Too Young
Having a child is a joyous occasion. Just imagine the joy of having eight.
These hearty women gave birth at least eight times:
- Barbara Myers (1798 - 1868)
- Agnes Buchtel (1766 - 1852)
- Anna Rohrer (1764 - 1846)
- Mary Meyer (1807 - 1885)
- Lizzie Meyers (1794 - ?)
- Sophia Myers (1790 - 1840)
- Anna Painter (1818 - 1883)
- Bridget Elizabeth Clara Tracy (1851 - 1937)
- Rose Anna Goodyear (1792 - 1877)
- Margaret Dipboye (1813 - 1898)
- Bridget Jordan (? - 1916)
- Sarah Morris (1879 - 1946)
- Eleanor Ellender Ellison (1795 - 1876)
- Delilah Swope (1838 - 1914)
- Malinda Harvey (1815 - 1879)
- Catherine Harter (1791 - 1860)
- Sarah Deshler (1790 - 1836)
- Jessie Benton Steese (1887 - 1980)
- Mary Jane Bushong (1860 - 1896)
- Clementine Bowers (1873 - 1946)
- Ida May Swope (1873 - 1955)
- Margaret Rebecca Funk (1840 - ?)
- Eleanor Bartlett (1822 - 1879)
- Catharine Buchtel
- Barbara Smith
Arguably less stretched, but no less impressive are the fathers:
- John R Bowers (1794 - 1851)
- Michael Meyer (1765 - 1843)
- Jacob Bowers (1754 - 1825)
- George Meyer (1811 - ?)
- John Myers (1805 - 1872)
- Jacob Myers (1796 - ?)
- Abraham Dipboye (1811 - 1877)
- John Joseph Morris (1842 - 1914)
- Abraham Dipboye (1787 - 1836)
- Jonathan VanBuren Dipboye (1819 - 1904)
- Michael Morris (? - 1898)
- Michael Swope (1799 - 1864)
- Andrew Jackson Swope
- Aquilla Davis (1813 - 1887)
- David Clay (1780 - 1834)
- Jacob Steese (1785 - 1833)
- Chester Garfield Wise
- Enos Woods Bowers (1855 - 1931)
- Harvey S Bowers (1879 - 1966)
- Solomon Clay (1821 - 1910)
- Jacob Clay (1815 - 1876)
- Benjamin Pontius
- Henry Buchtel
- Robert Vanwinkle (1830 - 1905)
- John Franklin Parks (1866 - 1934)
- Sydney Graves (? - 1879)
- Lewis Y Myers (1836 - ?)
- Tobias Edwin Kreps (1868 - 1968)
- John Flynn (1870 - 1941)
- Samuel Spade (1806 - 1872)