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Persoonlijke gegevens AELTIEN SYMONS HERMANS 

• Zij is geboren rond 1667 in (Goch) Westphalia.
• Zij is gedoopt op 7 april 1686 in Goch.
• Zij is overleden in het jaar 1709 in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
• Zij is begraven in het jaar 1709 in Cemetery of Towamencin Mennonite Meetinghouse although there is no marker.
• Een kind van Herman Davits en Trientien ”Katharina‘ Symons
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 5 december 2021.

Gezin van AELTIEN SYMONS HERMANS

Zij is getrouwd met JACOB HENDRICHS (PA 1702) (GODSHALK) GODSHALL.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 20 februari 1689 te Goch Mennonite Church, Germany.

Kind(eren):

1. GODSHALK HERMANS (PA 1702) (GODSHALK) GODSHALL  1693-1748 
2. JAN HERMANS GODSHALL  1695-1759 
3. MAGDELENA HERMANS GODSHALL  1696-1763 
4. BARBARA HERMANS GODSHALL  > 1695-????
5. ALICE HERMANS GODSHALL  > 1695-????
6. SUSANNA HERMANS GODSHALL  > 1695-????
7. CATHERINE HERMANS GODSHALL  > 1695-????
8. ELIZABETH HERMANS GODSHALL  > 1695-????
9. HERMAN HERMANS (GODSHALK) GODSHALL  1698-1785 
10. ANNA HERMANS GODSHALL  1706-1768 

Notities over AELTIEN SYMONS HERMANS

Note: N5245 Notes on the Gottshalls, Maternal Ancestors of Ernest J. Boehr
by Ernest J. Boehr, April, 2001

There are many variations in the spelling of Gottshall. At the same time, they all vary from the original spellings. Some variations include: Gottschalk, Gottshalk, Gottschalck, Gottchalk and many more. The name is first found in Saxony, (see map at right) where they emerged as a notable family name within the principality of Schwarzburg-Sonderhausen. The earliest of Ernest‘s maternal ancestors came to America in 1702 and settled in Germantown, PA..
Note: Saxony was a state in east-central Germany. It was abolished as a political unit in 1952 and divided into the districts of Leipzig, Dresden, and Chemnitz

The Germany the Gottshalls Fled

The ravages of the Thirty Years‘ War, 1618 to 1648, had left Germany a wilderness. It began as a civil war between Protestants and Roman Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the royal family of Austria, the Hapsburgs, but eventually involved most European nations. The cruel invasion of the Palatinate by the French in 1693, with its consequent pestilence and famine, only added to the desperation. To make matters worse, Ernest‘s relatives were Mennonites, anabaptists, which both the Protestants and Catholics persecuted bitterly.
Note:The Palatinate (small light blue area in SW section of the map) was the name of two little states of the old German Empire in the SW part of what is now Germany.
Some Mennonites had left for America after the Thirty Years‘ War and founded Germantown, PA, now a suburb of Philadelphia. The good news of religious freedom for William Penn and his Quaker missionaries in Pennsylvania had been circulating in Holland and Germany as early as 1677 and seemed the answer to the prayers of many persecuted for their religion.

