John David George Cromer Sr. (1758 - 1839)

Born 22 Apr 1758 in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine (Brubaker) Cromer — married 1784 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Husband of Sophia (Whisman) Cromer — married 13 Oct 1803 in Rockingham County, Virginia

Descendants

Died Apr 1839 at about age 80 in Harrison County, Indiana

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Biography

John was born in 1758. It is assumed that the Cromers immigrated from Germany. In PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANTS 1709-1786, under "Immigrants from Zweibruecken," edited by Don Yoder, page 310: "...FREDERICH CROMER OF RIMSCHWEILER...leaves with [his] wife and children for America."

John served in the Revolutionary War as a private in the Pennsylvania 7th Militia. He married Catherine Brubaker 1784 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. They moved to Maryland and then to Rockingham County, Virginia. In 1788, John (along with his brother, Martin) appears on the muster roll of Captian John Herdman's Company, 2nd Militia of Rockingham County, Virginia.

John married Sophia Whisman on 13 Oct 1803 in Rockingham County, Virginia. They moved to Kentucky about 1805 with their family. In 1821 John was granted land on Wood's Fork of the Little Rockcastle River in what is now Laurel County, Kentucky (formerly Know County, now Laurel, Kentucky). In 1829 he sold that land to his son David and moved to Harrison County, Indiana.

In 1837 John was the subject of a lunacy hearing in Harrison County, Indiana. He died in April of 1839 and was buried at Avery-Godsberry Cemetery in Blue River Township, Harrison County, Indiana. His tombstone reads: "A Revolutionary Soldier."^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Mark Gurley.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 18 December 2020), memorial page for John Cromer (1758–1839), Find A Grave: Memorial #19333343, citing Avery Cemetery, Depauw, Harrison County, Indiana, USA; Maintained by Darren Cromer (contributor 46904354).

See also:

• Sparkman, Jan. Our Fathers Before Us. Kentucke Imprints, 1980 (1 REFN 11282).
• Yoder, Don (ed.). PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, 1709-1786.
• http://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVV-K5DT
• My 5th Great GrandFather

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Mark Gurley for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Mark and others.
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