Born in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Theobald Dewalt Mechling
and Anna Maria (Rugh) Bonsey
Brother of
Anna Maria Mechling, Elizabeth Mechling, Peter Mechlin, Jacob (Mechling) Macklin, John Mechling and Mary Magdalene (Mechling) Anderson
Husband of
Mary (Rugh) Mechlin
— married
1799 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Father of
Jacob Mechlin, Hannah Mechlin, Samuel Macklin, Joseph Mechlin, David Mechlin, Daniel Mechlin, Peter Mechlin, Mary Mechlin, Christina (Mechlin) Butler and Catherine (Mechlin) Paden
Died
at age 59
in Lancaster City, Fairfield, Ohio, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Jun 2013
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Biography
In 1810 Dewalt was ordained a minister in the church of the United Brethren in Christ and there after was a circuit rider, traveling throughout southern Ohio.
Theobold Dewalt was buried in White Church Cemetery (now known as Pleasant Hill United Methodist Cemetery) located in Pleasant Hill, Fairfield county, Ohio [1]. The tombstone reads "In memory of Devauld Macklin who departed this life July 30 1838, Aged 61 years, 7 months, 21 days". His obituary listing his name as Rev. D. Mechlin [2]. In his obituary it was listed that he was married thirty nine years to Mary Rugh. The couple, according to the obituary, had thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters. At the time of Dewalt's death nine children survived. In the article, the names of the children were not listed.
Sources
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #20031138
- ↑ "Rev. D. Mechlin has been called home" The Religious Telescope (Circleville, Ohio), 8 August 1838, Volume 4, Number 16, pg. 2 located in the Huntington University Digital Collection.
See also:
- Source: S-1876348725 Repository: #R-2138324762 Title: U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of L Note: APID: 1,1246::0
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Gary Cobb for creating WikiTree profile Mechlin-36 through the import of wikitree1.ged on May 28, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Gary and others.
- Mechling-91 was created by Alva Crom through the import of CROM FAMILY.ged on Jul 17, 2014.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Theobald by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Theobald:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Theobald by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Theobald:
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~1.56%
Kim (Cecil) Sutter
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A409687 [compare], Ancestry member sutter57
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~1.56%
B Anderson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch GZ4679343 [compare], Ancestry member blythiea
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Jacub Mechling is listed as being born in 1698 in Germany. He can't be Theobald's brother.