From The Hollopeter Family Record:
Andrew son of Matthias and Barbara (Rusz or Roose) Hollopeter, was born in York Co. Pa., in 1777. According to records of the Monthly Meeting of the Warrington Township Society Or Friends, he and Phebe, daughter of Richard and Elisabeth (Hobson) Blatchford, were married ``before the twelfth of August, 1799." Phebe was a twin, and her twin sister, Margaret, was married to Andrew's brother, Abraham, in Dec. 1801. The girls were born in York Co., Aug, 18, 1782.
Since The Society of Friends frowned upon marriages that were not in unity with their church, Phebe, Margaret and Rachel, wife of Frederick Hollopeter lost their standing in the church and were excommunicated. The record states flatly that Hollopeters were not Quakers.
We learn from Gibson's History of York Co., p. 636, that Andrew and Frederick were two of a committee to which Eli Lewis granted a lot in Lewisberry for the erection of a Methodist Church and the same information is contained in Pronell's History of York, Vol. I, p. 891. Andrew and Frederick were two of the trustees of the newly organized church. Though the ground on which to build the church was secured in 1806, the building was not erected until 1817. It was of stone, and was still functioning when present brick structure was built.
The Wesley movement spread from Baltimore, after the Christmas Meeting of 1784, so the Hollopeter brothers and their wives became Methodists 22 years after the church was established. They started a long line of adherents to the Methodist Church. We have found it surprising that there have been so many of their descendants who, down through the years have served the church as ministers and, in former days, as exhorters and local preachers. About the beginning of the 20th Century, four of Andrew's descendants were active in the North Indiana Methodist Conference. Frederick's branch has several members serving the Methodist Church today.
About 1824 the call of the West pulled Andrew and his family from York Co. to Wayne Co., Ohio, where they located near Wooster. No record was found that Andrew purchased land in Wayne Co., so he may have made a living by plying the carpenter trade, which his father had taught him. A record was found of the purchase of 80 acres in Clinton Township, by Andrew's son, Abraham, who had moved to Wayne Co. at the time his father moved there. with his wife and two children. Abraham placed a mortgage on this land which he paid in 1833.
Andrew moved to Seneca Co., Ohio., about 1834, where he spent the rest of his days. His wife, Phebe, died Feb. 23, 1842, and his death occurred, Mar. 11, 1846, and he is buried in the beautiful Fostoria Cemetery. Phebe's grave was not found, but the body of Andrew has been moved from Its original resting spot to make room for a driveway in the cemetery. Two of his grandchildren lie beside him, so their graves must have been changed too. They are Leah, daughter of Andrew's son, Abraham, b. Feb. 23; d. July 28, 1840, and a son of Andrew Jr., named Milton B., who died in 1844, at the age of six months.
Andrew and Phebe were the parents of eight children all of whom were born in York Co., Pa. Their youngest child was two years old when they moved to Ohio.
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