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Leonard Fidler

Leonard Fidler

Male 1779 - 1853  (74 years)

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  • Name Leonard Fidler  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Born 02 Oct 1779  Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 17 Oct 1853  Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5] 
    Buried Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I79  Clark-Hart
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2019 

    Father Adam (John) Fidler,   b. 04 Jun 1748, Lower Heidelberg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1790, Heidelberg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Mother Maria Elizabeth Artz,   b. 04 Jun 1748, Heidelberg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Jul 1791, Heidelberg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Married 05 Mar 1769  Heidelberg, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Family ID F515  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Barbara S. Kauffman,   b. 22 Jun 1780, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 1856, Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Children 
     1. Susan Fidler  [natural]
    +2. John K Fidler,   b. 1810, Marietta, PA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jun 1890, Marietta, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     3. Lenhart Fidler  [natural]
     4. Edward Fidler  [natural]
     5. Nancy Fidler  [natural]
    +6. Martha M Fidler,   b. 08 Feb 1816, East Donegal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 Mar 1902, Baltimore, MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     7. Elizabeth Fidler  [natural]
     8. Frank B Fidler  [natural]
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2017 
    Family ID F20  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 02 Oct 1779 - Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 17 Oct 1853 - Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

  • Photos
    Blog article about Neffsville Hotel    		Blog article about Neffsville Hotel
    Leonard Fidler operted a Hotel in Neffsville, PA. Still standing, and is now a flower shop.
    Neffsville Hotel article    		Neffsville Hotel article
    Neffsville Hotel - Present Day    		Neffsville Hotel - Present Day
    Built 1812 by Leonard Fidler and Barbara Kauffman (wife)

    Documents
    Lancaster County Historical Society article about Neffsville Hotel    		Lancaster County Historical Society article about Neffsville Hotel
    Built 1812 by Leonard Fidler and Barbara Kauffman Fidler

    Headstones
    Find A Grave    		Find A Grave
    Marietta Union Meeting House Cemetery Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

    Histories
    Fidler family 1627 - Present    		Fidler family 1627 - Present
    Ancestry Message posting (much detail)

  • Notes 
    • The trolley has just stopped at the Neffsville Hotel in this photograph

      taken about 1907. This hotel was built in 1812 by Leonard Fiddler and

      later owned and operated by my neighbor Sam Sherman.

      It was an ordinary day. Talking with the secretary at the Landis Run Inter- mediate School in Neffsville, PA. I do their yearbook as well as the in-house printing for the school. She mentioned that she saw me standing in the square in Neffsville taking photos this morning. Told her that I was writing a story about Hauck's Store that used to stand on the corner and also managed to snap a few photos of the old Neffsville Hotel which was katy-corner from Hauck's. When Carol and I purchased our first home in the Grandview Heights neighborhood of Lancaster, we lived a few doors from a fellow named Sam Sherman and his wife, Beatrice, and their daughter Estelle. Sam was quite a few years older than me and we never got to know each other very well, but I did talk to him a few times about the hotel and bar that he ran called the Neffsville Hotel. Seems that Neffsville was originally called "Fiddler's Green." In 1812 Leonard Fiddler built the first hotel on the square in Neffsville on the northwest corner of the intersection. He was said to have played his violin regularly under a green tree next to the hotel, thus the name of "Fiddler's Green."

      This is what the same corner looks like today. The old hotel

      is now a flower shop. It opened in 2003 on the square.

      The hotel functioned as such for many years, under different manage- ment, until it was finally purchased and turned into a flower shop. Sam ran the hotel and bar throughout the time that I can remember being a student at the nearby Manheim Township Jr. HIgh and High School. He eventually closed the hotel and it sat vacant for close to six years before the flower shop added an addition on the south side of the building and opened their store. The flower shop is still in operation today. Sam and his wife have since died, but many in Neffsville still remember the glory days of the Neffsville Hotel when Sam ran the place. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.


  • Sources 
    1. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Barbara S. Kauffman

    2. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Leonard Fidler

    3. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for John Adam Fidler

    4. [S23] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
      Record for Leonard Fidler

    5. [S136] Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;).
      Record for Barbara S. Kauffman

    6. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Maria Elizabeth Artz