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Henry Münch (Benjamin3 Münch, Christopher2, Simon1). of Heidelberg Township, married Catharine Reed, of the Tul- pehocken, December 16, 1765.
Elizabeth2 Minnich (Conrad1) was m. twice, to Isaac Phillips and to a man named Rudy. She lived in Beaver Valley, Pinegrove Township, and left numerous descend- ants. She was known to everybody thereabouts as Aunt Betsy Phillips and with both husbands is buried in St. Pe- ter's cemetery, near Cressona.
Two daughters died without issue.
Jacob, second son of Conrad1 Minnich, married Mary Pott, daughter of John Pott, the founder of Pottsville. A sampler of homespun linen worked in colored silk by Mrs. Minnich, in possession of a descendant of the family, gives the following dates of birth: "Jacob Minnich, b. 1771; Mary Pott Minnich, b. June 18, 1797; Jeremiah Minnich, b. June 26, 1820; William Minnich, b. April 14, 1822; Maria Minnich, b. May 28, 1824; Catharine Minnich, b. December 25, 1826; Emma Rebecca, b. March 6, 1833."
Jacob Minnich has been variously referred to as "Fred- eric" and "Joseph." He may have had a double name, but is in the court house records as Jacob and so remembered by his grandson, Edwin J. Minnich. The latter has in his pos- session a Masonic Macassar cloth, or Spitalsfields silk hand- kerchief, such as members of that organization sometimes wore about the neck as a muffler. It was made in Spitals- field, England, by Huguenot silk weavers and belonged to his grandfather, Jacob Minnich. "Joseph Minnich lived in Bristol, Pa., in 1820, and belonged to the Masonic order, of that place, but there is no other record of an early Minnich in the Masonic archives," (Dr. Julius Sachse, Librarian, Phila.)
Captain Conrad Minnich d. 1796. Letters of administra- tion were granted to Jacob Brickley, April 6, 1796, his widow
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Elizabeth renouncing.1 Elizabeth, his wife, died 1799. Both are buried in St. Peter's cemetery, 11/2 miles north of Cres- sona. Their graves were recently identified by their great grandson, Edwin J. Minnich, of St. Clair. A Revolutionary War headstone obtained from the government was placed at the head of the old soldier's grave and a suitable marker installed at the head of that of his wife's, this work having been a tribute of descendants of the George Peter Zerbe fam- ily.
The following is self explanatory :
"St. Bonifacius Rectory, St. Clair, Penna.
This is to certify that Mr. Edwin J. Minnich has been in my employ for the past one and a half years and in that of my predecessor's employ for the space of at least three years, and has filled his position in every way satisfactorily. I have found him always a man of veracity and upon such testi- monials I have kept him in employ myself.
Jos. A. Scheafer, Rector St. Bonifacius Church, St. Clair, Pa."
April 10, 1913.
"Trinity Church Rectory, Pottsville, Penna. To whom it may concern :-
I have known Mr. Edwin J. Minnich in connection with the church, very well for a long time-twenty years or more. I regard him as a straight, honest, truthful man; and would not hesitate to take his word deliberately given, to be the truth to the best of his knowledge and belief.
April 10, 1913.
James F. Powers, Rector Emeritus Trinity Church."
(Note 1-Berks County Court Book, and Abstract of Wills, Penna. His- torical Society, Phila.)
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"St. Clair, Schuylkill Co., Penna., April 9, 1913.
1, Edwin Minnich, do hereby certify that the unmarked grave in the northwest corner of old St. Peter's Lutheran and Reformed burying ground, laid out about 1780, one and a quarter miles west of Cressona, Schuylkill County, is that of my great grandfather, Capt. Conrad Minnich, who lived at the present site of the Seven Stars Hotel, Manheim Township. Schuylkill County, Penna. He died 1796 and his wife, Eliza- beth Zerbe, of Heidelberg Township, Berks County, died about 1799, and they were buried beside each other in the above designated cemetery ; when a boy I frequently visited this spot with my great aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Phillips, daugh- ter of Conrad and Elizabeth Minnich, who lived nearby, and whoni I assisted in fixing up the graves of her parents. 1 identify the grave by its proximity to the fence and a large tree, since hewn down, the stump of which is still standing, and also by a tombstone adjoining their headstones which were of sand stone and have long since been destroyed by the elements.
Edwin J. Minnich."
