The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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Author: Steve Leishman
Johan Samuel Mow was born 3 March 1752 in Bethlehem, Northampton, PA. He married Eva Catherine Hartzell about 1781 in Bucks County, PA. Eve Catherine Hartzell was born 16 April 1760 in Bedminster, Bucks County, PA. She died 2 July 1841 in Shelby County, TN. Together they would have eight children.
John, as he was known, left a journal which was published in the Lutheran Quarterly, May 1961, Volume 13, Number 2.
He is mentioned in Documentary History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Ministerium, published in 1898 and in History of Montgomery County, Ohio published in 1882, A Century of Lutherans in Ohio and in His Name (A History of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church 1808-1958 by Rev. Lorrin Spenny.
Johan Samuel served in the Revolutionary War as a Private and Corporal under Captains Thomas Craig and Rudolph Bunner, 2nd Battalion, commended by Colonel Wood, Continental Army.
Johan Samuel Mow died before 23 October 1830 in Montgomery County, OH. He is buried in a cemetery at the corner of Westbrook Road and Preble County Line Road (northwest corner). The cemetery has been plowed up. At one time a church stood there. The cemetery is now known as the Brubaker Cemetery for the lady, Joan Brubaker (now deceased) who gave the information on this plot of sacred ground.
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