Lutherans in Stokes County
By Jeannette Holland Austin
In the year of 1786 Rev. Christian Eberhardt Bernhardt, a native of
Stuttgard, in the kingdom of Würtemberg was sent on his mission to
America. Bernhart was ordained in his native country, and landed at
Savannah, and then proceeded to Ebenezer, Georgia, where he remained for
twelve months. In 1787 he went to Rowan County, North Carolina and
labored among the churches to the East of the Yadkin River (Davidson
County). In 1788 he took charge of the congregations in Stokes and
Forsyth Counties, which had been organized and frequently visited by
Rev. Nussmann. It was in Stokes County that Rev. Bernhardt was married,
but the records do not mention the name of his wife. One year later he
removed to Guilford County, where he remained to the close of the year
1800, when he accepted the call to become the pastor of Zion's and
several other Lutheran Churches in Lexington District, South Carolina.
Source: Account furnished by his daughter-in-law, the widow of the late
Rev. David Bernhardt; History of the Lutheran Church in North Carolina
Bernheim, G. D., 1872, Volume 08, Pages 758-796
Stokes County Wills and Estates
Stokes County was formed in 1789 from Surry County and was named for
Capain John Stokes, who was wounded during the American Revolutionary
War when the cavalry of British Colonel Banastre Tarleton almost
destroyed the Virginia Regiment led by Colonel Abraham Buford in the
Waxhaws region in 1780. After the war, Captain Stokes was appointed a
judge of the United States district court for North Carolina. In 1849
the southern half of Stokes County became Forsyth County. The county
seat is Danbury.
Stokes County Probate Records available to members of North Carolina Pioneers
Images of Wills, Inventories, Estates 1792 to 1800, Vol. 1
- Adaman, Thomas | Armstrong, John | Armstrong, Martin | Atwood, William | Aust, Mary
- Bagge, Frangat | Bagge, Traugett | Banner, Henry | Billing, Joseph |
Binkley, Christian | Binkley, Joseph | Binkley, Peter | Blackburn, John
| Bowman, Edmond | Boyer, Aaron | Boyer, Henry | Briggs, Thomas |
Bright, John | Brown, John
- Cannon, Benjamin | Cannon, Hinningham | Carrell, Thomas M. |
Carson, Michael | Carson, William | Chandler, William | Christmon,
Balthasa | Clayton, Britain | Colon, Johanna Elizabeth | Crook, Isam |
Crook, James
- Davis, Mary | Davis, William | Deange, Michael | Deatherage, George |
Doles, Henry | Ebert, Eva Barbara | Ebert, Martin Jr. | Elmore, Abijah |
Esterline, Ann Maria | Esterline, Matthew | Evans, Edward | Evans,
Thomas
- Farmer, John | Farr, John |Fogler, Michael | Folk, Andrew | Fry,
Valentine | Gammell, John | Gammett, James | Geoffert, George | Glen,
James | Glenn, John | Griner, Robert | Guinn, Almand
- Ham, Joseph | Ham, Joseph (2) | Hamm, Daniel | Hampton, Henry |
Hauser, George | Hepler or Hessler, Abraham | Hill, Isaac | Hilsabeck,
Frederick | Hine, John Jacob | Hinshaw, George | Hinshaw, John | Hoy,
John Van | Hudspeth, Giles | Hummel, Christian | Hurst, James
- Jackson, James Sr. | James, David | Johnson, David | Jones, William | Joyner, William | Kimbrough, Thomas | Kirby, Henry
- Ladd, William | Lawton, Joseph | Lewis, William | Lindsey, John |
Linebach, Abraham | Linebach, Lewis | Love, James, Sr. | Love, James Sr.
