Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
John Beiler Yoder, Sr. (I37345)
1753 - 1821 (68 years)
1762 - 1827 (65 years)
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Name John Beiler Yoder [1] Suffix Sr. Relationship 
with Albert Leopold Vitter Birth 1 Jan 1753 Tilden, York, Pennsylvania, USA 
[1] Gender Male Death 19 Apr 1821 Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA [1] Burial Yoder Cemetery, Sugarcreek, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA [1] Siblings 5 brothers and 5 sisters 1. Jacob Yoder, b. 1745, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1827, Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 82 years)
▻Veronica Hochstetler, b. 24 Jun 1762, Berks, Pennsylvania, USAd. 31 Dec 1827, Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 65 years), m. Abt 1781, Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA 2. Christian Yoder, b. 1747, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. DECEASED3. Elizabeth Beiler Yoder, b. 1749, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Jan 1791, Hamburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 42 years)
▻Christian R. Hertzler, b. 1740, Palantine, Doubs, Franche-Comté, Franced. 18 Feb 1817, Belleville, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 77 years), m. 1764, Hamburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 4. Barbara B. Yoder, b. 1751, Upper Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 19 Apr 1821, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 70 years)
▻Jacob Hertzler, b. 1733, Bern, Switzerlandd. Apr 1795, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years), m. 1773, Pennsylvania, USA 5. John Beiler Yoder, Sr. (current person), b. 1 Jan 1753, Tilden, York, Pennsylvania, USA d. 19 Apr 1821, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 68 years)
▻Magdalena Stutzman, b. 2 Feb 1753, Shartlesville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USAd. 19 Apr 1825, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 72 years), m. 1773, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 6. Veronica B. Yoder, b. 1755, (Before 17 Apr 1795 Somerset County, Pennsylvania was part of Bedford County), Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Sep 1821, Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 66 years)
▻Johannes Miller, Jr., b. 1752, Berks, Pennsylvania, USAd. 13 Jun 1802, Elk Lick, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 50 years), m. 1771, Pennsylvania, USA 7. Joseph Yoder, b. 1757, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 28 Oct 1833, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 76 years)
▻Elizabeth Jutzi, b. 1760 d. DECEASED, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA , m. 1781 8. Henry Yoder, b. 1759, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1821, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 62 years)
▻Barbara Yoder Kauffman, b. 1759, Berks, Pennsylvania, USAd. 1832, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 73 years), m. Abt 1785, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 9. Anna Yoder, b. 1 Jan 1761, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1807, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 45 years)
▻Jacob Stutzman, b. 25 Jan 1760, Bern, Berks, Pennsylvania, USAd. 1820, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 59 years), m. UNKNOWN 10. David Yoder, b. Abt 1763, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1820, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age ~ 57 years)
▻Jacobina Esch, b. 23 Jul 1769, Pennsylvania, USAd. 1817, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 47 years), m. Abt 1790, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 11. Catherine Yoder, b. 1765, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 25 Jan 1840, Tuscarawas, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 75 years)
▻John Miller, b. 1 Jan 1765, Berks, Pennsylvania, USAd. 1840, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 74 years), m. Abt 1785 Person ID I37345 Vitter-Weaver Genealogy | Sharon Vitter's Relative Last Modified 24 Jul 2023
Father Christian Yoder, b. 1722, Steffisburg, Bern, Switzerland d. 2 Jan 1772, Hamburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 50 years) Mother Barbara Beiler, b. 1723, Bern, Bern, Switzerland d. 1 Sep 1781, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 58 years) Marriage 1743 (Berks County was formed in 1752 from parts of Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia Counties), Berks, Pennsylvania, USA [2] Family ID F28297 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Magdalena Stutzman, b. 2 Feb 1753, Shartlesville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. 19 Apr 1825, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 72 years) Marriage 1773 Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Children 1. Catherine Yoder, b. 1773, Pennsylvania, USA d. DECEASED2. Barbara Yoder, b. 2 Feb 1774, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1 Dec 1856, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 82 years)3. Sarah Yoder, b. 11 Sep 1776, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA d. 6 May 1844, Spruce Hill, Juniata, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 67 years)4. Daniel Yoder, b. 1777, Springs, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1854, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 77 years)5. Elizabeth S. Yoder, b. 28 Apr 1781, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Mar 1856, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 74 years)6. Christian Yoder, b. 7 Feb 1782, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 29 Mar 1869, Canton, Stark, Ohio, USA (Age 87 years)7. Stephen J. Yoder, b. 10 Jun 1784, (Before 17 Apr 1795 Somerset County, Pennsylvania was part of Bedford County), Berlin, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 13 Dec 1867, Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA (Age 83 years)8. Susanna Yoder, b. 4 Apr 1791, Summit Mills, (Before 17 Apr 1795 Somerset County, Pennsylvania was part of Bedford County), Summit, Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1855, Green, Wayne, Ohio, USA (Age 63 years)Family ID F28303 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jul 2023
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Event Map 
Birth - 1 Jan 1753 - Tilden, York, Pennsylvania, USA 
Marriage - 1773 - Berks, Pennsylvania, USA 
Death - 19 Apr 1821 - Shanesville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA 
Burial - - Yoder Cemetery, Sugarcreek, Tuscarawas, Ohio, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Headstones 
Hochstetler Barbara J Headstone Yoder John Beiler Headstone
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Sources - [S1251] Find A Grave, John Beiler Yoder.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38360781/john-beiler-yoderYoder John Beiler Headstone - [S1199] Yoder Newsletter, (Location: Goshen, Indiana, USA;), "Hamburg Christian Yoder," Issue No. 30, October 1997, page 1.
