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Virginia is given as birthplace in 1910 Virginia census.
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Age given as 12 years old.
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Truck Driver
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Last known address was Baltimore, Baltimore county, Md. SSN 577-09-4525
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Data from SS files, SSN 577-09-4525 was issued before 1951 in the District of Columbia. Residence was at zip code 21233. Was a clerk in the DC area in the 1942-1945 time frame. Mentioned in step-brother WH Leebrick's death notice. Mentioned in mother's death notice in Richmond Times Dispatch.
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Early Pennsylvania Births (1675-1875) by Charles Fisher. Birthdate is given as 27 Feb 1775 in Trinity Lutheran Church records (Lancaster, Pa.)
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Stone (M 18-1) Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Sponsors were his grand parents, Johann Liebrich and wife Catharina.
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An early map shows the site of their home on the square in the center of Hummelstown on the corner of Market and North Hanover streets. The house at one time contained a store as well as the family residence, and was occupied until 1884.
An early map shows the site of their home in Hummelstown on the square in the center of town on the corner of Market and North Hanover Streets. The house at one time contained a store as well as the family residence, and was occupied by Leebricks until the death of their daughter Mary, in April 1884. The building stands today much renovated and expanded and is the Bowser Funeral home and furniture store.
Mary Gertrude Leebrick "Mollie" wrote a delightful biographical sketch of her great grandfather which I have been unable to find, however her work papers on this sketch were passed on to me by a cousin and I will try to reconstruct the original sketch.
"Grandpappy was a dandy for he often work silk stockings for fix ups. He is said to have owned the first piano in Hummelstown. Grandpappy had horses and a carriage and he was considered a rich man for those days. He lived in the large grey stone house with a slated gable roof across the square from Joseph Hummel's residence. He had a harness show in a corner room in his home. He know something about civil engineering but while he was on a winter expedition, he ate some frozen apples he had found on a tree and became fatally ill.
Phillip and Mary were staunch Lutherans and it greatly displeased them to realize their children were being strongly influenced by the wave of Methodism that was sweeping the country. Their mother was so irked when they attended Methodist meetings that, it is said, one night she locked them out. They serenaded her with Methodist hymns, and fearing the neighbors might hear, she unlocked the door.
After Elizabeth, the children arrived about every two years until there were three boys John Newman, George and Samuel, and five girls: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary, Catherine, and Sarah. All baptisms are duly recorded in the Zion Evangelical Church of Hummelstown. Louisa (Lucy Ann) died in infancy and Susanna born May 9, 1808 lived less than a year.
The spirit of adventure must have coursed high in the blood of these young Leebricks to cause them to leave their community for a long hard trek through the western wilderness. Samuel, George, Catherine and Sarah apparently moved west to the community of Flint Hills in 1833, which is now known as Burlington, Iowa.
Elizabeth married Joseph Hummel and lived across the street from her parents.
Rebecca married Daniel Byers 8 December 1822 and on his death, A. C. Harding, leaving a long line of descendants."
Source unknown.
Served in the War of 1812 as part of Captain Peter Snyder's Company, which was the first company of Militia, 78th Regiment. ---Pennsylvania Archives, Sixth Series, Volume VII, pg 414
Valentine Hummel was an apprentice to John Phillip (of Hummelstown) in 1806 to learn the trade of saddler.
Phillip Leebrich is listed in the statement of expenses incurred in building Zion Lutheran Church, as follows: To Philip Leebrich, for merchandise, $64.34 1/2.
On the occasion of laying the corner stone of Zion Lutheran Church, a statement was read and placed in the corner stone. Signers of the statement were the Trustees, elders, Builders and ministers present, including John Henry Vanhoff, pastor of the congregation, Geroge Lochman, Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Lebanon, Peter Beinhauer, Sr., Philip Liebrich, John Ricker, Nicholas Alleman and Jacob Hummel. The text read as follows: The following is an extract from an account of the laying of the cornerstone, translated by Mr. Hermann Schweitzer :
"Whereas, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in and around Hummelstown, Dauphin county. State of Pennsylvania, until now occupied a house used for our religious services. and whereas, said building is now too small for our purposes, this congregation has resolved to t?erect a substantial and large building, in which religious services shall be held, the Word of God be taught and the holy sacraments be administered unto the present and coming generations. This building shall be erected on the piece of ground donated and transferred to us by Frederic Hummel.
It is further necessary to . . . inform this present and future generations that we to-day, in the year of our Lord 1815. under the government of the President of the United States, James ]\Madison, and of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Simon Schneider, lay the cornerstone to a German Evangelical Lutheran church, and that, if our Heavenly Father protects and prospers this our work from beginning to end, God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost shall rule therein forever.
