Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable (1793-1872) and Descendants 1 Connecting the Gable Family The Family of Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright Alice Gable Kalush October 2011 Last Updated: 2/25/2019 This document is part of the Connecting the Gable Family book which is divided into chapters which are in separate files. This document covers the descendants of Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright. The Early Gebel Lancaster County Settlers discusses various people which may have been Jacob Gabel's parents and the evidence supporting each one in more detail than this document does. Documents in this Series: Connecting the Gable Family: Early Gebel Lancaster County Settlers Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright Connecting the Gable Familly: Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant Connecting the Gable Family: Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes
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Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable (1793-1872) and Descendants 1
Connecting the Gable Family
The Family of Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright
Alice Gable Kalush
October 2011
Last Updated: 2/25/2019
This document is part of the Connecting the Gable Family book which is divided into chapters which are in
separate files. This document covers the descendants of Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright. The Early
Gebel Lancaster County Settlers discusses various people which may have been Jacob Gabel's parents and the
evidence supporting each one in more detail than this document does.
Documents in this Series:
Connecting the Gable Family: Early Gebel Lancaster County Settlers
Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright
Connecting the Gable Familly: Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant
Connecting the Gable Family: Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes
Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable (1793-1872) and Descendants 2
Table of Contents Connecting Jacob Gable with His Parents ............................................................................................................................... 3
Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright .................................................................................................................................. 11
Chapter Two: William Gabel and Catherine Klugh and Descendants ............................................................................... 31
Chapter Three: Jacob Klugh and Elizabeth Gable ............................................................................................................. 43
Henry Gable and Mary (Klugh?) ........................................................................................................................................ 44
Connecting the Gable Family: Jacob Gable (1793-1872) and Descendants 3
Connecting Jacob Gable with His Parents Last Reviewed and Updated: 5/15/2018
I believe that Johannes Gebel/John Gable (1.2) and Elizabeth of the Wilhelm Gebel of Manheim Township and
His Children document are the parents of Jacob Gable and that his siblings are Benjamin Gable, Henry Gable,
Polly Gable and Catherine Gable Prowant. It is also possible that Jacob Gable is the son of one of Johannes
Gebel's brothers.
Both John Gable and Jacob Gable have records tying them back to Manheim Township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. Jacob has no birth record. Two of his children have birth records which link his family to
Manheim township in 1817 and 1822. The first is from a Family Record for son William Gable's family (full
document shown later in this document.) The second is the obituary of his daughter Elizabeth Gable Klugh.
"Elizabeth Gebel" has a birth fraktur (see later in this document) which says she was born in Lancaster Parish
and is written in German.
The birth frakturs of his sons Jacob and Henry Gable (see later in this document), state they were born in East
Hempfield Township in 1825 and 1827.
According to the 1830 census "Jacob Gebel" still lived in Manheim township. In the 1840 and 1850 census he
lived in East Hempfield. No record of him in 1860 exists. In 1870 he was living at the home of his daughter
Elizabeth Gable Klugh in Mountville.
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John Gable and his children Benjamin Gable, Henry Gable, Polly Gable and Catherine Gable Prowant moved to
Ohio around 1830 while Jacob Gable remained in Lancaster county.
Why Did My Parents Know Each Other Well Enough To Get Married?
Next, I'm going to mention some ways that these two branches of the Gable family kept in contact.
During the 19th century letters were written back and forth and there were visits back and forth across a
distance of about 350 miles. The Ohio Gables (descendants of John Gable) were from my father's side of the
Gable family and the Lancaster county Gables (descendants of Jacob Gable) were from my mother's side of the
Gable family. Some of these letters were saved by John Gable, son of Benjamin Gable. When my parents
were children they visited each other in 1925 and on some other occasions. In the photo on the next page my
mother is the child on the left and my father is next to her. John Gable, who saved the letters is the man with
the hat in the back.
