PROGENY ~ The Dynasty Continues
The first born son of Benjamin Philip Blosser and Danielle (neé Rhodes):
Introducing: Augustine Thomas Blosser

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After UNC Tarheels defeat Duke Devils (above) ... Augustine rejoiced in outfit from Uncle Jon Blosser! (click on images above)

Augustine Thomas Blosser was named after the following people:

St. Augustine (AD 354-430), widely regarded as the greatest of the Church Fathers in the 
Catholic Christian traditon;
St. Thomas More, one-time Lord Chancellor of England during the reign of Henry VIII, who 
had him beheaded for his refusal to betray his Catholic Faith and recognize Henry's
authority over that of the Pope;
Blosser, which is the family name of:

Augustine's father, Benjamin Philip, also known as Jamie;
His grandfather, Philip Eugene;
His great-grandfather, Eugene Edward, often endearingly called "The Patriarch,"
career missionary, first in China, then Japan, cited in the Mennonite Encyclopedia;
His great-great grandfather, Perry J. (1876-1960), bishop of the Iowa-Nebraska 
Conference of the Mennonite Church;
His great-great-great grandfather, Martin (1852-1909), a farmer from Concord,
Tennessee, a suburb of Knoxville;
His great-great-great-great grandfather, Abraham (1828-1891), from a suburb of Harrisbonburg, Virginia;
His great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Jonas (1791-?), a farmer in the 
Shenandoah Valley in Virginia;
His great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Peter, Jr. (1752-1834), from 
Little York, Pennsylvania;
His great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Peter, Sr. (ca.1711-?), who
immigrated from Langnau, Switzerland to the United States, arriving in Philadelphia 
by ship from Rotterdam on August 27, 1739.

For part of this family history as told by Eugene Blosser, based on his deceased wife's
diaries of their life together with their children in Japan, see Stories of Our Lives
(edited by Amy K. Blosser and posted to the web by Christopher Blosser).

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