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Note: The Early Germans of New Jersey; Their History, Churches and Genealogies [p.65] A MINISTER'S WOOING.
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Baltus Pickle , of Round Valley, New Jersey, who was a man of wealth and had helped on the building of the new church more than any other person, and had also provided out of his own means an organ and other things necessary for orderly worship. This man had two elderly (betagte) daughters. The older had died in the previous fall and the younger, whom I confirmed together with all his sons, was still living. This younger daughter was a [p.66] virtuous person, had the womanly adornment spoken of in I. Peter, 2, 3-4, was industrious, very skillful in household matters and lacked only the outward beauty of a worldly sort.
In the fall of 1748, a young student minister, John Albert Weygand, was assigned to pastoral duties in the area and he lived, at least for a time, at the home of Johann Balthazar Pickel. Anna Eva Pickel was no longer in her teens and whose bearty was confessedly not of a dazzling character was paired up by her father (Johan Balthasar) with Rev. Weygand. The young minister rebelled, and quickly married another young woman. So instead she married Johannes Helfrich Schaum. She died a few days after giving birth to her first child, a daughter, Anna Gertrude Schaum who also died only a few days after birth. She is buried with her baby.
She died before her father because she is not mentioned in the will.
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