Sybilla (Isabella) Bauman Truby was born about 1738 Marlborough Township, Montgomery (was Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania. According to her tombstone she died when she was 63 years old. Her parents were John Dietrich Bauman and Eva Elizabeth Beil. About 1755, she moved with her family to Northampton County, Pennsylvania which is now Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.
During the uncertainties of the war between the Native Americans and the German settlers of Eastern Pennsylvania her parents put her in the school for girls established by the Moravians at Bethlehem.
She married Colonel Christopher Truby about 1760. Christopher was born in 1736 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Christopher and Maria Catherine Truby.
Christopher and Sybilla's children included:
Christopher Truby (1761, maried Susanna Lauffer),
Michael Truby (1762, married Mary Ann Kline),
Catherine Truby Rohrer Marshall (1763, married Frederick Rohrer and John Marshall),
Elizabeth Truby Ruff (1769, married Adam Lauffer and John Ruff),
John Truby, (1772, married Mary Magdalene Reamer),
Jacob Truby (1773),
Mary Ann Truby Hovey (1775, married Simon Hovey).
They lived in Bedford, which is now in Westmoreland, County, Pennsylvania on the site of the town of Greensburg, the county seat of Westmoreland county.
In 1774 Christopher was a county commissioner and on June 11, 1777 he was a justice of the peace. In February, 1778, he was captain in the Westmoreland Militia. Michael served as a drummer in the militia.
During the American Revolution, they owned a blockhouse in Hempfield Township. They lived there with neighbors as a refuge from the enemy.
On August 18, 1784, Christopher was re-elected justice of the peace and was made judge of the court of common plea.
Serveral land warrants were recorded in Christopher's name. A warrant dated August 16, 1784 was for a tract of two hundred and seventy-four acres adjoining the lands of Dewalt Mechlin and Philip Kuhns. Another warrant dated December 5, 1785 was for two hundred and two acres on the banks of a branch of Sewickley creek adjoining the lands of William Jack and others.
In 1790, Christopher was a lieutenant-colonel in General Josiah Harmar's campaign against the Miami and Shawnee. He also signed a letter addressed to General Jackson along with other inhabitants of Westmoreland county.
Sybilla died on August 24, 1801 in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsyvania. Christopher died February 20, 1802. They were laid to rest in the Old German Burying Ground (Old German Cemetery) on South Main Street in Greensburg, Pennsylvania which no longer exists. Their were moved to the crypt of Zion's Lutheran Church in 1938 and their gravestones placed in the wall.
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