Bathsheba (Merrifield) Springer (abt. 1778 - 1859)

Born about 1778 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of John Springer — married about 1792 (to 23 Dec 1816) in , Frederick County, Virginia, United States of America [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 3 Jun 1859 at about age 81 in Colfax, Marion, West Virginia

Biography

Bathsheba was born in 1774, or possibly 1778, in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia,.^[1][2] in Winchester, Virginia^[3] the daughter of Richard and Phebe Tucker Merrifield.

In the early 1790s she married, John Springer, the tenth of eleven children and the eight of nine sons of Dennis and Ann Prickett Springer. She bore him at least ten children, only three of whom were boys.^[4]

Children:

1. Job Springer.
2. Ann "Nancy Springer.
3. Phebe Springer.
4. Elizabeth Springer.
5. Dennis Springer.
6. Hannah Springer.
7. Drusilla Springer.
8. Basheba Springer.
9. Alphus Springer.
10. Roxanne Springer.

She died in her eighties on 3 June 1859 in , Marion County, Virginia.^[5]

Citations

1. ↑ Source: #S30 Object: @M5906@
2. ↑ Source: #S88 Page: Ancestry Family Trees
3. ↑ Source: #S30 Object: @M5906@
4. ↑ Source: #S91
5. ↑ Source: #S30 Object: @M5906@

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Sandy Minder for creating WikiTree profile Merrifield-131 through the import of Delong gedcom.ged on Apr 27, 2013.

Sources

• Source: S30 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls; Repository: #R1 Repository: R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

• Source: S57 Author: Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.; Repository: #R1

• Source: S88 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8D8-QNY : 23 December 2020), Barsheba Springer in household of Job Springer, Marion, Virginia, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).