Anna Barbara Kruder

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The Countess still wrote begging, pleading, heart-broken letters. A few years after, probably when Valentine died and life seemed utterly wretched and forlorn, she, too, gave up the struggle and asked him to bring his family. Again the newest baby was named Barbara because of this turn of affairs.

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later a church was built in Sancon Township, in then Northampton County, on the main road to Philadelphia. In 1760, twenty-two years after their arrival, a new church, the first Zion Southern Church at Kreidersville was put up)—perhaps a log building, and here they ever after worshipped. It is a side light on the dependability of their son Valentine, that although living miles away, and a young man of but 29, he was placed on the building committee that in 1 771 erected the more substantial stone church. The Waltmans did not lack for thrills. In 1755 there was an Indian uprising uncomfortably near them. Within a few years there were several massacres.

A very bad outbreak came in 1756, when 114 whites were killed and 52 carried away captive. The Christian Indians joined their savage brethren, and were said to have been perfect devils. Terror was on every side. Three hundred refugees fled to Nazareth. Many went to Bethlehem and some to Lancaster County or to Philadelphia, or to such fort or blockhouse as could most readily be reached.

The Waltmans fled somewhere, "flying for their lives." The cows were turned loose in the woods for their udders to spoil; the cream was left to moulder in the chum; the bread to burn black in the big brick oven; the hogs and chickens turned loose to fend for themselves. Conrad delighted in good horses. The best and swiftest of these were harnessed to a couple of wagons, while fourteen -year -old Frederick and twelve-year-old William rode "lead" horses of the others roped together. The wagons were piled full of household plunder, katherine"1 and Margaret", the twin sisters, were both married and gone. But there were the two women, the mother, Katherine, and seventeen-year-old Eleanor, nearly grown Valentine, little Michael, 4-vear-old Anna Barbara, 2-year-old Ludwig and the "bit-y baby" Nicholas; there were bundles of clothes, bedding, victuals and hastily gathered-up valuables, that together filled the wagons to overflowing. And off they galloped to safety, fearing each moment to be surprised, tortured, scalped and killed.

Where were Conrad and John Peter: We have to read between the lines to answer. In 1755, with all this threatening, Benjamin I-ranklin led a movement to organize the pioneer men into companies of Militia or Minute Men. Conrad was no coward. It is as certain as a thing uncertain can be that both he and his past-sixteen-year-old son were both in the Militia and had to go to their companies. It was left to the next boy, Valentine, a boy of fifteen in 1756, to look after the rest and be the man of the family.

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CHAPTER XXI LIN E OF ANNA BARBARA WALTMAN- WH O MARRIED JACOB KUDER "The memory of the just is blessed."—Proverbs, x, 7 WE DO not have the birth date of Anna Barbara Waltman.2

She seems to belong between Hiram Michael2

and Ludwig.2  If so she was born about 1752. We know little about her, but that little is very much to her credit. She was a church worker. She was a prime favorite with the brothers that stayed near the old home. She three times stood as sponsor for the children of her two brothers, John Peter and Lieut. Valentine. He r name occurs on the church register as communicant. After her father's complete mental breakdown she, with her sister Maria, helped her mother take care of her afflicted father. She helped her mother and sister take the old Bible from her father's maniacal grasp, when he was determined to tear it to pieces, and she helped cook those marvelous meals that were served to Baron DeKalb and Baron von Steuben in her father's home, in March, 1 778. See Chapter XI.

That is all, but what an all! A forgiving, loving, dutiful daughter, a good sister, a real Christian, and one who accepted unpleasant duties and with cheerfulness helped her overburdened mother, and gave up a marriage and home of her own for years, until her brother was free to take her place in caring for the father. After Andrew came home from the war, Barbara married. We do not know just when, but she was certainly past thirty. Was Jacob Kuder that she married, a faithful lover that had waited all of these years for her: He was old enough to have been. Or, after Andrew's return, did she pay a visit to that older sister of her's, Katherine Hampshire: If so, Katherine lived up to her reputation as a Past Mistress of Match-making, and speedily married her off.

This Jacob Ruder, (Coder, Kooder), was himself the son of another Jacob Kuder, an emigrant, who came to Philadelphia in 1751. Jacob Kuder, Senior, in an Indian uprising, served in the Militia, enlisting May 10, 1756. The Kuders appear to have lived in Lancaster County. Anna Barbara may have met them on her visits to Mrs. Hampshire, or Jacob may have gone to Northampton County. In the Pennsylvania Archives, Series V, Volume Y, page , there is mentioned a "Captain Kuder," no Christian name given. But Jacob Kuder who married Barbara is certainly the one who served under Captain Cleders, in the Third Battalion of Northampton County Troops. See Pennsylvania Archives.

The only list of their children that has come down to us is a semi-public record of Jacob "Kooder" of Berks County. Their children were given as Conrad/ Elias/ Jacob/ Nicholas3 and Peter.8 Jacob for the father, Conrad for the grandfather, Nicholas for the uncle that died in the Revolutionary War, and Peter for Anna Barbara's brother. There appears to have been an Adam Kuder, not on this record, but a brother nevertheless. In 1834 Jacob Kuder Junior3 and Adam Kuder/ supposed to be hi brother, came from Lancaster County, Pa., to Ohio, to Medina County, an settled near Sharon, where other Waltman kin were living. An old letter says they were "fair dealing men, somewhat aristocratic, but good neighbors, nevertheless."

An old note, probably authentic, as it came down the Valentine Waltman3

the Younger line,—and he at one time had the records of all of Conrad's children,—says that Jacob Kuder Senior came in the ship Nancy to Philadelphia in 1751, and was naturalized in 1757. This note says it was his son, a second Jacob, that was in the war and that married Barbara Waltman. So the Jacob Junior, Junior, that came to Ohio in 1 834 was of the third generation of Kuders in America. This old note expressly says that "Jacob and Adam Kuder who came to Ohio in 1 834 were own cousins to Valentine Waltman the Younger."

The Kuders were fine people. Two of Barbara's grandchildren inherited Conrad Waltman's melancholia in middle age. Then the dreaded scourge spent itself and appeared no more.

The scanty records at hand are none too clear, but apparantly they run like this: JACOB KUDER/ son of Jacob and Anna Barbara ( Waltman ) Kuder, and grandson of Jacob Kuder and Conrad Waltman, emigrants. He had these children :

HIRAM KUDER/ who was given the old Count Frundsberg name. ABIGAIL KUDER/ who married a Wall.Charles Wall.5 JOHN KUDER. 4 Other children, names not known.