Catherine (Pabst) Haner (abt. 1748 - abt. 1819)

Descendants

Died about 1819 at about age 71 in Washington, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

She has been detached from Heinrich Pabst and Gertrude Kieffer due to lack of evidence. There are hundreds of unsourced online trees showing her as their daughter with a maiden name of Pabst. Unless someone locates a record for her having the maiden name of Pabst, her LNAB should be changed to Unknown. Darlene Athey Hill 8 Apr 2021

https://history.loftinnc.com/Pabst_Johannes_Hanns_Heinrich_1697.htm

Residence: Abt. 1763 • Rowan County, North Carolina, USA

Catherine and Philip followed Catherine's brothers George and Henry Pabst/Pope to NC abt 1763 after the death of her father.

Property: 28 Apr 1768 • Rowan County, North Carolina, USA 268 acres by Royal Grant to Henry Pope and Phillip Adams: Surveyed 13 February 1768 in Mecklenburg County by William Sims [Surveyor].

She first married to a Philip Adams and was the administrator of his estate in Burke County, NC in 1777 (Philip died intestate in July 1776), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-L1KF-9JHZ?i=1&cc=1911121

Catherine Adams follows her brother George Pope to Lincoln County, KY

Catherine/Caty second married Christopher Haner. See information below under 'Research Notes'. She had children from her first marriage, including Conrad, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sarah.

After the death of Philip Adams, she married Christopher Haner. Her daughter Elizabeth married Christopher Clark and they had a son James who married Rhoda Castleman.

13 Dec 1788 • Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA ~ Christopher Haner and Katy Haner signed permission 13 Dec 1788 for the marriage of daughter Elizabeth Adams to Christopher Clark

1789 • Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA ~ Christopher Haner and Jacob Howdeshell on the Tax List 1789: List Of Taxable Property Within The District Of Jos. Bledsoe Commissioner In The County Of Lincoln For The Year A. D. 1789 http://genealogytrails.com/ken/lincoln/TaxList1789.html

25 Nov 1793 • Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA ~ Christopher Hanes and Caty Hanes signed permission 25 Nov 1793 for the marriage of daughter Mary Adams to Joseph Howdeshell. Christopher Clark is also a witness to the license.

Will of 19 Oct 1819

"In the name of God Amen I, Katherine Haner of County of Washington and State of Kentucky being very weak of Body but of Perfect mind and memory calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I recommend my soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body to the earth. Nothing doubting I shall receive the same at the general resurrection by the mighty power of God. As xxx such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me with in this life I give and bequethe in the manner and form as follows. Viz Item 1st I give and bequethe to my beloved son Conrad Adams two hundred dollars. Item 2nd I give and bequethe to my beloved granddaughter Polly Bryant three hundred dollars. I constitute and appoint Travis Coppedge sole executor to execute this my last will and testament. In testimony I here into set my hand and seal in the presence of the subscribing witnesses this 19th day of October 1819." Katherine signed with a mark. Witnesses were Abraham Adams and John Adams. (Some say they were grandchildren of hers through her son Conrad.)^[1]

At a County Court commenced and held for Washington County on Monday the tenth day of January 1820 this last will and testament of Catherine Haner deceased was produced in Court and proven by the oath of Abraham Adams and John Adams the subscribing witnesses thereto and thereupon ordered to be recorded and there upon Travis Copage the executor therein named came in Court and refused to take upon himself the burden of the executor of said will and on the motion of Conrad Adams he having made oath and with Francis Copage and Abraham Adams his securities executed and acknowledged bond in the penalty of $1500 conditioned as the law directs a certificate is granted him to obtain probate thereof in due form of law.

Research Notes

In the marriage box of Lincoln County, Kentucky (1787-1792) is a permission slip signed by Christopher Haner and Katy Haner on Dec. 13 1788 (witnessed by John Tompson and Conrad Adams) which states, "This is to certify you that Jane my wife is satisfied for Christopher Clark to get licence to join in wedlock with Elisabeth Adams, her daughter given from under our hands."

Also in the marriage certificate book (1784-1836) of Lincoln County, Kentucky is the entry, "I do certify that I have joined together in the state of matrimony agreeable to law the following persons: Christopher Clark and Elizabeth Adams on the 25th day of December last past." Signed by B. Strope.

Christopher "Heynor" appears on the 1790 tax list and 1800 census/tax list in Lincoln, Kentucky. Also on the 1800 tax list with surname Adams are Absalom, Allen, Daniel, and William. There is a Conrad Adams and a Peter Adams on the 1800 tax list in Washington County, Kentucky.

Christopher Haner wrote his will on 25 May 1802 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. It is hard to read, but he mentions his wife (unnamed), Conrad Adams, Mary Howdeshell, Sarah Adams, and Christopher Clark. Also mentions William Haner of Stafford County, Virginia. Witnesses are Jacob Miller, Henry Bright, Jacob Myer (sp?).

The more I research, the closer I come to a connection to the Pabst/Pope family. Two of the witnesses of Christopher Haner's will married Pabst/Pope women.

• Henry Bright married Elizabeth Pope in 1785 in Lincoln, KY. Elizabeth was the daughter of Hans Georg Pabst (son of Heinrich Pabst and Gertrude Kieffer) and Maria Christina Hill.
• Jacob Miller married Anna Maria Pabst in 1758 in Berks, PA. She was the daughter of Heinrich Pabst and Gertrude Kieffer.

Who is granddaughter Polly Bryant? It seems Catherine had an unknown daughter that married a Mr. Bryant, or was Polly a great-granddaughter? There is a marriage record of a Polly Bryant on 27 Jan 1816 in Lincoln, Kentucky to Robert Bryan. Could this be Catherine's granddaughter?

Sources

1. ↑ Washington Co., KY, Will Book C, p 234