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- had at least eight children.
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- Note on Find a Grave:
Eliza Fehr Mohn was born June 7, 1805 in Northampton County, PA. She was the thirteenth child of John Fehr and Eva Rosina Geist of Bushkill, PA. Her grandfather, John (Johannes) Fehr was a blacksmith who saw military service with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. About 1823, she married Henry Mohn, and they had 10 children, 8 of whom survived infancy, including Sylvester Mohn (born 1824), Henry S. Mohn (born 1826), Charles Mohn (born February, 1828), John J. Mohn (born 1836), Louisa Mohn, Julia Mohn (born 1839), Eleanora C. Mohn (born 1843), and Helen Mohn. With the onset of the Civil War, Sylvester Mohn, who married Rebecca Tombler, enlisted and served two tours of duty with the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was wounded in the shoulder by shell shrapnel at the battle of Deep Bottom (in Virginia) and died in 1864 at a field hospital in Annapolis, MD. He was buried in Belfast Union Cemetery. Charles Mohn similarly enlisted and served with the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry, and he married Louisa Moyer. Henry S. Mohn, who also enlisted and served with the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War, married Anna Caroline Smith. John J. Mohn, who additionally enlisted and served two tours of duty with the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry, married Araminta Bishop. Louisa Mohn married Jackson Leibert. Julia Mohn married Dr. William Crawford of Nazareth, PA. Elenora (Ellen) Mohn married Francis Buchecker of Salisbury (Lehigh County), PA, and Helen Mohn married Josiah Moyer. After her husband Henry died in 1876, Eliza lived with her daughter, Eleanora, and son-in-law (Francis Buchecker) in Salisbury, PA. She died at the Buchecker home on September 22, 1890 at the age of 85 and was buried next to Henry in Belfast Union Cemetery. [2]
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