Re: Baumgartner, MD & PA, 1765-1946
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Re: Baumgartner, MD & PA, 1765-1946
Beatrice Rutherford 1/23/00
I don't know Jacob's siblings AND there were several Jacob Baumgard(t)ners in the PA/MD area during that time, so making a sure match is difficult, BUT here is most of what I know about Jacob:
Jacob Baumgardner was born on November 15, 1765, in Pennsylvania.It is said that the Baumgartners came to the United States from the town of Baden, in the Duchy of Baden, in the Black Forest section of Germany.Like others who immigrated from
that region, they were Catholics who sought sanctuary here because of religious
disturbances in their native country.In his history of the Baumgartner family, written in 1944, John Hampton Baumgartner states that the original American member of our branch of the Baumgartners came to Philadelphia in 1733, (seven years before Frederick the Great came to power) and settled in Pennsylvania.He offers no proof of this, but the hypothesis is plausible.
Jacob originally lived in PA, later moving to Piney Creek, now in Carroll Co., Maryland, before that section of the colonies had been intersected by the Mason-Dixon Line.Rearing his family in that region, his descendants settled in the
adjacent communities on both sides of the boundary between the colonies. Jacob was a
farmer and a merchant, engaged in the manufacture of pottery.
The Baumgardners were active members of the Catholic church.They attended old Conewago Chapel, near Hanover, Pennsylvania, which had been established in 1721 as one of a chain of Jesuit missions connecting Quebec with French Louisiana.In 1791, Jacob and his family were among the original members of St. Aloysius'Parish, in Littlestown, Pennsylvania, and he was one of the trustees that erected the first church building there, in 1840.His son, Samuel, was the organist and choirmaster for the church.
Mary Magdalene (Kraft) Baumgardner was the oldest child of Conrad and Dorothy (Rosch) Kraft.Her birth is recorded in the records of Trinity Lutheran Church in Berks Co., Pennsylvania, on February 2, 1766.Being from a Lutheran family, it must have been difficult for Mary Magdalene in her marriage to the Catholic Jacob Baumgardner.Their children were raised as Catholics, but Mary must have never completely converted to that faith.When Jacob and Mary died within a month of each other in 1846, they were buried at Conewago Chapel.However, both were later reinterred -- Jacob lies with other Baumgartners in the cemetery at St. Aloysius'(Catholic) Church, in Littlestown, PA, while Mary Magdalene rests at St. John’s
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Adams Co., PA.
Together, Jacob and Mary raised four boys and three girls.Three of the boys,
married sisters; Jacob, Jr. married Magdalene Kuntz, John married Margaret Kuntz, and Samuel married Barbara Kuntz.
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