Excerpt from David Gebhart, Alpha 1827-Omega 1907: A Memory and an Appreciation

John Gebhart was twice married. His first wife, Margaret Knable, sleeps by his side in the Old cemetery at New Centerville. Their children were: George, Catherine, John, Mary, Jacob, Herman, and Frederick. George, Herman, and Frederick were the founders of the Gebhart family in Dayton, the first being the father of David Gebhart.

The little we know of John Gebhart can be soon told. In 1808 he was postmaster of the little hamlet he helped to found. At one time he entered into an agreement with David Jones and Henry Bender, granting to them the use of a spring in his field and a path to it for the use of the school and the church: He also gave the land upon which the church was built. Another deed records a transfer of land from John and Margaret Gebhart to George (his son), and Eve Gebhart, with a con sideration so small that it may be inferred that thisis.a present to his son of the home farm as a wed ding present. George and Eve were married in November, 1815, and this deed is dated in 1816.

John Gebhart died in 1828, leaving as widow his second wife, Susannah. His will is a curious testimony to the Pennsylvania marriage laws. In it he bequeaths to her, among other household effects, a bureau which she had brought with her from Baltimore as her dowry!

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