Samuel (Souder) Geissinger (1743–1775)
Born about 1743 in Upper Saucon, Bucks (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania - his father's property was adjacent to the Blue Church (Blue Church Road and Applebutter Hill area)
Died about 1775 in Upper Milford, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania
His Will was recorded in 1773 and Probate in 1775
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Sickly at a young age fearing an oncoming early death, Samuel Geissinger wrote his will providing wife Angenes with a dower, naming brother John Geissinger as executor; with 4 children provided for (unnamed in 1773 Will, named in 1775 probate guardianship proceedings); Witnesses: Henry Kooken, Johannes Schlicher, Martin Schaeffer
{note: Phillip Geissinger of Upper Saucon Township adjacent to Blue Church; Martin Schaeffer is Blue Church Schoolmaster and Sermon Reader; he also will become the father-in-law of Martin Paul (1763-1822)(who married Martin Schaefer's daughter Catherina), the elder brother of Michael Paul (1768-1821); Michael Paul will about 18 years later marry Samuel Geissinger's orphaned infant daughter named in these probate proceedings, Elizabetha Geissinger}
The four children of Samuel and Angenes Geissinger named in the Probate proceedings are:
Phillip Geissinger (Kaisinger) 1770–1845 married Barbara Fretz (1777–1852)
John Geissinger (1771– )
Mary Geissinger (1772– )
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township
Samuel Geissinger is the son of Hans Philip Geissinger (1701–1791) and Anna Maria Sauter or Souder (1711–1779), who together with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others arrived on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond in Philadelphia on 15 August 1717 and made their way to Coopersberg in Upper Saucon Township where they built a meeting house, and the Lehigh Valley Mennonite Cemetery and congregation continues today. Phillip Geissinger's children became both Mennonites and German Brethren or German Reformed, and some Geissingers in the neighborhood married Lutheran spouses over the decades.
Philip Geissinger and Anna Maria Souder were married about 1730 and had 11 children:
Phillip Geissinger (1732–1809)
Jacob Geissinger (1733–1816)
Anna Maria Geissinger (1735–1784)
Daniel Geissinger (1735–1801)
Henrich 'Henry' Geissinger (1737–1817)
Johannes Geissinger (1739–1811)
Samuel Geissinger (1743–1775)
David Geissinger (1745–1743)
Elizabeth Geissinger (1746–1813)
Abraham Geissinger (1749–1825)
Barbara Geissinger (1752–1837)
Son David died young.
Under the Security Act of 1778, three of their sons' families had their livestock, grain, farm tools, and household belongings down to the last spool of thread seized and auctioned by an overzealous local commander because as a matter of conscience informed by their Old Mennonite faith they avoided taking an oath of allegiance. Although willing to perform other services including as wagoners and even providing material support, the commander meted out the extreme punishment. The wives petitioned the Philadelphia Assembly for relief with a written plea, but it was never acknowledged or acted upon.
Philip Geissinger's wife Anna Maria Sauter (or Souder) died the following Spring. She was the daughter of Johann Jacob Sauter | Souder (1685–1757) and Anna Margaretha Rosenberger (1687–1759), from near Mannheim in Württemberg, Germany, at that time the Palatinate along the Rhine River.
Hans Philip Geissinger was born 22 June 1701 at Ibersheim, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany, a bit northwest of Mannheim. The Mennonites had a meeting hosue at Ibersheim, and a Meeting House still stands in Ibhersheim after centuries.
Philip Geissinger is said to have arrived around 15 August 1717 with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others together on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond sailing to the port of Philadelphia.
Elsewhere it is recorded that Hans Philip Geissiner arrived 18 Sep 1727 on the Ship "William and Sarah" - he was listed as Hans Fill Keysinger and was the only Geissinger listed on the ship {some transcriptions of the old German script use yet other characters in the transcriptions of the ship log and Philadelphia oath log}.
He is named in a list of immigrants residing in then Bucks County (so named until 1752) who were naturalized between 9 Jan 1729 to 1730 and & noted on the papers "solely for the purpose of naming those who arrived in the colonies previous to 1718" - "George Bachman, John Dreistel, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Sauder, Philip Geisinger...
The Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House was a log building erected in about 1735-38 near Coopersburg, then Bucks County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania. It had a room for the church and another for the church school, separated by a swinging partition. In 1749 Philip Geissinger & others were appointed to build another wooden frame meeting house.
Hans Philip Geissinger owned several hundred acres in the area of the Blue Church, and in fact deeded the land where Blue Church and the Lutheran Schoolhouse where built, and the Schoolhouse teacher and sometimes sermon reader at the Blue Church had previously upon arrival about 1750 entered into a redemption contract for a term of five years with Phillip Geissinger (who in turn paid the captain the fare for the passage). At the end of the contract Phillip Gessing sold Martin Schaeffer at an affordable price a tract of land from his holdings, giving him his start as a property owning farmer.
(Martin Schaeffer's daughter Catherine Schaeffer (1763– ) will become the sister-in-law of Elisatha Geissinger after Catherine Schaeffer married Martin Paul (1763-1819), the brother of Elisabetha Geissinger's husband Michael Paul (1765-1821))
Philip Geissinger died 31 July 1791 residing near the Blue Church in Upper Saucon Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania and was buried with his wife who had died three years prior in the Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery near Coopersberg.
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Descendants
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Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was the orphaned daughter of Samuel (1740-1775) and Angena Geissinger, who lived near Blue Church in Lehigh County, a bit to the west just across the Upper Saucon Township Line in Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. {Belonged to Bucks County prior to 1752, then Northampton County until 1812).
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was born in Upper Milford Township, Norhtumberland County (since 1812 Lehigh County), and married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township nearby. They baptized the first four of their children at the Blue Church (St Paul's Ev.Lutheran and Reformed) in Lehigh Valley (located at the corner of Applebutter Hill Road and Blue Church Road).
