Lancaster County, PA

Church record of the Swamp Reformed Church in West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County: 1788-1822.

• Salome Less, dau of Peter and Catherine, born 2 Jul 1792. Sponsor: Margaret Schellenberger.
• Maria Zimmerman, dau of Peter and Anna, born 22 Feb1794, baptized 20 Mar 1794. Sponsors: Philip and Anna Maria Schellenberger.

Biographical Annals of Lancaster Co., Pa., 1903 published by J. H. Beers & Co., page 1448.

AMOS N. LEHMAN, is a son of the Rev. Benjamin K. Lehman, for many years a distinguished clergyman of Manor township, and was born on his father's farm, April 14, 1847. Attendance at the district school was supplemented by a brief term of study at the State Normal School, at Millersville, and he devoted himgself for many years to assisting his father in farm work.

On Jan. 5, 1873, Mr. Lehman was married to Mary R. Shellenberger, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Rohrer) Shellenberger, born Oct. 24, 1848. After his marriage, he and his bride went to live upon a farm belonging to his father (and now owned by his brother John), which he tilled with considerable success until the spring of 1874. Meanwhile domestic misfortune had overtaken him his young wife having died Nov. 22, 1873, after the birth of her child, a daughter named Mary S. He resolved to enter the educational field, and with a view to qualifying himself therefor, he resumed his studies at the State Normal School and in the autumn of 1876 began his career as a teacher at Central Manor. He followed this profession for fourteen years, varying his work in 1890 by acting as census enumerator for his native township. In 1891 he concluded to return to agricultural life and purchased a small farm of twelve and a half acres, some two miles southwest of Mountville. Here he yet resides, in a pleasant home, whose surroundings indicate thrift, prosperity and refinement. He is highly esteemed in the community in which he has lived since boyhood, and is now serving his third term as town auditor. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1895 was appointed by Senator John H. Landis paster and folder in the Documentary department of the Senate. He is also a director in the Manor Mutual Insurance Company.

On Nov. 30, 1876, Mr. Lehman married a second time, his wife being Annie R. Meyers, a daughter of Jacob and Annie (Rohrer) Meyers. She was born Sept. 9, 1846, and died May 29, 1886. Two sons were born of this marriage, of whom the elder died in infancy; and the younger, Benjamin F., lives with his father.

JACOB SHANK, a representative farmer of Manor Township, belongs to a very old and highly respected family of Lancaster county. ...

Henry Shank, Jr., father of Jacob, was born June 9, 1791, and died Feb. 7, 1869. He was reared on the old homestead and at the age of twenty-one began teaming between Pittsburg and Philadelphia, following that pursuit for several years. With his team he was pressed into service during the war of 1812, but was retained only for a short time. About 1821 he married Miss Barbara Shellenberger, a daughter of Henry Shellenberger, and by that union he had the following children: Henry, born in December, 1822, who followed farming and died unmarried, March 28, 1897; Barbara, the wife of John Dietrich of Manor township; Isaac, a farmer of the same township; Abraham, a farmer of Cumberland county, Pa., who married Rebecca Bender and has two daughters; and Benjamin, a resident of Manor township, Lancaster county. For his second wife the father married Mrs. Barbara (Kauffman) Fry, widow of Adam Fry, and the only child born of this union was Jacob, whose name introduces this sketch. The mother died in 1856, at the age of fifty-six years.

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Jacob Hershey, son of Andrew (3), was born Oct. 2, 1765, in Manor township, and became a farmer and miller, building the old Hershey mill in Manor township in 1803. In 1787 he married Barbara Heistand, and died May 27, 1821. Their children were as follows:

John, born March 7, 1790, was a farmer in Manheim township. Jacob, born May 30, 1791, was a farmer by occupation, and moved to Ohio in 1834, locating in Medway, Clark county, where he afterward resided, and where his death occurred; he married and reared a family. Henry, born July 21, 1793, who married Annie Shellenberger, was a farmer, and passed his life in Manor township, dying Aug. 12, 1865; he was a member of the Mennonite Church. Andrew, born Dec. 16, 1794, married Annie, daughter of Samuel Hartman; he was a thrifty farmer of Manor township, though much of the time he was in poor health, and he died March 23, 1837, a member of the Dunkard Church. Elizabeth, born Jan. 19, 1798, died at the age of twenty-six years. Maria, born Jan. 29, 1801, died in infancy. Benjamin is referred to farther on. Maria (2) was born Dec. 31, 1808.

Silver Springs Cemetery

Shellenberger, Peter R. Husb 1868 / 1938 /
Shellenberger, Fannie H. Wife 1875 / 1954 /
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Shellenberger, Paul N. Husb 7-14-1919 / N/B /
Shellenberger, Betty J. Wife 1-18-1921 / N/B /
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Shenberger, Mary L. 7-13-1905 / 10-31-1966 /
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Shellenberger, Theodore W.Husb 11-18-1912 / 10-23-1983 /
Shellenberber, Josephine E. Wife 5-1-1915 / 3-24-1982 /
Shellenberger, Gary W. Son 11-15-1944 / 11-15-1944 /