1634 Marx Oberholtzer was baptized on February 9. [1]
1657 Marx Oberholtzer emigrated in 1657 to Sinsheim in the Pfalz. [2]
1657 Margreth Dobler was a servant of his brother Hans Jacob when she emigrated in 1657. [3]
1661 Marx Oberholtzer married 1661/62 at Immelhausen, Margreth Dobler of Wald. [4]
1661 Marx Oberholtzer was of Immelhausen hof when he attended an illegal taufer meeting an Steinsfurt in 1661. [5]
1663 Marx Oberholtzer was a tenant farmer and former Wiedertauffer at Buchoff. [6]
1680 Marx Oberholtzer died on September 14 at Büchenhof (perhaps Birkenauer Hof) near Sinsheim, Germany. He was an Anabaptist and was buried without singing or bells. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Research Notes:
Son Hans Jacob was named as the son of Marx Oberholtzer and Maria, daughter of Jacob Nussler. [11]
A substantial biosketch is given at [12]
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 25, person OA269.
[2] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer 268, [Website].
[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer 268, [Website].
[4] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer 268, [Website].
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer 268, [Website].
[6] John L. Overholt, "The Marcus Oberholtzer (1664-1725) Family," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October 1986), 26-40, at 27, person U.
[7] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 424.
[8] John L. Overholt, "The Marcus Oberholtzer (1664-1725) Family," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October 1986), 26-40, at 27, person U.
[9] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 25, person OA269.
[10] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer 268, [Website].
[11] John L. Overholt, "The Marcus Oberholtzer (1664-1725) Family," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 9 (October 1986), 26-40, at 27, person U1.
[12] Jane Evans Best, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 13 (April, 1990), 9-25, at 24, person OA269.