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Listed in the Alumni Directory of Walter Johnson High School, class of 1966, for the Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland schools. Worked as Assistant Secretary in the office of US Representative from New Jersey, Joseph G. Minish in 1971.
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Parents, Johannes & wife, sponsors were Georg Trautmann, Margaret, wife
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Received 68 pounds, 1 shilling, 5 1/4 pence from her father's estate distribution on December 7, 1786.
Age given as 78 years, per cemetery records.
Grave moved to Laurel Hill in 1872
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Living with mother.
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Mentioned in father's probate proceedings, as being under 21 years of age. Listed in father's probate hearing documents as receiving payments December 31, 1840 and December 31, 1844.
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http://www.devault.net/fthtml/fam00129.html
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Living with her sister's family (Mildred Ann Suddarth).
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At Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church by Rev John Frederick Ernst
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Buried with the Hummels
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Birth and christening recorded on page 26 of source.
In installment 13 of the Ingomar papers we read...."Here and there the ardent, conscientious Methodists established churches, but the old time Lutherans and Reformed people looked upon them with distrust on account of the rigid discipline advocated and carried out by that denomination. I could tell you of a well known consistent Christian lady, who died only a few years ago, who walked from Hummelstown 5 miles up into the Hanovers to attend meetings of the good old Methodists of the olden time. And Mary Leebrick died as she had lived--a sincere Christian, after reaching four score years....One summer afternoon, Rev. Winebrenner walked across the Square from Mother Leebrick's residence, and stood on the bed of the old pump in Centre Square. The public fountain was removed and the well filled up many years ago. On the four corners of the Square stood groups of people staring at the tall man with the white cravat and black frock coat with an opened hymn book in his hand. He gave out the hymn: 'There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath the flood, loose all their guilty stains '. The hymn was lead by Miss Mary Leebrick and sister.....
In installment 4 of the Ingomar papers we read about Mary being in a group of girls who were milking cows in the barnyard of the Cross Keys hostelrie with the large gates closed all around to keep the cattle in. "One of the girls suddenly exclaimed: "My God, girls, look look - see that little woman with white cap and spotted dress climbing through that crack in the gate?" Then, there followed a series of screams, a rush, hurdle-fence leaping, and a run for life down the alley. Mary Ann Baum had actually scrambled over the gate and bounded down the alley with a full bucket of foaming milk. Explanations of all kinds followed. "the woman came down the alley from the church yard," said the girls. "She had a white sheet wrapped over her shoulders and must have been Mrs. so-and-so, who was buried a week ago Oh, yes, yes It was a terrible spook, and it came from the church-yard " "Dar children," said the venerable, self-possessed hostess of the Cross Keys, who was a staid Lutheran, and believed like the writer, "you are all mistaken. It must have been a cat, or some other animal. The good people in the church-yard will never disturb us while we live." But that ghost story lived for many years, although there may be now few among the living who will recollect it."
"BURGLARS AT WORK. Our neighboring borough of Hummelstown was infested with burglars on Wednesday night. The store of John M. Murray was entered and a considerable quantity of coffee and about $10 in money stolen.
The drug and hardware store of Mr. Ernest M. Shope, was entered the same night through a back window and eight dollars worth of segars and five dollars in money carried off.
At the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Hummel the thieves found an entrance through the cellar, and scouring the kitchen, they helped themselves to bread, butter, preserves, etc.
At the residence of Miss Mary Leebrick they found an entrance through a window and stole some meat, apples, etc."--25 December 1875, Patriot (Harrisburg, PA)
"Death of Miss Mary Leibrick, an Octogenarian. Mary Leibrick died at the family mansion, Centre square, Hummelstown, of heart disease. She was the daughter of the late Philip Leibrick, one of the founders of the Lutheran church at Hummelstown, who died in his young manhood, leaving a large family to the care of his widow,, a woman of remarkable personal character, as was shown in the manner in which she reared her children. Of this family, the only survivor now being in Hummelstown is Mrs. Elizabeth Hummel, the mother of Richard T. and the late Henry L. Hummel. Miss Leebrick was in the 81st year of her age, about four years younger than Mrs. H. Other members of the family are in the West -- John, George, Samuel, Sarah and Catharine--having resided there for years. miss Leibrick died in the room where she embraced religion sixty years ago, a convert to the Methodist faith, and her last words, uttered in feeble tones,, were: "There is a Land of Pure Delight." For years she walked to Quigg's meeting house in West Hanover township (five miles) every Sunday that weather permitted to attend religious services, there being no Methodist church in Hummelstown. Finally permission was given the Methodists to hold meetings in the old brick school house, but when a revival was held, orders were given to close the house on the worshipers. After this Miss Leebrick secured the consent of her mother to hold services in the spacious parlors of their family mansion,, in which the meetings were held regularly until about the year 1851, when the Methodist church was founded. Few women of her period were more consistent and practical in Christian work and conversation than the deceased. She gave liberally to the church, was generous in here bounty to the poor and made her profession of religion that of every day well doing. She was an ardent worker, never better employed, in her judgment,, that when encouraging people to go to Christ. She was a woman of great force of character, but withal amiable and gentle in her intercourses, loving in her treatment of all with whom she came in contact. Her death is a public loss,, and is so mourned in Hummelstown, for she was a benefactress whose hand and purse were never closed to the living.
The funeral services will be held in the M.E. church at Hummelstown tomorrow at 10 a.m."--7 Mar 1884, Harrisburg (PA) Daily Independent