child of Johann P "John" Gerberich & Regina Backenstoe
When Thomas was a little fellow his parents moved to the farm in West Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., about midway between the Dauphin County and the Lebanon County branches of our family. On the west one of his father's neighbors and close friends was Michael Garberich, belonging to the former stem, and a little to the north were Adam and Jacob Gerberich, his closer relatives who belonged to the latter stem. At this time, too, the families of the children of John, the brother of Andrew, were numerous in the Fishing Creek Valley behind Heckert's Gap and Manada Gap, a few miles away, to which region he and his father were accustomed to go for wood and fence posts. He was an industrious farmer and became a member of the Church of God at Shope's Bethel, about ten years before his death. He farmed the old homestead farm of his father after the former had retired from an active agricultural life. While on a trip to Hecktown, on the Susquehanna, with his son to secure lumber, he contracted pneumonia and died at 47. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
When Thomas was a little fellow his parents moved to the farm in West Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., about midway between the Dauphin County and the Lebanon County branches of our family. On the west one of his father's neighbors and close friends was Michael Garberich, belonging to the former stem, and a little to the north were Adam and Jacob Gerberich, his closer relatives who belonged to the latter stem. At this time, too, the families of the children of John, the brother of Andrew, were numerous in the Fishing Creek Valley behind Heckert's Gap and Manada Gap, a few miles away, to which region he and his father were accustomed to go for wood and fence posts. He was an industrious farmer and became a member of the Church of God at Shope's Bethel, about ten years before his death. He farmed the old homestead farm of his father after the former had retired from an active agricultural life. While on a trip to Hecktown, on the Susquehanna, with his son to secure lumber, he contracted pneumonia and died at 47. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
child of Johann P "John" Gerberich & Regina Backenstoe
When Thomas was a little fellow his parents moved to the farm in West Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., about midway between the Dauphin County and the Lebanon County branches of our family. On the west one of his father's neighbors and close friends was Michael Garberich, belonging to the former stem, and a little to the north were Adam and Jacob Gerberich, his closer relatives who belonged to the latter stem. At this time, too, the families of the children of John, the brother of Andrew, were numerous in the Fishing Creek Valley behind Heckert's Gap and Manada Gap, a few miles away, to which region he and his father were accustomed to go for wood and fence posts. He was an industrious farmer and became a member of the Church of God at Shope's Bethel, about ten years before his death. He farmed the old homestead farm of his father after the former had retired from an active agricultural life. While on a trip to Hecktown, on the Susquehanna, with his son to secure lumber, he contracted pneumonia and died at 47. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
When Thomas was a little fellow his parents moved to the farm in West Hanover Twp., Dauphin Co., Pa., about midway between the Dauphin County and the Lebanon County branches of our family. On the west one of his father's neighbors and close friends was Michael Garberich, belonging to the former stem, and a little to the north were Adam and Jacob Gerberich, his closer relatives who belonged to the latter stem. At this time, too, the families of the children of John, the brother of Andrew, were numerous in the Fishing Creek Valley behind Heckert's Gap and Manada Gap, a few miles away, to which region he and his father were accustomed to go for wood and fence posts. He was an industrious farmer and became a member of the Church of God at Shope's Bethel, about ten years before his death. He farmed the old homestead farm of his father after the former had retired from an active agricultural life. While on a trip to Hecktown, on the Susquehanna, with his son to secure lumber, he contracted pneumonia and died at 47. [History of the Gerberich Family in America]
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