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- [S1248] WikiTree.com, Christian Yoder.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yoder-56
- [S1037] James C. Hostetler, Family Database of James C. Hostetler, (Name: Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association;), Christian Schweitzer Yoder.
Name Christian Yoder
Born 1722 Europe
Gender Male
Died Jan 1772 Berks Co., PA
Person ID I627 Hostetler Database
Last Modified 7 Mar 2016
Father _____ Yoder, b. 1695, Europe, d. 1742, On Atlantic Ocean (Age 47 years)
Mother Barbara _____, b. Europe
Family ID F385 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Barbara Beiler, b. 1723, Canton Bern, Switzerland, d. 1781, Berks Co., PA (Age 58 years)
Children
1. Jacob Yoder, b. 1745, Berks Co., PA, d. 1827, Somerset Co., PA Age 82 years)
2. Christian Yoder, b. 1747, Berks Co., PA l
3. Elizabeth Yoder, b. 1749, Berks Co., PA, d. 11 Jan 1791, Hamburg, Berks Co., PA (Age 42 years)
4. Barbara Yoder, b. 1751, Berks Co., PA, d. 1821, Mifflin Co., PA (Age 70 years)
5. John Yoder, b. 1753, Berks Co., PA , d. 1821, Shanesville, Tuscarawas Co., OH (Age 68 years)
6. Veronica Yoder, b. 1755, Berks Co., PA
7. Joseph Yoder, b. 1757, Berks Co., PA, d. 28 Oct 1833, Mifflin Co., PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
8. Henry Yoder, b. 1759, Berks Co., PA, d. 1821, Mifflin Co., PA (Age 62 years)
9. Anna Yoder, b. 1761, Berks Co., PA, d. Holmes Co., OH
10. David Yoder, b. 1763, Berks Co., PA, d. 1820, Mifflin Co., PA (Age 57 years)
11. Catherine Yoder, b. 1765, Berks Co., PA, d. Tuscarawas Co., OH
Last Modified 7 Mar 2016
Family ID F74 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Notes
Gingerich-Kreider YR12
- [S1199] Yoder Newsletter, (Location: Goshen, Indiana, USA;), "Hamburg Christian Yoder," Issue No. 30, October 1997, page 1.
For years the story was handed down that one Barbara Yoder, whose husband died at sea,landed in America some time before 1720. with nine small children--eight sons and a daughter--and that they settled in the Oley Valley, where sons Hans and Yost became well- known. Eventually an alert descendantpublicized a discrepancy in the story and family historians began to chip away at this garbled mixing of two lines of Y oder immigrants.
Although there has never been any documentation available about the "Widow Barbara", it is agreed that she did exist.We know that "Widow Barbara" arrived not prior to 1720, but on September 21, 1742, on the Francis and Elizabeth. Three Yoder men signed the ship list upon their docking in Philadelphia. Through the efforts of Dr. Hugh Gingerich, we now know there were eight Amish Yoder men of the first generation, and we know that two of these 1742 signatories (Jacob and Christian Joder) were sons of "Widow Barbara" , We now know that Barbara did indeed have nine children (seeYNL 2, Oct. 83), but only four of those sori5 were hers. The other four belonged to the other Yoder family aboard ship. This second Yoder family was once said to have been that of "Strong Jacob" Yoder, but now we know the head of the second family was the Christian Jotter on the ship list . For some reason a clerk wrote Jacob's name for him and it appears directly above that of his older brother, who wrote his name Christian Joder (SeeYNL 20). It is interesting to see this mix of spelling---Joder ,the spelling used by their Swiss forebears,and Jotter, a spelling adopted by some of the family in Alsace and also in Eppstein, Germany (YNL 10)
The older Christian Jotter located in Berks County on land situated where the present day township sof Upper Bern, Center, and Penn come together, but Barbara's family settled closer to the village of Hamburg, which is no doubt the reason that her son was known as
"Hamburg Christian" to distinguish him from the others. As these sons became of age they took farms of their own, Christian "on the twenty-ninth day of the eighth month, 1743" and Jacob on October 28, 1147. One old diagram in the archives at Harrisburg shows Christian's land bounded by the farms of Isaac Kauffman, Stephen Kauffman. Hans Ilertzler and vacant land. Soon afterward the map shows that the farms of his brother Jacob, and Christian Fisher (apparentty a brother-in-law), adjoining his. The Hertzler property was now in the name of Jacob Hertzler.
By 1767 Jacob Yoder was living farther south, in Lancaster County, but as far as we know, Christian stayedon his original farm as long as he lived. Hamburg Christian's wife was named Barbara. Dr. Gingerich felt it was probable that Barbara was the daughter of Jacob Beiler and that her sister married his brother Jacob Yoder. There is no proof of this, but it seems possible given the known connections and proximity of the families. Christian and Barbara reared eleven children in this home, but as time went on most of them left the community. The chief reason was probably the lure of more and cheaper land' but the tensions of the American Revolution no doubt exerted an influence as well.
