Johann Wilhelm (Stober) Stover (1726 - 1800)

Born 15 Sep 1726 in Staffort, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Margaretha (Süss) Stover — married 21 Oct 1745 (to about 1754) in Emmanuel Lutheran, Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died Jan 1800 at age 73 in Shady Grove, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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Biography

N.B. For an extract from Richard Weber's Stover Brethren, click here.

Johann Wilhelm Stober was born on 15 September 1726 in Staffort, Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany], the sixth of eleven children and the third of five sons of Johann and Eva Bauer Stover.

He married three times:

On 21 October 1745, when he was nineteen, he married Anna Süss in Emanuel Lutheran Church, Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania]. She bore him three children, two sons and one daughter:

1. Johann Stover
2. William Stover
3. Margaret Stover

About 1754, when he was in his later twenties, he married Eva Süss. She bore him nine children, four sons and five daughters:

1. Daniel Stover
2. Maria Stover
3. Michael Stover
4. Esther Stover
5. Hannah Stover
6. Catherine Stover
7. Emanuel Stover
8. Jacob Stover
9. Elizabeth Stover

About 1791, when he was in his late forties, he married Judith End.

In January 1800, when he was in his mid-seventies, he died in Shady Grove, Franklin County, Pennsylvania], of unknown causes.^[1]

From Findagrave.com

Elder William Stover

Birth: Sep. 15, 1726, Germany; Death: Jan., 1800, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA.

First Elder of Prices Church of the Brethren (now Antietam). 

Family links: Spouse: Judith Shaeffer[sic., but should be Endt Shnell] Stover (1725 - 1800); Children: Emanuel Stover (1755 - 1834), Maria Susanna Stover Gish (1763 - 1828).

Burial: Fort Stover Cemetery, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA^[2]

Arrival September 1737 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA or 1734 Marriage October October 21, 1747 Lancastet Country, Pennsylvania, USA. Or 1746 Marriage About April 1754 Pennsylvania, USA.

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial# 64327475
2. ↑ badrenn, "Elder William Stover," Findagrave.com Record added: Jan 17, 2011. URL: https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64327475. Accessed 22 Apr. 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

• Anon., “William Stover,” b 1625. Ancestry.com. URL: https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/william-stover_2258174. Accessed 13 July 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

• Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. For the immigration of the wrong Wilhelm Stober, click here. Accessed 13 July 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

• Orthun, Eleanor, contr. "Snow Molly, John Howell, Master, from Dover to Pennsylvania [10 Sep] 1737" Olive Tree Genealogy - German ships' lists - Snow Molly, 31 July 2001. URL: http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/palship_molly1737.shtml. Accessed 13 July 2017 by Patricia Prickett Hickin.

"This quote is from pages 173-175 of Pennsylvania German Pioneers, A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals In the Port of Philadelphia From 1727 to 1808, by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, LL.D., President of the Pennsylvania German Society, and Edited by William John Hinke, PH.D., D.D, In Three Volumes, Volume 1, 1727 - 1775, published by Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1934:

[List 45 A] A List of ye men that are Pallatine Passengers from Sixteen years and upwards on Board the Snow Molly, John Howell, Master, from Dover. [Qualified September 10, 1737.][:]

Valentine Stober [Wilhelm's father, Wilhelm was just ten years old]

Valentine Stober, Junr

Jacob Stober

• Weber, Richard R, Stover Brethren: The Family of Elder William Stover of Antietam (Columbia, MD: Richard R. Weber, 2001), pp15-28, 33.
• Ancestry Family Tree.

• A History of the Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania

• Historical Sketch of Franklin County, Pennsylvania: prepared for the centennial celebration held at Chamberburg, Pennsylvania, July.

• Pennsylvania Church Records Adams, Berks, and Lancaster County , 1729-1881.

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Stover-197 was created through the import of Partridge Family Tree.ged on Jun 17, 2011 by Paul Patridge.

• WikiTree profile Stover-394 was created through the import of AustinMoserJohnsonStover Tree.ged on Oct 16, 2011 by Ken Austin.

• WikiTree profile Stober-40 was created through the import of My Tree.ged on Aug 10, 2012 by Jennifer Justice.

• Phillips-Pellatt Ancestry Family Tree