THE KRIEGBAUM HERITAGE NEWSLETTER
Volume VI; No.1 - Jan 1981
President: Mrs. H. E. Krigbaum, 1112 Monroe Street, Ouincy, IL 62301
Vice President: Mrs. Hazel T. Miller, 3247 E. Fairfax Rd., Cleveland Hts. OH 44118
Past-President: Mrs. Michael Malone, 2915 Atwood Ave., Topeka KS 66614
Secretary: Mrs. James Steele, Palmyra, MO 63461
Treasurer: Mrs. William James, 308 So. 11th Street, Quincy, IL 62301
Editors: Mrs. H. E. Krigbaum and Mrs. William James
A MESSAGE FROM CAROL:
As we are beginning the New Year, we feel that we have made progress
into our family research and are coming to the linking or many lines of
Kriegbaums, Creekbaums, Krichbaums, Kreighbaums; Krigbaums, etc.
During the summer and fall, Kay and I have had visits from WILLIAM and
MARY WILSON, Scheresville, Indiana for a day. They, then, came back to
Center, MO for the reunion August 31, then returned home with new
material and renewed vigor for new research. Labor Day, STAN and JOANN
LITTLE, Webster Groves, MO spent the afternoon as we delved into notes,
scraps of paper, books, etc. for that elusive clue. November 30, JAMES
and OPAL KREIGHBAUM of Fort Madison, IA came to bring us some family
data and left with a new set of grandparents.
We have throughly enjoyed each of these visits, gleaned more clues and
gave some help, we hope.
If you are in our area, give us a call as this is the most complete way
we can put together our heritage and hopefully compile an up-to-date
book on our families.
Please help by sending us or bringing us your sheets, family stories or
whatever you can contribute.
Kay has been busy working with all the information we have gotten in
recently and also with her job and family but will have a report in the
April issue.
THE PAST-PRESIDENT NEEDS HELP!!
As you very likely have heard over and over, it has been our intention
to research our ancestral lines back to our immigrant ancestors, at
least, and bring the information down to the present. It is our desire
then to publish a book which would be even more comprehensive than
THE KRICHBAUM FAMILY HISTORY which was re-printed and made a
part of the mid-year 1978 issue of THE KRIEGBAUM HERITAGE.
In order to realize this ambition, which would benefit you and your
children, we need help from all of you. We need to know everything you
can remember about your parents, their parents, etc. We need to have
the vital statistics on yourselves and your children and, if they are
adults, we need to have information on their children as well. Just
think what a prize such a book will be handed down in your families! If
they are interested in knowing their own ancestors, someone will have
done the prior work and added their own statistics. It will certainly be
something to be proud of. And to see their own names in the book will
be an added bonus.
We have been handed a list of 65 new names of CREEKBAUMS to write and
invite them to membership in our family association. Some of these have
already been working on their family genealogies and we now have in our
possession copies of the records of four others. Can you not give us
your own information about your own families so that we may tie in their
vital records with that of all the others in order that our book may be
as complete as it is possible to make it?
Included in the April issue, if at all possible, will be an index of all
of the names listed in the past issues of the Newsletter up to and
including the last issue for the year 1980.
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IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. DORTHA I. SMARR, 89 of the Luther Manor Nursing Home in Hannibal, MO
died at 4:10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 24, 1980.
She was born Feb. 22, 1891, at Wither's Mill, MO, a daughter of WILLIAM
& DILLA BURGETT. She married SAMUEL MOSES KRIGBAUM on
Jan. 29, 1908. He preceded her in death. On Nov. 8, 1955, she married
HARRY L. SMARR. Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs. THRESEA HAGGART of
Hannibal and Mrs. EVA WALLER of Kenai, Alaska; and five grandchildren. She
was preceded in death by one daughter and one son.
Services were 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Smith Funeral Chapel and burial
in the GrandView Burial Park.
RENEWALS: Gertrude Krigbaum, of Colorado Springs, CO; Robert Ainley of
Long Beach. CA; Raymond Haggarts, Jim Riley's, William Hagen's, Lloyd
Jones's, Ronald Krigbaum's of Hannibal, MO.; Fannie Brown of Freeport,
IL; Mike Krigbaum's, Mabel Krigbaum, of Monroe City, MO; David Polc's,
of Paris, MO; David Forbis's of Holiday, MO; Sam Krigbaum's of Hull, IL;
Glenn Parson's, Joe Nemes's of New London. MO; James Steele's of
Palmyra, MO; Margaret McGinnis of Topeka KS; William James's, H.E.
