Person:Alexander Lorentz (1)

Watchers
  • HAlexander Lorentz1708 - 1759
  • WMary Eveland1718 - 1765
m. 1736
  1. Margaret Lowrance1748 - 1771
Facts and Events
Name Alexander Lorentz
Gender Male
Birth? 10 Aug 1708 Bellheim, Landkreis Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Marriage 1736 to Mary Eveland
Death? 22 Feb 1759 Rowan County, North Carolina
References
  1.   Find A Grave.

    Alexander Lorentz (Lowrance)
    Birth 10 Aug 1708
    Bellheim, Landkreis Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
    Death 22 Feb 1759 (aged 50)
    Rowan County, North Carolina, USA

    Gravesite Details: Believed killed in an Indian attack

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146650368/alexander_lorentz_(lowrance)

  2.   Crawford County Historical Society (Crawford County, Illinois). History of Crawford County, Illinois : volume 2. (Crawford County, Illinois: Crawford County Historical Society (AR), c1983).

    Johannes Lorenz (1661 - ?) was born in the Palitinate area of Germany and married Anna Margaretha Heiliger (1672 - ?) on Feb 13, 1691 in Bellheim, Germany. They Had 7 children who all came to New Jersey with their parents on the ship "Medford" in 1710. Their son, Alexander, at the age of 2, was baptized aboard the ship during the crossing. The spelling of the family name was changed to Lowrance upon landing in this country