Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Moses Packer
1764 - 1830 (66 years)-
Name Moses Packer Birth 1764 Uwchlan, Chester, Pennsylvania [1, 2, 3] Gender Male Death 10 Sep 1830 Middlebury, Knox, Ohio [4, 5, 6] Person ID I4357 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 13 Jul 2021
Father Aaron Packer, b. Abt 1732 Family ID F4718 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Eve Williams d. Aft 9 Jul 1837 Marriage Abt 1791 Fayette, Pennsylvania [1, 2, 7] Children + 1. Jonathan Taylor Packer, b. 26 Jul 1817, Perry Township, Richland, Ohio d. 29 Jan 1889, Safford, Graham, Arizona (Age 71 years) Family ID F2770 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 7 Feb 2016
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Notes - Both John A. Freestone and Donna Smith Packer give Moses Packer's mother as Ann Phipps, but Packer researcher Warren Packer says: "In a paper left by Jonathan Taylor Packer, the name of the mother of Moses Packer is given as Margaret. Descendants of Jesse Packer, a brother of Moses, say that the mother of Jesse was Mary Ann Phipps. Records show that Aaron Packer, father of Moses, married Ann Phipps; but we have not been able to find out with certainty the name of Moses' mother."
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There's a photograph of a man in a large top hat that is in wide circulation on the internet as an image of Moses Packer. Dozens of copies of it can be found attached to Moses Packer on ancestry.com, geni.com, etc. It also appears in at least one Packer family history volume published by a relative of TNH. Do a Google image search on "Moses Packer" and you'll find it immediately.
Those who believe that this man is Moses Packer should contemplate the fact that the first photographic portraits of human beings were made in 1839. Moses Packer died in 1830.
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Common ancestor of TNH and Jeff Flake, former senator from Arizona and Ambassador-to-Turkey-designate, making then fifth cousins:
Moses Packer (1764-1830) = Eve Williams (d. ~1837)
William Hamilton Packer (1815-1875) = Sarah Briggs Allen (1835-1920)
William Ezra Packer (1868-1932) = Emma Elizabeth Foutz (1869-1947)
Joseph Alma Packer (1890-1954) = Blanche Standing (1892-1954)
Wilma Packer (1915-1974) = Leon Almond Hock (1913-1973)
Nerita Hock (b. 1937) = Dean Maeser Flake (b. 1931)
Jeffry Lane Flake (b. 1962)
- Both John A. Freestone and Donna Smith Packer give Moses Packer's mother as Ann Phipps, but Packer researcher Warren Packer says: "In a paper left by Jonathan Taylor Packer, the name of the mother of Moses Packer is given as Margaret. Descendants of Jesse Packer, a brother of Moses, say that the mother of Jesse was Mary Ann Phipps. Records show that Aaron Packer, father of Moses, married Ann Phipps; but we have not been able to find out with certainty the name of Moses' mother."
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Sources - [S229] On Footings From the Past: The Packers in England by Donna Smith Packer. 1988. Mostly reliable on this side of the Atlantic.
- [S1015] The Life and Times of Alonzo Hamilton Packer and His Wife Lydia Ann Parker by John A. Freestone, 1999.
- [S1017] Warren Packer, "Story of Moses Packer." 12 Nov 2014., year and county only.
- [S229] On Footings From the Past: The Packers in England by Donna Smith Packer. 1988. Mostly reliable on this side of the Atlantic., year only.
- [S1015] The Life and Times of Alonzo Hamilton Packer and His Wife Lydia Ann Parker by John A. Freestone, 1999., date only.
- [S1017] Warren Packer, "Story of Moses Packer." 12 Nov 2014.
- [S1017] Warren Packer, "Story of Moses Packer." 12 Nov 2014., year only.
- [S229] On Footings From the Past: The Packers in England by Donna Smith Packer. 1988. Mostly reliable on this side of the Atlantic.