1800 [Aunt] Elizabeth Steiner, spinster, of Bethlehem Twp, Northampton County, dated her will on June 12, 1800. Elizabeth Stauber, daughter of brother Henry, and her husband Gottleib Stauber were named executors. Niece Elizabeth Stauber, brother Henry, brother Jacob, and brother Abraham received bequests. Proved June 17, 1800. [1]
1810 Gadlip Stauber lived in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. [2]
1820 The will of Gottlieb Stauber was dated March 7, 1820. The will was affirmed on June 24, 1820. The will named wife Elizabeth and son Christian as executors. Son Charles Frederick was also named. [3]
1820 Gotlieb Stauber died on June 4 and was buried at God's Acre, Schoeneck, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Gotlieb Stauber was born on February 8, 1768. [4] [5]
1823 Charles Frederick Stauffer, son of Godleib Stouffer late of Nazareth Twp, Northampton County deceased, petitioned the Orphans Court as a minor above the age of fourteen with no guardian. William Clewell of Upper Nazareth was appointed as his guardian. [6]
1830 The account of the estate of son Christian H Stauber of Bushkill Twp was administered by Wm H Clewell. The Orphans Court recorded several items related to the estate. No heirs were named in the records. [7]
1831 The account of Thomas Clewell, attorney of Elizabeth Stouber, surviving executrix of the last will and testament of Godlieb Stouber, late of the Village of Shoeneck house carpenter deceased, was reported to the Orphans Court of Northampton County. [8]
1850 Anna E Stauber (age 80, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Upper Nazareth Twp, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in a household with [son-in-law] F Thomas Clewell (age 59), daughter Maria S Clewell (age 52), Anna C Clewell (age 25), Robert A Clewell (age 16), and Ellin H Romig (age 4). [9] [10] [11]
1851 Elisabeth Steiner Stauber died on September 23, 1851 and was buried at God's Acre Cemetery, Schoeneck, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The grave marker reports that Elisabeth Steiner Stauber was born on November 6, 1769 in Allen Twp, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. [12] [13]
1851 Elizabeth Stauber of the Village of Schoeneck, widow, dated her will on July 28, 1838. She left her personal effects in four equal parts to daughter Maria spouse of Thomas Clewell, daughter Caroline married with Jacob Beck, granddaughter Aurora Clewell daughter of deceased daughter Louisa deceased spouse of Augustus Clewell, and granddaughter Augusta Elizabeth Miksh daughter of deceased daughter Paulina who had been married to Joshua Miksh. Son Charles Stauber received a silver tablespoon. Emilia Elizabeth Stauber, daughter of son Christian H Stauber deceased, should have an equal share if she lived to age 18. The remaining estate was to be divided into 6 equal shares for Maria Clewell, Carolina Beck, Charles Stauber, Emilie Elizabeth Stauber, Aurora Clewell and Franklin Clewell children of daughter Louisa, and Augusta Elizabeth Miksh. The will was affirmed by witnesses on September 27, 1851. [14]
A biosketch reports [15]:
A Pennsylvania Dutch neebleworker, Elisabeth Steiner Stauber introduced blossom trees to samplers. She excelled at horned stags and introduced the lion to Delaware Valley needlework. She monogrammed the finished work with simple letters:
1784
Elisabeth Steinerin W
M ("The Scarlet Letter")A native of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Elisabeth Steiner Stauber was born the first [sic, last?] of four children of Anna Elisabeth Volz and Friederich Heinrich Steiner of Northampton on November 6, 1794. On November 4, 1794, she married a German Moravian cabinetmaker and construction worker, Gottlieb Stauber of Salem, North Carolina, a builder of the Bethabara Gemeinhaus (community hall). The couple settled in the tailor house at Schoeneck, Pennsylvania, and produced seven children. Following thirty-one years of widowhood, Elisabeth died at Schoeneck on September 23, 1851, at age eighty-two.
1863 Daughter Maria Susanna Stauber Clewell died on October 25 and was buried at God's Acre, Schoeneck, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Maria Susanna Stauber Clewell was born on February 23, 1798. [16] [17]
1866 Son-in-law Franz "Thomas" Clewell died on February 1 and was buried at God's Acre, Schoeneck, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Franz "Thomas" Clewell was born on April 21, 1791. [18] [19]
An article by Charles M. Sandwick recounts many facts about this family and their children. [20]
1917 Amelia E Fehr, daughter of Christian H Stauber and Dorothea Benato, died on October 26, 1917, at age 87, in Pen Argyl, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Amelia E Fehr was born on December 3, 1829, in Pennsylvania. [21]
Research Notes:
[1] Northampton County, Pennsylvania Wills, 4-12, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[2] United States Federal Census, 1810, [AncestryRecord].
[3] Pennsylvania, Will and Probate Records, Northampton County Will 4-586, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial 64567166, [FindAGrave].
[5] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[6] Northampton County, Pennsylvania Orphans Court, 10-3, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[7] Northampton County, Pennsylvania Orphans Court, Index for entries related to Christian Stauber, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[8] Northampton County, Pennsylvania Orphans Court, 11-277, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[9] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryRecord].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryRecord].
[12] Find A Grave Memorial 64698067, [FindAGrave].
[13] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[14] Northampton County, Pennsylvania Wills, 6-591, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[15] Mary Ellen Snodgrass, American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia, 277, [URL].
[16] Find A Grave Memorial 24977053, [FindAGrave].
[17] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[18] Find A Grave Memorial 24975709, [FindAGrave].
[19] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[20] Charles M. Sandwick, Sr., "More about the Steiner Family, Part One," Jacobsburg Historical Society Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 5 (1985), 3-5, at 3, [Jacobsburg Record], [Jacobsburg Newsletter Index].
[21] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[22] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert's family suggests a lineage to this sibling of Robert's ancestor. The lineage is through a descendant shown on our website, [Link].
[23] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert's family suggests a lineage to this sibling of Robert's ancestor. The lineage is through a descendant shown on our website, [Link].
[24] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert suggests a lineage to this sibling of Robert's ancestor. The lineage is through a descendant shown on our website, [Link].