Notes:

Information for Marx Graf and his ancestors is taken from April
1990 Issue of Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Vol. XIII, Number 2,
written by Jane Evans Best.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. died after 26 Apr 1716. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hans Graf was born in Steinsfurt ?, Zurich, Switzerland; died in 1746 in Earl Twp., Lancaster County, PA.

Notes:

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage (Vol XIII, No. 2, Apr.1990, Jane
Evan Best) contains the following information about Jacok Graf: " In
1633 listed as Hans Jacob, aged 18; in 1634 lived with his mother; in
1637 lived with his wife and son in his mother's household in Bettswil
in 1640; in 1640 lived in Bettswil with his wife and 2 ch.; in 1646
was and Anabaptist living in Bettswil his brother's family; in 1649
was an Anabaptist living in Wirzwil with his wife and 6 ch.; in 1651
moved near Sinsheim, Germany, with his wife and 7 ch.; in 1661
attended Steinsfurt meeting;, in 1661 and 1683 lived at Steinsfurt"

Jacok married Anna Sporri on 21 Jun 1636 in Baretswil, Switzerland. Anna (daughter of Jacob Sporri) was born in Of Wolfensberg, Zurich, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage (Vol XIII, No. 2, Apr.1990, Jane
Evan Best) "On March 22, 1612, Hans Graf of Baretswil, east of Lake
Zurich, Switzerland, married Elsbeth Peter of Aaruti, in parish of
Fischenthal. They had six children by 1625. The father and two of the
children were not included in the 1634 census (Census of Baretswil,
1634-1723, Canton Zurich Archives, Zurich, Switzerland), and may have
died in the 1629 plague. When the Anabaptists in the canton of
Zurich were required to register in 1633, Elsbeth Peter was a
forty-five year old widow who had been an Anabaptist for seven years.
She lived with her four surviving children, aged ten to nineteen. In
1634 they lived in one of the five households in Betschwyl, now
Bettswil, where the plague had struck particularly hard" A. Sierszyn,
"Unser Baretswil, Aus der Geschichte seiner Fluren, Hoffe and Dorfer",
(Baretseil, Zurich: 1983) p. 203, translated by Raymond T. Stoe. The
first Bettswiler family of record is the Graf family in 1469. At
least three families of this clan lived in the three Bettswil houses
in 1541.

Hans married Elsbeth Peter on 22 Mar 1612 in Baretswil, Zurich, Switzerland. Elsbeth was born about 1588 in Aaruti, Fischenthal, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage Vol. XIII, No.2 Apr. 1990, p. 11,
note no. 12 " Peter families had been living on Strehlegg in
Fischental since 1500, according to a paper on the parish translated
by Raymond T. Stoe. Peter families were Anabaptists since the
beginning of the sect in Switzerland, according to Dwayne Coughenour,
"The Bad Anabaptists--The Gachnauwers," Mennonite Family History 6
(April 1987):70."

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