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George Bernhart MANN

George Adam MANN

John George MANN

Jacob MANN

Name: George Bernhart MANN

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Birth: 1701 Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany

Death: 15 Mar 1769 Peaked Mountain, Augusta Co, VA

George Bernhart MANN (1701 - 15 Mar 1769) & Anna Margaret GEISSER (abt 1706 - aft 1762)

George Adam MANN (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (1742 - 1830)

John George MANN (20 Jul 1771 - 17 Oct 1846) & Elizabeth JONES (1773 - 16 May 1864)

Jacob MANN (11 Oct 1796 - 2 Dec 1871) & Elizabeth EARLYWINE (19 May 1803 - 5 May 1865)

Elizabeth Ellen MANN (21 Mar 1836 - 14 Dec 1906) & George Washington MACHLAN (1832 - 1912)

Joshua Newton MACHLAN* (17 Oct 1859 - 8 May 1936) & Mary Ellen ARNEY (1861 - 1935)

Linnie Ellen MACHLAN* (30 Sep 1884 - 7 May 1974) & Everett Elmer WALKER (1882 - 1948)

Elsie Maureen WALKER (20 Nov 1903 - 12 Mar 1983) & Leo Newton COFFEY (1901 - 1998)

Misc. Notes

(Much of the following is taken from a book written by Dorothy C. Knoff. See the notes with son George Adam Mann for more about the book. Anything below in quotes is straight from that book.)

"Jerg Bernhart Mohn, a Palatine, aged thirty-one arrived in Philadelphia September 21st 1732. He had left a land devastated by wars for a hundred years. The Thirty Years War, 1618-48, alone claimed the death of over half of the population of some of the southern provinces in central Europe. Then came the frequent wars of Louis XIV of France who at one time laid claim to the entire Palatinate (German "Pfalz"), a large district which lay near France on both sides of the Rhine north of Alsace and Lorraine. His soldiers were compared to the Huns in their savage onslaughts. The land they could not hold, they burned. At last, in 1713-14 came the Peace of Utrecht ending the War of the Spanish Succession. The people and the land were exhausted. There were vast areas of ruined farms, burned homes, desolate cities, and destitute people. This beautiful land which had been and is today as fertile and as pleasant as any in Europe, was then a land to flee."

Mohn and his family traveled down the Rhine to Rotterdam, taking several weeks. There they boarded a small schooner, the Pink Plaisance (a 'pink' is a ship with a narrow stern). After a stop on the Isle of Wight, the ship sailed for Philadelphia. "By this time there were seventy-two Palatines, who with their families made one hundred and eighty-eight persons starting the journey across the Atlantic." The sailing trips across the Atlantic took 10-12 weeks, on crowded ships with spoiled food and frequent illness.

The English speaking Pennsylvanians became concerned as many shiploads of these Palatine immigrants began to arrive, even though William Penn had invited them into the colony. In the year 1732 alone there were 760 families entering Philadelphia, with 1950 individuals. These German immigrants knew little of English law, lived apart with their own people, spoke their own language and maintained their own culture. The nervous English speakers decided an oath of allegiance was appropriate before granting entry:

"All male persons above the age of sixteen did repeat and subscribe their names, or made their mark to the following Declaration:

'We subscribers, natives and late inhabitants of the Palatinate upon the Rhine and places adjacent, having transported ourselves and families into the Province of Pennsylvania, a colony subject to the crown of Great Britain, in hopes and expectation of finding a retreat and peaceable settlement therein, Do solemnly promise and engage, that we will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His present MAJESTY, King George The Second, and His successors, Kings of Great Britain, and will be faithful to the proprietor of this Province; and that we will demean ourselves peaceably to all HIS said Majesty's subjects, and strictly observe and conform to the Laws of England and of this Province, to the utmost of our power and the best of our understanding.'"

The list of signatures from the passengers of the Pink Plaisance shows the following as our man's signature:

This signature is properly read as "Jerg Bernhart Mohn". However the ship's captain wrote it as "Jurrig Banhart Man". The English clerks wrote the names phonetically, and THEY decided this was as "George Bernhart Man". They recorded that he was traveling with his wife "Anna Margrit" (later Anna Margaret) and his children Johann Jacob 7, Georg Bernhard 5, Maria Margrith 2, and Anna Maria age 6 months. George is also later found as George Barnet Mann and as Barnet Mann.

