Jacob Rasnick, Sr.
Birth: Dec. 17, 1752, Germany
Death: 1826
Lebanon
Russell County
Virginia, USA
Johann Jacob Rührschneck (Rierschneck) was the second child of farm servants Johann Georg Rührschneck and Anna Schwanzer. He was born in the tiny village of Irsingen on 17 Dec 1752 and was taken less than a mile away to St. Johannis Church in Aufkirchen to be christened on the same day. The district Aufkirchen was first mentioned in 1188, as a fortified town. It lies at the foot of the southern slope of the Hesselberg Mountain, which is the highest point in Mittelfranken. The church, built in 1514, contains "one of the oldest precious and magnificent Baroque organs known from 1663".
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