Maria Margarita Nees

Maria Margareta “Margaret” Zirkle Nehs BIRTH 6 Mar 1736 Telford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 13 Apr 1796 (aged 60) Forestville, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA BURIAL Solomons Lutheran Church Cemetery Forestville, Shenandoah County, Virginia

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Children Photo Johannes Nehs 1757–1830

Dorothea Nehs Roush 1758–1831

Abraham Nehs 1764–1809

Adam Nehs 1766–1797

Photo Elizabeth Margretta Nehs Dittemore 1770–1837

Eave Nehs Harpine 1771–1841

Phillip Nehs 1773 – unknown

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Margaret "Maria" married the farmer Michael Nehs Jr. on 6 Mar 1753 in the Lutheran Church in Telford, Montgomery Co., PA.

They had 5 children they named: Johannes, Dorothea, Adam B, Elizabeth and her twin sister Eva Nehs.

Michael was born on 12 Jul 1730 in Germany and arrived with his parents, Michael Nehs Sr. and Anna Dorothea Pfeiffer, on the ship Brittanica from Rotterdam on 11 Sep 1731 in Philadelphia, PA.

About 1753 Michael and Margaret relocated from PA to a 360 acres tract of land on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. Then in 1801, after Maria had passed, he relocated again with two of their children from Virginia to Tennessee.

Her husband died on 23 Jul 1815 in Greenville, Greene Co., TN and is reported to be buried in that county.

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"The particulars concerning the deceased Margreta Nehs are as follows: She was born into this world the 6th of March 1736, and in adult years she entered into marriage with Michael Nehs. They lived with one another and 9 children resulted. Four died during her lifetime, so that she had 5 surviving her, 2 sons and 3 daughters. In the year 1795 it pleased the Lord in His timing to visit a stroke upon her, after which she lived a year in complete helplessness, until on Sunday, the 10th of April 1796, it again pleased the Lord to let her suffer a second stroke, and on the following Wednesday, the 13th, she passed away. The following Friday, the 15th, she was buried in a decent manner." Entered by Pastor Paul Henkel

Obituary from the Solomon Church records