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
Marriage	23 July 1804	Hitzerode, Germany	To Anna Margarethe Speck
Death	16 Nov. 1831	Hitzerode, Germany
Burial

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

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).
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.