Rev. Jacob Maurer Helper ¹

   FamilySearch ID: MTMR-JY5

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: 1916. ²
The Hepler family has been in Schuykill county from pioneer days, and Jacob M. Hepler, father of Rev. Henry Hepler, was born here, in the Mahantongo valley. He learned blacksmithing and followed his trade entirely during his earlier years, devoting the later part of his life to preaching as a minister of the Church of God. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1894, he was making his home with his son Henry. He married ELIZABETH HAUPT, who was born in the Mahanoy valley, this county, and was also of pioneer stock. She died in 1892. We have the following record of the ten children born to them: Catherine, the eldest, now deceased, was the wife of Joseph Kehler, of this county; Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of William Stitzer; Sarah, deceased, was the wife of George Krause, of this county; Polly, deceased, was the wife of Daniel Snyder; Hettie, the widow of Louis Lybolt, lives at Tamaqua, this county; Henry is next in the family; Samuel, deceased, was in the Union service during the Civil war; Lydia, deceased, was the wife of John Phillips; Harriet married Isaac Christ and both are deceased, his death occurring first; Elmira is the wife of Michael Sickinger, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Jacob married Elizabeth Haupt, daughter of Heinrich Haupt and Catherine Gearhart, about 1831 in , Schuylkill, PA. (Elizabeth Haupt was born on 17 Nov 1805 in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States ³, christened on 25 Nov 1805 in Jacob's (Howerter's) Church, Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, died on 25 Apr 1876 in Eldred Twp., Schuylkill, PA ³ and was buried in Pitman, Schuylkill, PA ³.)