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Born: 24 February 1733/34 in Medenbach, Nassau (now Germany)
Died: 26 October 1816 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Buried: Salem Reformed Churchyard Cemetery near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
Mother: Anna Gutha Conrad
Father: Johann Adam Nicodemus
Married: (1) Elizabeth ? in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Child:
- Johannes Conrath (Conrad)
b. 15 October 1755, Brickerville, Pennsylvania
d. 30 September 1834, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Married: (2) Catharine SteinTitelf? in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Children:
- Anna Magdalena
b. 12 April 1758 - Andreas (Andrew)
b. 17 November 1760
Married: (3) Margaret Ripple b. 15 January 1748, d. 15 Mar 1815
Children:
- Susannah
b. 30 December 1780
d. 27 May 1848 - John
b. 15 November 1783
d. 18 July 1827 - Catharine
b. 8 February 1787
d. 21 August 1867 - Elizabeth
b. 4 April 1789
Sources and Additional Information:
Listed in 1776 MD census in Elizabeth Hundred, Frederick Co as 44 years of
age along with:
Andrew 16
Catharine 53
Conrad 20
Obtained from Ancestry.com database: Description:
Granted by the King of England to George Calvert in 1632, Maryland was home to nearly 300,000 people before the Revolutionary War. This database is a transcription of a colonial census taken in 1776. Each record provides the name of the head of the household and location of residence. In many cases, the individual's age is provided along with the number of male and female residents in the household, including slaves. It reveals the names of over 17,100 men and women. For researchers of early Maryland ancestors, this can be an informative database.
Frederick emigrated from Europe with his father and brother, Johann Conrad Nicodemus b. 1737. He lived in Lancaster Co, PA and was probably married there. The first wife is thought to have died in childbirth and he then married again to Catherine who was 11 or 12 years younger than he. They then resided in Annville near Lebanon in 1760 when Andrew was born. He and the family then moved to Maryland near Leitersburg where he patented Collier’s Amendment.
He served in the Revolutionary War in 1776 and became a substantial citizen in Frederick Co, MD. He later moved to Franklin Co, PA where he and his sons built a grist mill later to be named “Hoover’s Mill” by a later owner.
Here is what Ivan has on Susannah b. 30 Dec 1780:
Born at Washington Co, MD and baptized 1 Mary 1782
She married:
Children: Elizabetha Ruhl b. 15 Feb 1808
Susanna Ruhl b. 5 Apr 1810 m. David Layman
2. Philip Beaver between 1810 and 1812 in present day Franklin Co, PA
Susannah was the first child of the marriage of Johannan Frederick and Margaret (Ripple) Nicodemus. Susannah was surely born in MD just before Frederick moved to the site in Franklin Co, PA where he built the grist mill later to become famous as the Hoove’s Mill near Waynesboro, PA. Frederick, among others founded the later named “Besore’s” German Reformed Church nearby. At that time a church register was started of births, deaths, and baptisms. Apparently some of the first names in that register were recoded “post happening” including the baptism of Susannah. It is hardly conceivable among the German Reformed that her baptism was delayed from her birth date to 1 May 1782.
Nonetheless, she was raised on the homestead there by the grist mill and surely attended the church her father helped build and was just as surely married there as well. Her marriage to John Ruhl is supported by the wording in her father’s will. Whether Ruhl and Susannah divorced or Ruhl died has not been established. It would seem she was married to Philip Beaver when the payment from the estate were made in 1813 – though it does not say whether Susannah was alive in 1813. Another baptism in Besore’s Salem Reform Church of Phillipus Binngemann on 1 Feb 1808 lists the sponsor as Philip Birber – which might well be an error for Philip Beaver.
The date of death of 27 May 1848 was from the files of Virginia Westhaeffer who in turn got the date from Mrs. K. B. Skardon.
This page was last updated on: May 18 2008