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The Gable and Kraiss families circa 1925 at Kraiss home in Mountville Back Row: Charles Dudley Gable, John Gable, Sarah Campbell Gable (wife of John)
husbands Amos S. Musser 1846-1887, mar 1873; Michael G. Shindle 1837-1916 (28,31,34), mar 1892
| |--3-Henry G. Klugh 1854-1908, wife Annie B. Lutz, mar 1892
|--2-Jacob Gable 1825-
|--2-Henry Gable 1827-1906, wife Mary Klugh 1831-1891, mar 1852
| |--3-William K. Gable 1852-1929 (17), wife Sally E. Jeffers 1857-1878, mar 1878
| |--3-Anna K. Gable 1859-, John Kleinfelter
| |--3-Harry H. Gable 1864-
| |--3-Martin K. Gable 1865-1957
John's sister Elizabeth (Liz or Lizzie) lived in Lancaster County between 1868 and 1872 and worked for
Abraham Bausman and his wife Anna Brenneman in Millersville, Manor township as a domestic servant.
Abraham Bausman was related to the Gables through their Klugh spouses (see chart below). In blue are two of
Jacob Gable's children. John Gable's wife Sarah Campbell was also originally from Millersville and they were
married in Ohio in 1871. Letter writers are in red and letter numbers in green below.
1-Abraham Peters 1741-1818, wife Anna Catharine Lutz 1760-1843
|--2-Elizabeth Peters 1779-1851, husband John Bausman 1780-
| |--3-Abraham Bausman 1810-1891, wife Anna Brenneman 1820-1901 (12, 15)
| | |--4-John B. Bausman 1845-1921 (13), wife Emma Martin 1849-1908 (13)
|--2-Maria Peters 1788-1861, husband Jacob Klugh 1788-1864
| |--3-Catherine Klugh 1814-1904, husband William Gabel 1817-1851
| |--3-Charles (Carl) Klugh 1816-1862, wife Elizabeth Gable 1822-
| |--3-George Peters Klugh 1824-1891 (13), wife Sallie b. 20 Nov 1824 (13), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, d.
| | 31 May 1891, Philadelphia, PA
| | +Sallie b. Feb 1832, Pennsylvania
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Elizabeth's presence in Millersville resulted in a bunch of letters back and forth between John and Liz and also
with some of the Pennsylvania Gable family relatives and John to assure him that all was well with Liz. Below
is a sampling of some of these letters.
Letter # Date From To About
4 6/3/1867 Liz Gable, Mountville
John Gable, Ohio
Went with Barb and Molly Klugh, Lidy Laymon to eat ice cream. Molly Gable and Fred Mann came home with her. Aunt Kity's going to get boarders. Mentions a couple of visits to Aunt Kity. Wants Mary Koppes to answer her letter. Aunt Lica wants all to go to Uncle Henry's and Uncle Ruben's that night. Had visitors from Stark County, Ohio where Aunt Poll was.
6 2/23/1868 Barbara Klugh, Mountville
John Gable, Medina County
Liz likes life at her new home. She has lots of work for a big family. Gives address to John P. Gable in Mountville.
12 2/6/1870 Anna Bausman, Millersville
John Gable, Ohio Anna (daughter of Abraham and Anna) is in school, Liz in love with old Joe, refers to John going home, Anna's asking about boys in Ohio
13 2/6/1870
George & Sallie Klugh, John B. Bausman, Lancaster
John Gable, Ohio Liz and Bausman family are well. The "father" Abraham Koppes is mentioned.
17 12/11/1870 Liz Gable, Mountville
John Gable, Ohio
Barb says that Mariah (Elizabeth Gable?) is married to Levi Stoner and they have a young daughter, William Gable living with Aunt Kitty (his grandmother) Wants to know why her brother Sam doesn't send his picture.
This section only includes discussion of the letters from the PA Gables and related PA people. See the
document about Benjamin Gable for more information about the letter collection.
