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Was 4 months old, and at home in South Hanover Twp, Dauphin Co, Pa.

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Birth records from Evangelische Kirchengemeinde, 7532 Niefern an der enz: Birth of Elisabetha Barbara Blassinger, 8 January 1750 at Niefern. Parents: Antonius Blassinger and Salome a born Wacker. Godfathers and godmothers: Jacob Blassinger from Wiernsheim and Anna Maria Blassinger; Jacob Huber and Elisabetha Barbara Lindenmann from Niefern. Per Bob Blessing.

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Ship Phoenix with the rest of her family.

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Her estate was administered by her sons Christian and John, but details do not appear in the court record.

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Paper given at the Hummelstown Area Historical Society by Janet Welsh on the Occassion of the Celebration of Frederick Hummel's 250th Birthday, provided courtesy of Mr. Larry E. Ierley, 923 Thistle Road, Elizabethtown, Pa 17022-9017.

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He was a cooper. The towns of Hattenhofen, Boll and Schlierbach are located south east of Stuttgart, Germany. They are all within about 25 miles or less from Stuttgart.

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Alternate date of 13 August 1747 reported by Bob Blessing. Godparents were Elisabetha Barbara, daughter of Benjamin Lindenmann, Anna Maria Blassinger from Wiernsheim and Jacob Huber's son.

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Ship Phoenix, with his father.

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Occupation in 1816 was Farmer, in Derry Township, Dauphin Co, Pa.

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Served with his brothers Fredrick and Philip in the military. Listed in the Lancaster County Tax lists for the years 1754 thru 1783 as living in Derry township. According to Bob Blessing, in the Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Vol. VIOI, "Muster Rolls Relating to the Association and Militia of the County of Lancaster", edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery, page 942, in a list dated April 11, 1781, is listed male white inhabitants, between the ages of 18 and 53, living or residing in the bounds, limits, or lines of the Eighth Company of the Ninth Battalion of Lancaster City. Among the names are Fredrick, Phillip and John "Blessly". Fredrick would have been 21 years old, Phillip 26, and John would have been 28. Philip is also mentioned in the "Patriotic Resolves (July 25, 1776)" as being a member of the 4th Battalion commanded by Colonel James Burd. Blessly was a spelling used for the family in the late 1700's and early 1800's.

John "Blessly" served in 1781 in the Eighth Co. of the ninth Battalion of Lancaster City.

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Was 9 years old, and at home.

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Company C, 127 Pennsylvania Infantry.

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Anna came to KS from Nebraska with her parents in 1901. The family homesteaded land in the southern part of Wichita Co. but later moved to Arkansas for several years and then returned to Western Kansas. Anna was confirmed in the Lutheran Church in 1911.

At one time, probably in the early 20's, she and a friend, Mary Kuhlmann, went to Colorado Springs, CO to work. They worked in a TB hospital there. I don't know how long she worked there but I do know that her parents did not approve of the place -- I'm sure they were concerned about her health. She came back home and then in 1927, she left Kansas and went to Los Angeles, CA to work; her aunt, Martha Breitkreutz lived there. While in Los Angeles, she became ill with pneumonia and died. Her body was shipped back to Western Kansas and was buried in the Lydia Lutheran Cemetery.

I was only 7 years old at the time of Anna's death but I remember the sheriff coming out to our house in the middle of the night to tell us of her death. I'm sure he had been to the Bloedorn family home first but had then stopped to tell all the rest of the family too. At the time there were no telephone around that part of the county and I imagine the death message had come to Leoti, the nearest town, by telegram and them someone had to bring the message from town out into the country. I also remember that Rev. Walter Wehmeier came to preach at her funeral. He had been the minister for the Lydia Lutheran Church at one time and then had accepted a call to a church in Eastern Kansas.

Dorothy Briektreutz Reed