Martin Eisenhauer (1727 - bef. 1760)

Born 24 Jun 1727 in Weschnitz, Bergstrasse, Hesse, Heiliges Römisches Reich

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Died before 21 Mar 1760 before age 32 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

John Martin Eisenhauer was the son of Hans Nicholas Eisenhauer and presumably Ana Margareta Struble. His brothers were Peter Eisenhauer and Johannes Eisenhauer. Peter was the great-great Grandfather of President Dwight David Eisenhower. The family came to America in 1741, when Martin was under sixteen. It is supposed that he was under sixteen because males over the age of sixteen were listed on the ship's manifest.

Death

Martin was injured during an encounter with Native Americans and wrote his will in December 1759. It is signed Martin E. Iron cutter by his mark in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.^[1] After his death, before 21 March 1760, when the will went into probate, his sons and their mother moved to North Carolina. Legend has it that the mother was killed by Indian squaws when she went to the spring for water. Three of the sons, Johannes, George Martin, and John Valentine, settled along the three forks of Lyles Creek in Lincoln, now in Catawba County. The fourth son, John Peter, died during the Revolutionary War.

Marriage

Martin married Anna Barbara Graff on 1 May 1748 at Atalhoe, Pennsylvania which was part of Lancaster County at the time. The marriage was performed by Reverend John Casper Stoever. Anna's sister Elizabeth married Martin's brother Peter. The two couples were naturalized at the same time on 11 April 1752 in Philadelphia.

Sources

1. ↑ Berks County Will Abstracts 1733-1760, http://www.berks.pa-roots.com/wills/Abstracts1733-1760.html

• Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637, 12 rolls). (National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com. (1790 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010). Images reproduced by FamilySearch). Year: 1790; Census Place: Hereford, Berks, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 91; Image: 105; Family History Library Film: 0568148.

• Berks County Pennsylvania Register of Wills, Berks County, Pennsylvania Estate Records 1752-1914, Reading, Pennsylvania <Berksregofwills.com> (Ancestry.com. Berks County (Pennsylvania). Register of Willis, 1752-1860; Index, 1752-1915 [online database], Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999).

• Shelly Cloud. "Eisenhauer Book"; Catawba Historical Society; Newton, Catawba, North Carolina, p.1.

• Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania Church Records - Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881 [database online], Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004.

See also:

• http://dgmgenealogy.info/MillsDescendants/ps32/ps32_067.htm