(estate) | Lytz, Phillip
- Markhorns, John | Markland, Matthew | Martin, Moses |
Martin, Robert | Mayer, Jacob | McAnnally, Jesse | McMurry, Robert |
Melton, John | Miller, Jacob | Millwood, James | Mosby, Samuel | Nash,
John | Neely, John
- Padgel, Benjamin | Parker, Jeptha | Pattison, Andrew | Peddycourt,
Sarah | Pennegar, Peter | Petree, John | Petree, Sarah | Pitts, William |
Reddick, Hardy | Rigg, Thomas
- Sale, Rachel | Sanders, Nahum | Sides, Michael | Simpson, Abraham |
Smith, Christian | Smith, Robert | Southern, William | Spragen or
Sprague, Joseph | Sprague, Joseph (estate) | Stewart, Alexander | Swann,
Benjamin
- Tate, Rachel | Thomason, John Sr. | Todd, Joseph | Transon, Philip |
Vest, William Sr. | Warnock, Samuel | Weaver, Christian | Webb, William
| Wilson, John | Woods, John | Wright, Elizabeth | Yarrell, Peter
Images of Stokes County Will Bk 2, 1801 to 1816
- Alford, William | Angel, Jobe | Aust, George
- Ballard, Thomas | Banks, John | Banner, Benjamin |
Barnard, Tristram | Beasly, Richard |
Beasley, William | Beazley, Robert |
Benzein, Christian Lewis | Bettiter, Zebada |
Binnegar, William | Blume, Jacob |
Bohannon, James | Bolecheek, Joseph | Bolling, Anthony | Bond, Samuel |
Bostick, Absalom | Brooks, David | Brown, Elizabeth | Burchin, Henry |
Burge, Alexander | Butner, Christopher | Bynam, Gray | Clayton, John |
Cofer, James | Conrad, John | Cook, John | Cox, Richard | Cressman,
George | Curry, Malcom
- Dalton, Samuel | Davis, Henry | Davis, John | Davis, Sarah |
Davis, William | Dawson, John | Deathorage, George | Dodson, Reuben |
Doll, Nicholas | Dollar, John
- East, Thomas Sr. | Ebert, Martin | Ernst, Anna Catharine |
Fedler, Godfrey | Ferguson, Jack | Flynt, Haslin |
Fole, Peter | Foster, Andrew | Fountain, Stephen |
Frazer, Stephen | French, William | Fry, Michael Sr. |
Fry, Valentine | Fuller, Godfrey
- Gaines, Thomas | Gideon, Margaret | Goslin, Elizabeth | Gruggs, Thomas
- Haisley, John | Hamilton, Robert Sharp | Hampton, James |
Hampton, Samuel | Hanns, Jacob | Hauns, Martin | Hauser, Frederick |
Heath, Thomas | Hauser, George Peter | Haynes, Robert | Hawkins,
William | Hazlet, Robert | Heal, John |
Hester, John | Hester, Mary | Hill, Matthew Sr. |
Hine, John | Hine, Philip | Hoffman, George | Holland, John |
Howell, William | Hunter, John Sr. | Hunter, Thomas
- Jean, William Sr. | Johnson, Robert | Jones, Gabriel | Kainzel,
Frederick | Kellum, John | Kapp, Jacob | Kerr, John |
Kinsel, Salome | Kraup, Gottleb | Ladd, Constantine | Lagename, Phillip |
Lawson, John | Lawson, Jonas | Linville, David | Lowray, Isabel |
Ludwick, Peter
- Majors, John Sr. | Marshall, Frederick William |
Martin, Abraham Sr. | Martin, William | Martin, William (1812) |
Matthews, James | McAnnally, Charles | McKillip, Andrew |
McKillip, Hugh | Meaum, Nancy | Mickey, John | Miller, Jacob |
Miller, Joseph | Moore, Alexander | Moore, Matthew |
Morris, Hammond | Morris, Pressley
- Neal, Thomas | Nelson, Joseph | Niding, Mathew | Null, Jacob |
Nunn, John | Oliver, Peter | Paterson, John | Patterson, Joseph |
Peddycourt, William Barton | Penyear, John | Perry, Jonathan | Phillips,
Richard |
Pitts, Samuel | Plaff, Joseph | Petree, Henry | Petree, Jacob
- Rank, Michael | Raper, Thomas | Rights, John | Rights, John Sr. |
Roark, Elijah | Roberts, James Dudley | Robertson, William H. |
Rothrock, Jacob | Russell, Mary | Rutledge, William
-
Schawils, Andrew | Seiler, John | Shamel, John | Shelton, William Jr. |
Shreyer, John Peter |
Shouse, Henry |
Smith, Henry |
Smith, Robert |
Smith, William |
Sprinch, George |
Stewart, David |
Stocker, Henry |
Stockton, Daniel |
Swain, William
- Tagus, Michael |
Tatum, John |
Taylor, William |
Thanchour, Jacob |
Thomas, Phillip |
Thomason, George |
Vernon, Jonathan |
Vest, William Sr.
- Waggoner, Samuel |
Waggoner, William Sr. |
Walker, William |
Weaver, Michael |
Whitlock, Charles |
Willets, Henry |
Williams, Owen |
Winston, Joseph Sr. |
Wohlfart, Jacob |
Woolfolk, Richard |
Woodson, Tucker |
Zimmerman, John
Images of Stokes County Will Bk 3, 1817 to 1837
Barnes, Martha | Barr, Isaac | Bartly, Sarah | Beason, William |
Beazley, Charles | Beazley, Jeremiah | Beck, John Sr. | Belling or
Bitting, Maria | Benzuin, William Lewis | Bibighan, Christine |
Billettes, Alexander | Bitting, Elizabeth |
Blake, John |
Blackburn, Young |
Blum, Henry |
Boehls, John Frederick |
Boles, Alexander Sr. |
Boles, Janus |
Bostick, Frederick |
Boswell, Verlinda |
Boyles, William |
Brandon, Thomas |
Branson, Zachariah |
Brown, Rice |
Butner, Thomas
Camplin, Jacob | Carver, George | Childress, William |
Chitty, Charles Sr. | Christ, Rudolph | Christman, Daniel |
Christman, John Daniel | Clampitt, Richard | Clements, Benjamin |
Clove, John |
Coller, Joseph |
Connell, John |
Cook, John William Jacob |
Cook, William |
Cosan, Anthony |
Cox, Joshua Jr. |
Cox, Mary |
Cox, Mildred |
Cox, Mildred (1825) |
Craig, William |
Crews, David |
Crews, James |
Crimm, Jacob |
Critendon, Chrisanna |
Croom, Limon |
Crun, Conrad |
Dalton, David | Dalton, Isaac | Dawson, Elizabeth | Dawson, Naomy |
Dobson, William | Douk, Mary Eve | Douthit, Isaac | Duggins, John |
Duncan, Thomas | Eads, Isaac | Early, Asa | Elrod, Maria | Endsley,
Andrew |
Estes, Robert | Fair, Michael Sr. | Fars or Farr, Mary Ann | Fedral,
Samuel | Fidler, Peter | Fishel, Jacob | Fisher, George | Flynt, Thomas
| Fochel, Maria Rosina | Fountain, Jane | Forst, James B. | Francis,
Micajah | Freeman, John | Fry, John
Gambold, John | Gatewood, Dudley | Geiger, Adam | Gentry, Richard |
Goode, Thomas | Graff, Joshua | Green, Philip | Green, Susannah |
Grobs, William |Guinn, Thornton P. Sr. |
Hairston, Peter | Hanes, George | Hardman, John | Harper, Zephaniah |
Harper, Jane | Hart, Anny | Hartt, Henry | Hauser, Abraham | Hauser,
Catharine | Hauser, Heinrich | Hauser, John L. | Heath, John |
Hedgecock, William | Hein, Juliana Catharine | Heinz, Christian |
Hendrick, Nathaniel |
Henley, John | Henning, John Adam | Hess, George Jr. |
Hessler, Maria Salome | Hester, John | Hicker, James W. |
Hill, Richard | Hill, Robert | Hine, Johanna | Hine, Peter |
Hitchcock, Nancy | Holder, Johanna | Holston, Adam | Hoofman, Lewis |
House, Jonathan | Huffman, Henry | Hutcherson, Joseph |
Hutchins, Frederick
James, John | Jessup, Joseph | Johnson, Ashley | Jones, Cadwaller |
Jones, Sarrah | Jones, Thomas | Joyce, Alexander |
Joyce, William B. |
Kasky, Frederick | Kellum, Ann | Kelly, Benjamin | Kerner, Joseph |
Kilner, Francis Sr. | King, John | Kiser, Barbara | Kook, Thomas |
Kinnaman, John | Kracken, Elizabeth Green | Krameck, Samuel |
Kreeger, Frederick | Kreeger, Henry | Kreegan, John | Krouse, John |
Krouse, Samuel | Kruger, Jacob |
Kushke, John Fred
Last, Nathaniel | Lawson, Elisha | Ledford, John | Lewis, Jacob |
Lide, Elizabeth | Lindman, Henry | Loflin, Martha | Logenauer,
George | Long, Frederick
Mans, Henry Sr. | Mansell, Robert | Marshall, Martin | Martin,
John | Martin, John Sr. | McCarter, Aaron | Mendenhall, Joseph |
Miller, Frederick | Miller, Harman | Miller, John | Moody, Alexander
| Moore, Reubin | More, W. |
Moses, Peter | Neal, Thomas | Nelson, Isaac | Newman, Charles | Nunns,
Elizabeth | Nuns, Willia
