Family: Schaub, Conrad Shoup / (F38539)

• Male Schaub, Conrad Shoup

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1720	Germany	LDS Ordinances	Date	Place
  Christening			Baptized (LDS)
  Death	1806		Endowed (LDS)
  Burial			Sealed P (LDS)
  Marriage	Abt 1770  [1]	Pennsylvania, USA  [1]	Sealed S (LDS)
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• Notes

  Married: Adam Kerchner (c1704-1768), according to my research to date, is the most likely candidate for progenitor of our family. I have found very strong evidence pointing to him as the progenitor of our family. That evidence is herein listed: (a) Adam Kerchner's will, recorded in the Berks County Courthouse in 1768, lists a son, Friedrich Kerchner. (b) One of Adam Kerchner's daughters, Eva Elizabeth Kerchner, married Johan George Wetzel. The Wetzel's owned land next to our Frederick Kerchner's farm when it was sold in 1830. (c) When Anna Barbara (nee Fetterman) Kerchner, wife of Frederick Kerchner, died in 1841, her death notice stated she was living in the home of Peter Wetzel. Peter Wetzel was the son of Johan George and Eva Elizabeth (nee Kerchner) Wetzel. Eva Elizabeth Kerchner was the daughter of Adam Kerchner. Thus, Peter Wetzel was the grandson of Adam Kerchner. Anna Barbara (nee Fetterman) Kerchner, widow of Frederick Kerchner, was Peter Wetzel's aunt-in-law. Peter Wetzel lived near the farm formerly owned by his deceased uncle, Frederick Kerchner, which was located north of Seisholtzville, Pa. Frederick Kerchner was the brother of Eva Elizabeth Kerchner. (d) When Adam died, his wife, who was named (Anna?/Elisabetha?) Barbara, remarried Conrad Schaub/Shoup (his best friend according to Adam's will). Conrad Shoup's 1806 will lists a Frederick Kerchner as a debtor to him. It is easily conceivable for him to have loaned money to a step-son. (e) Adam Kerchner and the Fetterman family were apparently members of the "Schoolhouse Near the Old Spring" congregation, the predecessor to the Upper Milford Lutheran Congregation, which then became the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Old Zionsville, Pa. Adam wa

  
  

• Sources

  [S920] Public Member Trees, 2015Q1, Database online. Record for Conrad Schaub http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=42203238499&indiv=try