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Notes for Samuel Oberholtzer

1685 Jacob Oberholtzer (Nr 127) and Samuel Oberholtzer (Nr 128) were listed at Immelhausen. [1]

1705 Samuel Oberholtzer died at Immelhausen on November 12, 1705 at age 61. He was a Widertauffer (Anabaptist). [2]

Research Notes:

The Immelhaeuser Hof was and is nowadays part of the town of Sinsheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. The area is called the Kraichgau. At the time of Samuel Oberholtzer this area was part of the Churpfalz, also spelt Kurpfalz. Later, circa 1806, it became part of the grandduchy of Baden.

Samuel Oberholtzer was reportedly a Mennonite minister. [3] We seek documentation for this report.


Footnotes:

[1] According to Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, 77/4337, Specification der jenige Mennonisten so sich in Churpfaltz Landen, befinden als, im Oberamt Heydelberg (Heidelberg today), folio 71.

[2] Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants From German-Speaking Lands to North America, Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau (1983), 425.

[3] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Oberholtzer A2612, [Website].