Anna Barbara (Baer) Walters (1714 - abt. 1766)

Born 4 May 1714 in Dühren, Bezirksamt Sinsheim, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Died about 1766 at about age 51 in Franklin County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Biography

Anna Barbara Bär (Baer) was born on Mary 4, 1714 in Dühren, Bezirksamt Sinsheim, Margravitate of Baden; the daughter of Hans Michel Bär and his wife Ann Elisabeth Ott. She is mentioned in Appendix C of Annette Burgert's Eighteenth Century Emigrants Volume I, The Northern Kraichgau as follows:

1719 Bär, Hans Michel, before 1714 Mennonite, then Lutheran), farmer wife; Anna Elisabeth children: Anna Barbara (b. 4 May 1714) Anna Eva (b. 15 Nov. 1715)...^[1]

She must have accompanied her parents and sister Anna Eva to Pennsylvania sometime between Anna Eva's baptism in Baden on November 17, 1715 and the first record found for her father in Pennsylvania, which is January 19, 1733 [no record of a June 21, 1721 warrant for him has been found yet].

1744 Orphan Court Records

Michael Bear

Died intestate, John Bear admin

John Bear, oldest son

Daughter: Barbara, md Casper Walter

Daughter: Eve md Nicholas Harman

Daughter: Frena

Son: Andrew

Daughter: Catherina

Daughter: Margaret^[2]

Note

On January 21, 1742, Casper Walter warranted 400 acres of land in Antrim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the Conococheague Settlement. This farm became part of Cumberland County in 1750, and the 1750 tax list for Antrim Township, Cumberland County lists Casper Walter. This farm is now located in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, near the city of Greencastle.

In 1749, Casper Walter also purchased land in Augusta County, Virginia, (now Hampshire County, West Virginia), near the city of Romney, where his son Ephraim settled in 1765.

On Sunday morning, July 8, 1756, the farm in Cumberland (now Franklin) County was attacked by a small band of Indians. Casper Walter, who had been sitting on the porch, reading his Bible, was instantly killed. His wife, Barbara, was tortured but survived. She later married, as her second husband, Henry Householder, of the same place. The three younger Walter children were murdered by the Indians, but the four eldest were spared and carried off by them. These children were: John, born 1743; Ephraim, born 1744; Mary, born 1745; and Rebecca Regina, born 1746 (others say 1736, which seems less likely, given the ages of her siblings, and family accounts placing her at ten years of age when carried off by indians).

Sources

1. ↑ Burgert, Annette Kunselman. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. 1983. Pages 423 and 432. Further note included with listing: The Dühren KB [KircheBuch, or Church Book] was not available on microfilm; materials on the emigrants from there were obtained from other sources. The following paper about emigrants from Dühren was sent by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Herm. Lau of Karlsruhe and arrived too late to be entered alphabetically into the preceding text. Dr. Lau's paper is presented here as he sent it, with the slight change of b., m., bp. inserted in place of the German genealogical symbols....
2. ↑ Probates, Lancaster Orphan Court Records