They moved in 1800 to the Schwaben Creek Valley north of Rough and Ready in Mahantongo Valley and south of the Line Mountain, 3/4 mile south of Schwaben Creek Road and between Leck Kill and Howerter's Church at the village of Line Mountain.
Just as the others in "The Great Mahantongo Migration" of Lehigh Valley Germans settling lands further west after the Revolutionary War, they traveled over trails, likely including parts of the ancient Tulpehocken Trail, through the Mahantongo Valley in Schuylkill County, past Rough & Ready, and turned north up through the pass at Klingerstown at the west end of the Valley into the Schwaben Creek Valley of Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
The Michael Paul farm is at the curve of Old Schoolhouse Road as it turns into the Old State Road about 3/4 mile south of the Schoolhouse up on Schwaben Creek Road, on the south side of the Old State Road at the junction of another little lane that goes directly south in the direction of Rough and Ready across the county line in Schuylkill County.
Their fifth child Catharine Paul (1800–1872) was born in this part of Mahanoy Township which today is in the center of Upper Mahanoy Township, and was baptized at Himmel's Lutheran and Reformed Church a few miles to the west at Rebuck, one of the earliest churches in the Pennsylvania countryside with some of the oldest still-existing church book registers.
Michael Paul was then one of the founders of a newly built log church to serve the new settlers at Line Mountain, a couple miles directly east of Michael's farm, referred to as Howerter's Church. A wooden frame structure built a few years later replaced the first hewn log church, and a third wooden frame church burned in the 1940s, but Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Cemetery remains, with the Northumberland and Schuylkill County Line running through the cemetery.
One of the first baptisms at Howerter's Ev. Lutheran and Reformed Church was their son Isaac Paul (1803–1854), first in the baptism register in 1803 shortly after the church was put up, followed by siblings Samuel F Paul (1804–1884), Susanna Paul (1807– ), Tobias Paul (1808– ), Elisabetha Paul (1811–1905).
Their children were confirmed at Howerter's Church, including their oldest son Johannes Paul who was confirmed on 24 April 1808 in the first Confirmation class of the recently formed congregation, and the siblings are noted in other Confirmation classes at this same church.
Michael Paul died relatively young in 1821 still residing near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy Township, and widowed Elisabetha remained on the farm with Michael Jr and his wife Catherine Kunzelman and their family.
Michael Paul and Elisabetha Geissinger belonged to the Lutheran side of the Lutheran and Reformed union church, and are buried in Howerter's cemetery, although the old burial no longer has a headstone and the grave space in no longer known.
Michael Paul (1768-1821) and Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) raised ten children:
Johannes Paul (1793–1862) married Barbara Schaeffer/Shaffer (c1796-1859), about 1817 and after the birth of their first child Louisiana Paul on 28 February 1922, they traveled overland to the Ohio River, ventured down the river to Butler County, Ohio about 1823, and raised ten children there in Hanover Township, residing between Millville and Hamilton, Ohio.
Barbara Paul (1794– ) married Abraham Diehl (1785–1850) and lived on the Diehl farm on Schwaben Creek Road just east of the Old Schoolhouse Road (near where the rebuilt German Reformed Church stands, originally the Reformed side of Howerter's Church)
John Philip Paul (1796– ) (may have died young, before 1800)
Michael Paul, Jr (1798–1879) married Catherina Kuntzelman (1800–1873) and remained on the Michael Paul farm after the death of his father in 1821, his widowed mother remaining in the household. Siblings Michael and Catharina Paul confirmed in class of 25 on 1 May 1814 at Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Church, Line Mountain.
Catherine Paul (1800–1866) married John Stahlman (1797-1867) of Deep Creek Valley in Lower Mahantongo Township, in Schuylkill County, what later became Hegins Township. They lived first in Mifflin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, attending and baptizing their children at the Stone Valley (Zion) Lutheran Church near Hickory Corners, through the mid 1830s, and later before 1840 moved to Redbank Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and again sometime before 1860 to Eldred Townhip in Jefferson County, near Roseville. Catherine Paul's sister Elizabeth Paul married John Stahlman's brother Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), who also moved to Redbank in Armstrong County (later part of Clarion County), where the brother's farms were adjacent.
Isaac Paul (1803–1854) married Elizabeth Angstadt (1810–1899) and moved to Germantown, Indiana and eventually Tipton, Indiana.
Samuel F Paul (1804–1884) married 1st Catharina Hepler (1810–1838), who bore five children but died young, then 2nd married Lydia Ann Hedrick (1820–1897), who bore 16 children - Samuel and Lydia moved to Tipton, Indiana area.
Susanna Paul (1807– ) Born 20 November 1807 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania and died there probably same year 1807 or shortly after.