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this Ioth day of April, 1913. Frank Little,
Notary Public.
GRAVES OF "MEN OF 1776" MARKED
The work of erecting the Revolutionary War tombstones of Capt. Conrad Minnich and George Zerbe, early settlers of this locality, was completed early this week.
Conrad Minnich is interred in St. Peter's cemetery, an old burying ground layed out 1780-'90, in Beaver Valley, (Schnickle Creek Dahl), one and a quarter miles west of Cressona; and George Zerbe is buried in St. John's Union cemetery, Friedensburg.
Conrad Minnich's wife, Elizabeth Zerbe, for whom a tombstone was also erected, was a sister of George Zerbe. Another sister, Anna Maria Zerbe, was the wife of Leonard Rieth (Reed), Wagon Master in General Washington's army at Trenton and Valley Forge, a rank corresponding to that of Colonel, in the battalions of militia of that period. St. Jacob's
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church records, next to the Red church, below Orwigsburg, the oldest in Schuylkill County, show him and his wife to have been buried in that cemetery, several miles below Pinegrove, but his grave has not as yet been fully identified.
These graves, with the exception of one, all had red sandstone tomb- stones, which long since succumbed to the ravages of time and the weather.
Gowen Post, G. A. R. furnished the Grand Army markers for the graves, and the P. O. S. of A. and Washington Camp, of Friedensburg, and Dentzer Post, G. A. R., assisted by W. C. No. 73 and the I. O. I. A. of Cressona, will assume the responsibility of decorating the graves on Memorial Day.
Three of these tombstones were obtained from the U. S. War Depart- ment, Quartermasters Corps, U. S. Army, D. C., by Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott, who supervised their erection. The work at Friedensburg was done by the sextons of the church and that of Capt. Conrad Minnich's and wife, Elizabeth Zerbe, was performed by Edwin J. Minnich, of St. Clair, a lineal descendant.
(Conrad and Elizabeth Zerbe Minnich's son, Jacob Minnich, married Maria Pott, daughter of John and Maria Lesher Pott, and sister of Ben- jamin Pott, who were the great grandparents of the above.)-Pottsville "Republican."
(J. H. Zerbey, editor of the "Republican," furnished the tombstone for Mrs. Minnich and made the work possible.)
The property of Conrad Minnich was sold to Martin Dreibelbis, who left it by will to his son George, who con- ducted the hotel when it was bought by Benjamin Pott, who transferred it to his sister Mary, wife of Jacob Minnich. The family lived in a farm house in the rear of the hotel which was partially destroyed by fire several times. The farm house was washed away in the freshet and flood of 1852. Catharine died from the effects of the exposure to that disaster and with one exception the remainder of the children died without issue. After the destruction of the farm house the Jacob Minnich family lived in the house south of and adjoining the hotel. The parents were buried in the old cemetery, Potts- ville, on the site of the Grammar School, North Centre St., from which all bodies were removed to the Presbyterian cem- etery, on the transfer of the cemetery to the school board, 1896. Some of the Minnich family were re-buried at the Jerusalem church cemetery, Schuylkill Haven.
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William3 Minnich, b. April 14, 1822, (Jacob2, Conrad1) m. Catharine Knoll, who on his death m. John T. Mayer, (who was lame.) They kept the Seven Stars hotel, 1860, the front of which had been rebuilt by George Dreibelbis, and was again improved at that date. The children of Wil- liam Minnich: Mary, William, Caroline, Catharine, Jeremiah, died without issue.
Edwin4 J. Minnich ( William3, Jacob2, Conrad1), wf. Elizabeth Hoff- man, d. One son, Peter Roy Minnich, wf. Louisa Bixler; c., Edwin, Helen, Elizabeth and an infant.
Peterl Muench, born 1698, d. 1766, married twice (see previous page.) John2 Michael (Peter1), b. January 2, 1738, (Stoever's records), d. 1800; wf. Maria Christina Ludige, d. Shrewsbury Township, York Co., 1800; issue: Michael, Jonathan, George, Joseph, Elizabeth, wf. of Jacob Glad- felter. Their descendants in Dallastown and in York County are numer- ous.
(Matthias Muench, on Lindemuth's Map, was known in the land transactions as Michael.)
