John Rhone

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Husband John Rhone ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John Rahn 2
           Born: 1698 - Hamburg, Germany 2
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           Died: Mar 1823 3
         Buried:  - Pleasant Hall, Franklin Co, PA

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1 M Michael Rhone ^{3 4}

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           Born: 8 Jun 1759 - Berks Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 16 Sep 1844 - Potter Twp, Centre Co, PA 1 3
         Buried:  - Emanuel's Church Cemetery, Tusseyville, Centre Co, PA

         Spouse: Catherine Elizabeth Wagner (1769-1836) 1 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Rhone

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The first of this surname to leave the ancestral home in Hamburg, Germany, was John Rhone, or Rahn, who was born in that city in 1698, during a winter so severe as to be referred to in the history of the Fatherland as "the cold winter." There is now no record of his ancestry, and nothing is known of his immediate relatives except that two brothers came to America some time after his emigration, one locating in the East, and the other in the South.
He was a youth when he first came to America, and after spending a few years in Pennsylvania he returned to his native land, where he married, his bride accompanying him on his second voyage to the New World. At that time emigrants were forbidden to carry money out of the country, on account of some movement political, commercial or military, and in order to evade the edict our pioneer invested his patrimony in Bibles and merchandise, which he brought with him. A few copies of those Bibles remain a hundred years later and were cherished in the family as priceless heirlooms.
On his return to Pennsylvania, John Rhone located in Tulpehocken township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, near the Norskill Lutheran Church, where he followed the blacksmith's trade for many years. At the close of the Revolutionary war he moved to Franklin County and engaged in farming. While there his first wife died, but he afterward re-married. He was a temperate man, a consistent Christian, and a strict Lutheran in faith. He died at the extraordinary age of 125 years-extending over portions of three centuries. To the last he retained his strength of mind and body, and when 103 years old he paid a visit to his native land. His remains were interred at Pleasant Hall, Franklin County, with those of his wives. He had eighteen children, most of whom lived to maturity, and some attained great age, one daughter dying in Cumberland, Maryland, when 103 years old. But little is known of the others.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 223.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 113.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 114.

4 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 223, 414.