GINGERICH Family
[Gingery-Gingrich-Kingery-Kingerich]
Pennsylvania German
Ancestors by Anne Frysinger Shifflet, Ph.D.
AFS Pubications, Frederick 1999
Dr. Shifflet has used primary and secondary
sources to create a readable narrative while documenting each
factual statement. She traces the stories of 60 immigrant family
groups. Among them she has included the Gingrich (Gingerich,
Kingery, Kingerich) family. She begins with a short resume of the
history of the name. Then she discusses briefly, the first
immigrants. However, her main focus is on the family of Michael
Gingrich, who first purchased land in Lebanon Township in 1747. She
goes into more detail here Then she lists two generations: Michael
and his children; and Michael's son, Peter, and his
children.
Emigrants, Refugees and Prisoners
Volume III by Richard Warren Davis, Provo,
Utah 1999
The three volumes are an attempt to establish a link between the known Anabaptist families in Switzerland and Germany in the 1600's and 1700's and the Anabaptist families who arrived in Pennsylvania between 1709 and1776.
Gingerich/Guengerich/Kingery
Mr. Davis lists five
principal families:
- Family E - John Gingrich bc 1695 d about 1769,
Warwick Twp, Lancaster Co. PA
- Family D - Ulrich Gingrich bc 1700 died about
1772.
- Family F - Michael Gingery bc 1708 d 1785,
Lebanon Townshp, Lancaster Co.
- Family G - Peter Gingrich bc 1710 d 1786,
Lebanon Township, Lancaster Co.
- Family H - bc 1710 d 1776, Lebanon Township,
Lancaster Co.
Gingerich Family Researcher and Archivist
Barbara Gingerich - Rivas
Barbara can provide more info from the Shifflet Book and the Davis Book. Her research and knowlege of the Gingerich Family is extensive.
Surname List:
ADAMS, COMBS, CROWSON, GINGERICH, HARDIN, HERYFORD, HOUCHINS
SNYDER, STAMBAUGH, VINSON, BAREFOOT, CHOATE
CRAVENS, DARCEY, DARNALL, DAUGHERTY, KING, KOPFF, LONG
McCOMB, MOBLEY,
PETTIGREW, SOPER, SUMMERS, WITHROW, Et.al. |
- Origin: Switzerland
- Religion: Mennonite - United Bretheren
- Earliest Date Known: 1735
- Arrived in America: There were at least two GINGERICH
families who immigrated to America, one in the 1700s and another in
the early 1800s.
- Earliest Families from: Yost (Joseph) Gingerich, Micheal
Gingerich and Peter Gingerich. Info that Yost and Micheal are
brother's..possible that all three are brothers, as yet not proved.
Difficulty is now in sorting out the 'same named' children of the
original Gingerich/Gingrich families.
John GINGERICH (Kingerich) b.1745 d. Apr 1806 m.
Elizabeth
'Betsy' SMUTZ (Schmutz) b.? d. 14 April 1825.
Children of John Gingerich and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Schmutz
(Smutz):
- Jacob b.12 Jan 1790 d.15 Jul 1872 m. Mary HERR
- John b.12 May 1791 d. 11 Mar 1850 m. Martha COBB
(Magdalena Kopff) Barbara
Rivas and Denise
Sallee
- Martha b. abt 1793.? m. Christian STOUFFER
- Elizabeth b.9 Nov 1797 d. 8 Oct 1827-28. m. Evan
EVANS on 29 Feb 1820 Claude
M.Shawbell,III
- Nancy b. abt 1801 d.bef 1825 m.Henry LUTZ (left 2
children)
- Barbara (twin) b.1806 d.? m. Michael BASHORE
- Mary (twin) b.1806 d.? m. Conrad GROVE on 10 Apr
1823
Juniata County, Newspaper Obituary 30 Apr 1825:
- KINGERICH, MRS., died at Clark's Ferry, Perry County, on Sunday
last. Interred at Mexico
in this county.(Death: 14 Apr 1825. Will of 25 April 1825 / Filed
25 May 1825)
- Mary GINGERICH & Conrad GROVE m. April 10,1823. Conrad from
New Berlin, Union County, Pa. and Mary from Juniata County,
Pa.
Elizabeth GINGERY / GINGERICH b. 9 Nov 1797 in Town of
Mexico, Dauphin Co. PA d. 8 Oct 1827(8) in Mifflin Co. PA,
married 29 Feb 1820 to Evan
EVANS b. 19 Jun 1795 in PA d. 10 Sep 1834 in Mexico,Walker
Twnshp, Juniata Co. PA.
