| Birth |
1775 |
Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania [1] |
| Sex |
Male |
| Eby ID |
00007-0685 |
| Person ID |
I2052 |
| Last Modified |
29 Nov 2003 |
| |
| Father |
George Bechtel, b. 1732, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania |
| Mother |
Susannah Bidding |
| Group Sheet |
F806 |
| |
| Family 1 |
Susannah Gabel |
| Children |
|
| Group Sheet |
F808 |
| |
| Notes |
Joshua Bechtel "was born in Montgomery County in 1775. He resided near Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on the old "Bechtel Farm", and was married to Susannah Gabel* who was killed by lightning. Their family consisted of seven children, namely: V Mary, V Sarah, V Jesse, V Annie, V William, V Rebecca, and V Susannah, all of which reside in Pennsylvania save William and Rebecca, who reside in Kansas, and Susannah, who resided in California where she died some time ago."
*Sister to John Gabel's father who died at Nithburg, Perth County, in 1872. |
| |
| Sources |
1. [S1] Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., Ezra E. Eby, (Berlin, Ontario, 1895), 202 [View page(s) from the 1895-96 edition]
|
|
Region of Waterloo