April 5, 1772, served in the Penn. Militia during the war until 1795, was married about 1794, and moved to Virginia, settling in Augusta County, about 1800. He died April 17, 1835, at "Rose Hill", Rockbridge county, Va., while on a visit to his son Jacob's wife. He was buried in Falling Springs churchyard, Rockbridge County, Va.

John Mohler was a man of a cheerful disposition, possessing merry blue eyes, rather light hair, large features, and the air of a man accustomed to prosperity. He always wore drab clothes and rode a gray horse, which he sat with military dignity. He was not a church man, in a strict sense.

He married Magdaline Rinehart in Pa., a woman of great piety, noted for her industry and integrity, and for her beautiful black eyes, delicate features, and charming good nature. For many years she was a consistent member of the Dunker church. She was buried in the Middle River German Baptist or Dunkard Churchyard, in Augusta County, Virginia, in 1853, at the age of 75 years, 10 mo. and 16 das. Her grand-daughter, Martha Barnhart, many years later, erected a marble monument to her memory.

In a hill, on John Mohler's estate, was discovered in 1804, a limestone cavern, named from its finder, Weyer's cave.

Peyton's History of Augusta County, Va., published in 1882, p. 278, thus speaks of "Weyer's cave": "No language can describe the vastness and sublimity of some of the caverns, the exquisite beauty and grandeur of its innumerable apartments with their snowy white concretions of a thousand various forms. It is ranked among the great natural wonders of the world."

Naturally, soon after its discovery, Weyer's cave became one of the wonder spots of young America that attracted travel from both continents. Both scientists and "globe trotters" took their turn at "Weyer's" and the old Mohler mansion was turned into a country inn that was rivalled by none in Virginia in the cosmopolitan character of its guests, and the reputation of its cuisine. These Mohlers were slave holders; the cave and the inn produced abundant revenue and the Mohler family grew famous for the quality of their hospitality.

John Mohler's original home was a large structure of logs, which was abandoned for a commodious brick mansion of twenty-one rooms, as time passed, and the fame of Weyer's cave grew. The misty, dreamy Blue Ridge mountains full of game, the great house with its crackling open fireplaces, and its groaning tables, was indeed a retreat to fly to upon any pretext, for many years after the Civil War. It was the romance of the spot that drew the two J. L. Mohlers together to unite the family about 1895.

Perhaps it would be well at this point to explain the meaning of the numbers used in designating lines of descent. Starting with 1001--for Ludwig Mohler of the first generation--the succeeding thousand numeral indicates the number of the generation, while the final figure gives the order of succession in enumerating the members of each particular family, but does not necessarily denote order of succession in family by birth. It has not been possible to either ascertain or follow the order of birth succession in instances where there has been no actual Bible chronology.