One of the things I noticed was how frequently Aunt Kity (Catherine Klugh Gable) was mentioned in the
letters. She was called Kitty as evidenced by this newspaper article when her daughter-in-law's father Joseph
Hess committed suicide in 1878. Miami Hess was the wife of Jacob Klugh Gable (1849-1933). The "Kitty
Klug Inn" was actually the Black Bear tavern run by Catherine Gable's father Jacob Klugh until his death in
1864.
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Using DNA to Prove the Connection:
Below is a chart showing DNA matches between people descended from John Gable's OH branch (Catherine,
Benjamin and Henry) across the top and from John Gable's PA branch (Jacob) in the first column. This table
does not include myself and my sister Martha because we're descended from both Benjamin and Jacob.
You Can Help: I would like to find some higher matches. It would help if anyone descended from any of the
couples named in the chart (especially Jacob) who have taken the Ancestry DNA test would contact me. I can
tell you how to look for matches to John Gable's Ohio children. Please contact me at [email protected].
Benjamin
Gable and Anna
Koppes
Catherine Gable and
Christian Prowant
Henry Gable and
Lydia Baer
Jacob Gable and
Elizabeth
Hambright denisefurlong_1
D. M.
(Brett
Merillat)
Ron
Thomas Carolyn Coddens
Paul Diehl Mod 13.4, 1 Mod 10.6, 1 > 20
douglaswbaldwin Mod 8.2, 1
K.G.
(douglaswbaldwin) Good 15.4,
1
Good 15.6,
1
alicekalushc and
Martha Bland
Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes, David Gable and Mary Ann Rickert,
Charles Dudley Gable and Hazel Ruth
alicekalushc and
Martha Bland
Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright, Elizabeth Gable and Charles Klugh,
Barbara Klugh and Amos Musser, Mabel Musser and Charles Kraiss
Paul Diehl
Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright, Elizabeth Gable and Charles Klugh,
Elizabeth Klugh and Jacob Lockard Reitzel, Mary Elizabeth Reitzel and
Peter Mathias Diehl
douglaswbaldwin
(and K. G.)
Jacob Gable and Elizabeth Hambright, William Gable and Catherine Klugh,
Jacob K. Gable and Miami Hess, Irvin Hess Gable and Addie Irene
Shoemaker
denisefurlong_1 Benjamin Gable and Anna Koppes, John Gable and Sarah Campbell, Uriah
Gable and Mary Zulemma Anderson
D. M. (Brett
Merillat) Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant, John Prowant and Susan Burkhart,
Catherine Prowant and Alton Adams, Stella Adams and Abel M. Anders
Ron Thomas
Catherine Gable and Christian Prowant, Mary Prowant and Jesse Rodgers,
William Rodgers and Electa Smith, Gladys Irene Rodgers and Richard F.
Coldwell, Ardonna Faye Coldwell and Milton Walter Thomas, Ron
Thomas
Carolyn Coddens Henry Gable and Lydia Baer, Elizabeth Gable and Joseph Shaum, Isaiah
Shaum and Lizzie Weaver, Paul Edward Shaum and Bernice Harter
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Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambright
Elizabeth Hambrecht (Hambright) was born to Georg Hambrecht (1749-1826) and his wife Anna Maria
(Schindel) (1755-1828) on June 17, 1793 and christened on December 22, 1793 according to the following
record from Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, MI. Family records list her death as February 17, 1852. The
Hambrecht family lived in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, PA. Georg Hambrecht’s headstone is now
located at the Landis Valley Farm Museum in Lancaster, PA.
Elizabeth Hambrecht Birth Ledger Page 2 Jacob Gabel Headstone
3
Georg Freidrich Schindel’s will confirms that his daughter Anna Maria Schindel was married to George
Hambright:
“… It is further my bequest that my property shall be equally divided among my children who are George
Schindel, and my daughter Anna Maria married to George Hambright, … ”
Trinity Lutheran Church was not able to find a birth record for Jacob Gable/Gebel. Mabel Musser Kraiss
(Elizabeth Gable Klugh’s granddaughter) believed that he was born January 28, 1793 and died January 16,
1872. Based on the 1850 and 1870 census, it’s more likely he was born in 1794. The 1850 census lists him
and his wife Elizabeth as 56 on 9/9/1850. The 1870 census shows him living in the household of daughter
Elizabeth Gable Klugh and lists him as 76 on 7/27/1870.
