Johannes Friedrich

Johannes Friedrich, who was born in 1784, grew up in Hitzerode. His maternal Becker grandparents from Hitzerode had died twenty years earlier, and his paternal grandparents may or may not have been living, but if so, were some miles away in Kammerbach. As a young boy he may have accompanied his father on his wagon route, and later he took up that occupation himself.
Four months after his twentieth birthday, Johannes married Anna Margarethe Speck, also from Hitzerode and the daughter of Jakob Speck and Anna Catharina Becker. Anna Margarethe was nineteen when they married. The one son we know of was also named Johannes, born in 1822 when his mother was 37 and his father 38 years old. Nine years later the older Johannes died; Anna Margaretha survived him for at least twenty more years, living out her life in Hitzerode. Her son Johannes eventually took up farming. He may have lost access to the wagoner's route of his father, since he was too young to take it over when his father died. Or he simply lacked his father's training. Presumably, all families kept a farm of some size, at least enough for a garden and some animals. Their son Johannes perhaps fell to managing the farm when an older brother took over the wagon route. It appears that Anna Margaretha lived to see her son married. It is unclear whether she also lived to know that he and his wife emigrated to America in 1852. Presumably she is buried in Hitzerode.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	4 Mar. 1784	Kuhrhessen		<sup class="reference"[1][4]</sup>
Marriage	23 July 1804	Hitzerode, Germany	To Anna Margarethe Speck
Death	16 Nov. 1831	Hitzerode, Germany
Burial	20 Nov 1831	Hitzerode, Germany

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 5           Generation 6          Generation 7
 
                                          +-- Johannes Friedrich  
                                          |   (1745-1817)
                  +-- Johannes Friedrich--+
                  |   (~1784-1831)        |
 John Frederick --+                       +-- Anna Elisabeth Becker
 (1822-1912)      |                           (~1745-1821)
                  +-- Anna Margarethe Speck
                      (1785->1851)
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Children

( children with Anna Margarethe Speck)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Johannes Frederick	M	17 Aug 1822	Hitzerode, Hesse Germany	Anna Catherine Kenemuth

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Hitzerode, Hesse, Germany	by 1804 - 1831

Photo Gallery

The church at Hitzerode, Germany

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Research of Dr. Kurt Guenther, parish at Albungen where the registers (after 1804) of Hitzerode are preserved. (Older registers, since 1626, preserved at Frankershausen). Johannes Friedrich, occupation carrier, born 4 Mar 1784. Died 16 Nov, buried 20 Nov, 1831 at Hitzerode. Married 23 July 1804 at Hitzerode, to Anna Margarethe Speck (alive in 1851). His parents: Johannes Friedrich, carrier, born5 Nov 1745 (calc.). Died at Hitzerode 12 Apr 1817 aged 71 yrs, 6 mo, 1 wk, 2 days. Buried 14 Apr 1817 at Hitzerode. Married to Anna Elisabeth unknown, born 10 Mar, 1745 (calc). Died at Hitzerode 28 June 1821 aged 76 yrs, 3 mo, 2 wk, 4 da. Buried 1 July 1821 at Hitzerode.	See full text of report, Kurt Guenther Research, Church Records of Frankershausen & Hitzerode, Germany
2	Personal correspondence Wilda DeHart, 1992-ongoing; descendant of Mary Frederick and Will Dietrich; contracted Dr. Kurt Guenther to research church records in Hitzerode, Germany.
3	Research & page formatting from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, granddaughter of Winnifred May Kline.
4	1880 United States Federal Census, Ashland Twp., Clarion Co., PA Dist 63, pg 9. Census dated 9 June 1880. Lines 43-49 list: John Frederick, head, age 56, farmer, $1500 real, $829 personal property; Anna C., wife, age 53, keeping home. Both (and all parents) born Kuhrhessen. Children: Frank J., age 23, farmer; Emma, 21, divorced, at home; John V., 18, in school, Anna Alice, 15 in school. Children all born PA (parents b. Kuhrhessen), all read, write, speak English; Anna Bertha L., granddau., 3, born PA, parents born PA.

Source notes

• 1880 census of John Frederick family lists Kuhrhessen as the birthplace of Johannes Frederick and Anna Margarethe Speck. Kuhrhessen= Hesse Kassel, of Prussia.