Krigbaum's of Quincy, IL; Larry Krigbaums of Fowler, IL; Stephen
Sonnenmoser's of Kansas City, MO; George Little's, Esther Krigbaum of
Webster Groves, MO; James Kreighbaum's of Ft. Madison, IA; Wayne Doyle's
or LakeVille, MN.
NEW MEMBERS:
Joe Creekbaum ................... Olivehurst, CA
Rheuben Creekbaum's ......... Bakersfield, CA
Robert Kefflin's .................... Gaston, OR
Myrtle Creekbaum Fugett ..... Franklin,OH
Emery Creekbaum ............... Marco Island, FL
Hershel Krigbaum's .............. Jefferson, TX
Warren Walker's .................. Monmouth, IL
Ted Krigbaum's .................... Oklahoma City, OK
Clark S. Krichbaum's ............ Dallas, TX
Jaek L. Bentley's .................. Gladstone, OR
Joe Stansbury's .................... Ft. Madison, IA
Gene Paul's .......................... Ft. Madison, IA
Aubrey J. Creekbaum ............ Caldwell, ID
INQUIRY:
We have received inquiries into having regional reunions or gatherings
since our membership is now scattered from coast to coast and North to
South, making travel to Center, MO for the main reunion difficult for
some of our members.
We are considering this alternative if we have enough interest,
therefore need to hear from each of you concerning some of the items
listed below:
(1) Would you be able to attend better if held in another area?
(2) Which area would be better for you taking into consideration the
place having major airlines and train or bus travel?
(3) Which of the weekends, Memorial Day or 4th of July is preferable?
(4) If held in your area, could you be responsible for arranging a place
and whatever other arrangements needed?
The reunion Labor Day Weekend at Center, MO would be held as usual
giving members the opportunity of attending whichever one best suited
them.
PLEASE, PLEASE, let us hear from YOU concerning this VERY SOON as we
will need to publish some news of this in the APRIL NEWSLETTER.
NEW MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN:
Mrs. ISABELLA MALONE has consented to be our new membership chairman and
also to continue the awesome job of indexing all the names passing
through our hands.
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The following article was sent to us by Mrs. P. M. CONDIE of Salt Lake
City, UT. It appeared in the Daily City Gate, Keokuk, IA newspaper Dec.
12, 1959. We are printing it in its entirety as we think it is most
interesting.
WAGON TRAIN TRIP FROM KEOKUK TO OREGON NOT LIKE TV VERSION
A search for relatives in this area has resulted in the arrival of an
interesting diary account of the trip by ox-team, from Keokuk, Iowa to
Baker, Oregon, during the summer of 1862.
The party consisted of the SPEELMAN family, three families of GARDNERS,
JOSIAH CREIGHBAUM and family, including the grandmother and grand-father
CREIGHBAUM, and J. J. WORLEY, a son-in-law of the CREIGHBAUMS, who was an
attorney at Keokuk. The account was written by a young girl LOUVENIA
CREIGHBAUM, who later married ZEPHANIA BRYANT. The CREIGHBAUM family
lived in Montrose Township, Lee County, but had previously lived at
Morning Sun.
SEEKS INFORMATION:
CHARLES SAGE of 2929 N.E. Oregon St., Portland 12, Oregon, is anxious to
hear from any members of these families or of the WARFIELD, DURBIN and
KIMBROUGH families who might still be residents of this locality. The
CREIGHBAUM name has been variously spelled, CRIBOM, KREIGHBAUM and
CRICKBUM.
Mrs. WARREN F. WALES of 508 Bank Street has been corresponding with Mr.
SAGE on the subject and would be happy to pass on any information about
the families in question.
The following account was taken from the diary of LOUVENIA CREIGHBAUM:
On the twenty second of April in 1862 our company of twelve wagons
started from Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, on the long journey across the
plains for California. We bade farewell to neighbors and friends and
dear old homes and started early in the morning in covered wagons drawn
by ox and cow teams.
The children and young people were happy and delighted with the trip; the
ride in the covered wagons meant only sunshine and pleasure to them.