It is not known who Jacob Gable's parents were. The most likely possibility is that he is the son or nephew of
John Gable of Manheim Township and about 1830 Milton Township, Wayne County, Ohio. John Gable was
the son of Wilhelm Gebel of Manheim township. Many of John's brothers still lived in Manheim township
until at least 1810 or 1820. Another possibility is that he is related to John Gable and Elizabeth Marzall of
Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Wilhelm Gebel of Lancaster Borough or Henry Gebel and Susannah of
Manor Township. (See Wilhelm Gebel and Wives document for more information.)
2 Georg Hambrecht and Anna Maria, Elizabeth born 17 Jun, baptized 22 Dec, witnesses Adam Weber and Regina(?), page from 1793
3 Jacob Gabel headstone in Mountville Cemetery, Mountville, PA
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Jacob Gebel and Elizabeth Hambrecht Marriage Ledger page
Dec 31, 1816
Census records
Birth years: Jacob 1793, Elizabeth 1793, William 1817, Elizabeth 1822, Jacob 1825, Henry 1827
The 1830 census shows Jacob Gebel living in Manheim township. The Family Record of his son William
states that William was born in Manheim township in Oct 1817. The obituary of his daughter Elizabeth states
that Elizabeth was born in Manheim township north of Petersburg (today East Petersburg) in Feb 1822. The
birth frakturs for his sons Jacob and Henry state they were born in East Hempfield township in July 1825 and
September 1827. Jacob's age is wrong but all of the other ages match. It is possible in the early years they
spent the summers in East Hempfield township and the winters in Manheim township. This would make sense
if they returned to live with the more established Manheim township Gebels.
1830 Census Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Name Page Males
Females
<5 5-9
10-14
15-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
90-99 100+
Jacob Gebel 414 2 1 1
1 1
1840 Census East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Neighbor of John, Simon and Samuel Minich
Name Page Males
Females
<5 5-9
10-14
15-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
70-79
80-89
90-99 100+
Jacob Gable 84
1
1
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1850 Census East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA Neighbor of John Minnich, age 50 and Barbary age 44 and Emanuel Minnich age 24 and Ann age 19
Name Age
Est Birth Year Sex Race Prof
Real Estate
Place of Birth 10 School 12 13
Jacob Gabbel 56 1794 M W
PA
Elizabeth Gabbel 56 1794 F W PA
No 1860 census found, Not found near John Minnich in East Hempfield either
Map of where the Minnich farm was in 1864: 4
4 East Hempfield Township, From Lancaster County 1864, Pennsylvania, Published by D. S. Bare & Bridgens in 1864
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1870 Census West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA, page 81 Living with daughter Eliza and daughter in law Catharine
House # / Fam # Name Age Sex Race Prof
Real Estate
Pers Estate
Place of Birth
571/607 Eliza Klugh 49 F W Keeping House
130 PA
Henry Klugh 16 F W At Home PA
Jacob Gable 76 M W
At Home
PA
572/608 Catharine Gable 54 F W Keeping Hotel 10000 1500 PA
John Gable 23 M W
Works on Farm
PA
Jacob Gable 21 M W
Works on Farm
PA
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Jacob and Elizabeth’s children
Jacob and Elisabeth had at least four children: William, Elizabeth, Jacob and Henry. Birth records exist for all
four children which list their parents as Jacob Gable and his wife Elizabeth (a daughter of Geo. Hambright).
