Name: pa-greenfamily -- Green Family Tree

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. John BITTNER: Birth: 2 MAY 1787. Death: 22 AUG 1862

  2. Jacob BITTNER: Birth: 17 DEC 1791 in Bittner's Corner, Lowhill Township, Lehigh County, PA. Death: 25 AUG 1874 in Pleasant Corner, PA

  3. Andreas BITTNER: Birth: 23 JUL 1794. Death: 11 MAY 1864

  4. Magdalena BITTNER: Birth: 10 JUL 1798. Death: 9 NOV 1880

  5. Peter BITTNER: Birth: 21 SEP 1800. Death: 17 FEB 1882

  6. Henry BITTNER: Birth: 31 AUG 1802. Death: 19 MAR 1876

  7. Lydia BITTNER: Birth: 16 AUG 1805. Death: 21 NOV 1881

  8. Catherine Bittner: Birth: 18 MAR 1808. Death: 26 FEB 1852

  9. Benjamin BITTNER: Birth: 6 APR 1810 in Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County, PA. Death: 25 DEC 1886

  10. Daniel BITTNER: Birth: 17 AUG 1814. Death: 14 APR 1885


Notes
a. Note:   Rev Bittner Book: Bittner 1
b. Note:   idowed mother to America. She settled in Lowhill Township, then Northampton County, PA. There she married a second time and young Andreas was then reared in a family by the name of Holben. He learned the weaving trade and became the owner of a large farm in Lowhill Township which was at one time occupied by William Bittner. Andreas, the pioneer, was a devoted member of the Lutheran faith and served as a member of the building comittee that built the Weisenberg Church , and he had been always actively identified with the administrative affairs of the congregation. He was loyal to his adopted country; and during the Revolutionary War, served as a private in Capt. Matthias Probst's Company of the Sixth Battalion, commanded by Col. Henry Geiger, of Heidelberg Township.
  In due time he was married to Maria Schneider (Snyder). Andreas and Maria were first buried in the old graveyard at the Weisenberg Church, but in 1911, their remains were removed to the new cemetery and buried on the family plot of their son, Jacob Bittner. It is said their union was blessed with ten children, but tne names of only nine can be recorded, as follows: John, Jacob, Andreas, Henry, Peter, Benjamin, Daniel, Lydia, (married to Sebastian Werley), and Maria (married to Dewald Werley). However, other information states that there were two daughters--Magdalena and Catherine, and there is no mention of Maria according to the Bittner Werley book.
  (Information obtained from the HISTORY OF LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA)
Note:   Came to America when he was three years old. He was accompanied by his w

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