They only thought of the good lunch of roast chicken, boiled ham and
nice cakes with which each wagon was well supplied. But the older ones
realized the difficulties and perils of the trip.
We had our first trouble pulling through the mud of early spring. Often
the teams completely mired in the mud and it was necessary to unhitch
the team from one wagon to pull another out of the mire. Many times the
wagons had to be unloaded and only a part of the burden taken over the
bad place at a time; this meant much unloading and reloading of wagons,
a loss of time and energy, but after many repetitions of the same thing
we resumed our journey as though nothing had happened.
Required Patience
This first day was a very tiresome one indeed and we found that it would
take a great deal of patience as well as time to cross the plains in a
wagon drawn by ox teams. When at last our day's drive was ended we were
all glad to find a camping place for the night. Soon fires were started
and kettles, frying pans and coffee pots were all handed out of the
wagons, and the women went cheerfully about the cooking while the
children romped and played, the men unyoked the cows and oxen and fed
them corn and hay.
After supper we washed the dishes, milked the cows, and made down the
beds, then we all sat down around the camp fire and talked over the days
travel, and sang some of the new war songs, but we were all so tired
that we soon went to bed with the feeling that we were a long way from
home; we had really traveled only ten miles.
After a good night's sleep we all arose at daylight, and soon went to
cooking the breakfast, feeding the cattle, tearing down the tents,
loading up the wagons, and preparing for another day's journey. After
the cows were milked they were then yoked and hitched to a wagon, the
milk was strained into a churn, a tight lid was put on, and the churn
placed in the front of the wagon. In the evening we had butter for
supper, churned by the
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motion of the wagon. We had better luck the second day and traveled furthur. We now passed
through small villages and farms that were unfamiliar to us, the peoples
were no longer acquaintances. We passed through Ottumwa; at that time
it was a small town. The farming country here was not very thickly
settled, but the prospects looked good; there was plenty of corn, fat
hogs, and hundreds of chickens. We could get all the eggs we wanted at
five and six cents a dozen. We managed to camp near farm houses of
evenings while we were passing through the settlement.
Day by day we traveled on; each day there was something new to be seen.
We had been on the road one week when we arrived at the Des Moines
River, where we laid by to rest our teams and wash our clothes and clean
our wagons. We spent a very pleasant camping time here. After resting we
continued on our journey feeling much better than when we stopped. We
made a good drive the next day, so we adopted a rule to lay over once a
week to wash and iron and bake and rest our teams.
Crossed Des Moines
We crossed over the Des Moines River here at Des Moines City, traveling
on through the country, we made another stop at a village called
Knoxville where we supplied ourselves with fresh meat and eggs which
were very much needed. We all enjoyed the camp fires of evenings and
still remembered the Boys in Blue, and our conversation was often of
them, and we wondered what each day had brought to them. Always we were
eager to reach a town where we could get news of the war, and also drop
a few lines to our relatives and friends we were leaving each day
farther behind us. The roads were getting much better now and the days
were growing longer, so we made better progress.
It was now only occasionally that we passed a lone ranch with a family
living on it. They were always glad to see us and treated us with
kindness and respect. Each town we passed through was of great interest,
of course. It was a means of getting supplies; then there was the post
office where we could mail letters, even though we received none from
home and the news from the battlefield.
Then we came to Council Bluffs, the last place we could replenish our
provisions. All laid in a good supply of flour, bacon, sugar, coffee and
beans, and soap. Here we found a good many wagons waiting to form into
companies. It was not safe to travel any further in small companies on
account of the Indians. After a rest, washing and cleaning wagons and
getting new supplies, we crossed the Missouri River into Nebraska where
we saw the first Indians. These were friendly and peaceable. They came
up close to our wagons and wanted to talk to us, but the children and
many of the older people who had never seen Indians before were very
much frightened at the hideous things.
22 In Train
We had now formed a company of twenty two wagons and we started on,
biding farewell to all communication and civililization, all in line for
our march across the wide plains. We could see the dust of pilgrims far
ahead of us and the dust of others far behind us, so on we traveled day
after day, week after week and month after month. Always when the day
was ended and we drove into camp, we were tired and dusty, but we soon
rested and then went to work preparing supper amd making safe the camp
for the night. Our men drove the wagons in a circle, laying the tongue
of each wagon up so as to make a solid wall of wagons to keep the
Indians out of camp. They put the tents up inside this corral then they
drove the cattle out to grass and watched them while they grazed, then
brought them in and kept watch over them all night. The camp fire was
kept burning. The men took turns in guarding the camp and stock.
