Maria Catharina Hiester1

F, #590, b. 16 September 1750, d. 24 June 1824
  • Birth*: 16 September 17502
  • Marriage*: Spouse=John Ruth2,3
  • Death*: 24 June 18242
Last Edited: 17 Dec 2021

Parents:

Father: John Hiester1 b. 8 Jan 1708, d. 1757
Mother: Maria Barbara Epler1 b. 16 Aug 1732, d. 5 Oct 1809

Family:

John Ruth b. 20 Sep 1745, d. 1812

Notes

  • Note*: Probate file of Catharina Ruth:

    File contains a one and a half page will written in German, signed by mark, with no translation. On 22 July 1824 witness Matthias Richards affirmed the will; the other witness John Spayd was dead.

    On the same day letters testamentary were granted "to Joseph Hiester a brother and Daniel Ruth a half Brother the executors named".

    The inventory, filed 30 Aug 1824, totaled $53,566.66, consisting of a three page list of bonds and mortgages to individuals.4

Citations

  1. [S156] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994. Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. URL: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196 Berks Co., "Estates 1752-1799 Held, Ludwig-Huyett, Ludwig", Folder: "Hiester, John BN 1757", images 395-420. Will of John Hiester.
  2. [S76] Hill, Valeria Elizabeth Clymer, A Genealogy of the Hiester family (Publ. 1903 Lebanon. Viewed from FamilySearch.org catalog, ), p. 21.
  3. [S2] Akerboom, Jack and Anna Ruth Salzman, compilers, The Descendants of Peter and Sophia (Lauer) Ruth (Elverson, Pa.: Mennonite Family History, 1994), p. 4, 527.   Akerboom--Descendents-Of-Peter-and-Sophia-Lauer-Ruth.pdf
  4. [S156] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994. Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. County courthouses, Pennsylvania. URL: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1999196, Berks Co., "Estates 1800-1850 Rothermel, Sophia-Seibert, George", Folder: "Ruth, Catharine, -- 1824", images 596-605.