John Michael Minnich was a Lieutenant in 4th Co. Ist Bat. Col. P. L. Greenawalt, Capt. George Nuoll, Lancaster County, that part afterward included in Dauphin and then Lebanon County, in the Revolutionary War.1
He took the oath of allegiance, October 12, 1777. The roster of this company has never been found. Egle's History, Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, says, p. 38: "1775 a battalion with the following officers was formed, Capt. Geo. Null's company, first organized. Were in active service, 1776, and in the retreat of Gen. Washington, in New Jersey, (p. 52) and at the battle of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, Ger- mantown, and at the surrender of Fort Washington, No- vember 16, 1776 (p. 341).
Administration papers were granted the sons of John Michael Münch, April 15, 1800. Michael, Jonathan and George. His land was sold to his son Joseph and son-in- law, Jacob Gladfelter, for 405 pounds.
George3 (Michael2, Peter1), b. 1770; d. Wrightsville, Pa., 1820; m. 1795; wf. Salome Jane Frank, d. 1833; c., Maria Catharine, Elizabeth, George, Daniel, Michael, John G., Salome.
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 13, pp. 352, 410, 2 Series, Vol. 13, p. 352.)
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John4 G. Minnich (George3, Michael2, Peter1), b. 1811; d. 1892, Bed- ford, Pa., m. October 3, 1843; wf. Maria Catharine Reed, b. 1819, d. 1900, da. of Michael Reed (of the Rieths of the Tulpehocken); c., John George, b. 1844, d. 1894, single, dentist; Michael Reed, b. 1846; Luther Weiser, b. 1849, d. 1904, druggist; Jacob Frank, b. 1852, d. 1890, attorney; Salome Jane, b. 1855, wf. of F. W. Jordan, druggist, Bedford, Pa .; Harry Schell, b. 1860.
Michael5 Reed Minnich, (John4 G., George3, Michael2, Peter1), m. Oc- tober 1, 1873; wf. Mary Emeline Lovell, b. 1852, d. 1911; issue: Elmer L., b. 1874, d. 1875; George W., b. 1876, d. 1889; Marie L., wife of Wm. L. Keplinger; Clara F., single; Charles H., wf. Lillian Snape. Two sons died in infancy. Keplinger issue: two sons, Wm. Lincoln, Jr., and Arthur F. Mrs. Minnich, da. of Emer Smith Lovell and Mary Cook Lee, was a lineal descendant of the Lovell, Borden, Feuner and Le Valley families of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Michael Reed Minnich, City Missionary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, an A. B .; A. M .; of Gettysburg College, is an author- ity on Theology in church publications and an author of Historical and Biographical sketches, Penna. Ger. Soc., Vol. 5, p. 164.
Simon Münch, of the Ship Lists, 1737, b. July 21, 1700, d. February 17, 1782. His wife, Catharine, b. January, 1700, d. December 12, 1773, both buried in the Little Tulpehocken cemetery (one and a half miles southwest of Bernville.) Simon Münch was one of six trustees to organize this church, November 20, 1747, to whom was patented a tract of land as surveyed by warrant, May 17, 1774, of thirty acres.
They had four sons and five daughters: John George, Michael, Christopher, Simon, George, and Maria Appolonia, m. to Jacob Wagner.
A tract of land, situated in Bern Township, now in Penn Township, which was formed from Bern and Upper Bern Townships, in 1841, Upper Bern having been taken from Bern in 1789, was first surveyed to Michael Ketner (Kedner), on warrant dated January 12, 1737. Survey returned to Simon "Munich," in a warrant, November 10, 1749. Simon Munich, by deed dated January 13, 1763, conveyed this tract to his son John George Michael Munich. The tract contained 156 acres and the adjoiners were Albrecht Strauss, Hans Cibber, John Kedner and Jacob Pyler.
(Note 1-Patent Book A, A, Vol, 4, p. 404, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg.)
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August 25, 1806, there was patented to Francis Deator, a tract of land of 269 acres, 19 perches, in Pinegrove Town- ship, now in Schuylkill County. The tract was near the Sec- ond Mountain and was known as "Wheatfields"; the adjoin- ers were: Adam Gebhart. John Spicker, d., Peter Bressler, Peter Scholl, and Henry Kephart. In the conveyance of the rights vested in Deator, there were three warrants, one of which, dated May 23, 1750, was granted to Simon "Minig," the Simon mentioned aforesaid.