There was a German Township just north of the Philadelphia City boundary, and the Man family may have lived there for a while, or they may have immediately left for their new home in Lancaster County. The "road" to Lancaster did not yet accommodate wagons. It would have been an old Indian trail, just wide enough to travel single-file. They would have traveled by pack train, probably in a group for safety. The trail ran from the Delaware River to the Conestoga River and the Susquehanna. The distance was only 66 miles west of Philadelphia, but their pack train would have only made about 10 miles per day. There were no towns between Philadelphia and Lancaster.

Swiss and German Mennonites had settled Lancaster as early as 1710. When the Man family arrived there were still Indians about, but there had been no serious troubles. Partly this was because William Penn had been fair in his dealings, and partly because the native Delaware Indians were in a rather humble condition – they had been conquered by the Iroquois and were subservient to them.

THE CHURCH CONNECTIONS:

The Mennonites were the first Palatines in Lancaster. Along with the Amish, Dunkers and others, they were called "plain people" because they were dissenters and not members of a state-church. Others were called "church people", and they were the Lutherans and the Reformed (Calvinist). By 1730 half of the German population in Pennsylvania were Reformed, but later in the century Lutherans were in the majority. The Lutherans and Reformed were close in their beliefs. (According to one story, the difference is that in saying the "Our Father" part of the Lord's Prayer, the Lutherans said "Vater Unser", and the Reformed said "Unser Vater".) When clergymen were scarce, the two denominations often combined under one roof. The Mann family was Lutherans.

In the earlier years there were no ministers, and the Lutherans managed "…with the aid of their hymn books, catechisms and great German Bibles that they had brought across the sea…" meeting in their homes or barns. However by 1730 the Trinity Lutheran Church was formed, and in their early records we find on page 6 our "Georg Bernhardt Mann" celebrating the birth of a son, Georg Adam, born in 1734, 15 or 16 March, and baptized on May 5 1734. This was our ancestor. Other children are recorded in 1735, 1737, 1739, and 1741.

LAND OWNERSHIP IN LANCASTER:

"On May 26, 1738, George Mann received Warrant number 150 for '…200 acres situate in Earl Township, Lancaster County… on the west side of Conestoga Creek.' The warrant gave him six months in which to meet the requirements set forth, and to decide if he wanted the tract surveyed. He did meet the requirements and decided in the affirmative. The survey was dated May 30, 1740, and was for 142 acres with allowances for roads. He received a patent from Thomas and John Penn (sons of William Penn), "true and absolute Proprietaries and Governors in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania…"

TIME TO MOVE ON?

However by the 1740's relationships with the Delaware Indians were deteriorating, in part because the successors to William Penn were less altruistic. They deceived the Delawares, and got them in trouble with their conquerors the Iroquois. Becoming uncomfortable, the German settlers heard wonderful stories about a great river and valley to the southwest, in Virginia – the Shenandoah Valley. And the Indians there seemed friendly enough. It may have also been a consideration that George Barnet Mann counted the number of his sons and decided his Pennsylvania land would not divide into enough pieces.

VIRGINIA:

In 1744 he sold his Pennsylvania land, and the family was off to Augusta County, VA. This time the move was likely by wagon rather than pack train, but they were leaving a well-settled country for one where the farms were farther apart and the settlements smaller. Their friends, the Harmons (or Hermans), were either with them or joined them shortly thereafter. By April 1749 their new farms were surveyed and registered with the court. Barnet Man had 320 acres, his son Jacob 260 acres, and their friend Jacob Harmon 220 acres. All were on Stony Run creek, "lying between Shanando and the Peaked Mountain".

"Upon arriving the two families would have built, first of all, their one or two room log cabins near a spring. Klaus Wust in The Virginia Germans tells us that the German cabins 'were made of squared-off logs neatly joined at the corners… A mixture of clay and wood chinking was used as filler for the space between the logs to assure a weather-tight home.' Then the great barn would be started. It would house all livestock, hay and grain. As it was often the largest, most substantial building on the farm it was used for social gatherings and for a religious service if an itinerant minister came through the country."

