Individual Details

Benedict Brackbill

(8 Jun 1779 - 15 May 1827)

B. Brackbill's surname was also spelled "Breckbill." His given name was listed as "Benjamin" by Maurice Umble & Theodore Herr, and as "Benedict" (Junior) by Henry Hershey.

Events

Birth8 Jun 1779Paradise, Lancaster, PA
Marriage12 Feb 1805Elizabeth Hershey
Death15 May 1827Paradise, Lancaster, PA
BurialStrausburg, Lancaster, PA

Families

SpouseElizabeth Hershey (1783 - 1875)
ChildAnn Brackbill ( - 1840)
ChildMaria Brackbill (1805 - 1883)
ChildJacob H. Brackbill ( - )
ChildJohn Brackbill (1811 - 1812)
ChildElizabeth Brackbill (1813 - 1896)
ChildBarbara Brackbill (1815 - 1892)
ChildBenjamin Brackbill (1818 - 1903)
ChildSusanna Brackbill (1820 - 1888)
ChildMartha Brackbill (1823 - 1863)
ChildJoseph Brackbill (1825 - 1886)
FatherBenedict Brackbill Senior (1730 - 1823)
MotherAnna Maria Kindig (1741 - 1817)
SiblingJohannes Brackbill (1763 - 1825)
SiblingElizabeth Brackbill (1764 - 1789)
SiblingAnna Maria Brackbill (1769 - 1848)
SiblingHenry Brackbill (1771 - 1837)
SiblingAnna Brackbill (1773 - 1828)
SiblingSusanna Brackbill (1776 - )
SiblingChristian Brackbill (1781 - 1857)

Notes

Birth

Benedict Brackbill, Jr. was born in what was then Strasburg Township, but is now Paradise Township, Pennsylvania. He may have been born on the 3rd.

Marriage

Elizabeth Hershey and Benedict Brackbill were second cousins, with the common ancestors of Hans Jacob Kindig and Susanna Wymann.

Burial

Benedict Brackbill, Jr. was buried in Brackbill-Neff Cemetery, Paradise, Lancaster, according to Noah Oberholtzer, Jr. and in Twin Elm Road Cemetery by David Ritter.

Endnotes

1. Oberholtzer, Noah, Jr. "Readers' Ancestry." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Volume 28, Number1 (January 2005), pages 26-29. Contact: 202 East Eby Road, Leola, PA 17540-9508. Telephone: 717-656-8036., page 28.

2. Herr, Theodore W., Genealogical Record of Reverend Hans Herr and His Direct Lineal Descendants: From His Birth A. D. 1639 to the Present Time, Containing the Names, Etc. of 13,223 Persons. (Lancaster, PA: Examiner Printing House, 1908. Reprinted Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1994), 23.

3. Oberholtzer, Noah, Jr. "Readers' Ancestry." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Volume 28, Number1 (January 2005), pages 26-29. Contact: 202 East Eby Road, Leola, PA 17540-9508. Telephone: 717-656-8036., page 28.

4. Ritter, David R. "Descendants of Henry Kindig (1708-1756) and Maria Wolfe of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania" Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Volume XV, Number 3 (July 1992), pages 19-28., page 28.