. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . ned thechurch in her youth and died in 1848, in her eighty-fifthyear. The meetings held in the Davis School House at in-tervals varying from four to eight weeks were at her solici-tation. Two of these four sisters lived at the old Park-erford Mill—an aged sister, Mrs. Mary Parker (neeHummel), and Mary Wilson, her daughter—mother andgrandmother of the late Sister Susan Sidle, of old Mill at which Sister Parker and her daughterMary Wilson resided was
. History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference . ned thechurch in her youth and died in 1848, in her eighty-fifthyear. The meetings held in the Davis School House at in-tervals varying from four to eight weeks were at her solici-tation. Two of these four sisters lived at the old Park-erford Mill—an aged sister, Mrs. Mary Parker (neeHummel), and Mary Wilson, her daughter—mother andgrandmother of the late Sister Susan Sidle, of old Mill at which Sister Parker and her daughterMary Wilson resided was a historic place even in their day—for it was here that Washington, with Generals Greene,Sullivan, Stirling and Armstrong with 8,000 Continentalsoldiers and 2,000 Militia, crossed the Schuylkill River,September 20, 1777, after the disastrous battle on theBrandywine. The third Sister on the Parkerford side ofthe river was Mary Shantz—nee Rinehart—wife of oldJacob Shantz, who lived about a half mile north of theParkerford Mill. The place is now owned by SamuelPennypacker. In corresponding with Elder Isaac Price in 250. Union Church (Remodeled), Port Providence.
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