Tobias Paul (1808– ) Born 29 October 1808 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Baptism of Tobias Paul on 4 Dec 1808 at St Jacob's Lutheran Church (Howerter's) at Line Mountain - sponsors are father Michael's nephew Michael [Ott] Paul & wife Catharina (Diehl) Brothers Samuel & Tobias Paul were confirmed on 3 May 1823 in a Lutheran class at the St Jacob's Lutheran and German Reformed Church. First wife Susan was probably born about 1811 and had at least seven children. While residing at Orwigsburg, Tobias married 2nd wife Susanna Lindemuth (1833–1922) on 13 March 1853 at Rough and Ready, Upper Mahantongo, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, and they had six children. Their first son was born at Landingville in 1854, and in 1870 Tobias was a teamster at Pottsville. He died their in 1896 and is buried in Salem Evangelical Cemetery at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Paul (1811–1905) married Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), the brother of John Stahlman who married Elizabeth's sister Catherine Paul (1800–1866), moving to adjacent farms in Redbank Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
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Born about 1743 in Upper Saucon, Bucks (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania - his father's property was adjacent to the Blue Church (Blue Church Road and Applebutter Hill area)
Died about 1775 in Upper Milford, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania
His Will was recorded in 1773 and Probate in 1775
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Sickly at a young age fearing an oncoming early death, Samuel Geissinger wrote his will providing wife Angenes with a dower, naming brother John Geissinger as executor; with 4 children provided for (unnamed in 1773 Will, named in 1775 probate guardianship proceedings); Witnesses: Henry Kooken, Johannes Schlicher, Martin Schaeffer
{note: Phillip Geissinger of Upper Saucon Township adjacent to Blue Church; Martin Schaeffer is Blue Church Schoolmaster and Sermon Reader; he also will become the father-in-law of Martin Paul (1763-1822)(who married Martin Schaefer's daughter Catherina), the elder brother of Michael Paul (1768-1821); Michael Paul will about 18 years later marry Samuel Geissinger's orphaned infant daughter named in these probate proceedings, Elizabetha Geissinger}
The four children of Samuel and Angenes Geissinger named in the Probate proceedings are:
Phillip Geissinger (Kaisinger) 1770–1845 married Barbara Fretz (1777–1852)
John Geissinger (1771– )
Mary Geissinger (1772– )
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township
Samuel Geissinger is the son of Hans Philip Geissinger (1701–1791) and Anna Maria Sauter or Souder (1711–1779), who together with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others arrived on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond in Philadelphia on 15 August 1717 and made their way to Coopersberg in Upper Saucon Township where they built a meeting house, and the Lehigh Valley Mennonite Cemetery and congregation continues today. Phillip Geissinger's children became both Mennonites and German Brethren or German Reformed, and some Geissingers in the neighborhood married Lutheran spouses over the decades.
Philip Geissinger and Anna Maria Souder were married about 1730 and had 11 children:
Phillip Geissinger (1732–1809)
Jacob Geissinger (1733–1816)
Anna Maria Geissinger (1735–1784)
Daniel Geissinger (1735–1801)
Henrich 'Henry' Geissinger (1737–1817)
Johannes Geissinger (1739–1811)
Samuel Geissinger (1743–1775)
David Geissinger (1745–1743)
Elizabeth Geissinger (1746–1813)
Abraham Geissinger (1749–1825)
Barbara Geissinger (1752–1837)
Son David died young.
Under the Security Act of 1778, three of their sons' families had their livestock, grain, farm tools, and household belongings down to the last spool of thread seized and auctioned by an overzealous local commander because as a matter of conscience informed by their Old Mennonite faith they avoided taking an oath of allegiance. Although willing to perform other services including as wagoners and even providing material support, the commander meted out the extreme punishment. The wives petitioned the Philadelphia Assembly for relief with a written plea, but it was never acknowledged or acted upon.
Philip Geissinger's wife Anna Maria Sauter (or Souder) died the following Spring. She was the daughter of Johann Jacob Sauter | Souder (1685–1757) and Anna Margaretha Rosenberger (1687–1759), from near Mannheim in Württemberg, Germany, at that time the Palatinate along the Rhine River.
Hans Philip Geissinger was born 22 June 1701 at Ibersheim, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany, a bit northwest of Mannheim. The Mennonites had a meeting hosue at Ibersheim, and a Meeting House still stands in Ibhersheim after centuries.
Philip Geissinger is said to have arrived around 15 August 1717 with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others together on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond sailing to the port of Philadelphia.
Elsewhere it is recorded that Hans Philip Geissiner arrived 18 Sep 1727 on the Ship "William and Sarah" - he was listed as Hans Fill Keysinger and was the only Geissinger listed on the ship {some transcriptions of the old German script use yet other characters in the transcriptions of the ship log and Philadelphia oath log}.
He is named in a list of immigrants residing in then Bucks County (so named until 1752) who were naturalized between 9 Jan 1729 to 1730 and & noted on the papers "solely for the purpose of naming those who arrived in the colonies previous to 1718" - "George Bachman, John Dreistel, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Sauder, Philip Geisinger...
The Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House was a log building erected in about 1735-38 near Coopersburg, then Bucks County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania. It had a room for the church and another for the church school, separated by a swinging partition. In 1749 Philip Geissinger & others were appointed to build another wooden frame meeting house.
Hans Philip Geissinger owned several hundred acres in the area of the Blue Church, and in fact deeded the land where Blue Church and the Lutheran Schoolhouse where built, and the Schoolhouse teacher and sometimes sermon reader at the Blue Church had previously upon arrival about 1750 entered into a redemption contract for a term of five years with Phillip Geissinger (who in turn paid the captain the fare for the passage). At the end of the contract Phillip Gessing sold Martin Schaeffer at an affordable price a tract of land from his holdings, giving him his start as a property owning farmer.
(Martin Schaeffer's daughter Catherine Schaeffer (1763– ) will become the sister-in-law of Elisatha Geissinger after Catherine Schaeffer married Martin Paul (1763-1819), the brother of Elisabetha Geissinger's husband Michael Paul (1765-1821))
Philip Geissinger died 31 July 1791 residing near the Blue Church in Upper Saucon Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania and was buried with his wife who had died three years prior in the Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery near Coopersberg.
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Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was the orphaned daughter of Samuel (1740-1775) and Angena Geissinger, who lived near Blue Church in Lehigh County, a bit to the west just across the Upper Saucon Township Line in Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. {Belonged to Bucks County prior to 1752, then Northampton County until 1812).
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was born in Upper Milford Township, Norhtumberland County (since 1812 Lehigh County), and married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township nearby. They baptized the first four of their children at the Blue Church (St Paul's Ev.Lutheran and Reformed) in Lehigh Valley (located at the corner of Applebutter Hill Road and Blue Church Road).
They moved in 1800 to the Schwaben Creek Valley north of Rough and Ready in Mahantongo Valley and south of the Line Mountain, 3/4 mile south of Schwaben Creek Road and between Leck Kill and Howerter's Church at the village of Line Mountain.
