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Residences & events: Lancaster Co, PA. The Annals of the county recorded his history: "Hebegan farming on the old homestead. He purchased the first threshingmachine in his section and did the threshing for quite a distancearound. In 1839-40 he builta house and barn on the old Groffhomestead, then mostly timber land, which he cleared gradually." 1876 Brunnerville, PA. Having sold the farm to Henry Brubaker andmoved, "he built himself a house and where both his sons resided,Aaron having the foundry and machine shop and John B the store." |
| The exact cause of death is unknown but it was "an illnes of over sixmonths, occasioned by pneumonia." |