For years the story was handed down that one Barbara Yoder, whose husband died at sea,landed in America some time before 1720. with nine small children--eight sons and a daughter--and that they settled in the Oley Valley, where sons Hans and Yost became well- known. Eventually an alert descendantpublicized a discrepancy in the story and family historians began to chip away at this garbled mixing of two lines of Y oder immigrants.
Although there has never been any documentation available about the "Widow Barbara", it is agreed that she did exist.We know that "Widow Barbara" arrived not prior to 1720, but on September 21, 1742, on the Francis and Elizabeth. Three Yoder men signed the ship list upon their docking in Philadelphia. Through the efforts of Dr. Hugh Gingerich, we now know there were eight Amish Yoder men of the first generation, and we know that two of these 1742 signatories (Jacob and Christian Joder) were sons of "Widow Barbara" , We now know that Barbara did indeed have nine children (seeYNL 2, Oct. 83), but only four of those sori5 were hers. The other four belonged to the other Yoder family aboard ship. This second Yoder family was once said to have been that of "Strong Jacob" Yoder, but now we know the head of the second family was the Christian Jotter on the ship list . For some reason a clerk wrote Jacob's name for him and it appears directly above that of his older brother, who wrote his name Christian Joder (SeeYNL 20). It is interesting to see this mix of spelling---Joder ,the spelling used by their Swiss forebears,and Jotter, a spelling adopted by some of the family in Alsace and also in Eppstein, Germany (YNL 10)
The older Christian Jotter located in Berks County on land situated where the present day township sof Upper Bern, Center, and Penn come together, but Barbara's family settled closer to the village of Hamburg, which is no doubt the reason that her son was known as
"Hamburg Christian" to distinguish him from the others. As these sons became of age they took farms of their own, Christian "on the twenty-ninth day of the eighth month, 1743" and Jacob on October 28, 1147. One old diagram in the archives at Harrisburg shows Christian's land bounded by the farms of Isaac Kauffman, Stephen Kauffman. Hans Ilertzler and vacant land. Soon afterward the map shows that the farms of his brother Jacob, and Christian Fisher (apparentty a brother-in-law), adjoining his. The Hertzler property was now in the name of Jacob Hertzler.
By 1767 Jacob Yoder was living farther south, in Lancaster County, but as far as we know, Christian stayedon his original farm as long as he lived. Hamburg Christian's wife was named Barbara. Dr. Gingerich felt it was probable that Barbara was the daughter of Jacob Beiler and that her sister married his brother Jacob Yoder. There is no proof of this, but it seems possible given the known connections and proximity of the families. Christian and Barbara reared eleven children in this home, but as time went on most of them left the community. The chief reason was probably the lure of more and cheaper land' but the tensions of the American Revolution no doubt exerted an influence as well.
Hamburg Christian" died in his fifties (probably in 1772, although some records say l77l). His will was dated December 10, 1771.The scribe wrote it out in beautiful English script. From the details in this will, in which Christian reflected his concern that his beloved Barbara be well-cared for after his death, we can get a glimpse of how the pioneers in his time were living.
https://www.yodernewsletter.org/ynlpdf/YNL30.pdf
- [S1251] Find A Grave, John Beiler Yoder.