Children of Evan EVANS and Elizabeth GINGERICH:
- *Maria Anna (twin) b. 25 Dec 1820 d. 6 Jun 1900 m.
John
G. SHAWBELL
- Elizabeth (twin) b. 25 Dec1820 d.? m. John
STRAYER
- Lewis b.? d. bef 1895
- David b.? d. bef 1895
- Lidia b.? d. bef 1895
Marriages by John Hutchinson,Pastor, Presbyterian
Congregation, Mifflintown and Lost Creek, PA. 1806-1844.
- Evan EVANS to Betsy GINGERICH 29 Feb 1820.
Marriages of Northumberland & Union County Pennsylvania
1700 & 1800's:
Mary GINGERICH and Conrad GROVE m. April 10, 1823. Conrad from New Berllin, Union County, Pa. and Mary from Juniata Co.,Pa
John GINGERICH (Kingery/Gingrich) b. 12 May
1791 d 11 March 1850. Buried in Mexico Town Community Cemetary,
Walker Twp, Juniata Co. PA m. Martha COBB (Magdalena Kopff)
b. 24 Sept 1795 d. 14 Oct 1865. (Daughter of Ludwig Kopff and
Anna Maria May) of Conestoga Twp., PA (Buried Eschol
Cementary, Saville Twp, Perry Co. PA)
Children of John GINGERICH and Martha COBB (KOPFF)
- Jacob b 10 Dec 1815 - left home abt 1842/43 believed
dead by 1852
- Lewis Kirkpatrick b 21 Sept 1817 d 26 Aug 1891 Missouri
(Lived in Saville Twp, Perry Co. PA) m. 12 mar 1846 Caroline Milier
SHUMAN d. 16 Aug 1870 (Saville twp.. Perry Co. PA) Denise Sallee
- John
S. b 16 Oct 1819 d 17 Nov 1900 ( Pasadena, CA) Marr.11 Feb
1845 (Lewistown, PA) Elizabeth J. WALLIS (a Quaker) Barbara Rivas
- Mary Ann b 10 Oct. 1822 m. Joseph HARNER
- Phillip M. b 10 Sept 1824 d 4 May 1903 (Callaway Co. MO)
m. MARY
- George Washington b 28 Jan 1827 (In May of 1852 was
living in Logansport, Cass Co. Ind.)
- William W. b. 6 June 1829 d. 3 Jan 1895 (Juniata
Co. PA) m. Amelia HETRICK(HEDRICK) .b.20 Sep 1827 d.10 Aug 1898
(dau. of Peter HETRICK and SARAH_____.Other Children: William, David,
Jerome and Margareta Salome.
- David C. b 16 Aug 1832 d. 24 June 1855
(buried in Eschol Cemetary, Saville Twp. Perry Co., PA. His
father's will describes him as a lunatic, he obviously lived with
his mother, and is buried next to her.
- Elizabeth M. b 12 Sept 1835 d 9 Sept 1890 (Callaway Co.,
MO) m. 29 Jan 1857 Henry KIRKPATRICK
- Tabitha b 12 sept 1835 died by 1852 (twin of
Elizabeth)
Note: Barbara Rivas: I have a lot of information on the
Gingerich's in Missouri. *John S. went to Lawrence, Kansas as a
circuit preacher. He was under the elder, S. Snyder, who was killed
in Quantrill's raid on Lawrence. John S. also helped establish a
church in Fulton, Callaway Co., MO., where most of his kinfolks
settled. John S had 4 children.
There is a man living in Richfield, PA. who is a
descendent of William Gingerich (brother to my John S.). William
seems to be the only one who stayed home in Juniata Co. This
gentleman has a family bible. It is not the original Gingerich
bible, but one that William or someone made. His name is Noah L.
Zimmerman, R#1 Box 602 Richfield, PA 17086-9709
I have a whole slew of wills and papers from
Mifflintown.. I was there several summers ago and just copied
everything that had to do with Gingerich. I also got a will from
Lewistown on an Elizabeth Gingerich who died in 1825 (more or
less). On the inventory and sale papers of my John Gingerich's
estate, the name is spelled about 5 different ways be the brothers
themselves. I did find his gravestone though (pretty sure- the
dates match perfectly) and his wife. His was in Mexico and her's
across in Perry Co., Saville Twp.