Susanna (Ream) Redsecker (1765 - 1851)

Born 24 Oct 1765 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Descendants

Died 1 Sep 1851 at age 85 in Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co., PA

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Biography

• Born 24 October 1765 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania^[1]
• Married July 1786
• Died 1 September 1841, in Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co., PA^[2]
• Buried in Mt Tunnel Cemetery, Lancaster County, PA

Sources

• Source: S193 Title: Henry B. Shaffner Manuscript Collection Author: Henry B. Shaffner, translator Publication: Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Source: S260 Title: Biographical Annals of Lancaster County Author: J.H. Beers

The paternal grandparents of George Redsecker were George and Susan (Reem) Redsecker, both natives of Lancaster, residents of Elizabethtown, where the grandfather died in 1834, at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow in 1841, at the age of eighty-eight. They were buried in Mt. Tunnel cemetery. Their children were: (1) George; (2) Barbara, the wife of Robert Ross; (3) Susan, the wife of George Peters; (4) Elizabeth, the wife of Philip Fisher; (5) Mary, the wife of Abraham Breneman; (6) Abraham--all being dead. George Redsecker, the great-grandfather of the gentleman whose career forms the theme of this article, was buried with his wife in Mt. Tunnel cemetery, their ashes having been removed from the burying ground of the old Reformed Church on the Ridge in West Donegal township.

The maternal grandparents of Mr. Redsecker were Alexander and Elizabeth Moyer, of Lancaster county.

• (Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pa., Beers, 1903, p. 314.) Page: The paternal grandparents of George Redsecker were George and Susan (Reem) Redsecker, both natives of Lancaster, residents of Elizabethtown, where the grandfather died in 1834, at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow in 1841, at the age of eighty-eight.
• Source: S7 Title: Headstone

N1264

85 yrs, 10 mo, 7 days per headstone

• Lancaster Intelligencer, Sep 15, 1831; Page 3:

DEATHS

. . . on the 1st Sept, 1861, at her late residence I the Borough of Elizabethtown, Susannah Redsecker, widow of George Redsecker, sr., aged 85 years, 10 months and 7 days

1. ↑ Source: #S7
2. ↑ Source: #S7