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Male Jacob MATTER Click to view Jacob MATTER in the family tree

Jacob was born on July 2nd, 1813 in , Dauphin, Pa and his baptism took place on August 14th, 1813 in St. John's Ch, Near Berrysburg, Dauphin, Pa.  Jacob's father was Michael MATTER and his mother was Anna Marie ROMBERGER.  His paternal grandfather was Johannes (Hans) MATTER and his paternal grandmother is Salome STAHLSCHMIDT; his maternal grandfather was Balthasar ROMBERGER and his maternal grandmother is Anna Marie BRICKER. He had nine brothers and seven sisters, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named Johannes, Johann Michael, Johann George, Balthaser, Heinrich, Jonas, George Daniel, Johann Solomon, Adam, Anna Maria, Anna Catharina (Georgianna), Elisabeth, A. Catharina, Eva, Regina, Susannah and Baby.  He was the third youngest of the eighteen children.  He died at the age of 61 on February 12th, 1875 in , Dauphin, Pa.  He was buried in Motter's Cem., Elizabethville, Dauphin, Pa.

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