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Eva Rosina GEIST
Birth: 10 Feb 1757 in PA
Death: 4 Oct 1853 in PA
Father: Hans Jacob GEIST b: in Germany
Mother: Eva Catherine STROUSE
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Eva Rosina Geist
Birth: 10 FEB 1757 in Tinnicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Death: 04 OCT 1853 in Bushkill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Marriage 1 Johannes Fehr b: 15 APR 1752 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Married: 15 MAY 1773 in Tinnicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- By Mary Elizabeth Kline Moyer
Elizabeth F. Fehr Achenbach, wife of John Achenbach, was the daughter of John and Eva Geist Fehr, and was born at Tinicum, Bucks County, Pa., and was one of nine children. Her brothers were Peter, George, John and Michael. Her sisters were Polly Bowman, Catherine Wright, Eva Yohe and Eliza Mohn. How the memory of Grandmother Achenbach, as she was familiarly called by everyone, clings to us, and how pleasant the recollections. It seemed to us, her grandchildren, as we so often visited her in her home, that her purity and gentleness were unequalled, and how often we have wished her mantel like Elijah of old could have fallen upon us, and that we could wear it with the same dignity and grace. She was the mother of twelve children, two of whom still live. Truly they could “rise up and call her blessed.” Her kindly greetings and smiling face, combined with her wit and humor, which was so ready, made her a friend to all within reach.
Man dies and the world moves on, and although appearances indicate the dead as forgotten, it is nevertheless, not the case of her who shared the toils and cares of her husband in pioneer times, and lived to the good old age of 88 years.
- Died.
In Bushkill township, on the 4th of October last, (1853), Mrs. Eva Rosina Fehr, at the advanced age of 96 years, 7 months and 27 days.
The deceased was born in the year 1757, in Tinicum township, Bucks county, and in early youth became a member of the Lutheran church. She was united in matrimony to John Fehr, in the year 1773, with whom she lived very happily for more than three score years. Since the death of her husband which occurred in the year 1833, she had enjoyed very good health, and with the exception of a partial dimness of sight, her faculties remained perfect to the day of her death. She was the mother of thirteen children, nine of whom are living, ninety grandchildren, 242 great grand-children, and 23 great-great-great-grandchildren. She was a regular attendant upon divine service, until a short time before her death when the infirmities of age compelled her to deny herself the privilege of joining her neighbors in worshipping her Maker in the house of God. After an illness of a few days, which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, she breathed her last in the blessed hope of a glorious immortality.
Local historical and biographical notes collected by Ethan Allen Weaver Publication date 1906
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