Catherine Runkle

Catherine married Henry Bear in 1788 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. Henry (son of Jacob Baer, Jr. and Ana Barbara Miller) was born in 1756 in Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1851 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; was buried in 1851 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Bear was born in 1794 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died in 1878.
2. Henry Bear was born in 1798 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 1 Feb 1850 in Stockton, California Territory.
3. Jacob Bear was born on 14 Nov 1801 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 27 Feb 1877 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; was buried in Feb 1877 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States.
4. Alexander H. Bear was born about 1806 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died in 1851.
5. Elizabeth Bear was born on 15 Jan 1806 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 29 Sep 1881 in Marksville, Page County, Virginia, United States; was buried in Sep 1881 in Stanley, Page County, Virginia, United States.
6. Charles Wesley Bear was born on 21 Sep 1808 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 14 Apr 1879 in Luray, Page County, Virginia, United States; was buried in Apr 1879 in Luray, Page County, Virginia, United States.
7. Anna Rebecca Bear was born on 12 Jun 1812 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 16 Mar 1869.
8. Adam Clark Bear was born on 25 Jun 1820 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; died on 27 Sep 1906; was buried in Sep 1906 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 8 Apr 1746, Wackernheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Immigration: 7 Sep 1748, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial Ameirca; Aboard the ship "Hampshire"
• Census: 1810, Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; 1810 Federal Census
• Census: 1820, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States; 1820 Federal Census
• Will: Aug 1821, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States
• Probate: 7 Aug 1821, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States

Notes:

Peter Runkle served as Constable of Augusta County in 1767 and served in Frazer's Company from Virginia during the Revolution.

Peter received his share of the estate in his father's lifetime so that he would take care of his mother, Anna Maria (Hammer) Runkle, who was nearly helpless for two and a half years before her death in 1813. Therefore, Peter is not named in his father's will. Margaret Runkle b: 04 APR 1776.

Birth:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Immigration:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS84-X3QT-M?cat=1031370

Census:
as Peter Runkle

Census:
as Peter Runkle

Will:

I Peter Runcle of the county of Rockingham and State of Virginia do hereby make my last will and Testament in manner and form following First I desire my that all the perishable and moveable part of my estate be immediately sold, after my decease and out of the monies arrising therefrom, all my Just debts and funeral expences to be paid. 2ndly. After the payment of my debts and funeral expences by my Executers which will be named hereafter I give to my wife Margaret Runkle during her natural life the one third part of my real and personal estate (the negroes only excepted) to be taken by her at the Appraisment with two rooms in the house I now life and one Negroe woman her choice of my Stock and at her death I give and the aforesaid moveable and perishable property that may be left to be sold and equally divided among my children 3rdly. The negroes that are left after my wife has taken her choise-is to be appraised and as equally divided among my children as the case will admit the shear or shears that mey fall to my Daughters Mary Price and Christina Sellars after they have received one each of equal value with the rest of my children I give to my then children by their first husbands and after such division of the negroes is made it is my will and desire that each one retain such negro or negroes as may fall to each ones share and not sell them to Strangers but that they be retained amongst the family except the increase thereof which they are at Liberty to do as they please with 4thly. the land that was willed to my son Jacob Runkle by his Grand Father Jacob Runkle which will more plainly show for it self by having reference thereto is not to be considered as any part of my estate or as any part of his my son Jacobs sh---------------------------------ally divided-------------------------cepted and at the death of my wife M---------------her my will and desire that the plantation where ------------------ two or more three disinterested discreet men to be chosen by ---------------- the payments I wish to be made thereof and after the estimate ---------------- of payment fixed and agreed on by the men so chosen (which -------------- wish to be made easy It is my Will and desire that my son Jac-- -------- said plantation to have and to hold the same in fee simple forever ------------- said plantation to have and to hold the same in fee simple forever ---------- or is not able -- to -- comply with the terms agreed on then and in tha- ------- will and desire that any other of the within named Children or them -------- shall have a right to take the land in like manner he or they payi-- ----- ---- aforesaid arbitrators.
6th. An lastly all the rest of my estate both real and personal of what natu--- soever it may be not herein before particularly dispose of I desire may ------ divided among my several children before name which I give to the---------- heirs executors or assigns forever. And I do hereby constitute and appoint Jacob Runkle and Daniel Sellars executors of this my last will and Testa--- hereby revoking all other of former wills or testaments by me heretofore mad-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal ----- lmy seal this day of in the year of our lord 1821
Peter (his mark) Runkle
Signed sealed published and declared as and for the last will and Testament of the above named Peter Runkle in the presence of us.
Philip Moyers
Michael Snyder
T. R. McGahey

Peter married Margaret Steiner Koch about 1772 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America. Margaret (daughter of George Koch and Maria Sara Reiner) was born on 14 Dec 1753 in Delkton, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1834 in Virginia, United States; was buried in 1834 in Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: 7 Sep 1748; on the ship Hampshire from Rotterdam

Notes:

Jacob was a slaveholder. Sometime before 1791, he sold his slave named Paul to his son Peter in Rockingham Co, VA. This was mentioned by the Ammon vs Runkle lawsuit. It added that Peter then sold Paul to Henry Cook.

Johann Jacob Runckel and Friedrich Hammer, from Wackernheim, were granted permission to emigrate on May 14, 1748. They had to pay 40 and 10 florins respectively for the permission. They landed at Philadelphia on the Ship Hampshire, September 7, 1748 (Strassburger-hinke, List 118 A-C). List A gives Runckel's age as 27, Hammer's as 35. [Reference: Friedrich Krebs, Palatine Emigrants to American from the Oppenheim Area, 1742-1749, (Journal Article p. 46-48 in no. 1 : ill. part of Pennsylvania Folklife v.22, 1972)]

1748 Hampshire
[List 118 A, B, C]
Captain: Thomas Cheesman
From: Rotterdam
By Way of: Falmouth
Arrival: Philadelphia, 7 Sep 1748

Jacob Runkle had established himself in Augusta Couinty, VA by 1757 and was receivving pay for services with the county militia during the French and Indiana War. In 1763 he patented 225 acres in Augusta County, a portion of which was given to Peter Runkle in 1772 to care for his aged mother. Lewis Runkle was granted land through Jacob Runkle's will. The will is among the lost records of Rockingham County, Va, but a law suit in Augusta titled "Ammon vs. Runkle" yields additional facts. Mary Ammon claimed that Peter Runkle had received more than he was entitled to. [Reference: June Runkle Grove, "The Runkle Family and Associated Families", ([S. I.] J. R. Grove, 1999), pg. 379]

Birth:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Johann married Anna Maria Hammer on 1 Feb 1740 in Wackernheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Anna (daughter of Nicholas Hammer and Anna Maria _____) was born on 20 Sep 1720 in Wackernheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died in Nov 1813 in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Mary Hammer

Notes:

Birth:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Notes:

Married:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Other Events:

• Name: George Cook

George married Maria Sara Reiner. Maria was born on 21 May 1724 in Schwaigern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; was christened on 21 May 1724 in Schwaigern, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Wackernheim lies west of Mainz in a side valley of the Rhine, and is now in the German state of Rheinhessen. In the 18th century it was part of the Electoral Palatinate of "Kurpfalz."

Birth:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Buried:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Caspar married Anna Margaretha Keller. Anna was born in 1677 in Wackernheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died on 27 Oct 1723 in Wackernheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Anna Margaretha Runckel

Notes:

Birth:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Notes:

Buried:
now Wackernheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Nicholas married Anna Maria _____. Anna and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Anna Maria Hammer