Ludwig Schwartz and [Unk] Lesher

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Husband Ludwig Schwartz ¹

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            AKA: David Louis Schwartz 1
           Born:  - Berks Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - York Co, PA
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Ludwig Schwartz.

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Wife [Unk] Lesher ¹

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            AKA: [Unk] Leisher 1
           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died:  - York Co, PA
         Buried: 

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Maria Catharina Löscher.

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Children

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1 M John Schwartz ¹

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           Born:  - Berks Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died:  - Conowago Twp, Adams Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Barbara Copenhafer (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Ludwig Schwartz

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His father, a farmer, (and two brothers, all single at the time), emigrated from Switzerland when quite young, leaving the old country on account of a revolution there, and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania.

He was one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war, serving as a substitute for his father. He enlisted at the age of eighteen years, and remained in the service until the close of the war. He participated in many engagements, and at one time was taken prisoner and treated cruelly by the Hessians. Afterward the Hessians were defeated, and Ludwig met one of the officers on his father's farm, working as a day laborer (a prisoner of war), recognized in him one who had often abused him, and told his father unless he was sent from the place he would shoot him on the spot. The Hessian, it is needless to say, was sent away.

He was a farmer by occupation.

He and his wife had ten children, who all reached a ripe old age.

A native of Berks County, Pennsylvania, he removed to York County in 1805, and settled two miles south of Hanover, but eventually moved back to near Berlin, on the old homestead, where he died aged eighty-two years.

1 Editor, History of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 394.