George2 Minnig (Simon1), settled in Hanover Township, Lancaster County, now Dauphin, where he is on the State Tax Lists of Lancaster County, from 1779 to 1782, and is credited with 100 and later with 145 acres of land. This township was included in Dauphin County, March 4, 1785.1
George Minnig died April, 1784. His will, (Dr. W. H. Egle's Notes and Queries, Vol. 1, Third Series, from which other Minnich wills are quoted) gives his heirs as: wife, Catharine. Children :
Simon, b. March 20, 1753; Catharine, b. June 5, 1754, m. Jacob Kramer; Margaret, b. May 24, 1758, m. John Zimmern; Susanna, m. Jacob Sichily; Elizabeth, m. Adam Weaver; Christina, George, Catharine Elizabeth,
John2 George Michael Münch (Simon1), m. Mary Mag- dalena Wagner, March 20, 1760.
George Michael Münch and Mary Magdalena, his wife, sold property, April 12, 1793, in Bern Township, Berks County.2
George Michael Minich was a member of Captain Sebastian Emrich's Company, Bern Township, 3rd Battalion Berks County Militia; and George Minich was a member of Captain John Soder's Company, Bern Township, 3rd Battalion Berks County Militia, as shown in the Accounts of the Lieutenants of Berks County with regard to the excise fines received from the several companies for the years 1777 to 1780 .- (Vol. VI, 3d Ser- ies, Pennsylvania Archives.)
Simon2 Münch (Simon1). Of this man little is known. May 6, 1753, he and his wife appear as sponsors for Simon3, son of George2 Münch, at the Little Tulpehocken church. His
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, Vol. XVII, 3d Series.)
(Note 2-Deed B. 13-15, p. 418.)
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name does not appear on the tax lists of Bern Township. He may have dispossessed himself of his property early or migrated to Northampton County. He had numerous de- scendants.
Maria2 Appolonia Münch (Simon1), b. August 15, 1742, d. January 29, 1815; buried in Christ church cemetery, Stouchsburg. Children :
Susanna Catharine, b. May, 1761, bap. May 24; John Phillip, b. No- vember 1, 1768, bap. November 21; Maria Margaret, b. November 8, 1762, bap. November 21.
Maria Appolonia was married to Jacob Wagner, June 29, 1760. ( Christ Church records.)
John Jacob Wagner, b. November 22, 1762; bap. December 12.
John Wagner, b. October 23, 1764; bap. December 9.
They had five sons and five daughters, two baptized at Little Tulpe- hocken church.
The graveyard of the Lutheran church, Chambersburg, Pa., tomb- stone inscriptions show:
Barbara Ann Minick, b. November 20, 1768; d. June 9, 1833; wife of Simon Minick.
Michael Minnich, d. October 28, 1852, aged 80 years, 10 months, 28 days; and wife Catharine, b. June 10, 1772, d. January 10, 1882.
Michael Minnich, d. December 15, 1842, aged 40 years, 8 months, 3 days; and wife Elizabeth, b. August 16, 1803; d. November 22, 1856.
Tombstone inscriptions in the graveyard of the old Lutheran church, Rehrersburg, Berks County, Pa .:
Catharine Minich, b. June 17, 1809; d. December 31, 1884; wife of Michael Potteiger, b. November 28, 1806; d. December 1, 1887.
George2 Münch (Simon1), m. Catharine Margaret Guth- man (Goodman), January 5, 1752. Two of his children, men- tioned in will, were baptized in the Little Tulpehocken church, Simon3, b. March 20, 1753; Catharine Margaret, b. June 5, 1754.
A George Menig, cordwainer, on the tax lists, of Bern Township, from 1779 to 1784. His family consisted of four persons in 1784. Another George is also noted as a weaver. Letters of administration were granted Catharine, relict of George Minnich, of Manheim Township, weaver, May 4, 1805.1
(Note 1-B. 6, p. 190.)
