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Note: fter a fairly extensive search of online records only in 2015. Subsequent professional research by Dick Musselman in 2016 also found no record of a marriage, but the research proves a death aft 1868.
Sarah is a twenty year old on the 1850 Salisbury census with her parents. She does not appear with the family on the 1860 census so she married between 1850 and 1860. Upon finding her father's will, probated July, 1868, in which he willed equal shares to his ten children (he only had ten but did not name them in the will), of which she is one, it is clear she is still alive in 1868. As none of the children were named it is not known is she was single or married.
In 2015 I searched every week's marriage announcements in 'Der Lecha Patriot' for the years 1850-1859 and Sarah was not among the brides listed.
Other sources searched were:
Name as you searched it <b>SCHMETZER, SMETZER,</b> Sarah
Date of Search 8/15/15
General NOTHING
Roots Web World Connect found a tree with her as daughter but no info
Ancestry Public Member FamilyTree NOTHING
Ancestry Marriage NOTHING
Ancestry Hints NOTHING
Ancestry Death NOTHING
Ancestry Military NA
Ancestry Census on the 1850 but not on the 1860
FS marriage NOTHING
FS death NOTHING
FS census NOTHING
FS parent NOTHING
Find a grave NOTHING
Fulton History NA
The 2016 research of Dick Musselman follows:
"A search of old newspaper index entries for the Schmetzer surname in Salisbury and South Whitehall Township provided the following entries:
Emma J. Schmetzer of Salisbury to William H. Hillyard of Allentown on 3/31/1866
‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 4/18/1866
Lucinda Schmetzer of Salisbury to Owen Focht of Allentown on 4/1/1860, Rev. Dubs
‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 4/4/1860
Adam Schmetzer of Salisbury to Miss Elisabeth Ludewig of South Whitehall on Sun., 14 days, Rev. Seidel
‘Der Friedens Bote’ 4/12/1822 Adam Schmetzer to Catharina Braun, both of Salisbury,last Sunday, Rev. Fuchs
‘Der Friedens Bote’ 13 Sep. 1837 ‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 20 Sep.1837
Adam Schmetzer of Salisbury died 9/2/1868, 70 years
‘Der Friedens Bote’ 9/9/1868 ‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 9/9/1868
Catharine A. Schmetzer of Salisbury to James Butz on 9/16/1860
‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 9/26/1860 Ellen Schmetzer of Salisbury to Ezekial Fritz on 11/13/1864, Mennig
‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 11/23/1864 James Schmetzer to Miss Lusette Ludwig, both of South Whitehall, last Sunday
‘Unabhaengiger Republikaner’ 3/28/1822
Maria Elisabeth Schmetzer of Salisbury, wife of Adam Schmetzer, died last Monday in 38th year, Rev. Jager
‘Der Friedens Bote’ 31 Aug.1836 Sarah Smetzer of Springfield, widow of John Smetzer, died 6/2/1880, 86-4-7
‘Allentown Democrat’ 6/30/1880 (incorrectly listed with Marriage entries)
(note: None of the above German language newspaper entries were reviewed or copied.)
Adam Smetzer Estate File #4024, 1868 was reviewed at the Lehigh County Courthouse. Items included on the very long Inventory list suggested he was a shoemaker by trade. Neither the Will, Inventory list, Vendue list nor Accounting sheets listed the names of surviving children.
There were many Lehigh County recorded Deeds listed under the name of Adam Smetzer and Adam Smetzer Estate. Deed Book #34, page 271, 1 Feb.1858 recorded a transfer of property from Adam Smetzer & wife Catharine in Trust to Paul Brown. The property included a home that would be available to Catharine Smetzer for the remainder of her life.
Lehigh Co. Deed Book #134, page 155 (copied) records the sale of the Adam Smetzer home in Salisbury Township held in Trust since 1858 until the death of wife Catharine on 22 Mar. 1889. Catharine was survived by 6 children and 2 grandchildren named in this Deed:
Lucinda Focht
James Smetzer
Ella, wife of Ezekiel Fritz, deceased
Charles Smetzer
Emma, wife of William H. Williard
Eliza Smetzer
Catharine (now deceased), wife of James Butz, survived by two sons: Harry A. Butz &
Wilson S. Butz
Unfortunately no new sources listing the surviving children of first wife Elizabeth Ludwig were found."
Note: No marriage or death records were found for Sarah Schmetzer or Smetzer a
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