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Data Source is Lee C. Fox, e-mail is LCFox767@aol.com
April 1991 Mennonite Family History, p. 70
"Peter Musselman and his wife, Fanny Mumaw, came to Vaughn Township, (Markham, Ontario, Canada) from Pennsylvania in 1803. it is thought he may have come as a minister and was the first minister for the Schmidt Church at Edgeley. They are buried in the Schmidt Cemetery."
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The following information was provided by "Clare Schlegel"
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999
"they moved to Canada near Heise Hill which has been swallowed up by the city of Markham, just north of Toronto. They are buried in the cemetery there. They lived on a small property which was part of the government land confiscation in the 1970's for a new airport site. The project failed and it is only now that individuals are being allowed to purchase the land. Many of the original land owners relocated, especially in the Listowel and Atwood areas.
Peter and Euphrania (whom I had difficulty finding because she was know to her family as Fannie) raised a family in York County of which daughter Catherine (b.1805 d.1893) married John Sherk (b.1802 d.1886) son of Caspar Sherk and Esther Reiff who came from PA in 1804.
I am a descendant of Catherine Musselman and John Sherk. They were my ggg- grandparents.
To add to the family lore, Peter and Fannie did not live together in their old age because Fannie was a practitioner of PA Dutch folk medicine and refused to give it up when the congregation of which Peter was a minister began to question whether the alleged power possessed by the practitioner was from the devil.
------------- Catherine Schlegel cschlegl@orc.ca