THIRD GENERATION

13. Sybilla MECHLING was born on 26 Feb 1762 in Northampton Co. Pennsylvania. She was christened on 28 Mar 1762 in Jerusalem Lutheran Church Salisbury Twp. Northampton Co. Pa.. SPONSORS: Peter and Barbara Mechlin. She was buried in Jan 1844 in Old German Lutheran Cemetery Greensburg Pennsylvania. The cemetery is now called Hillview. She died on 27 Jan 1844 in Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania. She has Ancestral File number LJ27-G9.

She was married to Jacob RUGH (son of Michael RUGH and Anna Franzina MERKLE) in Pennsylvania. Jacob RUGH was born on 15 Feb 1761 in Northampton Co. Pennsylvania. He died on 6 Feb 1845 in Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania. He was buried in Old German Lutheran Cemetery Greenburg Pennsylvania. The cemetery is now call Hillview LAND: Jacob Rugh owned 300 acres of land near Greensburg Pennsylvania. MILITARY: He was a private in the Revolutionary War and later served in the Pennsylvania Legislature. Sybilla MECHLING and Jacob RUGH had the following children:

child+40 i. Michael RUGH.
child41 ii. Elizabeth RUGH was born on 1 Oct 1782 in Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania. She was baptized on 15 Dec 1782 in Old Zion Evangelical Church Hempfield Twp. Pennsylvania. SPONSORS: Peter and Magaretta Ruch. QUESTION: Could Ruch be Rugh? She died. Died young
child+42 iii. Jacob RUGH Jr..
child+43 iv. Benjamin RUGH.
child44 v. Magdalena RUGH was born on 11 May 1789 in Westmoreland Co. Pennsylvania. She was baptized on 30 May 1789 in First Reformed Church Greensburg Pennsylvania. SPONSORS: Philip and Anna Elizabeth Dorny.
child+45 vi. Daniel RUGH.
child+46 vii. Hannah RUGH.
child+47 viii. Sarah RUGH.
child+48 ix. John M. RUGH.
child+49 x. Susanna RUGH.

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