When Leah Hochstetler was born on 17 October 1821, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Henry J. Hochstetler, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Yoder, was 27. She married Peter Hershberger about 1840, in Holmes, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in German Township, Holmes, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. She died on 14 January 1898, in Charm, Holmes, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Albert Yoder Farm Cemetery, Charm, Holmes, Ohio, United States.
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Americanized form of German Hochstättler or Hochstettler, surnames of Swiss German origin (see Hostettler ), or of their rare Swiss German cognate Hochstaettler: topographic name for someone living high on a mountainside, from Middle High German hōh ‘high’ + stat, stete ‘place’ + the diminutive suffix -l + the agent suffix -er. The surname Hochstaettler originates from the Swiss canton of Vaud, while its much more common cognate Hostettler is found predominantly in the canton of Bern. The altered forms Hochstättler and Hochstettler are very rare in Germany. Compare Hochstedler and Hostetler .
History: This is one of the American variants of the name of a Swiss Mennonite (Amish) family, originally spelled Hostettler . The Mennonite name Hostettler was first altered in Germany to Hochstättler or Hochstettler and then, with the arrival of the Amish immigrant Jacob Hochstetler in PA in the first half of the 18th century, to Hochstetler. Among the Mennonites in the US the variant Hochstettler is also found.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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