The Indians generally visited us at noon and evenings; we always gave
them something to eat and treated them kindly, therefore we had very
little trouble with them. We occasionally passed through a settlement
where the houses were built of sod cut in blocks of about twelve inches
square. Their fences were also made of sod. We passed through a village
of about forty houses made of sod; this we learned was a French colony.
These settlers appeared contented and happy. Their houses looked clean
and neat and they were kind and friendly toward us.
We had now reached North Platte. We traveled a long way on this river;
the way was hard and tiresome and dusty and hot. Our teams were standing
the trip well, but the road was now lined with empty and wrecked wagons
and the remains of dead horses and cattle. It was even quite difficult
to find a camping place where there was no dead animals.
When we first started out with our ox and cow teams we were often passed
by people driving fine horses; some young ladies looked at us and
laughed as they drove by us in a fine carriage; but their pleasant times
were now fast coming to an end.
Abandoned in Wilderness
One morning we came up to a camp where a man and woman were left alone
in the wilderness. One of their horses was dead, their wagon sitting by
the side of the road with a few things in it. They had thrown all their
trunks and clothing away to lighten their Ioad but they had traveled too
fast in the start to stand the long weary trip and now they were
suffering for it. They had the one horse tied to the wagon, had eaten
their breakfast and the woman was giving the old horse a cup of strong
black coffee. With tears in her eyes she said she wanted to save poor
old Coley. Their company had left them, their own teams so weak they
could hardly get along with their own burdens. What should we do? We had
all we could carry, our teams were getting poor, but we could not leave
them at the mercy of the Indians!
We finally decided to repack our wagons. We left out everything we could
spare, and packed their beds and provisions in our wagons. We tied old
Coley to the back of a wagon and the old man and woman walked. We did
not travel long until one morning old Coley was unable to stand. Some
one of the men gave him a gentle tap on the forehead and we went on and
left him by the roadside. The little woman shed a few tears over him
before leaving him there.
A few days after this we overtook a company which had stopped to bury
one of their members. A woman had died while eating her breakfast; she
was a large and healthy looking woman and had cooked the breakfast that
morning for four men. We had a doctor in our company who pronounced her
death due to heart failure. Her sad husband was left to make the journey
alone. This was the first death we witnessed, and we felt very sorry to
bury her and leave her so alone, yet we soon became accustomed to seeing
lonely graves by the roadside. Some times they were very small, and
again they were larger. We thought of those who had laid their dear ones
there and the grief they must have felt as they were forced to move
onward. Yet we went on, trusting in our God, that our bones would not be
left there on the wide desolate plains.
Meet Soldiers
We had now reached Laramie, Wyoming. The soldiers shook hands with us
and made us very welcome. We camped there for the noon lunch. Among
their supplies they had onions. We were very glad of the chance to buy
these at twenty-five cents a pound. The onions were so strong they
burned our stomachs but we ate them as though they were sweet, for we
were starving for vegetables.
The soldiers here informed us about the mines at Auburn and we decided
to change our route from California to Oregon. They gave us a guide book
of the road to Oregon, which told us where to camp. It proved to be a
great help to us, and we felt much encouraged by what the soldiers told
us. While we were up in the Black Hills we passed the once fine
carriage, now worn out and left by the side of the road. This was the
same carriage that had passed us hundreds of miles back, the horses had
died, and the smart young ladies and their parents had gone on in some
way.
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The Black Hills was a lonesome place to travel; the days were all alike,
the teams were giving out, our people were growing tired and the Indians
were lurking around watching us to take advantage of us. They did us no
further harm than to kill one of our oxen one morning just as we were
ready to start. Not a man said a word. We hitched up our teams as though
nothing had happened, and just started on the road. The Indians began
immediately to skin the dead ox.
We trudged along taking it patiently. We knew that time must pass and
many a weary mile. We had no really bad luck, only a hard time; we were
all enjoying good health. We camped near another company one day at
noon, that was having trouble. One of their men was accidentally killed.
He and another man went hunting a long way from camp in the hills, where
he was accidentally shot. He left a wife and two small children and an
aged mother, a helplesss family, to continue the journey, yet they
reached the Auburn mines by the kindly aid of the Company.
