Melchoir Brenneman III 1
- Born: 1739, Conestoga Twp., Lancaster, PA 1
- Marriage (1): Susanna Bucher
- Died: 1818, Donegal Twp., Lancaster, PA at age 79 1
FamilySearch ID: LHKV-CR1
General Notes:
His 3rd marriage was to Susan Bucher.
Noted events in his life were:
1. Book: The Brenneman History, 1938. 1
3. MELCHIOR BRENNEMAN, 3RD(2)
Was born in Conestoga Township, Lancaster Co., Pa., about 1741 (the tradition that gives the date as 1739 has been practically disproved). He married Susanna Bucher, dtr. of Christian Bucher, Sr., of Donegal Twp., Lancaster Co.; her brother Christian Bucher, Jr., married Veronica, dtr. of Rev. Melchior Brenneman, 2d, and thus the children of these two marriages were doubly cousins.
Melchior and Susanna had ten children: Melchior, Joseph, Annie, John, Elizabeth, Maria, Abraham, Henry, Martin and Christian. They seem to have lived on a farm in Conestoga Township till 1785 or 1786, when they moved to a new farm of 120 acres that Melchior had bought in Donegal Township. Here he was a neighbor of his first cousin, Rev. Melchior Brenneman, 2d, and closely associated with him in various ways.
We are able to fix the location of his homestead in Donegal with accuracy, for on Aug. 5, 1815, he and his wife deeded a part of his plantation "to Jacob Eversole and Joseph Shenk, managers and trustees appointed by the Menonist Society for building a house of worship for that society". Good's Mennonite Meeting House stands today on that plot of ground, which the deed describes as "lying along the road from Rankins Ferry on the Susquehanna to Elizabethtown, bordering Melchior's other land". We also learn from this deed that Melchior bought the land on Aug. 18, 1785, from John Weiland and wife Magdalena.
He died in the year 1818, intestate, leaving an estate valued at $7832.78. He is not buried at the cemetery at Good's Church. According to the present owner of his homestead, Mr. Amos Ebersole, he was buried in a small private cemetery along the Bainbridge Pike a short distance to the east of the church, which cemetery was later obliterated when the road was widened, and the old stones sunk well down below the roadbed. There were other Brennemans buried in the old graveyard, which deserved better preservation. It was located on the farm now owned by Joseph Nissley (1937).
Most of the children of Melchior, 3rd, secured better land in Dauphin and York Counties and moved to those sections. His only descendants in Donegal at the present day are the progeny of his daughter Annie Wissler. The ancestor of most of the Brenneman clan living in this region today was his cousin, Rev. Melchior, 2d.
Melchoir married Susanna Bucher, daughter of Hans Martin Bucher and Elizabeth Bomberger. (Susanna Bucher was born in 1750 in Warwick Twp., Lancaster, PA.)
Marriage Notes:
Susannah was Melchoir's third wife.
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