Jost Hiester

Jost Hiester¹

• Marriage*: Spouse=Elizabeth Witman²
• Birth*: 10 November 1752³
• Death*: 10 June 1832; Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania³
• Burial*: German Reformed Church, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania; His remains were exhumed and reinterred at the Charles Evans Cemetery during the mid-19th⁴
• Burial: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania^3,5

Parents:

Notes

• Name Variation: General Joseph Hiester²
• Note*: Bio:
  Revolutionary War officer. Fifth governor of Pennsylvania. See entry in Wikipedia.⁴
• Note: Given name:
  Joseph Hiester was known as "Joseph" in his public life - military, government service, deeds, and probate. But in his father's will he is called "Jost". The given name "Jost", also spelled "Yost", was quite common in the Hiester family, and in that family also called Joseph.
  
  The FamilySearch Wiki calls "Yost" a nickname for "Josef", but an internet search suggests that it is very uncommon.⁶
• Note: Death notices:
  General Joseph Hiester. Died 10 Jun 1832, aged 79 years and 9 months.
  Buried German Reformed Church cemetery, Reading. His remains were exhumed and reinterred at the Charles Evans Cemetery during the mid-19th century.^7,8,9
• Note: Children:
  
  Joseph Hiester's children are named in a petition submitted by his daughter Catharine as part of the probate process; She named:
  son John S. Hiester, herself Catharine intermarried with John Spayd, Rebecca intermarried with Henry A. Muhlenberg, Elizabeth deceased who had been intermarried with Levi Pawling, Mary deceased who had been intermarried with the same Henry A. Muhlenberg. The children of the deceased daughters are also named. The children of Elizabeth were Joseph Pauling, Henry Pauling, Elizabeth Pauling intermarried with Thomas Ross, James Pauling Rebecca Pauling, Ellen Pauling and Mary Pauling. The only child of deceased daughter Mary was Mary E. Muhlenberg.
  
  In her book V.E.C. Hill states that there was another son Adam, apparently a twin of Mary, of whom no more is known.^10,2