Genealogy Thomas » John Eirich (± 1750-1776)

Persoonlijke gegevens John Eirich 

• Hij is geboren rond 1750.
• Hij is overleden op 26 december 1776 in Delaware, New Jersey, USA.

  Let op: Was 9 maanden voor de geboorte (??-??-1787) van kind (Jacob Eirich) al overleden (26 december 1776).

Gezin van John Eirich

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Mary Ann Wilson.

Kind(eren):

1. Jacob Eirich  1787-1861 

Notities over John Eirich

killed crossing the Delaware River with Washington during 3rd Battle of Trenton

http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/northumberland/bios/floyd/f516540.txt

Mrs. Mary Ann (Eirich) Latsha's grandfather fought under Washington
in the Revolution, and with several other soldiers was killed while
crossing the Delaware river. He married Mary A. Wilson, who after his
death became the wife of Abraham Musser. Jacob Eirich, son of this
Revolutionary soldier, lived in York county, Pa., for a time, thence
moving to Philadelphia, later to Schuylkill county, and eventually to
Northumberland county, settling near Shamokin. By trade he was a
weaver, later finding employment in the

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mines. He served in the war of 1812. Jacob Eirich died in an old log
house near Shamokin in 1861, when ninety-two years old. He married
Elizabeth Haag, whose father was drowned at Columbia, Pa., while
crossing the Susquehanna river. Their children were: John; Mary Ann,
Mrs. Latsha; Margaret, Mrs. Enoch Cole; Elizabeth, Mrs. Isaac Latsha;
Susan, Mrs. Martin; Jacob, who served in Company K (Captain Strauss),
48th Regiment, during the Civil war; Henry, who served in the same
company and regiment and was killed in the mines in 1863 shortly after
his return from the service; and Hester, who married Ignatius Ditman, a
coal operator.

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