Peter Frantz (1765 - 1854)

Born 22 Jul 1765 in Salem, Augusta County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine (Garst) Frantz — married 1792 (to 1839) in , Botetourt County, Virginia, United States of America

Husband of Margaret (Beaver) Frantz — married 27 May 1833 (to about 1838) in , Botetourt County, Virginia, United States of America

Descendants

Died 1854 at about age 88 in Botetourt, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Peter was born in 1765. He passed away in 1853. ^[1]

Peter was born on 22 July 1765 in Salem, Augusta (later Botetourt, now Roanoke) County, the seventh of nine children and eight sons (of his eight siblings, only the youngest was a boy) of Michael and Magdalina Zug Frantz.^[2]

[He probably did not marry until he was in his thirties; he was about thirty-eight when his first child, Sarah was born. The name of his first wife is unknown.] (Unsourced and incorrect.)

"Peter Frantz married, first, Catherine "Peggy" Garst, daughter of Johann (John) Nicholas Gerst (Garst) and Marie Elizabeth ?Statthalter? ... about 1792 as his first child of record was born in 1794. [Peggy] was the mother of all his children."^[3]

On 27 May 1833, at the age of 67, he married for a second time, to Margaret Beaver Stover, the widow of Dr. Johan George Stover, son of Elder Wilhelm/William Stover/Stover. After she died a few years later, he married a third time, on 13 Jun 1839, to Catherine Margaret Garst [sic, Catherine was his first wife].^[4] "He married, third, Sarah Pleasants, 13 Jun 1839, in Fincastle, Botetourt Co., VA."^[5]

At some time he became a pastor in the German Baptist Brethren church and he died in his late eighties in Botetourt County, Virginia.

In his will dated 22 Jul 1853 Peter named as heirs his third wife Sarah, seven daughters and one son Nicholas, and designated Christian Wertz as executor. The will was probated 21 Aug 1854 in the County Court of Roanoke County VA.^[6]

Sourcess

1. ↑ Source will be added by Tom Stair by 5 May 2020.
2. ↑ Hart & Hart 2017.
3. ↑ Frantz et al 1996 vol II, pp 716, 718.
4. ↑ Weber, Stover, Brethren, p77.
5. ↑ Frantz et al, p 718.
6. ↑ Transcript of will and probate provided by Frantz et al, pp 716-717.

• "Frantz Families -- Kith & Kin," compiled by Dore M. Frantz, Sr., Lowell H. Beadhler, Hazel Frantz Turner, Lorraine Frantz Turner, et al.; edited by Lorraine Frantz Turner; copyright © 1996 Lorraine Frantz Turner.
• Hart, Don and Jeanine, The Family Hart Online Genealogy Database; Surname index. Last updated on Saturday, 25-Mar-2017 20:11:13 MDT. © 1996-2017 FamilyHart, Inc. Accessed 23 April 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.
• "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRDZ-C3P : 5 December 2014), Peter France and Margaret Stover, 27 May 1833; citing Botetourt, Virginia, reference pg 625; FHL microfilm 30,734.
• GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF AND OTHER STAUFFER PIONEERS BY REV. A. J. KRETZ (History of Stover/Stauffer). References herein is Dr George Stover who served his community from North Carolina to Pennsylvania. His sons lived in Botetourt Co. He married twice. Listed are his origins & descendants.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Dee Al-Hasan for starting this profile.