History of the Gable family

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History of tke
Gable Family

Compiled ly Frank Allaben for Percival K. Gable.
Proprietor of tke Rambo House. Norristown. Penna.

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History of
the Gable ramily

Percival K Gable. Proprietor of the Rambo House. Norristown. Pa

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Tke Gatle Family

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If the handing down of an occupation from father to son through
generations makes one an expert in a certain, special line, then the pres-
ent descendants of the Gable family should be Princes of Hotel-Keepers,
for the family is one of the oldest in the county, and the name has figured
conspicuously in connection with the hotel business for more than a cen-
tury. It is also found in the early annals of the state in connection with
the transfer of property and the recording of deeds, which indicates that
they were land-owners, and belonged to the same class which constitutes
the substantial citizenship of a community.

It is definitely known that all of the Gables in America do not trace
their ancestry to one source, for there is authentic record of the arrival
of Peter and Maria Gabele in 1732; of Hendrick Gaabell a little later in
the same year; of Conrad Gable in 1738; of John Philip and Johan Fred-
erick Gabel, brothers, in 1739; Anthony Gabel in 1751; John Peter Gable
in 1752; Philip Henry and Sebastian Gabel in 1753; Johannes Gabel in
1754; and Conrad Gabel in 1773. Various differences in the orthography
of the name appear, as there does in the place of location of these vari-
ous emigrants to the American shores.

It is to Johan Philip Gabel that the branch of the Gable family under
consideration traces its ancestry. John Philip Gabel was a son of Johan
Jacob and Maria Margaret Gabel, who were residents of Rabach, in
Zweibreucken, the Pfalz, Germany. There the son was born in 1698, was
there reared, was married in 1735, and in 1739 came to America. He
sailed on the ship "Samuel" from Rotterdam, Captain Hugh Percy in
command of the vessel, and eventually landed safely at Philadelphia. He
was accompanied by his brother, Johan Frederick Gabel, and the original
ship list gives the age of the former, on August 27, 1739, as forty-one
years, and that of the younger brother as thirty-seven. John Philip Ga-
bel settled in Upper Salford township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,

where he soon became recognized as a prominent and influential citizen.
He was chosen an officer in the Old Goshenhoppen Church, being in 1774
one of the four who signed for the Lutheran congregation a joint con-
tract with the Reformed congregation for the occupation of the church,
built jointly in that year. He is mentioned among the taxpayers of Up-
per Salford township, Montgomery county, in 1769, as the owner of one
hundred acres of land, and his name appears among the taxpayers of 1774,
where he is recorded as "Philip Gabel, Sr.", in order to distinguish him.
from his son .of the same name. As his name does not appear in the tax
list of 1779, it is evident that he must have died between 1774 and 1779.
and was at least seventy-six years of age at the time of his death. His
wife, Elizabeth Catherine Gabel, was a daughter of Heinrich and Maria
Barbara Culman, and was born in Greselbach, Hernbasch, Germany, Au-
gust 13, 1705. She became the wife of John Philip Gabel in 1735, and
with two infant sons, Johan Frederick and Johan Peter, accompanied
her husband to America. Their other children were Johan Philip; Cath-
erine Elizabeth, born March 15, 1741; Margaret, born June 6, 1743; and
Maria Catherine, born November 3, 1744.

Johan Philip Gabel, the emigrant, who landed at Philadelphia, in
'739i was older than his brother, Johan Friederick Gabel, who came over
on the same ship, as on the original ship list the age of Philip Gabel (on
Aug. 27, 1739), is given as 41, while that of Frederick is given as 37.
(Penn Archives, Second Series, Vol. xvii, page 187.) The age of Philip
Gabel, in 1739, as given on this ship list, agrees with his date of birth.
i6q8, as given in the Old Goshenhoppen Church records-
He lived to a good old age, appearing among the taxables of Upper
Salford Township, Montgomery county, in 1769, as the owner of 100
acres of land, (Penn Archives. Third Series, Vol. xiv., page 54), and
among the taxables of the same township, in 1774, where he is dis-
tinguished from his son as "Philip Gable, Sen'r." (Ibid., page 450.)
His name does not appear in the tax list of 1779, which is good evidence
that he died between 1774 and 1779, at the age of at least 76 years.

