Research note: The birth year on his gravestone is significantly wrong per church records in Switzerland. See entry number 22, second from the top of the right column in the church record image attached to this record. He may have been untruthful about his year of birth and thus age at death and passed himself off as younger than he really was since when he had remarried his second wife, she was significantly younger than his true age.
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) was the s/o Melchior Baer Sr. (1689-1771) and his 1st wife Elisabeth Gneser (1689-1716). Three known children via 1st wife. She died in Switzerland in 1716. Melchior Baer Sr. was married three times. His 2nd wife Catharina Widmer died in 1725 in Germany. No known children via 2nd wife. His 3rd wife Anna Elisabetha Abecky died in 1775 in PA. Four known children by 3rd wife. See: Bähr Families of Ottenbach ... Switzerland; Mennonite Family History; pub. Apr 1990; p.54.
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) is buried in the old "God's Acre" cemetery plot of the original Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville UCC Church, of Old Zionsville, Lehigh County PA. This plot is now on private land but is noted in the deed restrictions of said private land and has a perpetual Lehigh County PA courthouse registered easement for access to it for maintenance. This God's Acre plot of land is still maintained by the Old Zionsville UCC Church even though no specific grave markers remain. Many dozens of the original congregation members of the early Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville Union Church and others were buried in this private plot. According to church oral history, back in the mid 1700s its location was at that time near or adjacent to the original log church, which of course is long since gone. The current church and cemetery is about 1000' west of the old God's Acre plot. Disappointingly, all the original gravestones were removed/stolen by vandals in the late 1900s. Only a small granite one foot tall rectangular memorial monument in the center of the plot and rough field corner stones remain to mark the location and boundaries of this cemetery. It is regularly mowed by the church cemetery maintenance people. It is hallowed and protected ground to the church and its members. An account of the cemetery, when several gravestones still stood there, is given in the Anniversary History of Lehigh County PA which was published in 1914 in which a photo of one of the tombstones still standing in that year was included in the article - the gravestone of Melchior Baer, II. (1712-1773).
For more genealogical information for this Melchior Baer and his descendants see: http://www.kerchner.com/des1822.htm Charles Kerchner, Emmaus PA, USA
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) was the s/o Melchior Baer Sr. (1689-1771) and his 1st wife Elisabeth Gneser (1689-1716). Three known children via 1st wife. She died in Switzerland in 1716. Melchior Baer Sr. was married three times. His 2nd wife Catharina Widmer died in 1725 in Germany. No known children via 2nd wife. His 3rd wife Anna Elisabetha Abecky died in 1775 in PA. Four known children by 3rd wife. See: Bähr Families of Ottenbach ... Switzerland; Mennonite Family History; pub. Apr 1990; p.54.
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) is buried in the old "God's Acre" cemetery plot of the original Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville UCC Church, of Old Zionsville, Lehigh County PA. This plot is now on private land but is noted in the deed restrictions of said private land and has a perpetual Lehigh County PA courthouse registered easement for access to it for maintenance. This God's Acre plot of land is still maintained by the Old Zionsville UCC Church even though no specific grave markers remain. Many dozens of the original congregation members of the early Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville Union Church and others were buried in this private plot. According to church oral history, back in the mid 1700s its location was at that time near or adjacent to the original log church, which of course is long since gone. The current church and cemetery is about 1000' west of the old God's Acre plot. Disappointingly, all the original gravestones were removed/stolen by vandals in the late 1900s. Only a small granite one foot tall rectangular memorial monument in the center of the plot and rough field corner stones remain to mark the location and boundaries of this cemetery. It is regularly mowed by the church cemetery maintenance people. It is hallowed and protected ground to the church and its members. An account of the cemetery, when several gravestones still stood there, is given in the Anniversary History of Lehigh County PA which was published in 1914 in which a photo of one of the tombstones still standing in that year was included in the article - the gravestone of Melchior Baer, II. (1712-1773).
