Phillip Marbut (1797 - 1889)

Born 8 May 1797 in Newberry County, South Carolina, USA

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Died 24 Dec 1889 at age 92 in McDowell, Barry, Missouri, USA

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Phillip Marlbut was born on 8 May 1797 in Newberry County, South Carolina, USA He passed away on 24 DEC 1889 in

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Date: 24 DEC 1889

Age: 92

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PHILIP MARBUT (JOHANNES MEERBOTT/MARBUT, JOHANN PHILIPP MEERBOTT, JOHANN CASPER MEERBOTT, ANTON MEERBOTT) was a wagon maker and farmer born on May 08, 1797 in the Bush River District of Newberry County, South Carolina. Died on December 21, 1889 at McDowell, Barry County, Missouri. He married EUODIAS EVELIAS THOMAS on February 27, 1816. She was born on October 21, 1799, and died on August 21, 1858 in Barry County, Missouri. Both are buried in the Carlton Cemetery, Barry County, Missouri.

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Giles County, Tennessee is located in the extreme southern part of the state just above the Alabama state line. Minor Hill, of Giles County, is a small town that was the center of Susie Rachel Lee's life after her birth on March 16, 1882. Marbut's Post Office is down the road a piece, and now is just an entry in a list of historical Post Offices...

Hessen-Hanau Germany, is a district located near Frankfurt, Germany. The immigrant Johannes Meerbott was born on the 24th of July 1756 in the village of Hochstadt, Hessen-Hanau, Germany. He is almost certainly the ancestor of all persons bearing the surnames Marbut. It is Johannes that changes the name from Meerbott to Marbut. We can go back to his ggrandfather Anton, 1655 to 1713, then to his grandfather Johann Casper, 1681 to 1758, to his father Johann Phillip Meerbott, and mother Anna Margaretha Kapps. This last marriage produces the main ancestor that is responsible for the Marbuts coming to America...

The living conditions and political climate in that part of Germany, can only be read about, or thought of as being harsh and hard. In 1776 when the Revolutionary war starts in America, the King of England makes a deal with the King of Germany, to send mercenary soldiers to fight for Britian. Johannes is a 19 year old boy that is caught up in this request for troops, and is sent across the sea to fight on the side of the British. He lands in Quebec in June of 1776, but is captured in October of 1777. He is held in Winterhill, Mass. for a little over a year, and then is marched with the other captives for about two months or so to Charlottsville, Virginia, to arrive in January of 1779

. In school history we read about how hard and bad the winters were on George Wasington and his troop at Valley Forge. You can only imagine how it was for prisoners of war in that part of the country. This internment lasts into 1782 where he uses the act of indenturing himself to work out his capture. About six or so months after his doing this, there is a prisoner exchange on May 12, 1783. We can think that after that exchange, he would probably have been let out of his comittment and be able to return to Germany or stay in America

. He was on the list of prisoners that remained in America after the war. We pick him up a year later when he hires himself out to a family in Pennsylvania...

Joshua Inman and his wife Anne was living in Pennsylvania as of 1784. They took in a immigrant named Johannes Meerbott from Hanau Germany. The conditions of what he was to do, and how long he was there is not known, but supposedly, after a while and falling in love, he took a mule and a few belongings and eloped with their daughter Sarah to the Newberry District of South Carolina. They were married on April 02, 1787 in Newberry, and began a family. They did name their first boy Joshua after Sarah's father. In 1803, after changing his name to John Marbut, he received his citizenship papers and became an American citizen. It is likely that John didn't say to much about his war experience, because he put on his naturalization papers that he arrived from Hanau, Germany in 1784.

• Fact: Burial Calton Cemetery, Monett, Barry County, Missouri, USA

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• Find A Grave: Memorial #20372456 Phillip Marbut Retrieved 05 February 2018.
• WikiTree profile Marbut-11 created through the import of a20y4f_871495rae7f33g0ez2447w.ged on Jun 24, 2011 by Lori Cleveland. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Lori and others.