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Peter Johan Lauffer Sr   Sex: Male
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Father Christian Sr. Lauffer THE PIONEER  Born: 1723 MAY 17 Weisenheim Am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Died: 1796 JUN  
Mother Susanah Catharina Best  Born: 1735 Died: 1796 JUL 19 
Peter Johan Lauffer
Notes:		 Grandmother Scholl tells us that her father (Peter Laufer Jr.) and grandfather (Peter Laufer, the shoemaker,) were not large men but squarely built, solid men weighing about 160 and 170 pounds. She remembers how her grandfather wound up the clock every morning when he got up, before coming to breakfast. One morning he was late in coming to breakfast. His son went to see why he did not come. He found him unable to talk, lying in bed. He motioned to his son to go to wind the clock. He laid sick in bed for a week. It was harvest time. And as he lay sick in bed, his granddaughter (Grandmother Scholl) with a fly brush made of paper, kept the flies from him, and gave him drinks. The men and women were all at work in the harvest fields. She thinks she was about eight years old when she thus cared for her grandfather. She remembers her grandfathers shoemaker bench. She was around when he made shoes. She would meddle with his tools, and she recalls his telling her to let things alone. Grandmother Scholl remembers that the father of her grandfather was Christian Laufer. And she as well as Nathan of Broadheadsville, and Jacob P. Laufer of the Old Homestead, have it by tradition that Father Christian and his sons and daughters went westward to near Pittsburg, and that Peter remained East. Kleppingers Fort was located near Petersville Church, east from the Laufer Homestead. Families went to this or other nearby forts every night, for in those days people were stolen by the Indians and houses were burned. Grandmother Scholl remembers the spinning, turning the spinning wheel or reel a whole day, when you would like to sled ride, or go fishing, was an evil of the olden day. The Laufers sent their yarn to the weavers and their cloth to the fullers. In fulling the cloth, she recalls that soap was used. The cloth was then colored brown. When thus dyed it made fine cloth for dresses. 
Notes: Her father was very fond of bees, of which he had about seventy. He wove basket hives out of straw for them. Deiter, his neighbor, had eighty. Both tried to reach one hundred. It was said in those days that a person could not have one hundred bees together. As their number increased, they commenced going back, neither reached one hundred. In those days cane sugar was not used by the settlers, and beet sugar had not been introduced. For sweet, they were dependent upon honey, which was used freely for all purposes. They rendered their honey in a big iron kettle. They made it hot and strained it out through a colander. The honey thus rendered was set aside in crocks. The part that did not go through the colander was returned to the kettle. Water was added and it was boiled. It was again put through the colander. The filtrate was put in a keg or barrel and set aside to ferment. The part that remained in the colander this second time, was returned to the kettle and purified as wax. They had a way of gathering the wax as follows: as the water boiled the wax came to the surface; the hands were made wet in cold water and placed on the surface of the water, which caused the wax to adhere to the fingers. It was then rubbed off the hands and the hands again dipped in cold water. The filtrate in the keg would ripen in a years time. It made a drink much relished by her father and grand father, says Grandmother Scholl. In her words it was sehr stark. The German name for this drink is Meticulum. 
Spouse: Magdalena Susanna Grosher   Sex: Female
Birth Date 1767 MAY 15 Norhampton, Pennslyvania 
Death Date 1823  
Father Born: Died:
Mother Born:
Magdalena Susanna Grosher Notes:  
Individual Notes:  
2 Children Mother Spouse Grand Children
1 Catherina Lauffer
b.1778
d.1847
2 Peter Lauffer
b.1784 Allen, Pennsylvania
d.1855
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Christian Lauffer Sr.
THE PIONEER
DAR #A067003
b.1723 Weisenheim Am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
d.1796		 Johan Henrich Lauffer
b.1683 Weisenheim am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, German
d.1730		 Joseph Lauffer
b.1660 Weisenheim am Sand, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, German
d.1713
   
  
 
Anna Catherina


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Susanah Catharina Best
b.1735 Germany
d.1796		 Wilhelm Best Jr
 WILLIAM

  
 
Anna Susanna Schaeffer

  
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