Individual Details

Abraham Buckwalter Senior

(22 Feb 1726 - 17 Feb 1820)

Dennis Oberholtzer gave Abraham Buckwalter's wife as Barbara Newcomer (1747-1820) and Abraham's father as Theodorus Buckwalter (1702-1782), but I believe this to be wrong.
Jay Weaver gave Abraham's parents as Jacob Buckwalter and Barbara Landis, but I believe this to be wrong.
Clearly, there is much confussion about one or more Abraham Buckwalters with similar birth and death dates.

Events

Birth22 Feb 1726East Lampeter, Lancaster, PA
Death17 Feb 1820Lampeter, Lancaster, PA
Will28 Apr 1820
Marriagems
MarriageStrasburg, Lancaster, PA - Maria W. Landis
BurialMellinger Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster, PA

Families

SpouseMaria W. Landis (1738 - 1804)
ChildMaria Buckwalter (1757 - )
ChildJoseph Buckwalter (1757 - )
ChildAbraham Buckwalter Junior (1759 - 1831)
ChildBenjamin Buckwalter (1762 - 1804)
ChildJohn "Turnpike" Buckwalter (1765 - )
ChildElisabeth Buckwalter (1769 - 1848)
ChildSusanna Buckwalter (1774 - 1862)
Spousems ( - )
FatherJoseph Buckwalter Senior (1692 - 1748)
MotherMagdalena Fritz (1692 - )
SiblingBarbara Buckwalter (1728 - )
SiblingMagdalena Buckwalter (1731 - )
SiblingEsther Buckwalter ( - 1802)

Notes

Birth

Abraham Buckwalter was born in 1738, according to Jay Weaver.

Marriage

Maria Landis and Abraham Buckwalter were wed in 1764, according to Jay Weaver, however this is after three of their children were born.

Endnotes

1. Oberholtzer, Dennis Lee. "Readers' Ancestry." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Volume 30, Number 3 (July 2007), pages 26-32, page 31.

2. Allan Garber, To God Alone The Honor: The Pioneer Mennonite Families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Morgantown, PA: Masthof Press, 2019), 426.