1. Gottschalk Comes is the first traceable ancestor of Ernest‘s grandfather, Rev. William S. Gottshall. He was born about 1510 in München-Gladbach, nowMönchengladbach, North Westphalia, Germany (see the large deep pink area in the W part of Germany). He died there before 01-17-1587.
2. Thonis Comes was born about 1535 in the same place as his father. He was a farmer. As a representative of the München-Gladbach Mennonite congregation, he signed the Concept of Cologne.
The Concept of Cologne was compiled at the synod in Cologne (see third place name under Westphalia), May 1, 1591, by the Elder Leenaerdt Clock, and signed by 15 preachers of Holland and of the Lower Rhine, Frisians, and High Germans. It states the Mennonite concept of the Christian faith. (Frisian is the language spoken by the Dutch in the northern province of the Netherlands. Friesland.)
3. Gottschalk Comis was born about 1565 in the same place as his father and grandfather. He was also a farmer like his father.
4. Thones Comes was born about 1596 where his ancestors were born. He was a weaver and cloth merchant. He was driven from München-Gladbach because of his Mennonite beliefs and fled to Goch, a district of Cleves, Germany (the city WNW of the name Westphalia).
5. Gottschalk Thonis was born between 1625 and 1630 in München-Gladbach.He married Lehntgen Henrichs in 1654 and died in Goch (Cleves), Germany after 01-25-1709.
6. Jacob Goedschalk (God‘s Fool)) was born about 1670 in Cleves, Germany. He came to America in 1702 and settled in Germantown, an old section of Philadelphia, PA. He united with the Mennonite congregation and was soon elected a deacon of the church. Still later he was elected a minister.
On May 9, 1708 eleven persons were baptized and added to the church. Two weeks later, May 23, 1708, the communion of the Lord's Supper was administered. Rev. Goedschalk had changed his name to Gottshall and officiated at these services. These two services were the first baptismal and communion services conducted by Mennonites in America.
October 21, 1702, Jacob Gottshall purchased fifty acres of land from Isaac Shoemaker. He erected a quaint, low but substantial house on the land and lived there for twelve years until he moved to Towamencin Township. The house fronted on Germantown Avenue. The exact spot is now 5273 Germantown Avenue (see ”Gottshall House‘ in map above PA map and picture of it on a following page).
Ten years later Rev. Gottshall and his son Gottshall Gottshall each purchased 120 acres of land in Towamencin Township.
In 1708 Gottshall joined with four other brethren in a letter to Amsterdam, asking for some catechisms for the children and little testaments for the young, stating that only one Bible was among the membership of the church.
In 1728 the Mennonite confession of faith was translated into English and printed by Bradford, in Philadelphia. Gottshall was one of the signers testifying to the correctness of the translation.
About 1750 Rev. Gottshall arranged for the translation of the Martyr‘s Mirror. Rev. Gottshall and Dielman Kolb carefully read and corrected the proofs. He was a literary man and conversant in Dutch, German and English.
Rev. Gottshall died at 97 years of age in 1763. He probably was buried in the graveyard adjoining the Towamencin Mennonite Church near Kulpsville (see map above). His wife, Aeltien Hermans, died prior to 1706.
7. Gottshall Gottshall (1693-1784) was the oldest of Jacob Gottshall‘s five children. He worked with his father in the Germantown Mennonite Church, especially in the translating and publishing of literature for the church. He married Eva Custer and they had fourteen children.
8. William Gottshall was the second of the 14 children. His first wife Gertrude Hunsicker bore him six children before she died. He died in 1781.
9. Gottshall Gottshall II (04-08-1753 to 03-15-1824) was the youngest of the six children. He married Elizabeth Ziegler. After the death of his father, he purchased land in Frederick Township, one mile W of Schwenksville, PA, and moved there in 1781. He purchased land from time to time until he owned 400 acres. Most of this land had belonged to the Perkiomen Copper Mine Company, chartered by Act of Assembly in 1772. At his death, he left 246 acres of land to be divided equally between his two sons, Dillman and William. By 1924, the house that he built had been in the family for five generations - 143 years. As of April, 2001, David & Bobby Blackwell live in the Gottshall homestead at 347 Game Farm Rd., Schwenksville, PA 19473.
10 William Ziegler Gottshall (08-25-1784 to 03-25-1875) was the older of the two sons. He married Magdalena Hunsberger.They had thirteen children. William served as a deacon in the Schwenksville Mennonite Church for 43 years. His son Moses became pastor of the church.
11. Moses Hunsberger Gottshall was the sixth of thirteen children. He married Hanna O. Clemens and they had eight children. When Hannah died, he married Mary Shelly. He was chosen by lot to be minister of the Schwenksville Mennonite Church on 12-03-1847 and ordained the same day. He was ordained as a Bishop in 1852 and served the church for 41 years. He preached his last sermon at the Deep Run Mennonite Church, Bucks County, PA, on 10-21-1888 and passed away four days later.
Moses Gottshall‘s education was mostly in German. His sources of inspiration were the Bible and several old volumes of sermons. He never prepared notes but would close his eyes and mumble the message to himself. He was noted far and wide as one of the most naturally eloquent ministers.
12. William Shelley Gottshall (b. 06-23-1865) was the only surviving child of Moses and Mary Shelly. William spent his early days on his father‘s 100 acre farm one mile W of Schwenksville. His early training was in the nearby school and his father‘s home. His father was famous for his sociability and spiritual conversations on Sunday afternoons. William was baptized and received into membership in —The Meetinghouse on the Hill“ by his father, 11-07-1880, when he was fifteen. The following spring, he took a term at Perkiomen Seminary and began teaching in the fall of 1881.
William attended Perkiomen Seminary again in the Spring of 1883 and then taught ”three terms‘ of public school. His call to the ministry came in 1885 when he was twenty and his father was seventy. His father told the congregation he needed an assistant so they put up five candidates. The congregation chose William and his older brother Moses, Jr. When the lot was cast, William was chosen and he was ordained the next year on 11-24-1886.
Earlier, while William was ministering for his father in the Bowmansville Mennonite Church, Bowmansville, PA, he met Nancy K. von Nieda. They were married on 09-22-1886. William gave himself wholeheartedly to the ministry and soon proved he was endowed with a natural gift of preaching as his famous father. During his ministry in Schwenksville, he built a beautiful home and a new meeting house. His four children were all born in Schwenksville œ Aaron Elmer on 10-13-1889, Jennie May on 01-24-1892, Flora Alberta on 02-27-1896 and Paul Herbert on 02-12-1898.
Rev. Gottshall pastored the Allentown Mennonite Church in Allentown, PA, from 01-01-1906 to October, 1909. On November 9, 1909 he began ministering in three churches in the Bluffton - Pandora, OH, area: Bluffton Mennonite, Ebenezer Mennonite and St. John Mennonite church. He resigned from the Bluffton Church, 03-31-1918, and from the St. John Church on 04-01-1923. One month before he resigned from Ebenezer Mennonite Church, Ernest was born in Bluffton, OH.
William ministered next in Freeman, SD, (10-12-1924 to 05-18-1930). It was during this time that P.J. Boehr and his family were going through harrowing experiences in China (see notes on P.J.Boehr).
Grandpa Gottshall was pastoring East Swamp Mennonite Church near Quakertown, PA, when we came home from China in 1933. (See Ernest James Boehr)
Grandpa served in almost every office of all the Mennonite organizations. His longest tenure was the thirty-six years he served on the General Conference Mennonite Home Mission Board. He was known for his expository preaching and emphasis on the second coming of Christ.
Grandpa lived on Juniper St., Quakertown, PA, near ”our‘ high school until Grandma passed away on 05-27-1939. Then his daughter, Aunt Flora, took him to be with her family in Cleveland, OH, until he passed away on 03-04-1941. Grandpa and Grandma are buried beside his parents, grandparents and daughter, Jennie May Boehr, in the cemetery next to Eden Mennonite Church, Schwenksville, PA.
Bibliography: 1. The Genealogy of John William Boehr, David L. Habegger, 03-25-1984; 2.The Genealogical History of the Gottshall Family, Rev. N. B. Grubb, Gottshall Family Association, 1924;
3.A Brief Biography of William S. Gottshall, Published for the 50th Anniversary of Rev. Gottshall‘s Ordination, East Swamp Mennonite Church, October 21, 1934.

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