Kraft Heiner and Anna Maria Gresheim

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Husband Kraft Heiner ¹

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            AKA: Craft Heiner 2
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       Marriage:  - Lampertheim, Germany

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Wife Anna Maria Gresheim ¹

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Children

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1 M Casper Heiner ^{2 3}

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         Spouse: Ann Garton Brodhead (      -      ) 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - Kraft Heiner

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The Heiner family is of ancient German origin and was origi­nally spelled Hühner. Heinersdorf, an old German city of ten thousand inhabitants, was once destroyed by the Huns. Kraft Heiner, the first of this line to come to America, was from the city of Weinheim, then not far from the French and German border. He was a man of education, a physician by profession. At the nearby town of Lampertheim, on the Rhine, he married and they came to this country about the middle of the eighteenth century. At any rate, they were residents of Reading, PA, in 1755. They were Huguenots, in America uniting with the Ger­man Reformed Church, and Dr. Heiner was one of a committee of two appointed to purchase ground for a church there for his peo­ple. The title was made out in his name, and the deed, given him by the Penn heirs, is recorded at Reading.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 987.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 407.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 986.