BIOGRAPHY: Jacob YODER, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, page 744

  JACOB YODER came from Lancaster county, Pa., about the year 1794, and settled 
in Brown township, Mifflin county, about two and a half miles west of what was 
then called Browns Mills, now Reedsville.  He was a farmer, and occupied what 
was known as the Big Spring farm.  Jacob Yoder married Catherine Plank, and had 
children, as follows:
  I. John, married Sarah Yoder, and had children:  Lydia; David; Matty; and 
Frantz.   II. Jacob, married Nancy Kauffman, had children:  Samuel; John; and 
Jacob.  Jacob Yoder, the father, came to his death by falling from the roof of a 
barn, about 1828.   III. Nicholas, married Leah Yoder, and had children: Jacob; 
Jonathan; and Sarah.   IV. Solomon, married Sarah King, and had children: Jacob; 
Samuel; and Frany.   V. Christian, married Lydia Yoder, and had children: David; 
Catherine; and Sarah.   VI. Matty, married Christian Byler, and had children: 
Jacob; Christian; Solomon; Jonathan; Jonas; Samuel; Moses; Catherine; and Mary.   
VII. Catharine, married John Byler, and had children: Eli; Jacob; Seaver; 
Lizzie; Lydia; Mary; Nancy; Hannah; Frany; and Salome.   VIII. Nancy, married 
Jacob Kurtz, and had children: Adam; John; Jacob; Jonas; Stephen; Frany; Nancy; 
and Catharine.   IX. Frany.   X. Barbara, married Isaac Plank, and had children: 
Jacob; John; Jonathan; Samuel; Lydia; Catherine; Barbara; Nancy; Frany; Melinda; 
and Sarah.    XI. Lydia, married Joseph Wray, and had children, one son and one 
daughter.
  All members of the Yoder family above recorded were occupied in farming.