Just as the others in "The Great Mahantongo Migration" of Lehigh Valley Germans settling lands further west after the Revolutionary War, they traveled over trails, likely including parts of the ancient Tulpehocken Trail, through the Mahantongo Valley in Schuylkill County, past Rough & Ready, and turned north up through the pass at Klingerstown at the west end of the Valley into the Schwaben Creek Valley of Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
The Michael Paul farm is at the curve of Old Schoolhouse Road as it turns into the Old State Road about 3/4 mile south of the Schoolhouse up on Schwaben Creek Road, on the south side of the Old State Road at the junction of another little lane that goes directly south in the direction of Rough and Ready across the county line in Schuylkill County.
Their fifth child Catharine Paul (1800–1872) was born in this part of Mahanoy Township which today is in the center of Upper Mahanoy Township, and was baptized at Himmel's Lutheran and Reformed Church a few miles to the west at Rebuck, one of the earliest churches in the Pennsylvania countryside with some of the oldest still-existing church book registers.
Michael Paul was then one of the founders of a newly built log church to serve the new settlers at Line Mountain, a couple miles directly east of Michael's farm, referred to as Howerter's Church. A wooden frame structure built a few years later replaced the first hewn log church, and a third wooden frame church burned in the 1940s, but Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Cemetery remains, with the Northumberland and Schuylkill County Line running through the cemetery.
One of the first baptisms at Howerter's Ev. Lutheran and Reformed Church was their son Isaac Paul (1803–1854), first in the baptism register in 1803 shortly after the church was put up, followed by siblings Samuel F Paul (1804–1884), Susanna Paul (1807– ), Tobias Paul (1808– ), Elisabetha Paul (1811–1905).
Their children were confirmed at Howerter's Church, including their oldest son Johannes Paul who was confirmed on 24 April 1808 in the first Confirmation class of the recently formed congregation, and the siblings are noted in other Confirmation classes at this same church.
Michael Paul died relatively young in 1821 still residing near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy Township, and widowed Elisabetha remained on the farm with Michael Jr and his wife Catherine Kunzelman and their family.
Michael Paul and Elisabetha Geissinger belonged to the Lutheran side of the Lutheran and Reformed union church, and are buried in Howerter's cemetery, although the old burial no longer has a headstone and the grave space in no longer known.
Michael Paul (1768-1821) and Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) raised ten children:
Johannes Paul (1793–1862) married Barbara Schaeffer/Shaffer (c1796-1859), about 1817 and after the birth of their first child Louisiana Paul on 28 February 1922, they traveled overland to the Ohio River, ventured down the river to Butler County, Ohio about 1823, and raised ten children there in Hanover Township, residing between Millville and Hamilton, Ohio.
Barbara Paul (1794– ) married Abraham Diehl (1785–1850) and lived on the Diehl farm on Schwaben Creek Road just east of the Old Schoolhouse Road (near where the rebuilt German Reformed Church stands, originally the Reformed side of Howerter's Church)
John Philip Paul (1796– ) (may have died young, before 1800)
Michael Paul, Jr (1798–1879) married Catherina Kuntzelman (1800–1873) and remained on the Michael Paul farm after the death of his father in 1821, his widowed mother remaining in the household. Siblings Michael and Catharina Paul confirmed in class of 25 on 1 May 1814 at Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Church, Line Mountain.
Catherine Paul (1800–1866) married John Stahlman (1797-1867) of Deep Creek Valley in Lower Mahantongo Township, in Schuylkill County, what later became Hegins Township. They lived first in Mifflin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, attending and baptizing their children at the Stone Valley (Zion) Lutheran Church near Hickory Corners, through the mid 1830s, and later before 1840 moved to Redbank Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and again sometime before 1860 to Eldred Townhip in Jefferson County, near Roseville. Catherine Paul's sister Elizabeth Paul married John Stahlman's brother Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), who also moved to Redbank in Armstrong County (later part of Clarion County), where the brother's farms were adjacent.
Isaac Paul (1803–1854) married Elizabeth Angstadt (1810–1899) and moved to Germantown, Indiana and eventually Tipton, Indiana.
Samuel F Paul (1804–1884) married 1st Catharina Hepler (1810–1838), who bore five children but died young, then 2nd married Lydia Ann Hedrick (1820–1897), who bore 16 children - Samuel and Lydia moved to Tipton, Indiana area.
Susanna Paul (1807– ) Born 20 November 1807 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania and died there probably same year 1807 or shortly after.