The 1750's saw the start of the French and Indian War. The Mann families lived in the part of Augusta County that became Rockingham County, and in the spring of 1759 the Indians began devastating raids. "All over Rockingham County settlers were leaving, going east over the Blue Ridge or north to eastern Pennsylvania. Great war parties were now free to roam at will through the Shenandoah Valley." We do not know what the Mann and Harman families did at this time, but they were keeping in touch with the people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – and it is possible they returned there to sit out the "Time of Troubles".

Virginia, unlike Pennsylvania, had an official state church, Anglican, a part of the Church of England. The Mann's had to pay a parish levy to this church, even though they were Lutheran "dissenters". However the Anglican church provided some services to all the citizens that in another time would be the responsibility of civil clerks. For example they saw that roads were maintained, ferries inspected, and tracts of land "processioned". This latter term meant that every four years the boundaries of the farms were walked to make sure that all was in order. The 1768 church records show that several tracts owned by the Mann and Herman families were indeed properly "processioned".

VIRGINIA: THE PEAKED MOUNTAIN CHURCH

Since the Mann and Herman families spoke German, they were strangers and outsiders except in their own group, and the Peaked Mountain Lutheran Church was a place for the Germans to come together. "Schools were built along with the churches and on the same property. Many times the minister was the schoolmaster… A church service in any language other than German was unthinkable. They did not intend to give up their familiar service, however inconvenient the language might be at times. Nor did they (until) well into the nineteenth century."

Many marriages, baptisms, and other events of the Mann and Herman families are found in the Peaked Mountain Church records.

The Peaked Mountain Church (Lutheran) and the Stony Creek Church (Reformed) were near each other, and there was a chronic scarcity of clergymen for each. In 1769 they organized a Union Church to share facilities.

George Bernhart Mann remained in Virginia until he died in 1769. His wife's exact date of death is unknown, but was likely a few years earlier. However the story of this pioneer family continues with his son, George Adam Mann. Continue your reading first with neighbor Jacob Herman, and then with son George Adam.

Marriage: 14 Sep 1723 Wuettemberg, Germany

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Spouse: Anna Margaret GEISSER

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Birth: abt 1706 Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany

Death: aft 1762 Peaked Mountain, Augusta Co, VA

Father: Christian GEISSER (~1680-)

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Children

George Bernhart MANN (1701 - 15 Mar 1769) & Anna Margaret GEISSER (abt 1706 - aft 1762)

Jacob MANN Sr. (3 Dec 1724 - 16 May 1815)

Georg Bernard MANN (25 Nov 1726 - )

William MANN (abt 1728 - )

Marie Margareth MANN (18 Dec 1729 - )

Anna Maria MANN (9 Feb 1731/2 - )

George Adam MANN* (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (22 Oct 1742 - 17 Jan 1830)

George Adam MANN* (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Elizabeth PALMER (abt 1738 - bef 1761)

Georg Carl MANN (16 Mar 1734/5 - )

Georg Cunradt MANN (25 Apr 1737 - )

Catarina MANN (6 May 1739 - )

Joseph MANN (abt 1740 - )

John MANN (1743 - 20 Oct 1781)

OBSERVATION ABOUT ABOVE NAMES:

No, the boys were not all called "George".

This was a German naming convention. The first name honored a Saint. The second name was the one by which the boy was known.

Name: George Adam MANN

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Birth: 16 Mar 1734 West Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., PA

Death: 24 May 1821 Green Co., OH

Father: George Bernhart MANN (1701-1769)

Mother: Anna Margaret GEISSER (~1706->1762)

George Bernhart MANN (1701 - 15 Mar 1769) & Anna Margaret GEISSER (abt 1706 - aft 1762)

George Adam MANN (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (1742 - 1830)

John George MANN (20 Jul 1771 - 17 Oct 1846) & Elizabeth JONES (1773 - 16 May 1864)

Jacob MANN (11 Oct 1796 - 2 Dec 1871) & Elizabeth EARLYWINE (19 May 1803 - 5 May 1865)

Elizabeth Ellen MANN (21 Mar 1836 - 14 Dec 1906) & George Washington MACHLAN (1832 - 1912)

