Johannes Friedrich (1745)

Johannes Friedrich was born in Kammerbach where he learned the trade his father Andreas had followed, that of wagon driver, or "carrier". While many people in that day might live and die without going far beyond the boundaries of their own village, the mobility of the wagon drivers led to intermarriage with families from farther afield. In 1774, when Johannes was twenty-nine, he married a widow of his same age, Anna Elisabeth nee Becker, widow of teacher Claus Fellmeden. Anna Elisabeth was from the village of Hitzerode some ten miles to the southeast of Kammerbach. They resided thereafter in Hitzerode and presumably had several children. The one son we know of, Johannes Friedrich, was born in 1784 after his parents had been married for ten years, and when his mother was thirty-nine years old. Anna Elisabeth and Johannes Friedrich lived to old age, he dying in 1817 at seventy-two years, and she in 1821, at seventy-six. They were both buried in Hitzerode.
Hitzerode, (now Hetzerode), is to the south of Frankershausen. Kammerbach is north of Frankershausen. All are small villages, in Hesse Germany.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	11 May 1745	Kammerbach, Germany
Marriage	27 Jan. 1774	Hitzerode, Germany	To Anna Elisabeth Becker
Death	12 Apr. 1817	Hitzerode, Germany	age 71yr 6m 1 wk 2d
Burial	14 Apr. 1817	Hitzerode, Germany

Ancestry chart segment

 Generation 6           Generation 7          Generation 8
 
                                              +-- Andreas Friedrich  
                                              |   (????-????))
                      +-- Johannes Friedrich--+
                      |   (1745-1817)         |
 Johannes Friedrich --+                       +-- Unknown
 (~1784-1831)         |                            
                      +-- Anna Elisabeth Becker
                          (~1745-1821)
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Children

( children with Anna Elisabeth Becker)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Johannes Freedrick	M	4 Mar 1784	Hitzerode, Hesse Germany	Anna Margarethe Speck

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Kammerbach, Hesse, Germany	b. 1745 - ????
Hitzerode, Hesse, Germany	by 1774 - 1817

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 4.3.1784; 16./20. 11 1831 (died 16th buried 20th Nov. 1831), at Hitzerode; married 23.7.1804 at Hitzerode, to Anna Margarethe Speck (alive in 1851).	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	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, granddaughter of Winnifred May Kline.