West Virginia Pioneers

Family: Anthony Jacob HENKEL, Rev. / Maria Elizabeth [HENKEL] (F2449)

m. Abt 1706


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  • Father | Male
    Anthony Jacob HENKEL, Rev.

    Born  Bef 27 Oct 1668  Mehrenburg (near Weilburg), Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1728   
    Buried    North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  Abt 1706  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Georg HENKEL | F2451 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Anna Eulalia DENTZER | F2451 Group Sheet 

    Mother | Female
    Maria Elizabeth [HENKEL]

    Born    Germantown, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  23 Jan 1743/4   
    Buried     
    Father   
    Mother   

    Child 1 | Male
    Johann Justus HENCKEL, Sr

    Born  10 Feb 1705/6  Daudenzell, Baden, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  24 Aug 1778  Hinkle's Fort, Germany Valley, Pendleton County, Virginia (WV) Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Spouse  Maria Magdalena ESCHMANN | F2448 
    Married  Abt 1730  Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location

    Child 2 | Male
    Jacob Henkel

    Born     
    Died  Yes, date unknown   
    Buried     

  • Notes 

    • THE HENKEL FAMILY
      Life Sketches of Lutheran Ministers, North Carolina and Tennessee Synods 1773-1965, pp. 86-91

      The Henkel family line, which includes so many prominent Lutheran ministers, can be traced back to Reformation times. Count Conrad Henkel von Donnersmarck was a contemporary of the sixteenth century reformers.
      The first Henkel known to have come to America was a pastor, often called "The Pioneer", who arrived in 1717. For more than a century, through some unexplained confusion, "The Pioneer" was supposed to have been named Gerhart.
      The last will and testament of Anthony Jacob Henkel, found some fifty years ago, names Gerhart Anthony as "my oldest son"; and other mortuary records support this assumption. Another son of Anthony Jacob Henkel was John Justus. He and his wife Christine and their family moved to Rowan Co., N. C., at an early date. In 1760, he left North Carolina and, after several removals, finally located in Pendleton Co., Va., where he died in 1794.