Family:David Berg and Magdalena Newcomer (1)

Research Notes

• Children Grace and Herbert were not listed in Fox¹, however they are connected to this family by local newspaper clippings - see their person pages for details.

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne County and the city of Richmond, Indiana: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Wayne County. (Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association, 1912).

   Vol 2, p 199 -
   ... David Berg, the father of Mrs. Myers, was born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 25, 1790, and came to Indiana in early manhood, locating in Jackson township, where he followed the occupation of a farmer until his death, which occurred Aug. 22, 1860. His wife, whose maiden name was Magdalena Newcomer, was born Nov. 24, 1798, and died Aug. 24, 1869.
   
   To Mr. and Mrs. Berg were born ten children:
   - Jacob, born April 26, 1820, died April 10, 1874;
   - Farnlea, born July 21, 1821, died June 30, 1882 ;
   - Abraham, born Oct. 14, 1822, died Sept. 26, 1823 ;
   - Elizabeth, born June 17, 1828, became the mother of the subject of this review ;
   - Mary Ann, born Jan. 10, 1831 ;
   - Susanna, born Dec. 10, 1832 ;
   - Rebecca, born Oct. 6, 1835, died July 19, 1854 ;
   - Magdalena, born Jan. 15, 1837, died March 31, 1878 ;
   - David, born Jan. 10, 1839, died Jan. 12, 1898 ; and
   - Anna was born April 6, 1844. ...
   
   Vol 2, p 458 -
   ... The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Bertsch was Henry Howard, born in England, and her maternal grandfather was David Berg, born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, of German parents. David Berg was married on Feb. 22, 1820, to Magdalena Newcomer, born in 1782, and her parents also came from Germany. ...