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Jacob Stauffer was born in 1790, in Berks county, and died on
the Stauffer homestead on September 22, 1862, aged seventy-two years. He
was a farmer, a Mennonite, and a republican, and married Mary Meyers, who
was a daughter of Martin Meyers, and died November 7, 1873, in her
seventy-ninth year. Their children were: John M., a farmer, who died in
1891; Catherine, who married Abram Halteman, lived in Juniata county, and
is now dead; Mary Ann, married Christian Bliem, lived in Montgomery county,
and is also dead; Jacob, Jr., now deceased; Abraham, of Kenilworth; Henry
M.; Sarah, wife of John Latshaw, of East Pikeland township, whose land
lies partly within the borough limits of Spring City; Elizabeth, wife of
Joel Ebert, of Kenilworth; Isaac, a farmer and coachmaker, who died in
1891 at Linfield, Montgomery county; William M., of Reading, British
Columbia; Leah, wife of Hiram Ellis, a resident and former merchant of
Pottstown, Montgomery county; Harriet, who married Henry S. Pennypacker,
of East Coventry; and Lovina, wife of George C. Green, who is in the
employ of the Keystone Agricultural Company, of Pottstown.