Elizabeth Oldweiler

GEDCOM Note

Category: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Category: Utica, IndianaCategory: New Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Watson, Indiana

Biography

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146226728≤br/>Elizabeth Oldweiler Schwartz burial (died on 9 Apr 1846) in 1846 in Watson, Clark, Indiana, United States of America.
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Elizabeth Olweiler (Oldweiler) was born on January 20, 1775, in Elizabeth, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Jacob and Anna Leidich Olweiler. She married John Schwartz on June 17, 1792. Through this union theyproduced 11 children.
The family would leave their Pennsylvania roots in 1801, travelling west to Indiana, and settling in the Utica Township of Clark County. It was in Indiana that the German "Schwartz" name would also become somewhat anglicized, shortening to "Swartz", the name that would appear in future generations.
The connection with the Methodist Church was strong in the family. Besides being among the founders of the first Methodist church in Indiana(what would become the New Chapel United Methodist Church), two of the Schwartz children, George and Jacob, would also become ordained ministers.
Elizabeth died on April 9, 1846, in Utica, Clark County, Indiana, at the age of 71, and was buried in The New Chapel United Methodist Churchcemetery.

Children:
:Robert
:Elizabeth (Swartz) Jacobs, 1793 - 1859
:Anna (Swartz) Bottorff, 1795 - 1878
:John Swartz, 1797 - 1865
:Rev Jacob Swartz, 1800 - 1878
:Rev George Swartz, 1802 - 1890
:Sara Eliza (Swartz) Fry, 1805 - 1878
:Nancy (Swartz) Spangler, 1808 - 1845
:Mary Ann (Swartz) Smith, 1810 - 1887
:Leonard Swartz, 1813 - 1879
:Sophia (Swartz) Jacobs, 1820 - 1885

Research Note ===* See John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler of Pennsylvania and Clark County, Indiana and their descendants – The McLeland-Wieser Familyhttps://www.mcwieser.info/mcleland-wieserfamily/?page_id=231. Accessed 24 Jul 2023.* See Three Swartz/Schwartz men of Floyd and Clark County, Indiana by Eberhart, Elsie Swartz, 1986, page 280 for more information on theSchwartz/Oldweiler family. https://archive.org/details/threeswartzschwa00eber/page/280/mode/2u...

Sources

≤references />* Mentioned in 1824: Administration file on the estate of John Schwartz deceased, IN Clark CO Will books, Clark, Indiana, Wills book, A: 306, John Schwartz deceased; FHL microfilm 549,316, item 1.* Mentioned in 1825: Request for partition filed on the estate of JohnSwartz Deceased IN Clark CO Partitions, Clark, Indiana, Civil Court Partition Book, 1: 300-302, Swartz John deceased; FHL microfilm 2,312,951.* Mentioned in 1826: Final partition filed on the estate of John Schwartz deceased IN Clark CO Partitions, Clark, Indiana, Civil Court Partition Book, 1: 180 - 181, John Schwartz deceased; FHL microfilm 2,312,951; "among the heirs of said deceased to wit; John Swartz, Solomon Jacobs & Elizabeth his wife formerly Elizabeth Swartz, Samuel Bottorff and Ann his wife formerly Ann Swartz, George Swartz, John Fry and Sarah his wife formerly Sarah Swartz, Nancy, Mary, Leonard and Sophia Swartzinfants under the age of twenty one by Elizabeth Swartz their naturalguardian." Notice that Jacob Swartz and Elizabeth Swartz aren't mentioned as heirs - apparently since they are the administrators.* Mentioned in 1846: adminitstration filed on the estate of Elizabeth Schwartz deceased IN Clark CO Probate Records, Clark, Indiana, Probateorder book, D: 377, Schwartz Elizabeth deceased; FHL microfilm 14,159,667.* Mentioned in 1909: Biography of great grandson Samuel J. Swartz IN Clark CO Bairds history, Captain Lewis C. Baird, Baird's History of Clark County Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana: B.F. Bowen & Company, 1909),669-670; Biography of James Edgar Brown..... Bessie Ann Brown, the youngest was married August 6, 1903 to S.J. Swartz who was for many years in the undertaking business at Jeffersonville. The latter first married a Miss Conway, who died November 24, 1901, leaving two children Bessie Alberta and Ralph C. The founds of this family were John and Elizabeth (Oldweiler sic) Swartz, who were born in Germany before the American Revolution and after coming to this country first settled in Pennsylvania, when they removed to Indiana about the beginning of the nineteeth century. They located in Clark county of a farm situatied in Utica township and became leaders in founding the New Chapel Methodist Epsicopal church, which is now the oldest existing congregation in Indiana Methodism. Jacob Swartz, son of this pioneer couple, was the father of Thomas J. and A.A. Swartz, that later a well known banker of Jeffersonville. Thomas J. married Eleanot Lentz and their son became the husband of Bessie Brown, as recorded above. S. J. Swartz, like his ancestors before him for several generations is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and also holds membership in the Independent Order ofOdd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen."

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