Peter Kieffer

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ID: I352
Last: Kieffer
First: Peter
Middle:
Birth: BEF 1738 1
Death: 1766 at Shrewsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania 2
Burial:
Sex: M
 
Mother: UNKNOWN
Father: UNKNOWN
 
Marriage 1   Margaret Fry Cooper b: ABT 1728 d: 10 Oct 1823
Wedding: AFT 1738 Pennsylvania 3 4 5
 
 
Sources:
1 Title: Internet
Note: Per information on Marsett Family webpage on rootsweb.com, Roseann Marsett <zann@theriver.com>, Peter Kieffer was first spouse of Margaret Fry in Pennsylvania. She later married Andrew Feaster and moved to Fairfield Co., South Carolina, where her son Adam Cooper first appears in 1890 Census. Connection between names of Peter Kieffer and Peter Cooper is given in Will of Peter Cooper, available in database The Branch Ranch on rootsweb.com by Lois Branch <Webvannin@aol.com>
 
2 Title: Internet
Note: Will of Peter Kieffer, signed Peter Cooper, dated 15 Feb 1766, available in database The Branch Ranch on rootsweb.com by Lois Branch <Webvannin@aol.com>
States he is a "Gunsmith, very sick and weak in Body", names "wife Margaret", "youngest son Petter", "youngest child Elizabeth", "eldest son Adam", and other daughter Eve
 
3 Repository:
  --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
  --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211
  --Phone: (803) 734-8577
Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965
Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others
Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp
Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/
Page: p. 303
Note: Children named are the same as those in will of Peter Kieffer
Text: He married in Philadelphia a widow, Mrs Peter Cooper (her maiden name was Margaret Fry). She had four children: Adam, Eve, Peter and Eliza
 
4 Title: Internet
Note: Peter came to America aboard Robert & Alice of Dublin from Rotterdam 1738, per Marsett Family webpage on rootsweb.com, Roseann Marsett <zann@theriver.com>
 
5 Repository:
  --Name: Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society Library
  --Address: 1203 North Main
P.O. Box 1121
Wichita, KS 67201-1121
internet http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/mhgs/scarolina.htm
  --Phone: (316) 264-3611
Title: Ederington's History of Fairfield County, South Carolina
Author: Ederington, William
Publication: Publ. May 3, 1901 - July 9, 1902 In "News&Herald", Winnsboro, SC; reprint Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Willo Publishing~1960.
Call Number: R-70-18
Note: Manuscript history published in the News & Herald, a newspaper of Winnsboro,
Fairfield County, South Carolina, in installments, on the dates as indicated
with each installment herein /, Mrs. B.H. Rosson, Jr., compiler ; Mrs. A.H.
Maybin, chapter genealogist ; Mrs. G.D. Foxworth, state genealogist ; original
copy owned by Mrs. B.H. Rosson ; and copied by W.T. Castles, Jr. Tuscaloosam
[sic], Ala.
Note: Names only 2 children, Adam and Eve Cooper
Text: Eve maried Jacob Stone, whose mother was Ruth Lyles, a member of the Chester branch of that family. Jacob Stone was a soldier in the Revolution and drew pension as long as he lived...
Of the stepson, Adam Cooper, all of his descendants moved to Mississippi....children all now live in Winston County, Mississippi
 


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