BIOGRAPHY: Moses KREPPS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, page 683.

  MOSES KREPPS, deceased, was a resident of Granville township, Mifflin county, 
but a native of Snyder county, Pa.  He came to Mifflin county at about the age 
of twenty-five, and for a short time attended school in the old Snyder school 
house, and then began farming on his own account, on a rented farm.  He was an 
excellent farmer, and so successful that a few years later, he bought the same 
farm and there continued, engaged in labor which was very profitable to himself, 
as well as most serviceable to others.  He was a very welcome addition to the 
community in which he had taken up his residence, being a good and fair-dealing 
neighbor, and as a citizen always ready to serve the interests of the community.  
He was a Republican, and was elected on the party ticket to the office of 
director of the poor, which he held with efficiency.  Mr. Krepps was a member of 
the Dunkard church.  He died July 28, 1890, aged eighty.
  Moses Krepps was first married to Harriet Yetter.  Their children are:  John, 
married Harriet Huffnagel; Andrew J., married first to Mary A. Krupp, who died, 
and he married Martha Allen, and after her death, Mary Aucker, of Juniata 
county, Pa; Margaret (Mrs. Isaac Heddings); Allen, married a lady of Virginia, 
and resides in that State; George W., married Phebe Heddings, who dying, he 
married Sarah Harshberger; Elizabeth (Mrs. Elisha Grossmyer); Reuben, married 
Bella Rearick; Moses H., married Elizabeth Findley; Ellen (Mrs. Morris Keller); 
Mary Ann, died at the age of fourteen; Joseph, married Ella Evans; Susan H. 
(Mrs. Dorsey Baer); and Emma, who died in infancy.  The mother of this family 
died; and Mr. Krepps was again married, to Mrs. Caroline Rearick, widow of John 
Rearick.  The children of this marriage are:  Charles, who married Laura Smith; 
and James M., who married Sarah Dunn.
  By her marriage with Mr. Rearick, Mrs. Krepps had five children: Albert, who 
married Mary Tice; Samuel, married Anna Lucas; Susan (Mrs. Frederick Miller); 
Ellen (Mrs. James H. Treaster); and Albert and Elizabeth, twins, deceased.  John 
Rearick died in 1861, at about the age of forty.  Mrs. Krepps resides on the 
homestead, in Granville township.