Christian Blickensderfer, Sr
BIRTH 6 Mar 1724
Baden-Württemberg, Germany
DEATH 6 Apr 1800 (aged 76)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Christian was born of Mennonite parentage at the Kohlhof, in the Palatinate. Married January 7, 1748 to Catharine Shūrger, the daughter of a Mennonite preacher, at Eisenbach, Zweibruecken. Christian came with his wife and two children to America in 1753. Lived in Philadelphia for 1 1/2 years.
He and his family lived in the Moravian village of Lititz, Pennsylvania. Christian was a teamster who in 1761 built a large brick building that housed the first business establishment in Lititz, and contained living quarters for the family upstairs. That building, now known as the Rauch house after a baker who owned it in the 1800s, still stands at 69 Main Street in downtown Lititz, though its roofline has been altered drastically from its original shape.
Of his nine children (7 sons and 2 daughters) only 2 sons and one daughter survived him, namely: Christian, 1753, Matthew, 1764, and Catharine, 1761, who married Matthias Muecke. His second wife, married in 1779, was the widow Barbara Mueller (maiden: Leithold).
1. John Andrew in Germany 1750-1775
2. Jacob in Germany 1752-1778
3. Christian 1753 (m. Barbara Born) moved to Ohio
4. John Michael 1756-1756
5. George 1757-1757 - twin
6. Daniel 1757-1757 - twin
7. Anna Maria 1758 - 1759
8. Catherine 1761 - 1823 (m. Matthias Muecke)
9. Matthew 1764-1809 (m. Barbara Kiehler)
After Catharine's death in Jan.1778, he married the widow Barbara (Leithold) Mueller on Nov. 16, 1779.
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