Captain John Philip Gabel, born in Upper Salford Township, in
1739, the son of the first John Philip Gabel, was married in the summer
of 1766 to his wife, Margaret. This we learn from his tombstone, which
states that he "lived 36 years in wedlock, and .sVj years as a widower," or

a total of 4i'/i years after his marriage, which reckoned back from the
date of his death, January i8, i8o8, fixes the date of his marriage about
July, 1766.

The tombstone of his wife states that she died September s, 1802,
aged 7y years, 9 months and 5 days, which fixes the date of her birth as
Nov. 30, 1724. Captain Philip Gabel was her second husband. Her first
husband, to whom she was married November 19, 1745, was Killian
Gouckler, and her parents were "Nicol Bittel," and his wife, Maria
Elizabeth. (Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church Records, page 41.)
By her first husband she had eight children — John, George, John Michael,
Mary Elizabeth, Catherine, John Nicholas, Anna Margaret, Christina
Barbara and John Gouckle. In his will, made July 15, 1765, and proved
Sept. 9, 1765, (Wills, Philadelphia, Book N. page 393), Kilian Gouckler
mentions all these children, and his wife, Anna Margaret, whom he
nominates as his executrix.

By her second husband. Captain Philip Gabel, to whom she was
married, about July, 1766, she had one child, John Philip Gabel, 3d, born
July 29, 1768. (See his tombstone and also page 251, of the Old Gosh-
enhoppen Lutheran Church Record.)

Kilian Gouckler, at the time of his death, was the owner of 290 acres
of land, on a part of which the Old Gable house, in Upper Salford, now
stands. This tract is referred to as 280 acres in Gouckler's will. But
after the Gouckler estate became the property of Captain Philip Gable,
through his marriage to the widow of Kilian Gouckler and the purchase
of the interest of the other heirs, it was re-surveyed and found to contain
290 acres, as appears from a draught and memorandum of the re-survey
for Philip Gable, now in the possession of Mr. P. K. Gable.

Prior to 1757, 260 acres of the Gouckler-Gable estate belonged to
"Jacob Nuss, late of Upper Salford township, in the County of Phila-
delphia," as an old deed, in the possession of Mr. P. K. Gable, recites;
and this property, "a Certain Messuage or Tenement Plantation and two
hundred and sixty acres of land situate in Salford Township," under a
court writ dated March 8, 1757, was seized by James Coultas, High
Sheriff of Philadelphia County, to satisfy a debt of £442, i shilling and 6
pence, owed by Jacob Nuss to Adam Clampffer. was bought at public
sale by William Clampffer, of Philadelphia, and transferred to him Febru-
ary 28. 1758. by the Deed-Poll of the Sheriff, now in the possession of

Mr. P. K. Gable, from which the above history of the property is ex-
tracted.

On March 9, 1758, William Clampffer sold the property to Kilian
Gouckler, with some additions, making 285 acres. (Original deed now
in possession of Mr. P. K. Gable.) Upon re-survey, as stated above, it
was found to contain 290 acres.

Captam Philip Gable also owned land adjoining that which he sub-
sequently obtained from the Gouckler estate, as we learn from a deed
of two tracts owned by Michael Reyer, one of which is described as "by
late Christopher Hanckabrand, now Philip Gabel, the younger's land."
(Deeds, Norristown, Book 3, page 238.) On Nov. 9, 1778, he bought
for fi,950 "a Certain Messuage or Tenement and Lot, Piece or Tract of
Land, Situate on the South Side of Main Street, in Germantown," in the
deed for which he is described as "Philip Gabel, of Upper Salford Town-
ship, Inn-keeper." (Deeds, Philadelphia, Book D, No. i, page 297.) On
April 7, 1794, this Germantown property was sold by "Philip Gabel. of
Upper Salford Township, late of Philadelphia County, but since the
Division now in the County of Montgomery and Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Inn-keeper, and Margaret, his wife." (Deeds. Philadel-
phia, Book D 43, page 229.)

