John Gochenour was born in 1724 in Kohlhof, Heidelberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich. His parents were Jacob Gochenour and Anna Unknown.
Sources
Emigrants, Refugees and Prisoners, by Richard Warren Davis, publ. 1995, Vol. I, accessed in Mennosearch. No longer online, but pages accessed by Landy Gobes, copies held by Dave Rutherford.
BEERY FAMILY HISTORY, William Beery and Judith Beery Garber, The Brethren Publishing House, Elgin, Illinois, 1957
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John: