Jacob Garlinger

 

  General Notes:

!MISC:Listed on page 13 of St. Clair's Bedford as father of John Garlinger of
Bedford County.

!MISC: Jacob and Jane lived in Franklin County, Pennsylvania in 1791 when John
was born.
By 1793 they lived near Hagerstown, Maryland where William Sr. and many
of their other children were born.
They attended St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown where the
services were conducted in German. A Bill of Sale dated Feb 14. 1799 shows
Jacob's name once as Garlinger And twice as Gerlinger.
Jacob Gerlinger was listed in July 1, 1808 of Maryland Herald as having a
letter in the post office that needed to be picked up and again on Jan 2, 1811,
Jacob Garlinger was listed in a similar list.
By 1819 Jacob and Elizabeth Garlinger (not Jane) were attending the German
Reformed Evangelical Zion's Chruch of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. Jane had
apparantly passed away by 1819 and Jacob had re-married to Elizabeth. Jacob and
Elizabeth appear in the 1850 Franklin Co. Census. It is not clear when Jane
died but it would likely have been between 1805 and 1818. It is not clear if
Elizabeth or Jane is the mother of some of Jacob's children. Elizabeth may
be the mother starting around 1811 with Daniel. The Cemetary Records of
FRANKLIN Co. PA and Washington Co. MD have been searched for their resting
place with no results.

  Events

• Notes. Jacob followed the path of many other German immigrants as they came settled along the rolling valleys of Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. The geography of this area is very reminiscent of the Pfalz region of Germany. In fact, "Pfaltz" means "folds" and referred to rolling hills. He married Jane ? around 1790. (Jane ? is #468.) Jane was born about 1773. Jacob and Jane Garlinger are listed on page 13 of St. Clair's Bedford as the parents of John Garlinger of Bedford County. Jacob and Jane had a son John Garlinger that was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania on Feb. 24, 1791. By 1793, they lived near Hagerstown, Maryland in Washington County. An entry in German in the records of the St. John's Lutheran Church records in Hagerstown for 1818 show that a baptized son, Jacob born 1795, is the son of Jacob and Jane Garlinger. Jacob Garlinger appears in the 1800 Washington County Maryland Census as age 26-45, Jane is 26-45 and they have three boys and two girls under age 10. There is no record of Jane's death but it appears she may have died by 1819.
Jacob's father, "George" Johannes Georgius Gerlinger was listed as "unmarried" in the Alsace region of Europe in 1762. George Gerlinger migrated to America sometime after 1762 and he married Maria Christina Kist in Philadelphia in 1770. George had Jacob before marrying Maria.

Washington County Maryland is where William Garlinger.(William is #18) and many of Jacob and Jane's other children were born. .Although William is known to have given both Maryland and Pennsylvania as his place of birth. In those days the location of the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland was not clearly defined and had been the subject of occasional border skirmishes years earlier.

Jacob and Jane attended St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown (then called Elisabeth Town) where the services were conducted in German. The pastor was Reverend Mr. J. George Schmucker, D.D. who had received his formal training in Halle, Germany and became pastor of the church at age 23 in 1793. The church congregation grew from 108 to 211 by 1805.

There are very few remaining Church records for the period 1794 to 1806. A new church building was built and dedicated in 1806. It is easy to imagine that the farmer and carpenter Jacob Garlinger would have lent a hand in the construction of the new house of worship. The congregation held strong views about maintaining the services in German. The church was thrown into "vehement agitation" when English was first introduced in 1833. Separate services in the two languages continued until 1873.

There is no record of Jacob Garlinger in the Hagerstown, MD area after 1818. Jacob's oldest son John Garlinger died Apr 2, 1853 in Schellsburg, Bedford County PA and John's death notice indicates his father was already deceased.

A Bill of Sale dated Feb 14. 1799 shows Jacob's name once as Garlinger and twice as Gerlinger. Jacob Gerlinger was listed in the July 1, 1808 of the Maryland Herald as having a letter in the post office that needed to be picked up and then again on Jan 2, 1811, Jacob Garlinger was listed in a similar list.

Jacob Garlinger in the 1850 PA Franklin County Census age 84, born in Pennsylvania in 1766. This fits for this Jacob to be the son of George Garlinger before George married Maria Christina Kist in 1770 in the Northern Liberties. This is Jacob Garlinger from the 1800 and 1810 MD Washington County Census now married to his second wife and moving 26 miles north. There are interchangeable uses of the names of Jacob Garlinger, Jacob Gerlinger and Jacob Garling attending the German Reformed Church of Greencastle, PA after 1819 and he is buried in the German Reformed Cemetery. The church cemetery has headstones for Jacob and Elizabeth Garling. (not Garlinger.)This Jacob died in 1851 and is consistent with the death of William's brother John's Bedford County death certificate in 1853 that indicated John and William's father was deceased.

Note, research shows from another Find a Grave memorial 193249976 that he was originally married to Mary Jane and after her death, he married Elizabeth. Several persons from this family line shortened the last name from Garlinger to Garling.
Jacob was the son of German immigrant Johannes Georgius "George" Garlinger and Maria Christina Kist. He married twice. He married wife Jane or Mary Jane(1773- c.1808) 'unknown maiden name' in 1790. Jacob was a carpenter and farmer. Jacob and Jane attended St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hagerstown (then called Elisabeth Town) where the services were conducted in German. Jacob and Jane had 9 children. They were; John ( 2/24/1791 - 4/2/1853), William, (1793-1866), Jacob, (9/8/1796-10/29/1824), Elizabeth, (b.1798),  Adam (1805-1880) Mary, (10/6/1810-1874). Daniel (8/14/1811-2/6/1869), James (b.1815), Samuel (4/4/1816-9/5/1884)

After Jane's death, Jacob married Elizabeth Jane Frey (1778-1851). I am only aware of one child born to them, Peter, (8/27/1821-3/9/1876). Jacob and Elizabeth attended the German Reformed Evangelical Zion's Church of Greencastle, Pennsylvania in Franklin County, PA in 1819.

Many of the descendants of Jacob and Jane Garlinger remained in Franklin County and Bedford, Pennsylvania and Washington County, Maryland for several generations. They had at least three grandsons who were Union soldiers and fought in Civil War battles that took place in Franklin Co, Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland. There is a street in Hagerstown, Maryland named after the Garlingers - Garlinger Avenue.

Jacob married Jane ? before 1790. (Jane ? was born about 1773 and died before 1819.)

Jacob next married Elizabeth Jane Frey. (Elizabeth Jane Frey was born on 25 May 1778 in , Pennsylvania, died on 4 May 1859 in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA and was buried in German Reformed Cemetery, Greencastle, Franklin, Pennsylvania.)