It's been awhile since my last post but there was a lot going on at home. I caught my grandson's respiratory illness, my husband and I had a home project completed, and we made a trip to Maryland and Pennsylvania to visit family.
The next family I want to discuss is John George Heim and his children who moved to the Redbank area of Armstrong County from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania between 1808 and 1820. John George Heim was a son of John George Heim and his wife Mary Margaret and was born on 26 September 1758 and was baptized at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 10 February 1860. He and his wife Rosina Miller were married on 15 May 1774 at Christ Lutheran Church in Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania. They had the following children:
1. William was born 27 February 1775 and was baptized on 7 May 1775 at the Himmel Church in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
2. John George was born 11 December 1776 and was baptized April, 1777 at the Himmel Church.
3. Jacob was born 21 March 1782 and was baptized 14 April 1782 at the Himmel Church.
4. Christian was born 26 June 1784 and was baptized July, 1784 at the Christ Lutheran Church in Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
5. Maria Catharina was born 13 March 1787 and was baptized 29 April 1787 at the Himmel Church. She married Lawrence Baughman in Northumberland County on 24 April 1806.
6. Elizabeth was born 12 November 1789 and was baptized 24 January 1790 at the Klinger Church in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. No further record has been found for her.
7. John who was born between 1770 and 1780 may also be his son since he appears in Redbank Township, Armstrong, County in the 1820 census. Jacob "Heym" and his wife Catharina were sponsors at the baptism of John's son Jacob on 6 September 1807.
All of John George Heim's children except Elizabeth appear in the 1810 and/or 1820 census in Redbank Township, Armstrong County with him. The last time John Geoge Heim born 1758 appears in a record in Redbank Township, Armstrong County is when he is recorded as a communicant on 12 December 1824 by the Rev. Gabriel Adam Reichert.
Much additional information with sources regarding John George Heim's children and their descendants can be found at the links given in my blog. His children and their families will also be discussed in future posts.
