Catharina Sherzer Shürger Blickensderfer
BIRTH 14 Oct 1727
Germany
DEATH 27 Jan 1778 (aged 50)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Moravian Cemetery
Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Catharine was the daughter of a Mennonite preacher, born in Eisenbach, Zweibruecken. Catharine Shürger married Christian Blickensderfer on January 7, 1748. They moved to Nieder Saulheim where they resided several years.
She traveled with her husband and brother-in-law, Jost, and two children on the ship "Rowand." They came first to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and within a week after their arrival gave birth to her third child, Christian. They lived for 1½ years in Phila. and then moved to a farm near Lititz (Litiz), Pennsylvania. In 1761, her husband built a house in the village (69 Main Street, Lititz) and moved his family into it. By this time she had already suffered the loss of four children.
She was a woman of more than ordinary strength of mind and ability, exercising great influence in the forming of a substantial and solid character in her children, all of whom became persons of influence in the communities in which they dwelt. She was a sincere and active Christian, the family connecting themselves with the Moravian church immediately after they arrived in America, first at Philadelphia and then Lititz.
Catharina died of the epidemic "camp fever" while helping during the American Revolution. Her son, Jacob, died of this epidemic a week before she died. Of her nine children two sons (Matthew & Christian) and a daughter (Catherine) survived her.
Source: Moravian Cemetery records.
She and Christian had 9 children:
1. John Andrew 1750-1775
2. Jacob 1752-1778
3. Christian 1753-1820 (m. Barbara Born)
4. John Michael 1756
5. George 1757 - twin
6. Daniel 1757 - twin
7. Anna Maria 1758
8. Catherine 1761-1823 (m. Matthias Muecke)
9. Matthew (Matthias) 1764-1809 (m. Barbara Kichler)
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