JEREMIAH KERSCHNER IS MY 4TH GREAT GRANDFATHER -- RICHARD ALLEN PARKER

A Maryland DAR CHapter has him listed as a "Patriot".
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY P. FAZZINI
KERSHNER, JEREMIAS DAR Ancestor
Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: 8-10-1758 BERKS CO PENNSYLVANIA
Death: 1-9-1826 BLOOM TWP FAIRFIELD CO OHIO
Service Source: OATH OF ALLEGIANCE BERKS CO 6-13-1777 - IN DATA
Service Description: 1) SIGNED OATH OF ALLEGIANCE 1777
Residence 1) County: BERKS - State: PENNSYLVANIA
Spouse 1) ANNA MARGARET WOHLFART/WOHLPART
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY CONTRIBUTOR JANICET

MARRIAGE RECORD
Jeremias (Jeremiah) was born on August 10, 1758 and Margaret. they are both supposed to be buried at the Red Church in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. However, this was proven incorrect after this material was printed in 1977. Jeremiah Kerschner died on January 9, 1826 and was 68 years, 0 months and 10 days. His wife, Anna Margaret Kerschner died on July 18 and was 83 years,5 months and 28 days. They are buried in the Glick Cemetery in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, Ohio.
THE KERSCHNER FAMILIES OF MARYLAND 1731-1977, VOL.I, by Mary Kerschner Maxwell, page: 364. Glick Cemetery Records, from Kathryan Carlaon, Graylord, Michigan

1826 --- TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION
Jeremiah Kerschner
Departed This Life January 9th, 1826
Aged 68 Years And 10 Days
"You bare me now to my repose
As once you bore my Lord
And as His sacred body rose
So mine shall be raised."
Researcher: Richard Parker

OHIO WILLS AND PROBATE RECORDS 1786-1998
Name: Jeremiah Kerschner
Probate Place: Seneca, Ohio, USA
Inferred Death Place: Ohio, USA
Item Description: Will Record, Vol 1-2, 1828-1863
Will: Volume: 7 - Page: 22
Docket: Volume: 10 - Page: 47
Decedents And Executors; Clinton H. Baungardner
Researcher: Richard Parker
Source Citation: Probate Records, 1828-1954; Probate Place: Seneca, Ohio. --- Source Information: Ancestry.com. Ohio, Wills and Probate Records, 1786-1998 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. --- Original data: Ohio County, District and Probate Courts. --- Description You can't take it with you. Find out what was left behind and to whom in 200 years of Ohio probate records.
Jeremiah and Margaret Kerschner's Children

Second Daughter: Catherine Kerschner was born: April 1796 died: September 20, 1882 at the age of eighty-six years - four months - twenty-six days. She married Jonathan Glick married on January 7, 1816 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and Johan than died October 9 1866 at the age of seventy-two years - seven months - seventeen days. They migrated to Ohio and Catherine is buried with her husband and two daughter in the Glick Cemetery in Fairfield County, Ohio. Their names are on a black granite column near the rear of the cemetery. Daughter, Catherine, died April 10, 1881 at the aged of Fifty years - 5 month - 19 days and daughter Lucy A. S, died on July 10, 1881 at the age of sixty-nine years - four months - sixteen days.

HISTORY OF THE KERSHNER FAMIY, compiled George C. Kershner, Ammon G. Kershner, M. D. and Edited by Linda H. Baldwin, 1972, page: 81 and THE KERSHNER FAMILIES OF MARYLAND 1731-1977 VOL. I by Mary Kerschner Maxwell, 1977.

Third Daughter, Elizabeth Kerschner, was born July 2, 1798 and baptized on August 19, 1798 at St. John's Union Church in Friedenburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. She was listed on the 1800, 1810 1820 censuses as a child.

HISTORY OF THE KERSHNER FAMIY, compiled George C. Kershner, Ammon G. Kershner, M. D. and Edited by Linda H. Baldwin, 1972, page: 81 and THE KERSHNER FAMILIES OF MARYLAND 1731-1977 VOL. I by Mary Kerschner Maxwell, 1977.

Fourth Daughter, Maria Magdalena Kerschner, was born in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania on July 2, 1800 and baptized September 1800 at the Egypt Church in Lehigh County.. She married Andrew Moothart in Lehigh County on around 1819. They migrated to Ohio and then to Macon County, Illinois where she died on March 1, 1889 and buried in the Union Cemetery in Macon County, Illinois. (see KERSCHNER KINFOLK VOL. 3 No.2, for her descendants).

HISTORY OF THE KERSHNER FAMIY, compiled George C. Kershner, Ammon G. Kershner, M. D. and Edited by Linda H. Baldwin, 1972, page: 81 and THE KERSHNER FAMILIES OF MARYLAND 1731-1977 VOL. I by Mary Kerschner Maxwell, 1977.

Fifth Daughter, Maria Kershner, was born on June 6, 1805 and baptized at Zionsville Reformed Church in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. She is not listed on Jeremiah's 1810 censuses and is presumed dead.

A Sixth daughter, Lydia Kerschner was born on February 28, 1807 in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. She migrated to Ohio with her parents and married David Swander on June 27, 1830. She died April 6, 1896 and buried in the Pearl Cemetery in Shelby county, Ohio.

The youngest child, Daniel Kerschner was born on September 16, 1802 in Whitehall Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh). Pennsylvania and died May 20, 1880.. He is buried in the Glick Cemetery in Fairfield County Ohio along with his wife and son Israel Kerschner. The tombstone is a tall limestone column with Daniel's inscription in English and Rebecca's in German. The stone is at the far end of the cemetery. The inscriptions are: Daniel Kerschner died May 20, 1880, aged 77 years 8 months and 4 days. Rebecca's inscription: wife of D. Kerschner, died March 16 1891, aged: 68 years, 7 months and 13 days. Near the front of the cemetery is a medium limestone slab with the inscription: Israel Kerschner, son of Daniel and Rebecca Kerschner, died February 27, 1851, aged 18 years, 6 months and 3 days. Family History researced by Richard Parker