Godfrey is buried in the Immanuel Church in Muncy Creek twp. The land for the church
was donated by his friend, Henry Shoemaker. His tombstone is written in
English on one side and in German on the other. I visited there last May. I
stopped at the post office in Muncy and asked for the directions to the
church. I found much of my original information on the family at the Dauphin
Co. Hist. Soc., in Harrisburg. Much of it is from a collection of a genealogist who was researching the family for a woman who wanted to join the DAR. In the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. XXV" under Warrantees of Land, p.142, Godfried Festerer. In another archives I found a history of the "Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, Col. Samuel Miles. Godfrey Fister, is listed as a private. I found a ships passenger list in a book "Pennsylvania
German Pioneers" by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D, Baltimore, Genealogical
Publishing Co., 1980. Gottfried Fisterer is listed as coming across on the
Brig "Morning Star" in 1772.
Here is some information I have on the Kepner family:
1. Bernhard Kepner
2. Benedict Kepner born abt. 1678 in Germany. Died Feb. 26, 1764, in
New Hanover twp., PA. Married Barbara Catherine ?
3. Benedict Kepner born 1714 in New Hanover twp., mar. Maria Salome Winter.
4. Mary Magdeline Kepner, married Godfrey Fiester.
5. Jacob Fiester, mar. Mary Robb
6. Benjamin Fiester, mar. Mary Sones/Sohns
7. Levi Feaster, mar. Sarah Bredbenner
8. James Feaster, mar. Mary Ellen Page
9. Mary Ellen Feaster = James MacNamara
10. Elizabeth MacNamara = Charles E.
Brady
11. Charles E. Brady Jr. = Dolores
May
12. Charles ( Chuck ) E. Brady
III =
Marilyn Vent
13. Shaun, Matthew, and
Timothy
To contact individual who gave me this info was Chuck E. Brady. You can e-mail him @ ceb3mlvb@aol.com Thanks Chuck