Panther, William | Pearce, Jacob | Peter, Simon | Pfaff, Isaac |
Phillips, Colly | Philips, John | Pitts, John | Preston,
Weatherington | Priddy, George
Ransom, Joseph | Rank, Elizabeth | Rank, Gottleb | Ray, George | Reaves, Charles | Redenon, Caty | Reich, Catherina |
Reich, Christopher |
Reich, Elizabeth |
Reich, Matthew
Reid, Jacob |
Reynolds, Archibald |
Rich, Samuel |
Ridings, John |
Rights, Maria Magdalene |
Rights, Matthew |
Rippel, Henry |
Robinson, Israel |
Robinson, Jacob |
Rominger, Michael |
Rominger, Michael (1824) |
Rothrock, Philip | Ruchel, Benjamin
Samuel, Henry | Samuel, Ruben | Scales, Joseph | Schrisler, Gottleb | Schultz, Dorothea | Schaub, Hanah |
Schaub, John Jacob |
Sell, John |
Shamel, John |
Shields, Abel |
Shober, Nathaniel |
Shore, Henry |
Shore, Peter |
Shultz, Thomas |
Sikes, Lorenzo |
Sisk, Salley |
Smith, Thompson |
Snider, Philip |
Spainhauer, Henry |
Spainhauer, John Jacob |
Spainhauer, Michael |
Sprinkle, Betsy |
Sprinkle, George |
Sprinkle or Stikle, Gottlieb |
Starbuck, Paul |
Steiner, Abraham |
Stotts, Samuel |
Stutly, Henry |
Stutts, John |
Sutton, Joseph
Taylor, George | Teague, John | Thomason, John | Thomason,
Sarah | Tilly, Edmund | Transon, Abraham |Transon, Maria Catharine |
Vaughn, Zebulon | Vest, John |Vogler, Christpher | Von Schweinitz, Lewis
David |
Waggoner, Adam | Waggoner, Gabriel | Wickes, Elijah | Wilkerson,
Mercy | Willard, George | Wolff, Ann Penes | Wolff, Isaac | Wolff,
Lorentz | Wray, William | Wright, John |
Young, James | Young, Sarah
Images of Stokes County Will Bk 4, 1837 to 1864
Alspough, Henry |
Angell, Silas |
Arnold, Hezekiah |
Ashby, John W. |
Bagge, Charles Frederick (1837) |
Bagge, Charles Frederick |
Banner, Benjamin Sr. |
Banner, Joseph Sr. |
Banner, Sally W. |
Barber, Travis |
Barrow, Moses Sr. |
Bitting, John |
Bitting, John L. |
Blackburn, Bryser |
Blackburn, Gabriel M. |
Blackburn, John T. |
Blackburn, Winifred |
Blum, Catharine |
Bohanon, John |
Bolrd, Benjamin |
Boljack, Joseph |
Bouldin, Ephraim |
Bowman, Andrew |
Boyer, Anna |
Boyer, William |
Brinkley, Crosley |
Bristz, Christian |
Brown, John |
Brown, Nathan |
Brown, Thomas |
Brown, William M. |
Burkhard, John |
Butler, Harmon |
Butler, Thomas |
Bynum, Hampton
Carr, Jane |
Carter, Anderson |
Carter, Elizabeth |
Carter, Henry |
Cash, Christian |
Chambers, John W. |
Chowder, Charles Gottleb |
Chrissman, Elizabeth |
Clampett, William |
Clark, Jacob |
Cole, William C. |
Conner, John |
Conrad, Jacob |
Conrad, Solomon |
Cretz, William |
Crews, Augustain |
Crews, Edward |
Crews, Frederick |
Crews, Thomas |
Croom, Elizabeth |
Cunningham, James
Dalton, Christina |
Dalton, Jubles |
Daub, Jacob |
Davis, James |
Denke, Christian Frederick |
Dun, Solomon |
Eason, Bethenia | Eason, Susanna
Edwards, Edward|
Edwards, Edward H. |
Elrige, Elizabeth |
Farmer, Barnard |
Faw, Daniel |
Faw, William |
Fiskel, John Adam |
Flippin, Samuel |
Flynt, Elisabeth |
Flynt, Richard
Fotts, Barbara |
Fotts, Jacob |
Francis, John |
Frances, Sarah |
Frost, Elizabeth |
Fry, Jesse |
Fry, Massy |
Fulton, Francis
Gardner, William |
Garth, Thomas |
Gibson, Jeremiah |
Gibson, Sarah |
Glidewell, John L. |
Gordon, Francis |
Griffith, William |
Guinn, Davis B. |
Hagen, John |
Hall, Wilchin |
Hamilton, Horatio |
Hartman, Rebecca |
Hauser, Solomon |
Hege, Eve |
Hester, Robert T. |
Hill, Joel |
Hill, John |
Holder, Mary K. |
Hottern, Magnus |
Huff, John |
Hutchins, Robert |
Hutchins, Tandy J.
