Egidius Grim

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Husband Egidius Grim ¹

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1 F Elizabeth Grim ^{2 3 4}

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         Spouse: Gaspard Markle (1732-1819) 4 5 6 7

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General Notes: Husband - Egidius Grim

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He was a Huguenot emigrant to America. Quoting from Rev. Dr. Stapleton's "Memorials of the Huguenots": "In Maxatawney township, Berks county, located in 1728 Egidius Grimm, who came to Pennsylvania in the same vessel with the noted pioneer minister of the Lutheran Church, John Casper Stoever. The Grimm family is of patrician origin and lond seated in Normandy. One branch established itself in Alsace, from whence Egidius Grimm emigrated to America as the result of religious persecution. An interesting circumstance attaches to this family from the fact that an ancient pedigree, tracing the family back to a Norman baron who lived in the days of William the Conqueror, was brought by the emigrant to America. The first Grimm family reunion was held at Hancock, Pa., in 1897, at which time the connection numbered over one thousand souls."
Quoting from a letter of Rev. Dr. Stapleton to G. Ament Blose: "Upon re-examination I find that John Egidius Grimm, Theobald Merkling, Jacob Merkling, and Rev. John Casper Stoever, came in ship 'Goodwill,' Sept. 1728. Theobald Merkling (Markley) located in Falckner Swamp, now New Hanover, Montgomery Co., about twenty miles from where Grimm and Christman Merkling settled. Now this 'Jacob' I take to be the same as the one we call John Christman Merkling for the reason that the latter's name nowhere appears among the emigrants, and we know that he came prior to 1735. His will is on file at Reading: Rev. Stoever married one of the daughters."

1 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 181.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 654.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 561.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 266.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 654, 703.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 304.

7 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1123.