It is probable that the old Gable house was built by Kilian Gouck-
ler, if not by the preceding owner, Jacob Nuss. and that Gouckler kept
the place as a tavern, as Captain Philip Gable afterwards did. Thus, in
his will, he describes himself as "Kylian Goukler, of Upper Salford,
. . In-holder." (Wills, Philadelphia, Book N, page 393,) The tra-

dition, which has come down in the Gable family is that the house was
built either two years before or two years after the first church building
of Old Goshenhoppen, which would make the date of erection of the old
Cable house either 1742 or 1746.

Captain Philip Gable evidently acquired the Gouckler property in
two or three transactions. In the tax list of 1769, for Upper Salford,
Philadelphia county, he is assessed for 150 acres of land, 4 horses, 6 cat-
tle and I servant. (Penn Archives, Third Series, Vol. xiv., page 54.) In
the list for 1774 he is taxed for 260 acres, 4 horses. 4 cattle and i servant.
(Ibid, page 405.) In the list of 1780 his estate for purposes of taxation
is valued at £5,050. (Penn. Archives, Third Series. Vol. xv.. page 551.)
In the assessment for 1781 he is referred to as "Philip Gable, tavern

keep'r," (Ibid., Vol. xvi.. page 41); while in that of 1783 he is taxed for
28s acres of land, 4 horses, 4 cattle and 8 sheep. (Ibid., page 703.)

He was Captain of a Company of the First Battalion of Philadel-
phia County Militia, commanded by Colonel Daniel Heester, or Heister,
during the Revolution, six lists of the men of "Capt. Philip Gable's
Company," of this Battalion, who paid fines for the days they were off
duty appearing on pages 581-2, 595-6, 625-6, 633-4, 683-4, and 693-4 of
Volume V, of the Third Series of Pennsylvania Archives.

All the Gabels in America are not descended from the brothers, John
Philip and John Frederick Gabel, who came over in 1739. A "Peter
Gabele" and "Maria Gabele" came over in 1732, a "Hendrick Gabell" a
little later in the same year, a "Conrad Gable" in 1738, an "Anthony
Gaubel" in 1751, "Johan Peter Gable" in 1752, "Philip Henry Gabel" and
"Sebastian Gabel" in 1753, "Johannes Gabel" in 1754 and "Conrad Gabel"
in 1773. (Penn. Archives, Second Series, Vol. xvii.. pages 48, 62, 63, 162,
329. 353, 384, 438 and 505.)

FRANK ALLABEN.

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Family Bitle Records

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The following is from the family Bible of Jesse Gable, now in pos-
session of Mrs. Aaron H. Harley, of Philadelphia. The records are in
the handwriting of Jesse Gable, until his death, and the few added since
that date are said to be m the handwriting of the daughter, Caroline
Gable, now deceased:

Jesse Gable, son of Philip Gable and Catharine, his wife, was born
December 2g, 1815; was married to Mary Kemmerer, June 18, 1843, and
died Sept. 16, 1874.

Mary Kemmerer, (his wife), the daughter of Jacob Kemmerer, and
Susan, his wife, was born Jan. 27, 1821, and died Sept. 27, 1896.

They had the following children:

John Pliilip Gable, son of Jesse and Mary Gable, born Jan. 17.

1844,

1852.

and died Oct. 9. 1857.

Oliver Gable, born March 3. 1845, and died May 22, 1852.
Caroline Gable, born Oct. 27, 1846, and died Oct. ist, 1896.
Catharine Ann Gable, born May 17, 1849, and died March 24,

5. Jesse Gable, born July 14, 1851, and died Feb. 28. 1853.

6. Mary Gable, born July 14, 1851, (she and Jesse were twins), and
now (1903) living in Philadelphia. [She married Dec. 31, 1872, Aaron
H. Harley, proprietor of the Farmers' Hotel, 1802 Ridge avenue, Phila-
delphia, who was born Oct. 30, 1849, at Fairview, Montgomery county.
Pa., the son of Matthias J. Harley. The following six children of Mary
Gable and Aaron H. Harley, are all living in 1903: (i), Mary Agnes
Harley, born April 20, 1877, who married, first, Wm. Gotwals, by whom
she had a son, William Edward Gotwalts, living in 1903, and married,
second, Harvey Houck, her present husband,, by whom she has a son,
Aaron Harley Houck; (2). Sarah Lavinia Harley, born March 15, 1880;

