Maria Margaretha (Haupter) Shealy (bef. 1716 - 1805)

Born before 26 Jan 1716 in Holzelfingen, Reutlingen, Württemberg, Germany

Ancestors

Wife of Matthias Herrmann — married 21 Jul 1737 in Holzelfingen, Reutlingen, Württemberg, Deutschland

Wife of Johannes (Schule) Shealy — married 3 Jun 1738 in Unterhausen, Reutlingen, Württemberg, Deutschland

Descendants

Died 3 Oct 1805 after age 89 in Crims Creek, Newberry, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Maria Margaretha (Haupter) Shealy has German Roots.

Baptism: 26 Jan 1716 in Holzelfingen. Daughter of Johannes Wendel Haupter and Ursula.^[1][2][3]

Marriages:

• 1st marriage: 21 Jul 1737 Matthias Herrmann (weaver; son of judge Johann Jakob Hermann) with Maria Margaretha Haupter (daughter of Johann Wendel Haupter, schoolmaster in Holzelfingen) in Holzelfingen.^[4][5]
• 2nd marriage: 3 Jun 1738 Johannes Schiele (saddler; son of Johannes Schiele) with Maria Margaretha (widow of Matthes Hermann, weaver) in Unterhausen.^[6][7][8][9]

Margaret's maiden name was Haupter; she was the widow of Matthäus Hermann.^[10]

Johannes Schiele (a saddler by trade) was born on 24 June 1711 in Unterhausen, the son of Johannes Schiele and Anna Katharina Weber. He married on 3 June 1738 in Unterhausen to Maria Margaretha Haupter, baptized 26 January 1716, daughter of Johannes Wendel Haupter (school teacher and linen weaver) and Ursula, née Christner, both of Holzelfingen.^[11] Maria Margaretha was previously married on 21 July 1737 to Matthäus Herrmann, son of Johann Jakob Herrmann (judge in Unterhausen). By Matthäus Herrmann, she had one child, Anna Barbara, born 27 April 1738, who came to South Carolina with her mother and step-father’s family. In South Carolina, Anna Barbara Herrmann married a German immigrant, Alexander Andrew Bowers.

"Historical Sketch of St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lexington County, S.C." by Rev. J.C. Wessinger includes the following information : "John Shely and his wife, Mary Margaret Haussler came to this country on the ship, CALEDONIA, in October 1752. They came from Germany, sailing from Rotterdam. Their son, John Wendel Shealy, born in 1746 in Germany came with them, landing in Charleston, S.C."^[12]

Death: The widow, Maria Margaretha Schiele, lived until the year 1805.^[13]

On Nov 28, 1805, "The Charleston Times" published the following obituary excerpted from a letter from the Rev. Frederick Joseph Wallace (meaning Wallern) to Judge Watres, dated Dutch Fork, November 11, 1805:

“On the third day of October last, I attended, in one of my congregations, the funeral of Mrs. Margaret Sheely, a native of Germany, and fifty three years a resident of this place. She departed this life in the ninety-fifth year of her age; and had been a widow, these thirty years past. She had in all nine children, and in the course of her good old age, the happiness of seeing fifty-nine grand children, one hundred and seventy-one great-grand children, and three great great grand children, besides those she never did see; all of them the issue of her only son and five daughters.”

Note: Seven of her children by Johannes Schiele are accounted for in the German record and she had a daughter by her previous marriage. If Margareta Schiele had nine children there would have been an additional child born after arrival in SC. All of the fifty nine of her grandchildren are accounted for.

Sources

1. ↑ Church book Holzelfingen, Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Reutlingen > Holzelfingen > Mischbuch 1687-1772 Band 1 Archion
2. ↑ "Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVVV-XF7 : 27 October 2021), Maria Margaretha Haupter, 1716.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Deutschland, ausgewählte Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
4. ↑ Church book Holzelfingen, Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Reutlingen > Unterhausen > Mischbuch 1667-1771 Band 3 Archion
5. ↑ "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C3GB-SFW2 : 26 October 2021), Maria Margaretha Haupter in entry for Matthaes Herrmann, 1737.
6. ↑ Church book Holzelfingen, Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Reutlingen > Unterhausen > Mischbuch 1667-1771 Band 3 Archion
7. ↑ "Deutschland Heiraten, 1558-1929", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N877-2ML : 26 October 2021), Maria Margaretha in entry for Johannes Schiele, 1738.
8. ↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP5J-8K4Q : 26 October 2021), Maria Margaretha in entry for Johannes Schiele, 3 Jun 1738; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Marriage, Unterhausen, Reutlingen, Württemberg, Deutschland, Oa, Reutlingen, Undingen u Unterhausen, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
9. ↑ Ancestry.com. Deutschland, Heiraten, 1558-1929 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
10. ↑ "The Shealys", contributed by Carl W. Nichols, http://www.screunion.com/the_shealys.htm. Inserted by Roger Davis.
11. ↑ Church book Unterhausen, Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Reutlingen > Unterhausen > Mischbuch 1668-1771 Band 3 Archion
12. ↑ "Historical Sketch of St. Thomas Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lexington County, S.C." by Rev. J.C. Wessinger. Inserted by Roger Davis.
13. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #86689890, Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 19 February 2019), memorial page for Maria Margaretha Haupter Shealy (26 Jan 1715–3 Oct 1805); Maintained by William G. Latham Jr. (contributor 46881253) Non-Cemetery Burial, who reports a Dutch Fork, South Carolina.

    Name: Maria Margaretha Shealy

    Maiden Name: Haupter

    Birth Date: 26 Jan 1715

    Birth Place: Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Death Date: 3 Oct 1805

    Death Place: Newberry County, South Carolina, United States of America

    Spouse: Johannes Shealy

    Children: Johann Wendall Shealy

• Source for date and place of death: Rootsweb ID # I81873

• Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=31705212&pid=1956
• Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26300035&pid=192
• Ancestry Family Tree http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=45601784&pid=2843

• German Settlers in the Dutch Fork of South Carolina. Compiled by Carl W. Nichols and Hannelore Enderle.
• Early German Settlers of South Carolina.
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L8BB-KMX/maria-margaretha-haupter-1716-1805, accessed 14 Apr 2021
• https://www.earnestlawrence.com/search.php?mybool=AND&myfirstname=&mylastname=Haupter

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Hermann-124 created through the import of Tracy S. Miller.ged on Dec 2, 2011 by Tracy Miller. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Tracy and others.
• WikiTree profile Haussler-2 created through the import of Tracy S. Miller.ged on Dec 2, 2011 by Tracy Miller. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Tracy and others.
• WikiTree profile Herrmann-219 created through the import of Shealy Family Tree.ged on Nov 25, 2012 by Jess Peralta. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Jess and others.
• Thank you to Gail Willard for creating WikiTree profile Schiele-21 through the import of 85i8r3_66786307rdi3kl35282812.ged on May 2, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Gail and others.