Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jacob Jerimiah Best
and Anna Catherine Lefevre
Sister of
Johannes Best and Conrad Best
Wife of
Jacob Dech
— married
about 1771 in Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Mother of
John Dech, Anna Margaret (Dech) Kemmerer, Jacob Dech, Elizabeth (Dech) Laubach and Andrew Dech
Died
at age 72
in Schoenersville, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Oct 2009
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Biography
Christina, daughter of Jacob Best of Williams Township, Northampton, married Jacob Dech and had five children[1]:
bapt. 15 March 1778;[2] m. Elizabeth Oberly;[4][1] d. 21 December 1858).
- Anna Margaret (Dech) Kemmerer (b. 29 September 1780;[3]
m David Kemmerer;[1] d.
- Jacob Dech (1782-) (b. 2 October 1782;[3]
m. Mary Magdalen Oberly;[1] d.
m. Christian Laubach;[1] d.
- Andrew Dech (b. 31 May 1793;[3]
m. Katherine Heller;[1] d. 28 September 1854).
Christina died on 4 Mar 1822 in Shoenersville, Pennsylvania[5]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Heller, William J. (1920. History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh vol.II, p.189, New York : The American Historical Society. Viewed at https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/322362-history-of-northampton-county-pennsylvania-and-the-grand-valley-of-the-lehigh-v-2?viewer=1&offset=21#page=2&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, database, FamilySearch (27 January 2020), John Dech, 1778.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Northampton County Births, Dech Family (accessed 4 June 2022) on Family Search.
- ↑ Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940, database, FamilySearch (6 February 2020), John Dech, 1797.
- ↑ Emey, Ivana, ed. Title: Excerpts of the Dech Family from Roberts, 1914 Anniversary History of Lehigh County URL: http://www.pa-roots.org/cgi-bin/data/lehighbiographies.cgi?review=50.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to John McVey for creating WikiTree profile Best-890 through the import of Dech-233.ged on Dec 8, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christina by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Christina:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christina by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Christina:
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~0.78%
Johanna (Laubach) Robinson
:
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