(3), Caroline Gable Harley, born June 21, 1883; (4), Elsie Irene Harley,
born Jan. 10, 1886; (5), Matthias Johnson Harley, born Dec. 17, 1890;
and (6), Marguerite Edith Harley, born July 24, 1894.]

7. Emma Louisa Gable, born April 30, 1853, and died Dec. 15, 1881,
never having married.

8. Rosa Gable, born Dec. 19, 1854, and now living (1903) in Nor-
ristown, Pa- [She married, Nov. 9. 1878, Hiram Pierce Beerer, born at
JetTersonville, Montgomery county, Pa., the son of Joseph Beerer and
Elizabeth Kline. Rosa Gable and Hiram Pierce Beerer have had the
following two children: (i), Walter Gable Beerer, born Sept. 11, 1879,
and died Sept. 9, 1880; and (2), Joseph Gable Beerer, born Feb. 17, 1884,
and living in 1903.]

9. Elizabeth Gable, born Oct. 18, 1856, and died June 23, 1857.

10. Allen Nelson Gable, born April 5, 1858, and died June 29, i860.

11. Percival Kemmerer Gable, born Feb. 27, i860, and now (1903)
living in Norristown, proprietor of the Rambo House.

12. Charles Gable, born May 18, 1863. and died Oct. 26, 1863.
Transcribed from the Jesse Gable Bible Register, Sept. 4, 1903, with

some facts added from the family records or personal knowledge of Mrs.
Mary Gable Harley and Mrs. Rosa Gable Beerer.

FRANK ALLABEN.

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Tke Gatle Signatures

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The three signatures on the opposite page, (fac-similes of the origi-
nals, obtained by a tracing upon tracing paper over carbon paper), are
in the order of their positions on the page, the autographs, respectively,
of Philip Gabel. ist, who came to America in August, 1739, of Philip
Gabel, 2d born in America, in October, 1739, and of Philip Gabel, or
Gable, 3d, born in 1768, the grandson of the first Philip and son of the
second.

This autograph of the first Philip, the only one known to exist, ap-
pears on the second page of the Treasurer's book of the Old Goshenhop-
pen Lutheran Congregation, begun in 1771, among several autographs of
signers who thus attested their approval of accounts closed up on May
27, 1773. The second signature, "Philip Gabel, Jun.", appears in the same
list; and as the 3d Philip was not born until 1768, we know that the two
signatures of 1773 are those of the ist and 2d Philips. That of the 2d
Philip ap|)ears repeatedly on subsequent pages of the book, and later
on the signature of the 3d Philip Gable appears frequently. The copy
opposite is signed to an account dated June 3, 1809. his father, the 2d
Philip, having died January 18, 1808.

The two last signatures, Jesse Gabel and P. K. Gable, are those of
father and son, the former the great-grandson and the latter the great-
great-grandson of the original Philip Gabel.

FRANK ALLABEN.

NOTE.— The signatures of the 1st and 2d Philip Gabel give the Ger-
man spelling of the family name, "Gabel." while the 3d Philip gives the
English phonetic equivalent, "Gable." The 2d Philip wrote his name
both ways. In the old German records of Alt Goschenhoppen Kirche.
his autograph everywhere appears in German, but in his old Ledger
(Ledger "M,") nnw in the possession of his Rrcat-grandson, Air, Per-

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cival K. Gable, he kept all liis accounts in most beautiful English, trans-
lating all the German surnames into their phonetic equivalent in English.
His own family name here appears always as "Gable." A careful study
of this Ledger, and comparison of it with his autograph in German,
leaves no doubt that the Ledger was the work of his own pen, and that
he had the intelligence to perfect himself in English penmanship rather
than in German, and so attain to the commanding position he enjoyed
in the community as an intermediary between the German settlers and
the English of Colonial Pennsylvania.