William was born on Oct 20, 1817 in Manheim Township and died on Sep 4, 1851 in Mountville, Lancaster
County, PA. He married Catherine Klugh, daughter of Jacob Klugh (1788-1864) and Maria Peters (1788-aft
1860) on Dec 13, 1840 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, PA as documented in the following
family record. Catherine was born Apr 8, 1814 in Manor Township and died on Feb 7, 1904 in Mountville,
PA. This document is believed to have been created about 1845.
William Gable Family Record
5
5 Weiser, Frederick S. and Heaney, Howell J "The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia". The
Pennsylvania German Society & The Free Library of Philadelphia. Breinigsville, PA 1978.
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Elizabeth Gable (Gebel) Klug (Klugh) was born on Feb 3, 1822 in Lancaster
Parish, Lancaster, PA and died June 7, 1908 in Mountville. She married
Charles Klug, son of Jacob Klug and Maria Peters on Dec 12, 1844 in
Lancaster County, PA.
Charles Klug was born Oct 13, 1816 in Manor Township, Lancaster County
and died there on March 23, 1862.
Elizabeth Gebel Birth Fraktur
6
6 Birth Certificate of Elisabeth Gebel, father Jacob Gebel and mother Elisabeth (whose father is George Hambright),
3rd
day of February 1822, Sunday at 1 o’clock in the afternoon at Lancaster Parish, Lancaster County of the State of Pennsylvania.
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Eliza Klugh Death Certificate
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Elizabeth Gable Klugh obituaries:
Slightly different version7:
Mrs. Elizabeth Klugh, widow of Charles Klugh,
died yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock at the home of
her son-in-law, M.G. Schindle, at Mountville, from
acute indigestion and infirmities due to old age, she
being in her eighty-seventh year. Mrs. Klugh retired on
Saturday evening in her usual health, about 2 o'clock
yesterday morning she summoned her daughter and
expired shortly afterwards.
Deceased was the daughter of the late Jacob and
Elizabeth Gable. She was born in Manheim Township,
north of Petersburg.
For a number of years she resided east of
Mountville. Her husband died forty-six years ago and
she had resided with her daughter for the past thirty
years.
Deceased was a member of the Mountville
Reformed Church, the following children survive:
Jacob H. Klugh of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Mary Musser, of
Mountville; Mrs Barbara Shindle.
The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at
1:30 o'clock from the home of her daughter in
Mountville. Interment will be in the Mountville
Cemetery.
I assume this means that Elizabeth was born in Manheim Township. We know she lived in East Hempfield township by 1825 because her siblings Jacob and Henry were born there (see their birth frakturs below).
7 Columbia News, Columbia, Pennsylvania, June 8, 1908
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As you can see in the 1864 map8 below, "Manheim Township, north of Petersburg" doesn't really make sense
because no part of Manheim Township is north of Petersburg. Wilhelm Gebel lived slightly northwest of
Oregon P.O. in Manheim township, but we know of other sources that many of his children had moved into
Lancaster and other areas surrounding the northeast corner of Manheim township.
8 Bridgens' Atlas of Lancaster County, Penna., published 1864 by D.S. Bare
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Charles (Carl) Klug Birth Fraktur
9
9 These two married ones Jacob Klug and his married wife Maria born Peter is a son to the world born in the year of our Lord Jesus
1816 on the 13th
day of October. This son is born in Manor Township in Lancaster County in the state of Pennsylvania in North
America; and was baptized and given the name Carl on the 16th
day of December in the year of our Lord from the holy father Endros.
The baptism witnesses were the parents themselves. (Christian Frederick Ludwig Endress was Trinity Lutheran Church pastor from
1815-1827).
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Charles Klug Obituary
10
There is more information about the descendants of Charles Klugh and Elizabeth Gable in the Ruth Gable's
document about Klugh family genealogy document.11
10
Died, On the sixth of this month, in Manor Township, Mr. Charles Klug, in his 42nd
year of his life. Your sickness that lastest one
day, he endured with a patience that signified a true believer in Christ. 11