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Rev. George3 P. Minnich (George2, Simon1) was born in Lancaster County August 12, 1773 ; d. April 7, 1851, wf. Eliza- beth Goepfert, b. Lancaster Co., June 10, 1774, d. February 27, 1849. He was a Lutheran preacher, serving the early Lutheran churches in what is now Schuylkill County, in East Brunswick, the Red church, St. Jacob's, near Pinegrove. and St. John's, at Friedensburg. He also preached in Min- ersville and in the log school house near where Joyce's hot- house stands, Pottsville, in the early days of the 19th cen- tury. His tombstone says: "He preached 1633 sermons, con- firmed 1733 and baptized 1631 persons." He owned a farm at Friedensburg where the family lived until his retirement, when he sold the farm and removed to Bernville, where he and his wife are buried. His children were: Rev. William Mennig, Jacob Mennig, Margaret Mennig, b. April 17. 1809, d. August 20, 1836, m. Isaac Christ; Maria Mennig, b. July 31, 1802, d. June 3, 1850, m. Jacob Ditzler ; parents of Rev. J. M. Deitzler, George Minnich respelled his name several times, finally adopting "Mennig."
A path across the Blue Mountains, which Mr. Mennig used during his itinerancy in the early Berks County churches and which he followed on horseback, is still known as "Minnich's Path."
Edward Mennig, painter, of Pottsville, aged 70, and a soldier in the Civil War, and member of Gowen Post, is a grandson of Jacob Mennig, (War of 1812), of Friedensburg. and g. g. son of Rev. George Mennig.
Jacob, of Friedensburg, was a soldier of the War of 1812 (Military History on previous page). From Jacob Men- nig and Rev. George Mennig are descended the Schuylkill Haven branch, among them W. H. Mennig, one of the pub- lishers of the Schuylkill Haven "Call." John Simon Muench, b. July 21, d. February 17, 1782, is buried at Bernville; wife Catharine, b. January, 1700, d. December 12, 1773, is also buried there.
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The Robesonia branch and many Minnichs of Reading, Allentown, and other cities in Penna., are descendants of Simon Muench, of near Bernville, spelling the name variously.
Christopher2 Minnich (Simon1), of Bernville. Will pro- bated 1806 (Book A, p. 515). Son. Benjamin, executor, d. 1832. (Will Book 7, p. 60.)
John George Michael, b. February 6, 1758; John Philip, b. Novem- ber 1, 1759; Maria Margaret, b. November 8, 1762.
Christopher2 Minnich (Simon1), b. about 1737; d. 1806; his will be- ing probated in that year. He m. Anna Barbara Holder, of Bern, March 6, 1757; c., Benjamin, Jonathan, Christopher (Stoever's Records), and sev- eral daughters.
Christopher3, (Christohper2, Simon1), wf. Sarah.
Susanna Schoepler was the wf. of Benjamin Minnig, son of Christo- pher .- (Daniel's Corner church records), where are also recorded the fol- lowing children of John George Muench:
Maria Catharine, b. April 28, 1768; Maria Elizabeth, b. June 18, 1772.
Elizabeth Muennich, b. January 8, 1771; d. June 9, 1842; m., October 27, 1792, Matthias Jaeckle (Yeakley), b. June 13, 1769; d. November 2, 1852.
Tombstone inscriptions in graveyard adjoining Zion's Union church, (Lutheran & Reformed), Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pa., show a Maria Barbara Minnig, b. March 6, 1765, d. April 25, 1845, and m. John Ben- nethun, b. March 15, 1765; d. December 22, 1828. She was a sister of Benjamin and Jonathan Minnig, and a daughter of Christopher.
Christopher Minnich, on the Company Lists as Chris- tian, was a Sergeant in Captain Ferdinand Ritter's Com- pany, Lieut. Col. Joseph Hiester's 6th Battalion, Berks County Militia, in service, Revolutionary War, from August ro to September 9, 1780.1
The first child of Christopher and Anna Münch was John George Michael, b. February 6, 1758; bap. March 5. Sponsors, John George Michael Münch (Simon) and Strauss (Bern church).
From the records of Bern Church, Bern Township, 1739 to 1835, Genealogical Society, Philadelphia :
Children of Stophel (Christopher) Muench: Anna Mary, bap. No- vember 20, 1774; John Adam, bap. November 17, 1776.
Children of Jost Muench: Elizabeth, bap. December 25, 1778.
(Note 1-Penna. Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. VI.)
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Children of Jacob Muench: Catharine, b. January 31, 1785; bap. March 6, 1785. Sponsors, Stophel Muench and wife Sarah.
John Jacob, b. January 16, 1787; bap. March 11. Sponsors, Jona- than Muench and Eva Lerch.
