Name: jane5 -- Reitz-Kramer Families from Germany and Alsace

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Christiana Reitz: Birth: 1797 in New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA. Death: 28 Mar 1867

  2. Margaret Reitz: Birth: Cir 1798 in New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA. Death: After 1841 in Tyler, VA, prob.

  3. George Reitz: Birth: Cir 1802 in New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA. Death: in Michigan

  4. Thomas Reitz: Birth: 4 Aug 1804 in New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA. Death: Cir 1887 in Fairfield, IA

  5. Phillip Reitz: Birth: 1806 in New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA. Death: 3 Oct 1891 in Petroleum, Ritchie Co, WVa

  6. Catherine Reitz: Birth: 1813 in Greensboro, Greene Co, PA. Death: 4 Jun 1865

  7. Frederick Reitz: Birth: 14 Oct 1817 in Greensboro, Greene Co, PA. Death: 3 Aug 1890 in Washington, DC, prob.


Sources
1. Title:   Parke-Reitz ... Families of Kansas
Author:   Reitz, L.P. and Elva G.
Publication:   1977, with Supplement, 1995.
2. Title:   #490224: Kirchenbuch 1673-1831, Evangelische Kirche Dudweiler, Kr. Saarbrucken.
 #1045928: same, incl. towns of Scheidt, Friedrichsthal, Sulzbach, Neuweiler, Huenfeld.
3. Title:   Ancestors of Helen Hodges and William Peppler
Author:   Peppler, Jane
Publication:   jpeppler@acpub.edu
4. Title:   Haack Family website http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9197/reppert.html
Author:   Haack, Robert
5. Title:   southpaw@citlink.net
Author:   McCormack, Barbara
Publication:   email

Notes
a. Note:   Lewis arrived in America ca 1774, possibly 1773 with the Kramers, as a child. He first appears in Frederick Co, MD, employed by Amelung in New Bremen Glass Manufacturing, near Urbana. I feel that he came over with his Aunt Wilhelmine Hollenberger and her husband Johann Georg Krameras an apprentice glass maker.
 Moved to New Geneva, Fayette Co, PA, then to Greensboro in Greene Co, PA in 1806.
 Occ: glass blower. Sponsors at his christening: 1) Ludwig Adolf Eberhard, 2) Johann Heinrich Hollenberger, 3) Sophia Catharina, wife of Philip Heinrich Eberhard.
  Family stories that the name Reitz was from Alsace, Prussia, or Russia are somewhat true, but I emphasize the somewhat. I found no evidence of the family being related to Bismark or the Kaiser, nor any evidence of "von Reitz". Prussia back in the 18th century was a smallish northern German land, and I found no evidence of the family there. The Russian idea may have come from the Saar (read Czar?) River area - Saarbr�cken, etc. It was not formally called Saarland until after World War II. Many people of Reitz surname came from southwestern Germany.
  Lewis did have three Reitz brothers, but they were younger. Two were even married in Germany - 1790 and 1804 - so, if they did come over, it must have been later.

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