Joshua Newton MACHLAN* (17 Oct 1859 - 8 May 1936) & Mary Ellen ARNEY (1861 - 1935)

Linnie Ellen MACHLAN* (30 Sep 1884 - 7 May 1974) & Everett Elmer WALKER (1882 - 1948)

Elsie Maureen WALKER (20 Nov 1903 - 12 Mar 1983) & Leo Newton COFFEY (1901 - 1998)

Misc. Notes

Much of the following is taken from a book "George Adam Mann, 1734 – 1821: A Family on Four Frontiers: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio" / Dorothy C. Knoff, Polyanthos, New Orleans, 1977.

These "Frontiers" were all indeed that when George and Elizabeth were there. George was born in Pennsylvania, lived in Virginia and then Kentucky, and died in Ohio. This book is very well written, and particularly interesting because Dorothy ties the families into the developing history of each of the frontiers. These notes can only touch on a few highlights of that history.

George Adam was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moved with his family to Virginia when he was about age 10. See the notes with his father. Elizabeth similarly made the move with her family. They were married there in 1762 when George was about age 28 and Elizabeth age 20. The Peaked Mountain Church marriage records show their marriage "On the 7^th of December 1762: George Adam Mann, single and Elizabeth Hermann, single." The church's Baptismal Records record the birth of their first son George, born October 9, 1763, and baptized December 5. Several further children are also recorded, including our ancestor John, baptized July 20, 1771.

THE REVOLUTION

George Adam Mann served in the Revolutionary War. He is found in "A Muster Roll of Captain Bradley's Company of the Ninth Battalion of Lancaster County Militia, 10^th of April 1781", and also in the "Official Roster of Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Ohio". He is in the index of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). (The DAR records show his wife as "Elizabeth Palmer" rather than "Elizabeth Herman". The first descendant to join the DAR based it on "vague family tradition", and got it wrong. Later researchers have shown that his one and only wife was Elizabeth Herman.)

The REASON he joined the military is harder to prove, but a great-great-grandson of his relates the family version of the story as follows: "(George Adam's) eldest son George, born 1763, enlisted in the Revolution and while at home on sick furlough was shot while standing with his mother in the door of their home by guerrilla fighters of British sympathy. His father, George Adam Mann, was so enraged he took his musket, walked back to Lancaster Co., Pa, and enlisted in the militia. He went to Pennsylvania to enlist because all the relatives were back there and he would enlist with those he knew. His wife with a son one year younger than the one killed, with the help of the neighbors, kept the farm going until (he) returned from the war. A later son, Jacob, was engaged in the Geo. Rogers Clark expedition later on."

TIME TO MOVE AGAIN – ON TO KENTUCKY:

Sometime around 1792 to 1794, George Adam was approaching age 60 and had spent 50 years in Virginia. But he decided it was time to move again. "Perhaps the reason for the Mann's move can best be understood by a little arithmetic. In 1792 George Adam Mann had six sons, two in their twenties and one nineteen. He had a farm of 195 acres, for which he had worked most of his life. In Kentucky the land was cheaper, it was fertile, it was new and it was not crowded. Removing to Kentucky seemed the best way to get good farms for the older sons. His daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, Adam Schillinger, would also make the journey."

Most people, and probably also the Mann family, made the trip along what was known as the Wilderness Road. "It ran through the wild, unsettled region of southwestern Virginia and after passing through the notch or saddle of the Allegheny Mountains called Cumberland Gap, turned north into Kentucky." They settled in Nicholas County.

Dorothy Knoff writes "The Mann and Shillinger families who had known only German ways and the German language in their homes, school and church, found that they were indeed transplanted. The change from Virginia Germans to Kentucky Americans was of necessity gradual but none the less complete. Later members of my family did not know that the name 'Mann' was German. Within four generations, a little girl (Dorothy) wondered why her great-grandfather had a German Bible and where it had come from."

After about 10 years in Kentucky, George and Elizabeth joined their two youngest sons in a move on to Greene County, Ohio. Their son John (our ancestor) remained in Kentucky, and you can read more in his file.

