PROGENY ~ The Dynasty Continues The first daughter of Philip Blosser and Amy (neé Kari): Introducing: Hannah Cabrini Blosser (b. 3/15/2005)
7 months (above)                  w/ bro Jon (above) 4 wks	Click on pictures to enlarge   Baptism above 3/30/05 Flapper above 3/15/06	7 months (left)                      1 year, 8 months (left)

Hannah Cabrini Blosser was named after the following people:

• Hannah (AD 354-430), Old Testament Hebrew saint, Samuel's mother;
• St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian nun who founded Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and was set by Pope Leo XIII to work among immigrants in the United States, where she became a US citizen and the first American citizen to be canonized a saint;
• Blosser, which is the family name of:
  
  • Hannah's father, Philip Eugene;
  • Her grandfather, Eugene Edward, often endearingly called "The Patriarch,"
    career missionary, first in China, then Japan, cited in the Mennonite Encyclopedia;
  • Her great-great grandfather, Perry J. (1876-1960), bishop of the Iowa-Nebraska 
    Conference of the Mennonite Church;
  • Her great-great grandfather, Martin (1852-1909), a farmer from Concord,
    Tennessee, a suburb of Knoxville;
  • Her great-great-great grandfather, Abraham (1828-1891), from a suburb of Harrisbonburg, Virginia;
  • Her great-great-great-great grandfather, Jonas (1791-?), a farmer in the 
    Shenandoah Valley in Virginia;
  • Her great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Peter, Jr. (1752-1834), from 
    Little York, Pennsylvania;
  • Her 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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