My father had interviewed Keziah Maude Fahringer Rhodes (Find A Grave Memorial# 104504915); she said that her grandparents Harman Fahringer and wife Elizabeth Weaver were buried in this cemetery.

I believe that Harman Fahringer's father was Johann Theobald Fahringer, baptized February 10, 1746, in the Drulingen Lutheran church book, son of Johann Theobald Fahringer and wife Anna Barbara nee Fischer (cf. "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America" by Annette Kunselman Burgert (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992, page 155); this family arrived at the port of Philiadelphia on the ship "Phoenix" from Rotterdam in 1750. Letters of Administration for his estate in Lehigh Twp., Northampton Co.., PA, are recorded at the Northampton County court house, Easton, PA, in 1778.

Keziah Rhodes told my father that Harman's father was shot and killed as a by-stander in Philadelphia during the Revolution. Aubyne Umholtz (who pulled together the Fahringer reunion after World War II) had the story that Harmon's father starved to death as a prisoner on a British man-of-war ship in Philadelphia harbor.

Alfred Mathews & Austin N. Hungerford, "History of the Counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia: Everts & Richards, 1884), page 452: “George Rupp was born Aug. 11, 1721, in the village of Wimmeran, in Lower Alsace. His parents’ names were Ulrich Rupp and Margareta (Holtzin). George Rupp married, Jan. 23, 1750, Ursila von Peterholtz, who was born Aug. 17, 1722, in the town of Rabschwiern, duchy of Zweibrücken, Upper Alsace. They emigrated to Pennsyslvania in 1750, and settled near the present village of Chapmans, in Upper Macungie, on a farm containing several hundred acres. George and Ursila Rupp had nine children as follows: Maria Clara (married to Faringer), . . .”

"Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania ..." (Chicago: Floyd, J.L., & Co., 1911), page 939, shows Maria Clara Rupp, born December 4, 1750, was the oldest of the nine children. However, this article incorrectly traces George Rupp (1790-1870) of Numidia back to Trexlertown.

I believe this Maria Clara Rupp, born December 4, 1750, "married to Faringer", to have been Harman's mother.

Northampton County, PA, "Register's Index 1752-1966, F-G", page 164: File No. 845, Theobald Fahringer, residence Lehigh Tp., Herman Rupp Admr, Admr Bond 1778, Inv & Appr 1778, Acct 1783, 2nd Acct 1816.

Northampton County Orphans Court Docket E, page 28: on March 20, 1783, Herman Rup administrator of Theobald Fahringer late of Lehigh Twp.; accounts settled, estate owes 287 pounds, 9 s, 2 p; Theobald owned two plantations, 140 acres Lehigh Twp., 100 acres Towamensing Twp; Herman Rup to sell land