For more genealogical information for this Melchior Baer and his descendants see: http://www.kerchner.com/des1822.htm Charles Kerchner, Emmaus PA, USA
Research note: The birth year on his gravestone is significantly wrong per church records in Switzerland. See entry number 22, second from the top of the right column in the church record image attached to this record. He may have been untruthful about his year of birth and thus age at death and passed himself off as younger than he really was since when he had remarried his second wife, she was significantly younger than his true age.
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) was the s/o Melchior Baer Sr. (1689-1771) and his 1st wife Elisabeth Gneser (1689-1716). Three known children via 1st wife. She died in Switzerland in 1716. Melchior Baer Sr. was married three times. His 2nd wife Catharina Widmer died in 1725 in Germany. No known children via 2nd wife. His 3rd wife Anna Elisabetha Abecky died in 1775 in PA. Four known children by 3rd wife. See: Bähr Families of Ottenbach ... Switzerland; Mennonite Family History; pub. Apr 1990; p.54.
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) is buried in the old "God's Acre" cemetery plot of the original Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville UCC Church, of Old Zionsville, Lehigh County PA. This plot is now on private land but is noted in the deed restrictions of said private land and has a perpetual Lehigh County PA courthouse registered easement for access to it for maintenance. This God's Acre plot of land is still maintained by the Old Zionsville UCC Church even though no specific grave markers remain. Many dozens of the original congregation members of the early Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville Union Church and others were buried in this private plot. According to church oral history, back in the mid 1700s its location was at that time near or adjacent to the original log church, which of course is long since gone. The current church and cemetery is about 1000' west of the old God's Acre plot. Disappointingly, all the original gravestones were removed/stolen by vandals in the late 1900s. Only a small granite one foot tall rectangular memorial monument in the center of the plot and rough field corner stones remain to mark the location and boundaries of this cemetery. It is regularly mowed by the church cemetery maintenance people. It is hallowed and protected ground to the church and its members. An account of the cemetery, when several gravestones still stood there, is given in the Anniversary History of Lehigh County PA which was published in 1914 in which a photo of one of the tombstones still standing in that year was included in the article - the gravestone of Melchior Baer, II. (1712-1773).
For more genealogical information for this Melchior Baer and his descendants see: http://www.kerchner.com/des1822.htm Charles Kerchner, Emmaus PA, USA
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) was the s/o Melchior Baer Sr. (1689-1771) and his 1st wife Elisabeth Gneser (1689-1716). Three known children via 1st wife. She died in Switzerland in 1716. Melchior Baer Sr. was married three times. His 2nd wife Catharina Widmer died in 1725 in Germany. No known children via 2nd wife. His 3rd wife Anna Elisabetha Abecky died in 1775 in PA. Four known children by 3rd wife. See: Bähr Families of Ottenbach ... Switzerland; Mennonite Family History; pub. Apr 1990; p.54.
Melchior Baer II (1712-1773) is buried in the old "God's Acre" cemetery plot of the original Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville UCC Church, of Old Zionsville, Lehigh County PA. This plot is now on private land but is noted in the deed restrictions of said private land and has a perpetual Lehigh County PA courthouse registered easement for access to it for maintenance. This God's Acre plot of land is still maintained by the Old Zionsville UCC Church even though no specific grave markers remain. Many dozens of the original congregation members of the early Reformed Congregation of the Old Zionsville Union Church and others were buried in this private plot. According to church oral history, back in the mid 1700s its location was at that time near or adjacent to the original log church, which of course is long since gone. The current church and cemetery is about 1000' west of the old God's Acre plot. Disappointingly, all the original gravestones were removed/stolen by vandals in the late 1900s. Only a small granite one foot tall rectangular memorial monument in the center of the plot and rough field corner stones remain to mark the location and boundaries of this cemetery. It is regularly mowed by the church cemetery maintenance people. It is hallowed and protected ground to the church and its members. An account of the cemetery, when several gravestones still stood there, is given in the Anniversary History of Lehigh County PA which was published in 1914 in which a photo of one of the tombstones still standing in that year was included in the article - the gravestone of Melchior Baer, II. (1712-1773).
For more genealogical information for this Melchior Baer and his descendants see: http://www.kerchner.com/des1822.htm Charles Kerchner, Emmaus PA, USA
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