Rev. Wm.4 G. Minnich (Rev. George3 P. Münch, George,2 Simon1), b. February 16, 1811, at Annville, Lebanon County. He grew up at the family home on a farm near Friedensburg, Schuylkill County, his father being pastor of Jacob's, St. Pe- ter's, Hetzel's, Summer Hill, Zion's and St. John's Friedens- burg, Lutheran congregations. Wm. Minnich, as he then spelled his name having changed it from Muench, as he sometimes signed it, was licensed to the Lutheran Ministeri- um of Pennsylvania, 1836, and assisted his father in that field. In 1836 he moved to Pottsville, a Lutheran congrega- tion having been formed here, 1834. They united with the German Reformed people and built a small frame church on the site, North Third Street, upon which stands the present handsome edifice, Trinity Lutheran church, Dr. J. H. Um- benhen, pastor. The corner stone was laid June 18, 1837. Mr Mennig labored in Pottsville until 1859, gradually relin- quishing the country congregations and concentrating his work on the churches, in Schuylkill Haven, Spring Garden, Minersville and other towns which he founded, there now being twenty odd German and English Lutheran congrega- tions in the field he once filled. About twenty-five years' ser- vice he accepted a call from St. Paul's church, Allentown, and removed to that city.
He was thrice married. His first wife, Rebecca Seiler, died, 1858. Issue: four children deceased, and two sons, Luther, d. August, 1914, and Augustus W., Allentown, and two daughters, Mrs. A. F. Barber, d., and Mrs. Thos. D. Wilcox, of Freeport, Ill. Second wife, Mrs. Sarah A. Weaver, m. 1861, d. 1875. Third wife, Amanda Bachman, who survived him. William G. Minnich died July 15, 1877, at Allentown, after forty-one years of active service in the ministry. He was in many respects a remarkable man and a
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most zealous advocate of the religious cause and principles he espoused. His labors partook of the nature of those of a missionary. He opposed formalism in worship and was a promoter of piety in the Lutheran churches of which he had charge. Largely self-educated, he was richly endowed with spirituality and his discourses were conceived and endowed with poetic imagery and original theories that drew to him hearers, in Pottsville, fifty years ago, that were mem- bers of other orthodox denominations, but like others, loved him for his kindliness of heart and for the fervor of the love of God and the church that burned within him.
(George, Augustus and Luther, the latter for four years, were all soldiers in the Civil War.)
Jonathan3 Minnig, (Christopher2, Simon1), b. February 24, 1764, d. April 24, 1844, married twice ; m. Susanna Lasch, b. April 21, 1771, d. March 10, 1838; no children. His first wife was a sister of Anna Maria Lasch, b. 1769, d. 1829, wife of John Gruber, b. 1769; d. 1840. Tombstones Daniel's Corner Church, Robesonia.
Benjamin3 Minnig, (Christopher2, Simon1), b. March 17, 1776, d. September 23, 1832; wf. Susanna Schoepler, m. 1791, b. October 4, 1775, d. September 23, 1832. Issue, five sons and five daughters; Jacob, b. February 18, 1806, d. June 14, 1878; m. Elizabeth Potteiger, b. March 12, 1812, d. May 31, 1880; c., Adam and Elenora, who married Jonathan L. Klopp.
Jacob+ Minnig, (Benjamin3, Christopher2, Simon1), his first wife was Isabella, da. of Daniel Klopp. (Daniel Klopp. of Berks County, was an early settler of Pottsville. He had a butcher's stall in the first market house, and kept a shop in the building now used as an office by Dr. G. R. Corson. He weighed over three hundred pounds and was a very dig- nified man acting as chief burgess of the town for a time. In his shop he wore a tall silk hat while cutting meat and serving
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customers.) Jacob's second wife was Margaret Leiss, b. in Heidelberg Township. January 29. 1836, m. November I, 1856.
Adam5 Minnig (Jacob4, Benjamin3. Christopher2, Simon1), b. October 11, 1834, d. December 16, 1904. He was married to Isabella Henrietta Klopp, b. January 29, 1836, d. January 12, 1898. Their children were Deborah, wf. of Rev. A. John- son Long, d., for a number of years in charge of the Bethany Orphans' Home of the Reformed church at Womelsdorf. Children, Laura, m. to Harry Stauffer, Middletown ; Mabel, m. to Joseph Kalbach, Chambersburg; Anna, m. John Yerger, Shillington. Mrs. Long lives at Robesonia and at Chambers- burg with her daughters.
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