Fenstermacher, William John b. 11 Oct 1740 Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA d. 27 Nov 1801 Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA: My Damon Genealogy

1740 - 1801 (61 years)

Name	Fenstermacher, William John [1]
Birth	11 Oct 1740	Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA [2, 3]
Gender	Male
DAR Ancestor Number	A039067
Military	Revolutionary War Veteran
Tombstone Photo	Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA [3]
	Heidelberg Union Cemetery; Original tombstone no longer exists
Death	27 Nov 1801	Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA [2, 3]
Burial	Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA [3, 4]
Person ID	I83842	My Damon Genealogy
Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

Father	Fenstermacher, Johann Jacob, b. 21 May 1709, Achtelsbach, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany d. 1798, Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA (Age 88 years)
Relationship	Natural
Mother	Schweig, Margaretta, b. 09 Nov 1719, Traunen, Germany d. 1790, Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA (Age 70 years)
Relationship	Natural
Marriage	20 Apr 1736	Traunen, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Family ID	F31516	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Elizabeth, Margaret, b. 15 Oct 1744, PA d. 19 Apr 1815, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA (Age 70 years)

Marriage Abt 1762

Children

	1. Fenstermacher, Anna Catherine, b. Between 1763 and 1765, Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA d. Abt 1765 (Age ~ 2 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	2. Fenstermacher, Philip, b. 06 Oct 1771, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA d. 31 Dec 1829 (Age 58 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	3. Fenstermacher, George, b. 18 Jan 1773, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA d. 02 Aug 1835, Fairfield, OH (Age 62 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	4. Fenstermacher, William II, b. 22 Mar 1775, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA d. 19 Aug 1850 (Age 75 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	5. Fenstermacher, Jacob, b. 1777 [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	6. Fenstermacher, Charles, b. 1780 [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	7. Fenstermacher, John, b. 25 Oct 1781, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA d. 10 Aug 1827, Salem, Luzerne Co., PA (Age 45 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]
	8. Fenstermacher, Susanna Elizabeth, b. 25 Oct 1787, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA d. 15 Apr 1848 (Age 60 years) [Father: Natural] [Mother: Natural]

Family ID F31514 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 1 Mar 2014

Event Map

	Birth - 11 Oct 1740 - Longswamp Twp., Berks Co., PA
	Tombstone Photo - Heidelberg Union Cemetery; Original tombstone no longer exists - - Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA
	Death - 27 Nov 1801 - Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA
	Burial - - Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA

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Headstones
Fenstermacher, William John

Notes

From Find A Grave.com:
About 1770, he purchased land 3 miles southwest of Slatington, PA. and settled in Heidelberg Township, Lehigh County, where he became a man of prominence. He operated a distillery in connection with his farm of 170 acres.

During the early days of the Revolutionary War, in 1778, he was a member of Captain Conrad Roeder's 5th Company of the 3rd Battalion. In 1780 he served under the same Captain in the 2nd Class, 5th Company, 6th Battalion of the Northampton County Militia.

Records show that of his 7 children, all except William moved to the Wyoming Valley in Columbia and Lucern Counties.

William was survived by his Widow (who later remarried) and his seven children: Philip, GEORGE, William, Jacob (who never married and had moved to Schuylkill Co. PA), Charles (who never married and had moved to Wyoming Co. PA), Elizabeth (wife of Gottfried Peter) and John. He was buried in the Old Heidelberg Cemetery, but there is no longer any marker of his grave site.

Exerpt from http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dettweiler/webdocs/e066.htm:

FENSTERMACHER FAMILY
From: History Of Lehigh County, Vol 1,2,& 3.
Transcribed by: Sandra Hart

William Fenstermacher, son of Jacob, was born Oct. 11, 1740, and about the year 1770 settled in Heidelberg township, this county, where he became a man of prominence. During the early days of the Revolutionary War he was a member of Capt. Conrad Roeder's Fifth Company of the Third Battalion of militia, and later served under the same captain in the fifth battalion. He operated a distillery in connection with his farm of 170 acres, and died Nov. 27, 1801, survived by his widow, Margareth Elizabeth, and five children: (1) Philip, b. Oct. 6, 1771; (2) George, b. Jan. 18, 1773; (3) William, b. March 22, 1775; (4) John; and (5) Elizabeth, b. Oct. 25, 1787, wife of Gottfried Peter. Another daughter, Anna Catharina, born in Longswamp township in 1763, probably died young, as no mention is made of her. William Fenstermacher is buried in the old Heidelberg cemetery, and doubtless also his wife, although no trace can be found of her tombstone.

Sources

[S618] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
Record for Johann Jacob Fenstermacher
[S685] Charles Rhoads Roberts, Roberts, Charles Rhoads, History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families: Vol II, (Name: Lehigh Valley Publishing Company, Ltd; Location: Allentown, PA; Date: 1914;), 344.
[S894] Heidelburg Union Cemetery, (Heidelburg Twp, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; 5187 Irvin Rd, just north of Heidelburg Union), Wilhem Fenstermacher marker.
[S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 17 August 2013), memorial page for William Fenstermacher (1740-1801), Find A Grave Memorial no. 77081214, citing Old Heidelberg Cemetery, Sour Mills, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, created by Kriston Fenstermacher Anderson.