Klinefelter, Eva

Johannes married Gerberick, Appollonia about 1762 in ,, Pennsylvania. Appollonia was born about 1741 in , , Pennsylvania; died before 1789; was buried in Fissel's Cemetery, Shrewsburg Township, York, Pennsylvania . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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No record has been found confirming her date of death but most sources agree it was 1780 or earlier.
(Source: Keith A Dull, Early Families of York County, Pa., (1995), pg 69.)
Notes for Apollonia GERBERICH: Arrived in America with her father aboard the ship "Phoenix" on Nov. 11, 1752.
According to Kiesecker's declaration, one Gerberich of Altfeld turned back again [from the jouney to Rotterdam] Boatman Selig asserts having heard from him that in Bingen, every boatman is paying fifty kreuzer the head. Perhaps he returned to fetch his daughter Apollonia, of whom it is reported in the Fruedenberg Govermental Protocols of 16 May 1754: Apollonia Gerberich, who already two years ago was bought off by her father and through an unfortunate event was brought into misery, asks for freedom from vassalage. Her property still amounts to 123 florins. [pennsylvania german pioneers/the fruedenberg governmental protocols]
There are some who state Apollonia was an "Indian princess" No documentation has been shown to date to confirm this nor how an Indian came to be in a Gerberich household. (Notation of her being a "princess" has root in European basis of heirarchy. There was no such distinction made in most native American tribes.) Based on the above as well as an Apollonia being noted in the Freudenberg tax rolls as a child of Hans at the time he petitioned to leave Altfeld, no documentation of her baptism in York County as an infant, as was the custom, which would have been necessary since she married a baptised Lutheran, had her children baptised and is buried in a Lutheran cemetery and no notation in census or tax rolls of Hans Michael, patriarch of the York County Gerberichs, having slaves as an unrelated member of the household would probably show, Apollonia was in all probability the daughter of Hans and his first wife and baptised in Altfeld. It is possible that upon arrival to Philadelphia, Hans, being recently widowed again and probably penniless, was unable to care for some of his children. His brother Michael was established already in York and took in Apollonia and possibly her half sister Barbara. These two women are consistantly noted with the "Gerberich" spelling - of which the children known to be of Hans for the most part retained - instead of the variations taken by the York county ones.

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One source lists this information:
Birth: About 1736 Of, Michelrieth, Unterfranken, Bayern

Parents: JOHANNES GERBERICK / CHRISTINA SCHUCH OR SCHUG

Hans married Kunkel, Eva Elizabeth. Eva was born in 1703 in Florsbachtel, Spessart Forest, Germany; died in 1764 in , , Pennsylvania; was buried in , , , Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]