"In spite of the dangers and difficulties that had surrounded their lives, George Adam and Elizabeth Mann lived to see their daughter and all six sons established on their own farms in lands known only to Indians, trappers and explorers when the family lived at the foot of the Peaked Mountain. The goal that had drawn George Adam Mann to Kentucky and Ohio had been reached. Having lived for nearly ten years on the farm in Kentucky, he knew it intimately. His last twenty years in Ohio where the farms were close together enabled him to know them well, too. This must have been a great satisfaction as he grew old. His grave and Elizabeth's are on a hillside, overlooking the valley of Anderson Fork. To me their lives, spanning as they did four frontiers and three wars, are interwoven patterns of one small detail in the infinitely varied tapestry of American history."

Addendum by Fred Coffey:

NECHOLAS COUNTY KY PROPERTY TAX LISTS, 1800-1811:

George Mann, his son John, and his grandson Jacob, appear regularly as tax payers. They always are shown as living on "Brushey Fork". They never have slaves, at least during this time period.

1820 CENSUS, OHIO, GREENE CO., CAESAR’S CREEK TWP, JAMESTOWN:

George and Elizabeth Mann are found and named in this census, but in a most unusual way: The official census shows their youngest sons Charles Mann and David Mann living in adjacent households. Charles (who would have been age 38) and his wife seem to have 6 children. David (age 36) and his wife have 4 children. Further, Charles has on older male over age 45 in his household, and David has an older female over age 45. Normally one would have to guess if those older people might be parents.

But this time the census taker did something that I have never seen before – he added (clearly in the same handwriting) a note of explanation on the right side of the census form, where data on slaves would usually be entered (there were no slaves in Greene County). That note shows on Charles' line that the older male is “George Mann 90 years”. And next to David the note is “Elizabeth Mann 70 years”. The two were living in separate (but adjacent) households!

Best guess: Both were old and probably in poor health (George would die within a year), so the two sons and their wives split the task of caring for them. (The census-taker’s quoted ages are not exact, so apparently he was approximating.)

Marriage: 7 Dec 1762 Augusta Co., VA

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Spouse: Marie Elizabeth HERMAN

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Birth: 22 Oct 1742 Lancaster Co., PA

Death: 17 Jan 1830 Green Co., OH

Father: Jacob HERMAN (~1717-1764)

Mother: Catrina MANN (~1720-)

Misc. Notes

Name also commonly seen as “Harmon”.

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Children

George Adam MANN (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (22 Oct 1742 - 17 Jan 1830)

George Adam MANN (9 Oct 1763 - )

Jacob MANN (11 Mar 1764 - Oct 1840)

Magdalene MANN (11 Mar 1765 - )

Elizabeth Marie MANN (23 Sep 1766 - 1820)

John George MANN (20 Jul 1771 - 17 Oct 1846) & Elizabeth JONES (1773 - 16 May 1864)

Peter MANN (1773 - 6 Feb 1852)

Henry MANN (4 Feb 1779 - 4 Feb 1885)

Charles MANN (1 May 1782 - 24 Dec 1865)

David MANN (10 Mar 1784 - 29 Jul 1856)

Name: John George MANN

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Birth: 20 Jul 1771 Peaked Mountain, VA

Death: 17 Oct 1846 Nicholas Co., KY

Father: George Adam MANN (1734-1821)

Mother: Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (1742-1830)

George Bernhart MANN (1701 - 15 Mar 1769) & Anna Margaret GEISSER (abt 1706 - aft 1762)

George Adam MANN (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (1742 - 1830)

John George MANN (20 Jul 1771 - 17 Oct 1846) & Elizabeth JONES (1773 - 16 May 1864)

Jacob MANN (11 Oct 1796 - 2 Dec 1871) & Elizabeth EARLYWINE (19 May 1803 - 5 May 1865)

Elizabeth Ellen MANN (21 Mar 1836 - 14 Dec 1906) & George Washington MACHLAN (1832 - 1912)

Joshua Newton MACHLAN* (17 Oct 1859 - 8 May 1936) & Mary Ellen ARNEY (1861 - 1935)

Linnie Ellen MACHLAN* (30 Sep 1884 - 7 May 1974) & Everett Elmer WALKER (1882 - 1948)

Elsie Maureen WALKER (20 Nov 1903 - 12 Mar 1983) & Leo Newton COFFEY (1901 - 1998)

Misc. Notes

This should be viewed as a continuation of a family saga that begins with his grandfather George Bernhart Mann and his father George Adam Mann. You may wish to read those stories first. And again, credit for much of the following must go to the book written by Dorothy C. Knoff.

