Reading the biography of Mr. & Mrs. David Kepple is a challenge. Printed it…got my 3x glasses…not clear enough to read. Will go between the screen and print and figure this out!
A Nicholas Kepple was born in Germany and immigrated in early 1700’s to US. Nicholas begat Daniel (1767-1824). (Pardon me for barrowing the Lord’s way of describing lineage but it will save a lot of typing).
Daniel married Elizabeth Yearyan (1770-1821). Wow! Her father George Yearyan was an indentured servant for 3 years and nine months in order to get to the promised land! OK. Let’s see if this guy is even related to me before we continue. They had twelve children. I look back at my handwritten tree to stay on track. My great-grandfather Samuel’s dad John is reportedly my great-great grandfather. Cool. It will be worth the hour trying to decipher this.
According to this biography, their first child was Susan! They also had a Elizabeth, Daniel, and Hannah. These are names still used in our family today! Awesome!
Focus Susan…the last child listed is David. This still isn’t a guarantee that they are related to me so let’s keep reading. Apparently, this David is a homeboy. Born and lived his whole life on the family homestead in Parks township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. This is really weird – the Faust’s are from Westmoreland County.
David Kepple has been married twice. Once in 1844 to Magdelena Hawke and in 1858 to Elizabeth Whitesell. None of this matches my research, so we put the biography in the maybe file. The area of Pennsylvania matches but maybe I can match Nicholas to John Jacob Kepple, my proposed GGG Grandfather, on the immigration records.
A true researcher will keep digging for the truth…
Susie
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