Tobias Paul (1808– ) Born 29 October 1808 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Baptism of Tobias Paul on 4 Dec 1808 at St Jacob's Lutheran Church (Howerter's) at Line Mountain - sponsors are father Michael's nephew Michael [Ott] Paul & wife Catharina (Diehl) Brothers Samuel & Tobias Paul were confirmed on 3 May 1823 in a Lutheran class at the St Jacob's Lutheran and German Reformed Church. First wife Susan was probably born about 1811 and had at least seven children. While residing at Orwigsburg, Tobias married 2nd wife Susanna Lindemuth (1833–1922) on 13 March 1853 at Rough and Ready, Upper Mahantongo, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, and they had six children. Their first son was born at Landingville in 1854, and in 1870 Tobias was a teamster at Pottsville. He died their in 1896 and is buried in Salem Evangelical Cemetery at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Paul (1811–1905) married Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), the brother of John Stahlman who married Elizabeth's sister Catherine Paul (1800–1866), moving to adjacent farms in Redbank Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
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Samuel (Souder) Geissinger (1743–1775)
Born about 1743 in Upper Saucon, Bucks (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania - his father's property was adjacent to the Blue Church (Blue Church Road and Applebutter Hill area)
Died about 1775 in Upper Milford, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania
His Will was recorded in 1773 and Probate in 1775
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Sickly at a young age fearing an oncoming early death, Samuel Geissinger wrote his will providing wife Angenes with a dower, naming brother John Geissinger as executor; with 4 children provided for (unnamed in 1773 Will, named in 1775 probate guardianship proceedings); Witnesses: Henry Kooken, Johannes Schlicher, Martin Schaeffer
{note: Phillip Geissinger of Upper Saucon Township adjacent to Blue Church; Martin Schaeffer is Blue Church Schoolmaster and Sermon Reader; he also will become the father-in-law of Martin Paul (1763-1822)(who married Martin Schaefer's daughter Catherina), the elder brother of Michael Paul (1768-1821); Michael Paul will about 18 years later marry Samuel Geissinger's orphaned infant daughter named in these probate proceedings, Elizabetha Geissinger}
The four children of Samuel and Angenes Geissinger named in the Probate proceedings are:
Phillip Geissinger (Kaisinger) 1770–1845 married Barbara Fretz (1777–1852)
John Geissinger (1771– )
Mary Geissinger (1772– )
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township
Samuel Geissinger is the son of Hans Philip Geissinger (1701–1791) and Anna Maria Sauter or Souder (1711–1779), who together with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others arrived on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond in Philadelphia on 15 August 1717 and made their way to Coopersberg in Upper Saucon Township where they built a meeting house, and the Lehigh Valley Mennonite Cemetery and congregation continues today. Phillip Geissinger's children became both Mennonites and German Brethren or German Reformed, and some Geissingers in the neighborhood married Lutheran spouses over the decades.
Philip Geissinger and Anna Maria Souder were married about 1730 and had 11 children:
Phillip Geissinger (1732–1809)
Jacob Geissinger (1733–1816)
Anna Maria Geissinger (1735–1784)
Daniel Geissinger (1735–1801)
Henrich 'Henry' Geissinger (1737–1817)
Johannes Geissinger (1739–1811)
Samuel Geissinger (1743–1775)
David Geissinger (1745–1743)
Elizabeth Geissinger (1746–1813)
Abraham Geissinger (1749–1825)
Barbara Geissinger (1752–1837)
Son David died young.
Under the Security Act of 1778, three of their sons' families had their livestock, grain, farm tools, and household belongings down to the last spool of thread seized and auctioned by an overzealous local commander because as a matter of conscience informed by their Old Mennonite faith they avoided taking an oath of allegiance. Although willing to perform other services including as wagoners and even providing material support, the commander meted out the extreme punishment. The wives petitioned the Philadelphia Assembly for relief with a written plea, but it was never acknowledged or acted upon.
Philip Geissinger's wife Anna Maria Sauter (or Souder) died the following Spring. She was the daughter of Johann Jacob Sauter | Souder (1685–1757) and Anna Margaretha Rosenberger (1687–1759), from near Mannheim in Württemberg, Germany, at that time the Palatinate along the Rhine River.
Hans Philip Geissinger was born 22 June 1701 at Ibersheim, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany, a bit northwest of Mannheim. The Mennonites had a meeting hosue at Ibersheim, and a Meeting House still stands in Ibhersheim after centuries.
Philip Geissinger is said to have arrived around 15 August 1717 with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others together on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond sailing to the port of Philadelphia.
Elsewhere it is recorded that Hans Philip Geissiner arrived 18 Sep 1727 on the Ship "William and Sarah" - he was listed as Hans Fill Keysinger and was the only Geissinger listed on the ship {some transcriptions of the old German script use yet other characters in the transcriptions of the ship log and Philadelphia oath log}.
He is named in a list of immigrants residing in then Bucks County (so named until 1752) who were naturalized between 9 Jan 1729 to 1730 and & noted on the papers "solely for the purpose of naming those who arrived in the colonies previous to 1718" - "George Bachman, John Dreistel, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Sauder, Philip Geisinger...
The Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House was a log building erected in about 1735-38 near Coopersburg, then Bucks County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania. It had a room for the church and another for the church school, separated by a swinging partition. In 1749 Philip Geissinger & others were appointed to build another wooden frame meeting house.
Hans Philip Geissinger owned several hundred acres in the area of the Blue Church, and in fact deeded the land where Blue Church and the Lutheran Schoolhouse where built, and the Schoolhouse teacher and sometimes sermon reader at the Blue Church had previously upon arrival about 1750 entered into a redemption contract for a term of five years with Phillip Geissinger (who in turn paid the captain the fare for the passage). At the end of the contract Phillip Gessing sold Martin Schaeffer at an affordable price a tract of land from his holdings, giving him his start as a property owning farmer.
(Martin Schaeffer's daughter Catherine Schaeffer (1763– ) will become the sister-in-law of Elisatha Geissinger after Catherine Schaeffer married Martin Paul (1763-1819), the brother of Elisabetha Geissinger's husband Michael Paul (1765-1821))
Philip Geissinger died 31 July 1791 residing near the Blue Church in Upper Saucon Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania and was buried with his wife who had died three years prior in the Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery near Coopersberg.
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Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was the orphaned daughter of Samuel (1740-1775) and Angena Geissinger, who lived near Blue Church in Lehigh County, a bit to the west just across the Upper Saucon Township Line in Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. {Belonged to Bucks County prior to 1752, then Northampton County until 1812).
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was born in Upper Milford Township, Norhtumberland County (since 1812 Lehigh County), and married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township nearby. They baptized the first four of their children at the Blue Church (St Paul's Ev.Lutheran and Reformed) in Lehigh Valley (located at the corner of Applebutter Hill Road and Blue Church Road).
They moved in 1800 to the Schwaben Creek Valley north of Rough and Ready in Mahantongo Valley and south of the Line Mountain, 3/4 mile south of Schwaben Creek Road and between Leck Kill and Howerter's Church at the village of Line Mountain.
