At 12:30 AM 6/29/99, [email protected] wrote: > >I'm looking for information on the wives of two men who were born and died in >Bethania, Stokes Co. > >Peter Hauser, b. December 31, 1764, d. June 27, 1793, married Catharina >Boeckle on April 10, 1791. I would like to know her birthdate and parentage >if possible. Her dates are 12 May 1768 - 28 Apr 1832, and she is buried at Bethania Moravian God's Acre. Her death is mentioned in the Records of the Moravians in North Carolina Records 8:4052, where she is identified as "Sr. Catharina Hauser (Peter's wife)". Additional genealogical clues in this entry are the following: "In the afternoon at 2 o'clock was the burial of the late Sr. Hauser (maiden name Boeckel). She was born May 12, 1768, at Reedy Creek, Rowan County [footnote, now Davidson Co.]. With her parents she moved to Friedberg and joined that congregation in 1786. She was married April 10, 1791 to the widower Br. Petrus Hauser and moved to Bethania." I suspect she is the daughter of Johann Nicholaus Boeckel (1741-1822) and Maria Barbara Moll (1744-1825), but there is a possible problem with this in another entry in the Moravian Records, 5:2243. Dec. 17, 1788. "Br. Volk, Sr., has reported that his son Andreas intends to marry Catharina Boeckel, daughter of Johann Nicholas Boeckel of Friedberg, to which there is no objection." Did this latter marriage ever take place? >Daniel Hauser, b. May 17, 1775, d. February 18, 1814, He married Elisabeth >Boeckle, for whom I have no further information. I am reasonably certain that this one is the daughter of Johann Nicholaus Boeckel and Maria Barbara Moll. Her dates are 27 Dec 1773 - 13 Aug 1854, also buried at Bethania. Her second husband was Johannes Schor, whom she married in 1818. Elizabeth Harris state coordinator, NCGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/