Notes:
Rank-Lebanon County History
I. The progenitor of the family was John Philip Rank, a native of the Palatinate, who emigrated to America, landing in Phila., 19 Aug 1729. He settled in the northern part of Lancaster County, now known as Bethel township. He died prior to the Revolutionary War., leaving a wife, Mary and children, Philip of Earl township, Barbara, who married John Mumma, Catharine, who married Jacob Miller, John, Margaret, who married John Winter, Mary, John Peter, Daniel, Abraham.
II. Philip of Earl township, Lancaster County, died prior to 1786, leaving children, Phillip, Michael, Valentine, George, Phillip Adam, Jacob, Ludwig, John, Dorothea, married George Stehley, Barbara, married Adam Garman, and Eva, married Durst Ament
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Data source is Steve Kamm, 2117 SW 84th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73159, e-mail skamm@occc.edu
Anna Barbara was born in 1754 in Lancaster Co., PA, to Philip Rank and Anna Magdalena Wishon. She was the granddaughter of John Philip Rank, a native of the Palatinate, who emigrated to America, landing in Philadelphia on 19 Aug 1729. John Philip settled in Earl Township the northern part of Lancaster Co., PA, now known as Bethel Township. Anna Barbara was the great, great granddaughter of Jean Valentine Ranc, a native of Paris, France.
In 1773, Anna Barbara married John Mumma/Moomaw, grandson of another Palatinate immigrant, in Lancaster County and eventually moved with him to Botetourt Co., Virginia. Also moving from Pennsylvania to Botetourt County were Anna Barbara's uncle, George Ronk, and her married aunt, Anna Eva Ammen.
Anna Barbara and John had at least twelve children between 1774 and 1798. Sometime after 1810, she and her husband and many of their children moved to Ross Co., OH.
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Comment by Doug Mumma
Some researchers have listed the death location of John Conrad and Anna Ranck as being in Virginia. The source of this information appears to come from Helen R. Prillaman's book, which has no source information. Since John Conrad wrote his Will in Ross county about a month before his death, it is highly unlikely that they would have journeyed to Virginia at this time. Normally people only wrote their Wills when they were very sick and contemplating death - not a good time to travel 400 miles.
Therefore it is unlikely that Anna moved back to Virginia since she had been living in Ohio for many years with her other children.
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