People Lost Tempers
Our people had begun to get tired and quarrelsome. Quarreling often
ended in fighting. Single men who had no teams and had put their
provisions in with families had a hard time of it when trouble arose.
There was a division of food and the single men left one wagon to join
another. One morning a young man and an old man had a disagreement over
a piece of bacon which they were dividing. The young man paid for the
bacon, but a dispute arose, then a fight; the old man knocked the young
man down - that settled it, he kept the bacon.
It was very common now for men to get dissatisfied with their company,
men who had teams. They would pull out and join some other company or
sometimes try it alone, always camping near a company. Such was the case
of two men who left their own company and traveled in this way. They had
been neighbors and friends in Illinois, but had left their families
there and were journeying across the plains to make their fortune in the
gold mines of California. But now so far away from home, patience had
given out. Evil thoughts led to evil actions which proved to end the
lives of each.
Our company traveled not very far behind them. Those in our head wagon
saw one of the men jump out of his wagon and run behind it. They heard
the report of a gun. The man hurriedly took a spade from his wagon and
dug a hole in the ground, into which he threw the body and covered it so
hastily that he left the feet sticking out of the grave. He then climbed
into his wagon and drove rapidly away. But there was no getting away.
His old company was not far behind ours and they soon drove up. Men with
guns went ahead and caught him. The murdered man was decently buried in
the meantime. The man was held as prisoner for several days, and one day
at noon he was tried and found guilty. There were a number of eye
witnesses to the murder and it was decided that he must pay the penalty
with his own life. When he was informed of his fate he acknowledged his
guilt and confessed that he had quarreled that morning with his friend
and had taken advantage of him. He begged for an opportunity to write to
his family; this was granted to him. He wrote all night to his family
and to the family of his friend, confessing all to them.
Sees His Coffin
We made a coffin for him in as decent and respectable a way as we were
able. He looked at his coffin and his grave knowing that soon his spirit
would be beyond this life in a land from which no traveler returns. He
knelt by his coffin and prayed.
While we were obliged to enforce the law we treated the prisoner with
respect and kindness. We gave him plenty of time to write and to make
his peace with his creator. All this was denied his friend. A blindfold
was placed over the eyes of the prisoner and nine men marched him out a
distance from camp. At a given signal the nine men fired at him. There
was one fatal gun that did the dreadful deed. There were over two
hundred
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people present. Many tears were shed in behalf of the poor families that
were far away in their homes innocent of the fate of the husbands and
fathers. We buried him quickly and started on our way, feeling that we
never wanted to witness anything so terrible again. The letters that
were written to the two families were mailed at the first opportunity.
Our time was not all passed in gloom, we had many amusements and
entertainments. The young people were usually happy. We had a fortune
teller in our company. Of an evening after supper we forgot how tired we
were from walking all day, for we had our fortunes told around the camp
fire, which was very amusing to the young people, then all enjoyed the
singing before we went to bed. Then too we fell in company with a
minister and we had preaching occasionally.
Walking became a common thing for men, women and children. The young men
and young ladies would walk for miles; they enjoyed it more than the
older ones, they became better acquainted and there were many lovers and
also many marriages while we were traveling on.
We were now in the Rocky Mountains. We found it a hard rough road, some
days we would travel through snow and the same day we would gather wild
flowers. We passed over the Rockies without any trouble and soon came to
the Green River, a small river but too deep to ford. We had to take our
wagons apart and use the bed of the wagon for a boat to cross the river.
First a man swam across taking with him the end of a rope. The rope was
fastened on each side and drawn taut, the wheels of the wagon and a part
of our outfits were placed in the boats and ferried across a little at a
time by means of the rope. Finally we were all ferried over. The cattle
swam across. This river was very swift which made crossing more
troublesome.
Little Difficulty
After crossing the wagons were put together again and we were ready once
more to start on. We were traveling now without any great difficulty. We
went a distance up Bear River and then into Idaho until we struck the
Snake River. The road here was very dry and dusty, and we had to endure
the continually burning heat of the sun all day long. It was very
difficult to get water to drink or to water the stock. Sometimes we had
to carry the water two miles to camp. When we came to a place where we
could get water we filled kegs and took the water with us. We came on
down the Snake River into Boise Valley. There were no settlers there
then, only a rancher or two, but no families.
