Hattie Belle (Klapp) Moser
- Keith Curfman
- Jan 18
- 8 min read
Updated: Jan 18
Hattie Belle Klapp was born in 1881 in Turbot, Pennsylvania.
Her father was Samuel Klapp and her mother was Suzanah. Both of her parents were in their late 40's when Hattie was born.
Hattie had seven brothers and sisters. She appears to have been close with her siblings, based on the pictures that survive.
The family was always well dressed and several of Hattie's brothers went on to receive a college education.
Hattie married Peter Clyde Moser on August 24, 1905, in Milton, Pennsylvania.
They had three children in 13 years, include a daughter, Florence Moser, who would later marry Keith Ammon. Their sons were Herman and Harold Moser.
Hattie appears to have loved being a grandmother.
Hattie died on June 19, 1952, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at the age of 71, and was buried in Milton, Pennsylvania.
Hattie's father, Samuel was born on November 10, 1833, in Pennsylvania. Samuel's father was also named Samuel and his mother was Annie Karchner. Samuel married Suzanah in 1854 and they had eight children in 27 years. Samuel died on February 10, 1907, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, at the age of 73, and was buried in Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
Samuel would have been 28 during the Civil War, but there is no record that he was drafted or served. In April, 1852 Samuel and his mother, Anna, purchased a farm in Turbot Township, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania, consisting of approximately 80 acres. Shortly after the death of his father-in-law, John Hoffman, be bought on March 27, 1860, approximately 22 acres of land from the heirs of the estate. On March 3, 1867, he acquired a farm consisting of a two story frame house, frame barn and approximately 28 acres of land, from John Hoffman Jr. This property was adjacent to the Paradise church and contiguous to the farms he originally purchased with his mother, who made her home with him until her death. Samuel married Susanah, daughter of John and Mary Hoffman, Sr. Samuel and Susanah are buried at Paradise church.
Susanah's father, John Hoffman, Sr. was a farmer, owning a farm with 127 acres near Milton. John is buried at Paradise church. He was described as a rugged man, apparently able to endure anything, and in the winter exposed himself fearlessly to the elements, but his hardihood in this respect proved his undoing, for his death was caused by drinking cold water while overheated after haymaking. He was a Lutheran in religious faith, a democrat in politics.
Samuel's father, also Samuel, was born April 26, 1808 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and died February 15, 1833 at the age of 24. He died the same year young Samuel was born. The cause of death is not known, and there were no newspaper articles that revealed any clues. He accompanied his parents to Northumberland County in 1818. He married Anna, daughter of Andrew and Barbara Ann Karchner. They are also buried at Paradise church. Their only child was Samuel.
John Klopp/Klapp, father of Samuel (1808) was born on June 22, 1784 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and died October 1, 1828. About 1818 he came from his native county by team to Northumberland County, and bought a farm in Lewis Township, near Turbotville, where he made his home. He married Elizabeth Kline and they are buried at Paradise church. They had 9 children.
John Klopp/Klapp 1756-1804.
Peter Klopp, son of Peter, born either (May or Nov) 22, 1719 and died May 22nd 1794. He is buried at Haines Church, where the inscription on his headstone is still legible. Peter Klopp was born on Nov 22, 1719, in Livingston Manor, New York. He married Maria Werina Becker in September 1732 in Berks, Pennsylvania. He died on May 22, 1794, in Lower Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, having lived a long life of 75 years.
According to his grave marker and the below draft card, he served as a private in the Revolutionary war in 1777 and 1778. He was in the 8th Company, 6th battalion under Capt. Filbert. Peter would have been 57 years old at the time.
About Phillip Filbert
John Phillip Filbert, son of Samuel and Susanna, was born Dec. 7, 1743. He was commissioned as a captain of the 8th Company of the 6th Battalion of Berks county militia June 14, 1777, and was re-commissioned in 1780, 1783 and 1786, so that he served as an officer of the Pennsylvania militia during the whole period of the Revolution. Capt. Phillip Filbert's battalion was mustered into the Continental service on Dec. 13, 1777, for sixty days, and was engaged under General Washington in the Schuylkill valley, between Valley Forge and Germantown.
Info from findagrave
Name: John "Peter" Klopp
Birth: 22 NOV 1719 in Germany or USA
Death: 22 MAY 1794 in Becks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial: Saint Johns Cemtery (Hains), Lower Heidelberg Township 25 MAY 1794 Wernersville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Father: John Peter KLOPP b: 1690 in Bingen,Germany
Mother: Anna Magdalene LUTZ b: 1690
Married: ABT 1750 in USA
Children
John "Peter" II Klopp b: 31 MAY 1751 in Heidelberg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Johannes Peter Klopp * III (Immigrant to NY around 1715)
Birth 10 NOV 1686 • Simmern, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death 10 SEP 1753 • Ephrata, Lancaster, PA
Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Klopp (also listed as Johann Peter Glopp) was a tailor of Horn in the commune of Simmern in the Pfalz. He was married 12 Sep 1711 to Anna Magdalena, widow of Johann Christoph Lutz of Klingen-Munster in the Pfaltz.