John George was apparently married shortly after he moved with his father's family from Virginia to Kentucky. There is some doubt about his wife's name. There is a bible record that gives only her name "Elizabeth", and their marriage record has not been found. However Dorothy Knoff believes the Elizabeth who was his wife was the daughter of John Jones who lived in the vicinity… John Jones left a will in 1802 in which he states:

"Fifthly, I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Mann one bond I have in my hand, against Francis Mann to her and her heirs forever."

Normally this would be good proof, but the "Francis Mann" is not part of our Mann family. Could it just be a coincidence that the bond (a promise to pay some amount) was from someone of the same last name, or is the Elizabeth Mann named from an entirely different family?

I (Fred Coffey) have tracked John George and Elizabeth Mann through census records. Obviously, they were very much the "stay at home" branch of the family:

1810 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS CO:

John and wife are both in the 26-44 age group. They report 6 children at home, 3 males and 3 females. John’s brothers Peter and Jacob live nearby.

1820 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS CO:

John and wife are both in 45+ age group. Living with them are 6 young males and 6 young females (one extra on the males, maybe a farm hand?). Living on adjacent farm is his brother, Peter.

1830 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS CO:

John and wife are in age group 50-60. Living in the home are also 6 males under age 30, and 6 females under age 30. Living nearby is his oldest son John, and his brother Peter.

1840 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS CO., CARLISLE TWP:

John Mann, age 60-70 is found with wife age 60-70. There is one other female age 30-40 in the house, the right age to be one of their daughters. Also there are one male age 10-15, and four females under age 20. These would have to be grandchildren, or other relatives.

Living nearby are three families headed by grown sons of John Mann, and of exactly the right ages -- they are sons John Jr, David, and Charles. None of these families have slaves, although some of their neighbors do.

1850 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS COUNTY, DISTRICT 2:

Elizabeth Mann, age 77, is found living with her son Samuel. Samuel does not appear to have a wife, but he has a daughter, Arthura, age 10.

1860 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS COUNTY:

Elizabeth, age 86, is found living with her son John Mann, with his wife and 5 children.

Marriage: abt 1794

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Spouse: Elizabeth JONES

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Birth: 1773 VA

Death: 16 May 1864 Nicholas Co., KY

Father: John JONES (1740-1802)

Mother: Sarah (~1743-)

Misc. Notes

(See notes with her husband.)

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Children

John George MANN (20 Jul 1771 - 17 Oct 1846) & Elizabeth JONES (1773 - 16 May 1864)

Polly MANN (1795 - )

Jacob MANN (11 Oct 1796 - 2 Dec 1871) & Elizabeth EARLYWINE (19 May 1803 - 5 May 1865)

Nancy MANN (1799 - )

Anny MANN (1802 - )

John MANN (1804 - )

Lydia MANN (1806 - )

Charles MANN (25 Mar 1808 - 7 Aug 1905)

Sarah MANN (1809 - )

David MANN (12 Feb 1811 - )

Samuel MANN (1815 - )

Catherine MANN (1816 - )

Name: Jacob MANN

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Birth: 11 Oct 1796 Nicholas Co., KY

Death: 2 Dec 1871 Clinton Co., IN

Occupation: Gunsmith

Father: John George MANN (1771-1846)

Mother: Elizabeth JONES (1773-1864)

George Bernhart MANN (1701 - 15 Mar 1769) & Anna Margaret GEISSER (abt 1706 - aft 1762)

George Adam MANN (16 Mar 1734 - 24 May 1821) & Marie Elizabeth HERMAN (1742 - 1830)

John George MANN (20 Jul 1771 - 17 Oct 1846) & Elizabeth JONES (1773 - 16 May 1864)

Jacob MANN (11 Oct 1796 - 2 Dec 1871) & Elizabeth EARLYWINE (19 May 1803 - 5 May 1865)