This was a very beautiful valley with high waving grass. Some of the
immigrants wanted to stop here, but provisions were getting low and
others were bound for Powder River Valley and the Auburn Mines, so on we
went. We found very good roads now. We crossed Oyhee River.
One day we were all having a sociable walk, all barefooted for we had
worn out our shoes long ago, when we overtook the ladies who had begun
the journey in the fine carriage and who had laughed at us with our ox
teams. They had walked after their horses died. They were also
barefooted and ragged and were now quite friendly and as common as
anyone. They told us all about their bad luck. They said they were going
on to Portland.
We soon reached Burnt River. This was a lovely stream, the water was
clear and the bottom of the stream was covered with small rocks. We all
enjoyed wading across this cool clear stream. We crossed it several
times that day and at night we camped on its bank. The next night we
reached Powder River, where Baker is now. It was dark when we arrived
here so we made a camp for the night. In the morning we decided to stop
here. Some concluded to take up ranches and others to go to the Auburn
Mines. Some of our party went to Portland and others to the Willamette
Valley. There were already settlers in Powder River Valley at this time
and they were glad to have us stop and we too were glad to find a place
to make our homes for we were very tired of traveling. This was the 20th
day of September, 1862.
[end of diary]
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FAMILY OF HANS PHILLIP KRICKBAUM
1. HANS PHILLIP KRICKBAUM b. 1721 Germany was md. and was probably
living in Lower Merion, as early as 1754. The old burial record of
Merion Friends Meeting shows that a servant girl was buried from his
house, Oct. 22, 1754. On the 28th of the month, the same record book
says, PHILLIP CREAKBAUM's wife. On Jan. 6, 1756, PHILLIP KRICKBAUM was md.
a second time, at the
Reformed Church, in Germantown, his bride being ELIZABETH, dau. of
NICHOLAS SCHULTZ of Lower Merion. She was born 25 Jul. 1730.
On 17 Apr. 1760, Robert Jones, of Lower Merion and his wife Margaret,
sold to PHILLIP KRICKBAUM, farmer, of the same township, 100 acres of
land in Lower Merion, a rectangular tract having a narrow front on the
N.E. side of the road leading from Upper Merion to Philadelphia since
then called Gulph road. From the road, the ground fell away to a little
stream which, taking its rise on the adjoining lands of Henry Pugh,
flowed entirely across the KRICHBAUM farm and finally entered the
Schuylkill at Matson's Ford (not Conshohacken).
From the farther bank of this brook the land rose again very sharply to
the highest point of Lower Merion. From this summit, which later came to
be known as KRICKBAUM's hill, it is said that the British during the
Revolution, trained cannon upon the opposite heights, which were
occuppied by American forces and which therefore received the name
"Rebel Hill".
PHILLIP KRICKBAUM seems to have made his home here, perhaps in a log
house, and the farm was held by the family for more than 30 years.
He served as constable of Lower Merion in 1766.
He died Oct. 4, 1773, age 52 years; and burial record of German Reformed
Church congregation in Germantown made this entry: Oct. 6, 1773. PHILLIP
KRICHBAUM, aber de Schulkil begraben. He was interred in Lutheran
burying ground in Lower Merion.
His widow managed the estate for 19 years, building a stone house, close
to bank of brook, and leasing farm at rental of ? per year. In 1794, the
six surviving children sold all of 100 acres to Peter Pechin. The farm
remained in his possession for many years. In later years it has come to
be known as part of the larger estate of Moro Phillips; and very
recently it has been included in a real estate operation which has
entirely changed the appearance of the old farm. ELIZABETH, widow of
PHILLIP KRICHBAUM, died April 5, 1806.
THE EIGHT CHILDREN OF PHILLIP KRICHBAUM and ELIZABETH SCHULTZ:
1. ELIZABETH, b. ____ md. James LEE. She was living in 1804.
2. PHILIP, b. 26 Sept. 1759 bapt. 24 Oct. 1760 at the Reformed Church,
Germantown.
3. MARY, b. ____ md. SETH SCHNEIDER, at the St. James P.E. church,
Perkiomen, 3 Jan. 1793. [see below for more information on this family]
4. NICHOLAS (Johann Niclaus), b. 22 June 1764 St. Michael's and Zion,
Philadelphia. Died 13 Oct. 1786.