Just as the others in "The Great Mahantongo Migration" of Lehigh Valley Germans settling lands further west after the Revolutionary War, they traveled over trails, likely including parts of the ancient Tulpehocken Trail, through the Mahantongo Valley in Schuylkill County, past Rough & Ready, and turned north up through the pass at Klingerstown at the west end of the Valley into the Schwaben Creek Valley of Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
The Michael Paul farm is at the curve of Old Schoolhouse Road as it turns into the Old State Road about 3/4 mile south of the Schoolhouse up on Schwaben Creek Road, on the south side of the Old State Road at the junction of another little lane that goes directly south in the direction of Rough and Ready across the county line in Schuylkill County.
Their fifth child Catharine Paul (1800–1872) was born in this part of Mahanoy Township which today is in the center of Upper Mahanoy Township, and was baptized at Himmel's Lutheran and Reformed Church a few miles to the west at Rebuck, one of the earliest churches in the Pennsylvania countryside with some of the oldest still-existing church book registers.
Michael Paul was then one of the founders of a newly built log church to serve the new settlers at Line Mountain, a couple miles directly east of Michael's farm, referred to as Howerter's Church. A wooden frame structure built a few years later replaced the first hewn log church, and a third wooden frame church burned in the 1940s, but Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Cemetery remains, with the Northumberland and Schuylkill County Line running through the cemetery.
One of the first baptisms at Howerter's Ev. Lutheran and Reformed Church was their son Isaac Paul (1803–1854), first in the baptism register in 1803 shortly after the church was put up, followed by siblings Samuel F Paul (1804–1884), Susanna Paul (1807– ), Tobias Paul (1808– ), Elisabetha Paul (1811–1905).
Their children were confirmed at Howerter's Church, including their oldest son Johannes Paul who was confirmed on 24 April 1808 in the first Confirmation class of the recently formed congregation, and the siblings are noted in other Confirmation classes at this same church.
Michael Paul died relatively young in 1821 still residing near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy Township, and widowed Elisabetha remained on the farm with Michael Jr and his wife Catherine Kunzelman and their family.
Michael Paul and Elisabetha Geissinger belonged to the Lutheran side of the Lutheran and Reformed union church, and are buried in Howerter's cemetery, although the old burial no longer has a headstone and the grave space in no longer known.
Michael Paul (1768-1821) and Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) raised ten children:
Johannes Paul (1793–1862) married Barbara Schaeffer/Shaffer (c1796-1859), about 1817 and after the birth of their first child Louisiana Paul on 28 February 1922, they traveled overland to the Ohio River, ventured down the river to Butler County, Ohio about 1823, and raised ten children there in Hanover Township, residing between Millville and Hamilton, Ohio.
Barbara Paul (1794– ) married Abraham Diehl (1785–1850) and lived on the Diehl farm on Schwaben Creek Road just east of the Old Schoolhouse Road (near where the rebuilt German Reformed Church stands, originally the Reformed side of Howerter's Church)
John Philip Paul (1796– ) (may have died young, before 1800)
Michael Paul, Jr (1798–1879) married Catherina Kuntzelman (1800–1873) and remained on the Michael Paul farm after the death of his father in 1821, his widowed mother remaining in the household. Siblings Michael and Catharina Paul confirmed in class of 25 on 1 May 1814 at Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Church, Line Mountain.
Catherine Paul (1800–1866) married John Stahlman (1797-1867) of Deep Creek Valley in Lower Mahantongo Township, in Schuylkill County, what later became Hegins Township. They lived first in Mifflin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, attending and baptizing their children at the Stone Valley (Zion) Lutheran Church near Hickory Corners, through the mid 1830s, and later before 1840 moved to Redbank Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and again sometime before 1860 to Eldred Townhip in Jefferson County, near Roseville. Catherine Paul's sister Elizabeth Paul married John Stahlman's brother Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), who also moved to Redbank in Armstrong County (later part of Clarion County), where the brother's farms were adjacent.
Isaac Paul (1803–1854) married Elizabeth Angstadt (1810–1899) and moved to Germantown, Indiana and eventually Tipton, Indiana.
Samuel F Paul (1804–1884) married 1st Catharina Hepler (1810–1838), who bore five children but died young, then 2nd married Lydia Ann Hedrick (1820–1897), who bore 16 children - Samuel and Lydia moved to Tipton, Indiana area.
Susanna Paul (1807– ) Born 20 November 1807 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania and died there probably same year 1807 or shortly after.
