"Our regards to your parents, and especially to Daniel, my namesake. May the Lord bless you and keep you even unto eternal life in a world to come.

      "Your Aunt and Uncle, 
                "MARY GARBER MOHR and DANIEL MOHR. 

"P.S. If you think this letter worthy, let it remain with your record."

This letter is of interest to both the Garber and Mohr families in Nebraska, and the Mohler family in America for the three families merged at this juncture.

Martin Garber, born April 28, 1793, according to this record, but according to the record left in the old Coffman German Bible which substantiates the origin of the family by so slight variation, April 24, 1793, in Augusta County, Old Virginia. His mother's maiden name was Miller, his father, Levi Garber, was a preacher in Kentucky. He was one of a family of 15 children and next to the youngest.

5005--Magdaline Mohler, his wife, was born January 23, 1801 (original Mohler Bible record in possession of Dr. Henry Mohler at Grottoes, Virginia, states December 23, 1801, which is the correct date, it being made by her parents).

Martin Garber moved with his wife, Magdaline Mohler Garber, from Virginia to Ohio, where most of their family were born. Both were active in the Dunkard Church. Magdaline Mohler Garber became a member of the National Council of the Dunkard Church, in that manner attaining a most extensive acquaintance through the church in America. Martin Garber's six brothers were all preachers or elders in the Dunkard Church while he remained a layman.

After his death in 1851, Magdaline Mohler Garber, together with all her children and their families, set out for a pioneer life in Iowa and located about the town of Elkport, Clayton County, Iowa, whither had gone two sisters, Hannah Mohler Beddows and Ann Mohler Fitch.

(5005)--Magdaline Mohler Garber lived to see her sons prosperous and honored. In 1875, Catharine Garber, wife of her son Joseph, made a trip to Iowa to visit Mother Garber and accompany her to Nebraska to visit her sons Joseph, Abram, Samuel, and Gov. Silas Garber, all located in Webster County, Nebr., except Joseph, at Nelson, Nuckolls County Clerk, '75-6. One of the happiest experiences of her life was when she stopped in Lincoln to visit her son, Silas Garber, who was then Governor of the State of Nebraska.

Upon her return to Iowa she made a portion of the journey in a stage coach driven by a drunken driver who managed to overturn