The memorandum on the inside front cover of the Ledger, under
date, April 6, 176J, is in German script, and in the same hand as the
German autograph of the 2d Philip Gabel, while the name above this
memorandum, "Martin Spring Bucker," is in the elegant English script,
which appears throughout the Ledger. In the same German hand is also
the line on the inside bark cover, dated March 12, 1761, and cancelled by
numerous pen-strokes through it. Again, throughout the Ledger, the
itemized accounts, under the boldly and beautifully written surnames,
are in much smaller script than the latter, and though in neat English,
this, here and there (and very frequently), tends to revert to so close a
kinship with the German autograph as to leave no doubt as to the author-
ship.

The proficiency of the English language and penmanship exhibited
by Philip Gabel, 2d, as revealed to us in this book, need occasion no sur-
prise. The first Philip Gabel was a man of intelligence and command-
ing position, as is evidenced by the fact that he was one of four chosen
to represent his church congregation in an important connection in 1744,
only five years after he had reached America. Though his son, Philip,
2d, was born in the. then, wilderness of Upper Salford Township, there
was no difficulty in giving him the excellent education he evidently en-
joyed. He was probably tutored by some of the early pastors of the Old
Goshenhoppcn Church, some of whom were finely educated and proficient
in Latin and Hebrew (and probably Greek), as well as in English and
German, as the Old Goshenhoppen Church records, kept by them, de-
monstrate.

Moreover, fine penmanship appears to have been an accomplishment
of the Gabel family, in every generation, as a consultation of the records
left by them discloses.

A further proof that the Ledger is in the hand of the second Philip
Gabel is found in entries which would be unnatural, in their use of the
personal pronoun; if by a book-keeper or any hand save that of the propri-
etor of the business. The following credits are a few samples: "By soling
a pair of shoes for my man," opposite p. 37; "Settled Wth Mich: Cressler
Ball: due me," opp. p. 41; "By a bond signd: to me due on Elias Snider
for £12; but allowd it to me for fii," opp. p. 51; Ballance due me," opp.
p. 68; "By tobacco Bot: for me," opp. p. 166; "By eve my mades accot.",
opp. p. 194, By a jacoat made for my wife," opp. p. 228; "By I pair
shoes for me, 95; By i pair D's for my child, 35," opp. p. 136. etc. The
last item was no doubt for shoes for his infant son, Philip Gable, 3d,
horn in 1768. Its date is Oct. 2d, 1769. This Ledger has been handed
down ill the Gable family to its present owner.

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JOHAN JACOB GABEL, of Rabach in Zweibreucken, = MARIA MARGARET, his wife (Old
the Pfalz, Germany, where his son, JOHN PHILIP GABEL was I Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church

born in 1698 (Church Booit, Lutheran Congregation, ol^ Old I Bool<, page 39).

Goshenhoppen Church, page 39.; I

HENRICH

Pfalz, Germany,
born in 1705.
page 39.)

CULMAN, of Greselbach, In Hernbusch, the — MARIA BARBARA, his wife, (Old
where his daughter, ELIZABETH CATHARINE, was 1 Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church

(Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church Book, I Book, page 39).'

JOHAN PHILIP GABEL, born in Rabach, Sweibrencken, Germany, August 14, 1698; married in 1735, Elizabeth Catharine CulmaN; in
•1739 came to America ind settled in Upper Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pa., where he at once became prominent and an officer of the
Old Goshenhoppen Church, being in 1744 one of four who for the Lutheran Congregation signed the joint-contract with the Reformed Congregation
for the occupation of the church built jointly in that year fOld Goshenhoppen Church Book, page 39, and Gemeinden-Contrakt, May 19, 1744,
printed at Sumneytown, Pa., 1846, and posted in Church Book). He came over on the ship Samuel, from Rotterdsim, HUGH PERCY, Com-
mander, accompanied by JOHAN Friederich Gabel, probably his brother, landing at Philadelphia August 27, 1739, (Rupp's " Thirty Thousand
Names of Immiarants in Pennsylvania," pages 132 and 133). He signed his name "JOHAN PHILIP GABEL" on ship list, and " PHILIP GaBEL "
on Gemeinden-Contrakt, 1739 and 1744 respectively.

