Johan George Ricksecker (1735 - 1788)

Born 22 May 1735 in Switzerland

Descendants

Died 11 Mar 1788 at age 52 in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

• Born 22 MAY 1735 in Switzerland^[1]
• Buried in Mt Tunnel Cemetery, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania^[2]
• Married 30 MAR 1770^[3]

Notes

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• Mrs. Mary Rohrer Christy, DAR ID Number: 8855, Born in Pennsylvania: Wife of Frank Christy.
• Descendant of Lieut. George Redsecker and of Lieut. John Rohrer, of Pennsylvania.
• Daughter of Jeremiah Rohrer and Mary Ann Redsecker, his wife.
• Granddaughter of George Redsecker and Catharine Myers, his wife; David Rohrer and Mary Parthemore, his wife.
• Gr.-granddaughter of George Redsecker and Susanna Ream, his wife; John Rohrer and Elizabeth Miley, his wife.
• Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of George Redsecker and Anna Maria Auxer, his wife.
• George Redsecker, who was born in Germany, was lieutenant in the Lancaster county militia at Brandywine and Germantown in Col. Alexander Lowry's regiment, which was commended for bravery in these battles.
• The Redsecker family, of which Elizabeth Ann (Redsecker) Young was a descendant, was founded in this country by John George Ricksecker, born in Switerland, May 22, 1735, from whence he emigrated in September, 1749, aged fourteen years. He served in the revolutionary war, having been first lieutenant of a company of foot in the third battalion of militia of Lancaster county, in 1777. He died in or near Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1788. His son George Ricksecker, whose name was changed afterward by an Irish schoolmaster named Tara Jones, to Redsecker, was born in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvnaia, June 23, 1764. He married Susanna Ream. His death occurred May 19, 1838. His son, Isaac Redsecker, born December 12, 1794, died July 29, 1853, aged fifty-eight. Isaac Redsecker was married to Catharine Oldwiler, born April 20, 1800, died April 23, 1891, aged eighty-five years. They lived at Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and were the parents of three children: Elizabeth Ann, aforementioned as the wife of James Young, Catherine, widow of Solomon Detwiler, Susannah, married Samuel Davis, died May 6, 1891, buried at Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
• History of Dauphin County, pages 453-454, see source information.
• George Redsecker, Jr. (1764-1838), was a private in Capt. Abraham Scott's company, 7th battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania militia. He was born in Pennsylvania; died in Lancaster County, Pa.
• The paternal grandparents of George Redsecker were George and Susan (Reem) Redsecker, both natives of Lancaster, residents of Elizabethtown, where the grandfather died in 1834, at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow in 1841, at the age of eighty-eight. They were buried in Mt. Tunnel cemetery. Their children were: (1) George; (2) Barbara, the wife of Robert Ross; (3) Susan, the wife of George Peters; (4) Elizabeth, the wife of Philip Fisher; (5) Mary, the wife of Abraham Breneman; (6) Abraham--all being dead. George Redsecker, the great-grandfather of the gentleman whose career forms the theme of this article, was buried with his wife in Mt. Tunnel cemetery, their ashes having been removed from the burying ground of the old Reformed Church on the Ridge in West Donegal township.
• The maternal grandparents of Mr. Redsecker were Alexander and Elizabeth Moyer, of Lancaster county.

Sources

• Source: S194 Title: History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Author: Luther Reily Kelker Publication: Vol. I
• Source: S41 Title: Church Records
• Source: S56 Title: Cemetery Records
• Source: Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pa., Beers, 1903, p. 314.

1. ↑ Source: #S194
2. ↑ Source: #S56
3. ↑ Source: #S41

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