Tobias Paul (1808– ) Born 29 October 1808 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Baptism of Tobias Paul on 4 Dec 1808 at St Jacob's Lutheran Church (Howerter's) at Line Mountain - sponsors are father Michael's nephew Michael [Ott] Paul & wife Catharina (Diehl) Brothers Samuel & Tobias Paul were confirmed on 3 May 1823 in a Lutheran class at the St Jacob's Lutheran and German Reformed Church. First wife Susan was probably born about 1811 and had at least seven children. While residing at Orwigsburg, Tobias married 2nd wife Susanna Lindemuth (1833–1922) on 13 March 1853 at Rough and Ready, Upper Mahantongo, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, and they had six children. Their first son was born at Landingville in 1854, and in 1870 Tobias was a teamster at Pottsville. He died their in 1896 and is buried in Salem Evangelical Cemetery at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Paul (1811–1905) married Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), the brother of John Stahlman who married Elizabeth's sister Catherine Paul (1800–1866), moving to adjacent farms in Redbank Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
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Born about 1743 in Upper Saucon, Bucks (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania - his father's property was adjacent to the Blue Church (Blue Church Road and Applebutter Hill area)
Died about 1775 in Upper Milford, Northampton (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania
His Will was recorded in 1773 and Probate in 1775
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Sickly at a young age fearing an oncoming early death, Samuel Geissinger wrote his will providing wife Angenes with a dower, naming brother John Geissinger as executor; with 4 children provided for (unnamed in 1773 Will, named in 1775 probate guardianship proceedings); Witnesses: Henry Kooken, Johannes Schlicher, Martin Schaeffer
{note: Phillip Geissinger of Upper Saucon Township adjacent to Blue Church; Martin Schaeffer is Blue Church Schoolmaster and Sermon Reader; he also will become the father-in-law of Martin Paul (1763-1822)(who married Martin Schaefer's daughter Catherina), the elder brother of Michael Paul (1768-1821); Michael Paul will about 18 years later marry Samuel Geissinger's orphaned infant daughter named in these probate proceedings, Elizabetha Geissinger}
The four children of Samuel and Angenes Geissinger named in the Probate proceedings are:
Phillip Geissinger (Kaisinger) 1770–1845 married Barbara Fretz (1777–1852)
John Geissinger (1771– )
Mary Geissinger (1772– )
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township
Samuel Geissinger is the son of Hans Philip Geissinger (1701–1791) and Anna Maria Sauter or Souder (1711–1779), who together with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others arrived on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond in Philadelphia on 15 August 1717 and made their way to Coopersberg in Upper Saucon Township where they built a meeting house, and the Lehigh Valley Mennonite Cemetery and congregation continues today. Phillip Geissinger's children became both Mennonites and German Brethren or German Reformed, and some Geissingers in the neighborhood married Lutheran spouses over the decades.
Philip Geissinger and Anna Maria Souder were married about 1730 and had 11 children:
Phillip Geissinger (1732–1809)
Jacob Geissinger (1733–1816)
Anna Maria Geissinger (1735–1784)
Daniel Geissinger (1735–1801)
Henrich 'Henry' Geissinger (1737–1817)
Johannes Geissinger (1739–1811)
Samuel Geissinger (1743–1775)
David Geissinger (1745–1743)
Elizabeth Geissinger (1746–1813)
Abraham Geissinger (1749–1825)
Barbara Geissinger (1752–1837)
Son David died young.
Under the Security Act of 1778, three of their sons' families had their livestock, grain, farm tools, and household belongings down to the last spool of thread seized and auctioned by an overzealous local commander because as a matter of conscience informed by their Old Mennonite faith they avoided taking an oath of allegiance. Although willing to perform other services including as wagoners and even providing material support, the commander meted out the extreme punishment. The wives petitioned the Philadelphia Assembly for relief with a written plea, but it was never acknowledged or acted upon.
Philip Geissinger's wife Anna Maria Sauter (or Souder) died the following Spring. She was the daughter of Johann Jacob Sauter | Souder (1685–1757) and Anna Margaretha Rosenberger (1687–1759), from near Mannheim in Württemberg, Germany, at that time the Palatinate along the Rhine River.
Hans Philip Geissinger was born 22 June 1701 at Ibersheim, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany, a bit northwest of Mannheim. The Mennonites had a meeting hosue at Ibersheim, and a Meeting House still stands in Ibhersheim after centuries.
Philip Geissinger is said to have arrived around 15 August 1717 with Mennonite leaders Hans Georg Bachman, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Souder and others together on a ship under the command of Captain Richmond sailing to the port of Philadelphia.
Elsewhere it is recorded that Hans Philip Geissiner arrived 18 Sep 1727 on the Ship "William and Sarah" - he was listed as Hans Fill Keysinger and was the only Geissinger listed on the ship {some transcriptions of the old German script use yet other characters in the transcriptions of the ship log and Philadelphia oath log}.
He is named in a list of immigrants residing in then Bucks County (so named until 1752) who were naturalized between 9 Jan 1729 to 1730 and & noted on the papers "solely for the purpose of naming those who arrived in the colonies previous to 1718" - "George Bachman, John Dreistel, Jacob Klemmer, Jacob Sauder, Philip Geisinger...
The Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House was a log building erected in about 1735-38 near Coopersburg, then Bucks County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania. It had a room for the church and another for the church school, separated by a swinging partition. In 1749 Philip Geissinger & others were appointed to build another wooden frame meeting house.
Hans Philip Geissinger owned several hundred acres in the area of the Blue Church, and in fact deeded the land where Blue Church and the Lutheran Schoolhouse where built, and the Schoolhouse teacher and sometimes sermon reader at the Blue Church had previously upon arrival about 1750 entered into a redemption contract for a term of five years with Phillip Geissinger (who in turn paid the captain the fare for the passage). At the end of the contract Phillip Gessing sold Martin Schaeffer at an affordable price a tract of land from his holdings, giving him his start as a property owning farmer.
(Martin Schaeffer's daughter Catherine Schaeffer (1763– ) will become the sister-in-law of Elisatha Geissinger after Catherine Schaeffer married Martin Paul (1763-1819), the brother of Elisabetha Geissinger's husband Michael Paul (1765-1821))
Philip Geissinger died 31 July 1791 residing near the Blue Church in Upper Saucon Township, Northampton County (now Lehigh), Pennsylvania and was buried with his wife who had died three years prior in the Saucon Valley Mennonite Meeting House Cemetery near Coopersberg.
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Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was the orphaned daughter of Samuel (1740-1775) and Angena Geissinger, who lived near Blue Church in Lehigh County, a bit to the west just across the Upper Saucon Township Line in Upper Milford Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. {Belonged to Bucks County prior to 1752, then Northampton County until 1812).
Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) was born in Upper Milford Township, Norhtumberland County (since 1812 Lehigh County), and married Michael Paul (1768-1821) of Upper Saucon Township nearby. They baptized the first four of their children at the Blue Church (St Paul's Ev.Lutheran and Reformed) in Lehigh Valley (located at the corner of Applebutter Hill Road and Blue Church Road).
