Christian Hiestand

Christian's name does not appear on the census lists for the years 1738 nor 1743 so it is not known where Christian lived then. He may have lived at Mannheim, Germany where a Mennonite "Histand" buried a child in 1744. He returned to Ibersheim and bought a farm there on 7 Apr 1753 from Ulrich Hackmann's heirs. On the tenant list for 1753 it states that he had 6 persons in his household. In 1759 his widow and her husband Heinrich Seitz had six children in their household. Heinrich Seitz had only one child with Elisabeth, so it appears Elisabeth was pregnant in 1753 when her husband Christian Hiestand died. She apparently had five children by Christian besides that child that may have died at Mannheim. In 1768 it stated that she had four heirs living from her first marriage and one heir living by her second marriage.

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