Jackson, Hannah |
Johannah, Anna |
Joyce, John |
Joyce, Robert |
Joyce, Thomas |
Joyce, William T. |
Keiger, George |
Ketner, Frederick |
King, N. S. |
King, Thomas |
Kiser, Michael |
Kiser, Michael Jr. |
Kitner, Matthew |
Knott, William |
Kreuser, Conrad |
Kruger, Anna Margaret H.
Lanier, Jacob |
Larimore, James |
Lasley, Joseph |
Linbeck, Barbara |
Lindsey, Joseph P. |
Linville, David Sr. |
Lyon, James |
Mabe, Reuben |
Marshall, Amos |
Martin, Edmond T. |
Martin, Martha |
Martin, Mary |
Mathews, Mary S. |
McAnally, Elizabeth |
McKnight, George |
Meredith, Elisha |
Miller, Morgan |
Mitchell, Adam |
Moody, Nathaniel |
Moore, Susannah C. |
Moore, William C. |
Neal, Conrad |
Null, John Sr.
Owen, Isham |
Owen, Jesse |
Pell, Nancy |
Pfohl, Christian Thomas |
Pfohl, Dorothea Elizabeth |
Plummer, Thomas |
Poindexter, Gabriel |
Porr, Hannah |
Preston, Nathaniel |
Ray, Mary |
Redman, Harmon |
Reed, Prudence M. |
Richardson, Green L. |
Rippel, Martin |
Roark, Timothy |
Rouse, John Edwin |
Rush, Lewis |
Rush, Verona |
Rutledge, Isabella
Salmon, Lucinda |
Sams, Elijah |
Schaap, Christian Frederick |
Schaub, Maria |
Seals, Absalom |
Scott, Leonard |
Shepperd, Giles L. |
Shields, Reuben |
Shipp, Thomas |
Shober, Emanuel |
Shober, Gottlieb |
Shore, Henry |
Shore, Jacob
Shore, John, Sr. (1844) |
Shore, John, Sr. |
Shott, Eva Barbara |
Shouse, Anna |
Shutt, Charles |
Sides, Philip |
Simmons, Matthew |
Smith, John Sr. |
Smith, Mary |
Spainhauer, David |
Spainhauer, John |
Spanch, Frederick |
Spence, John |
Spurgin, William |
Stanley, Christopher |
Stanley, Samuel |
Stockburger, Sarah |
Stotts, Casper |
Stotts, John |
Strup, Ephraim |
Stutts, Simon |
Stutz, Henry |
Swain, Jonathan |
Swain, Mary Magdalene
Telley, Edmund |
Taylor, Josiah |
Teague, William |
Teague, William Sr. |
Tilly, David |
Tilly, Joel |
Tucker, Joel |
Tuggle, John |
Tuttle, Thomas |
Van Beck, Charles A. |
Vance, John |
Vaughn, Ann |
Vawter, Bradford |
Vawter, John |
Virling, Martha Liz
Waggoner, Lewis | Walker, Robert |
Waller, Henry |
Ward, John |
Ward, William I. |
Washby, John |
Webb, Elijah |
Welch, Thomas |
Welfare, Daniel |
White, Thomas |
Wilkins, John Sr. |
Williams, James |
Wilson, Milley |
Winkler, Christian |
Wolff, Lewis |
Wood, John |
Young, Robert |
Young, William Sr. | Ziglar, Benjamin | Ziglar, L. | Ziglar, Leonard
| Zimmerman, James | Zimmerman, Reuben | Zimmerman, Reuben (1838)
Lutherans in Stokes County
By Jeannette Holland Austin
In the year of 1786 Rev. Christian Eberhardt Bernhardt, a native of
Stuttgard, in the kingdom of Würtemberg was sent on his mission to
America. Bernhart was ordained in his native country, and landed at
Savannah, and then proceeded to Ebenezer, Georgia, where he remained for
twelve months. In 1787 he went to Rowan County, North Carolina and
labored among the churches to the East of the Yadkin River (Davidson
County). In 1788 he took charge of the congregations in Stokes and
Forsyth Counties, which had been organized and frequently visited by
Rev. Nussmann. It was in Stokes County that Rev. Bernhardt was married,
but the records do not mention the name of his wife. One year later he
removed to Guilford County, where he remained to the close of the year
1800, when he accepted the call to become the pastor of Zion's and
several other Lutheran Churches in Lexington District, South Carolina.
Source: Account furnished by his daughter-in-law, the widow of the late
Rev. David Bernhardt; History of the Lutheran Church in North Carolina
Bernheim, G. D., 1872, Volume 08, Pages 758-796
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