Frederick HOLLOPETER - b. NOV 9, 1769, in York County, PA, d. SEP 13, 1838, in Clearfield County, PA.
Son of Matthias HOLLOPETER and Barbera RUSZ
m. before AUG 11, 1798, to Rachel EDMUNDSON - b. unknown, d. after 1827.

m. after 1827, to Mary COOKSON - b. unknown, d. unknown.

From The Hollopeter Family Record:

Mentioned in the will are these children Mary, Susannah, Christina, Barbara, John, Frederick, Matthias Jr., Andrew and Abraham.

Frederick Hollopeter was born to Matthias and Barbara (Rusz) Hollopeter in York Co., Pa., on Nov. 9, 1769 ("in the evening"). He died in Clearfield Co., Pa., Sept. 13, 1838, and is buried in the cemetery at Luthersburg. According to the records of the Warrington Township Monthly Meeting, he was married to a Quaker girl, Rachel Edmundson, some time before Aug. 11, 1798. Frederick was not a Quaker, so, she was unchurched by their marriage as was the custom in those days. Frederick's parents were married in the Lutheran Church, in Hanover, Pa., so were of that faith. They were affiliated with the Lower Bermudian Union Church in Warrington Township, which was formed by the union of Lutherans with others in, what was then, a sparsely settled community. Frederick had been baptized as an infant, in this church. Not many years after his marriage, we know he became a Methodist, for he and his brother Andrew were members of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Church at Lewisbury, and were instrumental in securing land on which to build a church.

Frederick was a farmer, and he and his brother, Abraham, once owned adjoining farms on the West side of the Susquehanna River. Their brother, John, had a farm on the East side of the river. The trading place of Frederick and Abraham was a place called Little York. They lived near a small village called Round-Top. All of the children of Frederick and Rachel were born in York Co., Pa. The family left that county about 1827 to locate in Clearfield Co., Pa., in Union Township. Rachel died, and Frederick married a woman whose name we did not learn, who was the mother of his youngest child, Elijah. We have no information about him. Frederick and Rachel were the parents of five children. Quite a large number of their descendants live in Clearfield Co. today and they hold a Hollopeter Family Reunion each year. It was with Frederick that his mother, Barbara, spent her last years, after the death of her husband, Matthias.

Elijah Hollopeter, son of Frederick and his second wife, Mary Cookson, is reported to have gone to Ohio with his sister, Barbara Annie Fahnestock, and we were not able to find any more information concerning him.