5. HENRY, b. 30 May, 1765; d. 13 Oct. 1768.
6. CONRAD, b. 1767
7. ANN, b. 1769; md. ALEXANDER TURNER. She was living in 1804.
8. BARBARA, b. 1772; md. SAMUEL POWELL; d. 12 Oct. 1821 in Lower Merion.
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FAMILY OF HANS PHILLIP KRICKBAUM [continued]
**SECOND/THIRD/FOURTH GENERATION DESCENDANTS**
2. PHILIP KRICKBAUM, , eldest son of PHILLIP KRICKBAUM and ELIZABETH SCHULTZ
was born 26 Sept. 1759. He was a farmer, living in Lower Merion on 1 April 1790, in company with
his brother CONRAD, he bought a stone house and about 50 acres of land on the northeasterly
side of Gulph road, in Lower Merion, adjoining the old KRICKBAUM farm. On 24 Nov. 1791
PHILIP md. at St. James P.E. Church Perkiomen, SUSANNA TREXLER. Three years
later, he released to his brother, CONRAD, his interest in their purchase of 1790.
PHILIP KRICKBAUM was living in 1804.
3. MARY KRICKBAUM, married SETH SCHNEIDER.
SETH SCHNEIDER lived in Plymouth twsp. where he farmed a large
tract in the vicinity of Plymouth meeting. By his will, which was proved in
1845, he bequeathed about 100 A. to his children.
SETH and Mary (Krickbaum) SCHNEIDER had the following children:
.....A. ELIZABETH SCHNEIDER - married three times:
..... md. (1) JOHN HART. Their children were:
......................... *ELIZA HART md. Edward GREEN; both living in 1869.
......................... *REUBEN HART, deceased 1869, leaving SARAH, ELIZABETH,
......................... REUBEN, JOHN and 1 other child, all minors in 1869.
.....md. (2) JOHN HART, their children:
......................... *GEORGE
......................... *HENRY
......................... *MARPLE (md. DAVIS)
.....md. (3) JOSEPH MCVAUGH. No children by this marriage.
.....B. SARAH SCHNEIDER md. WILLIAM SCHLATER. Their children were:
................ MARGARET SCHLATER md. Abraham DULL
............... SETH S. SCHLATER
............... JACOB K. SCHLATER
............... EVALINE SCHLATER
............... SARAH SCHLATER md. ? JONES ; left children JUSTUS and MAURICE JONES.
.....C. SARAH ANN md. ? ROBERTS and left the following 7 minor children in 1868:
............. William ROBERTS
............. Samuel ROBERTS
............. Winfield ROBERTS
............. Mary ROBERTS
............. George ROBERTS
............. Elizabeth ROBERTS
..............Annie ROBERTS
[editor's note - is this Sarah Ann SCHNEIDER or Sarah Ann SCHLATER?
uncertainty in KHN original newsletter, listed here as the former]
.....D. MARY md. ? KIRKNER and left two minor children in 1834.
[editor's note - is this Mary SCHNEIDER or Mary ROBERTS?
uncertainty in KHN original newsletter, listed here as the former]
6. CONRAD KRICKBAUM, born in 1767. He learned trade of Blacksmith. Soon
after coming of age, he and his brother PHILLIP as noted, bought a house
and farm on the Gulph Road; in Lower Merion. He took out a tavern
license, probable for this house, in 1793, and renewed it in 1794 and
1795, by which time he had become, through release from his brother,
sole owner of the property.
In 1797 however, he sold it, and not much more than a year later, he
bought from Frederick Bicking, paper maker, three contiguous tracts of
land in Lower Merion, at the mouth of Mill Creek.
On the central tract of about 58 Acres which extended back into the hill
until it reached an elevation of 200 ft. above the Schuylkill, stood the
stone house, about 50 ft. above the river. This tract was flanked to
northward by a 9 acre lot which extended across Mill Creek and included a
saw mill formerly owned by John Roberts, while to the Southward it was joined by
a plot of 4 acres which reached to what is now called Hallow Road. All 3
tracts abutted on the Schuylkill. On 12 Sept, 1799, CONRAD KRICKBAUM md.
at Germantown MARY KERR of Radnor
Twsp. , Delaware Co., who was b. about 1771.
In 1804, he was called a farmer when he made a small additional purchase
of land from neighbor William Hagy.