Peter and Magdalena had both joined other German immigrants fleeing difficult economic conditions in Europe. A 1717 source lists both and 2 children living among other German immigrants in Newy York. After several years, the Klops accompanies some neighbors in a move to the Tulpehocken region of western Berks County, Pa.
In 1735, disagreements broke out in the Lutheran church in the Tulpehocken and eventually spread to the German Reformed congregation and included the Moravian church in the area. Amidst the turmoil, Conrad Beissel, Ephrata's founder, drew some converts including Conrad Weiser, Rev Peter Miller, and the Klop family. While Peter and Magdalena affiliated with the Ephrata congegration at that point, they didn't leave the Tulpehocken region immediately. In May 1743, Peter acquired 210 acres of land in Cocalico Township.
Four of Magdalena and Peter's eight children contineud an affiliation with the congregation at the Ephrata Cloister into adulthood. Peter and Magdalena Klop joined Peter Klopp first appeared on the Hunters List 4 Aug 1710 with one person over 10 years of age. The entry for 24 Dec 1711 read 2 persons over 10 years of age in the household. Peter Clop was naturalized 17 Jan 1715/16 (Albany) Peter Klob and his wife, Magdalena with 2 children. Their last entry in colonial NY was in 1720. Peter Klopp came to the Tulpehocken region of Pennsylvania after 13 May 1723, but before Sept. 1727. ("Early Tulpehocken Settlers" by Charles Adam Fisher in 1723-1973 Anniversary Magazine of the Tulpehocken). The will of Peter Klopp of Cocalico Township was dated 11 Sep 1753 and probated 6 Jan 1755 and mentions his wife and children. Brother Peter Klop died 1753 and sister Magdalena Klopp died 1766 (from the Ephrata Death Register). Children of Peter Klopp and Anna Magalena were: Susanna b. 1 Jan 1716, baptized at Schoharie with sponser Susanna Schultz (West Camp Church book); a daughter who died 6 Oct 1748, aged 30Y8M and was buried as Siter Thecla, the faithful daughter of Brother Peter Klopf; Peter (22 May 1719-22 May 1794) , an exec. of Peter Srs. will. He married, as her 3rd husband, Werina Becker (24 Ju 1713-22 Nov 1792).
Johann Peter Klopp, Sr., was the progenitor of the Pennsylvania German Klopps. The Klopp family is one of the oldest and most prominent families of Berks and Lebanon Counties, PA. A castle, known as Burg Klopp, still stands in Bingen am Rhein, Germany. It is thought that the castle gave the family their name. In 1702, a number of Palatines (Rheinland-Pfalz) left Germany and through the invitation of Queen Ann came to London. Some of these families came to New York in 1710 and, owing to the oppression of British Governor Hunter, came to Pennsylvania in 1723, locating in the Tulpehocken creek area. Among their numbers was John Peter Klopp, Sr. From the records of the Rev. Kocherthal we have the following: Married Sept. 12, 1711, John Peter Klopp, a tailor of Horn county of Simmern, in the Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and Anna Magdalena, widow of the late John Christopher Lutz of Klingen, a minister in the Palatinate.
He and the widow Anna Magdalena Lutz were the parents of, among other children, Johann Peter Klopp, Jr.
Johann Peter Klopp, Sr., was a member of the Reformed German Church in the Tulpehocken Settlement in Pennsylvania in 1735. Later, he, with Rev. Peter Miller, Gottfried Fidler, Conrad Weiser, and others, joined a church at Ephrata in Lancaster County, Pa. At the home of Mr. Fidler, who had first taken up land in Tulpehocken township, they burned the Psalms, catechism, and other good books. This occurred before the church of the Tulpehocken Brethren (German Seventh Day Baptists) was finished. Conrad Weiser, Hans Michael Miller, Johann Peter Klopp, Godfried Fidler, and several single men and women went to the settlement in Ephrata now known as the Ephrata Cloister. Of these, Weiser, Miller, and Klopp later withdrew from the Ephrata settlement, but not Johann Peter Klopp, Sr.'s daughter remained. Her monastic name was "Thekla" and is so listed on the roster of the Sisterhood. She died Oct. 6, 1748, probably at Ephrata. Peter Klopp died in 1753 and it is thought by some that he is buried at Ephrata Cloister as he left 30 pounds to the Sisters and Brothers there in his will.
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