[From the History of the Hull-Schrantz Family, by Henry C. Holl, 1891, Pages 4-5]
Family traditions say that Johannes, the German for John, Holl and his young wife, severing many ties of friendship and affection, left their home among the snow-clad mountains of Switzerland and emigrated to America about the year 1730. The reason for fixing upon this date is the fact that the grandmother of Samuel E. Keller, who was a granddaughter of Johannes Holl, used to say that her grandfather came with the Kellers from Switzerland. The Keller history gives the date of 1730 as the year in which they landed in America. We therefore feel ourselves safe to fix the date of their advent in this country at 1730.
Johannes Holl settled near what is now New Holland, Lancaster county, Pa., and four years thereafter his first son, Abraham Holl, was born February 11, 1734. After giving birth to her son Abraham, the young mother was "ferried across the mystical river by the pale boatman of the white canoe." The old family record fails to give the young mother's name, and is therefore lost in the vortex of oblivion. Our old ancestor must, however, have had considerable of the philosopher in his composition, and found that "time heals every wound," for some time after the death of his first wife he married Fronica Bachman, from which union our tribe originated. The fruit of this union was four sons, viz: Johannes, Johan Peter, Wendell and Isaac. The old family record reads as follows:
"Anno 1744, den 10ten Augustus, im Wassermann, ist mir ein sohnlein zur Welt gebohren und sein nahme ist Johannas Holl.
"Anno 1745, den 18ten November, im Wassermann ist mir ein sohnlein zur Welt gebohran und sein nahme ist Johan Peter Holl.
"Anno 1747, den 8ten Julius, im zeichen des Schutz, ist mir ein sohnlein zur Welt gebohren und sein nahme ist Wendel Holl.
"Anno 1749, den 16ten Februarius, im zeichen des Krebsen, ist mir ein sohnlein zur Welt gebohren, und sein nahme ist Isaac Holl.
"Anno 1752, den 28ten Mertz, ist der Haus-Vatter mit nahmen Johannes Holl abgestorben und hat drey kinder hinderlassen, mit nahmen, der erst Johannes, der ander Johan Peter, der dritte Wendel, die sind noch bey leben so lang Gott will, gezeuget von der letzten frauen Fronica.
"Mer ein sohn Abraham von der ersten frauen."
Fronica died March 13, 1790, aged 83 years, 6 months and 14 days. The remains of Johannes Holl are buried near New Holland, Pa., and the grave is marked by a rough, undressed headstone. Neither the old family record or the headstone gives the age of our old ancestor, and his progenity are at a loss to know how old he was. Abraham Holl's descendants are mostly around Strawsburg, Pa.
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50. Marriage Notes for John Hostetter and Barbara STAUFFER
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Appeared in the J M Hacker Database:
http://www.westvirginia.com/hcpd/jmhacker/d0004/g0000061.htm#I10193
Information from Irene Hirschman. He was a member of the Mohler Dunkard Church.Elizabeth Landis Carson, "Is it Immigrant Henry or Ludwig?", July 1995 Mennonite Family History
Betty Carson - Buried in Mohler Dunkard Church Cemetery
Betty Carson - Buried in Mohler Dunkard Church Cemetery
Betty Carson - Buried Mohler Dunkard Church Cemetery
Betty Carson - Buried Mohler Dunkard Church Cemetery