They moved in 1800 to the Schwaben Creek Valley north of Rough and Ready in Mahantongo Valley and south of the Line Mountain, 3/4 mile south of Schwaben Creek Road and between Leck Kill and Howerter's Church at the village of Line Mountain.
Just as the others in "The Great Mahantongo Migration" of Lehigh Valley Germans settling lands further west after the Revolutionary War, they traveled over trails, likely including parts of the ancient Tulpehocken Trail, through the Mahantongo Valley in Schuylkill County, past Rough & Ready, and turned north up through the pass at Klingerstown at the west end of the Valley into the Schwaben Creek Valley of Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
The Michael Paul farm is at the curve of Old Schoolhouse Road as it turns into the Old State Road about 3/4 mile south of the Schoolhouse up on Schwaben Creek Road, on the south side of the Old State Road at the junction of another little lane that goes directly south in the direction of Rough and Ready across the county line in Schuylkill County.
Their fifth child Catharine Paul (1800–1872) was born in this part of Mahanoy Township which today is in the center of Upper Mahanoy Township, and was baptized at Himmel's Lutheran and Reformed Church a few miles to the west at Rebuck, one of the earliest churches in the Pennsylvania countryside with some of the oldest still-existing church book registers.
Michael Paul was then one of the founders of a newly built log church to serve the new settlers at Line Mountain, a couple miles directly east of Michael's farm, referred to as Howerter's Church. A wooden frame structure built a few years later replaced the first hewn log church, and a third wooden frame church burned in the 1940s, but Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Cemetery remains, with the Northumberland and Schuylkill County Line running through the cemetery.
One of the first baptisms at Howerter's Ev. Lutheran and Reformed Church was their son Isaac Paul (1803–1854), first in the baptism register in 1803 shortly after the church was put up, followed by siblings Samuel F Paul (1804–1884), Susanna Paul (1807– ), Tobias Paul (1808– ), Elisabetha Paul (1811–1905).
Their children were confirmed at Howerter's Church, including their oldest son Johannes Paul who was confirmed on 24 April 1808 in the first Confirmation class of the recently formed congregation, and the siblings are noted in other Confirmation classes at this same church.
Michael Paul died relatively young in 1821 still residing near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy Township, and widowed Elisabetha remained on the farm with Michael Jr and his wife Catherine Kunzelman and their family.
Michael Paul and Elisabetha Geissinger belonged to the Lutheran side of the Lutheran and Reformed union church, and are buried in Howerter's cemetery, although the old burial no longer has a headstone and the grave space in no longer known.
Michael Paul (1768-1821) and Elisabetha Geissinger (1773–1853) raised ten children:
Johannes Paul (1793–1862) married Barbara Schaeffer/Shaffer (c1796-1859), about 1817 and after the birth of their first child Louisiana Paul on 28 February 1922, they traveled overland to the Ohio River, ventured down the river to Butler County, Ohio about 1823, and raised ten children there in Hanover Township, residing between Millville and Hamilton, Ohio.
Barbara Paul (1794– ) married Abraham Diehl (1785–1850) and lived on the Diehl farm on Schwaben Creek Road just east of the Old Schoolhouse Road (near where the rebuilt German Reformed Church stands, originally the Reformed side of Howerter's Church)
John Philip Paul (1796– ) (may have died young, before 1800)
Michael Paul, Jr (1798–1879) married Catherina Kuntzelman (1800–1873) and remained on the Michael Paul farm after the death of his father in 1821, his widowed mother remaining in the household. Siblings Michael and Catharina Paul confirmed in class of 25 on 1 May 1814 at Howerter's (St Jacob's) Lutheran Church, Line Mountain.
Catherine Paul (1800–1866) married John Stahlman (1797-1867) of Deep Creek Valley in Lower Mahantongo Township, in Schuylkill County, what later became Hegins Township. They lived first in Mifflin, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, attending and baptizing their children at the Stone Valley (Zion) Lutheran Church near Hickory Corners, through the mid 1830s, and later before 1840 moved to Redbank Township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, and again sometime before 1860 to Eldred Townhip in Jefferson County, near Roseville. Catherine Paul's sister Elizabeth Paul married John Stahlman's brother Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), who also moved to Redbank in Armstrong County (later part of Clarion County), where the brother's farms were adjacent.
Isaac Paul (1803–1854) married Elizabeth Angstadt (1810–1899) and moved to Germantown, Indiana and eventually Tipton, Indiana.
Samuel F Paul (1804–1884) married 1st Catharina Hepler (1810–1838), who bore five children but died young, then 2nd married Lydia Ann Hedrick (1820–1897), who bore 16 children - Samuel and Lydia moved to Tipton, Indiana area.
Susanna Paul (1807– ) Born 20 November 1807 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania and died there probably same year 1807 or shortly after.
Tobias Paul (1808– ) Born 29 October 1808 near Leck Kill in Upper Mahanoy, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; Baptism of Tobias Paul on 4 Dec 1808 at St Jacob's Lutheran Church (Howerter's) at Line Mountain - sponsors are father Michael's nephew Michael [Ott] Paul & wife Catharina (Diehl) Brothers Samuel & Tobias Paul were confirmed on 3 May 1823 in a Lutheran class at the St Jacob's Lutheran and German Reformed Church. First wife Susan was probably born about 1811 and had at least seven children. While residing at Orwigsburg, Tobias married 2nd wife Susanna Lindemuth (1833–1922) on 13 March 1853 at Rough and Ready, Upper Mahantongo, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, and they had six children. Their first son was born at Landingville in 1854, and in 1870 Tobias was a teamster at Pottsville. He died their in 1896 and is buried in Salem Evangelical Cemetery at Orwigsburg, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Paul (1811–1905) married Gabriel Stahlman (1807-1874), the brother of John Stahlman who married Elizabeth's sister Catherine Paul (1800–1866), moving to adjacent farms in Redbank Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
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West Swamp Mennonite Cemetery, Milford Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania
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