Martin Kocher
(-Abt 1762)
Sarah Kosin
Peter Kocher
(1740-1803)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Anna Elisabetha George

Peter Kocher 1 2

  • Born: 15 Feb 1740 1 2
  • Marriage (1): Anna Elisabetha George on 6 Dec 1763 1
  • Died: 10 May 1803 at age 63 1 2
  • Buried: Lowhill Twp.: Lowhill Church Cemetery, Lehigh, PA 1 2

   FamilySearch ID: LCJG-FRN.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Military in 1778 in , Lehigh, PA: Private 4th Company 6th Battalion PA Militia. 2

2. Book: Anniversary History of Lehigh County, Vol. II, 1914. 1
Peter Kocher, eldest son of Martin, was born Feb. 15, 1740 and baptized in the Reformed Faith by the pastor of the Whitehall charge, when his sponsors were Nicholas Saeger and Barbara, wife of Ulrich Burkhalter. He removed to Lowhill Township, where he was a farmer on a tract of 130 acres. He was one of the early members of the Lowhill Reformed Church. He died, May 10, 1803, and is buried at Lowhill church. He married Dec. 6, 1763, Anna Elizabeth, daughter of Jost and Anna Juliana (Segni) George, who was born Dec. 9, 1741, and baptized soon after in the Reformed Faith, when her sponsors were John Simon George and Elizabeth Kreutz. They had two sons.


Peter married Anna Elisabetha George, daughter of Johannes Jost Georg and Anna Juliana Segni, on 6 Dec 1763.1 (Anna Elisabetha George was born on 9 Dec 1741 in , , , DEU and died on 4 Aug 1807 in , Lehigh, PA.)

Sources

1 Roberts, Charles Rhodes, History Of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Volume II (Allentown, Pa., Lehigh Valley Pub. Co., 1914. 3 volumes, illustrated, maps. Prepared by a committee appointed by the Lehigh County Historical Society; chapters contributed by various writers.).

2 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20858097.


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