Zij is getrouwd met Johan Martin Moser.
Zij zijn getrouwd June 29 1717 te Breitenau, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany.
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The Wife of Johann Martin MoserNo discussion of Johann Martin Moser and his family can begin without asking the question: Who wasMargaretha Kunkle? Well, I can tell you who she wasn’t. She was not the wife of Johann Martin Moserof the James Goodwill. His wife was Margaretha Schwembauer, as fully documented in MMF, etc. Thatbeing the case, how did the shaggy dog story of a Kunkle marriage begin?The answer lies in the ”Mosier Family History”, written by Cora Mosier Hites, August 20, 1928. This wasa pamphlet, apparently written for distribution at a Moser family reunion. Since no copyright attaches, Ipresent it in its entirety (all spelling, etc. as per original):The first Moser to step on American soil was Marten Moser, who arrived at Port Philadelphia onSeptember 11, 1728. He came from Rhenish Bavaria, a province of Germany. He had just married a MissKungle, by whom he had the following seven children : John, Michael, Burkhard, Philip, Mrs. S. Moyer,Mrs. Xander, and Mrs. Everett. This record is found in a Balzer bible, dated 1720 and owned by the familyof Abraham Moser of Neffs, PA.(Lehigh County). In an early history of the Lutheran Church, there is alsofound the statement that Marten Moser arrived in 1728 on the vessel, James Goodwill, whose masterwas David Crockett. This record states that he came from Onspaugh, Bavaria. In 1751, George Moser and Burkhard Moser came from Wurttemberg, Germany to New Jersey, andsoon afterwards removed to Pennsylvania. George was the father of fourteen children, among thosewere Michael, Jacob, and Joseph. Michael was a favorite name with the early Mosers - at least four menbearing that name figure in our early history. There were also four Burkhards, which accounts for theconfusion that occurred when trying to trace our direct ancestry. One Burkhard bought large tracts ofland where the city of Tamaque,PA ( Schuylkill County ) now stands. Not knowing the land’s value, heabandoned it and it was subsequently purchased by a large coal company which made millions of dollarsoff that land. C.W. Bair, of Ohio, and Mrs. Henry T. Kleckner, of Allentown, spent considerable time andeffort trying to find proof of the relationship between these pioneers and the Mosiers of CrawfordCounty. Mrs. Kleckner succeeded in finding a wealth of old documents, histories, etc.The children of one Michael went to Center County, and their descendants are still there and spell theirname “Mosser”. Those in Reading, PA spell their name the same way, while some others spell it“Musser” and even “Mooser”. The “i” was put in Mosier by Gideon, in the 1860’s or early 1870’s.After Michael Sr., in our line, came another Michael , then John - who was the father of Daniel, John,Abraham, Christiana, and Barbara. John died rather young and his widow married a man named Moltze.The house in which she spent her last years was still standing at Neffs a few years ago. She wasstepmother to the five children who came to Crawford County in 1828. All, except Barbara, settled inCussewago Township. She married Silas Saeger and moved to northern Ohio.Daniel settled on a farm, now owned by S.B. Mosier, where annual reunions of the descendants havebeen held for over forty years. He married Susanna Xander and they had thirteen children, five of whomwere born before they came here from Lehigh County. Twelve of the children lived to maturity and thelast one to pass away was Rebecca Zimmer, who died a few years ago, aged over ninety years old.Daniel’s brother John settled at Mosiertown, and the village was named after him. He and ,his son,Gideon kept a hotel and general store. Most of the Mosers were farmers, but one, Michael, was a millerand another was a carpenter. The Moser mill was maintained for 120 years.Daniel Mosier and his sons, Samuel and David, were carpenters; Joel was a shoemaker; Aaron was ablacksmith; and Rueben and Amos were farmers. The tradesmen also owned and operated farms.Christiana married Henry Reichel and they lived where Mrs. Blanche Davis now resides.Abraham owned and operated what is now the Thomas Shellenberger farm. The present owner is adescendant of Christiana.The largest taxpayers in Lowhill Township were Mosers - Michael’s tax being 6 pounds.The majority of the family were Lutherans in faith; some were Reformed.We have had one or more soldiers in all the wars. In the Revolutionary War,George Moser enlisted in1778 and was discharged in 1783, at Princeton. His son,Jacob, served in the War of 1812 and anotherson, Joseph, was killed by the Indians in the brush near Mauch Chunk. Aaron Mosier served in the CivilWar; Wallace C. Mosier in the Spanish-American War; and Clyde Frantz made the supreme sacrifice inWorld War I.In 1890 there were 3,000 Mosiers in the United States. Most of them have led