Margaret (Catharina Margarethe) Muller - Ebersole b. 1 Sep 1797 Saarbrücken, Saarland, GR d. 1 Mar 1876 McLean Co., IL: The Schrock-Birkey Connection
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Margaret (Catharina Margarethe) Muller - Ebersole

Female 1797 - 1876  (78 years)


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  • Name Margaret (Catharina Margarethe) Muller - Ebersole  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth 1 Sep 1797  Saarbrücken, Saarland, GR Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Mar 1876  McLean Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Person ID I8616  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 17 Apr 2023 

    Family Christian Schertz,   b. 1795, Buhl, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Aug 1864, Danvers, McLean Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 6 Dec 1819  Buhl-Lorraine, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8] 
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    Children 
     1. Barbara Schertz,   b. 11 Jun 1815, Fechingen, Saarland, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Dec 1868 (Age 53 years)
     2. Magdalena Schertz,   b. 1816   d. 1895 (Age 79 years)
     3. Anna Schertz,   b. 18 Mar 1820, Fechingen, Saarland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1901 (Age 81 years)
     4. Marie Schertz,   b. 23 Apr 1821
     5. Marie Catherine Schertz,   b. 3 Dec 1825
     6. Peter G. Schertz,   b. 25 Mar 1826, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Aug 1892, Danvers, McLean Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     7. Elizabeth Schertz,   b. 1826   d. 1895 (Age 69 years)
     8. Joseph Schertz,   b. 18 Jun 1827, Fechingen, Saarland, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 May 1914, Danvers, McLean Co., IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F31  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Jan 2012 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Sep 1797 - Saarbrücken, Saarland, GR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 6 Dec 1819 - Buhl-Lorraine, Sarrebourg, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1 Mar 1876 - McLean Co., IL Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • FAG-https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60432237/christian-schertz

      Husband of Margaret Ebersole Schertz (1797-1876)

      CHRISTIAN SCHERTZ (1795-1864) was born in France and migrated with his family to the United States in 1831 from the Alsace Lorraine region of France; and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He died in McLean County, Illinois at 69 years of age. His brother Joseph died in the Napoleon/Russian Campaign about 1812; Andrew and Peter stayed in France. Christian married Margaret Ebersole (1797-1876) and had six children, all born in France.

      Christian & Catharina "Margaret" (Ebersole) Schertz had six children, as follows:

      Barbara Schertz (1815-1869)
      Magdalena Schertz (1816-1895)
      Nancy Ann "Anna" Schertz (1820-1901)
      Elizabeth Schertz (1823-1895)
      Peter G. Schertz (1826-1891)
      Joseph Schertz (1827-1914)
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      An excellent reference on the Alsace-Lorraine region is contained in "Amish Mennonites in Germany by Herman Guth (1995). It contains a large number of of marriages and resulting children of the Schertz families from Lorentzen as well as a lot of background on their farms, the estates they were employed upon, and their lifestyle and culture. (Source: Vince Falter, Dec 2001)
      _____________________

      Most of the Anabaptist Amish/Mennonites in France 1750-1830 had emigrated from either Germany or directly from Switzerland because of persecution related to their faith.

      In Alsace, families lived together in various villages where they found work mostly in agriculture. They were great farmers and landowners sought them out to manage their farms. They lived very separate lives from the local community, but most of the births/marriages/deaths are in the civil records of the area.

      Marriages were from within their own faith communities, so if a suitable spouse was not found in their own village, they found one from another Amish/Mennonite grouping--many times a relative.

      Many of the Alsace Lorraine families were of the Amish persuasion, but after emigrating to the US in early 1800s a great number of their churches merged in the early 1900s with the Mennonite groups. (Most of the Amish in the US today descend from an earlier 1700s emigration.) (Source: Donna Birkey, [email protected], Digest V01 #429)
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  • Sources 
    1. [S452] Schertz Family History.

    2. [S731] Steven R. Estes, Love God and Your Neighbor: The Life and Ministry of Christian Engel, (Robert and Juliet Engel Schertz for IMHGS, Metamora, IL).

    3. [S727] Neil Ann Stuckey Levine, Christian Schertz’s Arrangement for a Hired Substitute.

    4. [S1270] Results for Margaret Muller-Ebersole.

    5. [S1060] Find-A-Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60432237/christian-schertz.

    6. [S1270] Results for Margaret Muller-Ebersole, Place.

    7. [S452] Schertz Family History, Date.

    8. [S269] GeneaNet Family Tree of Jean François Lorentz.


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