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Latest Update: 09 January 2009
The Rohrers both died in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and were buried in the historic German Burying Ground / Cemetery on South Main Street. Here is a 1915 reading of their gravestones:
Frederick
Rohrer, Esq. / d. Sept. 21, 1825
/ aged 82 yrs.
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Catherine E. Rohrer / Wife of Frederick Rohrer / d. Mch. 12, 1829 / in 83 yr. of her age
CHILDREN OF FREDERICK ROHRER AND CATHARINE
ELIZABETH DEEMER
[John*] Frederick Rohrer, Jr. (1766/67-1794)
Barbara Rohrer Wise (1768-1833)
[Frederick*] George Rohrer (abt 1775-1819)
Elizabeth Rohrer Cope Fleeger (1777-1872)
Hannah Rohrer Kintner (bet 1775 & 1780 - aft 1860)
[Magdalena Rohrer Weber--perhaps!]
[There may be more children . . .]
* The bracketed names are baptismal names, after the custom
of the Pennsylvania Germans and other continental Christians. The "middle" name is the "call name"--the name the person
was called and by which s/he was known.
When did Frederick Rohrer, Junior, come
to Greensburg from his parents' home in Maryland? The 1790 tax document, copied below, shows that he was established
in the borough in that year and owned taxable property. His daughter, Betsy Rohrer Robinson, was born in August 1792, so he and Catharina Truby may or may not have been married yet in 1790.
His parents followed him to Greensburg by about 1793 and made the town their home until their deaths several decades
later--see above for their gravestone inscriptions.
In 1790, Rohrer paid 11 shillings in taxes--more
than anyone else on this page. He was about 23 years old.
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Something About Barbara Rohrer Wise
Something About George Rohrer
Something About Elizabeth Rohrer Cope Fleeger
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Something About Hannah Rohrer Kintner
(Sometimes, Guntner)
Hannah Rohrer Kintner was the daughter of Frederick
Rohrer (1742-1823) and his wife Catharine Elizabeth Deemer Rohrer (1745/46-1829). She was
born in Maryland between 1775--1780 and died in Indiana after the 1860 Census was taken. She was the wife of Peter
Kintner, who died between 1820 and 1830 in Harrison County, Indiana. Kintner’s name is spelled “Guntner”
in the baptismal records of the Lutheran Church in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where three of their children
(see below) are noted with godparents Frederick and Catharina Rohrer, and a fourth with her sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth
and John Fleeger as godparents.
A Peter Kintner appears in the 1810 census records of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania; and in the 1820 (Corydon, Harrison Co.) and 1830 (Harrison Co.) census records of Indiana. The 1823 will (Greensburg,
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania) of Frederick Rohrer, his father-in-law, identifies this Peter Kintner: “I devise
to my son in law John Fleeger, Esqr., of the Borough of Greensburg and Peter Kintner of Corydon, State of Indiana,
and their heirs forever as tenants in common all my lands and real estate in the State of Kentucky and Tennessee, particularly
the lands I purchased from the late Colonel John Montgomery, situate in one or both of said states.” Hannah Rohrer
Kintner appears in the following census records in Harrison County: 1840 (Harrison Twp., Harrison Co.); 1850 (Corydon; aged
75; born in Maryland); and 1860 (living with her son, Peter M. Kintner in Corydon; aged 80; born in Maryland). The census
records for Harrison County, Indiana, show many listings for the Kintner family.
Children of this couple noted in Greensburg baptismal records are: Salome Kintner
(born 1806); Jacob Harner Kintner (born 1808); William Kintner (born 1809); and Catharina
Elizabeth Kintner (born 1811).
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| The Kintner House, Corydon, Indiana (1873) -- click on photo! |
“Come
to the historic Kintner House Inn to experience the taste of fine food and great hospitality in Harrison
County. Peter Kintner and his family moved to Corydon in 1819. The present Kintner House Inn was built in 1873 and
operated by the Jacob Kintner family
at Capitol & Chestnut Streets in Corydon, Indiana. Historic Corydon was Indiana’s
first state capital, and the entire downtown area is a National Historic District. Today
the Kintner House Inn offers guests a step back in time, beautiful historic rooms and a great stay in Corydon. The Kintner
House Inn is listed on the National Register of Historical Places.”
Something About Magdalena Rohrer Weber
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THE ROHRER BAPTISMAL FRAKTURS
Click here for a translation of the Frederick Augustus Rohrer fraktur.
Click here for the story of these remarkable documents
--the baptismal frakturs of the children of
Frederick Rohrer, Jr., and his wife
Catharina Turby Rohrer Marshall.
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LINKS YOU'LL LIKE
Cedar Farm--The Kintner-Withers House
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| Clock made by Greensburg silversmith Henry Wise, brother-in-law of Frederick Rohrer, Jr. |
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