quiet, honorable, Christianlives, and while no one has especially distinguished himself, we have never had a criminal.Let’s take a look at what we have. One will notice that there are some immediate problems. There aresix children listed in Johann Martin Moser’s estate papers (full text available elsewhere on this website).They were:(George) Frederick not listed by Hites(Maria) Margaretha, wife of Jacob Stanbrook ( Johann Jacob Steinbruchel) not listed by Hites(Maria) Barbara not listed by HitesMichael listed by HitesBurkhart listed by HitesPhillip listed by HitesThe following son and three daughters listed by Hites are unknown and not are listed in the settlementdocument:John, Mrs. S. Moyer, Mrs. Xander, Mrs. EverettIn short, Hites lists seven children rather than the actual six, and of those seven, only three of themmatch the documented names, not a good beginning. She did have it right in saying that Johann Martinarrived in the James Goodwill, and came from Onspaugh (actually Ansbach), the district in MiddleFranken where the Mosers lived.The provenience of the Bible must also be questioned, especially since it is no longer known to exist.Even if it was actually dated 1720, there is no indication that the information contained was entered at adate contemporary to the events described. It reads, in fact, exactly like a late 19th to early-20th centuryaddition. The entries of women being shown as “Miss Kungle”, “Mrs. Xander”, etc., are indicative of itbeing written at a later date. Actual 18th century family Bibles should have the full name of the bride, thefull name of the groom, the names of the groom’s parents, and notations of the date upon which theyall eventually died. A Lutheran pastor in Germany once told me that this was a carry-over from an oldCatholic tradition, when it was used to know when masses should be said for the souls of the dead longpassed. One sees many old Bibles with later additions. I know of a woman who gained entry to theD.A.R. by writing the necessary family record that she “knew” to be correct on a blank page of the 1830family Bible with a ball point pen!In any case this document is what is. It is a pamphlet written for a family reunion, telling a little bit aboutthe family history, “As it was remembered.” I have done no investigation on the ensuing generationsdescribed, but I suspect the closer one gets to 1928, the more accurate the information becomes. It isnot, however, a researched genealogical study, and it proves absolutely nothing. The amazing thing tome is that the Kungle marriage has been plucked out of this little booklet, the questionable validity ofwhich is so easily recognizable, and that marriage has now become accepted as the absolute, set instone, Gospel Truth. I have no idea why.There is yet another step in this process. How do we get from Hite’s “Miss Kungle”, to MargarethaKunkel of Florsbach, Gelnhausen, Hessen-Nassau? She even comes complete with parents JohannMichael Kunkel and Elisabeth Kesler Kunkel. Everyone knows that Johann Martin married her, right?There is a verified German wedding, right? Well no, actually, there isn’t. That Margaretha Kunkelapparently did exist. Her birth record and the marriage record of her parents can supposedly be found inthe church books of Kempfenbrunn (Florsbach now being within the parish of Kempfenbrunn which isthe repository church for the early Florsbach records). I have not personally had researched the birthand death records for this family, and I feel no need to do so. I have had the marriage recordsresearched on two occasions though, by two different researchers, and there is nothing in those recordsthat indicate any relationship between Margaretha Kunkle and Johann Martin Moser. The fact of thematter is that between the years 1650 and 1750 no Moser, male or female, entered the EvangelicalLutheran church at Florsbach or the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Kempfenbrunn with matrimonialintent. I firmly believe that the Moser/Kunkle marriage rumor from Florsbach, is simply another exampleof CPR (copy, paste, repost) genealogmush. Someone went looking for an unmarried Margaretha Kunkleof about the right age and they found one. I think it’s as simple as that.It has also been suggested to me that Margaretha Schwembauer died just before, during, or just afterthe immigration, and that Johann Martin then remarried to Margaretha Kunkle. That is certainly possible, and I can’t prove it didn’t happen. I would, however, point out that I also can’t prove thatMargaretha Kunkle wasn’t Frederick the Great’s mistress, or that she wasn’t a bat girl for the 1976 BigRed Machine. No one to date has turned up any evidence that might prove to this hypothesis, not onetaste, whiff, or sniff of proof. There is only the Hites pamphlet. There is nothing else. Myths die hard.Oh…..and it’s good to know we’ve never had a criminal in the family!Gary Mosier, 2011
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