he organized a church that was composed of Mennonites who were in sympathy with his views. The first child born to David and Ann Funk Rosenberger they named "Christian." David Rosenberger died in 1821. The year has sometimes been stated to have been 1829, but his making his will on March 7, 1821, and its being proved on September 19, 1821, show that his death occurred between those dates in 1821. His wife, Ann Funk, had died a number of years previously, and he had afterward married for his second wife, Barbara, daughter of John Dettwiler. David Rosenberger left surviving him six children by his first wife, and four by the second. The provisions which he made in his will for his wife Barbara and for his ten children, treating the latter in effect as nearly alike as possible, were of essentially the same character as those made fifty years before by Daniel Rosenberger-for his wife and children. Nor did David Rosenberger forget the children of a deceased daughter-one by his first wife. By his will David Rosenberger gave his wife Barbara two beds and all that belonged to them; what were called her chest and her clothespress and their contents, the chest not to be opened, inspected, or inventoried; her kitchen drawer with all the furniture thereon and therein; a clock and case; a new walnut table; 4 chairs, 2 buckets; 2 tubs; 1 iron pot; a teakettle; a fire shovel and tongs; a big wheel; a spinning wheel, and a reel; a ten-plate stove; the choice of 2 cows, which were to be pastured for her; and yearly 10 bushels of rye, 6 bushels of wheat, 4 bushels of buckwheat, as much as she might desire for her use of apples and other fruit growing on the farm; 200 pounds of good fattened pork, and 100 pounds of beef. She was also to have, for the term of her natural life, the use of either the northeast or the southwest part of the dwellinghouse, whichever she might choose, with such use as she might need of the kitchen, cellar, springhouse, and bake-oven; and was to have the use of one-third of the garden, as well as was to have one-quarter of an acre of good ground sowed annually with flax seed, and was to have a sufficiency of good firewood, ready to cut and split, and delivered at her door. * Most of the personal property of David Rosenberger, according to the inventory which was filed on September 19,1821, was similar to that which his father had possessed, and included a razor, hone, and strap, appraised at fifty cents. His live stock consisted of 4 horses, 12 cows, 3 heifers, 21 sheep, and 15 hogs. He had, besides a wagon, a wagon body and cover, a sleigh, and sleds. Other things that perhaps should be noted were a lamp, 2 lanterns, slate, armchairs, rocking cradle, wood cards, cider mill, frying pans, earthen pots, dough troughs, crowbar, post chisel, gun valued at seventy-five cents, smoked meat, and a barrel with whiskey, those last two being appraised as being together worth one dollar. David Rosenberger, like his father Daniel, lived in Hatfield Township; but Christian Rosenberger, son of David Rosenberger, settled in that part of Providence Township that about 1805 was made Lower Providence Township. Christian Rosenberger has been described as having been particularly well off for a Pennsylvania-German farmer of his day. He apparently did not make any will. The inventory of which was made in November, 1824, of his personal property included these valuations: ... Christian Rosenberger married an Elizabeth Kraut, by whom he had eight children, the second one being born in 1797, and named Jacob. Jacob Rosenberger was a Mennonite, but in a record of marriages solemnized by Reverend George Wack, of the Reformed church, as published in the Perkiomen Region, Past and Present (II, 115), there is this entry of 1820: "December 12. Jacob Rosenberger and Maria Dettwiler." Jacob Rosenberger died on April 11, 1831. The inventory of his personal property, which referred to him as "late of Worcester Township," showed little that was different from anything that his father had; but it included, with other things:... To Jacob Rosenberger and his wife eight children were born, seven of whom lived to comparatively old age, and one of whom was Jesse Rosenberger, who was born on May 1, 1827. Jesse Rosenberger soon after he became of age set out for what was then known as the "West," and settled for a while in Stark County, Ohio, probably at Alliance, in order to follow his trade as shoemaker, although he afterward became a farmer and a nurseryman. On June 2, 1850, he married Esther Him, whose home was then a few miles from Alliance-in Columbian County, Ohio-but who was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1833. Both of them early joined the Baptist church, and he at one time did some preaching. She died at Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, on December 12, 1871. He subsequently married again. He died at Iola, Kansas, on March 20, 1909. The parents of Esther Heim were Leonhard Heim (as he signed his name, in German) and his first wife--whose maiden name was Mary Snyder--whom he married about 1831 in Pennsylvania, whence in 1840 they moved to Ohio. Mrs. Heim died some time prior to 1847. Mr. Heim's death is recorded in the West Township Cemetery--formerly often called the "Heim Cemetery"--at Moultrie, in Columbiana County, Ohio, on a tombstone which bears the inscription: "Leonard Heim, Died May 7, 1853, Aged 44 ys. 2ms. 16ds.: Leonhard or Leonard Heim (by some persons spelled "Hime") learned the trade of blacksmith, but after his marriage he became a farmer...* Jacob, son of Christian, was married under the name of "Rosenberger," but at some time thereafter he changed his name to "Jacob Rosenberry," and some of his children continued to use the name "Rosenberry,: while his son Jesse retained the name of "Rosenberger"---Jesse Rosenberger. Important information about names and dates of birth and death is also frequently supplied by tombstones. For example, there are seven or eight Mennonite cemeteries in Montgomery and Bucks counties in which a number of Rosenbergers have been buried, and in most cases the name on the tombstones is spelled "Rosenberger," while the few variations in spelling the name are of such a nature as a whole as not to detract from the belief that "Rosenberger" is the original and what may be termed the proper spelling of the name. A small number of the inscriptions are in German. But while it is supposed that Heinrich Rosenberger was buried in the Mennonite cemetery at Franconia, and that Daniel Rosenberger and his son David were buried in the cemetery of the Mennonite church at Line Lexington, in Bucks County, across the county line from where they lived in Hatfield Township, there are no tombstones to show it or to tell anything else about them. The early graves in both of those cemeteries were either unmarked or marked simply with rough pieces of common stone-generally red shale-on a few of which at one time or another names, or more frequently only initials, and sometimes dates, were scratched, as it might have been done, with a nail. Christian Rosenberger, it has been stated, was born about 1773, and died in 1821. Both of those dates, however, are evidently erroneous, for in the Mennonite cemetery of what is called the Worcester or Methacton congregation, about a mile north of what is known as Fairview Village, there is a tombstone that was erected, as the somewhat weather-worn inscription says: "In memory of Christian Rosenberger, who departed this life November 5th, 1824, in the 53rd year of his age." His son Jacob was buried in this same cemetery, as is shown by a tombstone inscribed: "In memory of Jacob Rosenberry, who departed this life April 11th, 1831, aged 33 years, 6 months & 22 days." Yet, as bearing on the spelling of the family name, it is significant that another tombstone, by the side of that one, reads "In memory of Susanah Rosenberger, who departed this life May 29th, 1835, aged 13 years, 4 months & 23 days." (Happy Thanksgiving)