Hamburg Christian" died in his fifties (probably in 1772, although some records say l77l). His will was dated December 10, 1771.The scribe wrote it out in beautiful English script. From the details in this will, in which Christian reflected his concern that his beloved Barbara be well-cared for after his death, we can get a glimpse of how the pioneers in his time were living.
https://www.yodernewsletter.org/ynlpdf/YNL30.pdf
- [S1251] Find A Grave, Christian Yoder.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44501163/christian-yoder
- [S1199] Yoder Newsletter, (Location: Goshen, Indiana, USA;), "Will of Christian Joder, Berks County Wills, Volume 2, page 110," Issue No. 30, October 1997, page 4.
Berks County Wills, Volume 2, page 110
Will of Christian Joder Decd May 4th 1772
Ltr Adm inistra _Testame /granted to Barbara
Joder, Widow &c Bond
nts
ln the name of the Holy and High Praised Trinity God Father Son and Holy Ghost be our Beginning Mean and End!
As I Christian Joder Senior through daity Experience have conceived that as all mortal Men, so I Christian Joder, yet in good and
sound Reason have principally to take Care and Concern for myself about the incorruptable lnheritance and native Country when the Almighty God according to his paternal Will shall reguire me frcm the Temporal and receive me in his heavenly Kingdom of Honor and Joy, But my inanimated Corps shall become incorporated with the Earth. So of the earthly Estate where with I am blessed and leave behind me, this is my last Testamentary Will. Viz. That my one dear and worthy Wife, Barbara Joder, shall have my said Estate under her Care and manage the same as long as rt rs agreeable to her and the children shall be obedient according to their Duty, but in case they shall be disobedient and disagree, then my dear Wife Barbara Joder may choose five impartial Men of the Community and by them cause as well the Place as the Moveable Estate to be valued and appraised, and cause the moveable Estate to be divided among the children, But the Road Wagon with four horses and gears, plough and harrow shall be left on the place and the price estimated accordingly and the monies thense ailsing for like Manner shall be divided among my Children which I leave behind to whom I wish God's rich blessing if they walk in the Ways of the Lord and lead a life well pleasing to God.
I begueath to my dear Wife Barbara Joder whom I leave behind all yearly and till this happy Departure according to the Will of God, if it is agreeable to the Mother to remain in the
Dwelling Room with the Son that takes the Place to himself, but in Case the contrary shall happen the said son or who has the Place in Hand must build her a separate commodius Dwelling with a Cellar Floor, Kitchen, and Windows. Doors and all necessary Articles to compleat the same on his Cosfs as also cut and deliver the necessary Firewood before the Dwelling the Keeping and the Benefits of one Cow and in Case of Age or lnfirmity of Body she may not be able to milk and fodder the said Cow then the said Son or Son-in-law, or in want of either, the Possessor of the Place shall do and perform the said Service for the Mother, five Bushels of Rye five Bushels of Wheat these the aforesaid must on request cause to be measured and taken to the Miil for my dear Wife Barbara Joder and the Meal and Bran thereof made to be brought to the Place where she shall desire a Horse to ride must be given to her at any Time. Of the present Kitchen Garden a piece must be cut off and enclosed and the necessary Dung must every Year be carried on it. One fat Hog of a hundred Pounds with fifty Pounds of Beef, ten Pounds of good hatchelled Hemp and ten pounds of Tow or Flax. The one third Part of Eggs laid by the Hens on the Plantation.The Wool of two Sheep Ail these above mentioned Articles must all be provided yearly. That which my descended to my Dear Wife Barbara Joder from her happy Father's lnheritance is reserved to her free and uninterruptedDisposition.FortheConfirmation ofthisIhave with my own handin thePresonceof Witnessessubscribed and I ratify it with my Seal and Death So done and given in Bern Township Berks County the l0th December
Ano one thousand seven hundred and seventy one---
Christian Joder (Seal)
Two rows of apple trees
from which the Owner of the
Place must make the best
apples into Cyder and deli-
ver in the Cellar to the Mother.
Hannes Yoder
Benedict (x) Lehman, his mark
Jacob Gindelsbpreger
https://www.yodernewsletter.org/ynlpdf/YNL30.pdf
- [S1248] WikiTree.com, Widow Barbara Rupp.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/UNKNOWN-57007
- [S1251] Find A Grave, Jacob Yoder.
See Yoder Newsletter, issue 2, YoderNewsletter.org
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55838844
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Vitter-Weaver Genealogy
1722 - 1772 (50 years)
1720 - 1790 (~ 69 years)
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