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- "Isaac Buckwalter, father of Mrs. Christian E. Brackbill, and now living in retirement in Salisbury Township, Lancaster County, was bornin East Lampter Township, November 21, 1837, and is one of the eleven children born to Henry and Barbara Neff Buckwalter, the former of whom died in 1861 at the age of fifty-four years, and the later in 1864, when fifty-six year old, their remains being interred in Mellinger's cemetery in East Lampter Township.
The eleven children compromising the [Henry and Barbara] Buckwalter family were born in the following order: Mary, living in Soudersburg, the widow of John Downer; Anna, deceased wife of Benjamin Eby; Susan, who was first married to Walter and next to John Delinger, but who has now passed away; Sarah, deceased wife of Emanuel Denlinger; Hattie, wife of Isreal Landis of East Lampter Township; Lizzie, wife of Daniel Kreider, of the same township; Barbara, wife of Peter Hershey, of Paradise Township; Benjamin, deceased; Freeland, of East Earl Township; Martin, of Strasburg Township, and Isaac, named above.
Isaac Buckwalter and Mattie Hershey were joined in matrimony at Lancaster in 1864 and eight children have resulted from this marriage, namely: Anna, now Mrs. C. E. Brackbill; John, still at home; Mary, married to Chris Zimmerman, a farmer in East Earl Township, to whom she has borne three children; Barbara, wife of David Sensinick, mother of two children, and residing in Salisbury Township; Isaac, Freeland, David, and Martha---all four still at thome. The mother of this family, Mrs. Mattie Hershey Buckwalter, was born i Salisbury Township in January 1845, and is a daughter of John and Mattie Musser Hershey.
Mr. Buckwalter at marriage rented his present farm but by leading a frugal and industrious life soon became its owner, and is now one of the wealthiest men in the township. He and his wife are members of the Mennonite church, and in politics Mr. Buckwalter is a Republican." [Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, p. 1010]
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1837 - 1931 (93 years)
