no image
Privacy Level: Open (White)

Catherine (Henckel) Büffel (1735 - 1803)

Catherine Büffel formerly Henckel aka Biffle
Born in Milford, Bucks, Pennsylvaniamap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , , , , , , , and
Wife of — married about 1753 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , and
Died at age 68 in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United Statesmap
Problems/Questions Profile managers: James Middleton Jr private message [send private message] and Randy Hammock private message [send private message]
Profile last modified | Created 31 Dec 2013
This page has been accessed 635 times.

Biography

Catherine Henckel was born 13 Jan 1735 in Upper Milford, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.[1] She grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylania, where the Biffle family also lived.[2] About 1751, the family moved to Dutchmans Creek, Rowan County, North Carolina.[3]

In 1757 or 1760, Catherine Hinkle was married to Adam Biffle at St. Luke's, Rowan County, North Carolina.[4] In 1761, Catherine's parents and all her siblings with the married ones' families left to become the first settlers in the German Valley in the Allegheny Mountains, in what was then Augusta County, Virginia.[5]

About 1779, the Biffle family left their land in Rowan County, North Carolina (that would now be present Davidson County), traveled west through the Yadkin Valley, and crossed the mountains to the newly formed Sullivan County, North Carolina (now Tennessee). There they entered land on the south side of the Holston River.[6]

The Revolutionary War had moved south, and the tide had turned against the Patriots. In Sullivan County, three companies were raised in the settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains to join Col. McDowell in central North Carolina who had been pushed back by British Major Patrick Ferguson. Col. Isaac Shelby raised, just in Sullivan County, a company of 240 men and teen-aged boys who helped defeat the British in the Battle of King's Mountain. Catherine and Adam Biffle's son Jacob, at around the age of 16, entered Col. Shelby's Company and took part in the Battle of King's Mountain and skirmished in South Carolina until 1782.[6] The family must have been very worried about their young son.

In 1790, Catherine Beefle or Bufle was living with her family in Burke County, North Carolina, which was formed from Rowan County in 1777.[7] In 1800 she and Adam lived in Morgan District, Buncombe County, North Carolina.[8] Note that Buncombe County had been formed in 1791 from parts of Burke and Rutherford Counties, North Carolina. The family may not have moved after 1790.

In Buncombe County, Catherine and Adam lived in Reems Valley, Weaverville, where Catherine passed away on 08 May 1803 and was buried in the Biffle Cemetery in Weaverville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Grave marker for Catherine Henkel Biffle: Find A Grave: Memorial #121705179
  2. ↑ Ancestry.com margkerns Kepner Family Tree Profile of Johann Justus Henckel, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10784999/person/25790717325/facts
  3. ↑ Ancestry.com margkerns Kepner Family Tree profile of Catherine Henckel https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/10784999/person/25785528066/facts
  4. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  5. ↑ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia article "German Valley" accessed 5 May 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Valley
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Some Early History of Rims Creek Valley, by Blanche R. Robertson, from a speech delivered by Pamela Ballard for the D.A.R. meeting held at the Asheville Country Club, Asheville, North Carolina, January 13, 1999
  7. ↑ 1790 United States Federal Census in the division allotted to James Kenan, page 103 showing 1 male over 16, 1 female, and 1 other free person
  8. ↑ 1800 United States Federal Census, Morgan District, Buncombe County, North Carolina, page 162 line 6, showing 1 male and 1 female over 45, and 1 other free person




Is Catherine your ancestor? Please don't go away!
 star icon Login to collaborate or comment, or
 star icon contact private message private message a profile manager, or
 star icon ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Maternal line mitochondrial DNA test-takers: It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Catherine: Have you taken a test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.


Comments: 2

Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
Rutherford-448 Dave Rutherford
Henckel-135 and Henckel-37 appear to represent the same person because: same person; please merge
posted by Dave Rutherford
Gierszewski-4 Paul Gierszewski
Henckel-131 and Henckel-37 appear to represent the same person because: Same name, sibling to same parents, born exact same day in Pennsylvania, married same husband, died about same time in same place. 1814 death date in Henckel-131 is not supported by the listed FindAGrave source, while about 1803 is supported, and can be used as date in merged profile.
posted by Paul Gierszewski

Featured German connections: Catherine is 20 degrees from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 19 degrees from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 19 degrees from Lucas Cranach, 20 degrees from Stefanie Graf, 21 degrees from Wilhelm Grimm, 18 degrees from Fanny Hensel, 21 degrees from Theodor Heuss, 12 degrees from Alexander Mack, 29 degrees from Carl Miele, 16 degrees from Nathan Rothschild, 17 degrees from Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering and 19 degrees from Ferdinand von Zeppelin on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.

H  >  Henckel  |  B  >  Büffel  >  Catherine (Henckel) Büffel