ELIZABETH CATHARINE, daughter of HENRICH and Maria Barbara Culman, born
in Greselbacli, Hernbusch, Germany, August 13, 1705 ; married in 1735 to JOHAN Philip
Gabel ; and in 1739 accompanied him to America, with two infant sons, JOHAN FRID-
RICH Gabel and Johan Peter gabel,- (Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church Book,

page 39).

johan Fridrich, Johan Peter, JOHAN PHILIP GABEL, bom in Upper Salford Township, Montgomery County, Pa.,

born Feb. 17, 1736. born Jan. 2, 1737. Oct. 27, 1739, exactly two months from the day that his parents landed at Philadelphia;

married about June, 176S; was an Elder in the Lutheran Congregation of the Old Goshenhoppen
Church ; and died Jan. 8, 1808 (Old Goshenhoppen Church Book, page 39 and tombstone in Old Goshen-
hoppen Church-yard). He was a large land-owner in Upper Salford Township, a successful merchant, and a noted
tavern-keeper at the old Gable House on the Springhouse and Sumneytown Turnpike, about two miles North of Salfordville,
a large stone house still standing in good condition (1903)', and occupied. His ledger, containing accounts between the years 1767
and 1772, and occupying 239 pages, a remarkably beautiful piece of penmanship and bookkeeping, is now in the possession of his. great-
grandson, PERCIVAL K. Gable, of Norristown, Pa., who also has the hotel license granted to his great-grandfather Sept. 25, 1787. His farm
contained at least 340 acres (Deeds in possession of his great-grandson, PERCIVAL K. GABLE, or on record at Norristown, Pa). Letters of
administration on his estate were granted to his son, PHILIP GABLE, JR., Aug. 14, 1809, (Records in custody of Register of Deeds at Nor-
ristown, Pa.) Name written "GABEL" and "Gable."

MARGARET, his wife,
born Nov. 3, 1724, and
died Sept. 5, 1805, (Tomb-
stone in Old Goshenhop-
pen Church-yard).

Catharine Eliza-
beth, born, March
15, 1741-

Margaret,
born June 6,
1743-

Maria Catharine,
born Nov. 3, 1744.

PHILIP GABLE, the only known child and heir of PHILIP Gabel and MARGARET, his wife, was born July 29, 1768 (Old Goshenhop-
pen Lutheran Church Book, page 251, and tombstone in Old Goshenhoppen Cemetery); married Catharina SCHNEIDER, Dec. 3, 1797; was
for many years an Elder and the Treasurer of the Lutheran Congregation of Old Goshenhoppen Church and died Oct. 4, 1835. (See tomb-
stone). He was a .■=till larger land-owner than his father, and still more noted merchant and hotel-keeper. Besides his residence and tavern
and 35; acres in Upper Salford Township, he owned at the time of his death 59 acres in Skippack and Perkiomen Township, a tavern and
6 acres in Whitem;irsh Township, a tavern and 20 acres in Gwynedd Township, and 4 acres of woodland in Frederick Township, a total of
444 acres, his estate being appraised at nearly S;o,ooo (Orphans' Court Docket, Norristown, Book No. 7, pages 12 and 13, and Administra-
tion .Papers in Custody of Register of Wills.) His name appears frequently in the old records as Executor, Administrator, Appraiser, Etc.

CATHARINE, born April 5, 1776, died Feb. i, 1822, daughter of HENRICH SCHNEIDER
and his wife, CHRISTINA (Old Goshenhoppen Lutheran Church Book, page 264, and tomb-
stone in Old Goshenhoppen Cemetery), and granddaughter of CONRAD SCHNEIDER and
Catharina Detz, who were born in Germany, the first in 1699, the second in 1700,
were married in Germany in 1724, and came to America in the ship Johnson, landing
at Philadelphia Sept. 19, 1732. CONRAD SCHNEIDER was the son of CONRAD and CATH-
ARINE SCHNEIDER and CATHARINE DETZ, the daughter of SEBASTIAN and EVA DETZ (Old
Goshenhoppen Church Book, pages 39-40, and Rupp's "Thirty Thousand Names," pages 75-6.

