BIO:  Thomas EHREHART, Tyrone Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 513

THOMAS EHREHART, farmer, P. O. New Chester, was born in this township, in 1825, 
and is a son of Thomas, Sr., and Margaret (Messersmith) Ehrehart, natives of 
York County, Penn., who settled in this county in 1808 or 1810.  They first 
located in New Oxford, and ten years later located in Tyrone Township, where the 
father engaged in farming and tanning; he was county commissioner one term, and 
held some of the offices of the township; was a gentleman of large business 
capacity, moderately successful, and a good liver.  Thomas Ehrehart, Sr., had 
ten children:  George, Sarah (deceased), Catherine, Elizabeth (deceased), Mary, 
Daniel, Thomas, Charles (deceased), Margaret (deceased), Agnes R.  He and his 
wife belonged to the Lutheran Church, of which he was an official member; he 
died in 1855, aged sixty-eight years, and Mrs. Ehrehart only a few hours after 
the demise of her husband, and was buried in the same grave.  Thomas Ehrehart 
(our subject) was reared to farm pursuits, and received a common school 
education.  He married, in 1851, Susanna, daughter of John Thomas, and located 
on the place where he now resides.  He has filled some of the township offices.  
He and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and officially he had held the 
positions of deacon and elder.  They are parents of four children:  Milton J., 
Luther T., Margaret E. and Harry E. (latter deceased).  Mr. Ehrehart owns a farm 
of 120 acres of land, which is well improved, produces grain and rears stock.  
Politically he is a Democrat.