Elizabeth Ellen MANN (21 Mar 1836 - 14 Dec 1906) & George Washington MACHLAN (1832 - 1912)

Joshua Newton MACHLAN* (17 Oct 1859 - 8 May 1936) & Mary Ellen ARNEY (1861 - 1935)

Linnie Ellen MACHLAN* (30 Sep 1884 - 7 May 1974) & Everett Elmer WALKER (1882 - 1948)

Elsie Maureen WALKER (20 Nov 1903 - 12 Mar 1983) & Leo Newton COFFEY (1901 - 1998)

Misc. Notes

This should be viewed as a continuation of a family saga that begins with his great-grandfather George Bernhart Mann, his grandfather George Adam Mann, and his father John George Mann. You may wish to read those stories first.

Jacob and Elizabeth were married in Nicholas Co. Kentucky, in 1818. Elizabeth was descended from another of the German Palatine immigrants, Johann Adam Erlewein (later "Earlywine") – the Earlywine family story will be similar to that of the Manns.

Census records show that Jacob and Elizabeth remained in Kentucky through at least 1830, by which time they had 7 children. However by at least 1836 the family had moved to Rush County, Indiana – we know this because on March 21, 1836, their daughter Elizabeth Ellen, our ancestor, was born in Indiana. Elizabeth Ellen will marry George Washington Machlan in 1853, and she is my great-great-grandmother.

The census records also tell us that by at least 1850 Jacob's occupation was "gunsmith".

1830 CENSUS, KENTUCKY, NICHOLAS CO:

Family is found, with exactly the right count and ages of adults and children.

1840 CENSUS, ANDERSON TWP., RUSH CO., INDIANA:

Jacob “Man” is found, with right ages for himself and wife and 5 male children and 4 female children. Nearby is George Man(n), age 15-20, presumably his oldest son. George has no children and his wife is also age 15-20.

1850 CENSUS, INDIANA, RUSH CO:

Jacob Mann is 54 and a gunsmith. He has real estate worth $1500, and was born in Kentucky. Elizabeth is 47, was born in Kentucky, and she cannot read or write. Still at home are children Elizabeth Ellen 14 (our ancestor), and Jacob 11. They live next door to their son Willis and his family. Willis is a farmer.

An aside observation: Other records show us that May 18, 1863, was a sad day for Jacob and Elizabeth. Their son, John W., died while in the service of the 18^th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers after a day of fighting at Big Black River in the Civil War. (Memo: Some sources say he survived until 1896, so there may be an issue here for further investigation?) Another son Willis also served in the Union army, but survived to collect his pension.

1870 CENSUS, INDIANA, PUTNAM CO., GREENCASTLE WARD 2:

Jacob Mann is 74, and a gunsmith. He lives with his son Willis, age 45, a farmer. Willis and his wife have 7 children at home, and three boarders (2 students and 1 teacher).

Following are undated photographs of Jacob and Elizabeth. From their appearance, and knowing when photography began to be common, I would guess the pictures were taken about the time of the Civil War:

Marriage: 27 Oct 1818 Nicholas Co., KY

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Spouse: Elizabeth EARLYWINE

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Birth: 19 May 1803 Kentucky

Death: 5 May 1865 Indiana

Father: George EARLYWINE (~-1825)

Mother: Mary TRIGG (~1750-1834)

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Children

Jacob MANN (11 Oct 1796 - 2 Dec 1871) & Elizabeth EARLYWINE (19 May 1803 - 5 May 1865)

Sarah Ann MANN (abt 1819 - )

George E. MANN (15 Feb 1820 - 25 May 1902)

John W. MANN (28 Aug 1821 - 3 Aug 1896)

Ephirum MANN (1824 - 12 May 1898)

Willis MANN (1825 - 14 Sep 1905)

Mary MANN (1827 - )

William Henry MANN (20 Jan 1830 - 20 Jun 1908)

Elizabeth Ellen MANN (21 Mar 1836 - 14 Dec 1906) & George Washington MACHLAN (13 Nov 1832 - 25 May 1912)

Jacob MANN (1839 - 1854)

Druscella MANN (27 Jan 1840 - 2 Jan 1841)

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