Bishop Christian Eby ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: LC84-X67.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence: Hammer Creek in Elizabeth Twp., Lancaster, PA. ¹ He retained his father's mansion.

2. Book: Biographical History of Lancaster County, 1872. ²
CHRISTIAN married a Mayer, and settled on Hammer Creek, in Elizabeth township, about three miles north of Litiz. He died in 1756. His wife died in 1787. They left a family of ten children as follows : Christian, Johannes, Barbara, married to Jacob Hershey, Peter, Anna, married to Christian Staufter, Andrew, George, Elizabeth, married to Jacob Hershey, Samuel, and Michael. His oldest son, Christian Eby, who married Catharine Bricker, retained the mansion place on Hammer Creek, which he greatly improved by building a new stone dwelling house, the date of which is 1754, a large barn, and a new mill and a dwelling house and barn for his son John. He was a large, well-proportioned and athletic man, retaining unusual health and vigor of both body and mind, up to the time of bis death. He was elder in the Mennonite church, and wore a long beard, which in his later years had turned white. Regular stated Mennonite meetings were held at his house, until a building for that special purpose was erected in the neighborhood. He lived during the Revolutionary war, and foraging parties carried off some of his horses and cattle, as also large quantities of flour and grain out of his mill. On one occasion his wife's pewter dishes and spoons, and an oven full of newly baked bread and pies shared the same fate. During the winter in which the American army was encamped at Valley Forge, a number of disabled soldiers were quartered in the old Lutheran church, near Brickerville, and were supplied weekly with milk and other necessaries from his and other neighboring farms. He died in 1807. His wife, who is said to have been an amiable and greatly esteemed person, surviving him several years. He left eleven children, as follows : 1. Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Bucher, resided near. Litiz, and left descendants. 2. Christian, who resided on the home-place. 3. Peter, who moved to Pequea valley, and afterwards became a Mennonite Bishop. 4. John, who lived at the mill, adjoining the old place. 5. Andrew, who died, middle-aged, leaving several children; that afterwards moved to the west. 6. Catharine, wife of Abraham Burkholder, resided in Earl township. 7. Barbara, wife of Joseph Snyder, moved to Canada. 8. Anna, wife of Jacob Wissler, resided in Clay township. 9. George. 10. Benjamin, who moved to Canada, was made a minister in the Mennonite church, and succeeded his brother Peter as Bishop of the Mennonites in Canada. 11. Maria, wife of Jacob Brubacher, resided in Elizabeth township.

Christian married Catherine Bricker. (Catherine Bricker was born in 1743, died on 16 Mar 1810 in , Lancaster, PA and was buried in Lititz: Hammer Creek Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, PA.)