Charles, born
April 9, 1799,
died Nov. 27,
1879, leaving
ssue.

Sarah, born
Feb. 13, 1800,
married John
Groff and had

Esther, born

May 18, 1803.
married John
Smith.

Philip, born;
Apr. 21,1805,
died unmar-
ried.

Margaret, born
Nov. 17, 1807,
married Michael
Reiff.

Elizabeth, bom
July 30, 1810,
married Abraham
Groff.

ANNA CATHARINE,
born May 6, 1812,
married Zachariah
Leidy.

JESSE GABLE, born Dec. 29, 1816 ; kept the upper hotel at
Skippackville ; then another lower down until about 1850, and
in 185 1 built the lower hotel in the same place, now the Valley
House. From 1868 until his death, Sept. 16, 1874, he conducted
the Farmers' Hotel, Norristown, Pa. He was Treasurer of Mont-
gomery County from 1851 to 1853, and at the time of his death
was President of the Board of Prison Inspectors.

MARY, daughter of
Jacob kemerer and

SUSAN MCNOLDY, of
Red Hill, Montgomery
County, Pa.

Maria anna,

bom March 18,
1819, died un-
married.

PERCIVAL KEMERER GABLE, born at Skippackville, Pa., Feb. 27, 1S60, where for three years he ^ ELLA JOHNSON, born Jan. 3, 1861, and now (1903) living, daughter of PROF. HENRY D. KULP and Four sons and

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was proprietor of the Valley House, as subsequently of the Hartrantt House, Norristown
Hotel Appledare, Atlantic City, N. J., the Central House, Lansdale, Pa., the Red Lion, Quakertown,
Pa., and since May 13, 1895, of the Rambo House, Norristown, Pa., ijf which he is still (1903) the
proprietor. He was President of the Quakertown Council and delegate to the Pennsylvania Demo-
cratic State Conventions of 1887 and 1893. By his first wife, M. LEVINA, daughter of JOHN and
LEVINA KOHL, of Norristown, who died April 16, 1882, he had one :hild who died in infancy. He
married, ELLA J. KULP April 23, 1885. \

MATILDA JOHNSON, of Lucon, Montgomery County, Pa.; granddaughter of JOHN KOLB and SUSAN six daughters.
DETWILER, of Lucon, Pa.; great granddaughter of HENRICH KOLB and BARBARA HUNSICKER, of Skip-
pack, Pa.; great-great granddaughter of HENRICH KOLB and ELIZABETH CaSSEL, of Skippack, Pa.;
great-great-great granddaughter of JACOB KOLB, born May 21, 1685, came to America in 1707, married
SARAH VAN SINTERN, and was himself the son of DIELMAN KOLB, of Wolfsheim, Baden, Germany,
and of a daughter of PETER SCHUMACHER, who settled in Geriiantbwn, Pa., in 1685.

ROSE,

MARY,

married

married

and has

and has

issue.

issue.

ELSIE IRENE GABLE, born May i, 1888, and now living at Norristown, Pa.,
Anno Domini, 1903.

MARY KULP GABLE, born Sept. 19, 18
I the year of our Lord, 1903.

9, and living at Norristown, Pa.,

ROSA LINDA GABLE, born March 5, 1887, and living at Norristown Pa.
this year of our Lord. 1903.

tn ih^^\,^l^\ ""^ S^"''^.?''°"5 in above pedigree are proved by docuihentary authority personally examined by the undersigned; the ancestry of MRS. PERCIVAL K. GABLE is extracted from Cassell's " Kolb Family;" and the facts as
last two generations, with some of the facts concerning JESSE GABLE, were furnished by MR. and MRS. PERCIVAL K. GABLE, and also appear in part in the family register in the old Bible of jESSE GABLE.
August 23, 1903. , FRANK ALLABEN, East Fifty-eighth Street and Sutton Place, New York City.