In 1807, he sold * interest in a shad fishery and land on which it was
established a small island or sand bar, at the mouth of Mill Creek. At
this time, he was called "miller" and it is related that he then had a
grist mill at mouth of Mill Creek.
MARY KERR, wife of CONRAD KRICKBAUM d. 5 Apr. 1811. At about this time Conrad
probably removed to Whitemarsh twsp., where he established a tavern on
road to Norristown. He took out tavern license in 1812 and again in 1813 and 1814.
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FAMILY OF HANS PHILLIP KRICKBAUM [continued]
**SECOND/THIRD/FOURTH GENERATION DESCENDANTS**
During the war of 1812, CONRAD KRICKBAUM was Lieutenant Colonel of 52nd
Regiment, First Brigade, 2nd Division of Penn. Militia, which was made
up of men from Montgomery Co. and Bucks Co., PA. And he was later promoted
to rank of Colonel. The regiment was called into service of the U.S. by a
requisition made by the President on 4 July 1814. It was encamped at
Marcus Nook during Oct. of that year. Col. KRICKBAUM was injured while
bearing a message and died it is said, as a result of bleeding which was
administered at that time.
CONRAD KRICKBAUM served as Supervisor's Accounts for the same twsp. in
1807. CONRAD KRICKBAUM died 4 March 1816.
THE FIVE CHILDREN OF CONRAD KRICKBAUM and MARY KERR:
1. PHILIP KRICKBAUM -- b. 27 June 1800; d. 2 Dec. 1821 - Lower Merion
2. HILARY KRICKBAUM -- b. 27 April 1802 [see below]
3. ELIZABETH KRICKBAUM -- b. 11 May 1804; md. 16 Nov. 1823 to WILLIAM ROSE
b. 18 Jan. 1802, son of JOHN and MARY ROSE of Germantown.
4. BARBARA ANN KRICKBAUM -- b. 9 Aug. 1806; d. unmd. 20 Nov. 1842,
buried at Germantown 22 Nov. 1842.
5. JOHN KRICKBAUM -- b. 24 Sept. 1808; d. unmd. - 10 April 1850, buried at Germantown.
He conducted a cabinet manufacturing business in Philadelphia, living
vith his brother in Germantown. He had been out of business about 10
years when he died.
HILLARY KRICKBAUM -- b. 27 April 1802 in Lower Merion in the stone house at
Mill Creek. On 18 Dec. ? he md. at Germantown, ELIZABETH ROSE. She was daughter of
JOHN and MARY ROSE, of Germantown, and was therefore a sister to WILLIAM
ROSE who had md. HILLARY's sister ELIZABETH.
HILLARY KRICKBAUM early entered the employ of the Philadelphia,
Germantown and Norristown Railroad Co.; living in Philadelphia, but
afterwards removing to Germantown. About 1860, having served a number of
years as conductor, he was made ticket agent at Germantown, and held the
position about 3 years. He was active in politics, and was the Whig leader in Germantown. Under
the administration of Pres. Taylor (1849-1853), he held office of
Postmaster at Germantown. In 1863, under the administration of Pres.
Lincoln, he was again appointed to the office of Postmaster which he
filled until 1867. During this term, Germantown was discontinued as an
independent office, and was made a branch of Philadelphia office but Mr.
KRICKBAUM was retained as the local assistant to the Philadelphia
postmaster. During his second term as Postmaster, Mr. KRICKBAUM, who had been living
on School Lane, kept the post office at 4911 Germantown Ave., living
next door, at 4913. At the expiration of his postmastership, he opened a
provision store at No. 4911, and continued in the business there until
1879, when he retired to his home, then removed to Mill Street. He died
there 24 Feb. 1883.
HILLARY KRICKBAUM and ELIZABETH ROSE had five children:
1. MARY JANE KRICKBAUM, b. ____ ; bapt. 13 Jan. 1828
........md. 27 Jan. 1853, GEORGE H. DOUGHTERTY
2. ANN KRICKBAUM, b. ____
........md. (1)____ REIFF, of Montgomery Co.
........md. (2) DADDINGTON; policeman of Germantown.
3. ELIZABETH KRICKBAUM, b. l3 Dec. 1831; d. unwd. 18 Aug 1846
4. GEORGE ROSE KRICKBAUM, b. 8 March 1838
5. JOHN KRICKBAUM, b. 20 Dec. 1834.
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