'Christian Bechtel [son of Christian and Anna (Meyer) Bächtold], b. 17 Nov 1622, Schleitheim. He was called teacher of the word in April 1672 and father of Hans Bechtel. He was a Mennonite minister living in the Pfalz who signed a letter with Rudy Pletcher, Hans Heinrich Bar and others when a group left for Friedrichstadt, Germany on 26 Oct 1693. He was probably the Mennonite Christoph Brueckel (sic) who was living at Zuzenhausen, Germany with Hans Bruechler (sic) in 1685.'
