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DISCUSSION OF PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY
RECORDS
In my research during the winter of 1920-21, I found
several Mohlers working on a family record and some confusion
in regard to the immediate descendants of Jacob Mohler,
who, except his son Jacob, buried in Mohler's Cemetery, had,
after the Revolutionary War, dropped out of the Dunkard
community in Lancaster Co., Pa. So then I began an exhaustive
research in order to secure accurate history of all the
early Mohlers, with results previously stated.
The following letter shows the interest taken in this subject
by other members of the Mohler family who live in Lancaster
Co., Pa. The Pennsylvania Mohlers are all very conservative
Dunkards, who live by tradition rather than by
public records. The Mohler meeting-house and the Mohler
cemetery date back to the days of Ludwig Mohler, and their
tenacity of clanship is not broken even through the female
lines, and long separation, as this collaborated record of widely
separated lines bears witness.
"Lititz, Pa., March 21, 1921.
"Mrs. M. V. Dunning,
"Dear Madam:--In answer to your letter of December 9th, 1920, I
went to work to find out what I could, as I have been anxious myself
to know of Ludwig Mohler.
"Among all the records I found pertaining to Ludwig Mohler's
sons, I found three different family trees. Some give their names as
George, Henry and Jacob, others, John, Henry and Jacob. All the
baptismal records state that George, Henry and Jacob Mohler were
baptized before 1742. The Church record does not state whose sons
they were, but we cannot find record of any other Mohlers who were
here before that date.
"I remember John L. Mohler well. I visited him often in Ephrata.
He was a Deacon of the Church, and I too, so we often came together
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