Given at Hummelstown the fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord 1815. and in the thirty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States:
JOHN HENRY VANHOFF. Pastor of the Congregation.
GEORGE LOCH:v[AN.Ev. Luth. Pastor in Lebanon.
PETER BREINHAUER, SR., ' • PHILIP LIEBRICH, JOHN RICKER. NICHOLAS ALLEMAN. JACOB HUMMEL. "
Ingomar Papers, Installment 2: According to this source, "the bell still swinging in the steeple, if I remember rightly, was purchased through the instrumentality of Philip Leebrich, a prominent merchant and active businessman in the day, and who was the father of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hummel and the grandfather of Richard T. and Misses Hummel, residing at the old mansion in your bustling borough. On the bell I once read - when allowed by sexton Wheeler to go up the long ladder which stood in the east end gallery to watch a funeral that was slowly wending its way over the Swatara Hills down to the old Lutheran Church yard - these words" "I to the church the living call, And to the grave I summons all".
In an interesting turn of events, the only probate records I've been able to find for John Phillip Liebrich are dated immediately after his wife's death. Perhaps he had some arrangement where everything went to his wife while she lived, and only after her death were the assets divided. At any rate, an estate inventory dated 31 March 1860 , as follows:
A true and perfect inventory, and just appraisement of all and Singular the goods and chattles, rights and credits, which were of Mary Leebrick, late of Hummestown, Dauphin County, and State of Pennsylvania, Widow, deceased, at the time of her death.
1 Prommisary note to John N Leebrick dated April 1, 1857, amount $400.00
Three years interest on same 6 per cent 72.00
1 Promissary note to George Leebrick, dated November 12, 1859 100.00
4 1/2 months interest on same 6 per cent 2.25
1 Promisary note to Martin Earley, due April 1 1852 200.00
One year interest on same 6 per cent 12.00
1 Promissary note to Samuel Leebrick, dated June 17, 1856 100.00
Interest due on same 8.50
1 Promissary note to Samuel Leebrick, dated April 1, 1856 200.00
2 years interest due on same at 6 per cent 24.00
1 Bond George T Hummel & C Landis dated 24 Jan 1850 1389.50
1 year interest due on same at 6 per cent 83.37
1 Receipt Sarah L Scott dated April 4 1852 50.00
7 years interest due on same at 6 per cent 27.00
1 Receipt Sarah L Scott March 15, 1853 100.00
7 years and 15 days interest on same 42.25
1 Certificate of Deposit Mechanics Savings Bank April 13, 1859 100.00
Interest due on same 5 per cent 4.80
1 Certificate of Deposit Mechanics Savings ank May 3, 1859 50.00
Interest due on same 5 per cent 2.10
Cash 284.43
10 large & 10 Tea spoons and 1 sugar tong (silver) 33.00
3 Clocks, 5 stoves, corner cupboard, table and oil cloth 44.00
1 Bureau, 2 Glasses, 2 Waiters, Carpet 16.00
2 Tables, chest, glass, carpet rug, cupboard and oil cloth 25.00
4 blinds, 12 chairs, queensware, ??, books and fire tongs 22.00
1 Cupboard, sink, 2 tables, queensware, pots, buckets and carpet 10.00
Total this Page $3396.20
Chairs, shovels, corn, rakes, table block, kettles & steelyards 10.50
Flour, sausage, beef, pork and 1 basket with fruit 5.50
Tubs, Baskets, Ketles, Bench, Bucketss,Barrels, chopped corn 5.00
Axe, kettles, barrels, bags carpet, bureau, table and chairs 20.00
5 beds and bedsteads, bureau, wardrobe, carpet and chairs 56.00
3 Baskets, 1 table and sundry on kitchen loft 4.50
A lot of preserve, fruit, wood and potatoes 14.50
1 bureau, case of drawers, table, stand, chest, chairs, carpet, trunk 19.00
2 looking glass, 1 table, stands, carpet, ?? 9.50
2 shovels, 1 fork, corn, oats, saddle, scythes and sundry 15.00
A lot of barrels, tubs, stands, churn and potatoes 8.00
Plough, harrow, barrows, ladder, grindstones, drying iron 8.00
One cow and calf $30, a lot of hay $15 45.00
Windmill, wagon, latters, cow chain, fork, shovel 16.25
Total 3632.95
A lot of Pork 3.50
Total 3636.45
Taken and appraised by us, the subscribers the 31st day of March AD 1860.