Nathaniel Conver BENNER
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This page is dedicated to documenting Nathaniel Conver Benner's genealogy as it began in Franconia Township, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. This page focuses on Nathaniel's family and descendents.

My desire is to document the ancestry of my great grandfather, Nathaniel Conver Benner who descends from the Benner families in Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. I hope that this will be beneficial for all of his (and Amanda's) descendents who have left or remain in Bucks or Montgomery county Pennsylvania.

Nathaniel Benner information:

Nathaniel Benner descends from Johannes Benner through: Abraham, Christian, and Tobias Benner. Many Benner families originated from these Franconia Township roots as you have seen from the main web page.

Nathaniel Benner (born 2 Aug 1856, died 11 Oct 1942) and Amanda Heckler (born 4 July 1860, died 29 Nov 1922) had the following children, which I believe were all born in Souderton, Montgomery Co., PA. Click the hyperlink to go to one of Nathaniel's and Amanda's children's web page.

Thanks to cousin Donna Bluemink (the greatest cousin ever); I now have a photograph of Nathaniel to display. If anyone has additional pictures of Nathaniel or of Amanda, please send them. Old photographs of these individuals, brothers or sisters, or sons and daughters would be appreciated. Scan and e-mail, or snail mail them to me at: Gerry Benner 13007 Clayton Ct. Thornton, CO 80241-2010 Or, create your own web page with your ancesters, and I'll hyperlink to it.

I promise to return the photos as quickly as I can. Also if anyone has lots of old pictures of our family, I'll consider flying back to PA. to shoot pictures of your pictures.

Thanks in advance for your help.

As I get more information, I will display as many descendents as possible. Please e-mail old photos and information. I will be glad to update this page with your input. I am also researching the line back to Europe along with these other surnames.

• Long
  
• Nase
  
• Cressman
  
• Heckler
  
• Souder
  
• Wisler
  
• Freed
  
• Detweiler
  
• Hunsberger
  
• Conver
  
• Sellers

Thanks for visiting. Hopefully this page will grow into a well documented history of the Benner line as many left by ship from Rotterdam and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania. Another e-mail address for me is: gerald_benner@stortek.com

Amanda Heckler information:

Amanda descends from Abraham Heckler, born about 1810. Abraham married Sarah Detweiler (Sallie); and they had a son named Rueben, born 16 Feb 1836. Ruben married Margaret M. Wisler (or Whisler); and they had the following children: Amanda, Franklin, Elemina, Sarah Ann, Catharine, Margaret, Fannie, Henry, Mary, Elizabeth, Susan, Samuel, Ellen, and Lillie. If anyone has info on Rueben, please let me know. See the Heckler Page and the pedigree chart below for more information.

Gravesite and GPS Locations

Other Web Sites of Interest

Bucks and Montgomery county genealogy links
Heckler History and Genealogy
Benner History and Genealogy

Links to the genealogy forum

Or click here to see who has been puttting entries into my address book. If you have a Benner genealogy web page, let us know about it.

Pedigree Chart on Nathaniel Conver BENNER and Amanda HECKLER

					Johannes BENNER b. abt 1725 d. 1767
				Abraham BENNER b. 1755
			Christian Hunsberger BENNER
					Abraham HUNSBERGER
				Barbara Tyson HUNSBERGER
					Hester
		Tobias Hunsberger BENNER
					Christian HUNSPERGER
				Christian HUNSBERGER
					Catharine CLEMMER
			Sarah Sellers HUNSBERGER
						Philip H. Sellers
					Peter Sellers
						Catherine Sellers
				Hanah SELLERS
						Michael Dierstein
					Sarah Dirstine
						Agnes Kolb
	Nathaniel Conver BENNER b. 2 Aug 1856
					Christian Carol CONVER
				Peter CONVER
			Abraham Freed CONVER
					John FREED
				Maria FREED
						Hans DETWEILER
					Susanna DETWILER
						Susanna
		Mary Ann Buchammer CONVER
					Unknown
				Unknown
					Unknown
			Mary BUCHAMMER
					Unknown
				Unknown
					Unknown
					George HECKLER
				Peter HECKLER
					Christiana FRIED
			Abraham HECKLER
							Hans DETWEILER
						Joseph DETWEILER
							Susanna
					Jacob DETWEILER
						Maria Kolb
				Sarah DETWILER
					Maria FUNK
		Ruben M. HECKLER
						Hans DETWEILER
					Johannes DETWEILER
						Susanna
				Johannes DETWEILER
					Anna Reiff
			Sarah O. DETWEILER
				Maria Oberholtzer
	Amanda Wisler HECKLER b. 4 July 1860 d. 26 Nov 1922
					Isaac Wisler
				John Wisler
			Jacob Wisler
				Catherine Stauffer
		Margaret M. WISLER
					Peter King
				Martin King
			Elizabeth King
				Elizabeth

Note: Pink indicates that I'm uncertain of this information.

1850 census records of Franconia Township show Christian Benner age 58 married to Sarah age 55. Christian's profession is listed as a Farmer. Isaac age 21 is a Carpenter and Tobias age 19 is a Labourer. Mary Benner age 60 and Catharine age 57 are both living in the home as well. I believe these to be Christian's sisters although the ages are a few years younger than my records indicate.

1870 census records of Franconia Township show Tobias Benner age 38 as a Farmer with wife Mary age 34. Nathaniel age 13, Catharine age 10, Samuel age 7, and Josiah age 1 are shown as children. Isaac Benner is the next entry (neighbor) who I assume is Tobias's older brother, age 40. His wife is Sarah age 37, and children are listed as Esther 11, Isaac 7, Sarah Ann 4, and William 2.

Kate Fellman (sister Catherine Benner who married Isaac Fellman) and Nathaniel Conver Benner

Click here and here for more pictures of Nathaniel and sister Kate.

One more picture of Nathaniel just arrived (thanks to Donna). Go to nathaniel4.jpg for a print.

Hyperlink to a Montgomery County History web page that has a picture of an early Godshall and an early Sheetz.

If you wish to support our family research, please buy books, Cds, and DVDs via my web page at: www.angelfire.com/nm/familygenealogy/books

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