Jacob Gemberling and Catharine Wolfersberger

---

---

Husband Jacob Gemberling ¹

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

---

---

Wife Catharine Wolfersberger ²

---

            AKA: Catherine Wolfensberger 1
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: Frederick Wolfersberger (      -Bef 1767) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 2

---

---

Children

---

1 M Philip Gemberling, Sr. ³

---

           Born: 27 Jul 1773 4
     Christened: 
           Died: Cal 23 Oct 1859 - Selinsgrove, Snyder Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Selinsgrove, Snyder Co, PA

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

         Spouse: Eve Goss (      -      ) 5

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Jacob Gemberling

---

Among the earliest settlers in the Tulpehocken region were Jacob Gemberling and his wife, their home being in what is now Lebanon (then Lancaster) County, Pennsylvania. When their family was young, they moved to Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, and later they settled in the Shamokin region, Jacob purchasing 300 acres of land at the present site of Selinsgrove for six shillings per acre. To use his own words, "Ei das war eine lust es anzusehen." As railroads and canals were then unknown, the family carried their simple furniture in keel boats while they rode in slow-moving wagons, with the exception of the mother, who was on horseback. They passed the site of the city of Harrisburg, where there was but one house at that time (1782), and the remainder of their journey occupied four days, the road being nothing but an Indian trail. On arriving at Selinsgrove they found but three houses. The 300 acres in the Gemberling homestead remained in the family eighty years, Jacob Gemberling having intended it for his posterity as well as for himself. He died there at the age of eighty-eight, and his good wife was far advanced in the seventies when she was called away. The remains of both now rest together in the old "Gottes Acker" at Selinsgrove. An interesting relic of this famous pioneer couple was an old clock six feet high, in the possession of their descendants one hundred years later, still in running order.

They had fourteen children, of whom the third in order of birth was a son Philip.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 949, 1019.

2 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 356.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 949, 1019, 1021.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 949.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1019.