Bibles: REISHER/ RISHER Family Records: Franklin County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn K. Shearer. cks@pa.net USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ____________________________________________________ Reisher/ Risher Family Records, Franklin County, PA While these are all not strictly Bible records, they may be of help to anyone researching this line. Letter from Samuel REISHER of Chambersburg (son of Daniel REISHER and his second wife Christina SMITH KROFT) to his cousin Rev. Levi RISHER of Dravosburg, PA, written 2 Dec 1891. My dear friend : Your welcome letter is duly received. weak and feeble in body from the great age that the heavenly Father has blessed me with. My hearing is greatly impaired. Still notwithstanding, I am still able to see and attend to my business affairs. It is now 26 years since you were with us in Chambersburg after the house was built after the rebels had burnt our lovely town your amiable and lovely nace (niece) Dellia M. RISHER for whom I have great esteem frequently did call to see us while a scholar at Wilson College. from her we heard from you at various times. I see from your letter your endeavoring to find where my ancestry hailed from. My father who was Daniel RISHER who wrote his name as you in German. He was of German descent whose parents came to this country at an early day when this country was but collonies before the revolution.* His father having died and he was left his widowed mother then but a child of tender years . Thus you will see my father Daniel RISHER grew to manhood in times of great troubles of the times then existing. He subsquently got maried and had sons and daughters born to him and after these children had been born the mother died. This scattere= d the children westward the sons were called by name the first Michael, Abraham, David, John and the youngest was Daniel. The daughters were Elizabeth, Mary, and Catherine. It will now be seen that after the death of the mother of the aforesaid sons and daughters my father then married my mother Christina CROFT a widow of John CROFT a soldier of the revolution. So that from this wedlock I was born and my father and mother then lived and remained with me in Chambersburg until death and are both buried in Chambersburg. It will [be] seen that his sons Michael and the other sons went to west and remained there while I was born in Chambersburg. And there have lived to the present day. So this will show where out name became east and west from the same ancestry and never at any times met so see each other. My father wrote his name as you do yours. My name has been wrote by me wi= th the REISHER that was follwed up from my school days. I am sure that my parents are of German descent and owned the land at one time after Braddock('s) fight with Indians (and) french of which he took part was owned and occupied by father as you do now. Dear friend you will please to excuse my writing and errors from spelling or any other information you desire you can find from me if desired. I remain your friend With much respect Sam'l Reisher My father's age was 96 years of age when he died. I am within months of 90. [Note at the bottom "born Aug 13, 1802." [If the age 96 is correct, then Daniel Senior was born c 1729. cks] * 1738, 4 Jun "Records of the Government Council, 1738" Maryland Commission Book, p 38. [Read at the Maryland Hall of Records, 3 Feb 1992] "A Patent of Naturalization issued in Common Form to Peter REISHER, a native of High Germany but now of Baltimore County, planter, and his children Daniel, Susannah, and Elizabeth." [Peter REISHER was a miller in York County PA. He lived very near the MD line and thus was involved in the MD-PA boundary disputes. The naturalization in Maryland is believed to be his effort to 'cover all his bases.' He died a1741 when his widow Susanna married Johan Michael BEIGLER] ~ ~ ~ Bible record of Daniel S. REISHER ["presented to Jennie W. Duke March 12, 1909 by father Daniel S. Reisher" a note at the bottom 'Virginia' -'she took care of her father in the later days.'] Births - Daniel Smith Reisher born April 2nd, 1821 Elmira Reisher born March 17th, 1826 Nancy Huber born December 23rd, 1824 Susan Wilt born August 25th, 1827 Marriage - Daniel S. Reisher and Nancy Huber were married October 20th, 1842, Rev George Miller, United Brethren minister Daniel S. Reisher and Susan Wilt were married January 13th 1853, Rev. John Dickson, United Brethren Births - Nancy Reisher's children : Samuel S. Reisher born August 5th, 1843 Benjamin H. Reisher born July 9th, 1845 Mary Ellen Reisher, born June 27th, 1847 Edward Grove Reisher, born December 1st, 1849 Nancy Anna Huber Reisher, born February 15th, 1852 Births : Susan Reisher's children: Emma Kate Reisher born Oct 31st, 1853 Daniel Webster Reisher born December 12th, 1854 Anna Elizabeth Reisher born January 31st, 1856 William Smith Reisher born July 27th, 1857 John Jacob Reisher born November 14th, 1858 Alice May Reisher born March 5th, 1860 Clara Belle Reisher born July 31st, 1861 Virginia Wilt Reisher born December 30th, 1862 Carrie? ___ Reisher born June 8th, 1865 Henry Wingard Reisher, born August 27th, 1866 Minnie Ross Reisher born July 31st, 1867 Nellie Ross Reisher, born March 4th, 1871 Record of deaths Nancy Reisher died June 16th 1852 half past 5 o'clock p.m. buried at Salem Church, Green township, Franklin County, PA on Friday June 18th, 1852. Funeral sermon preached by Rev. John Dickson of the United Brethren in Christ from Job Chapter 19, 25, 26, 27. Age 27 years 5 months and 23 days. Verses of her own selection Susan Wilt Reisher died January 8th, 1883. Buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg, PA January 11th, 1883. Funeral sermon preached by Rev. William Dickson, minister of the United Brethren in Christ, son of the Rev John Dickson, now Bishop Dickson from Mathew 26th chapter, 26,27,28 verses. A e 55 years, 4 months and 13 days. Children of Susan Reisher died Daniel Webster Reisher died January 20th, 1858 William Smith Reisher died Jane 25th, 1858 John Jacob Reisher died March 23rd, 1863 Henry Wingard Reisher died September 24th, 1866 Minnie Ross Reisher died September 24th, 1869 Emma Kate Greenwalt nee Reisher died March 4th, 1874 Buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, Chambersburg, PA.