Barbara Maria DIETER

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Biography by Professor Joseph M. Kellogg Barbara Teter was born in 1734. She married, in Rowan County, NorthCarolina, Jacob Henkel, eldest son of Justus Henkel Sr. The date ofthe marriage was probably about 1753-54, since the Rev. Paul Henkel,their eldest child, was born in Rowan County, December 15, 1754. Astold in preceding notes, Jacob Henkel was living then in theneighborhood called Dutchmans Creek, in the Forks of the Yadkin river;but in 1760 he removed with his family and went back up north. Rev.Paul Henkel in his diary tells of the wanderings of the family. Theywent from North Carolina first to Loudoun County Virginia, and then,after a short stay there, on across to the other side of the PotomacRiver in Maryland, where they lived until the beginning of thefollowing summer (1761) when they went to Hampshire County, VirginiaDuring the winter of 1760-61, Jacob Henkle had built a house for oneof his neighbors. He worked with his hatchet during the day, and madeshoes at night. "In this way he managed to bring his householdthrough with much difficulty". He had suffered great losses throughthe migration from North Carolina. After living in Hampshire countyfor almost a year, until the spring of 1762, on account of Indianoutbreaks the family had to seek refuge in a fort, where they remainedthree years (1762-65). While living in the fort one of Jacob'schildren, Hannah, was killed in an Indian attack. "It was a mostconfining life, a regular prison," said Reverend Paul Henkel. Duringthis stay in the fort they "were acknowledged as sons of thecommunionists (Episcopalians) and learned the catechism of thatchurch". This fort where the Henkels stayed so long was probably oneof these on the South branch of the Potomac, possibly Fort Peterson onsite of the present town of Petersburg, county seat of Grant county. After it was safe to leave the fort Jacob Henkel and his family livedon a farm on Mill creek there in what is now Grant county. He hadlands granted to him, or leased, by Lord Fairfax, on August 3, 1773,"on the east side of the South Branch of the Potomac," 130 acres as isshown by a later deed on the Hardy County records from Benjamin Hinkleand wife Mary of Shenandoah County to Henry Landes. The land had beenleased during the lives of Jacob Henkle, Benjamin Henkle and IsaacHenkle, sons of said Jacob Henkle. This deed was dated August 22,1789 (Hardy County Deed book 1, page 337). There came to be quite a settlement of related families in thatsection, along the North and South Mill creeks. Rev. Paul Henkel saysthat about 1768 Pastor Johannes Schworback (who was the regularminister at Hebron Lutheran church) came there and established aLutheran church. There Jacob Henkel died in the spring of 1779, (The inventory of hisestate was dated May 26, 1779), and was buried in the church yard,since Rev. Paul Henkel in his diary under date of July 8, 1807, aftertelling of riding through Brock's Gap to Hardy County says "here Ipreach in the church in which I was brought up and my father ofblessed memory lies buried." It is said that his widow Barbara, anumber of years later, married again, Peter Schall. She died February7, 1814. (Barbara Henkel appeared on the Personal Tax lists forHampshire County in 1782-84). A portrait of Barbara Teter Henkel ispublished in "the Henkel Memorial" as frontispiece opposite page 83.It is reproduced from an old drawing in pastel, predominantly blue incolor, now in the possession of Dr. C. O. Miller of New Market,Virginia (see photograph) [not available]. Rev. Paul Henkel in his diaries several times speaks of his mother.On August 29, 1805, "my old mother made the trip across the mountainsall alone" to visit him. On horseback of course it must have been.On Sept. 10th he rode back with her across the mountains. (This initself shows what a strong and characterful person this old lady ofover 70 years must have been.) On Friday, July 10, 1807, "I ride over the mountain to Isaac Herman[Harman?] where I find my old mother still alive, and in good health."The next day he tells of a fine and profitable conversation he hadwith her his sister Christina Harman. On Friday, August 20, 1813, hevisited "our old mother who now seems to be near her end." On March1, 1814 he writes: "In the evening my son Solomon brought a letterfrom my brother Moses informing me that my old mother had died on theseventh of the previous month in her eightieth year. She had fallenasleep in the Lord." This was while Rev. Paul Henkel was in NorthCarolina. Of his father Rev. Paul Henkel says that he had books which hediligently read, contemplated and spoke much about. Rev. Paul Henkelalso borrowed books of his uncle Paul Dieter. (He says that three ofhis mother's brothers: George, Paul and Philip Dieter lived near by).

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